On This Day

RichardTheBruce

January 24th

1947: Ian Fleming enjoys a "bachelor sojourn" with Ivar Bryce and John Fox-Strangways at his recently completed Goldeneye estate, Jamaica.

Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, Matthew Parker, 2015.
1947 The Bachelor Party

On 24 January, before the end of their bachelor sojourn, Fleming,
Bryce and Fox-Strangways motored down to Montego Bay on the
North-west coast of the island for the opening of the Sunset Lodge
Club. This is now seen as a seminal moment: the birth of what would
become the ‘North Coast Jet Set’.

1947: Warren Zevon is born--Chicago, Illinois. (He dies 7 September 2003 at age 56--Los Angeles, California.)

Zevon Diagnosed With Lung Cancer

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/zevon-diagnosed-with-lung-cancer-248846/
Veteran singer-songwriter’s disease untreatable
By Andrew Dansby - September 12, 2002

Warren Zevon has been diagnosed with lung cancer, and the disease
has advanced to an untreatable stage. The fifty-five-year-old
singer-songwriter received the news last month and is currently
spending time at home with his children and in the studio recording
new songs.

In keeping with the acerbic wit found in his songs like “Life’ll
Kill Ya” and “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead,” Zevon said of his
diagnosis, “I’m OK with it, but it’ll be a drag if I don’t make it
till the next James Bond movie comes out.”

Nearly three years ago, Zevon released the eerily prophetic
Life’ll Kill Ya, with several songs addressing death and
illness. “Sickness, doctors, that scares me,” he told Rolling
Stone at the time. “Not violence — helplessness. That’s why I
turn to violent stories, I think.” At the time, Zevon said the
songs were not inspired by any sort of health scare. “It’s kind of
the fun of it, pretending to deal with something that you don’t
want to, and try to laugh about it. I mean, I’ve had guns in my
face, I’ve been robbed, but the doctor stuff — it’s too much for
me.”

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

Enjoy.

1960: A series of articles by Ian Fleming on "Thrilling Cities" begins in The Sunday Times.

1971: 007 James Bond Kraliçenin Hizmetinde (007 James Bond at the Service of the Queen) released in Turkey.

https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2010/01/turkish-paperback-artwork.html

1986: A View To a Kill released in New Zealand.
1988: Pierce Brosnan appears in a Bond-inspired Diet Coke® ad (his second).

It airs Super Bowl (XXII) Sunday--ninjas, train, and all.

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1998: 007 明日帝國 (007 Míngrì dìguó; 007 Tomorrow Empire) released in Taiwan.

2003: Die Another Day released in Denmark.
2003: Не умирай днес (Do Not Die Today) released in Bulgaria.

2003: Sa nu mori azi (Do Not Die Today) released in Romania.

2008: BOND 22's title goes public.

New Bond film title is confirmed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7206997.stm
Last Updated: Thursday, 24 January 2008, 17:39 GMT

Daniel Craig helped launch the new film at Pinewood Studios

The next James Bond film is to be called Quantum of Solace, producers have confirmed.

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

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

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

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

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

Filming on the movie has been taking place at Pinewood since November.

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

Daniel Craig on James Bond

Craig said the cryptic title referenced how Bond's heart had been broken at the end of Casino Royale.

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

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

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

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

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

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

'Driven by revenge'

Olga Kurylenko and Gemma Arterton star alongside Craig

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director Marc Forster is in charge of work on the movie, which is due for release on 7 November.

2009: 007 慰めの報酬 (Remuneration for Comfort) general release in Japan.

2012: Omega Seamaster offers a James Bond 50th Anniversary Watch.

Omega Seamaster James Bond 50th Anniversary Watch sports a 007 themed dial

luxurylaunches.com/watches/omega_seamaster_james_bond_50th_anniversary_watch_sports_a_007_themed_dial.php
by kamakshi


The world was never enough for 007, and 50 years later, it seems it still hold true. As a part of the celebrations Omega will be bring out a “limited edition” Omega Seamaster James Bond 50th Anniversary Watch. While details remain sparse, some nice internet junkie has posted pictures of the stunning the Seamaster James Bond 50th Anniversary edition watch that sports “007″ theme on the dial and a “50″ marked in red on the bezel. The back case sports a true-blue Bond identity, the “bullet in a gun barrel” which marks the opening sequence in every James Bond movie. The bullet reads “50 years of James Bond.” The 41mm steel case watch will be limited to 11,0007 pieces and will run on the automatic mechanical Omega’s caliber 2507 co-axial movement.

2021: Ana de Armas appears on the cover of UK Style magazine.

RichardTheBruce

January 25th

1874: William Somerset Maugham, CH, is born--Paris, France.
(He dies at age 91--16 December 1965--Nice, France.)

Profile: W Somerset Maugham

https://www.spyculture.com/profile-w-somerset-maugham/

Born: 25 January 1874
Died: 16 December 1965
Intelligence involvement: Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) during World War One.
Culture involvement: Author of popular plays, novels and short stories. Reputedly the best paid author of the 1930s.

Bio: William Somerset Maugham was born into a diplomatically connected family, indeed he was born in the British Embassy in Paris. Both parents died by the time he was 10 years old and he was raised, in effect an only child despite having several siblings, by one of his uncles. Despite the family background mostly being made up of lawyers, Maugham trained as a doctor before the instant success of his second book convinced him to become a writer.

He then gave up medicine and took to travelling and writing full time, and in 1908 wrote a book called The Magician, in part inspired by Aleister Crowley. In 1915 he was recruited into SIS/MI6 by John Wallinger. After a period in Switzerland he was then asked by William Wiseman to go to Russia as part of an attempt to help the Russian Provisional Government fend off the threat from the Bolsheviks.

Maugham and the other MI6 agents failed in this effort, but Maugham used these experiences as the basis for his popular and very influential short story series published as Ashenden: Or the British Agent in 1928. Two of these stories were adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1936 for his film Secret Agent, and several others were adapted by the BBC for television in 1991 (at the end of the Cold War). The Ashenden stories are widely considered to have influenced later spy authors such as Ian Fleming, John Le Carre and Graham Greene.

Documents

Somerset Maugham’s usefulness to the establishment did not end after WW1. During the second World War he was one of a number of writers approached by the government to write stories or articles ‘on the results of careless talk’. At the time the government was trying to enforce the strictest secrecy about what it was doing, and there were huge propaganda campaigns to persuade the public not to talk about what they knew. In March 1940 the Committee on Issue of Warnings Against Discussion of Confidential Matters in Public circulated a report on their activity, which you can download here (PDF 400KB).

https://www.spyculture.com/docs/UK/ReportofCommitteeon-WarningsAgainstDiscussion.pdf
In the same month one of Maugham’s Ashenden spy stories was used as a propaganda broadcast by the government, as detailed in the 8th Report by the Minister of Information to the War Cabinet, which you can download here (PDF, 2.73MB).
https://www.spyculture.com/docs/UK/WarCabinet-8threport-Ministerofinformation-Ashenden.pdf

1950: John Terry is born--Florida.
1955: Noël Coward writes a diary entry about his friend Ian Fleming.

I have read Ian's new thriller in proof. It is the best he has done yet, very exciting and, although as usual too far-fetched, not quite so much so as the last two and there are fewer purple sex passages. His observation is extraordinary and his talent for description vivid. I wish he would try a non-thriller for a change; I would so love for him to triumph over the sneers of Annie's intellectual friends.

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

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

1995: GoldenEye films Natalya meeting Xenia Onatopp.
1998: Jean Rougerie dies 25 January 1998 at age 68--Ivry-sur-Seine, France.
(Born 9 March 1929--Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

Jean Rougerie

(1929–1998)
Actor | Writer | Additional Crew
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0745625/

Jean Rougerie was born on March 9, 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was an actor and writer, known for A View to a Kill (1985), American Dreamer (1984) and Gwendoline (1984). He died on January 25, 1998 in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France.

Born: March 9, 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Died: January 25, 1998 (age 68) in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France

2013: Skyfall's gross to date ($1.78 billion) exceeds that of Thunderball ($1.037 billion, inflation-adjusted).

RichardTheBruce

January 26th

1904: Charles Fraser-Smith is born--Deal, Kent, England.
(He dies 9 November 1992--Bratton Fleming, Devon, England.)

Spying gadgets serve as tribute to the
real-life Q: Exhibition recalls the
eccentric inventor who became the
model for James Bond's saviour

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/spying-gadgets-serve-as-tribute-to-the-real-life-q-exhibition-recalls-the-eccentric-inventor-who-1454181.html
WILL BENNETT | Friday 9 April 1993 00:02

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

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

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

But for the children who go to the exhibition at Dover Castle, the lure is that Mr Fraser- Smith was the model for Q, the inventor of scores of devices that enabled Bond to escape repeatedly from the jaws of death.

Ian Fleming, author of the books on which the films were based, worked alongside Mr Fraser-Smith for British Intelligence during the war, and realised that for a novelist he was a dream character.

The exhibition, just opened, is called Live and Let Spy: Who Was the Real Q?. On display is a hairbrush which conceals a compass, a map and a double- edged saw; a miniature radio disguised as a lunch box; and a set of apparently innocuous plastic balls coated inside with luminous radium paint, which were used as landing lights.

With typical ingenuity Mr Fraser-Smith realised that the one liquid people were not going to run short of was urine. So he devised a handkerchief which when dipped in it revealed a map which could be used by escaping prisoners.

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

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

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

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

Mr Scott went to see him at his home in Bratton Fleming, north Devon, and Mr Fraser- Smith offered the devices to the nation. English Heritage, which runs Dover Castle, will keep them there for two years and then move them to another site.

English Heritage hopes that with the James Bond connection as bait, the exhibition will teach children about the Second World War, which is now part of the national curriculum.

1996: GoldenEye released in Denmark.

https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/ge-dk-poster-1996/

1997: Reports say BOND 18 features Bond driving a BMW 750iL.

Bavarian Bond — A Brief History
of James Bond BMWs

https://www.bmwblog.com/2019/12/08/bavarian-bond-a-brief-history-of-james-bond-bmws/
Interesting, News | December 8th, 2019 by Nico DeMattia


Just a few days ago, the first official trailer for the all new James Bond movie, No Time to Die, was released. As a fan of the Bond franchise, I was very excited to see the new trailer and am waiting very impatiently for it to hit theaters. While the most recent entry to the series, Spectre, wasn’t it’s best, this new one looks like it’s going to be a thrill ride.

It also features some fantastic cars, such as the iconic Aston Martin DB5, an ’80s Aston Martin V8 Vantage and even the new Land Rover Defender. James Bond is most certainly cemented in the Aston Martin brand once again, that’s for sure. However, there was once a time when 007 actually drove BMWs.

During Pierce Brosnan’s stint as James Bond back in the ’90s and early ’00s, the famous British spy actually drove some Bimmers. The first time James Bond sat his behind in a Bavarian was in GoldenEye, possibly Brosnan’s best Bond film, as well as his first. The BMW in question was a questionably-colored blue BMW Z3 and he drove it for about thirty seconds, after being hyped for all of its weapons. So it was one of the lamer Bond-car entries in the entire film franchise, despite being a cool car.

The most famous Bond BMW of them all was the E38 BMW 750iL in Tomorrow Never Dies, thanks to fully remote-control capability. Far before Tesla’s summon mode, James Bond was able to remote control his E38 7 Series from the back seat and escape some baddies. Not only was it cool but it was given a spectacular Bond-car death as it gets driven off of the roof of a parking garage.

Following the E38, the BMW Z8 was featured in The World is Not Enough, another one of Brosnan’s entries. It’s a shame the Z8 didn’t get more screen-time, because it was — and still is — such a stunningly beautiful car and one of the few BMWs actually fit for James Bond. Sure, he drove it a bit and the movie did show off how good looking the car is but it still wasn’t enough. It did get a fantastic Bond-car death, though, as it was cut in half by a massive helicopter-mounted saw after using one of its cool rockets to take down a different helicopter.

Sadly, no other BMW cars were actually featured in any James Bond movies. It’s doubtful we’ll ever see Bond in a Bavarian ever again, as the brand is quite dedicated to Aston Martin at the moment. But never say never again. Again.

2015: International Artists Management announces Brigitte Millar to play a villainous character in BOND 24.
2017: Head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service C says the real-life Q is a woman.

Real-life Q is a woman, MI6 chief
reveals, despite James Bond character
always having been played by men

See the complete article here:

https://kaleistyleguide.com/news/2017/01/26/mi6-head-real-life-q-woman/

Telegraph Reporters | 26 January 2017

Ben Whishaw playing Q in Skyfall Credit: Rex Features

From Desmond Llewelyn to Ben Whishaw, we are used to seeing the tech wiz agent known as "Q" played by men in the James Bond movies.

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

Sir Alex Younger, the head of MI6, has made the revelation in his keynote speech at the Women in IT Awards in London as part of his appeal for more women to join MI6.

“If any of you would like to join us … the real-life Q is looking forward to meeting you and I’m pleased to report that the real-life Q is a woman,” said Mr Younger, also known by the code name "C", on Wednesday evening.

https://twitter.com/MelissaAllen333/status/824354453998489601

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Our staff are not from another planet. They are ordinary men and women operating in the face of complex moral, ethical and physical challenges, often in the most forbidding environments on Earth," he told the Black History Month website.

"In contrast to James Bond, MI6 officers are not for taking moral shortcuts. In fact, a strong ethical core is one of the first qualities we look for in our staff."

MI6 has been attempting to broaden its recruitment and fight the perception that intelligence officers are only drawn from Oxford or Cambridge.

https://twitter.com/GillianA/status/734145694055976960

Intelligence agencies recently admitted to using female-friendly websites to recruit more women in an attempt to rebalance the intelligence workforce.

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Q'ute

2019: Michel Legrand dies at age 86--Paris, France.
(Born 24 February 1932--Bécon les Bruyères, France.)

Michel Legrand obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jan/27/michel-legrand-obituary

French composer, jazz musician and conductor who wrote the scores for more than 250 films including The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Yentl

John Fordham | Sun 27 Jan 2019 11.16 EST

Michel Legrand in 1975. Photograph: Michael Putland/Getty Images

The music of the composer, singer, arranger, conductor, jazz musician and producer Michel Legrand went on glowing long after many of the 250-odd films he had written soundtracks for had fallen by the wayside.

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

But if some of the film vehicles for Legrand’s artistry were outlasted by his music, several became famous, including The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and Norman Jewison’s The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), with Noel Harrison singing The Windmills of Your Mind, which won Legrand’s first Oscar, for best film theme song, in 1969. Another Oscar followed for The Summer of ’42 two years later – this time for best film music. Its theme, The Summer Knows, was recorded later that year by Barbra Streisand, whose 1983 film, Yentl, won him his third Oscar, again for best music.

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The famous Legrand Jazz album. Photograph: Sabine Weiss/Columbia Records

Legrand’s songwriting skills flowered in the early 1950s through intimate acquaintance with the modern chanson movement in Paris, at first as a gifted piano accompanist. After the second world war, the US was nostalgic for French culture, and when Columbia Records commissioned an English-language album of chanson classics, the young Legrand was hired to steer it – and found himself with an 8m-selling hit.

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

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


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

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

By the time he left the conservatoire in 1949 he was a budding jazz pianist with a profound knowledge of musical theory and a working knowledge of many instruments. His resourcefulness quickly found him work with chanson stars including Juliette Gréco and Zizi Jeanmaire, and in 1954 the international popularity of chanson brought his international breakthrough.

Michel Legrand playing at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in the mid-1970s. Photograph: David Redfern/Redferns

Columbia-EMI wanted an English-language version of those evocative Parisian songs, and none of the big-name American arrangers was interested. Through a contact at the record company, the unknown Legrand was commissioned to produce it – for $200 and no royalties. The result was the bestseling album I Love Paris,. Chevalier then hired Legrand as his musical director and the resulting US tours enhanced the newcomer’s stature.
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Legrand began a solo career, with the easy-listening but sophisticated jazz albums Holiday in Rome (1955), Michel Legrand Plays Cole Porter (1957) and Legrand in Rio (1958). He also worked with the French Caribbean singer Henri Salvador, who, under the alias of Henri Cording, made some of the first French forays into rock’n’roll, with Legrand furnishing the music and the surrealist novelist, poet and jazz critic Boris Vian the lyrics. In 1958, he returned to New York to make his celebrated Legrand Jazz album – with Ben Webster joining Coltrane, Evans and Davis in the lineup.

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

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

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

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

In 1968, Legrand moved to Los Angeles, during which time he composed the award-winning scores to The Thomas Crown Affair and then, two years later, Summer of ’42. Legrand later said that Jewison cut the highly charged seven-and-a-half-minute chess game scene between Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in The Thomas Crown Affair to fit the music, which begins with a solo harp and ends with a big band playing a jazz waltz.

As well as the Oscars, between 1971 and 1975 Legrand won five Grammy awards, and in this period was on his way to becoming one of the US’s most popular Frenchmen. A sharp and witty raconteur, he appeared on television chatshows, and for relaxation worked at Shelly’s Manne Hole club in Los Angeles with the great double bassist Ray Brown. In the next decade, he composed for Clint Eastwood and Orson Welles, for Streisand’s Yentl, and the James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983).

During this time Legrand also played a lot of jazz, making three albums with a regular trio featuring the bassist Marc-Michel Le Bévillon and the drummer André Ceccarelli, and bringing together the celebrated American saxophonists Phil Woods and Zoot Sims to join him in a septet to make the 1982 album After the Rain. He released a solo vocal album, and staged his own oratorio, inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as part of the celebrations for the bicentenary of the French Revolution, in 1989.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michel Legrand (I) (1932–2019)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006166/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Composer (211 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Soundtrack (190 credits)
Music department (60 credits)
Actor (8 credits)
Director (3 credits)
Writer (2 credits)
Producer (1 credit)
Thanks (2 credits)
Self (98 credits)
Archive footage (6 credits)
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1963: James Bond 007 contre Dr. No (Also: Docteur No; James Bond 007 contre docteur No) released in France.

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1965: Alan Cumming is born--Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland.

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

2010: Martin Ryan Grace dies at age 67--Spain.
(Born 12 September 1942--Lisdowney, County Kilkenny, Ireland.)

News > Obituaries

Martin Grace: Roger Moore's stunt
double in the James Bond films

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/martin-grace-roger-moores-stunt-double-in-the-james-bond-films-1897007.html

Friday 12 February 2010 01:00

Performing as Roger Moore's stunt double in the James Bond films brought Martin Grace respect throughout the industry – but, because of the nature of his job, he was never a "star". He also did stunts for some of the early Cadbury's Milk Tray commercials.

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

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

"The impact was so lightning fast that I only realised that I had hit something when I found I was hanging prone for dear life on the side of the train!" he recalled. "Adrenalin was pumping through my arms like never before. I looked down and saw my trouser leg had been ripped off and saw my thigh bone through the gash in my thigh muscle."

Born in Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1942, Grace attended Kilkenny College. He then moved to England, joined boxing, weight-lifting, wrestling and fencing clubs, and worked at Butlin's.

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

His first film was the television spin-off Dr Who and the Daleks (1965). Like many stunt performers, he was cast in a role that demanded his special skills, as he was in pictures such as Who Dares Wins (1982) and Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), and television programmes that included The Onedin Line (1972) and The Protectors (1973).

In You Only Live Twice (1967), starring the screen's original Bond, Sean Connery, Grace was one of a host of stunt performers taking part in the climactic volcano-eruption scene where Bond gives an elite ninja force access to the villain Blofeld's secret base. Grace underwent four weeks of intensive training – scaling nets, sliding down ropes and practising trampoline "explosions" – before the sequence was shot.

In 1969, he was Oliver Reed's fencing double in The Assassination Bureau. He fought with Anthony Hopkins in When Eight Bells Toll (1971), and did stunts with Kirk Douglas in To Catch a Spy (1971), after seven months out of action as a result of breaking his neck in Scrooge (1970).

Grace appeared in a show that toured Scandinavia in 1974 and starred the Norwegian stunt performer Arne Berg. The experience of doing six performances a week that required high falls, car crashes, motorcycle jumps, fights and tunnels of fire stood him in good stead when he was asked to double for Roger Moore in five Bond films. He also doubled for Richard Kiel, as the villain Jaws, in both The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

This also led Grace to become Moore's stunt double in some of the star's other films – The Wild Geese (1978), Escape to Athena (1979), North Sea Hijack (1979), The Sea Wolves (1980) and The Naked Face (1984). Also among the 70-plus films in which he did stunt work were Superman (1978), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Brazil (1985), King Arthur (2004), Ella Enchanted (2004) and The Number 23 (2007). He had extra responsibility, as stunt co-ordinator, on pictures such as High Spirits (1988), Erik the Viking (1989), Nuns on the Run (1990), Patriot Games (1992) and Angela's Ashes (1999).

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

Anthony Hayward

Martin Ryan Grace, actor and stunt performer and co-ordinator: born Kilkenny, Ireland 12 September 1942; twice married; died Spain 27 January 2010.

Martin Grace (1942–2010)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0333370/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Stunts (74 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

Actor (20 credits)

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

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

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

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

1987 Pathfinder (action sequences)

Self (12 credits)

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

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

1985 A View to a Kill: Featurette (Video documentary short) - Himself
1982 Stuntman Challenge (TV Movie) - Himself
1981 Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1981 Clapper Board (TV Series) - Himself
- For Your Eyes Only Special (1981) ... Himself

1979 Film 2017 (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode dated 27 May 1979 (1979) ... Himself

2012: Fire from a Skyfall catering lorry spreads to the roof of a Pinewood studio building but does not affect filming.

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2013: Bernard Horsfall dies at age 82--Isle of Skye, Scotland.
(Born 20 November 1930--Bisshops Stortford, Herfordshire, England.)

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

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

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

The character actor Bernard Horsfall, who has died aged 82, appeared in television, films and on the stage for more than half a century. Tall, imposing and authoritative, he appeared in many of the major television series from Z Cars and Dr Finlay's Casebook to Casualty and The Bill, and in Doctor Who took no fewer than four roles.

In 1968 he played Lemuel Gulliver in The Mind Robber, where he was encountered by Patrick Troughton, the second Doctor, in the Land of Fiction. The following year he returned as a Time Lord in The War Games. In 1973, with Jon Pertwee now donning the time-traveller's cape, he played the Thal chieftain, Taron, in the six-part Planet of the Daleks. And finally, he was another Time Lord, Chancellor Goth, in the 1976 story The Deadly Assassin, famously battling with Tom Baker's Doctor inside the Matrix and holding him under water. This sequence drew complaints from the campaigner Mary Whitehouse, and was edited out of the repeat showings.

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

Horsfall was born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, and always claimed he was a 25th-generation descendant of William the Conqueror. The son of an opera singer, Margaret Horsfall, nee Norton, and her RAF officer husband, Charles, Bernard grew up in Hindhead, Surrey, and Wisborough Green, West Sussex. Always drawn to the outdoor , adventurous life, he left Rugby school early to visit his favourite uncle, Jack Norton, in Canada, and took a job cutting down trees. Jack had been a first world war pilot, flown with TE Lawrence in Palestine and had run the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

Returning to London, Bernard trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy and was soon in rep, at Dundee in 1952, at the Old Vic, the old Nottingham Playhouse in the mid-1950s (in a company that included Graham Crowden, Joan Plowright and Denis Quilley) and at the Birmingham Rep under John Harrison at the end of the 60s.

He met and married the actor Jane Jordan Rogers while she was appearing at the Bristol Old Vic, and made his mark in movies such as The Steel Bayonet (1957), a second world war adventure featuring an unknown Michael Caine, and Guy Green's The Angry Silence (1960) in which Attenborough played a strike-breaker. His notable television work after Doctor Who included a performance as Melford Stevenson, QC, in a documentary drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain. Later well-known as a judge, Stevenson was the barrister who defended Ellis. He had a leading role as the doctor, Philip Martel, in the highly successful Channel Islands wartime drama, Enemy at the Door (1978-80).

At the RSC in 1984, Horsfall was part of a great season that, in addition to Rees's Hamlet, included Kenneth Branagh as Henry V (Horsfall played a wonderful ageing hooligan of a Pistol) and Antony Sher as a speedy, spidery Richard III. He also appeared in Pam Gems's Camille, with Frances Barber, when Ron Daniels's RSC production transferred to the Comedy Theatre, London, in 1985.

Back at Stratford, he was, says the director Terry Hands, "the epitome of warmth" as a genuinely funny Old Shepherd (his young sidekick was Simon Russell Beale) in The Winter's Tale in 1987 with Jeremy Irons as Leontes, and he also played the title role in Cymbeline (in a red dressing gown) and a brutally authoritarian Capulet in the Romeo and Juliet of Mark Rylance and Georgia Slowe.

This period coincided with a family move from London to the Isle of Skye, where Horsfall rambled over mountains and became a dedicated crofter, producing fruit and vegetables.

His renown as a wise and generous actor led to him becoming a natural father figure in any company he joined. Jonathan Kent cast him as Ventidius in Dryden's All For Love at the Almeida in 1991, and he expertly discharged the great suicide speech; James Laurenson and Diana Rigg were Antony and Cleopatra. In 1993 at the Birmingham Rep, he was described as "scurrilous, lofty and urbane" as Volpone. His last major film was Mel Gibson's Braveheart in 1995, and in 1998 he played a witty and touching Sir Patrick Cullen in Michael Grandage's revival of Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma at the Almeida and on a National Theatre tour.

He was another dignified old shepherd, Corin (doubled with Hymen, god of marriage), in the revival by Grandage of As You Like It at the Sheffield Crucible in 2000 that propelled Victoria Hamilton into the front rank. Grandage said that the older Horsfall got, the younger his outlook; he was always keenly interested in environmental matters.

He is survived by Jane; their daughters, Hannah, an occupational therapist, and Rebecca, a theatre director and novelist; five grandchildren; and a sister. His son, Christian, died last year.

• Bernard Arthur Gordon Horsfall, actor, born 30 November 1930; died 28 January 2013
• This article was amended on 7 February 2013. The original referred to the Doctor Who character Taron as a Thai chieftain. This has been corrected.

Bernard Horsfall (1930–2013)

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

Filmography

Actor (109 credits)

2008 Stone of Destiny - Archdeacon
2005 Doctors (TV Series) - Joseph Bryan
- Locked Away (2005) ... Joseph Bryan
2000 Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (TV Mini-Series) - Crawford Senior
- The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes: Part 1 (2000) ... Crawford Senior

1995 Queen of the East (TV Movie) - Sir William Pitt
1988-1995 Casualty (TV Series)
Gerald Lassiter / Dr. Alex Upchurch, Coroner / Tom Baxter
- When All Else Fails (1995) ... Gerald Lassiter
- Judgement Day (1991) ... Dr. Alex Upchurch, Coroner
- Welcome to Casualty (1988) ... Tom Baxter
1995 Braveheart - Balliol
1993 Seekers (TV Series) - Major Hurley
- Episode #1.2 (1993) ... Major Hurley
1992 Nice Town (TV Mini-Series) - Peter Dobson
- Idyll (1992) ... Peter Dobson
- Unto Us a Child Is Born (1992) ... Peter Dobson
- Immaculate Conception (1992) ... Peter Dobson
1992 Between the Lines (TV Series) - Ch. Const. Gordon
- The Chill Factor (1992) ... Ch. Const. Gordon
1992 Virtual Murder (TV Series) - Professor Donn
- A Torch for Silverado (1992) ... Professor Donn
1992 The Advocates (TV Series) - Lord Thornhill (3 episodes)
1991 Thatcher: The Final Days (TV Movie) - Alan Clark
1991 For the Greater Good (TV Series) - Prime Minister
- Minister (1991) ... Prime Minister
1991 Poirot (TV Series) - Harrington Pace
- The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge (1991) ... Harrington Pace

1989 Chelworth (TV Mini-Series) - Albert Blackwell
- You Can't Beat Mozart (1989) ... Albert Blackwell
1989 The Bill (TV Series) - Dr. de Beyfus
- Getting It Right (1989) ... Dr. de Beyfus
1988 The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV Movie) - Frankland
1986 First Among Equals (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Nigel Hartwell
- Episode #1.5 (1986) ... Sir Nigel Hartwell
- Episode #1.4 (1986) ... Sir Nigel Hartwell
1984 Fox Mystery Theater (TV Series) - Doctor
- A Distant Scream (1984) ... Doctor
1984 Weekend Playhouse (TV Series) - Logan Mayhew
- Grand Duo (1984) ... Logan Mayhew
1984 Goodbye Days (TV Movie) - Armitage
1984 Strangers and Brothers (TV Series) - Dr. Bradbury
- Episode #1.13 (1984) ... Dr. Bradbury
1984 The Jewel in the Crown (TV Mini-Series) - Major General Rankin
- Regimental Silver (1984) ... Major General Rankin
1982 Gandhi - General Edgar
1982 Juliet Bravo (TV Series) - Jack Driscoll
- A Breach of the Peace (1982) ... Jack Driscoll
1982 Inside the Third Reich (TV Movie) - Fritz Todt
1976-1982 Crown Court (TV Series) - Prosecuting Counsel / Mr. Baldwin
- Face Value: Part 1 (1982) ... Prosecuting Counsel
- The Merry Widow: Part 1 (1981)
- Beyond the Call of Duty: Part 1 (1976) ... Mr. Baldwin
1982 Badger by Owl-Light (TV Series) - Hardekker (3 episodes)
1982 Minder (TV Series) - Mr. Russel QC
- Poetic Justice, Innit? (1982) ... Mr. Russel QC
1981 Echoes of Louisa (TV Series) - Roger Burr
- The Quarry (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Trip (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Ride (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Secret (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Meeting (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Homecoming (1981) ... Roger Burr
1981 When the Boat Comes In (TV Series) - Rowse
- Back to Dear Old Blighty (1981) ... Rowse
1980 The Square Leopard (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Percival
- Episode #1.4 (1980) ... Det. Insp. Percival
1980 Ladykillers (TV Series) - Melford Stevenson, Q.C.
- Lucky, Lucky Thirteen! (1980) ... Melford Stevenson, Q.C.
1980 Turtle's Progress (TV Series) - Janos
- Episode #2.4 (1980) ... Janos
1978-1980 Enemy at the Door (TV Series) - Dr. Philip Martel / Dr. Philip Martell
- Escape (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Education of Nils Borg (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- From a View to a Death (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Right Blood (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- War Game (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Jealousy (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Post Mortem (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Committee Man (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- No Quarter Given (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Angels That Soar Above (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Judgement of Solomon (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Prussian Officer (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Pains and Penalties (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Treason (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Jerrybag (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Officers of the Law (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Polish Affaire (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- V for Victory (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Laws and Usages of War (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martell
- Steel Hand from the Sea (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- After the Ball (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Librarian (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- By Order of the Fuhrer (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel

1978 Brass Target - Shelley
1977 Jubilee (TV Series) - Mervyn Marsh
- An Hour in the Life... (1977) ... Mervyn Marsh
1977 Big Boy Now! (TV Series) - Alan Viner
- Follow That Cat (1977) ... Alan Viner
- Edgar's Other Woman (1977) ... Alan Viner
- Supergirl (1977) ... Alan Viner
- Ships with Everything (1977) ... Alan Viner
- Poker Face (1977) ... Alan Viner
1977 This Year Next Year (TV Mini-Series) - Lars Gunnerson
- Profit and Loss (1977) ... Lars Gunnerson
- Another Place (1977) ... Lars Gunnerson
1976 Beasts (TV Series) - Clyde Boyd
- The Dummy (1976) ... Clyde Boyd
1968-1976 Doctor Who (TV Series)
Taron / Chancellor Goth / Gulliver / ... 15 episodes
- The Deadly Assassin: Part Four (1976) ... Chancellor Goth
- The Deadly Assassin: Part Three (1976) ... Chancellor Goth
- The Deadly Assassin: Part Two (1976) ... Chancellor Goth
- The Deadly Assassin: Part One (1976) ... Chancellor Goth
- Planet of the Daleks: Episode Six (1973) ... Taron
1976 Within These Walls (TV Series) - Mr. Parrington
- The Complaint (1976) ... Mr. Parrington
1976 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - Mr. Wendell
- Future Imperfect (1976) ... Mr. Wendell
1976 John Macnab (TV Series) - John Palliser-Yeates
- The Old Hero (1976) ... John Palliser-Yeates
- The Return of Harold Blacktooth (1976) ... John Palliser-Yeates
- Our Reputations at the Stake (1976) ... John Palliser-Yeates
1976 Shout at the Devil - Captain Joyce
1976 Red Letter Day (TV Series) - Nigel
- The Five Pound Orange (1976) ... Nigel
1975 The Hill of the Red Fox (TV Mini-Series) - Duncan Mor (6 episodes)
1975 The Changes (TV Mini-Series) - Mr. Gore
- The Noise (1975) ... Mr. Gore
1974 South Riding (TV Mini-Series) - David Brownlow
- The Powers That Be (1974) ... David Brownlow
1974 ITV Sunday Night Drama (TV Series) - Sweyn
- The Ceremony of Innocence (1974) ... Sweyn
1974 Gold - Dave Kowalski
1974 Childhood (TV Series) - Dr. Braden
- Easter Tells Such Dreadful Lies (1974) ... Dr. Braden
1973 Freewheelers (TV Series) - Cunliffe
- The Hoist (1973) ... Cunliffe
- The Think Bank (1973) ... Cunliffe
- Break-Up (1973) ... Cunliffe
- Switched! (1973) ... Cunliffe
- The Crypt! (1973) ... Cunliffe
- Darkness at Noon (1973) ... Cunliffe
1973 Harriet's Back in Town (TV Series) - Inspector Kelsey
- Episode #1.76 (1973) ... Inspector Kelsey
- Episode #1.75 (1973) ... Inspector Kelsey
- Episode #1.74 (1973) ... Inspector Kelsey
- Episode #1.73 (1973) ... Inspector Kelsey
1972 Some Kind of Hero - George Crane
1972 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Steven Granger
- Sex and Violence (1972) ... Steven Granger
1972 Crime of Passion (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Severin
- Cecile (1972) ... Det. Insp. Severin
1972 Love Story (TV Series) - Tony Walker
- Never Too Late (1972) ... Tony Walker
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Christianson
- The Morning After (1971) ... Christianson
1971 Suspicion (TV Series) - Klaus
- Off Season (1971) ... Klaus
1971 Mr. Horatio Knibbles - Mr. Bunting
1971 Jackanory (TV Series) - Storyteller
- The Sea Islanders: Part 5 - The Whole Truth (1971) ... Storyteller
- The Sea Islanders: Part 4 - Friday's Decision (1971) ... Storyteller
- The Sea Islanders: Part 3 - On the Beach (1971) ... Storyteller
- The Sea Islanders: Part 2 - Penguin Island (1971) ... Storyteller
- The Sea Islanders: Part 1 - The Far North Bus (1971) ... Storyteller
1971 Quest for Love - Telford
1971 Elizabeth R (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Christopher Hatton
- Shadow in the Sun (1971) ... Sir Christopher Hatton
1967-1970 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Fidel Castro / Timekeeper
- Revolutions: Fidel Castro (1970) ... Fidel Castro
- The Timekeepers (1967) ... Timekeeper
1970 Ivanhoe (TV Mini-Series) - Black Knight... 6 episodes
- Saint Martin's Day (1970) ... Black Knight
- Time of Trial (1970) ... Black Knight
- Templestowe (1970) ... Black Knight
- The Black Knight (1970) ... Black Knight
- Condemned (1970) ... Black Knight
-
1969 Take Three Girls (TV Series) - Tony Fraser
- Try Loving (1969) ... Tony Fraser
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Campbell
1969 Canterbury Tales (TV Series) - Arveragus
- The Canon Yeoman's Tale/The Franklin's Tale (1969) ... Arveragus
1969 Hadleigh (TV Series) - Charles Peters
- M.Y.O.B (1969) ... Charles Peters
- The Day of the Miuras (1969) ... Charles Peters
1969 Department S (TV Series) - Captain Carter
- Six Days (1969) ... Captain Carter
- Six Days ... Captain Carter
1969 Out of the Unknown (TV Series) - John Stewart
- 1+1=1.5 (1969) ... John Stewart
1969 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) - William Wordsworth
- The Woman from the Shadows (1969) ... William Wordsworth
1965-1968 The Avengers (TV Series)
Captain Smythe / Fox / Jephcott
- They Keep Killing Steed (1968) ... Captain Smythe
- The Fear Merchants (1967) ... Fox
- The Cybernauts (1965) ... Jephcott
1968 Sanctuary (TV Series) - Father Carlo Frallini SJ
- Diary and the Devil's Advocate (1968) ... Father Carlo Frallini SJ
1968 Detective (TV Series) - Nigel Strangeways
- The Beast Must Die (1968) ... Nigel Strangeways
1968 Mogul (TV Series) - Peter
- Give Me the Simple Life (1968) ... Peter
1968 City '68 (TV Series) - Keith Lythgoe
- The Jonah Site (1968) ... Keith Lythgoe
1966-1967 Softly Softly (TV Series) - Gentleman John Cassidy / Jackson
- The Bombay Doctor (1967) ... Gentleman John Cassidy
- Barlow Was There: Part 1: Allegation (1966) ... Jackson
1967 Dr. Finlay's Casebook (TV Series) - Adam Hadley
- Criss-Cross (1967) ... Adam Hadley
1958-1967 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Dr. Ernst Bang / Sir Purback Temple / Valentine
- ITV Summer Playhouse #8: One Fat Englishman (1967) ... Dr. Ernst Bang
- The Killing of the King (1959) ... Sir Purback Temple
- You Never Can Tell (1958) ... Valentine
1957-1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Inspector / Interviewer
- Any Number Can Play (1967) ... Inspector
- The Last Flight (1957) ... Interviewer
1967 Mrs Thursday (TV Series) - Norman Millett
- The Old School Tie Up (1967) ... Norman Millett
1967 The Saint (TV Series) - Bill Bast
- The Death Game (1967) ... Bill Bast
1966 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - John Harris
- The World of Silence (1966) ... John Harris
1965 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Palethorpe
- The Minister (1965) ... Palethorpe
1964 Guns at Batasi - Sgt. 'Schoolie' Prideaux
1963 Maupassant (TV Series) - Harding
- War (1963) ... Harding
1963 Z Cars (TV Series) - Murdoch
- The Bad Lad (1963) ... Murdoch
1962 Harpers West One (TV Series) - Philip Nash
1962 Out of This World (TV Series) - Dr. Arthur Bailey
- Divided We Fall (1962) ... Dr. Arthur Bailey
1961 Family Solicitor (TV Series) - Francis Naylor
- Test Case (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- House in Order (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Threats and Menaces (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Wage Snatch (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Slander (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Conflict of Laws (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Possession Order (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- First Eleven Plus (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Dangerous Driving (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Strike Action (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Cross Petition (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Man of Straw (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Arson (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- The Case of the Dyed Hair (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- The Meeting (1961) ... Francis Naylor
1960 Pathfinders to Mars (TV Series) - Professor Hawkins
- Sabotage in Space (1960) ... Professor Hawkins
- The Imposter (1960) ... Professor Hawkins
1960 Man in the Moon - Rex
1960 Death of a Ghost (TV Series) - Albert Campion (6 episodes)
1960 Don't Do It Dempsey (TV Series) - Paul Gossett
- Mothers' Help (1960) ... Paul Gossett
1960 Captain Moonlight: Man of Mystery (TV Series) - Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight (6 episodes)
1960 The Angry Silence - Pryce-Evans

1959 Dancers in Mourning (TV Series) - Albert Campion (Parts 1-6)
1958-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Philip Irwin / Frank Barrett
1959 For Schools: Twelfth Night (TV Movie) - Sir Andrew Aguecheek
1958 Cinderella (TV Movie) - Signor Benvenuto
1958 Victory (TV Movie) - Captain Blackwood
1958 The Riddle of the Red Wolf (TV Series) - Rompus
- Poor Rufus! (1958) ... Rompus
1957 The Critical Point (TV Movie) - Detective Sergeant Green
1957 The One That Got Away - Lieutenant - Kent (uncredited)
1957 High Flight - Radar Operator
1957 Paradise Lagoon - Lifeboatman (uncredited)
1957 The Steel Bayonet - Pvt. Livingstone

2016: Last night for the Aston Martin window display at Harrods, London.

Harrods Aston Martin Window Shopping

See the complete article here:

https://justbritish.com/harrods-aston-martin-window-shopping/

January 10, 2016 Staff Aston Martin, Classic Cars, Corporate Business, Highlights

As the Christmas displays disappear, shoppers in London’s Knightsbridge are to be treated to the sight of a very special Aston Martin window display in Harrods, the world’s most famous luxury department store.

Three stunning Aston Martin sports cars will take over the iconic Harrods storefront in a month-long celebration of the British marques’ ‘DB’ nameplate. Since their debut in the early 1950s, the ‘DB’ models offered by Aston Martin – named after Sir David Brown who bought Aston Martin in 1947 – have been synonymous with sophisticated grand touring and thrilling sports car performance.

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

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

Finally, the Aston Martin DB5, arguably the most famous ‘DB’ of them all is also on display. Revealed in 1963, the car set the benchmark for all the DBs that followed, with its iconic design language and substantial improvements in performance.

Aston Martin Chief Creative Officer Marek Reichman said: “Harrods is one of the world’s most trusted luxury brands and we are delighted to join forces with them to create this rather unique display in tribute to our most famous nameplate.”

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

Note: Press release courtesy of Aston Martin.

RichardTheBruce

January 29th

1931: Leslie Bricusse is born--Pinner, Harrow, Greater London, England.
(He dies 19 October 2021 at age 90.)

Leslie Bricusse, OBE

See the complete article here:

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

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

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

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

Working solely as a lyricist, he collaborated with composer Cyril Ornadel on Pickwick (1963), based on Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers, a successful vehicle for Harry Secombe. His later collaborators included with Henry Mancini (Victor/Victoria in 1982 and Tom and Jerry: The Movie in 1992) and John Williams (Hook in 1991). As composer and lyricist he scored the film, Doctor Dolittle (1967), which flopped at the box-office, receiving an Academy Award for Best Original Song ("Talk to the Animals"), and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969).

Sammy Davis Jr. had hits with two songs by Bricusse, "What Kind of Fool Am I?" (from Stop the World - I Want to Get Off) and "The Candy Man" (from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) which became a No. 1 hit. Other recording artists who recorded successful versions of his songs include Nina Simone ("Feeling Good"), Matt Monro and Frank Sinatra ("My Kind of Girl"), Shirley Bassey ("Goldfinger"), Harry Secombe ("If I Ruled the World"), Nancy Sinatra ("You Only Live Twice"), The Turtles ("A Guide for the Married Man"), Maureen McGovern ("Can You Read My Mind"), and Diana Krall ("When I Look in Your Eyes"). Bricusse partnered with George Tipton to write the opening theme of the U.S. television sitcom It's a Living.

Pure Imagination: The World of Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, devised and directed by Bruce Kimmel, opened at the Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California, on 7 December 2013. In 2015, it went to the St James Theatre, London.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Songs
Source:
"Out of Town" with Robin Beaumont (1956)

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

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

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

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

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

Nominations
Tony Award
Best Musical, 1963 – Stop the World – I Want to Get Off
Tony Award for Best Score, 1963 – "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off"
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, 1963 – "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off"
Tony Award for Best Score of a Musical, 1965 – "The Roar of Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd"
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, 1997 – "Jekyll & Hyde"
Academy Awards
Original Music Score, 1967 – Doctor Dolittle
Original Music Score, 1969 – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Original Song Score, 1970 – Scrooge
Best Original Song, 1970 – "Thank You Very Much"
Best Adaptation and Original Song Score, 1971 – Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Best Original Song, 1986 – "Life in a Looking Glass"
Best Original Song, 1990 – "Somewhere in My Memory"
Best Original Song, 1991 – "When You're Alone"
Golden Raspberry Award
Worst 'Original' Song, 1986 – "Life in a Looking Glass" (lyrics)

Sammy Davis Jr Medley of Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley songs .1968 .HQ

1962: Ursula Andress arrives in Jamaica, stays at the Courtleigh Manor Hotel, Kingston.

http://jamaicahotelhistory.com/brochures/Courtleigh-Manor-1956.htm

1965: 007 ja Kultasormi (007 and Gold Bull; Swedish: 007 och Guldfinger, 007 and Goldfinger) released in Finland.

1966: Vanity Fair prints Pearl Sheffy's piece "The Man who got the Bond Going" regarding Harry Saltzman.
1967: The Colgems label releases "The Look of Love" written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, sung by Dusty Springfield. Inspired by Ursula Andress in the film, says Bacharach.

1983: Varley Thomas dies at age 81--Ewell, Surrey, England.
(Born 29 November 1901--Wandsworth, Surrey, England.)

Varley Thomas (1901–1983)

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

Biography

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

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

Filmography

Actress (10 credits)

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

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


Archive footage (2 credits)

1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Old Lady with Gun
1964 Goldfinger: The World Premiere (Documentary short)

1995: BOND 17 films in Puerto Rico.

2007: 皇家赌场 (Royal Casino) released in Beijing, China.

2014: British miniseries Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond starring Dominic Cooper premieres in the US.

Fleming

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2647420/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
TV-MA | 44min | Biography, Drama, Romance | TV Mini-Series (2014)

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

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

2015: Spectre films airplane action at Obertilliach, Austria.

RichardTheBruce

January 30th

1960: Bond comic strip Diamonds Are Forever ends its run in the Daily Express.
(Started 10 August 1959. 340-487) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/daf.php3?s=comics&id=01045

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/daf.php3

Swedish Semic Comic 1972 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1972.php3

Diamantfeber
(Diamond Fever - Diamonds Are Forever)

Swedish Semic Comic 1988 https://mi6confidential.com/sections/comics/semic_1988.php3

Diamantfeber (Diamonds Are Forever - Part 1) | Diamantfeber (Diamonds Are Forever - Part 2)

Danish 1967 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no9-1967/

1977: Bond comic strip When the Wizard Awakes begins its run in the Sunday Express.
(Ends 22 May 1977. 1-54) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1020

http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1020


Swedish Semic Comic 1978 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3

Trollkarlen + Stålspionen
("Magician + Steel Spy" -
Fear Face & When The Wizard Awakes)

Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no49-1979/

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

1996: Guy Doleman dies at age --Los Angeles, California
(Born 22 November 1923--Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand.)

Guy Doleman

See the complete article here:

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

Guy Doleman in The Prisoner (1967)

Guy Doleman
Born 22 November 1923
Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand
Died 30 January 1996 (aged 72)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Years active 1948–1992

Guy Doleman (22 November 1923 – 30 January 1996) was a New Zealand actor.

Early life
Doleman was born in Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand, later moving to Australia.

Career
During the 1940s and '50s, Doleman was one of the busiest actors in Australia, appearing in the majority of films made there at the time, and being busy on radio, particularly in the drama Hagen's Circus, which made him a radio star in Australia. A history of Australian radio grouped Doleman with Peter Finch, Grant Taylor, Rod Taylor and Lloyd Berrell as part of "a wild but very colourful group of actors... who in their own way helped forge a wonderful ambience which was unique to Sydney radio. They had their friendly fights in studios and even took on gangs of hecklers in the backstreets of Kings Cross, with a sense of joy. Most times they came out on top in these scuffles."

In 1952 he won a £300 Actor's Choice Award for his performance in the radio drama The Coward. He used this money to go to Hollywood for a film in September 1953, where he did a bit of television work, then returned to Australia.

He was cast in Long John Silver (1954) but passed on the role because it meant he had to wear contact lenses – Rod Taylor took the part instead.[5] He had moved to London by the early 1960s. Later he returned to Australia.

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

Death
Guy Doleman died of lung cancer in Los Angeles on 30 January 1996 aged 72.

Filmography
Always Another Dawn (1948) - Warren Melville
Strong Is the Seed (1949) - William Farrer

The Kangaroo Kid (1950) - Sgt. Jim Penrose
Kangaroo (1952) - Pleader (uncredited)
The Phantom Stockman (1953) - Mr. Stapleton
His Majesty O'Keefe (1954) - Herr Weber
Dial M for Murder (1954) - Detective (uncredited)[6]
Smiley (1956) - Bill McVitty
The Adventures of Long John Silver (1957, TV Series) - Dr. Stanhope
The Shiralee (1957) - Son O'Neill
Smiley Gets a Gun (1958) - Quirk
On the Beach (1959) - Lt. Cmdr. Farrel

The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1960, TV Movie)[7]
The Square Ring (1960, TV Movie)
Whiplash (1961, TV Series) - Sundowner / Raike Dartner / Norris
Follow the Sun (1961, TV Series) - Alex Cooper
ITV Play of the Week (1962-1963, TV Series) - Walter Ramsden / Captain Lee
No Hiding Place (1962-1964, TV Series) - Melvyn Kerry / Felix Seymour / James Conway
The Avengers (1963, TV Series) - Oliver Waldner
Jezebel ex UK (1963, TV Series) - Robin Coleridge
Captain Sindbad (1963)
The Dickie Henderson Show (1963, TV Series)
BBC Sunday-Night Play (1963, TV Series) - Managing Editor
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1963, TV Series) - Wayne Douglas
The Hidden Truth (1964, TV Series) - Charles Medwin
The System (1964) (aka: The Girl Getters) - Philip
Boy with a Flute (1965, Short)
Young Cassidy (1965) - Officer
The Ipcress File (1965) - Colonel Ross
Thunderball (1965) - Count Lippe
The Idol (1966) - Martin Livesey
The Power Game (1966, TV Series) - Stephen Gray
Funeral in Berlin (1966) - Colonel Ross
The Deadly Bees (1967) - Ralph Hargrove
The Prisoner (1967, Episode: "Arrival") - Number Two
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1967, Episode: "The Tape Recorder")
Billion Dollar Brain (1967) - Colonel Ross
A Twist of Sand (1968) - Patrol Boat Commander
Strange Report (1969, TV Series) - Glyn Crowley

Chilling (1974)
The Six Million Dollar Man (1977, TV Series) - Henry Bulman
Enigma (1977) - Maurice Mockcastle
The Greatest Battle (1978) - General Whitmore

A Dangerous Summer (1981) - Julian Fane
Early Frost (1982) - Mike Hayes
Goodbye Paradise (1983) - Quiney
Matt Houston (1984, TV Series) - Richard / Rudy Bezmer
The Colbys (1986, TV Series) - Peter Hackford
The Shiralee (1987)
Hell Raiders (1988)

Tagget (1991, TV Movie) - Commander Arthur Green
Murder, She Wrote (1992, TV Series) - Corsair (final appearance)

Theatre Credits
Little Lambs Eat Ivy, Minerva Theatre, Kings Cross, NSW, May 1949
Edward, My Son, Theatre Royal, Sydney, NSW, 16 September 1949
All for Mary national tour 1956-57
The Piccadilly Bushman national tour Sept 1959-Feb 1960

Select Radio Credits
The Coward (1952)[8]
Chips (1954)[9]
The Orchard Walls (1954)[10]

2003: 新鐵金剛之不日殺機 (Xīn tiě jīngāng zhī bù rì shājī, New Iron King Kong's Imminent Murder) released in Hong Kong, China.

2006: BOND 21 filming begins in Prague, Czech Republic.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=3286&catid=2

2011: Press reports suggest Javier Bardem is in BOND 23.
2011: John Barry Prendergast dies at age 77--Oyster Bay, New York.
(Born 3 November 1933--York, North Yorkshire, England.)

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

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


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

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

He was born John Barry Prendergast in York, where his father ran a chain of cinemas. His mother was a talented musician, but had abandoned the attempt to establish herself as a concert pianist. "My father had seven or eight cinemas, so I was brought up in the cinema," he recalled. "I remember my dad carrying me through the foyer of the Rialto in York and pushing the swing doors open at a matinee. I was looking at this big black-and-white mouse on the screen, and he'd taken me to see a Mickey Mouse cartoon."

Barry cherished an early ambition to join the family business and become a projectionist, but the combination of film and music made a deep impression on him. He began taking piano lessons with Francis Jackson, master of the music at York Minster, and studied with the jazz arranger Bill Russo, who had worked with Stan Kenton's orchestra. His father was a jazz fan, and would present concerts by such stars as Kenton and Count Basie.

After national service with the army, Barry formed his own jazz combo, the John Barry Seven, and scored a string of pop hits during the late 50s and early 60s, including Hit and Miss (the theme from TV's Juke Box Jury), Walk Don't Run and Black Stockings.

Barry thrived on the feverish wave of creativity that made London the world's most fascinating city at the time. He socialised with Michael Caine and Terence Stamp, collaborated with the pop stars Adam Faith and Nina & Frederik, and guaranteed himself the attention of gossip columnists by marrying the actress Jane Birkin. In 1960 he was asked to write music for the Peter Sellers/Richard Todd vehicle Never Let Go and then for the Faith comedy Beat Girl.

In 1962, he was signed up to work on the first Bond film, Dr No, although only as back-up to the composer Monty Norman, for a fee of £250. The official story is that Barry merely arranged Norman's famous James Bond Theme, and when Barry claimed in a Sunday Times interview many years later that he had written it himself, Norman successfully sued for libel and was awarded £30,000 in damages.

Subsequently there was no such ambiguity, as Barry's scores for From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964) and [n]Thunderball[/b] (1965) became popular the world over. Such was the potency of the Bond mystique that Barry's soundtrack album for Goldfinger knocked the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night off the top of the American charts in 1964, and earned the composer his first gold disc. He scored 10 consecutive Bond films and decided he had had enough after The Living Daylights (1987) because "all the good books had been done". 

In 1969, he scored John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy, one of the first movies to use a selection of pop songs on the soundtrack. It was a technique that would be copied by countless imitators. "That movie is still shown at the cinema school at UCLA as the epitome of how songs should be used in the movies," Barry said in 1997. "We only bought in a couple of songs, Everybody's Talkin', sung by Harry Nilsson, and a John Lennon song, and for the rest we got young songwriters to score the scenes with songs. The songs work because they were written for the movie."

However, Barry always gave credit to the great classically influenced Hollywood film composers, such as Bernard Herrmann or Max Steiner, and echoes of their work would frequently bubble up in his own. Barry's music was used on the soundtracks of many other films – The Knack (1965), The Quiller Memorandum (1966), The Lion in Winter (1968), Murphy's War (1971), The Day of the Locust (1975), Raise the Titanic (1980), Body Heat (1981), Jagged Edge (1985), Chaplin (1992), Dances With Wolves (1990) and Indecent Proposal (1993) – and he was a natural choice to write the theme for the Roger Moore/Tony Curtis TV series, The Persuaders!

He won five Oscars, including two for Born Free and one each for The Lion in Winter, Out of Africa and Dances With Wolves. He also won Bafta's Anthony Asquith award for The Lion in Winter, and a Grammy for Dances With Wolves. In 1998 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

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

A throat cancer scare in 1989 slowed Barry's work rate, but his ambition remained undimmed. In 1998 he released The Beyondness of Things, a "tone poem" unconnected to any film and which he presented as a concert piece. "It's amazing to work without film or without a director or producer," commented Barry, who was appointed OBE in 1999. "I love doing films, but it's been refreshing to work with such total freedom."

It was rumoured that Beyondness … had been derived from his rejected score for The Horse Whisperer, and a certain sameness of mood could be discerned creeping into his compositions. Perhaps recognising the need for fresh stimulus, he signed up to collaborate with the lyricist Don Black and director Michael Attenborough on a stage musical version of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock, which had a short run in London in 2004. "I don't mind people going on about my past as long as I've still got a future," said Barry, "and I've got plenty of things coming up."

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

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

Eddi Fiegel writes:

I wrote to John Barry in 1997 telling him I had been commissioned to write his biography. I heard nothing for months but then, just at the point when I had almost given up hope of a reply, I got a message on my answerphone saying, "This is John Barry. I'm in London working at Abbey Road studios. Why don't you come in and we can meet?"

He immediately put me at ease with a dry, self-deprecating humour and extraordinary personal charm. A few days later we had the first of many epic lunches at his favourite London restaurant, Rules, in Covent Garden.

He had an excellent memory and was a superb raconteur – a gift for a biographer. Like many artists he could also veer between insecurity and supreme confidence. When he arranged to play his first British concert in decades at the Albert Hall, he asked me: "Do you think people will come?"

Another day, however, I mentioned to him that an electronic dance act had recently recorded what they described as a tribute to his television theme to The Persuaders! I played it to him, curious to know what he would make of it. He listened in silence. Then after a pause, he said: "It's not as good as The Persuaders!, is it?"

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

• This obituary was further amended on 24 February 2015. Earlier versions said that Barry was born Jonathan, rather than John, Barry Prendergast.

John Barry (I) (1933–2011)
Music Department | Soundtrack | Composer

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Filmography

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2021: The Sanctuary Club in Portland celebrates Bond Night 007 and the memory of Sean Connery.

Events can be canceled or postponed due to coronavirus.

Bond, James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://us.partybeep.com/bond-james-bond-sanctuary-club-portland-002035316-303801034.html

Sanctuary Club
33 NW Ninth Ave., Portland, United States

In memory of the first -- and many would argue greatest -- 007, Sean Connery, break out your finest suits and evening dresses for a night of spy vs spy.

Pussy Galore!
Goldfingers!
Octopussy!
Plenty O' Tooles!

and more sex puns!

Martini drink specials - shaken not stirred.

$10 ($15 if not dressed to theme)

Masks are required except when eating or drinking. Groups are limited to 10 or fewer. For a Phase 1 walk-through, please visit www.pdxsanctuary.com

Sanctuary is 21+, LGBTQ+, ADA, anti-racism, and celebrates diversity. Enter on Ninth.
Guest list hidden for privacy.

RichardTheBruce

January 31st

1942: Daniela Bianchi is born--Rome, Lazio, Italy.

1960: The Sunday Times of London prints Ian Fleming's "The Thrilling Cities: Hong Kong."
1963: Dr. No released in the Netherlands.
1964: A 007, dalla Russia con amore (At 007, From Russia With Love) released in Italy.

1970: Minnie Driver is born--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.
1973: B.J. Arnau films her Filet of Soul scenes at Pinewood Studios.

2003: Die Another Day released in Norway. Filming used several Norway locations, doubling for Iceland and the car chase across the ice.

Die Another Day (2002)
Filming & Production

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246460/locations

Luster, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
(ice car chase - ice palace environs - additional filming)

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

Jostedal Glacier National Park, Luster, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
(ice car chase - ice palace environs - additional filming)

2003: La morte può attendere (Death Can Wait) released in Switzerland (Italian speaking region, after French and German speaking regions).

2003: 誰與爭鋒 (Shuí yǔ zhēngfēng, Who is Fighting) released in Taiwan.

2019: The London ceremony for the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) presents producer Barbara Broccoli a Casting Society of America (CSA) UK Artios Award for lifetime achievement.

https://jamesbond007.se/eng/nyheter/barbara_broccoli_casting_society_of_america_award
Barbara Broccoli recipient of CSA Lifetime Achievement Award

Accepting the award, Barbara Broccoli said:
“There is no job for me that is too small or too big. Get those pitches ready...!”

2021: Classic Cinemas in Australia screen Dr. No.

https://www.classiccinemas.com.au/movies/dr-no-1962

2021: AMC theaters in the US screen Dr. No.

Dr. No (James Bond)

See the complete article here:

https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/dr-no-james-bond-65827

Dr. No (James Bond)
1 hr 50 min
PG

In his explosive film debut, Ian Fleming's immortal action hero blazes through one of his most spectacular adventures. Bond's (Sean Connery) mission takes him to Jamaica, where mysterious energy waves are interfering with U.S. missile launches. As he unravels the truth, Bond must fight deadly assassins and sexy femme fatales as he searches for the headquarters of the sinister Dr. No, who is implementing an evil plan of world domination. Jack Lord and Ursula Andress also star.

Please allow approximately 20 extra minutes for pre-show and trailers before the show starts.1 hr 50 min

PG
Jan 31, 2021
Special Events

Cast & Crew
Bernard Lee
URSULA ANDRESS
Sean Connery
ZENA MARSHALL
ANTHONY DAWSON
EUNICE GAYSON

2021: Paragon theaters in the US screen Dr. No.

https://www.paragontheaters.com/location/2537/Pavilion-Showtimes/2021-01-31

2021: Epic theaters in the US screen Dr. No.

https://www.epictheatres.com/movie/315376/Dr.-No-(James-Bond)

2021: Cinemark theaters in the US screen Dr. No.

https://www.cinemark.com/movies/dr-no-james-bond

2021: Phoenix theaters in the US screen Dr. No.

https://phoenixtheatres.azurewebsites.net/home/movies/Dr. No/HO00000340

2021: Malco theaters in the US screen Dr. No.

https://www.malco.com/2.mobile/getShowtimes.php?MovieID=HO00007186

2021: D'Place Entertainment theaters in the US screen Dr. No.

https://www.dplaceentertainment.com/movie/315376/dr.-no-(james-bond)-Trailer-and-Info

RichardTheBruce

February 1st

1960: Bond comic strip From Russia with Love begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 21 May 1960. 488-583) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=985

Swedish Semic Comic 1980 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1980.php3

Agent 007 Ser Rött
("Agent 007 See Red" - From Russia With Love)

Swedish Semic Comic 1987 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1987.php3

Agent 007 Ser Rött
("Agent 007 See Red" - From Russia With Love)

Danish 1966 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-no-5-frwl-1966-eng/

1961: Mrs. James Bond writes Ian Fleming and calls his Bond "a rascal."

The Man with the Golden Typewriter, Fergus Fleming (Editor), 2015.

TO MRS. JAMES BOND, 721, Davidson Road, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
18, Pasadena

'It was inevitable we should catch up with you. . . " On which ominous note
Mrs James Bond began her letter of 1 February 1961. Fleming had never
made any secret of the fact that he had borrowed his name from one
of his favorite books, Birds of the West Indies, by the American orni-
thologist James Bond. But now, almost ten years after he had written
Casino Royale, news reached the Bonds that 'you had brazenly picked
up the name of a real human being for your rascal.' They didn't really
mind, as the real Bond had led an adventurous life, his colorful exploits
not being too far, in the ornithological scale of things, from those of his fic-
tional equivalent. 'I told MY JB he could sue you for defamation of charac-
ter,' Mrs. Bond concluded cheerfully. 'JBBA [James Bond British
Agent] is too much fun for that and JB authenticus regards the whole thing
as "a joke".'

1992: This month Marvel Comics releases James Bond Jr #2 "The Eiffel Missile". Episode 9 of the cartoon features Dr. Derange.

https://www.bedetheque.com/BD-James-Bond-Jr-1992-Tome-2-The-Eiffel-Missile-365316.html

1993: This month Dark Horse Comics releases James Bond 007: Serpent's Tooth #3.
Paul Gulacy, artist. Doug Moench, writer.

James Bond 007: Serpent's Tooth #3

Would you destroy the world to make a new, perfect one? Indigo plays God and Bond is the serpent in Indigo's New Eden. Serpent's Tooth delivers all the Bond action, all the Bond thrills, and all the Bond savoir faire. There's no way anyone should miss the exciting conclusion to this incredible series. Written by Doug Moench (Batman/Dracula: Red Rain) with art by Paul Gulacy (Terminator: Secondary Objectives) and color by Steve Oliff (John Byrne's 2112). Painted cover by Gulacy.

Creators
Writer: Doug Moench
Artist: Paul Gulacy
Letterer: Pat Brosseau
Colorist: Steve Oliff
Editor: Jerry Prosser & Dick Hansom
Cover Artist: Paul Gulacy
Genre: Action/Adventure

Publication Date: February 01, 1993

1995: Dark Horse Comics releases James Bond 007: The Quasimodo Gambit #2.
Gary Caldwell, artist. Don McGregor, write.

James Bond 007: Quasimodo Gambit #2

Bond's midnight excursion into The Estate for the Disciples of the Heavenly Way reveals that the believers are more than just quiet and devout -- they're fanatical soldiers bent on the destruction of The Beast -- whatever that is! Following leads and his instincts, he heads deep into the Georgia swamps, only to find his worst fears confirmed and a bloody nightmare from which he cannot escape!

Creators
Writer: Don McGregor
Artist: Gary Caldwell
Letterer: Elitta Fell
Editor: Edward Martin III & Robert Conte
Cover Artist: Christopher Moeller
Genre: Action/Adventure

Publication Date: February 01, 1995

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

February 1, 2005

Dear Friends,

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

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

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

Next up…

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

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

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

Love and only love,

Pierce Brosnan

2011: Rob Hastings in the Independent rolls up the tributes to John Barry.

Tributes to John Barry,
the man with the Midas touch for movie music

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/tributes-to-john-barry-the-man-with-the-midas-touch-for-movie-music-2200165.html
Rob Hastings | @robhastings | Tuesday 1 February 2011 01:00

Gety Images

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

Mr Barry, who died of a heart attack in his adopted home city of New York, played a vital part in establishing the James Bond films in the public imagination. There was far more to his career than the spy movie franchise, however. He won a total of five Oscars for his work on Dances With Wolves, Out Of Africa, The Lion In Winter and Born Free, for which he won two.

Many of his most famous and evocative scores were written in the 1960s during the age of Beatlemania, a phenomenon of which James Bond clearly disapproved. Sean Connery, playing Bond in Goldfinger, states: "There are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs."

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

Yesterday Tim Rice paid tribute to this versatility, saying: "He made these great rock 'n' roll records and then you heard these symphonic works as well."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

John Barry 1933-2011

Midnight Cowboy (1969)
"He was able to catch the mood of a scene or a whole film by the genius of orchestration with fairly conventional instruments. Film seemed to bring out the very best in him."
- Sir Tim Rice

Out of Africa (1985)
"When he played you a melody it was like an unveiling. You didn't question it because you knew he had been up all night working on it."
- Don Black (lyricist)

Goldfinger (1964)
"I think James Bond would have been far less cool without John Barry holding his hand."
- Current Bond composer David Arnold

Born Free (1966)
"He wrote some of the most memorable and beautiful scores we could ever wish to hear."
- Michael Crawford

2012: First official photo of BOND 23 shows scruffy beard growth on OO7 in Shanghai (actually Pinewood Studios).

RichardTheBruce

February 2nd

1973: Live and Let Die films Baron Samedi rising from the dead.

1981: Bond comic strip Doomcrack begins its run in The Sunday Express. (Ends 19 August 1981. 1-174)
Harry North (known for Mad Magazine film parodies), artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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1983: Bond comic strip Deathmask ends its run in The Sunday Express.
(Started 7 June 1982. 379-552) John McLusky, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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Semic Comic 1983 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1983.php3

Dödsmasken (Deathmask - Part 1) | Dödsmasken (Deathmask - Part 2)

1984: Insan gibi yasa (Human-Like Law) released in Turkey. Television title: Asla asla deme (Never Say Never).

1986: Gemma Arterton is born--Gravesend, Kent, England.

1995: Donald Pleasence dies at age 75--Saint-Paul de-Vence, Alps-Maritimes, France.
(Born 5 October 1919--Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England.)

Donald Pleasence OBE

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

Pleasence in London, 1973.
Portrait by Allan Warren

Born Donald Henry Pleasence, 5 October 1919, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England
Died 2 February 1995 (aged 75), Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Nationality British
Education Ecclesfield School
Occupation Actor, singer, narrator
Years active 1946–1995
Spouse(s) Miriam Raymond (m. 1941–1958), Josephine Crombie (m. 1959–1970), Meira Shore (m. 1970–1988), Linda J. Kentwood (m. 1988)
Children 5, including Angela Pleasence

Donald Henry Pleasence OBE (/ˈplɛzəns/); 5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English character actor. His best known film roles include psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis in Halloween (1978) and four of its sequels, the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967), RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape (1963), SEN 5241 in THX 1138 (1971), Clarence "Doc" Tydon in Wake in Fright (1971), and the President of the United States in Escape from New York (1981).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Film

Donald Pleasence in the trailer for
the film Eye of the Devil (1966).

Pleasence made his big-screen debut with The Beachcomber (1954). Some notable early roles include Parsons in 1984 (1956), and minor roles opposite Alec Guinness in Barnacle Bill (1957) and Dirk Bogarde in The Wind Cannot Read (1958). In Tony Richardson's film of Look Back in Anger (1959), he plays a vindictive market inspector opposite Richard Burton. In the same year, Pleasence starred in the horror films Circus of Horrors directed by Sidney Hayers, playing the role of Vanet, the owner of a circus, and The Flesh and the Fiends as the real-life murderer William Hare, alongside Peter Cushing, George Rose and Billie Whitelaw.

Endowed with a bald head, a penetrating stare, and an intense voice, usually quiet but capable of a piercing scream, he specialised in portraying insane, fanatical, or evil characters, including the title role in Dr Crippen (1962), the double agent Dr Michaels in the science-fiction film Fantastic Voyage (1966), the white trader who sells guns to the Cheyenne Indians in the revisionist western Soldier Blue (1970), the mad Doctor in the Bud Spencer–Terence Hill film Watch Out, We're Mad! (1974), Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler in The Eagle Has Landed (1976), and the Bond arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice (1967), the first film in which Blofeld's face is clearly seen. His interpretation of the character has become predominant in popular culture considering the popularity of the comic villain, Dr. Evil in the successful Austin Powers film series, which primarily parodies it. In the crime drama Hell is a City (1960), shot in Manchester, he starred opposite Stanley Baker, whilst he was memorably cast in the horror comedy What a Carve Up! (1961) as the “horrible-looking zombie” solicitor opposite Shirley Eaton, Sid James, Kenneth Connor and Dennis Price.

He appeared as the mild-mannered and good-natured POW forger Colin Blythe in the film The Great Escape (1963), who discovers that he is slowly going blind, but nonetheless participates in the mass break-out, only to be shot down by German soldiers because he is unable to see them. In The Night of the Generals (1967), he played another uncharacteristically sympathetic role, this time as an old-school German general involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler. In 1971, he returned to the realm of the deranged, delivering a tour de force performance in the role of an alcoholic Australian doctor in Ted Kotcheff's nightmarish outback drama Wake in Fright.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Donald Pleasence (1919–1995)
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Filmography

Actor (234 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writer (5 credits)

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

Soundtrack (3 credits)

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

Director (1 credit)
1970 Zur Nacht (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)
- Dialogue of actors - Versuch eines Schauspielerporträts (1970)

2020: No Time To Die airs a 30-second trailer #2 during Super Bowl LIV.

2021: Groundhog Day in the US. And maybe worldwide at this point. All over again.

RichardTheBruce

February 3rd

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

1964: Daily Variety reports that actors considered for roles in Goldfinger included Theodore Bikel and Diane Cilento, Connery's wife at the time.

My Fair Lady (1964)

1970: Godfrey Argent photographs Sean Thomas Connery.

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw86015

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw86017

1976: Guatemalan television airs Casino Royale (1967) hours before an earthquake that kills thousands, earning its notoriety as La película de la noche anterior al terremoto (The Movie of the Night Before the Earthquake).

2005: EON announces Martin Campbell will direct BOND 21, with the title Casino Royale.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/bond_21_announced.php3

2012: BOND 23 filming has Daniel Craig running the streets of London, Tower Hill, on the way to M's hearing.
2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #4 Vargr.
Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.

JAMES BOND #4

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181804011
Cover A: Dom Reardon
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Publication Date: 3 February 2016
ON SALE DATE: February 3

James Bond is alone in Berlin, with nothing but the clothes on his back and the gun in his hand. When help is offered from an unexpected source, Bond has no choice but to accept it - even though it may guarantee that he doesn't live through the night. Dynamite Entertainment proudly continues the first James Bond comic book series in over 20 years! "Ian Fleming's James Bond is an icon, and it's a delight to tell visual narratives with the original, brutal, damaged Bond of the books." - Warren Ellis

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That's the first time I've ever heard of Diane Cilento being linked to the series in an acting capacity. It's well documented she visited Connery on the sets.

RichardTheBruce

February 4th

1962: Ian Fleming's short story "The Living Daylights" is published in The Sunday Times colour supplement.

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

The Sunday Times Colour Section magazine - Jean Shrimpton cover (4 February 1962)

http://james-bond-literary.wikia.com/wiki/The_Living_Daylights

1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films James seducing Tracy.

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

1989: 007 리빙 데이라이트 (lee-bing day-ee-lah-ee-teu; 007 Living Daylight) released in the Republic of Korea.

2012: Skyfall delays filming at Vauxhall Bridge due to snow.
2015: Spectre films airplane action at Kartitsch, Austria.

https://007travelers.blogspot.fi/2015/02/spectre-action-pics-from-kartitsch.html

2021: Ralph Fiennes says he wants to continue in the M role.

Ralph Fiennes wants to keep playing M after 'No Time to Die'

See the complete article here:

https://ph.news.yahoo.com/ralph-fiennes-m-no-time-to-die-160720156.html

Tom Beasley·Contributor | Thu, 4 February 2021, 11:07 am·2 min read

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

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

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

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

"If anyone from Eon Films is listening, I'm very keen to continue training the new Bond," Fiennes said.

M (Ralph Fiennes) and James Bond (Daniel Craig) in 'No Time to Die'.
(Credit: Eon/Instagram)

He added: “I love playing M, and I love being part of that franchise. But who knows? Things have to change.

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

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

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

The eventual find, which included the well-preserved ship and dozens of artefacts, is considered one of the most important archaeological achievements of all time.

Lashana Lynch and Daniel Craig in a still from No Time To Die. (Eon/Universal)

As for Bond, No Time to Die has found itself hitting numerous stumbling blocks in the last year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic — after an already turbulent path to the big screen.

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

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

RichardTheBruce

February 5th

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

Rose Alba (1918–2005)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0016196/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (30 credits)

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

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

1969 School for Sex - Countess of Burwash
1968 The Saint (TV Series) - First Woman at Party
- The Double Take (1968) ... First Woman at Party
1968 The Ugliest Girl in Town (TV Series) - Sally Whitaker
- The Ugliest Girl in Town (1968) ... Sally Whitaker
1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Rosetta
- Let Slip the Dogs of War (1966) ... Rosetta
1965 Thunderball - Madame Boitier
1963 Eves on Skis (Short) - Elizabeth (voice)
1961 Mary Had a Little... - Duchess of Addlecombe
1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Nora
- Eyewitness (1961) ... Nora
1961 The Grand Junction Case (Short) - Colette
1960 The Strange World of Gurney Slade (TV Mini-Series)
- Episode #1.1 (1960)
1960 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Woman in bar
- Sparrow, Sparrow (1960) ... Woman in bar
1960 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Mrs. Morris
- A Man of Straw (1960) ... Mrs. Morris
-
1959 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Kathie Morgan
- Episode #1.14 (1959) ... Kathie Morgan
1959 Call Me Sam (TV Series) - - Episode #1.1 (1959)
1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Maria / Operating Theatre Charge Nurse
- Brian Rix Presents #6: Nap Hand (1959) ... Maria
- No Deadly Medicine (1959) ... Operating Theatre Charge Nurse
1959 Playbox (TV Series) - Rosita
- Episode #4.9 (1959) ... Rosita
1958 Television Playwright (TV Series) - Mrs. Dix
- The Commentator (1958) ... Mrs. Dix
1958 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Gina Neri / Dolores Infante
- The Sins of Simone (1958)
- Vendetta (1958) ... Gina Neri
- Tragedy in a Temporary Town (1958) ... Dolores Infante
1956 Home Is the Sailor (TV Movie) - Andrée Courbois
1955 The Golden Falcon - Gertrude Montefalco
1955 Shadow of a Man - Cabaret singer

1921: Klaus Hugo (Ken) Adam is born--Berlin, Germany. (He dies 10 March 2016 at age 95--London, England.)

Ken Adam, Who Dreamed Up the
Lairs of Movie Villains, Dies at 95

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/12/movies/ken-adam-who-dreamed-up-the-lairs-of-movie-villains-dies-at-95.html
By William Grimes | March 12, 2016

Mr. Adam’s production design work included the war room in the Stanley Kubrick film “Dr. Strangelove.” Credit Hawk Films

Ken Adam, a production designer whose work on dozens of famous films included the fantasy sets that established the look of the James Bond series, the car in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and, for Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove,” the sinister war room beneath the Pentagon, died on Thursday at his home in London. He was 95.

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

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

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

In Goldfinger, the third movie in the series, Mr. Adam put Bond, played by Sean Connery, into an Aston Martin equipped with an ejector seat. He envisioned Fort Knox as a cathedral of gold.


Ken Adam, left, on the set of “Diamonds Are Forever,” with the actor Sean Connery. Credit United Artists, via Photofest

With You Only Live Twice, the fifth Bond film, Mr. Adam had more than half the total budget at his disposal. He spent $1 million of it building a volcano that contained a secret military base operated by the international terrorist organization Spectre.

“He was a brilliant visualizer of worlds we will never be able to visit ourselves,” Christopher Frayling, the author of two books on Mr. Adam, told the BBC in an article posted on Friday . “The war room under the Pentagon in ‘Dr. Strangelove,’ the interior of Fort Knox in Goldfinger — all sorts of interiors which, as members of the public, we are never going to get to see, but he created an image of them that was more real than real itself.”

Mr. Adam, who was also the production designer for “The Ipcress File,” “Funeral in Berlin,” “Sleuth,” “The Seven Percent Solution,” “Agnes of God” and many other films, won an Oscar in 1976 for his work on “Barry Lyndon,” his second collaboration with Mr. Kubrick. He shared the award with Vernon Dixon and Roy Walker. He won his second Oscar, with Carolyn Scott, in 1995 for “The Madness of King George.”

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

In London he attended St. Paul’s School and became entranced by German Expressionist films, which he had not seen in Berlin. “They were so theatrical, these artists who dreamt up these fantastic dreamlike environments, and it struck a note with me,” he told The Sunday Telegraph in 2008.

Mr. Adam worked on seven films in the James Bond series, the last of which was Moonraker in 1979. Credit Eon Productions

He studied at University College, London, to pursue architecture as a way of breaking into production design, heeding the advice of Vincent Korda, a brother of the film producer Alexander Korda and a resident of the Hampstead boardinghouse run by Mr. Adam’s mother, the former Lilli Saalfeld. He enrolled in the Bartlett School of Architecture.

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

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

The Bond films — he worked on seven of them, the last of which was Moonraker, with Roger Moore as the superspy, in 1979 — put him in the front ranks of production designers.

“To me, designing the villains’ bases was a combination of tongue-in-cheek and showing the power of these megalomaniacs,” he told The Guardian. “I think in the last Bond film I saw — although they’re brilliantly made action pictures, one chase after another — they lost the importance of the villain. I think the villain is just as important as Bond. But someone who simply wants to destroy an oil pipeline to me is just not sufficiently important as a villain.”

Mr. Adam won an Oscar in 1976 for his work on the film “Barry Lyndon.” Credit Hawk Films

His Bond portfolio, along with his work on “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” and two spy thrillers with Michael Caine based on books by Len Deighton, “Funeral in Berlin” and “The Ipcress File,” qualified him as one of the great Cold War image-makers. The Victoria and Albert Museum honored that achievement in 1999 with the exhibition “Ken Adam: Designing the Cold War.”

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

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

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

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

Correction: March 15, 2016
An obituary on Monday about the production designer Ken Adam misstated the surname of one of the people with whom he shared an Academy Award for his work on “Barry Lyndon.” He was Roy Walker, not Roy Scott. The obituary also referred incorrectly to Mr. Adam’s work as an assistant art director on “Around the World in 80 Days.” It was not uncredited. And the obituary described incorrectly the 1959 film “The Angry Hills,” on which he was production designer. It is a World War II drama, not a western.
A version of this article appears in print on March 14, 2016, on Page A24 of the New York edition with the headline: Ken Adam, 95, Designer for ‘Dr. Strangelove’ and Bond Films, Dies.

Ken Adam (I) (1921–2016)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010553/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Production designer (43 credits)
2004 GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (Video Game)
2001 Taking Sides

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

1989 Dead Bang
1988 The Deceivers
1986 Crimes of the Heart
1985 Agnes of God
1985 King David
1979 Moonraker
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me
1976 The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976 Salon Kitty
1975 Barry Lyndon
1973 The Last of Sheila
1972 Sleuth
1971 Diamonds Are Forever
1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1967 You Only Live Twice
1966 Funeral in Berlin
1965 Thunderball
1965 The Ipcress File
1964 Goldfinger
1964 Woman of Straw
1964 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1963 In the Cool of the Day (as Kenneth Adam)
1962 Dr. No
1962 Sodom and Gomorrah
1960 The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960 Let's Get Married

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

Art department (19 credits)

1981 Pennies from Heaven (visual consultant)

1970 The Owl and the Pussycat (design supervisor)

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

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

Art director (9 credits)

2004 GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (Video Game)

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

Miscellaneous Crew (6 credits)

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

Camera and Electrical Department (4 credits)

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

Actor (2 credits)

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

Producer (1 credit)

1981 Pennies from Heaven (associate producer)

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

1964: Mary Wickham Bond (with husband James ) visits Ian Fleming at Goldeneye.

Ian Fleming inscribes a copy of You Only Live Twice for them:

To
The Real
James Bond
from the thief of
his identity.
Ian Fleming
Feb. 5 . 1964
(A great day!)

http://www.45worlds.com/book/title/how-007-got-his-name

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

Notes

Written by the wife of American ornithologist James Bond.

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

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

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

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

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

Entry and Notes by JPGR&B, 24 April 2019.

Comments and Reviews
JPGR&B
25th Apr 2019
When ornithologist James Bond called in on Ian Fleming at Goldeneye on 5 February 1964, the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) were in the middle of interviewing the author. When he broke off to greet Mr and Mrs Bond, the cameras followed them outside. I have not been able to track down footage of this, but what follows in this clip is the CBC interviewer asking Fleming how he came about selecting a name for the hero of his books.

Mrs. Bond's account of things.

b[]You Only Live twice[/b] inscription.

1965: Goldfinger released in Sweden.

Swedish insert 1964.

Re-release 1967.


Re-release 1973.

2000: 007 ワールド・イズ・ノット・イナフ (Wārudo Izu notto inafu, 007 World Is Not Enough) released in Japan.

2015: Spectre filming at Pinewood Studios pauses due to Daniel Craig's sprained knee during a fight scene.

2020: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Volume 3 #3.

JAMES BOND VOL. 3 #3 - JIM CHEUNG LIMITED VIRGIN COVER

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513028697003051
5 February 2020
Writer: Vita Ayala & Danny Lore
Art: Eric Gapstur
Cover A: Jim Cheung
Genre: Action/Adventure
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 2/5/2020

The first arc concludes, from VITA AYALA (Morbius), DANNY LORE (Queen of Bad Dreams) and ERIC GAPSTUR (The Flash). Bond is in over his head. What started as a “punishment” assignment has expanded into a world of international crime that Bond can’t wrap his mind around. Will 007 accept that the mission is too big for one spy, and seek assistance…or will pride be his downfall?

2020: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond: The Complete Warren Ellis Hardcover Omnibus.

JAMES BOND: THE COMPLETE WARREN ELLIS HARDCOVER OMNIBUS

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C1524115045
5 February 2020
Writers: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters, Dominic Reardon
Cover: Dominic Reardon
Genre: Spy Thriller, Action/Adventure
Price: $39.99
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 304 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-1-5241-1504-3
ON SALE DATE: 2/5/2020

After a mission of vengeance in Helsinki, James Bond returns to London and assumes the workload of a fallen 00 Section agent. His new mission takes him to Berlin, presumably to break up an agile drug-trafficking operation. But Bond has no idea of the forces gathered in secret against him, the full scope of an operation that’s much scarier and more lethal than he could possibly imagine. Berlin is about to catch fire… and James Bond is trapped inside. Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents VARGR, the debut storyline in the all new James Bond comic book series, as crafted by masterful writer Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, The Authority) and artist Jason Masters (Batman Incorporated, Guardians of the Galaxy).

James Bond is trapped in Los Angeles with a MI6 agent under fire and a foreign intelligence service trying to put them both in bags… and possibly more than one foreign intelligence service. And things may not be any safer in Britain, with bodies dropping and ghosts moving in the political mist…
Contains James Bond #1-#12 (2015), Warren Ellis’ VARGR and EIDOLON story lines.

2020: Dynamite Entertainment re-releases James Bond Vargr #1 - Dynamite Dollar Edition.

JAMES BOND: VARGR #1 - DYNAMITE DOLLAR EDITION

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513028915501011
5 February 2020
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Cover A: Dominic Reardon
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 2/5/2020

Get acquainted with Dynamite’s James Bond comic series by best-selling writer Warren Ellis with a Dynamite Dollar 1st Issue! James Bond returns to London after a mission of vengeance in Helsinki, to take up the workload of a fallen 00 Section agent. But something evil is moving through the back streets of the city, and sinister plans are being laid for Bond in Berlin…

Ready for more after this initial sampling? Check out Dynamite’s JAMES BOND WARREN ELLIS OMNIBUS, also on sale this month!

RichardTheBruce

February 6th

1922: Patrick Macnee is born--Paddington, London, England.
(He dies 25 June 2015 at age 93--Rancho Mirage, California.)

Patrick Macnee’s Biography

See the complete article here:

http://www.patrickmacnee.com/bio/

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

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

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

In 1960 Macnee landed the leading role in an imaginative new British TV series The Avengers, playing John Steed, the suave, dashing Englishman with his bowler hat, rolled umbrella and fancy clothes. Overnight The Avengers became an international hit, Macnee’s popularity soared and both show and star enjoyed a cult-like status. His leading ladies included Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman, Joanna Lumley and Linda Thorson.

His early major credits include Young Doctors in Love, James Bond’s A View To A Kill, Sea Wolves with David Niven, Gregory Peck and Roger Moore, Rob Reiner’s This Is Spinal Tap, and the television series, The New Avengers. For two years Macnee also starred in the Broadway production of Sleuth. He then performed the role in Canada and other U.S. cities.

Numerous appearances on television series include Sherlock Holmes with Christopher Lee, HBO’s Dream On and 26 episodes of Thunder in Paradise with Hulk Hogan. He currently hosts the Sci-Fi Channel’s popular program Mysteries, Magic and Miracles.

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

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

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

In his spare time Patrick enjoys bird-watching, desert reclamation, and preventing terrorism! (He received an award from the Bureau of Federal Aviation for preventing terrorism on aircraft). Also, The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror has honored Patrick with their prestigious Golden Scroll award. A born raconteur, Patrick delights in entertaining audiences large and small.

Patrick Macnee (1922–2015)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001495/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (174 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Costume and Wardrobe Department (1 credit)

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

Soundtrack (4 credits)

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

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

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

Producer (1 credit)

1960 Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (TV Series documentary) (producer - 1960-1961)

1944: Maud Russell writes in her diary about Ian Fleming.

Spies, affairs and James Bond... The
secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime
mistress
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/

Sunday 6 February, 1944

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

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

2002: Die Another Day films OO7 fighting Zao at the Alvarez Clinic.
2008: Mythbusters airs its James Bond Special Part 2 (Season 6, Episode 4).

2012: Skyfall reaches #7 on the list of top film box office grosses.
2015: Three days of filming begins at "Bond chapel" (Bacher Kapelle zur Schwarzen Madonna/Bacher Chapel of the Black Madonna).

2015: 87-year-old former Bond actor Roger Moore acknowledges Daniel Craig's injury on the BOND 24 set.

"Sorry to hear Daniel Craig has sprained his knee on set of #Spectre...
Being 007 is not without its hazards.
I'm available to step in if needed."

https://twitter.com/sirrogermoore/status/563700572352970752

2017: Alec McCowen dies at age 91--London, England.
(Born 26 May 1925--Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England.)

SINCE 1880

Obituary: Alec McCowen

See the complete article here:

https://www.thestage.co.uk/features/obituaries/2017/obituary-alec-mccowen/

by Michael Quinn - Feb 17, 2017


Alec McCowen in The Tempest at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1993. Photo: Marilyn Kingwill Actor Alec McCowen, 91. Photo: Marion Kingwill

Few actors were as consistently intelligent and engagingly relaxed on stage and screen as Alec McCowen. They were qualities that shone through a career encompassing the classics and contemporary work and that lit up his two remarkable one-man plays – St Mark’s Gospel (1978) and Kipling (1983).

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

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

His first London appearance was as Maxim in Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov (Arts Theatre, 1950) and he made an impression at the same venue in 1952 as Hugh Voysey in The Voysey Inheritance. A run of successful roles that included Daventry (Roger MacDougall’s Escapade, St James’s Theatre, 1953), Barnaby Tucker (Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker, Haymarket Theatre, 1954) and Dr Bird (Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Hippodrome Theatre, 1956) soon saw him rising through the ranks.

He became a regular with London’s Old Vic in the 1960s, making his debut as the Dauphin – “the most striking and interesting… since Alec Guinness” said The Stage – in George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan and as Mercutio to Judi Dench’s Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet, before going on to play Algernon, Richard II, Oberon and Malvolio.

With the Royal Shakespeare Company, McCowen was a knowing Fool to Paul Scofield’s King Lear in Peter Brook’s austere 1962 production, contrasting its severity with the comic relish of Antiphonus in the same year’s The Comedy of Errors.

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

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

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

With the National Theatre in 1973, his Alceste was “alive in every way in every moment” in John Dexter’s “dream come true” production (The Stage) of Tony Harrison’s robustly witty adaptation of Moliere’s The Misanthrope.

He reunited with Dexter to create the role of the psychiatrist Dysart in Peter Shaffer’s Equus in 1973 and again the following year for “an apparently perfect” Professor Higgins to Diana Rigg’s Eliza in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion at the Albery Theatre, London. In 1975, the pair reprised The Misanthrope on Broadway (earning McCowen a third Tony nomination) and subsequently at the Old Vic.

His later stage career was marked by a variety that embraced Antony to Dorothy Tutin’s Cleopatra in 1977 for Toby Robertson’s Prospect Theatre Company and a superlative Frank – the timid researcher thwarted in his attempts to find a cure for the common cold – in Brian Thompson’s Tishoo (Wyndham’s Theatre, London, 1979).

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

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

At the National Theatre in 1987 he portrayed Vladimir in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot as a glorious clown and was seen alongside Scofield and Eileen Atkins as a veteran crime reporter in danger of being ousted in Jeffrey Archer’s pressroom drama Exclusive at the Strand Theatre in 1989. The following year he lent Uncle Jack, the missionary priest sent home from Uganda under a cloud, a sense of seemingly harmless disorientation in Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa at the National Theatre.

Notable late appearances included the pedantic English professor Michael imprisoned in Beirut in Frank McGuinness’s Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Hampstead and Vaudeville theatres; it also marked his Broadway swansong), and a commanding Prospero memorably teamed with Simon Russell Beale’s Ariel in The Tempest, directed by Sam Mendes, for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1993.

He was heard in a radio broadcast of John Osborne’s never-produced screenplay The Charge of the Light Brigade, given a gala charity staging at Armoury House, London, in 2002.

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

McCowen’s screen debut came in 1953’s The Cruel Sea and he made his mark as Brown in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner in 1962. His exquisitely underplayed comic timing was seen to delightful effect as the nephew to Maggie Smith in Travels With My Aunt (1972) and as the police inspector forced by his wife to eat rich gourmet food in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy (1972).

He was also seen as Q in Sean Connery’s 1983 one-off comeback as James Bond, Never Say Never Again. His last screen appearance was a cameo in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York in 2002.

Television credits included the Whitehall spy-catcher title role in two series of Mr Palfrey of Westminster (1984-85), Dr Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest (1986) and Sir Robert Peel in Victoria and Albert (2001).

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

Alexander Duncan McCowen was born on May 26, 1925, and died on February 6, aged 91

Alec McCowen (1925–2017)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0566680/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_5

Filmography

Actor (81 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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February 7th:

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

1962: The Dr. No film crew arrives at St. Ann's Bay, Ocho Rios, north coast of Jamaica.
1964: From Russia With Love released in Ireland.

1970: Þrumufleygur (Thunderbolt) released in Iceland.

Hey--

1970: John Barry's On Her Majesty's Secret Service soundtrack charts in the US, eventually reaching #103.

1985: Matt Munro dies at age 54--Ealing, London, England.
(Born 1 December 1930--London, England.)

Matt Monro, Britain's 'Cockney Como,' Dies at 54

http://articles.latimes.com/1985-02-08/news/mn-4672_1_matt-monro

February 08, 1985|BURT A. FOLKART | Times Staff Writer

Matt Monro, an East London bus driver who perfected his lyrical baritone techniques while serenading his passengers, died Thursday of liver cancer in London.

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

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

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

'Smoked Incessantly'

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

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

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

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

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

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

Favorite Among Fellow Vocalists

It stayed on Britain's Top 10 for months.

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

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

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

He is survived by his wife, Mickie, and three children.

Matt Monro (1930–1985)

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Filmography

Soundtrack (32 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Actor (2 credits)

1970 Satan's Harvest - Bates

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

2008: BOND 22 films at (the former) Howard Air Force Base, Panama City, substituting for Haiti and Bolivia.

The National Institute of Culture of Panama subs for a Bolivian hotel. Director Marc Forster is frustrated by the limitations for filming at Panama's Fort Sherman, a former US military base, on the Colón coast. His vision of the harbour boat chase is grander than circumstances allow.

2008: BOND 22 teaser poster revealed online.

2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases M.
PJ Holden & Dearbhla Kelly, artists. Declan Shalvey, writer.

JAMES BOND: M ONE-SHOT

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026476301011
Cover A: Declan Shalvey & Jordie Bellaire
Writer: Declan Shalvey
Art: PJ Holden & Genre: Action
Publication Date: February 2018
Page Count: 40 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 2/7

James Bond's superior, code-named M, scrambles MI6's secret agents across the globe. Sometimes, he knowingly sends them to their deaths, for the greater good. But a traumatic event from M's early days in the field returns to haunt him, forcing M to return to the scene of a crime...HIS crime.

An exhilarating spy standalone from superstar DECLAN SHALVEY (Deadpool Vs. Old Man Logan, Savage Town) and PJ HOLDEN (2000 AD, Judge Dredd).

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2019: Albert Finney dies at age 82--London, England.
(Born 9 May 1936--Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire, England.)

Albert Finney obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/08/albert-finney-obituary[/center

Actor hailed as the new Olivier but who preferred playing
working-class heroes to classical roles
Michael Coveney | Fri 8 Feb 2019 13.04 EST

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

That this never quite happened was no fault of Finney’s. He worked intensely in two periods at the National Theatre, was an active film producer as well as occasional director, and remained a glowering, formidable presence in the movies long after he had been nominated five times for an Oscar (without ever winning). Although a stalwart company member – Peter Hall paid heartfelt tribute to his leadership and to his acting at the National – he led his life, personal and professional, at his own tempo.
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From middle age onwards – and he was only 47 when he gave one of those Oscar-nominated performances, the fruity old actor defying the blitz, Donald Wolfit-style, in Peter Yates’s The Dresser, written by Ronald Harwood – he assumed a physical bulk and serenity that bespoke a life of ease, far from the madding crowd, in good restaurants and on Irish racecourses. He never courted publicity.

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

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

Young Albert attended Tootal Drive primary school and Salford grammar. He flunked his exams but played leading roles in 15 school plays and went south to London and Rada, where he was in a class that included Peter O’Toole, Tom Courtenay, Frank Finlay, John Stride and Brian Bedford. While still a student, as Troilus in a modern play, he was spotted by Kenneth Tynan – the best-known critic of the day – who proclaimed a “smouldering young Spencer Tracy ... who will soon disturb the dreams of Messrs Burton and Scofield”. And so it proved. His rise was instant and meteoric. He played Brutus, Hamlet, Henry V and Macbeth at the Birmingham Rep, and in 1956 made his London debut in the Old Vic’s production of Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra. In 1958 he played opposite Charles Laughton in Jane Arden’s The Party at the Arts theatre.

Albert Finney with Diane Cilento in the film Tom Jones, 1963, directed by Tony Richardson.
Photograph: Allstar/Woodfall Film

He followed Laughton to Stratford, joining a stellar company under the direction of Glen Byam Shaw, and played Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Laughton was Bottom) and Cassio with Paul Robeson as Othello and Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona. He also understudied (and went on for, to sensational effect) Olivier as Coriolanus.

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

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

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

Then he was off again, having founded Memorial films in 1965 with his great friend and fellow actor Michael Medwin, directing and starring in Charlie Bubbles (1968), written by his fellow Salfordian Shelagh Delaney (author of A Taste of Honey) and featuring Billie Whitelaw and Liza Minnelli. He co-produced Lindsay Anderson’s savage public school satire If … (1968), bankrolled Mike Leigh’s first feature film, Bleak Moments (1971), and gave Stephen Frears his movie-directing debut on Gumshoe, a brilliant homage to film noir as well as a good story (written by Neville Smith) about a bingo caller (Finney) in a trenchcoat with delusions of being Humphrey Bogart. He even had time to disguise himself totally as a wispily senile Scrooge in Ronald Neame’s 1970 film, with Alec Guinness as Jacob Marley and Edith Evans as the Ghost of Christmas Past.

Albert Finney as Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1970 film based on Dickens’s novel.
Photograph: Waterbury/Cinema Center/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock

An invitation to return to the Royal Court as an associate director (1972-75) resulted in one of his blistering stage performances, opposite Rachel Roberts, in EA Whitehead’s Alpha Beta. He directed Brian Friel’s The Freedom of the City and a revival of Joe Orton’s Loot, and appeared in David Storey’s Cromwell and Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape.

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

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

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

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

Finney was now nearly a grand old man, but without the seigneurial distinction of either Olivier or Gielgud. He was delightful and dewy-eyed, eventually, as a bald Daddy Warbucks in John Huston’s film of Annie (1982), but truly magnificent as the alcoholic British consul – “a drunk act to end all drunk acts” said one critic – in Huston’s Under the Volcano (1984), adapted from the novel by Malcolm Lowry.

Albert Finney as the detective Hercule Poirot in the film Murder on the Orient Express (1974), directed by Sidney Lumet. Photograph: Allstar/Studiocanal/EMI

That performance should have won the Oscar, perhaps, but he remained a near-miss nominee, as he had done in The Dresser (1983). On stage, the beautiful, bolshie boy had settled into ruminative, but always interesting, late middle age, notably in Harwood’s ingeniously structured Another Time (1989), in which he played a bankrupt Jewish commercial traveller and, in the second act, his own musician son, 35 years later; another Harwood play, Reflected Glory (1992), allowed him to let rip as a breezy Mancunian restaurateur confronted with a critical family play written by his own playwright brother (though it was slightly unsettling to see Finney, the brave new Turk, siding with Harwood’s contempt for “modish” contemporary theatre manners).

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

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

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

His best, and now often elegiac, performances materialised sporadically on television: as Maurice Allington in The Green Man (1991), adapted from a Kingsley Amis novel; as Reggie in A Rather English Marriage (1998), alongside Courtenay; and as Churchill in The Gathering Storm (2002), written by Hugh Whitemore, with Vanessa Redgrave as his wife.

In Hollywood, he clocked in for Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Twelve (2004) and the third in a superb trilogy adapted from Robert Ludlum’s spy action thrillers, starring Matt Damon, Paul Greengrass’s The Bourne Ultimatum (2007). His last movie credits came in The Bourne Legacy and the Bond film Skyfall (both 2012).

Finney, always known as Albie, was rumoured to have declined both a CBE and a knighthood. In 1957 he married the actor Jane Wenham; they had a son, Simon, and divorced in 1961. His marriage to the French actor Anouk Aimée in 1970 ended in divorce eight years later. He then had a long relationship with the actor Diana Quick – the pair were for a while feared missing up the Amazon. In 2006 he married Pene Delmage, who survives him, along with Simon.

• Albert Finney, actor, born 9 May 1936; died 7 February 2019

Entertainment & Arts
Albert Finney: Daniel Craig leads tributes to late Bond co-star

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-47175279

Albert Finney (1936–2019)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001215/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (65 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Producer (12 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director (2 credits)

1984 The Biko Inquest (TV Movie)

1968 Charlie Bubbles

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February 8th

1962: Dr. No films Honey Ryder emerging from the sea at Laughing Waters, Jamaica. Botticelli's Venus.

Terence Young:

I saw some people ruin my shot, walking down the beach towards me.
We waved them and screamed, “Lie down!” They all lay down and we shot
the scene, and we forgot about them. Half an hour later Clive Reed said,
“Whatever happened to those geezers on the beach?” and I said, “You better
go see.” He came back with Ian Fleming, Noel Coward, Stephen Spender,
the poet and Peter Cornell, the critic. Those were the four; it was quite
a bridge game. That was the first time Ian came on a Bond set.’

1962: The Gleaner reports on Ocho Rios area locals objecting to almost 100 production-related jobs with EON going to Kingstonians.

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

2015: Spectre films at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Felix Leiter #2.

JAMES BOND: FELIX LEITER #2

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025458002011
Cover A: Mike Perkins
Writer: James Robinson
Art: Aaron Campbell
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: February 2017
ON SALE DATE: 2/8

It was supposed to be an easy mission. Hot on the trail of a Russian agent in Tokyo, Felix Leiter is unwittingly drawn into the investigation of a major terrorist attack when a suicidal cultist releases a bio-weapon in Shinjuku. Now Felix and Tiger Tanaka - the Japanese James Bond - must track down the villainous cult leader responsible, and unravel the mystery behind their deadly new biological weapon...

2018: Anthony Horowitz announces the title of his second James Bond novel as Forever and a Day. To be published 31 May 2018, it will include original Fleming material.

RichardTheBruce

February 9th

1962: The Sunday Times publishes Ian Fleming's story "The Living Daylights",
causing a conflict with The Daily Express.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
Chapter 13 - Heart Problems

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

1978: D'Artagnan Extracolor publishes #396 Otra vez Scaramanga (Scaramanga Again), using the strips from artist Yaroslav Horak and writer Jim Lawrence.

They previously published D’Artagnan Extraordinario #350 as “El Hombre del Revolver de Oro” to adapt the 1974 film.

https://www.comicsroyale.com/editorial-columba#/tmwtgg/editorial-columba/

The Man With the Golden Gun

Originally Published: D’Artagnan Extraordinario #350 as “El Hombre del Revolver de Oro”
Story Type: Film adaptation
Writer: Alfredo Julio Grassi (under the pseudonym Fred W. Seymour)
Artist: Lito Fernandez
Translator: Clinton Rawls

Notes: Regrettably, this adaptation takes little to nothing from Ian Fleming’s posthumous novel which, while considered to be incomplete by some, does take Bond to some interesting depths as a character. Fleming also creates a compelling villain in Scaramanga as he dives headfirst into playing with American Western fiction archetypes and imagery, much as he had done in the novel Diamonds Are Forever. The film version of Scaramanga lost much of what made the novel version interesting, though the character is memorably portrayed by Christopher Lee.

This adaptation follows Guy Hamilton’s film version quite faithfully and in tightening the narrative manages to eliminate some of the film’s sillier moments and characters, along with—regrettably—some of its more memorable elements as well.

1983: Bond comic strip Flittermouse begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 20 May 1983. 553-624)
John McLusky, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1028

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=870828


Swedish Semic Comic 1984 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1984.php3

Vampyrernas Härskare (Flittermouse)
[The Ruler of Vampires]
https://www.comics.org/issue/73111/cover/4/

Norwegian 1984 https://www.comics.org/issue/369589/

Vampyrenes herskere
[Rulers of Vampires]

Swedish Semic 1993 https://www.comics.org/issue/74014/#496710

Operation Xanadu; Vampyrernas härskare
[Ruler of Vampires]

1995: BOND 17 films interiors for the Janus Satellite Control Center.

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Janus_Satellite_Control_Center

1996: 007: Kuldsilm released in Estonia.

1998: Nintendo releases James Bond 007 for Game Boy, a video game developed by Saffire.

Title Music

Full Play

2006: Casino Royale films the pre-title sequence and Bond's first two kills.

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

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

RichardTheBruce

February 10th

1941: Michael David Apted is born--Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England.
(He dies 7 January 2021 at age 79--Los Angeles, California.)

Michael Apted, director and Seven Up
documentarian, dies at 79

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jan/08/michael-apted-director-seven-up-dies-79

British director made films Coal Miner’s Daughter and The World is
Not Enough, and the long-running Up documentary series

Michael Apted Photograph: Vince Bucci/Getty Images

Benjamin Lee | Fri 8 Jan 2021

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the 1970s, Apted made his big-screen debut, directing the second world war drama The Triple Echo, starring Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson. But he saw see his first major film success in 1980 with Coal Miner’s Daughter, a Loretta Lynn biopic starring Sissy Spacek. It was nominated for seven Oscars, winni

Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner’s Daughter Photograph: Cinetext Bildarchiv/Allstar/UNIVERSAL

Apted went on to direct Sigourney Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist, a film that also picked up five Oscar nominations; Nell, which scored an Oscar nomination for Jodie Foster; the Kate Winslet drama Enigma; the Jennifer Lopez thriller Enough and, most recently, the action film Unlocked starring Noomi Rapace.

“What I like about women at the center of films is that I find that a woman character brings a lot of emotion to a story, whatever a story is,” he said in a 2017 interview. “Whether it’s a woman with gorillas or a country music singer, a woman’s emotional life – at least on the surface – is more dramatic than a man’s.”

He also directed the James Bond adventure The World is Not Enough and the fantasy sequel The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Apted has been remembered by his peers on Twitter, including Paul Feig, director of Bridesmaids.

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

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

Apted is survived by his wife, Paige Simpson, sons Jim and John, and daughter Lily Mellis.

Michael Apted (1941–2021)

Director | Producer | Additional Crew
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000776/

1962: Bond comic strip Thunderball in The Daily Express (started 11 December 1961; 1066-1128 ) suddenly ends midstream, due to a dispute over Fleming's arrangement to premiere his short story "The Living Daylights" in the competition--The Sunday Times. Later resolved, and comics resume in 1964's Daily Express with On Her Majesty's Secret Service. John McLusky, illustrator. Henry Gammidge, writer.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tb.php3

Danish 1966 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-6-eng/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 6: “Thunderball” (1966)

1966: Thunderball premieres in Dublin, Ireland.

http://obsessional.uk/facts.htm

February 10th 1966 saw a charity premiere held at the Savoy in Dublin. Luciana Paluzzi, Molly Peters, Kevin McClory and Cubby Broccoli were amongst the guests. This was followed by a party held by McClory at the Gresham Hotel.

1995: GoldenEye starts filming its Q scenes.

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

RichardTheBruce

February 11th

1961: Carey Lowell is born--Huntington, New York.
1962: Sheryl Crow is born--Kennett, Missouri.
1966: Thunderball general release in Ireland.

1987: The Prince and Princess of Wales visit the Pinewood set of The Living Daylights.

2015: EON releases the first official photo of BOND 24.

2020: No Time To Die reveals more character posters.

RichardTheBruce

February 12th

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

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

1967: Altinparmak (Goldfinger) released in Turkey.

Later paperback cover art.

1987: The Living Daylights production films the scene in Gibraltar wherein OO7 witnesses the death of OO4.

1997: BOND 18 make-up and lighting tests for Jonathan Pryce.

2005: Composer John Barry receives the BAFTA Fellowship award at The Orange British Academy Film Awards, Odeon Leicester Square, London.

2013: Skyfall released on DVD and Bluray in the US.

2014: Television mini-series Fleming premieres in the UK starring Dominic Cooper.

Fleming

TV-MA | 44min | Biography, Drama, Romance | TV Mini-Series (2014)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2647420/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_10

2015: A fire at Pierce Brosnan's five-mansion estate in Malibu destroys his Aston Martin Vanquish.

2015: The Spectre production shares a behind the scenes teaser of comments and footage in Austria.

RichardTheBruce

February 13th

1916: Joseph Fürst is born--Vienna, Austria.
(He dies 29 November 2005 at age 89--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.)

Joseph Fürst

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Furst
Joseph Fürst (13 February 1916 – 29 November 2005) was an Austrian-born international film and television actor known for his English language roles in Britain and Australia, after first appearing on the Canadian stage.

Career
Fürst was regularly featured in UK television drama series of the 1960s and early 1970s with appearances in The Saint, The Champions, Doomwatch, The Persuaders!, and as the mad (and well remembered) Professor Zaroff in the Doctor Who story The Underwater Menace. Many people believe his accent in this role to have been put on; this is incorrect, it is in fact his real accent. He also played the role of Schneider in the Armchair Theatre play "A Magnum for Schneider", which launched Edward Woodward as the character of Callan. (The play led to the highly regarded Callan TV series.)

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

He emigrated to Australia and starting in the mid-1970s acted in several guest roles on Australian television drama series. His roles included several appearances in the top-rated police drama Division 4 produced by Crawford Productions in the 1970s. He played an ongoing role in soap opera Number 96 in 1976 as deli owner Carlo Lenzi, who was introduced to the series as a new Italian family alongside Arianthe Galani and Harry Michaels, his character romanced wine bar proprietor Norma Whittaker (Sheila Kennelly). He also played Heinrik Smeaton in The Young Doctors in 1979, and was a guest on situation comedy Kingswood Country, again opposite Kennelly. He guest starred in four episodes of A Country Practice in the early 1980s. In 1984, he starred in the ABC TV film The Schippan Mystery.

Fürst was interviewed by Dwayne Bunney and Dallas Jones for "Loose Cannon" and spoke about his career in an interview to be an extra feature for the reconstruction of the missing Doctor Who story "The Underwater Menace". This interview took place shortly before his death.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUv2arY95lc

Joseph Fürst (1916–2005) Actor

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

Filmography

Actor (80 credits)

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

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

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

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

Self (1 credit)

Citizen Varek (Short documentary) 1953

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

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

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

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

2017: Special effects company for BOND 25 readies a Bell UH-1D helicopter for transport from Germany to UK.

https://www.thebondbulletin.com/bond-25-bell-museum-helicopter-way-uk/

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond: Origin #6.
Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

JAMES BOND ORIGIN #6

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244706011
Cover A: John Cassaday
Cover B: Mirko Colak
Cover C: Sanya Anwar
Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
Cover E: Bob Q
Writer: Jeff Parker
Art: Bob Q
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: February 2019
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 2/13/2019

"Izabel" by JEFF PARKER (Suicide Squad, Fantastic Four) and BOB Q (The Lone Ranger).

The ongoing adventures of James Bond during World War II continue, in a standalone tale set in Lisbon. A savvy local woman knows how to survive and thrive, despite the hardships of war. But a desperate German scientist needs her help, and she becomes involved with a young British man, that's (not yet) very good at being a spy...

[img]hhttps://www.dynamite.com/previews/C72513027244706011/BondOrigin0606021BColak.jpg[/img]

2020: BOND 25 planned release date in Germany and Portugal.
(Later shifted to April 2020. Then April 2021. Latest October 2021.)

Release Dates

UK 31 March 2020 (London) (premiere)

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

Finland 3 April 2020
Ireland 3 April 2020
India 3 April 2020
Norway 3 April 2020
Poland 3 April 2020
Sweden 3 April 2020
Turkey 3 April 2020

2020: The No Time To Die title song "No Time To Die" sung by Billie Eilish comes available.

"No Time To Die", Billie Eilish
Produced by Stephen Lipson & FINNEAS

I should have known
I'd leave alone
Just goes to show
That the blood you bleed
Is just the blood you owe
We were a pair
But I saw you there
Too much to bear
You were my life, but life is far away from fair
Was I stupid to love you?
Was I reckless to help?
Was it obvious to everybody else?

Preview

RichardTheBruce

February 14th

1927: Lois Maxwell is born--Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
(She dies 29 September 2007--Fremantle, Australia.)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1564693/Lois-Maxwell.html

Lois Maxwell: she played Miss Moneypenny for 23 years

Lois Maxwell, the Canadian actress who died on Saturday aged 80, played Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond films; although other younger women later took over the part, she was widely regarded as the definitive Moneypenny, M's spinsterly secretary secretly in love with 007.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not everyone realised that she was Canadian. "Moneypenny," exclaimed the Prince of Wales on meeting her. "I would never have believed you're not English. I must tell the family."

Born Lois Ruth Hooker on February 14 1927 at Kitchener, Ontario, one of four children, her early career as a child radio performer was disrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War when her father, a teacher, enlisted and sailed for England. At the age of 16 she ran away from home to join the Canadian Army Show, but failed to tell the authorities about her age, and after touring England in the back of a truck was eventually dishonourably dismissed. Just before she was due to be shipped home, she went AWOL in London.

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

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

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

Playing opposite Ronald Reagan in Bedtime For Bonzo (1951) she found the future president handsome and attractive, but became less enamoured of the studio system, and moved to Rome for five years, becoming an amateur racing driver. After a broken love affair with the brother of an Italian prince, she married a British television executive called Peter Marriott, a former commander of the Viceroy of India's household troops who, by coincidence, was screen-tested as a possible James Bond by the producer Cubby Broccoli.

In addition to her career in the Bond films Lois Maxwell was a successful television actress, appearing in episodes of UFO, The Persuaders, The Baron, The Saint and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). She also provided the voice for Troy Tempest's love interest, Atlanta Shore, in Gerry Anderson's puppet series Stingray.

In the late 1960s she starred in Adventures In Rainbow Country, a popular Canadian television series, and in 1967 appeared as Moneypenny in a television special Welcome To Japan, Mr Bond. More recently, she became a regular fixture at Bond film festivals.

Her last feature film was The Fourth Angel (2001) starring Jeremy Irons and Forest Whitaker.

Widowed at 46 when her husband died of a heart attack in 1973, Lois Maxwell returned to her native Canada, bought a farm and worked for a business importing crowd-control barriers. She later wrote a column for the Toronto Sun which she signed "Moneypenny" and in which, for 14 years, she expounded trenchant Right-wing opinions.

Always an adventurous woman, she held a pilot's licence, regularly went on safari and in the 1980s sailed the South China Sea from Hong Kong to Singapore, armed with M16 machine guns and incendiary rockets to ward off pirates.

In the 1980s she settled at Frome in Somerset, and after a successful cancer operation went to recuperate at her son's home at Freemantle, near Perth, western Australia. At the time of her death, she was working on her autobiography, to be called Born A Hooker.

Lois Maxwell is survived by her daughter and son.

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Filmography

Actress (88 credits)

2001 The Fourth Angel - Olivia

1998 Hard to Forget (TV Movie) - Helen Applewhite

1989 Lady in the Corner (TV Movie) - Mary Smith
1988 Martha, Ruth & Edie - Edie Carmichael
1988 Rescue Me (TV Movie) - Phyllis
1987 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Ms. Golden
- If the Shoe Fits (1987) ... Ms. Golden
1985 Eternal Evil - Monica Duval
1985 A View to a Kill - Miss Moneypenny
1985 The Edison Twins (TV Series) - Charlotte Gateau
- Let Them Eat Cake (1985) ... Charlotte Gateau
1984 Peep (TV Movie) - Mrs. Powell
1983 Octopussy - Miss Moneypenny
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Miss Moneypenny
1980 Mr. Patman - Director

1979 Lost and Found - English Woman
1979 Moonraker - Miss Moneypenny
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Miss Moneypenny
1977 Age of Innocence - Mrs. Hogarth
1975 From Hong Kong with Love - Miss Moneypenny
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - Moneypenny
1973 Live and Let Die - Moneypenny
1972/I Endless Night - Cora
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Louise Cornell
- Someone Waiting (1971) ... Louise Cornell
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Moneypenny
1970-1971 UFO (TV Series) - Miss Holland
- The Man Who Came Back (1971) ... Miss Holland
- The Cat with Ten Lives (1970) ... Miss Holland
1969-1970 Adventures in Rainbow Country (TV Series) - Nancy Williams
- The Tower (1970) ... Nancy Williams
- The Skydiver (1969) ... Nancy Williams
- The Return of Eli Rocque (1969) ... Nancy Williams
- Night Caller (1969) ... Nancy Williams
- The Muskies Are Losing Their Teeth (1969) ... Nancy Williams
1970 The Adventurers - Woman at Fashion Show (uncredited)
1970 Department S (TV Series) - Mary Burnham
- The Ghost of Mary Burnham (1970) ... Mary Burnham

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Moneypenny
1969 My Partner the Ghost (TV Series) - Kim Wentworth
- For the Girl Who Has Everything (1969) ... Kim Wentworth
1967 You Only Live Twice - Miss Moneypenny
1967 Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (TV Movie) - Miss Moneypenny
1967 Operation Kid Brother - Max
1966-1967 The Saint (TV Series) - Beth Parish / Helen
- Simon and Delilah (1967) ... Beth Parish
- Interlude in Venice (1966) ... Helen
1966 Rome, Sweet Home (TV Movie)
1966 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Felisa Henderson
- The Millionaire's Daughter (1966) ... Felisa Henderson
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Charlotte Russell
- Something for a Rainy Day (1966) ... Charlotte Russell
1965 Thunderball - Moneypenny
1964-1965 Stingray (TV Series) - Lieutenant Atlanta Shore / Milly Carson / Marinville Tracking Station / ...
- Aquanaut of the Year (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
- Marineville Traitor (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
- Hostages of the Deep (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore / Milly Carson (voice)
- The Golden Sea (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
- The Master Plan (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
1965 The Ambassadors (TV Movie) - Sarah Pocock
1964 Goldfinger - Moneypenny
1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Elizabeth Creasey
- Party for Murder (1964) ... Elizabeth Creasey
1964 The Avengers (TV Series) - Sister Johnson
- The Little Wonders (1964) ... Sister Johnson
1963 From Russia with Love - Miss Moneypenny
1963 The Haunting - Grace Markway
1957-1963 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Helen Hunter / Genevieve Lang / Miss Baumer
- The Touch of a Dead Hand (1963) ... Helen Hunter
- Skyline for Two (1959) ... Genevieve Lang
- Heaven and Earth (1957) ... Miss Baumer
1963 Come Fly with Me - Gwen Sandley
1962 Zero One (TV Series) - Miss. Smith
- The Marriage Broker (1962) ... Miss. Smith
1962 Dr. No - Miss Moneypenny
1962 Lolita - Nurse Mary Lore
1961 The Unstoppable Man - Helen Kennedy
1961 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Margot
- Nina and the Night People (1961) ... Margot
1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series)- Esther Hollis
- The Room Upstairs (1961) ... Esther Hollis
1960 Danger Man (TV Series) - Sandi Lewis
- Position of Trust (1960) ... Sandi Lewis
1960 Rendezvous (TV Series) - Mother
- The Dodo (1960) ... Mother

1959 Face of Fire - Ethel Winter
1958 Television Playwright (TV Series) - Ruth Ann Wicker
- The Transmogrification of Chester Brown (1958) ... Ruth Ann Wicker
1957 O.S.S. (TV Series) - Virginia
- Operation Orange Blossom (1957) ... Virginia
1957 Sailor of Fortune (TV Series) - Judith
- Port Jeopardy (1957) ... Judith
1957 Kill Me Tomorrow - Jill Brook
1957 Time Without Pity - Vickie Harker
1956 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Cass Edgerton
- The Reclining Figure (1956) ... Cass Edgerton
1956 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Tracy Carmichael / Ann / Cynthia
- One Can't Help Feeling Sorry (1956) ... Tracy Carmichael
- Someone Outside (1956) ... Ann
- A Fast Buck (1956) ... Cynthia
1956 High Terrace - Stephanie Blake
1956 Aggie (TV Series) - Barbara
- Monk's Prior (1956) ... Barbara
1956 Satellite in the Sky - Kim Hamilton
1956 The Petrified Forest (TV Movie) - Gabby Maple
1956 Passport to Treason - Diane Boyd
1955 Torpedo Zone - Lt. Lily Donald
1953 Aida - Amneris
1953 Man in Hiding - Thelma Speight / Tasman
1952 Orient Express (TV Series) - Lynn Walker
- Blue Camellia (1952) ... Lynn Walker
1952 Twilight Women - Christine
1952 Scotland Yard Inspector - Margaret 'Peggy' Maybrick
1952 Ha da venì... don Calogero - Maestrina
1952 The Woman's Angle - Enid Mansell
1952 Love and Poison - Queen Christina
1952 Viva il cinema!
1951 Lebbra bianca - Erika
1950 Tomorrow Is Too Late - Signorina Anna, teacher

1949 Kazan - Louise Maitlin
1949 The Crime Doctor's Diary - Jane Darrin
1948 The Decision of Christopher Blake - Miss McIntyre (uncredited)
1948 The Dark Past - Ruth Collins
1948 The Big Punch - Karen Long
1948 Corridor of Mirrors - Lois
1947 That Hagen Girl - Julia Kane
1946 Springtime - Penelope Cobb (uncredited)
1946 A Matter of Life and Death - Actress (uncredited)

Lois Hooker in the Life Magazine photo, upper left. Norma Jean, front and center.

1952: In part in reaction to his recent marriage, Ian Fleming begins writing Casino Royale at Goldeneye.
1956: Ian Fleming writes to publisher Michael Howard.

Forgive this tropic scrawl.
I'm sitting in the shade gazing out
across the Carribean and it is heroic
that I am writing at all.

1964: James Bond 007 - Liebesgrüße aus Moskau (James Bond 007 - Greetings from Moscow) released in West Germany.

1973: Live and Let Die films the last scene with OO7 and Solitaire on the train.
1975: Lourdes Faberes is born--Manila, Philippines.

1989: James Bond dies at age 89--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(Born 4 January 1900--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.)

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The birds of James Bond
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Rodrigo B. Salvador1 & Barbara M. Tomotani2

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“The name is Bond, James Bond.”
This particular British Secret Service agent is known worldwide through numerous books, comics, videogames and, of course, films. James Bond was created by Ian Fleming and the series now outlives its creator, continuing to grow on a somewhat constant rate. Fleming’s superspy character was based on many people he met during the time he spent serving in the British Naval Intelligence Division during World War II. In his own words, James Bond “was a compound of all the secret agents and commando types I met during the war”.

But what few know is where the name comes from. Actually, it was not invented by Fleming for the character; instead, it was borrowed from a real person. So who was the original James Bond and how Fleming came to know him and to borrow his name?

LICENSE TO MAP
James Bond was born in Philadelphia on 4 January 1900. After his mother’s death during his teens, in 1914, he moved with his father to England, going to Cambridge University and receiving his degree in 1922. Back in Philadelphia, after less than three years working for a banking firm, his love of natural history led him to join an expedition of the ANSP (Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia) to the lower Amazon River in Brazil. His father, Francis E. Bond, who led an ANSP expedition (when James was 11) to the Orinoco Delta, perhaps influenced James’ decision, as well as his interest in the natural sciences.

James Bond, in 1974. Photo taken at the ANSP
by Jerry Freilich. (Source: Wikimedia Commons.)

After the expedition to the Amazon, James Bond became a true ornithologist (see Box 1 for a glossary) and curator of the ANSP and started to publish many scientific papers on the South American birds. Nevertheless, he soon decided that the focus of his studies would be the Caribbean birds and this became his life’s work. He spent the next decades travelling through the Caribbean islands and studying their avifauna. The main result of his work in the region was the book “Birds of the West Indies” (1936), containing a scientific account (with descriptions, habits, geographic distribution etc.) of all the known species from the islands. The book was renamed “Field Guide of Birds of the West Indies” on its second edition (1947), but reverted to the original name on the third edition (1961). Also, from the third edition onwards, the book featured color plates of the birds (by Don R. Eckelberry) and more simplified descriptions. This made the book more similar to modern field guides, making it a must for scientists and birdwatchers alike. After the final edition (1985), Bond kept the book updated via a series of 27 supplements. He finished revising a sixth edition shortly before his death (on 14 February 1989, after a years-long fight with cancer).

Cover of the first edition of “Birds of the West Indies”,
featuring the Jamaican tody (Todus todus).

From all the islands that James Bond visited, perhaps the one that most fascinated him was Jamaica, where he realized that the native avifauna was derived from North America, and not from South America as was previously supposed. This kind of study is part of the discipline known as Biogeography and led Bond, in 1971, to establish a biogeographic boundary between the Lesser Antilles and Tobago. This line separates two zones, the West Indies and South America, each with its own type of avifauna. This later led David Lack to propose, in 1973, the name “Bond’s Line” for this boundary.

Map of the Caribbean Islands, showing
the West Indies avifaunal region, encompassed by
Bond’s Line. (Source: Bond, 1993.)

Besides the books, Bond published more than 100 scientific papers and was awarded many medals and honors throughout his career. He is known today as the father or Caribbean ornithology. What he did not expected though, was the other Bond, which appeared in Jamaica of all places, and caused him a certain deal of consternation.

GOLDENEYE

It was only in 1960–1961 that Bond discovered his fictional namesake from Ian Fleming’s novels, after several novels had already been published (the first one, “Casino Royale”, dates from 1953). This led his wife Mary to write the book “How 007 Got His Name” (published in 1966). In this book, she tells how she jokingly wrote a letter to Fleming saying that he had “brazenly taken the name of a real human being for your rascal!”

Fleming was a British novelist and spent a couple of months every year in his estate (named Goldeneye) on Oracabessa Bay, on the northern coast of Jamaica. He was interested in the Jamaican wildlife and had a growing collection of book on shells, birds, fish and flora. Also, as any keen birdwatcher on the Caribbean, Fleming used the “Field Guide of Birds of the West Indies” (he had the 2nd edition, from 1947) and was thus very familiar with the name James Bond. On his reply to Mary’s letter, he explained that he “was determined that my secret agent should be as anonymous a personality as possible. (…) At this time one of my bibles was, and still is, Birds of the West Indies by James Bond, and it struck me that this name, brief, unromantic and yet very masculine, was just what I needed and so James Bond II was born.” On a later interview, Fleming explained further his choice of name: “I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, ‘James Bond’ was much better than something more interesting, like ‘Peregrine Carruthers’. Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure – an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government department.”

The Goldeneye estate, as of 2011.
(Source: Wikimedia Commons.)

On that letter to Mary, Fleming added that in return for using the name he could offer “your James Bond unlimited use of the name Ian Fleming for any purpose he may think fit. Perhaps one day he will discover some particularly horrible species of bird which he would like to christen in an insulting fashion.” This never happened though. Finally, Fleming also invited the Bonds to visit him in Jamaica. This happened in 1964, when the Bonds were there researching and paid a surprise visit to Fleming. This was shortly before the novelist’s death six months later, and luckily, this one-time meeting was captured in video for a future documentary. At first, Fleming was suspicious of Bond’s identity and asked him to identify some birds. Bond, of course, passed the test with flying colors and Fleming had the happiest day of the rest of his life.

FROM JAMAICA WITH LOVE
Jamaica, despite being a rather small country, has a very diverse avifauna. There are circa 320 bird species living in Jamaica, including migrants. From these, 28 are endemic species, 12 are endangered and 14 are introduced. Some of these species have fascinated James Bond, Ian Fleming and countless other tourists and birdwatchers. Moreover, since Ian Fleming was such a keen birdwatcher, birds sometimes featured in his stories (and later in the films), and a collection of bird trivia can be found in Box 2 further below.

We will now briefly introduce some of the more interesting Jamaican birds and explore a little bit of their natural history and even folklore.

Red-Billed Streamertail (Trochilus polytmus)
The red-billed streamertail, also known as doctor bird or scissortail hummingbird, appears in Fleming’s short story “For Your Eyes Only” (1960). The first lines of the story are: “The most beautiful bird in Jamaica, and some say the most beautiful bird in the world, is the streamer-tail or doctor humming-bird.” It is very hard to crown a “most beautiful” bird, but the red-billed streamertail is indeed remarkable. The feathers on the male’s tail (the “streamers”) are longer than their actual body and make a humming sound during flight. James Bond (the ornithologist) seems to agree; well, partially, at least: his book says that the “adult male is the most spectacular West Indian hummingbird”.

This species is the most abundant and widespread bird in Jamaica and was actually selected as the country’s national bird. Frederic G. Cassidy (1962–2000), who studied the evolution of the English language in Jamaica, says that the name doctor bird comes from the way the animals spear the flowers with their beaks to feed. Still, the term “doctor” also carries a superstitious overtone (as in “witch-doctor”) and Cassidy notes that natives referred to these hummingbirds as “god birds”.

Male (top) and female (bottom) of the
Red-Billed Streamertail (Trochilus polytmus). ]center]
(Source: Wikimedia Commons.)

Jamaican Tody (Todus todus)
The todies belong to the order Coraciiformes, a group that also includes kingfishers, rollers and bee-eaters. The Jamaican tody was at first believed to be a species of hummingbird. Later, it received the name of robin, due to its small size and round appearance. This early folk name still survives in Jamaica as robin red-breas’, an allusion to the bird’s red colored patch below the beak and a copy of the English name of another bird. Robin redbreast is the old name of the European robin (Erithacus rubecula), a totally unrelated species.

The Jamaican tody is a tiny bird that feeds on insects and fruits, nesting in excavated burrows. James Bond was especially interested in the nesting behavior of birds and studied this topic at length. He chose the Jamaican tody as the cover of the first edition of “Birds of the West Indies” (1936). It has a very small geographic distribution and its population seems to be steadily decreasing in the last decade.

The Jamaican Tody, Todus todus.
(Source: Wikimedia Commons.)

Jamaican Poorwill (Siphonorhis americana)
Also known as Jamaican pauraque, this nocturnal bird is a species of nightjar, of the family Caprimulgidae. The family name comes from the Latin caprimulgus (goatsucker) and reflects the absurd folk “lore” that these birds sucked milk from goats.

Very little is known about the Jamaican poorwill – it had been extinct long before Bond’s studies, since 1859. It was driven to extinction by introduced rats and mongooses, alongside the usual human-caused habitat destruction. Since the birds nest on the ground, their eggs are easy prey for these introduced mammals. Nevertheless, there are some recent (1998) records of caprimulgids from the regions of the Milk River and the Hellshire Hills in the country, but they remain unconfirmed. Thus, a very small population of poorwills might still exist in these remote regions. Curiously, Bond had also previously alluded to the possibility of a surviving population of these birds on the semi-arid Hellshire Hills.

The Jamaican poorwill, Siphonorhis americana.
(Source: Rothschild, 1907.)

Jamaican Blackbird (Nesopsar nigerrimus)
The Jamaican blackbird (family Icteridae) is the only species in its genus and all of its names are rather misleading. Firstly, it is not an actual blackbird (Turdus merula, family Turdidae), which is a species of thrush. Nevertheless, the family Icteridae is popularly known as “New World blackbirds”, so we can let this one slip. As for the scientific name, the genus name comes from the Greek neso (island) and psar (starling) and, as one might guess, this bird is completely unrelated to true starlings (family Sturnidae). Finally, the specific epithet (see Salvador, 2014, for a crash course in species’ scientific names) means simply “very black”, which might not be so descriptive of a “blackbird” after all.
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The Jamaican blackbird, Nesopsar nigerrimus.
(Source: Wikimedia Commons.)
Nevertheless, a local Jamaican popular name for this bird is “wild-pine sergeant” and is more accurate than the other names. These birds feed on insects they find in tree bark or bromeliads (locally known as “wild-pines”) and are adapted to climbing trees, similar to woodpeckers. They inhabit the montane forests of Jamaica and are arranged in pairs of birds, each pair occupying a vast territory. The severe deforestation caused by mining, forestry, charcoal production and agriculture has led to an extreme habitat loss incompatible with the blackbirds’ large territories. The species is thus considered endangered, but only some very shy efforts have been made towards its preservation.

Sad Flycatcher (Myiarchus barbirostris)
The sad flycatcher (together with the lesser Antillean pewee, Contopus latirostris) is commonly called little Tom-fool by the Jamaican people, for its habit of refusing to fly away when threatened. This flycatcher species inhabits the forests of Jamaica and, as their name imply, feed on insects. In fact, the genus name comes from the Greek muia (fly) and archos (ruler), while the specific epithet refers to the presence of rictal bristles. These bristles are modified feathers (that look like mammals’ whiskers) projecting from the beak; they not only provide tactile feedback (as whiskers do), but also supposedly protect the birds’ eyes as they consumes their wriggly insect prey.

The sad flycatcher, Myiarchus barbirostris.
(Source: Wikimedia Commons.)

To avoid confusion, we must note here that the sad flycatcher is part of the group known as “New World flycatchers” or “tyrant flycatchers” (the family Tyrannidae). The “Old World flycatchers” belong to another family, Muscicapidae, which is only distantly related to the Tyrannidae.

Jamaican Crow (Corvus jamaicensis)
This bird is locally known as “jabbering crow” of “gabbling crow”, for it can produce a variety of jabbering sounds (besides the common “caw” of crows). Their incessant jabbering may also sound like indistinct human languages and, to the British, rather like Welsh people, which led to the birds being nicknamed “Welshmen” in a typical bout of Brit humor.

The Jamaican crows live mainly in the country’s uplands, but may come down to the lowlands during the dry season. They feed mainly on fruit and invertebrates, but may occasionally eat other birds’ eggs and nestlings.

The Jamaican crow, Corvus jamaicensis.
(Source: Internet Bird Collection, IBC155934.
Courtesy of Ken Simonite.)

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
Bond’s work with the Caribbean avifauna set the basis for ornithology in the region and most of his insights have been continuously proved accurate. As such, his influence in science shall remain relevant for a long time to come. Well, at least until humans have extinguished all the bird species in the region – unfortunately, birds live only once and Jamaica has already lost three of its endemic species. Meanwhile, the other Bond also remain a relevant figure in popular culture and imagination, with his over-the-top stories, exotic locations, strange villains, Bond girls, fancy suits, weaponized cars and a number of crazy gadgets. James Bond has thus the (somewhat dubious) honor of having his name twice immortalized in History, as a brilliant ornithologist and as a womanizing superspy. (We believe the latter is better remembered than the former though.)

But for those of you thinking that a birder’s life is much duller than a spy’s life, some words from the naturalist and writer Alexander F. Skutch (1904–2004) might change your mind or at the very least make you revisit your beliefs: “our quest of them [birds] takes us to the fairest places; to find them and uncover some of their well-guarded secrets we exert ourselves greatly and live intensely.”

REFERENCES
Avibase. (2015) Bird Checklists of the World. Jamaica. Available from: http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/checklist.jsp?region=jm&list=clements (Date of access: 02/Apr/2015).

Bond, J. (1993) A Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies. Fifth edition (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston.

Bond, M.F.W.P. (1966) How 007 Got His Name. Collins, London.

Cassidy, F.G. (2006) Jamaica Talk: Three Hundred Years of the English Language in Jamaica. University of the West Indies Press, Kingston.

Clements, J.F.; Schulenberg, T.S.; Iliff, M.J.; Roberson, D.; Fredericks, T.A.; Sullivan, B.L.; Wood, C.L. (2014) The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world. Version 6.9. Available from: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ (Date of access: 02/Apr/2015).

Chancellor, H. (2005) James Bond: The Man and His World. John Murray, London.

Cruz, A. (1978) Adaptive evolution in the Jamaican Blackbird Nesopsar nigerrimus. Ornis Scandinavia 9(2): 130–137.

IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). (2014) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Available from: http://www.iucnredlist.org/ (Date of access: 03/Apr/2015).

Lederer, R. & Burr, C. (2014) Latin for Bird Lovers. Timber Press, New York.

MI6-HQ. (2015) MI6 – The Home of James Bond 007. Available from: http://www.mi6-hq.com/ (Date of access: 02/Apr/2015).

Parker, M. (2015) Goldeneye. Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming’s Jamaica. Pegasus Publications, Winnipeg.

Parkes, K. (1989) In Memoriam: James Bond. The Auk 106(4): 718–720.

Rothschild, W. (1907) Extinct Birds. An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times – that is, within the last six or seven hundred years. To which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. Hutchinson & Co., London.

Salvador, R.B. (2014) Geeky nature. Journal of Geek Studies 1(1-2): 41–45.

Skutch, A.F. (1977) A Bird Watcher’s Adventures in Tropical America. University of Texas Press, Austin.

2015: Louis Jourdan dies at age 93--Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California.
(Born 19 June 1921--Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.)

Louis Jourdan obituary

French film actor who found stardom with Three Coins in the
Fountain and Gigi, and whose later roles included a villain in the
James Bond movie Octopussy

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/15/louis-jourdan
Michael Freedland | Sun 15 Feb 2015 18.15 EST

Louis Jourdan and Leslie Caron in Gigi, 1958. Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive

For audiences in the 1940s and 50s, Louis Jourdan’s incredible good looks and mellifluous Gallic purr seemed to sum up everything that was sexy and enticing about Frenchmen. As a result, he became the most sought-after French actor since Charles Boyer. Though perhaps this hampered him, stymying opportunities to extend his dramatic range, any actor who was constantly in demand by both French studios and Hollywood producers had a lot to be grateful for.

When Jourdan, who has died aged 93, played the consummate bon vivant in Vincente Minnelli’s Gigi (1958), he became an international celebrity. The film, which co-starred Maurice Chevalier and Leslie Caron, won nine Oscars, including best picture. Though the best-known of its Lerner and Loewe numbers was Chevalier’s Thank Heaven for Little Girls, the title song went to Jourdan. He later widened the breadth of his work, and in old age was still one of the most handsome men on the screen, even if the films themselves seldom amounted to much.

He was born in Marseille, one of the three sons of Henri Gendre, a hotelier who organised the Cannes film festival after the second world war, and Yvonne, from whose maiden name, Jourdan, Louis took his stage name. The family followed Henri’s work, which accounted for the ease with which he was later able to perform overseas. He was educated in France, Turkey and Britain, where he learned to speak perfect English with an accent that he was clever enough to realise he should keep superbly French.

Jourdan, who knew from early on that he was going to be an actor, studied under René Simon in Paris. Admired for his dramatic talent and a certain polish that no one could readily explain, he was cast in his film debut, Le Corsaire (1939), which starred Boyer, though the outbreak of the second world war prevented its completion. He went on to appear in L’Arlésienne (1942) before his career was interrupted by the Nazi occupation of France.

His father was arrested by the Gestapo, and Louis and his two brothers were active members of the resistance, whose work for the underground meant that he had to stay away from the studios. But it also resulted in his becoming a favourite of the resurgent French postwar film industry. At a time when many had worked on films that had served to help Marshal Pétain’s propaganda campaign – and stars such as Chevalier were being accused of collaboration – it was easy to promote a star who had actively worked against the Nazis.

In 1946, Jourdan married Berthe Frédérique (known as Quique) and went to Los Angeles, having been persuaded by the movie mogul David O Selznick that he would be able to make more of himself in Hollywood than he ever could in Paris. He shone in his first American film, The Paradine Case (1947), directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Gregory Peck. This was followed by Max Ophüls’s masterly Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), based on the story by Stefan Zweig. Jourdan played the debonair, womanising pianist with whom Joan Fontaine falls hopelessly and tragically in love. He invested the performance with a vulnerability that saved his character from being simply caddish.

In Minnelli’s 1949 film of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, he starred as the lover of the adulterous anti-heroine, played by Jennifer Jones. He returned to France for Rue de l’Estrapade (1953) and La Mariée Est Trop Belle (The Bride Is Too Beautiful, released with the title Her Bridal Night, 1956), the latter with Brigitte Bardot, while in Italy he appeared in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), its title referring to the Trevi fountain in Rome. His image as the light romantic lead was burnished in that film, and his status as such was sealed by Gigi, which made him the No 1 pin-up of sophisticated American women.

He had a similar role in Can-Can (1960), which starred Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine and Chevalier. There followed continental roles in Hollywood productions: as a playboy in The VIPs (1963) and a fashion designer in Made in Paris (1966).

He had made his Broadway debut, playing a repressed gay man embarking on marriage, in an adaptation of André Gide’s The Immoralist, in 1954. The production co-starred Geraldine Page and James Dean, before Dean’s movie breakthrough. The following year, Jourdan returned to the New York stage in Tonight in Samarkand. He soon let it be known that he wanted more serious film roles and was not getting enough of them. In 1961 he took the lead in Claude Autant-Lara’s Le Comte de Monte Cristo and, in 1975, he appeared in a British TV movie production of Alexandre Dumas’s novel, this time playing De Villefort to Richard Chamberlain’s Count. Two years later, he was D’Artagnan in The Man in the Iron Mask on TV, again opposite Chamberlain.

He played Dracula in a 1977 BBC TV adaptation and a “charming” villain, Kamal Khan, in the James Bond adventure Octopussy (1983), but few of his later roles showed the range of his talents. Certainly, Swamp Thing (1982) and The Return of Swamp Thing (1989) were not the sort of movies that the Gigi star would want to be remembered for. In the mid-80s he returned to Gigi, this time in Chevalier’s role, for a touring show; he replied to the criticism that he lip-synched songs by saying: “If I sang them live, the fragile little voice I have would go.”

Jourdan’s final film appearance came as a suave villain in Peter Yates’s caper about a rare bottle of wine, Year of the Comet (1992). In 2010 he was appointed to the Légion d’Honneur.

His wife died last year. Their son, Louis Henry, died in 1981 from a drug overdose. He is survived by a nephew and a niece.

• Louis Jourdan (Louis Robert Gendre), actor, born 19 June 1921; died 14 February 2015
• This article was amended on 16 February 2015. Louis Jourdan was born in June 1921 rather than 1919, and so died at the age of 93.

Louis Jourdan (1921–2015)

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2020: BOND 25 planned release date in the UK, US, and Turkey. (Later shifted to April 2020. And November 2020. And April 2021. And October 2021.)

RichardTheBruce

February 15th

1951: Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg (Jane Seymour) is born--Hayes, Hayes and Harlington, Middlesex, England.

1960: Scheduled delivery date for Jack Whittingham's Thunderball screenplay. Continued funding from Ivar Bryce hinges on the quality of the script.

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

What was being advocated was a total re-examination of the situation.
Bryce would only continue financing Bond until 15 February 1960 when the
completed script was set for delivery. Then he would give his final decision.
"It is apparent that out best chance of going forward is in a splendid script by
Whittingham," wrote Bryce. "Which would have the effect of conveying
enthusiasm to both Ian Fleming and the prospective backers, because their
persuasion is absolutely necessary for further progress." Bryce saw
Whittingham's script as "a keystone" to anything that may be able to be done
with the project in the future.

In no way did Bryce regret the money he had lost thus far but merely
wished "to lose as little more as possible. Neither my interest nor my
enthusiasm are diminished in any way. However, I think that a mere glance at
the large cash depletion already sustained by me fully explains why I can't
afford to continue as heretofore. "

1972: Clemens Schick is born--Tübingen, Germany.
1973: Live and Let Die films one of the final scenes involving OO7 and Tee Hee on the train.

2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases Hammerhead #5 (of 6).
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #5 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025272205011
Cover: Francesco Francavilla
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: February 2017
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 2/15

Kraken's trap is sprung-and M and Moneypenny are caught in its jaws! As the Royal Navy moves in to retaliate, James Bond leads a covert Special Boat Squadron unit on a suicide mission to infiltrate a nuclear reprocessing facility. But time is running out. The nukes are flying, and death is only a trigger-pull away...

2020: The Queens Hotel hosts its Diamonds are Forever Black & White Masquerade Ball.

Diamonds are Forever Black & White Masquerade Ball

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Feb
15

by Sphere Events

A night of dinner and dancing at our 007 James Bond themed Black & White Masquerade Ball!

About this Event

When the world is not enough, what better way to celebrate than a night of James Bond style Casino Royale decadence, at our Black & White Masquerade ball.

Entertainment, cocktails and a few surprises will surely leave you feeling like a true British agent by the end of the night. Will you be shaken, or stirred?

Arrival at 7pm for welcome drinks, followed by a sit down meal, all in the luxury of the stunning ballroom at the Queen’s Hotel. You can even try your luck at our casino tables!

Whether you arrive in a tux, or your finest black and white, ensure to wear a mask to conceal your true 007 identity. A prize will be given to best dressed on the night!

Date/Time:

Saturday 15th of February
7pm -11:30 pm

Address:

Queen’s Hotel
Clarence Parade
Osborne Road
Southsea
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO53LJ

2020: No Time To Die airs a 30-second trailer during the NBA All-Star Game.

RichardTheBruce

February 16th

1941: Commander Ian Fleming uses a courier's passport for travel to Gibraltar to establish a secure cipher link--from London to the Goldeneye liaison office. Plus he sets up a backup office in Tangier.

1945: Jeremy Bulloch is born--Market Harborough, England.
(He dies 17 December 2020 at age 75.)

Star Wars actor Jeremy Bulloch dies
aged 75

See the complete article here:

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

English performer played bounty hunter Boba Fett in original
trilogy
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Jeremy Bulloch with the Boba Fett costume at a Star Wars exhibition in London in 2017.
Photograph: Pete Summers/REX/Shutterstock

Star Wars actor Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett in the original films, has died
aged 75.

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

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

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

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

“He had a long and happy career spanning more than 45 years. He was devoted to his wife, three sons and 10 grandchildren and they will miss him terribly. We ask that their privacy be respected at this very difficult time.”

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

Some of Bulloch’s Star Wars co-stars paid tribute on social media.

Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, tweeted: “Jeremy Bulloch was the quintessential English gentleman.

“A fine actor, delightful company & so kind to everyone lucky enough to meet or work with him.

“I will deeply miss him & am so grateful to have known him. RIP – DearJeremy.”

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

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

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

Daniel Logan, who played a young Boba Fett in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones in 2002, paid tribute to Bulloch on Instagram, writing: “RIP legend I’ll never forget all you’ve taught me! I’ll love you forever! Conventions won’t be the same without you – may the force be with you always.”

Jeremy Bulloch (1945–2020)

Actor
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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."

The Spy Who Loved Me

For Your Eyes Only

Octopussy

1965: Thunderball filming begins in Paris, France, following agreement between partners Broccoli and Saltzman plus Kevin McClory to jointly produce the Fleming novel. McClory accepts a 10 year moratorium.

1976: ABC broadcasts an edited version of On Her Majesty's Secret Service that presents the film with narration to air in two parts, over two nights.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/ohmss_abc_tv.php3

Dr. Shatterhand's Botanical Garden Exclusive Event

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1995: GoldenEye films casino scenes.

2020: Two days after release, media report the Number 1 debut of Billie Eilish's Bond theme on The Official Big Top 40 in the UK.

RichardTheBruce

February 17th

1910: Marc Lawrence is born--New York City, New York.
(He dies 27 November 2005 at age 95--Palm Springs, California.)

Marc Lawrence

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

Marc Lawrence (born Max Goldsmith, February 17, 1910 – November 28, 2005) was an American character actor who specialized in underworld types. He has also been credited as F. A. Foss, Marc Laurence and Marc C. Lawrence.

Early years
Lawrence was born in New York City, the son of a Polish Jewish mother, Minerva Norma (née Sugarman), and a Russian Jewish father, Israel Simon Goldsmith. He participated in plays in school, then attended the City College of New York. In 1930, he received a two-year scholarship to the repertory theater operated by Eva Le Gallienne.
Career

In 1930, Lawrence befriended another young actor, John Garfield. The two appeared in a number of plays before Lawrence was given a film contract with Columbia Pictures. Lawrence's film debut came in 1933.

Lawrence's pock-marked complexion, brooding appearance and New York street-guy accent made him a natural for heavies, and he played scores of gangsters and mob bosses over the next six decades. Later, Lawrence found himself under scrutiny for his political leanings. When called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he admitted he had once been a member of the Communist Party. He named Sterling Hayden, Lionel Stander, Anne Revere, Larry Parks, Karen Morley and Jeff Corey as Communists. He was blacklisted[citation needed] and departed for Europe, where he continued to make films.

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

One of his last roles was as Mr. Zeemo in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Badda-Bing Badda-Bang", which aired in February 1999. Previously he played the elderly Gatherer Volnoth in the 1989 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Vengeance Factor".

His final film role was in Looney Tunes Back in Action (2003), appearing as an Acme Corporation vice president.

Lawrence directed Nightmare in the Sun (1965).

Books
In 1991 Lawrence's autobiography was published entitled Long Time No See: Confessions of a Hollywood Gangster (ISBN 0-9636700-0-X). Lawrence was also the subject of a novel, The Beautiful and the Profane (ISBN 978-1-4107-0292-0) (published in 2002).

Personal life
For much of his adult life Lawrence lived in Palm Springs, California (1971–2006).[7] Lawrence married Odessa-born novelist and screenwriter Fanya Foss; she died on December 12, 1995. They had two children, Michael and Toni.

Death
Lawrence died of heart failure on November 28, 2005 at the age of 95. He was buried at Westwood Memorial Park in Westwood, California.

Marc Lawrence (I) (1910–2005)

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

Filmography

Actor (221 credits)

2003 Looney Tunes: Back in Action - Acme VP, Stating the Obvious
2001 The Shipping News - Cousin Nolan

1999 End of Days - Old Man
1999 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series) - Mr. Zeemo
- Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang (1999) ... Mr. Zeemo
1998 ER (TV Series) - Mr. Newton
- Shades of Gray (1998) ... Mr. Newton
1996 Gotti (TV Movie) - Carlo Gambino
1996 From Dusk Till Dawn - Old Timer Motel Owner
1995 Four Rooms - Sam the Bellhop
1994 Metaltech: Earthsiege (Video Game) - Pilot #5 (as Marc C. Lawrence)
1992 Newsies - Kloppman
1992 Ruby - Santos Alicante
1990 Donor (TV Movie) - Ben Beloit
1990 Shannon's Deal (TV Series) - Abe the Just
- Art (1990) ... Abe the Just

1989 Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series) - Volnath
- The Vengeance Factor (1989) ... Volnath
1989 Blood Red - Michael Fazio
1986 The Big Easy - Vinnie 'The Cannon' DiMotti
1986 The A-Team (TV Series) - Sam Marlini
- The Little Town with an Accent (1986) ... Sam Marlini (as Mark Lawrence)
1985 Night Train to Terror - Mr. Weiss / Dieter (segment "The Case of Claire Hansen")
1983 Savage Journey (TV Movie) - Chief Walker (uncredited)
1983 Thieves and Robbers - Don Salvatore Licuti
1982 Terror at Alcatraz (TV Movie) - Daniel Ginelli
1981 Border Pals (TV Short) - Joe Cincinnati
1980 Cataclysm - Abraham Weiss / Dieter
1980 Super Fuzz - Torpedo

1979 The Dukes of Hazzard (TV Series) - Rostosky
- The Meeting (1979) ... Rostosky
1979 Swap Meet - Mr. Booth
1979 Hot Stuff - Carmine
1979 Wonder Woman (TV Series) - Mr. Jones
- Going, Going, Gone (1979) ... Mr. Jones
1978 Goin' Coconuts - Webster
1978 Foul Play - Stiltskin
1978 CHiPs (TV Series) - Co-Driver
- Crack-Up (1978) ... Co-Driver
1977 A Piece of the Action - Louie
1976 Baretta (TV Series) - Linsky
- Street Edition (1976) ... Linsky
1976 Marathon Man - Erhard
1976 The Rookies (TV Series) - Roger Marsten
- Journey to Oblivion (1976) ... Roger Marsten
1975 Switch (TV Series) - Don Vincenzo / Franks
- Kiss of Death (1975) ... Don Vincenzo
- Las Vegas Roundabout (1975) ... Franks
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - Rodney
1974 McCloud (TV Series) - Vito Gilardi
- The Gang That Stole Manhattan (1974) ... Vito Gilardi
1969-1974 Mannix (TV Series) - Al Stanik / Ty Webber / Angelo Palerma
- A Fine Day for Dying (1974) ... Al Stanik
- Overkill (1971) ... Ty Webber
- The Nowhere Victim (1969) ... Angelo Palerma
1973 Frasier, the Sensuous Lion - Chiarelli (as Mark Lawrence)
1973 Pigs - Zambrini
1973 Honor Thy Father (TV Movie) - Stefano Magaddino
1972 In Pursuit of Treasure
1972 Nichols (TV Series) - Prouty
- Zachariah (1972) ... Prouty
1971 The Doris Day Show (TV Series) - Frankie Fury
- The Wings of an Angel (1971) ... Frankie Fury
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Slumber Inc. Attendant
1970-1971 Here's Lucy (TV Series) - Ruby / Joe Grapefruit
- Lucy and Mannix Are Held Hostage (1971) ... Ruby
- Lucy and Ma Parker (1970) ... Joe Grapefruit
1971 The Partners (TV Series) - Kelso
- The Prisoner of Fender (1971) ... Kelso
1970 Dream No Evil - Undertaker
1970 Bonanza (TV Series) - Red Gaskell
- Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing (1970) ... Red Gaskell
1970 The Kremlin Letter - The Priest

1969 Il killer (TV Mini-Series)
1968 Krakatoa: East of Java - Jacobs
1968 King of Kong Island - Albert Muller
1967 Custer of the West- Gold Miner
1967 Du mou dans la gâchette - Magnum
1966 7 monaci d'oro - Lucky Marciano, Capo da banda
1966 Savage Pampas - Sgt. Barril
1966 The Rat Patrol (TV Series) - Abu Hassan
- The Moment of Truce Raid (1966) ... Abu Hassan
1966 Johnny Tiger - William Billie
1966 2 mafiosi contro Al Capone - Joe Minasi
1965 Mister Ed (TV Series) - Spike the Bank Robber
- The Bank Robbery (1965) ... Spike the Bank Robber
1965 Petticoat Junction (TV Series) - Barney Dawson
- Hooterville Crime Wave (1965) ... Barney Dawson
1964 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Plato Atutle
- The Timothy Heist (1964) ... Plato Atutle
1964 Arrest and Trial (TV Series) - Leo Tucci
- Tigers Are for Jungles (1964) ... Leo Tucci
1963 Johnny Cool - Johnny Colini
1960-1963 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Lou Cagan / Mike Genna / Luigi Renaldo
- Blues for a Gone Goose (1963) ... Lou Cagan
- The Genna Brothers (1961) ... Mike Genna
- Star Witness (1960) ... Luigi Renaldo
1960-1962 The Detectives (TV Series) - Marcus Maroon / Ed Watkins / Rocco Silvano
- Three Blind Mice: Part II (1962) ... Marcus Maroon
- Three Blind Mice: Part 1 (1962) ... Marcus Maroon
- The Other Side (1960) ... Ed Watkins
- Life in the Balance (1960) ... Rocco Silvano
1961 Whispering Smith (TV Series) - Frankie Wisdom
- Death at Even Money (1961) ... Frankie Wisdom
1961 Lawman (TV Series) - Frank Walker
- Homecoming (1961) ... Frank Walker
1961 The Deputy (TV Series) - Alvy Burke
- The Hard Decision (1961) ... Alvy Burke
1960 Thriller (TV Series) - Dr. Emil Berland
- The Mark of the Hand (1960) ... Dr. Emil Berland (uncredited)
1958-1960 The Rifleman (TV Series) - Cougar / Gavin
- Trail of Hate (1960) ... Cougar
- The Safe Guard (1958) ... Gavin
1960 Richard Diamond, Private Detective (TV Series) - Vito Doria
- Running Scared (1960) ... Vito Doria
1960 Bronco (TV Series) - Joe Russo
- Tangled Trail (1960) ... Joe Russo
1960 Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) - Wade Migill
- Killer Instinct (1960) ... Wade Migill

1959 Shotgun Slade (TV Series) - Gideon Finch
- Mesa of Missing Men (1959) ... Gideon Finch
1959 Johnny Staccato (TV Series) - Vic Raffe
- The Unwise Men (1959) ... Vic Raffe
1959 Tightrope (TV Series) - Frankie Farrell
- Man in the Middle (1959) ... Frankie Farrell
1959 M Squad (TV Series) - Vince Cronin
- Jeopardy by Fire (1959) ... Vince Cronin
1959 Peter Gunn (TV Series) - Max Grayco
- Vendetta (1959) ... Max Grayco
1958-1959 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - El Sordo / The Cajun / Scarface
- For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2 (1959) ... El Sordo
- For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1 (1959) ... El Sordo
- Child of Our Time (1959)
- Old Man (1958) ... The Cajun
- Days of Wine and Roses (1958) ... Scarface
1958 Wagon Train (TV Series) - First Mate Ferris
- Around the Horn (1958) ... First Mate Ferris
1957 Kill Her Gently - Connors
1956 Helen of Troy - Diomedes
1955 Ballata tragica - Felipe Alvaro
1955 La catena dell'odio - Braschi
1955 Suor Maria - Don Mario, proprietario del night club
1955 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) - Cow Nelson
- A Terrible Day (1955) ... Cow Nelson
1955 New Moon - Pierre
1954 Vacation with a Gangster - Jack Mariotti
1953 Funniest Show on Earth - Il proprietario del circo
1953 Trouble for the Legion - Serg. Schwartz
1953 Noi peccatori - Camillo
1953 Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair - Van Gould
1952 Brothers of Italy - Il capitano March - un ufficiale austriarco
1952 The Three Pirates - Van Gould
1952 La tratta delle bianche - Machedi
1952 Torment of the Past - Andrea Rossi (alias Piero)
1951 My Favorite Spy - Ben Ali
1951 Hurricane Island - Angus Macready (uncredited)

1950 Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion - Frankie--Loan Shark
1950 The Desert Hawk - Samad
1950 The Asphalt Jungle - Cobby
1950 Black Hand - Caesar Xavier Serpi

1949 Tough Assignment - Vince
1949 Calamity Jane and Sam Bass - Harry Dean
1949 Jigsaw - Angelo Agostini
1948 Out of the Storm - Red Stubbins
1948 Key Largo - Ziggy
1947 I Walk Alone - Nick Palestro
1947 Captain from Castile - Corio
1947 Unconquered - Sioto - Medicine Man
1947 Joe Palooka in the Knockout - John Mitchell
1947 Yankee Fakir - Duke
1946 Cloak and Dagger - Luigi
1946 Inside Job - Donovan
1946 The Virginian - Pete
1946 Blonde Alibi - Joe DeRita
1945 Life with Blondie - Pete, Blackie's Henchman
1945 Club Havana - Joe Reed
1945 Don't Fence Me In - Clifford Anson
1945 Flame of Barbary Coast - Joe Disko
1945 Dillinger - Doc Madison
1944 The Princess and the Pirate - Pedro
1944 Rainbow Island - Alcoa
1944 Tampico - Valdez
1943 Hit the Ice - Phil
1943 Submarine Alert - Vincent Bela
1943 Calaboose - Sluggsy Baker
1942 The Ox-Bow Incident - Jeff Farnley
1942 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge - McGaffey
1942 Eyes of the Underworld - Gordon Finch
1942 Call of the Canyon - Horace Dunston
1942 This Gun for Hire - Tommy
1942 Yokel Boy - Henchman Trigger
1942 Nazi Agent - Joe Aiello
1941 Public Enemies - Mike
1941 Sundown - Abdi Hammud
1941 A Dangerous Game - Joe
1941 Hold That Ghost - Charlie Smith
1941 Lady Scarface - Lefty Landers
1941 The Shepherd of the Hills - Pete Matthews
1941 Blossoms in the Dust - La Verne
1941 The Man Who Lost Himself - Frank DeSoto
1941 The Monster and the Girl - Sleeper
1941 Tall, Dark and Handsome - Louie
1940 Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum - Steve McBirney
1940 The Great Profile - Tony
1940 Brigham Young - Prosecutor
1940 The Golden Fleecing - 'Happy' Dugan
1940 The Man Who Talked Too Much - Lefty Kyler
1940 Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! - Tony Luffo
1940 Johnny Apollo - Bates

1939 Invisible Stripes - Lefty
1939 The Housekeeper's Daughter - Floyd
1939 Beware Spooks! - Slick Eastman
1939 Dust Be My Destiny - Venetti
1939 Think First (Short) - Joe
1939 S.O.S. Tidal Wave - Melvin Sutter
1939 Ex-Champ - Bill Crosle - Olsen's Manager
1939 Blind Alley - Buck
1939 Code of the Streets - Henchman Halstead, aka Denver Collins
1939 Romance of the Redwoods - Joe
1939 Sergeant Madden - 'Piggy' Ceders
1939 The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt - Henchman in Trenchcoat (uncredited)
1939 Homicide Bureau - Chuck Brown
1938 Charlie Chan in Honolulu - Johnny McCoy
1938 There's That Woman Again - Stevens (uncredited)
1938 While New York Sleeps - Happy Nelson
1938 Adventure in Sahara - Poule
1938 The Spider's Web - Steve Harmon
1938 I Am the Law - Eddie Girard
1938 Convicted - Milton Militis
1938 Squadron of Honor - Lawlor
1938 Who Killed Gail Preston? - Frank Daniels
1938 Penitentiary - Jack Hawkins (uncredited)
1937 The Shadow - Kid Crow
1937 Murder in Greenwich Village - Rusty Morgan
1937 Counsel for Crime - Edwin Mitchell
1937 Life Begins with Love - Pearson (uncredited)
1937 Charlie Chan on Broadway - Thomas Mitchell
1937 A Dangerous Adventure - Calkins
1937 It Can't Last Forever - Hoodlum (uncredited)
1937 What Price Vengeance - Pete Brower
1937 San Quentin - Venetti
1937 Criminals of the Air - 'Blast' Reardon
1937 I Promise to Pay - Henchman Whitehat
1937 Motor Madness - Gus Slater
1937 Racketeers in Exile - 'Blackie' White
1936 Night Waitress - Dorn (as Marc Laurence)
1936 Charlie Chan at the Opera - Undetermined Minor Role (unconfirmed, uncredited)
1936 The Cowboy Star - Johnny Sampson
1936 Blackmailer - Pinky (uncredited)
1936 The Final Hour - Mike Magellon
1936 Trapped by Television - Frank Griffin (uncredited)
1936 Counterfeit - Dint Coleman
1936 Under Two Flags - Grivon (uncredited)
1936 Robin Hood of El Dorado - Manuel (uncredited)
1936 Love on a Bet - County Fair Barker (uncredited)
1936 Desire - Charles - the Valet (uncredited)
1936 Don't Gamble with Love - Gambler (uncredited)
1936 Road Gang - Pete
1935 3 Kids and a Queen - Gangster (uncredited)
1935 Dr. Socrates - Lefty Croger - a Gangster (uncredited)
1935 Little Big Shot - Doré's Henchman
1935 After the Dance - Tom - a Prisoner (uncredited)
1935 Don't Bet on Blondes - Gangster #6 (uncredited)
1935 The Arizonian - Henchman Who Pistol-Whipped Clay (uncredited)
1935 Men of the Hour - Joe
1935 Strangers All - Communist Meeting Chairman (uncredited)
1935 Go Into Your Dance - Eddie Logan (uncredited)
1935 'G' Men - Gangster Killed at Lodge (uncredited)
1934 Million Dollar Baby - Gangster
1934 Death on the Diamond - Bookies' Doorman (uncredited)
1934 Straight Is the Way - Monk's Henchmen (uncredited)
1933 White Woman - Connors
1933 Lady for a Day - Nick - Mug at Reception (uncredited)
1933 Her First Mate - Orderly with Message (uncredited)
1933 Gambling Ship - Hood (uncredited)
1932 If I Had a Million - Henchman of Mike the Gangster (uncredited)

Director (8 credits)

1973 Pigs
1965 Nightmare in the Sun
1961-1962 Maverick (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Mr. Muldoon's Partner (1962)
- A Technical Error (1961)
1962 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Jennifer (1962)
1960-1962 The Roaring 20's (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Footlights (1962)
- Vendetta on Bleecker Street (1960)
1961 Bronco (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- The Equalizer (1961)
- Prince of Darkness (1961)
1960-1961 Lawman (TV Series) (16 episodes)
- The Juror (1961)
- Conditional Surrender (1961)
- Blind Hate (1961)
- The Trial (1961)
- Whiphand (1961)
- Fugitive (1961)
- Mark of Cain (1961)
- The Inheritance (1961)
- Detweiler's Kid (1961)
- Hassayampa (1961)
- The Squatters (1961)
- The Marked Man (1961)
- The Frame-Up (1961)
- Cornered (1960)
- The Catcher (1960)
- The Post (1960)
1960 M Squad (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Man with the Ice (1960)
- The Twisted Way (1960)

Writer (2 credits)

1973 Pigs (as F.A. Foss)
1965 Nightmare in the Sun

Producer (2 credits)

1973 Pigs (producer)
1965 Nightmare in the Sun (producer)

[imghttps://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OMNAtBXrTmQ/XYkvemATUZI/AAAAAAABH-8/wGZUX6S0ZDAypMmvgJpoSBk4DpOJZJCKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/70538403_2632128213498109_5159104184695390208_o.jpeg][/img]

1948: Anne Lönn is born--Berkley, California.

1950: Prunella Gee is born--London, England.

1962: Fleming makes another visit to the Dr. No set, this time filming at Falmouth with OO7 and Honey Ryder dodging bullets behind the sand dune. (Re-filmed due to shots affected by US sailors investigating noise, gunfire.)

1971: Denise Richards is born--Downers Grove, Illinois.
1976: Rory Kinnear is born--Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.


1995: GoldenEye films OO7 and Natalya's escape from the Russian Military Intelligence Archive.

2004: Electronic Arts publishes its Everything or Nothing third-person shooter video game (developed by EA Redwood Shores) for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube. Represents Pierce Brosnan's final OO7 appearance. With Heidi Klum. Willem Defoe, even. Richard Kiel. Misaki Ito.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_007:_Everything_or_Nothing

2015: Spectre Assistant Director Terry Madden sustains career-ending injuries from an out of control vehicle.
2015: Spectre finishes 9 days of filming at Sölden, Austria.
2019: Christopher Nolan denies he will direct the NEXT James Bond film.

2021: Theater chains in Australia screen For Your Eyes Only. Includes Ritz, Lido, Cameo.

RichardTheBruce

February 18th

1915: Henry Francis Gammidge is born--London, England.
(He dies 1981--Richmond Upon Thames, Surrey, England.)

Henry Gammidge

See the complete article here:

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

Henry Gammidge
Born 1915
Died 1981

Henry Francis Gammidge (1915–1981), was a writer of the James Bond comic strip that appeared in Daily Express newspaper and syndicated worldwide. Gammidge adapted Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, which were then drawn by illustrator John McLusky. Gammidge worked on eleven stories, which were published from 15 December 1958. Gammidge's last story was published on 8 January 1966.

1929: Leonard Cyril (Len) Deighton is born--Marylebone, England.

1938: Sadanoyama Shinmatsu is born--Nagasaki, Japan.
(He dies 27 April 2017 at age 79--Tokyo, Japan.)

Sadanoyama Shinmatsu

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

Sadanoyama celebrates his first tournament victory in May 1961

Personal information

Born Shinmatsu Sasada, February 18, 1938 - Nagasaki, Japan
Died April 27, 2017 (aged 79)
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)
Weight 129 kg (284 lb)

Career

Stable Dewanoumi
Record 591-251-61
Debut January, 1956
Highest rank Yokozuna (January, 1965)
Retired March, 1968
Championships 6 (Makuuchi)
Special Prizes Fighting Spirit, Outstanding Performance, Technique
Gold Stars 2 (Wakanohana I, Azumafuji)
* Up to date as of August 2012.

Sadanoyama Shinmatsu (佐田の山 晋松, born Shinmatsu Sasada, February 18, 1938 – April 27, 2017) was a former sumo wrestler from Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. He was the sport's 50th yokozuna. After his retirement he was the head coach of Dewanoumi stable and served as head of the Japan Sumo Association.

Career
Born in Arikawa, Minamimatsuura District, he made his professional debut in January 1956, and reached sekitori status four years later upon promotion to the jūryō division in March 1960. He made his top makuuchi division debut in January 1961. Sadanoyama won his first tournament title in only his third tournament in the top division, from the rank of maegashira 13. The achievement of winning a tournament from the maegashira ranks is sometimes seen as a jinx on subsequent success in sumo, but Sadanoyama disproved that theory by going on to reach ōzeki in March 1962 after winning his second title, and then yokozuna in January 1965 after capturing his third championship.

Sadanoyama's handprint on a Ryōgoku monument[/img]

He made a cameo appearance in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice, as himself.

Although more attention was focused on yokozuna Taihō and Kashiwado, with their rivalry referred to as the Hakuho era after a combination of their shikona, Sadanoyama in fact ended up winning more tournament championships than Kashiwado.

Sadanoyama announced his retirement suddenly in March 1968, despite having won the previous two tournaments, two days after a surprise loss to a new maegashira, the Hawaiian born Takamiyama. It has been suggested that the shock of losing to a foreigner may have prompted a premature retirement.

Retirement from sumo
Sadanoyama remained in the sumo world after his retirement, as an elder. Having married the daughter of the previous stable boss, former maegashira Dewanohana Kuniichi, he became head coach of the Dewanoumi stable. One of the most powerful heya in sumo, he produced a string of top division wrestlers, including Mienoumi, Dewanohana Yoshitaka, Washūyama, Ōnishiki, Ryōgoku, Oginishiki and Mainoumi. In February 1992 he became head of the Japan Sumo Association. He was chosen ahead of his contemporaries Taihō and Kashiwado partly because he was in better health than either of them. He changed his toshiyori name to Sakaigawa in 1996, handing over the Dewanoumi name and the day-to-day running of his stable to the former Washūyama. He did not run for re-election in 1998, after it became clear he lacked enough support, and was replaced by former ōzeki Yutakayama from the rival Tokitsukaze faction. He subsequently became head of the judging department, an unusual move for a former head of the Sumo Association. He stood down as an elder in 2003 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of sixty five.

Death
He died in a Tokyo hospital of pneumonia on April 27, 2017 at the age of 79.

Fighting style
Sadanoyama was known for employing pushing and thrusting techniques such as tsuppari (a series of rapid thrusts to the chest) and regularly won by such kimarite as oshi dashi (push out) and tsuki dashi (thrust out). However he was also good on the mawashi where he preferred a migi-yotsu (left hand outside, right hand inside) grip, and often won by yori kiri (force out) and uwatenage (overarm throw).

Career record
The Kyushu tournament was first held in 1957, and the Nagoya tournament in 1958.

Sadanoyama (1938–2017)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1889384/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (2 credits)

1967 You Only Live Twice - Japanese Sumo Wrestler (uncredited)
1964 Kigeki ekimae okami

Trivia: A professional sumo wrestler, Sadanoyama was the 50th Yokozuna at the time of filming b]You Only Live Twice[/b.

http://www.jamesbondwiki.com/page/Sadanoyama_Shinmatsu,_1938_-_2017

http://www.sumoforum.net/forums/topic/36512-dewanoumi-sakaigawa-rijicho-sadanoyama-passed-away/

1965: Daily Variety reports the casting of Claudine Auger and principal photography commencing in Paris.

1975: James Bond comic strip The Phoenix Project ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 23 September 1974. 2656–2780) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1013


https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tpp.php3

https://www.popoptiq.com/double-oh-comics-008-the-phoenix-project/




https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1976.php3

Bond Blir Indragen I Projekt Fenix!
("Bond Gets In To Line On..." The Phoenix Project)

Swedish Semic 1982 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3

Projekt Fenix (The Phoenix Project)

Danish 1978 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no44-1978/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 44:
“The Phoenix Project” (1978)

1981: The LA Times reports the death of Italian stuntman Paolo Rigoni due to a bobsled accident during filming of For Your Eyes Only.

2002: Die Another Day films Michael G. Wilson's cameo as General Chandler.

2016: An auction at Christie's sells items from Spectre for charity.

JAMES BOND SPECTRE: THE
AUCTION

http://www.christies.com/james-bond-spectre-the-26480.aspx?saletitle=

To celebrate the release of Spectre on digital HD Blu-ray and DVD, Christie’s and EON Productions, Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Twentieth Century Fox present a unique opportunity to acquire memorabilia from the 24th film in the James Bond series. Highlights include an Aston Martin DB10 with a plaque signed by Daniel Craig (the only DB10 ever to be offered for sale to the public), a prototype Omega Seamaster 300 watch worn by Daniel Craig as James Bond and other spectacular props from the film.

All proceeds from the auctions will benefit Médecins Sans Frontières and number of other charitable institutions.

Day of the Dead Costume. Price realised GBP 98,500

Spectre Aston Martin DB10. Price realised GBP 2,434,500

2020: Billie Eilish performs "No Time To Die" at the 2020 BRIT Awards.

Billie Eilish - No Time To Die (Live From The BRIT Awards, London)

2021: tourradar offers 10-day Bond Tours circuiting from Vienna to Zurich.

10 days

James Bond Tour

From Vienna to Zurich
https://www.tourradar.com/t/202655

Thunderfinger

@RichardTheBruce , a little typo above. It says 1964 instead of 65.

RichardTheBruce

February 19th

1965: Thunderball films OO7's escape by jetpack.

1967: Benicio Del Toro is born--San Germán, Puerto Rico.

1975: Bond comic strip The Black Ruby Caper begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 15 July 1975. 2781–2897) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1014


https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tbrc.php3


Swedish Semic 1976

Kodnamn: Svart Storm
("Codename: Black Storm" - The Black Ruby Caper)

https://www.popoptiq.com/double-oh-comics-009-black-ruby-caper/




Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no41-1977/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 41: “The Black Ruby Caper” (1977)





Tamil

1979: Moonraker principal photography wrap party.

1986: Adolfo Celi dies at age 63--Siena, Tuscany, Italy.
(Born 27 July 1922--Messina, Sicily, Italy.)

Obituaries

Adolfo Celi Dies at 64; An Actor and Director

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/20/obituaries/adolfo-celi-dies-at-64-an-actor-and-director.html
AP FEB. 20, 1986

Adolfo Celi, the Italian actor and director, died today, two days after suffering a heart attack. He was 64 years old.

Mr. Celi, a Sicilian who began acting on the Italian screen in the 1940's and performed for 15 years in Brazil, was known for his comic roles, but was also frequently cast as a villain in films. He won international fame in the 1965 film of ''Thunderball'' as Emilio Largo, the black eye-patched adversary of James Bond.

He had more than three dozen roles to his credit, including that of Giovanni de Medici in ''The Agony and the Ecstasy,'' the 1965 film biography of Michelangelo, and that of a Scottish colonel in ''King of Hearts'' (1966), which starred Alan Bates.

His other film credits included ''That Man From Rio'' (1964); ''Von Ryan's Express'' (1965); ''Grand Prix'' (1966); ''The Alibi'' (1969), for which he was also co-director and co-author; a 1971 remake of ''Murders in the Rue Morgue,'' and a 1974 version of Agatha Christie's 'Ten Little Indians' titled ''And Then There Were None.'' In the past few years he had starred in several Italian-made movies, including the series ''Amici Miei'' (''My Friends'') and also directed stage productions.

He suffered the heart attack a few hours before the premiere in this Tuscan city of ''I Misteri di Pietroburgo'' (''The St. Petersburg Mysteries''), which he directed and acted in.

Adolfo Celi (1922–1986)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0148041/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (103 credits)

-1987 International Airport (TV Series) - Il Caposcalo - 10 episodes
1987 T.I.R. (TV Series) - Oreste
- Aki elsönek érkezik (1987) ... Oreste
1985 Il giocatore invisibile
1985 All My Friends Part 3 - Professor Sassaroli
1984 Cindy - Cinderella '80 - Prince Gherardeschi
1982 L'occhio di Giuda (TV Mini-Series)
- Episode #1.3 (1982)
- Episode #1.2 (1982)
- Episode #1.1 (1982)
1982 All My Friends Part 2 - Professor Alfeo Sassaroli
1982 Monsignor - Vinci
1982 La sconosciuta (TV Mini-Series) - Taladis - 4 episodes
1981 Madly in Love - Gustavo VI di San Tulipe
1981 The Borgias (TV Mini-Series) - Rodrigo Borgia - 9 episodes
1980 Carnapping - Head of police in Palermo
1980 Café Express - Ispettore capo Ministero

1979 L'altro Simenon (TV Series)
1978 Le braghe del padrone - Eugenio - the president
1978 Professor Kranz tedesco di Germania - Carcamano
1978 Indagine su un delitto perfetto - Sir Harold Boyd
1977 Man of Corleone
1977 The Tiger Is Still Alive: Sandokan to the Rescue (TV Movie) - James Brooke
1977 The Chosen - Dr. Kerouac
1977 Pane, burro e marmellata - Aristide Bertelli
1977 The Passengers - Boetani
1977 Che notte quella notte! - Dottore
1976 Merciless Man - Commissario Lo Gallo
1976 The Big Operator - Rifai
1976 The Next Man - Al Sharif
1976 Febbre da cavallo - Judge
1976 Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen - Commendatore Vladimiro Palese
1976 L'affittacamere - Giudice Damiani
1976 Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife - Antonio
1976 Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man - Captain
1976 Pure as a Lily - L'onorevole
1976 Sandokan (TV Mini-Series) - James Brooke - 6 episodes
1975 L'amaro caso della baronessa di Carini (TV Mini-Series) - Don Mariano D'Agrò - 4 episodes
1975 Amici miei - Professor Sassaroli
1975 Libera, My Love - Felice Valente - Libera's father
1974 Last Moments - Dr. Monforte
1974 Ten Little Indians - The General
1974 The Phantom of Liberty - Le docteur de Legendre / Doctor Pasolini
1974 The Devil Is a Woman - Father Borelli
1973 La villeggiatura - Commissioner Rizzuto
1973 Le mataf - Me Desbordes
1973 Hitler: The Last Ten Days - General Krebs
1973 Pete, Pearl & the Pole - The Pole
1972 Joe Petrosino (TV Mini-Series) - Joe Petrosino - 4 episodes
1972 The Italian Connection - Don Vito Tressoldi
1972 The Long Arm of the Godfather - Don Carmelo
1972 Ragazza tutta nuda assassinata nel parco - Inspector Huber
1972 Who Saw Her Die? - Serafian
1972 Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why? - Inspector Vezzi
1972 Eye in the Labyrinth - Frank
1972 Brother Sun, Sister Moon - Consul
1972 Il sospetto (TV Movie) - Dott. Fritz Emmemberger
1971 Una chica casi decente - César Martín de Valdés 'Duque'
1971 Murders in the Rue Morgue - Inspector Vidocq
1971 They Have Changed Their Face - Giovanni Nosferatu
1970 Finale di partita (TV Movie)
1970 Brancaleone at the Crusades - Re Boemondo
1970 The Cop - Le commissaire principal / Chief of police
1970 Fragment of Fear - Signor Bardoni
1970 The Night of the Assassin - Hermes

1969 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Eric 'The Red' Redman / Eric Redman
- The Second Time Around (1969) ... Eric 'The Red' Redman
- The Great Casino Caper (1969) ... Eric Redman
1969 In Search of Gregory - Max
1969 Death Knocks Twice - Professor Max Spiegler
1969 A Man for Emmanuelle - Sandri
1969 Detective Belli - Avvocato Fontana
1969 Midas Run - General Ferranti
1969 The Archangel - Marco Tarocchi Roda
1969 Alibi - Adolfo
1968 Seven Times Seven - Warden
1968 Fantabulous Inc. - Karl Maria van Beethoven
1968 It's Your Move - Bayon / Guinet
1968 Danger: Diabolik - Ralph Valmont
1968 Death Sentence - Friar Baldwin
1967 Dirty Heroes - Luc Rollman
1967 Grand Slam - Mark Milford
1967 Operation Kid Brother - Mr. Thai - 'Beta'
1967 The Bobo - Francisco Carbonell
1967 The Honey Pot - Inspector Rizzi
1967 Master Stroke - Mr. Bernard
1966 Grand Prix - Agostini Manetta
1966 King of Hearts - Le Colonel Mac Bibenbrook (as Adolfo Celli)
1966 Pleasant Nights - Bernardozzo
1966 Target for Killing - Henry Perkins
1966 Yankee - Grande Concho
1966 El Greco - Don Miguel de las Cuevas
1965 Thunderball - Largo
1965 A Man Named John - Msgr. Radini Tedeschi
1965 Slalom - Riccardo
1965 The Agony and the Ecstasy - Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici (pope Leo X)
1965 Von Ryan's Express - Battaglia
1965 Crime on a Summer Morning - Van Willie
1964 Beautiful Families - Professore Della Porta (segment "Amare è un po' morire")
1964 Male Companion - Benvenuto
1964 3 notti d'amore - Alberto (segment "La moglie bambina")
1964 That Man from Rio - Mário de Castro
1963 Sandokan the Great

1952 Tico-Tico no Fubá (uncredited)
1950 Caiçara - Genovês

1948 Immigrants - Il professore
1948 Guaglio - Don Pietro
1947 Natale al campo 119 - John, il sergente americano
1946 Un americano in vacanza - Tom

Director (4 credits)

1969 Alibi

1957 Grande Teatro Tupi (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Esta Noite é Nossa (1957)
1952 Tico-Tico no Fubá
1950 Caiçara

Writer (2 credits)

1969 Alibi (screenplay) / (story)

1950 Caiçara (story and screenplay)

Producer (1 credit)

1952 Tico-Tico no Fubá (producer)

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

1973 Lucky Luciano (voice dubbing: Charles Siragusa - uncredited)

1987: Albert R. Broccoli receives an honorary Order of the British Empire (OBE).

2015: Spectre films the funeral scene in Rome, Italy.

2020: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond in Reflections of Death, six stories in hardcover.
Writers: Greg Pak, Andy Diggle, Benjamin Percy, Gail Simone, Mark Russell, Vita Ayala & Danny Lore.
Art: Dean Kotz, Luca Casalanguida, Kewber Baal, Eoin Marron, Robert Carey, Jordi Perez.
Cover: Fay Dalton

JAMES BOND IN “REFLECTIONS OF DEATH” OGN – Hardcover

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C1524115010
Cover: Fay Dalton
Writers: Greg Pak, Andy Diggle, Benjamin Percy, Gail Simone, Mark Russell, Vita Ayala & Danny Lore
Art: Dean Kotz, Luca Casalanguida, Kewber Baal, Eoin Marron, Robert Carey, Jordi Perez
Genre: Spy Thriller, Action/Adventure
Publication Date: February 2020
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 128 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 2/19/2020
128 stunning pages of nonstop thrills and intrigue!
An ALL-NEW, ALL-ORIGINAL James Bond graphic novel, by a cavalcade of superstars!
GREG PAK (Star Wars, Darth Vader)!
ANDY DIGGLE (Daredevil, Green Arrow)!
BENJAMIN PERCY (X-Force, Wolverine)!
GAIL SIMONE (Deadpool, Wonder Woman)!
MARK RUSSELL (Red Sonja, The Flintstones)!
VITA AYALA & DANNY LORE (James Bond ongoing series)!

Six stunning stories, featuring the world's greatest spy! Moneypenny has been kidnapped, and the mystery of who has her, and what they want, will only be revealed when (if?) 007 is able to complete his incredible missions.

RichardTheBruce

February 20th

1951: Eva Reuber-Staier is born-- Bruck an der Mur, Austria.

1964: El satánico Dr. No (The Satanic Dr. No) released in Mexico.

1964: From Russia With Love released in Norway.

Frå Moskva med kjærleg helsing (From Russia With Love), Ian Fleming,
Norwegian paperback published by Fonna, 1959
https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2009/02/more-norwegian-books.html

1995: GoldenEye films a mini MiG helicopter (model) crashing into Severnaya Station.

Recreation by @Agent_99. Permission pending.

2002: Casino Royale 1967 re-released in France.

2013: Activision finishes its licensed games associated with Bond.
2015: Spectre films the car chase in Rome.
2018: Russian premiere of ‘Casino Royale’ in Concert, Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, presented by Zapomni, Crocus City Hall, Krasnogorsky District, Moscow Oblas.
2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #4.
Stephen Mooney, artist. Greg Pak, writer.

JAMES BOND 007 #4

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532504011
Cover A: Dave Johnson
Cover B: Will Robson
Cover C: Ibrahim Moustafa
Cover D: Stephen Mooney
Writer: Greg Pak
Art: Stephen Mooney
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: February 2019
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 2/20/2019

A new arc begins, by superstar GREG PAK (The Incredible Hulk, Firefly) and new interior artist STEPHEN MOONEY (Half Past Danger)!

MI6 Agent 007 and Korean operative John Lee have been forced by their governments to join forces to secure a dangerous case that may contain nuclear materials. But their current mission requires them to practice patience, guile, and possibly...singing.