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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 2019 Posts: 13,043

  November 26th
  
  1939: Tina Turner is born--Nutbush, Tennessee.
  1959: During a meeting in the Bahamas, Jack Whittingham signs a £5,000 contract that gives Kevin McClory rights to Thunderball.
  1963: An out-of-court settlement between Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham gives McClory credit on all reprints of Thunderball--plus the film rights.
  1964: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang Volume 2 (of 3).

  
  

  1965: NBC television airs David Wolper's documentary The Incredible World of James Bond (replacing The Man from U.N.C.L.E. for that Friday night schedule).

  

  The Incredible World of James Bond

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

  
  Original television advertisement designed prior to Sean Connery quitting the project

  Directed by Jack Haley Jr.
  Produced by David L. Wolper
  Written by Jack Haley Jr. & Al Ramrus
  Narrated by Alexander Scourby
  Production company - Wolper Productions
  Distributed by United Artists Television
  Release date November 26, 1965 (U.S.)
  Running time 51 min.
  Country - United States

  The Incredible World of James Bond was a 1965 television special produced by David L. Wolper for United Artists Television to showcase the James Bond film series and promote the upcoming December 1965 release of the film Thunderball.
  
  In the United States, the show replaced The Man From U.N.C.L.E. on NBC on Friday, 26 November 1965; the day after American Thanksgiving that unofficially begins the shopping frenzy for Christmas. It was the highest rated American television show for the week.
  
  Plot and production
  The show featured film scenes of the worldwide popularity of James Bond novels, films, and tie-in merchandise, black and white scenes of Ian Fleming at his home Goldeneye in Jamaica giving comments on his writing, a biography of James Bond with footage of Glencoe, Eton, Fettes College, and Royal Marine Commandos on exercise, home movie footage shot by production designer Ken Adam in the Bahamas during the production of Thunderball, and scenes from four Bond films.
  
  Behind the scenes footage from the making of Thunderball included scenes of the preparation and filming of a scene of a rocket firing motorcycle destroying Count Lippe's car, a choreographed fist fight in a studio mock up of the cabin of the Disco Volante, a photo shoot of the Bond girls on a beach in the Bahamas, and a scene of the Aston Martin DB5 driving away from the Château d'Anet that was not seen in the finished film.
  
  Director Terence Young, producers Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, Kevin McClory, editor Peter R. Hunt and action director and stuntman Bob Simmons are shown during sequences. The "James Bond Theme" and other music from the Bond film soundtracks are heard with the gun barrel titles and 007 logo from the Goldfinger film trailer appearing in the opening titles.
  
  The narration was to have been originally given by Sean Connery. However, when Connery read the script and found out they were referring to James Bond as an actual person he refused to do the show. Telephone calls from Joan Crawford who was a major shareholder in Pepsi Cola, the sponsor of the show, failed to sway Connery and his narrating chores were taken by Alexander Scourby.
  
  Pepsi Cola used the special to unveil commercials for its latest products.
  
  The special is available as a featurette on the "James Bond Ultimate Edition" DVD of Thunderball.

  
  Second design LP cover

  
  Pepsi Cola and Frito Lay also sold promotional James Bond tie-in toys and a record album titled The Incredible World of James Bond. The album featured the original soundtrack music and cover versions of four of the themes from the first three Bond films played by United Artists Records house band The Leroy Holmes Orchestra. The back of the album cover was full of photographic stills from the Bond films. The record was later reissued with an attractive Frank Gauna designed album cover on Unart Records in 1967 with two music tracks deleted to fit on the budget album.

  

  
  
  

  1982: Octopussy films the assault on Kamal Khan’s fortress.
  1985: Variety reports Roger Moore giving notice to producer Cubby Broccoli he will not return.
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in the UK, Ireland, Iceland, and South Africa.

  
  
  
  

  2002: Die Another Day released in the Republic of Macedonia.
  2011: Skyfall filming at the Ascot Racecourse (doubling for the Shanghai airport terminal).
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 2019 Posts: 13,043

  November 27th
  
  1928: Ronald William "Josh" Kirby is born--Waterloo, England.
  (He dies 23 October 2001 at age 72--Shelfanger, England.)

  
  https://www.joshkirbyart.com/bio

  

  1961: Samantha Bond is born--Kensington, London, England.
  1981: Lotte Lenya (Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blaumauer) dies at age 83--New York City, New York. (Born 18 October 1898--Vienna-Penzing Austria, Hungary.)

  

  Lotte Lenya

  https://masterworksbroadway.com/artist/lotte-lenya/
  
  Award-winning Austrian actress and singer Lotte Lenya (b. Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary, October 18, 1898; d. New York City, November 27, 1981), transplanted to the United States for the latter part of her career, is best remembered by music-lovers for her interpretations of songs by her husband Kurt Weill (1900–1950), and by moviegoers for her performances in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) and From Russia With Love (1963). She was nominated for an Academy Award® for the former film; from her Broadway performances, which spanned over three decades, she had one Tony Award® (The Threepenny Opera 1957) and was nominated for another (Cabaret 1967).
  
  Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer was born into a working class family in an outlying district of Vienna. At the age of sixteen she moved to Zurich in Switzerland, where she studied classical ballet, singing, and acting, and made a stage debut under the name of Lotte Lenja. In 1921, against the cosmopolitan but precarious backdrop of the Weimar Republic, she moved to Berlin and began rounds of theatrical auditions. In 1924, through playwright Georg Kaiser, she met composer Kurt Weill – actually he had played the piano for her at an audition two years earlier but she had taken no notice of him – and they married early in 1926.
  
  In collaboration with Bertholt Brecht, Weill wrote the leading part of Jenny in Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) as a vehicle specifically for Lenya, and the first performance in 1928 was a big breakthrough for both of them. Soon she was very busy in the theatre, especially in works created by the Weill-Brecht team: Happy End (1929), Der Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny 1930), and Die sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins 1933), produced in exile in Paris.
  
  In 1933, with the rise of Nazism and the banning of Weill’s works in Germany, both Lenya and Weill fled to France – although they were now estranged and going through a divorce (Weill was a workaholic and not especially communicative). Weill began work on an unprecedentedly ambitious spectacle-opera with text by Franz Werfel entitled Der Weg der Verheißung (The Promised Road), in the midst of which, in 1935, Lenya and Weill came to be reconciled. They emigrated together to the United States and were married again in 1937.
  
  Lenya sang the roles of Miriam and the Witch of Endor in Weill’s new opus, now called The Eternal Road, for 153 performances at the Manhattan Opera House in early 1937. The cast included 245 actors and singers, wearing a total of 1,772 costumes, and the show – a frightening depiction of Jews hiding from a pogrom in a synagogue that included several generous slices of Biblical history – lasted over six hours. It has not been staged since.
  
  Two successful musicals, Knickerbocker Holiday (1938), with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and introducing the immortal “September Song,” and Lady in the Dark (with Ira Gershwin, 1941) established Kurt Weill’s reputation on Broadway, and the couple was able to move upstate to New City in Rockland County. Their marriage would last until Weill’s death in 1950.
  
  Lenya meanwhile appeared in Anderson’s Candle in the Wind (1941). Her next role was in a Weill “operetta,” The Firebrand of Florence (1945), that was such a box-office disaster that Lenya decided to quit the stage. But in 1951, a little more than a year after her husband’s death, she returned as Xantippe in Maxwell Anderson’s short-lived Barefoot in Athens.She starred again as Jenny in the English-language revival of The Threepenny Opera (1954, 1955), winning the 1956 Tony® for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

  Lotte Lenya’s American film career began when she was sixty-three, with The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (1961), and hit a high point in 1963 when she played Rosa Klebb, the Spectre agent with poisoned blades in the toes of her boots, in From Russia with Love. She played the title role in Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder on German television in 1965, and the Gypsy in Tennessee Williams’s sleeper Ten Blocks on the Camino Real on National Education Television in 1966. The same year on Broadway she originated the role of Fräulein Schneider in Kander and Ebb’s musical Cabaret.

  Lenya was married three more times in the thirty-one years between Weill’s death and her own. She established the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, which is still active in the promotion of Weill music and theatre, in 1962. Cancer was the cause of her death in 1981; she is entombed alongside Weill in a mausoleum in Mount Repose Cemetery in Haverstraw, New York. A musical play, Lovemusik, a meditation on the relationship of these two musical and theatrical greats, was produced on Broadway in 2007.
  
  – LEC

  

  Lotte Lenya (1898–1981)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0502322/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actress (10 credits)
  1980 Mahagonny (voice)
  
  1977 Semi-Tough - Clara Pelf
  1974 CBS Daytime 90 (TV Series) - Rosa Harcourt
  - Trio for Lovers (1974) ... Rosa Harcourt
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  1969 The Appointment - Emma Valadier
  1966 Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (TV Movie) - The Gypsy
  1965 Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder - Eine Chronik aus dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg (TV Movie) - Mutter Courage
  1964 Bertolt Brecht: Übungstücke für Schauspieler (Short)
  1963 From Russia with Love - Rosa Klebb
  1961 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone - Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
  
  1931 The 3 Penny Opera - Jenny (as Lotte Lenja)
  
  Soundtrack (6 credits)
  
  2017 Popular Voices at the BBC (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Truth Tellers at the BBC (2017) ... (performer: "Alabama Song")
  2016 Uncle Howard (Documentary) (performer: "September Song")
  2007 The Savages (performer: "Salomon-Song")
  2001 Guileless Guile (Short) (performer: "Denn wie Man sich bettet")
  
  1997 Seven Years in Tibet (performer: "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer/The Ballad of Mack the Knife")
  
  1952 Because of My Hot Youth (performer: "Die Seeräuber-Jenny. Ur Die Dreigroschenoper")

  
  

  1982: 유 아 이 즈 온 리 released in the Republic of Korea.

  
  
  
  

  1987: Lashana Lynch is born--London, England.
  1989: Peter Burton dies at age 68--Chelsea, London, England. (Born 4 April 1921--Bromley, Kent, England.)

  

  Peter Burton

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Burton
  
  Peter Ray Burton (4 April 1921 – 21 November 1989) was an English film and television actor.
  
  Early life
  Peter Ray Burton, was born in Bromley, Kent, to Frederick Ray Burton and Gladys Maude (née Frazer).
  
  Career

  He is perhaps best known for playing Major Boothroyd in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962). Burton made two uncredited reappearances in Bond films, first as an RAF officer in Thunderball (1965) and later as a secret agent in the satirical Casino Royale.

  In The Scarlet and the Black, the 1983 made-for-television docudrama concerning British, Irish, and U.S. counterintelligence agents working to rescue c. 4,000 Allied prisoners-of-war from Nazi deportation, Burton played the role of English aristocrat and British diplomat D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne, the 12th (and last) Duke of Leeds.[4]
  
  Burton guest starred in a number of television shows, including The Avengers, The Saint, Return of the Saint and UFO.

  

  Peter Burton (I) (1921–1989)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0078252/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (68 credits)
  1990 Number One Gun - Merlin
  1990 Press Gang (TV Series) - Mr. Campbell
  - At Last a Dragon (1990) ... Mr. Campbell
  
  1987 One by One (TV Series) - Golf Club Secretary
  - Remember the Humble Guinea-Pig (1987) ... Golf Club Secretary
  1986 C.A.T.S. Eyes (TV Series) - Doctor
  - Passage Hawk (1986) ... Doctor
  1985 The Doctor and the Devils - Customer
  1983 The Jigsaw Man - Douglas Ransom
  1983 The Nation's Health (TV Series) - David Marvill
  - Collapse (1983) ... David Marvill
  1983 The Scarlet and the Black (TV Movie) - Sir D'Arcy Osborne
  1981 Inchon - Adm. Sherman
  1980 Richard's Things - Colonel
  1980 The Professionals (TV Series) - Conroy
  - Involvement (1980) ... Conroy
  
  1979 The Bitch - Hotel Night Manager
  1978 Return of the Saint (TV Series) - Dr. Evans
  - The Arrangement (1978) ... Dr. Evans
  1978 Out (TV Series) - Card Player
  - Not Just Pennies (1978) ... Card Player
  1978 Leopard in the Snow - Mr. Framley
  1972 Lovebox - Charles Lambert (Charles and Margery) (as Peter Burdon)
  1971 A Clockwork Orange - Junior Minister - Minister Frederick's Aid
  1971 Carry On at Your Convenience - Hotel Manager
  1970-1971 UFO (TV Series) - Dr. Murray / Perry
  - Computer Affair (1971) ... Dr. Murray
  - Ordeal (1971) ... Perry
  - Close Up (1970) ... Dr. Murray (uncredited)
  1971 All the Right Noises - Stage Manager
  1971 Brett (TV Series) - Boone
  - Investment - Long Term (1971) ... Boone
  1970 Hell Boats - Admiral's Aide
  
  1969 Journey to the Far Side of the Sun - Medical Technician (uncredited)
  1968 Amsterdam Affair - Herman Ketelboer
  1967 Berserk - Gustavo
  1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - Anderson
  - The Sitting Pigeon (1967) ... Anderson
  1967 The Saint (TV Series) - Claude Molliere
  - The Gadget Lovers (1967) ... Claude Molliere
  1966 Judith - Conklin
  1966 The Avengers (TV Series) - Fleming
  - Small Game for Big Hunters (1966) ... Fleming
  1965 Thunderball - RAF Officer in Car (uncredited)
  1963 That Kind of Girl - Elliot Collier
  1963 The Swingin' Maiden - Thompson's Salesman
  1962 Lawrence of Arabia - Sheik in Arab Council (uncredited)
  1962 Dr. No - Major Boothroyd
  1962 The Six Proud Walkers (TV Series) - Det. Supt. Arrowsmith
  - All in the Family (1962) ... Det. Supt. Arrowsmith
  1961 The Pursuers (TV Series) - Paul De Bois
  - Breakout (1961) ... Paul De Bois
  1961 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Sir Ben Cheviot
  - Flight 447 Delayed (1961) ... Sir Ben Cheviot
  1961 Roommates - 1st Viola
  1961 Knight Errant Limited (TV Series) - John Barry
  - Tall, Dark Stranger (1961) ... John Barry
  1960 On Trial (TV Series) - Henry Matthews QC
  - W.T. Stead (1960) ... Henry Matthews QC
  1960 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - The Commodore
  - The Patchwork Quilt (1960) ... The Commodore
  1960 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Art Expert
  - The Girl with Grey Hair (1960) ... Art Expert (uncredited)
  1960 Sink the Bismarck ! - Captain - HMS Solent - First Destroyer
  
  1959 Make Mine a Double - 2nd Pilot
  1958 White Hunter (TV Series) - Chauvet
  - The Girl Hunt (1958) ... Chauvet
  1958 A Night to Remember - 1st Class Steward (uncredited)
  1958 O.S.S. (TV Series) - Spanish Major
  - Operation Eel (1958) ... Spanish Major
  1957 The Betrayal - Tony Adams
  1957 Five on a Treasure Island - Quentin Kirrin
  1957 Hour of Mystery (TV Series) - Walter Hartright
  - The Woman in White (1957) ... Walter Hartright
  1956 Child in the House - Howard Forbes (uncredited)
  1956 Reach for the Sky - Peter / Coltishall Officer (uncredited)
  1956 The Third Key - Creasey
  1956 Spin a Dark Web - Inspector Collis
  1956 Johnny You're Wanted
  1955 Value for Money - Hotel Receptionist (uncredited)
  1955 Three Cases of Murder - Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs (segment "Lord Mountdrago") (uncredited)
  1954 The Green Scarf - Purser
  1954 The Gentle Falcon (TV Series) - 2nd Messenger / 1st Courtier
  - Home at Last (1954)
  - The Cry of the Falcon (1954)
  - Farewell Richard (1954) ... 2nd Messenger
  - A Strange Tournament (1954) ... 1st Courtier
  1954 They Who Dare - Marine Barrett
  1953 The Heart of the Matter - Perrot (uncredited)
  1953 Paratrooper - Minor Role (uncredited)
  1952 The Stolen Plans - Dr. Foster
  1952 The Frightened Bride - Graham Moore
  1950 The Wooden Horse - Nigel
  1950 What the Butler Saw - Bill Fenton
  1950 They Were Not Divided - Minor Role (uncredited)
  1950 Family Affairs (TV Series) - Captain Heddle
  - Ah! The Peace of It All (1950) ... Captain Heddle
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)
  
  1979 The Bitch (dialogue coach)

  

  1995: The documentary 007: The Return airs on British television.
  1997: A&M releases David Arnold's Tomorrow Never Dies soundtrack.

  
  
  

  2002: Die Another Day released in Belgium and the Philippines.
  2005: Marc Lawrence dies at age 95--Palm Springs, California.
  (Born 17 February 1910--New York City, New York.)

  

  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)
  

  
  

  2008: Quantum of Solace released in New Zealand.
  2015: Spectre limited release in Japan.
  2015: Spectre released in South Africa.
  2015: Spectre special screening hosted by the UK Embassy at Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

  https://www.gov.uk/government/news/bond-is-great-british-embassy-hosts-private-screening-of-spectre-in-honduras

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 2019 Posts: 13,043

  November 28th
  
  1966: You Only Live Twice films the ninja assault.
  2002: Die Another Day released in Sweden.

  

  2002: James Bond 007 - Stirb an einem anderen Tag released in Austria and Germany.

  
  
  
  
  

  2002: Die Another Day released in the German-speaking region of Switzerland.
  2002: Umri drugi dan (Die the Other Day) released in Croatia.
  2002: Lamut B'Yom A'her (To die with more invincible values) released in Israel.
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 2019 Posts: 13,043

  November 29th
  
  1901: Varley Thomas is born--Wandsworth, Surrey, England.
  (She dies 29 January 1983 at age 81--Ewell, Surrey, England.)

  

  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
  - Episode #1.40 (1961) ... Mrs. Jackson
  - Episode #1.39 (1961) ... Mrs. Jackson
  - Episode #1.38 (1961) ... Mrs. Jackson
  - Episode #1.37 (1961) ... Mrs. Jackson
  - Episode #1.36 (1961) ... 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)

  

  1963: Kevin McClory receives Thunderball film rights and £50,000 damages. And additional Bond films would necessarily be remakes.
  1964: The San Francisco Examiner publishes the Donald Stanley short story "Holmes Meets 007".

  "Holmes Meets 007"
  http://www.wikiwand.com/en/James_Bond_uncollected_and_other_miscellaneous_short_stories
  
  Then I noticed the crestfallen figure standing near the window. "What should we do with Bond?" I asked. "Bond? Oh, send him back to his little bureaucratic niche, I expect. Really, I couldn't be less concerned."
  
  Donald Stanley wrote this short story - under two-thousand words - first published in The San Francisco Examiner on 29 November 1964. The Beaune Press (San Francisco) subsequently published 247 copies of this seven page story in December 1967. There is no copy 222: this is instead numbered 221B. Copies 223 through to 247 are numbered I to XXV and were printed especially for the author's friends.
  
  Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes's amanuensis, narrates the story. M and Bond visit Holmes and Watson at Holmes's Baker Street address. Holmes's deductive abilities impress M who wishes Bond had the same ability. Bond questions if such intuitive talents could hold up against a Smersh assassin. Bond confronts Holmes about the latter's drug addiction and accuses Watson of being the source of Holmes's narcotics supplier. Once Holmes admits it, Bond aims his Walther PPF [sic] at Watson and announces that Watson is an imposter and none other than Bond's arch-enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld - the man who killed Bond's bride. Holmes throughout the meeting has been fiddling his Stradivarius - much to everyone's annoyance - and brings it crashing down, knocking Bond's gun away. Holmes plunges a needle containing morphine into M's arm, quickly rendering him unconscious. Holmes reveals that M is none other than Professor Moriarty; Bond is nothing more than a "fairly ignorant tool" who had been unaware of his boss's treachery all this time.

  1969: Bond comic strip River of Death ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 24 June 1969. 1038–1174)
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  
  http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/54698
  
  
  http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1000
  
  
  Spanish publishing house Buru Lan Ediciones, James Bond (vol. 1, #13)
  https://www.comicsroyale.com/foreign-reprints#/buru-lan-reprints/
  Reprints The River of Death, written by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by Yaroslav Horak.
  
  
  Swedish Semic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1970_1971.php3
  Dödens Flod (The Dead River - River Of Death)
  
  
  Swedish Semic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1979.php3
  Dödens Flod (The Dead River - River Of Death)
  
  
  Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-21-1971/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 21: “River of Death” (1971)
  

  1972: The Live and Let Die production moves to Jamaica, doubling for San Monique.
  1973: 007: Vivir y dejar morir released in Argentina.

  
  
  

  2002: Die Another Day released in Iceland.
  2002: 007: Surra veel üks päev released in Estonia.

  

  2002: 007 - Döden får vänta (007: Death Has to Wait; also 007 - Kuolema saa odottaa, 007: Death Must Wait) released in Finland.

  
  
  
  

  2002: Pasveikink mirti kitą dieną (Happy to Die the Next Day) released in Lithuania.
  2002: Mirsti Citu Dienu released in Latvia.
  2003: Norman Burton dies at age 79--California. (Born 5 December 1923--New York City, New York.)

  

  Norman Burton

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

  Norman Burton
  Born December 5, 1923
  New York City, New York, U.S.
  Died November 29, 2003 (aged 79)
  Imperial, California, U.S.
  Occupation Film, television actor
  Years active 1957–1993

  Norman Burton (December 5, 1923 – November 29, 2003), occasionally credited as Normann Burton, was an American stage film and television actor.
  
  Early life
  Born in New York City, Burton was a student of The Actor's Studio. After early work on stage, he broke into films with a minor role in Fright (1956).
  
  Career

  His career in film and television was long and relatively successful, but he never achieved major recognition. He played the Hunt Leader, a gorilla, in the science fiction film Planet of the Apes, notable as being the first ape to be seen by both Taylor and the audience, and also appeared as a (human) army officer in the second sequel Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971). In film, he is perhaps best known for his unconventional (and frequently disparaged) performance as Felix Leiter in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971). He played Will Giddings, an ill fated engineer, in the action film The Towering Inferno (1974), and his later films included The Gumball Rally (1976), Crimes of Passion (1984) and Deep Space (1988). He played Dennis Christopher's mean and ill fated boss in the slasher Fade To Black (1980).

  On television, he is best known for his performance as Inter-Agency Defense Command's supervisor Joe Atkinson during the second season of the DC Comics-based fantasy adventure drama series The New Adventures of Wonder Woman starring Lynda Carter. He also played Burt Dennis in the situation comedy The Ted Knight Show in the spring of 1978, and appeared as General George Marshall in the 1988 television miniseries War and Remembrance. Throughout his life, Burton was a devotee of the method school of acting, and taught method acting in Lakeside, California.
  
  Death
  Burton was just six days short of his 80th birthday when he died as a result of an auto accident while returning from Ajijic, Mexico near the California-Arizona state line.

  

  Norman Burton (1923–2003) Actor

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123680/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (89 credits)
  
  1993 American Ninja 5 - Ambassador Halden
  1992 Live Wire - Senator Victor
  1991 The New Adam-12 (TV Series) - Eric Monroe
  - 211 Pizza (1991) ... Eric Monroe
  1990 Dragnet (TV Series) - Safe Job (1990)
  1990 Thirtysomething (TV Series) - Charley Sayers
  - Arizona (1990) ... Charley Sayers
  
  1988-1989 War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series) - Gen. George C. Marshall
  - Part XII (1989) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
  - Part III (1988) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
  - Part I (1988) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
  1988 Shakedown on the Sunset Strip (TV Movie) - Ward Sullivan
  1988 Deep Space - General Randolph
  1988 Bloodsport - Helmer
  1988 Highway to Heaven (TV Series) - Captain Friend
  - Back to Oakland (1988) ... Captain Friend
  1986 Bad Guys - Captain Watkins
  1986 St. Elsewhere (TV Series) - Monsignor Senti
  - Time Heals: Part 1 (1986) ... Monsignor Senti
  1983-1986 Knight Rider (TV Series) - Damon Leland / Barnswell
  - Redemption of a Champion (1986) ... Damon Leland
  - A Nice, Indecent Little Town (1983) ... Barnswell
  1986 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Drew Narramore
  - Trial by Error (1986) ... Drew Narramore
  1985 Pray for Death - Lt. Anderson
  1984 Crimes of Passion - Lou Bateman
  1983 Mausoleum - Dr. Simon Andrews
  1982 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Carl Emory
  - Fowl Play (1982) ... Carl Emory
  1982 The Facts of Life (TV Series) - Dr. Green
  - The Affair (1982) ... Dr. Green
  1982 CHiPs (TV Series) - Kessler
  - Tiger in the Streets (1982) ... Kessler
  1981 Amy - Caruthers
  1980 Fade to Black - Marty Berger (as Normann Burton)
  1980 To Race the Wind (TV Movie) - Mr. Krents (as Normann Burton)
  1980 Bogie (TV Movie) - Hopkins
  1977-1980 Quincy M.E. (TV Series) - Dr. George Danner / Max
  - Cover-Up (1980) ... Dr. George Danner (as Normann Burton)
  - No Deadly Secret (1977) ... Max (as Normann Burton)
  
  1979 The Ultimate Impostor (TV Movie) - Papich
  1978 Lou Grant (TV Series) - Franklin Nash
  - Conflict (1978) ... Franklin Nash (as Normann Burton)
  1978 Project U.F.O. (TV Series) - Dr. Phil Greiner
  - Sighting 4022: The Camouflage Incident (1978) ... Dr. Phil Greiner (as Normann Burton)
  1978 The Eddie Capra Mysteries (TV Series)
  - Murder, Murder (1978) ... (as Normann Burton)
  1978 Insight (TV Series) - Sam
  - The Flawed Magi (1978) ... Sam (as Normann Burton)
  1978 The Ted Knight Show (TV Mini-Series) - Burt Dennis
  - The Honeymoon Game (1978) ... Burt Dennis
  - Sweet Sixteen (1978) ... Burt Dennis
  - The Wedding (1978) ... Burt Dennis
  - Hop to It (1978) ... Burt Dennis
  - My Hero (1978) ... Burt Dennis
  - Strike (1978) ... Burt Dennis
  1977 Wonder Woman (TV Series) - Joe Atkinson
  - The Man Who Made Volcanoes (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - I Do, I Do (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - The Queen and the Thief (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - The Pied Piper (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - Knockout (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - The Bermuda Triangle Crisis (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - The Man Who Could Move the World (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - Anschluss '77 (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - The Return of Wonder Woman (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  1977 Murder in Peyton Place (TV Movie) - Jay Kamens (as Normann Burton)
  1977 Dog and Cat (TV Series) - Tedesco
  - Dead Skunk (1977) ... Tedesco
  1974-1976 The Rockford Files (TV Series) - Markell / Melvyn Moss
  - Return to the 38th Parallel (1976) ... Markell (as Normann Burton)
  - The Big Ripoff (1974) ... Melvyn Moss (as Normann Burton)
  1976 Rhoda (TV Series) - Ben Levy
  - Meet the Levys (1976) ... Ben Levy (as Normann Burton)
  1976 Black Sheep Squadron (TV Series) - General Carl Gant
  - Presumed Dead (1976) ... General Carl Gant (as Normann Burton)
  1976 Scorchy - Chief Frank O'Brien (as Normann Burton)
  1976 The Gumball Rally - Lieutenant Roscoe (as Normann Burton)
  1976 Harry O (TV Series) - Dr. Lusk
  - Death Certificate (1976) ... Dr. Lusk (as Normann Burton)
  1975-1976 Lincoln (TV Mini-Series) - General Ulysses S. Grant
  - The Last Days (1976) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
  - The Unwilling Warrior (1975) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
  - Sad Figure, Laughing (1975) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
  1975 Conspiracy of Terror (TV Movie) - Lt. Rossos (as Normann Burton)
  1975 Baretta (TV Series) - Councilman
  - The Goodbye Orphan Annie Blues (1975) ... Councilman (as Normann Burton)
  1975 The Reincarnation of Peter Proud - Dr. Frederick Spear (as Normann Burton)
  1975 Force Five (TV Movie) - Arthur Haberman
  1974 Let's Call It Quits (Short) - Bill
  1974 The Towering Inferno - Giddings (as Normann Burton)
  1974 Kojak (TV Series) - 'Fish' Fisher
  - The Best War in Town (1974) ... 'Fish' Fisher (as Normann Burton)
  1974 Planet of the Apes (TV Series) - Yalu
  - The Interrogation (1974) ... Yalu (as Normann Burton)
  1974 The Terminal Man - Det. Capt. Anders
  1974 The Magician (TV Series) - Malloy
  - The Illusion of Black Gold (1974) ... Malloy (as Normann Burton)
  1974 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Bren
  - Selkirk's War (1974) ... Bren
  1973 Hit! - The Director
  1973 Save the Tiger - Fred Mirrell
  1972 A Great American Tragedy (TV Movie)
  1972 The Partners (TV Series) - Romero
  - The 217 in 402 (1972) ... Romero
  1972 Fuzz - Police Commissioner Nelson
  1971 They Call It Murder (TV Movie) - Movie Director
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Leiter
  1971 Escape from the Planet of the Apes - Army Officer
  1971 Simon, King of the Witches - Willard Rackum
  1971 Jud - Uncle Hornkel
  1970 R.P.M. - Coach McCurdy
  
  1969 Land of the Giants (TV Series) - Sergeant
  - The Chase (1969) ... Sergeant
  1968 The Felony Squad (TV Series) - Solly Hirt
  - Matched for Murder (1968) ... Solly Hirt
  1968 Judd for the Defense (TV Series) - Roger Helmsman
  - Transplant (1968) ... Roger Helmsman
  1968 Planet of the Apes - Hunt Leader
  1968 I Spy (TV Series) - Brandon
  - Tag, You're It (1968) ... Brandon
  1967 Valley of the Dolls - Neely O'Hara's Director (uncredited)
  1967 Days of Our Lives (TV Series) - Cab Driver
  - Episode #1.391 (1967) ... Cab Driver
  1966 The Hero (TV Series)
  - The Day They Shot Sam Garrett (1966)
  1966 Get Smart (TV Series) - Control Agent
  - The Decoy (1966) ... Control Agent (uncredited)
  1966 I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) - Mr. Asher
  - What's New, Poodle Dog? (1966) ... Mr. Asher
  1966 Love on a Rooftop (TV Series)
  - 117 Ways to Cook Hamburger (1966)
  1965 Gunsmoke (TV Series) - Ed
  - The Reward (1965) ... Ed
  1965 Wild Seed - Policeman
  1965 The Farmer's Daughter (TV Series) - Mr. Hilmer
  - Never Listen to Rumors (1965) ... Mr. Hilmer
  1965 Bewitched (TV Series) - Moving Man
  - Pleasure O'Riley (1965) ... Moving Man
  1963 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Car Salesman
  - See Hollywood and Die (1963) ... Car Salesman (uncredited)
  1963 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Office Worker
  - Miniature (1963) ... Office Worker (uncredited)
  1963 Sam Benedict (TV Series) - Lt. Warren Jones
  - Some Fires Die Slowly (1963) ... Lt. Warren Jones
  1961-1962 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Solly / Wally Dagan
  - The Floyd Gibbons Story (1962) ... Solly
  - 90-Proof Dame (1961) ... Wally Dagan
  1962 Hand of Death - Chief Homicide Investigator
  1962 Shannon (TV Series) - John Herman
  - Dolphin and the Mermaid (1962) ... John Herman
  1962 Womanhunt
  1961 Checkmate (TV Series) - Lou Lewis
  - Kill the Sound (1961) ... Lou Lewis
  1961 The New Breed (TV Series) - Poulos
  - Death of a Ghost (1961) ... Poulos
  1960 Pretty Boy Floyd - Bill Courtney
  
  1956 Fright - Thompkins - Reporter
  
  Archive footage (2 credits)
  
  2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) - Felix Leiter
  1980 Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes (TV Movie) - Yalu

  
  Werner Keppler outside the trailer at Ape Town at the Fox Ranch with the chief gorilla, played by Norman Burton
  
  
  

  2005: Joseph Fürst dies at age 89--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. (Born 13 February 1916--Vienna, Austria.)

  

  Joseph Fürst

  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
  - Episode #1.4 (1982) ... Hans Paach
  - Episode #1.3 (1982) ... Hans Paach
  - Episode #1.2 (1982) ... Hans Paach
  - Episode #1.1 (1982) ... Hans Paach
  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
  - Episode #1.6 (1972)
  - Episode #1.5 (1972)
  - Episode #1.4 (1972)
  - Episode #1.3 (1972)
  - Episode #1.2 (1972)
  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
  - The Underwater Menace: Episode 4 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff
  - The Underwater Menace: Episode 3 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff (as Joseph Furst)
  - The Underwater Menace: Episode 2 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff
  - The Underwater Menace: Episode 1 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff
  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

  

  2008: "Another Way to Die" charts at #81 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (spends one week on the chart).

  

  2012: Skyfall released in Bangladesh.
  
  
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  RichardTheBruce wrote: »

  November 24th
  
  1959: Jack Whittingham meets Ian Fleming and Ivor Bryce in New York.
  1981: Altin Tabancali Adam (The Man with the Golden Gun) released in Turkey.

  
  
  1966
  

  1983: Octopussy released in Australia.

  Australian Daybill
  

  1983: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Επιχείρηση Οκτάπουσι (James Bond, Agent 007: Enterprise Octopus) released in Greece.

  

  1995: GoldenEye released in the UK, Ireland, and Poland.

  
  
  

  2006: Casino Royale released in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway. Romania, and Sweden.
  2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Spain.
  2006: Казино Pоял (Casino Bowl) released in Bulgaria.
  2018: Ricky Jay (Richard Jay Potash) dies at age 70--Los Angeles, California.
  (Born 26 June 1948--Brooklyn, New York City, New York.)

  

  Ricky Jay, Master Magician and
  Actor in ‘Deadwood,’ ‘Boogie
  Nights,’ Dies at 72

  https://variety.com/2018/film/news/ricky-jay-dead-dies-magician-boogie-nights-1203035879/
  https://twitter.com/Variety_PatS
  
  Ricky Jay 'Life of Pi' film premiere at the 50th Annual New York Film Festival, America - 28 Sep 2012
  CREDIT: Dave Allocca/Starpix/REX/Shutter
  
  Ricky Jay, a master magician who also acted in films and TV shows such as “Boogie Nights,” “House of Games” and “Deadwood,” died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 72.
  
  Jay’s manager, Winston Simone, said he died of natural causes, adding, “He was one of a kind. We will never see the likes of him again.”
  
  His attorney Stan Coleman confirmed his death. His partner in the Deceptive Practices company, Michael Weber, tweeted, “I am sorry to share that my remarkable friend, teacher, collaborator and co-conspirator is gone.”
  
  A New Yorker profile called him “the most gifted sleight of hand artist alive,” and Jay was also known for his card tricks and memory feats.
  
  He appeared in several David Mamet movies, including “House of Games,” “The Spanish Prisoner,” “Things Change,” “Redbelt” and “State and Main.”
  
  Steve Martin, with whom he appeared in “The Spanish Prisoner,” described Jay in the New Yorker profile, “I sort of think of Ricky as the intellectual élite of magicians. He’s expertly able to perform and yet he knows the theory, history, literature of the field.”
  
  In “Deadwood,” he played card sharp Eddie Sawyer during the first season, and also wrote for the show.

  In the 1997 James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies,” Jay played a cyber-terrorist to Pierce Brosnan’s Bond.

  He also provided the narration for movies such as Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Magnolia.” His one-man Broadway show directed by Mamet, “Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants,” was recorded for an HBO special in 1996.
  
  With Weber, he created the Deceptive Practices company, which provided solutions to movies and TV productions such as the wheelchair that hid Gary Sinise’s legs in “Forrest Gump.” They also worked on films including “The Prestige,” “The Illusionist” and “Oceans Thirteen.”
  
  Jay, who was born Richard Jay Potash in Brooklyn, was introduced to magic by his grandfather. He began performing in New York, opening for rock bands. Jay first worked in film with on Caleb Deschanel’s “The Escape Artist.”
  
  A documentary about his life, “Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay,” was released in 2012.
  
  A student of all facets of magic, prestidigitation and trickery, he maintained a large library of historic works and wrote two books, as well as numerous articles for the New Yorker; he also frequently lectured at museums and universities.

  

  Ricky Jay (1946–2018)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419633/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Trivia
  
  Ricky Jay (Henry Gupta) is also an acclaimed magician, who holds a world record for the fastest throwing playing cards. The producers initially wanted a scene where he threw playing cards at Bond. They set up the scene to block, Ricky was fifty or seventy-five feet away, and was asked to hit Pierce Brosnan in the face. Ricky warned them it wasn't a good idea, safety wise. After they convinced him to do it, he agreed, and hit Pierce right above the eyes. To his disappointment, for some reason, they never asked him to repeat it on film. Gupta is shown throwing cards in the DVD deleted scenes.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cofb-jJiFk
  
  Filmography

  Actor (41 credits)
  
  2019 Sneaky Pete (TV Series) - T.H. Vignetti
  - The Sunshine Switcheroo (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Little Sister (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The California Split (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Invisible Man (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Brooklyn Potash (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti (voice, uncredited)
  - The Vermont Victim & The Bakersfield Hustle (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Stamford Trust Fall (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Huckleberry Jones (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  2015 The Automatic Hate - Josh / Howard's son
  2014 Getting On (TV Series) - Thoracic Surgeon
  - Turnips... North Day... Yes, yes. (2014) ... Thoracic Surgeon
  2013 Breathe Life Radio TV (TV Series)
  2013 Teen Titans Go! (TV Series short) - Narrator
  - Double Trouble (2013) ... Narrator (voice)
  2011 The End of 'Sluggers' (Short)
  2010 Lost Masterpieces of Pornography (Video short) - Narrator
  2009-2010 Flashforward (TV Series) - Ted Flosso / Man in Warehouse
  - Revelation Zero: Part 2 (2010) ... Ted Flosso
  - Revelation Zero: Part 1 (2010) ... Ted Flosso
  - Playing Cards with Coyote (2009) ... Man in Warehouse
  2009 Lie to Me (TV Series) - Mason Brock
  - Fold Equity (2009) - .. Mason Brock
  
  2009 Intense - John
  2007-2009 The Unit (TV Series) - Agent Kern
  - Bad Beat (2009) ... Agent Kern
  - Pandemonium: Part Two (2007) ... Agent Kern
  - Paradise Lost (2007) ... Agent Kern
  - Bedfellows (2007) ... Agent Kern
  2008 The Brothers Bloom - Narrator (voice)
  2008 Redbelt - Marty Brown
  2008 The Great Buck Howard - Gil Bellamy
  2006-2007 Kidnapped (TV Series) - Roger Prince
  - Mutiny (2007) ... Roger Prince
  - Gone Fishing (2007) ... Roger Prince
  - Number One with a Bullet (2006) ... Roger Prince
  - Pilot (2006) ... Roger Prince
  2006 The Prestige - Milton
  2005 Last Days - Detective
  2004 Deadwood (TV Series) - Eddie Sawyer
  - Sold Under Sin (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Mister Wu (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - No Other Sons or Daughters (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Suffer the Little Children (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Bullock Returns to the Camp (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Plague (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - The Trial of Jack McCall (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Here Was a Man (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Reconnoitering the Rim (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  2004 Incident at Loch Ness - Party Guest
  2001 Heist - Don 'Pinky' Pincus
  2001 Heartbreakers - Dawson's Auctioneer
  2000 State and Main - Jack
  2000 The X-Files (TV Series) - The Amazing Maleeni / Herman Pinchbeck / Albert Pinchbeck
  - The Amazing Maleeni (2000) ... They invite her into the car for a ride. She is good looking and a quiet girl, while driving the girl point on a part of the road and says this is where I had an accident and died. In a while, her face covered with blood and she screams, and the car crashes. The Amazing teresa fidalgo and with all this, You can easily confirm you that the message spamming all the internet that “if you don’t post this on 20 photos, I will sleep with you forever.” is fake and if someone sends it to you, you can ignore it and tell him/her and all your friends that this message is fake and not real Maleeni / Herman Pinchbeck / Albert Pinchbeck
  
  1999 Magnolia - Burt Ramsey / Narrator
  1999 Mystery Men - Vic Weems
  1997 Tomorrow Never Dies - Henry Gupta
  1997/I Hacks - The Hat
  1997 Boogie Nights - Kurt Longjohn
  1997 The Spanish Prisoner - George Lang
  1995 The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky (TV Movie) - Hawkes
  1993 Magiskt (TV Series) - Magic film clip
  - Special guest: John Houdi (1993) ... Magic film clip
  - Special guest: John Houdi (1993) ... Magic film clip
  - Special guest: Lars-Peter Loeld (1993) ... Magic film clip
  1990-1992 The Secret Cabaret (TV Series) - Special appearance
  - S2 - Show 6 (1992) ... Special appearance
  - S2 - Show 5 (1992) ... Special appearance
  - S2 - Show 4 (1992) ... Special appearance
  - S2 - Show 3 (1992) ... Special appearance
  - S2 - Show 2 (1992) ... Special appearance
  - S2 - Show 1 (1992) ... Special appearance
  - S1 - Show 6 (1990) ... Special appearance
  - S1 - Show 5 (1990) ... Special appearance
  - S1 - Show 4 (1990) ... Special appearance
  - S1 - Show 3 (1990) ... Special appearance
  - S1 - Show 2 (1990) ... Special appearance
  - S1 - Show 1 (1990) ... Special appearance
  1992 Ring of the Musketeers (TV Movie) - Kerns (as Rickey Jay)
  1992 The Water Engine (TV Movie) - Ratty Inventor
  1991 Civil Wars (TV Series) - Lenny NiCastro
  - Pilot (1991) ... Lenny NiCastro
  1991 The Thrill Is Gone (TV Movie) - Dealer
  1991 Homicide - Aaron
  
  1988 Things Change - Mr. Silver
  1987 House of Games - George / Vegas Man
  1985/II A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Philostrate
  1983 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Bird
  - Red Dog Blues (1983) ... Bird
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (21 credits)
  
  2008 The Great Buck Howard (technical consultant: magic)
  2007 Ocean's Thirteen (consultant)
  2006 The Prestige (technical advisor: magic)
  2006 The Illusionist (technical advisor: magic)
  2001 The Affair of the Necklace (technical consultant)
  2001 Heist (technical consultant)
  2001 Heartbreakers (technical consultant: con games)
  
  1998 The Parent Trap (technical consultant)
  1997 The Spanish Prisoner (technical consultant)
  1995 Congo (illusion creator) / (technical consultant)
  1994 Forrest Gump (illusion wheelchair designer)
  1994 Wolf (technical consultant)
  1994 I Love Trouble (technical consultant)
  1992 Leap of Faith (consultant: cons and frauds)
  1992 Sneakers (sleight of hand consultant)
  1990 The Magic Balloon (Short) (technical consultant)
  
  1987 House of Games (consultant: confidence games)
  1987 The Believers (technical consultant)
  1984 The Natural (technical consultant)
  1983 New Magic (Documentary short) (magic advisor)
  1982 The Escape Artist (technical advisor)
  Hide Hide Writer (5 credits)
  2007 The Unit (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - Bedfellows (2007) ... (story)
  2004 Deadwood (TV Series) (written by - 1 episode)
  - Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking (2004) ... (written by)
  1996 Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants (TV Movie)
  1990-1992 The Secret Cabaret (TV Series) (12 episodes)
  - S2 - Show 6 (1992)
  - S2 - Show 5 (1992)
  - S2 - Show 4 (1992)
  - S2 - Show 3 (1992)
  - S2 - Show 2 (1992)
  - S2 - Show 1 (1992)
  - S1 - Show 6 (1990)
  - S1 - Show 5 (1990)
  - S1 - Show 4 (1990)
  - S1 - Show 3 (1990)
  - S1 - Show 2 (1990)
  - S1 - Show 1 (1990)
  
  1989 Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women (TV Special)
  
  Music department (1 credit)
  
  1985/II A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) (music effects)

  
  
  
  

  
  The Affair of the Necklace was best one
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  I did not know about Donald Stanley s short story, but that sounds like inspiration for Alan Moore s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
  
  That River of Death magazine from Semic was my first encounter with Bond. I had the Norwegian translation, which was identical to the Swedish one. I see the Danish original had different colours on the cover.
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  November 30
  
  1917: Ilse Steppat is born--Barmen, Germany. (She dies 21 December 1969 at age 52--West Berlin, Germany.)

  

  Ilse Paula Steppat

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

  Born Ilse Paula Steppat
  30 November 1917
  Wuppertal, Germany
  Died 21 December 1969 (aged 52)
  West Berlin, Germany
  Nationality German
  Occupation Actress
  Years active 1932–1969

  Ilse Paula Steppat (30 November 1917 in Barmen – 21 December 1969 in West Berlin) was a German actress. Her husband was noted actor and director Max Nosseck.
  
  Biography
  She began her cinematic career at the age of 15 playing Joan of Arc. Steppat appeared regularly on the German stage, and starred in more than forty movies. In the 1960s, she appeared frequently in crime movies based on the work of author Edgar Wallace, such as Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloss, Der unheimliche Mönch and Die blaue Hand, which brought her great fame in Germany.

  In her only English language role, Steppat played Blofeld's assistant and henchwoman Irma Bunt in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
  
  In the first English language conversation between Steppat and the movie's producer, Albert R. Broccoli, she confused the word verlobt (engaged) with engagiert (dedicated).[citation needed]
  
  Despite this, however, she was awarded the role of Irma Bunt. Steppat was unable to capitalise on her new fame outside Germany, as she died of a heart attack only four days after the movie's international release. She was buried in the Waldfriedhof Dahlem in Berlin. Steppat was supposed to reprise her role as Irma Bunt in Diamonds Are Forever. However her character was withdrawn after the actress's death.
  

  

  Ilse Steppat (1917–1969)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827375/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actress (60 credits)
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Irma Bunt
  1969 Alle Hunde lieben Theobald (TV Series) - Lily Landraf
  - Diana und die Landgräfin (1969) ... Lily Landraf
  1968 Berliner Antigone (TV Movie) - Wärterin
  1968 Altaich (TV Movie) - Charlotte Schnaase
  1968 Liliomfi (TV Movie) - Camilla
  1968 Death in a Red Jaguar - Mrs. Cunnings
  1968 Hauptstraße Glück (TV Series) - Grete Lehkamp
  - Heirate sich, wer kann (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
  - Der liebe Nachbar (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
  - Dachschaden ausgeschlossen (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
  - Auf, auf ins Grüne (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
  - Romanze in Mull (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
  - Die Verlobung findet nicht statt (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
  - Mütter denken - Töchter lenken (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
  - Rote Georginen (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
  1968 Eine etwas sonderbare Dame (TV Movie) - Mrs. Paddy
  1967 Creature with the Blue Hand - Lady Emerson
  1966 Hinter diesen Mauern (TV Movie) - Miss Burgess
  1966 Living it Up - Carol Stevens
  1965 The Sinister Monk - Lady Patricia
  1965 Niemandsland (TV Movie) - Rachel Verney
  1965 Der Krake (TV Movie) - Sophie Krebs
  1964 Hafenpolizei (TV Series) - Frau Lammers
  - Reisebegleiterin gesucht (1964) ... Frau Lammers
  1964 Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloß - Margaret
  1964 Rauf und runter (TV Movie)
  1964 Das Haus der Schlangen (TV Series) - Edith Edwards
  - Sechster Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
  - Fünfter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
  - Vierter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
  - Dritter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
  - Zweiter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
  - Erster Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
  1963 The Invisible Terror - Dr. Louise Richards
  1963 Apartment-Zauber - Sittenkommissarin (as Jlse Steppat)
  1963 Curd Jürgens erzählt... (TV Series) - Wife
  - Das Rendezvous (1963) ... Wife
  1963 Das Glück der Ehe (TV Movie) - Katja
  1962 Die Post geht ab - Elfriede Stolze
  1961 Schau heimwärts, Engel (TV Movie) - Madame Elizabeth
  1961 Der jüngste Tag (TV Movie) - Frau Hudetz
  1960 Auf Engel schießt man nicht - Bellini
  1960 A Mother's Revenge - Frau Barlowsky
  1960 Pension Schöller - Amalie Schöller
  
  1959 Ausflug mit Damen (TV Movie) - Juno
  1958 Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen - Widow Prang
  1958 Sehnsucht hat mich verführt - Brandner-Bäuerin
  1958 The Eighth Day of the Week - Walicka
  1958 Naked in the Night - Madam Clavius
  1958 Nachtschwester Ingeborg - Frau Burger
  1958 Sie schreiben mit (TV Series)
  1957 Der versteinerte Wald (TV Movie) - Mrs. Chisholm
  1957 Das Geheimnis (TV Movie) - Sara Callifer
  1957 Confessions of Felix Krull - Maria Pia Kuckuck
  1957 Der entscheidende Augenblick (TV Short) - Kate
  1957 Der Adler vom Velsatal - Coletta Nicolini
  1956 Weil du arm bist, mußt du früher sterben - Ada Schenk
  1956 Waldwinter - Frieda Stengel
  1955 The Captain and His Hero - Yvonne
  1955 Die Ratten - Frau Knobbe
  1955 Der dunkle Stern - Frl. Rieger, die Lehrerin
  1955 Oberarzt Dr. Solm - Claudia Möllenhauer, Tochter
  1954 Das Phantom des großen Zeltes - Dolores, Frau mit dem Löwen
  1954 Cavalry Captain Wronski - Leonore Cronberg
  1953 Der Kaplan von San Lorenzo - Isabella Catani
  1952 Lockende Sterne - Karena Rodde
  1952 Wenn abends die Heide träumt - Brigitte
  1951 Hanna Amon - Vera Colombani
  1951 Die Schuld des Dr. Homma - Dr. Ilse Kersten
  1951 Veronika, die Magd - Alice
  1951 Die Tat des Anderen
  1950 Der Fall Rabanser - Baronin Felten
  1950 The Man Who Wanted to Live Twice - Oberschwester Hilde
  
  1949 The Blue Swords - Frau von Tschirnhausen
  1949 The Bridge - Therese Sander
  1947 Marriage in the Shadows - Elisabeth Maurer
  
  Soundtrack (2 credits)
  
  1955 The Captain and His Hero (performer: "Ich sehne mich nach einem Wunder" - uncredited)
  1952 Lockende Sterne (performer: "Tausend kleine Lügen")

  
  
  

  1933: Tsai Chin is born--Shanghai, China.
  1969: Marc Forster is born--Illertissen, Bavaria, Germany.
  1983: Richard Loo dies at age 80--Los Angeles, California. (Born 1 October 1903--Maui, Hawaii.)

  

  RICHARD LOO,
  ACTOR 5 DECADES

  https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/22/obituaries/richard-loo-actor-5-decades.html
  Nov. 22, 1983
  
  Richard Loo, a Chinese-American actor best known for his many portrayals of Japanese villains in World War II movies, died in Los Angeles on Sunday night at the age of 80.
  
  Mr. Loo, who was born in Maui, Hawaii, appeared in nearly 150 films over the course of almost 50 years in the movie business. ''He was known as the man who died to make a living,'' said his daughter Beverly Jane Loo.
  
  ''He was always either stabbing himself or committing hara-kiri or kamikaze,'' she said. ''He always played the big honcho who was really going to make life tough for the Americans, the really nasty Japanese general or colonel who ended up killing himself as a point of honor because he never got the best of the Americans.''
  
  Among Mr. Loo's movies were ''The Purple Heart,'' ''God Is My Co-pilot,'' ''Story of Dr. Wessell,'' ''Keys of the Kingdom,'' ''The Good Earth,'' ''The Bitter Tea of General Yen,'' and ''Back to Bataan.''
  
  In later years, he frequently appeared on television, and was featured in the ''Kung Fu'' television series. He was also the subject of impersonation by others; during his own television heyday, Dick Cavett was fond of doing Richard Loo imitations, particularly a scene from ''Purple Heart'' in which Mr. Loo, as a Japanese general, interrogated American fliers shot down in a raid over Tokyo.
  
  According to Miss Loo, Mr. Loo did not mind the typecasting that dominated his career. ''He felt very patriotic about being in those movies,'' she said.

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

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

  

  Richard Loo (I) (1903–1983)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0519618/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

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

  
  Sergeant Tanaka in Sam Fuller's The Steel Helmet
  

  1983: Jamais plus jamais premieres in France, one of its filming locations. That's almost two months after the US premiere (October 5), but about two weeks before the UK premiere (14 December).

  
  
  
  
  
  

  2012: Skyfall released in Bangladesh and South Africa.
  
  
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  December 1st
  
  1930: Matt Monro is born--London, England. (He dies 7 February 1985 at age 54--Ealing, London, England.)

  

  Matt Monro, Britain’s ‘Cockney
  Como,’ Dies at 54

  https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-02-08-mn-4672-story.html
  By BURT A. FOLKART | Feb. 8, 1985 | 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.
  
  It stayed on Britain’s Top 10 for months.
  
  Favorite Among Fellow Vocalists
  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)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0598448/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  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")
  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
  
  Archive footage (8 credits)
  
  2015 Spectre: My Bond Song - Sam Smith (TV Special documentary short) - Himself
  2012 ... Sings James Bond (TV Movie) - Himself - From Russia with Love
  2010-2011 Breakfast (TV Series) - Himself - Singer
  - Episode dated 9 March 2011 (2011) ... Himself - Singer
  - Episode dated 8 February 2010 (2010) ... Himself - Singer
  2009 ...Sings the Beatles (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  2007 Legends (TV Series documentary) - Himself
  - Matt Monro: The Man with the Golden Voice (2007) ... Himself
  2007 La tele de tu vida (TV Series) - Himself
  - Episode #1.5 (2007) ... Himself
  2006 James Bond's Greatest Hits (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  2005 An Evening with Matt Monro (Video) - Himself

  
  

  
  

  1935: Woody Allen is born--New York City, New York.
  1961: This month Argosy magazine for men Volume 353, Number 6, includes an extra bonus book Thunderball.

  

  'Thunderball' (A James Bond Spy Thriller) contained within 'Argosy'
  magazine for men. Volume 353, Number 6, December 1961.
  FLEMING, Ian.

  https://www.harringtonbooks.co.uk/pages/books/39259/ian-fleming/thunderball-a-james-bond-spy-thriller-contained-within-argosy-magazine-for-men-volume-353-number-6
  
  Ohio and New York: Popular Publications, Incorporated. 1961. Magazine format in pictorial paper wraps. Original price: 50 cents. Minor wear to spine and postal label to upper else fine. The novel 'Thunderball' is advertised on the front cover as an 'extra book bonus' and appears on pages 128–44, with a sepia-toned frontispiece illustration by Gil Cohen. An abridged version published shortly after the bookform edition. This is the first American periodical appearance and the first US illustrated edition. Scarce. Item #39259
  
  Gilbert A9b 'Periodical Appearances', page 319

  
  'Thunderball' (A James Bond Spy Thriller) contained within 'Argosy' magazine for men. Volume 353, Number 6, December 1961. Ian FLEMING.
  
  

  1969: Bond comic strip Colonel Sun begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 28 August 1970. 1175–1393)
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  http://mcmolo.blogspot.com/2015/10/colonel-sun-by-kingsley-amis.html
  
  
  https://www.cbr.com/the-james-bond-omnibus-003/
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/comic_cs_review.php3?t=&s=main&id=01086
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3

  Dödligt Toppmöte (Colonel Sun - Part 1) | Dödligt Toppmöte (Colonel Sun - Part 2)
  

  
  Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-22-1971/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 22: “Colonel Sun” (1971)
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  1982: Octopussy films Q in the gondola getting attention from Octopussy's Girls.
  1992: This month Marvel Comics releases its final issue James Bond Jr. #12 "Homeward Bound!" with Scumlord, Jaws, Dr. Derange, Odd Job, Dr. No, Walker D Plank and Baron von Skarin.

  

  James Bond Jr. #12 - Homeward Bound!

  https://comicvine.gamespot.com/james-bond-jr-12-homeward-bound/4000-36542/

  Creators
  Bambos Georgiou - inker
  Mario Capaldi - penciler
  Sophie Heath - colorist
  Stuart Bartlett - letterer

  

  1997: A&M releases the "Tomorrow Never Dies" single. Some releases also include "Strong Enough", "The Book", "No One Said It Would Be Easy", "Ordinary Morning..

  
  
  
  
  

  1998: Freddie Young dies at age 96--London, England. (Born 9 October 1902--London, England.)

  
  

  Gentleman Genius
  All Time Greats / Freddie Young OBE, BSC, ASC

  https://britishcinematographer.co.uk/freddie-young-obe-bsc-asc/
  
  Frederick Archibald Young was born on 9 October 1902 in London. He entered the film industry in 1917 at Lime Grove Studios, West London.
  
  At that time it was run by Gaumont and had a glass exterior to allow light for shooting. Later it was re-built. It became Gaumont British in 1922. Young said the glasshouse was good in theory but in practice wasn’t so good. If it was a foggy day the studio became a pea souper. If it was cloudy, lights would be required to provide exposure, but if the sun came out the studio would be filled with sunlight and the shot would be ruined.
  
  Young started in the laboratory and eventually moved into cameras, remaining with the studio for ten years. In those days he operated the Debrie Parvo camera. He worked with a cameraman called Arthur Brown. Later, Bill Shenton worked there and despite only having one eye he was considered to be a very good cameraman. Eventually the studio became the home to BBC Television. Housing now stands on the site. One of the films he worked on after leaving Gaumont was Hitchcock’s Blackmail (1929) photographed by Jack Cox and made at British International Pictures (BIP). Young was asked to shoot a montage for the silent version.
  
  For several years he worked at British and Dominions at Elstree for producer and director Herbert Wilcox. Cinematographer Oswald Morris said: “He was a powerful cinematographer. He treated filmmaking rather like being in the army. There was strict discipline. At the height of his career his crew had to call him Mr Young.”
  
  Sir Sydney Samuelson says: “The first technical marvel for which he was responsible, and which held me in awe of his genius, was as far back as 1938 on Sixty Glorious Years. I remember two technical aspects quite clearly. One sequence was an early example of British Technicolor three-strip. There was a remarkable ballroom scene, which was achieved by means of an early matte shot. Called something like the ‘Shufton process’. There was a glorious wide-angle shot of an elegant ballroom. Freddie once told me that as clever as Shufton was, the most stunning effect was actually brought about by him, pricking holes in the top part of the back of the matte then shining through each chandelier painted on its front. Amazing!”
  
  During WW2 Young was in the Army Kinematograph Service with Freddie Francis. Francis said: “He always insisted on being called Mr Young or sir. After the war Freddie was Freddie to everyone.”
  
  Young was the first President of the BSC 1949-1952. He was President again from 1957-1960. He was also a member of the ASC and Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS).
  
  Following the war Young became head of cameras at MGM Elstree. “I suppose it was the finest studio in the country. It had a beautiful lot and was beautifully equipped,” remarked Young.
  
  Renowned director Nicolas Roeg, who worked with Young at MGM and later photographed the second unit on Lawrence of Arabia, said Freddie was a terrific guy to work with.
  
  In 1959, faced with a pay cut due to production cuts Young decided to leave the company. The day after leaving he realised that it was the first time he’d been out of work since 1917. In 1960 he was approached by producer Sam Spiegel to photograph Lawrence Of Arabia for director David Lean. Other notable directors he worked with include George Cukor, John Ford and John Huston.
  
  He first met Lean on Major Barbara (1941). Lawrence was released in 1962 and was the start of three 65mm wide screen pictures with Lean, earning Young three Oscars. Sydney Samuelson said: “Young is definitely ‘the master’ in my book of cineastes. Arguably and certainly in his era he was the best cameraman in the world. I had the pleasure of involvements with him and his crew from Lawrence Of Arabia onwards. David Lean was such a brilliant storyteller but nobody when working on one of his movies would accuse him of being easygoing. Freddie carried on for him regardless of personal and technical problems. Apart from three American Oscars Freddie won many awards including only the second Fellowship after Hitchcock from our own Academy BAFTA.”
  
  The three films he made with Lean were a challenge. “Lawrence Of Arabia took two years and was shot in Spain, Morocco and Jordan. The heat in the desert was a dry heat of 110 degrees. We had a sunshade over the camera and a wet cloth on top of the camera, which acted like refrigerator. We never saw rushes, the results were cabled from London. The famous mirage scene was shot using a 500mm lens. This was obtained from Panavision in Hollywood along with the rest of the camera equipment,” said Young.
  
  His next outing with Lean was Dr Zhivago (1965). It was filmed in the heat of Spain but was set in Russia, so a lot of faking was required. Some was shot in Finland. “We painted trees white, coloured hedge rows with white plastic and used hundreds of tons of marble dust,” said Young. “We used a blue filter for much of the film and it was my hardest technically.”
  
  His final film for Lean was Ryan’s Daughter (1971). The whole of the film is set on the west coast of Ireland. He said: “Winter came and the summer scenes hadn’t been completed, so the main unit went to South Africa, a second unit stayed behind headed by Roy Stevens. Denys Coop was in charge of the cinematography. Lean gives you an inspiration so you go out of your depth and try and do something extraordinary.”
  
  In conversation with cinematographer Robin Vidgeon’s wife Angela, Young said: “Whenever I had a candlelit scene I would go into a dark room, light a candle, sit and watch it for a while, blow it out and then take those images to set and light accordingly.”
  

  "Lawrence Of Arabia took two years and was shot in Spain, Morocco and Jordan. The heat in the desert was a dry heat of 110 degrees."
  - Freddie Young OBE, BSC, ASC

  
  In 1992 Lawrence of Arabia was re-launched and Young went to several screenings. At one screening Steven Spielberg told him it was seeing Lawrence in 1962 that made him decide a film career was for him.
  
  Later in 1992 he was invited to speak to film students at the royal college of art. In July 1994 the college honoured him by making him a doctor of art.
  
  Young said that people often asked him about his techniques. He said he had no plan or technique; he lit the scene according to what was in the script.
  
  Following Ryan’s Daughter he carried on shooting until 1983. The same year he directed Arthur’s Hallowed Ground, his only film as director and the last he worked on. After this he shot commercials until his retirement aged eighty-five. His autobiography was published by Faber and Faber in 1999 called Seventy Light Years, which can be obtained through Amazon.
  
  Finally, he said: “I worked in the industry for seventy years, photographing more than 120 films and being paid for a job I love. At the age of ninety-six I look back and think I’ve been incredibly lucky.”
  
  Freddie Young OBE passed away on 1 December 1998 age 96.
  

  

  Freddie Young (I) (1902–1998)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002875/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Cinematographer (130 credits)
  
  1985 Invitation to the Wedding
  1984 Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  1981 Stainless Steel and the Star Spies (TV Movie)
  1980 Ike: The War Years (TV Movie)
  1980 Richard's Things (director of photography)
  1980 Rough Cut
  
  1979 Bloodline
  1978 Stevie (director of photography)
  1977 The Man in the Iron Mask (TV Movie) (director of photography)
  1976 The Blue Bird (director of photography)
  1975 The Executioner
  1974 Great Expectations (TV Movie) (director of photography)
  1974 The Tamarind Seed (director of photography)
  1974 Love from A to Z (TV Movie)
  1974 Luther
  1972 The Asphyx
  1971 Nicholas and Alexandra (director of photography)
  1970 Ryan's Daughter (photographed by)
  1970 The Maker and the Process (TV Short)
  
  1969 Battle of Britain (director of photography)
  1969 Sinful Davey (director of photography)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (director of photography)
  1967 The Deadly Affair (director of photography)
  1965 Doctor Zhivago (director of photography)
  1965 Rotten to the Core
  1965 Lord Jim (as Frederick A. Young)
  1964 The 7th Dawn (as Frederick Young, photographed by)
  1962 Lawrence of Arabia (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1961 Loss of Innocence (as Frederick A Young, photographed by)
  1961 Hand in Hand (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1961 Gorgo (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1960/III Macbeth (TV Movie) (as F.A. Young)
  
  1959 Solomon and Sheba (director of photography - as Fred A. Young)
  1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1958 Indiscreet (director of photography - as Frederick A. Young)
  1958 Gideon of Scotland Yard (director of photography - as Frederick A. Young)
  1958 I Accuse! (director of photography)
  1957 Island in the Sun
  1957 The Little Hut (as F.A. Young)
  1957 The Barretts of Wimpole Street (as F.A. Young)
  1956 Beyond Mombasa (as Frederick A. Young)
  1956 Lust for Life (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1956 Invitation to the Dance (segments "Circus", "Ring Around the Rosy", as F.A. Young)
  1956 Bhowani Junction (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1955 Bedevilled
  1954 Betrayed (as F.A. Young)
  1953 Knights of the Round Table (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1953 Mogambo (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1953 Terror on a Train (as F.A. Young)
  1952 Ivanhoe (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1952 Giselle (Short)
  1951 Calling Bulldog Drummond (as F.A. Young)
  1950 Treasure Island (as F.A. Young)
  
  1949 Conspirator (as F.A. Young, photographed by)
  1949 Edward, My Son (as F.A. Young)
  1948 The Winslow Boy (director of photography)
  1948 Escape (as Frederick A. Young)
  1947 While I Live (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1947 So Well Remembered (director of photography - as Frederick A. Young)
  1946 Bedelia (as Frederick A. Young)
  1945 Caesar and Cleopatra (as F.A. Young, photography)
  1942 The Young Mr. Pitt (director of photography - as Frederick Young)
  1941 49th Parallel (director of photography - as Frederick Young)
  1940 Haunted Honeymoon (as F.A. Young, photography)
  1940 Blackout (as F.A. Young)
  
  1939 Nurse Edith Cavell (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1939 Goodbye, Mr. Chips (as F.A. Young, photographed by)
  1939 Suicide Legion
  1938 Queen of Destiny (as F.A. Young)
  1938 A Royal Divorce
  1937 Millions (uncredited)
  1937 The Rat (as F.A. Young)
  1937 Victoria the Great (as F.A. Young)
  1937 Backstage
  1937 The Frog (as F.A. Young)
  1937 Girl in the Street (as F.A. Young)
  1936 The Show Goes On (as F.A. Young)
  1936 This'll Make You Whistle
  1936 Two's Company
  1936 Fame
  1936 When Knights Were Bold (as F.A. Young)
  1935 Come Out of the Pantry
  1935 Peg of Old Drury (as F.A. Young, photography)
  1935 Escape Me Never (uncredited)
  1934 The King of Paris
  1934 Nell Gwyn (as F.A. Young)
  1934 Girls Please!
  1934 Runaway Queen
  1933 It's a King (as F.A. Young)
  1933 Just My Luck
  1933 Night of the Garter
  1933 Up for the Derby
  1933 A Cuckoo in the Nest (uncredited)
  1933 Trouble
  1933 That's a Good Girl
  1933 Summer Lightning
  1933 Yes, Mr. Brown
  1933 Bitter Sweet (as F.A. Young)
  1933 The Little Damozel
  1933 The King's Cup
  1932 Leap Year
  1932 The Love Contract
  1932 Thark
  1932 The Mayor's Nest
  1932 Magic Night
  1932 A Night Like This
  1932 The Blue Danube
  1931 Up for the Cup
  1931 Mischief
  1931 Venetian Nights (as F.A. Young)
  1931 The Chance of a Night Time
  1931 Tilly of Bloomsbury
  1931 The Speckled Band (as F.A. Young)
  1931 The Sport of Kings (as Fred Young)
  1930 Tons of Money
  1930 Plunder
  1930 A Warm Corner (as Fred Young)
  1930 Canaries Sometimes Sing
  1930 On Approval
  1930 Die Somme: Das Grab der Millionen (as Frederick Young)
  1930 The Loves of Robert Burns (uncredited)
  1930 The W Plan
  1930 One Embarrassing Night (uncredited)
  
  1929 White Cargo
  1929 A Peep Behind the Scenes
  1929 The Bondman
  1928 Blue Bottles (Short) (as F.A. Young)
  1928 Day-Dreams (Short)
  1928 The Tonic (Short)
  1928 Victory
  
  Camera and Electrical Department (8 credits)
  
  1979 Ike: The War Years (TV Mini-Series) (cinematographer - 2 episodes)
  - Part II (1979) ... (cinematographer: UK)
  - Part I (1979) ... (cinematographer: UK)
  
  1959 The Wreck of the Mary Deare (additional photographer - as F.A. Young)
  1956 Van Gogh: Darkness Into Light (Documentary short) (cinematographer: scenes from "Lust for Life (1956)
  1954 The Last Time I Saw Paris (location camera - uncredited)
  
  1927 The Somme (second camera operator)
  1927 The Flag Lieutenant (second camera operator)
  1922 Rob Roy (assistant camera)
  
  1919 The First Men in the Moon (film development technician)
  
  Director (1 credit)
  
  1984 Arthur's Hallowed Ground (TV Movie)

  

  1999: Robert Hale Ltd. publishes Sean Connery: A Celebration by Robert Sellers.

  

  1999: Fox Studios Australia in Sydney opens the final location of the 007: License to Thrill simulator ride.

  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Belgium and Switzerland (French speaking region).
  1999: Le monde ne suffit pas released in France.

  
  
  
  

  2006: Casino Royale released in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.
  2006: 007: Kajino rowaiyaru released in Japan.

  
  
  
  Not to be confused with.

  

  2008: "Another Way to Die" reaches top forty status in Australia, peaking at twenty-nine.
  2012: Skyfall released in Japan.

  
  
  

  2019: No Time To Die releases a 15-second teaser to the upcoming trailer.

  

  
  
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  1931: Nadezda Poderegin (Nadja Regin) is born-- Niš, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
  (She dies 6 April 2019 at age 87--London, England.)

  

  Nadja Regin, Bond Girl in
  ‘From Russia With Love’ and
  ‘Goldfinger,’ Dies at 87

  https://variety.com/2019/film/obituaries-people-news/obituary-nadja-regin-james-bond-movies-1203183106/
  By Dave McNary | April 8, 2019 10:14AM PT
  
  
  Credit: Photo by Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5886267ec)Sean Connery, Nadja Regin
  CREDIT: Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
  
  Serbian actress Nadja Regin, who appeared in two early James Bond movies, has died at the age of 87.

  The news was announced on the official 007 Twitter account, which said: “We are very sorry to learn that Nadja Regin has passed away at the age of 87. Nadja appeared in two Bond films, ‘From Russia with Love’ and ‘Goldfinger.’ Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.”

  She was born as Nadezda Poderegin on Dec. 2, 1931, and began acting while a student. She graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and also the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Philosophy.
  
  Regin began appearing in British films in the late 1950s and early 1960s, starting with the horror film “The Man Without a Body,” followed by the comedy “Don’t Panic Chaps!,” “Edgar Wallace Mysteries,” “Solo for Sparrow” and “The Fur Collar.” TV roles included “Danger Man,” “The Saint” and “Dixon of Dock Green.”

  She acted in “From Russia with Love” as the mistress of Kerim Bey, portrayed by Pedro Armendariz as the station chief of MI6 in Istanbul. Regin also appeared as Bonita, a dancer who sets a trap for James Bond in the pre-credit sequence of “Goldfinger.”

  During the 1970s, Regin worked for Rank Film and horror producers Hammer, selecting film scripts for production. In 1980, she co-founded Honeyglen Publishing Ltd. She recently published her own novel, “The Victims and the Fools,” under her full name Nadja Poderegin. The book is set during World War II and is centered on a romance between a poet and a dancer.

  

  Nadja Regin (1931–2019)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716605/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Actress (52 credits)
  
  1967-1968 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) - Smyrna (maid) / Frederique Duval
  - Stiff Upper Lip (1968) ... Smyrna (maid)
  - The Old Campaigner (1967) ... Frederique Duval
  1968 The World of Beachcomber (TV Series)
  - Episode #1.6 (1968)
  - Episode #1.4 (1968)
  1968 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - Mrs. Green
  - Ania (1968) ... Mrs. Green
  1967 Death Happens to Other People (TV Movie) - Bettina
  1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Ylena Davos
  - Reason for Sale (1967) ... Ylena Davos
  1967 The Saint (TV Series) - Lucille Legrand
  - The Art Collectors (1967) ... Lucille Legrand
  1966 The Man in Room 17 (TV Series) - Roxana Polynescu
  - The Catacombs (1966) ... Roxana Polynescu
  1966 Donaug'schichten (TV Series)
  - W. M. und die Diplomatie (1966)
  1966 The Liars (TV Series) - Madame Moraldi
  - Episode #1.1 (1966) ... Madame Moraldi
  1965 The Third Man (TV Series) - Aldrina
  - Members Only: Part 2 (1965) ... Aldrina
  - Members Only: Part 1 (1965) ... Aldrina
  1965 Riviera Police (TV Series) - Lisa
  - The Lucky One Was the Snake (1965) ... Lisa
  1965 The Flying Swan (TV Series) - Tanja Sykes
  - Company Property (1965) ... Tanja Sykes
  1964 Downfall - Suzanne Crossley
  1964 Runaway Killer - Laura Kossovich
  1964 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Ira Frankel
  - The Professionals (1964) ... Ira Frankel (as Nadja Ragin)
  1964 Goldfinger - Bonita
  1962-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Suzanne Crossley / Mrs. Reynolds / Nadia Leiven
  - Downfall (1964) ... Suzanne Crossley
  - Solo for Sparrow (1962) ... Mrs. Reynolds
  - Number Six (1962) ... Nadia Leiven
  1963 From Russia with Love - Kerim's Mistress
  1963 Crane (TV Series) - Maria Cortez
  - The Golden Attraction (1963) ... Maria Cortez
  1963 Man of the World (TV Series) - Maria
  - In the Picture (1963) ... Maria
  1963 Zero One (TV Series) - Didi Druson
  - The Creators (1963) ... Didi Druson
  1963 Stranglehold - Lilli
  1963 Benny Hill (TV Series) - Russian Girl
  - The Vanishing Man (1963) ... Russian Girl
  1962 Solo for Sparrow - Mrs. Reynolds
  1962 The Fur Collar - Marie Lejeune
  1962 Six More Faces of Jim (TV Series)
  - The Face of Wisdom (1962)
  1962 Richard the Lionheart (TV Series) - Shirin
  - The Lord of Kerak (1962) ... Shirin
  1962 Brothers in Law (TV Series) - Nina Zoffany
  - Special Examiner (1962) ... Nina Zoffany
  1962 Parbottle Speaking (TV Series) - Zuhra
  - Railway Lane (1962) ... Zuhra
  - Paley Goes It Alone (1962) ... Zuhra
  - The Chinese Chauffeur (1962) ... Zuhra
  - Manalik Opens Fire (1962) ... Zuhra
  - The Secret of the Cellar (1962) ... Zuhra
  - The Man from Khazakand (1962) ... Zuhra
  1962 Number Six - Nadia Leiven
  1961 Maigret (TV Series) - Maria
  - The Winning Ticket (1961) ... Maria
  1961 Blond muß man sein auf Capri - Helga Wagner
  1961 Danger Man (TV Series) - Melina
  - Find and Destroy (1961) ... Melina
  1961 International Detective (TV Series) - Nora Galloway
  - The Anthony Case (1961) ... Nora Galloway
  1960 Wir wollen niemals auseinandergehen - Livia
  1960 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Estelle
  - Once a Crook (1960) ... Estelle
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  1959 Rendezvous (TV Series) - Mary Darwin
  - Murder in Berkeley Square (1959) ... Mary Darwin
  1959 Don't Panic Chaps - Elsa
  1959 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Princess Taima
  - Man in Power (1959) ... Princess Taima (as Nadia Regin)
  1958 William Tell (TV Series) - Maddelena
  - The Bride (1958) ... Maddelena (as Nadja Regen)
  1957 Es wird alles wieder gut - Lucilla Coletti, Artistin
  1957 Franziska - Helen Philipps
  1957 Die Unschuld vom Lande - Lollo
  1957 The Man Without a Body - Odette Vernet
  1955 Der Frontgockel - Claudette, Französin
  1955 Du mein stilles Tal - Rita
  1955 Esalon doktora M. - Hatidza (as Nadja Poderegin)
  1954 Roman eines Frauenarztes - Nina Bertens
  1954 Das Haus an der Küste - Marina
  1952 Frosina (as Nadja Poderegin)
  1950 The Magic Sword (as Nadja Poderegin)
  
  1949 The Factory Story - Tekstilna ranica (as Nadja Poderegin)
  
  Self (3 credits)
  
  2018 Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros Years (Documentary) - Herself
  2017 Hammer's Lost Worlds (Short) - Herself
  1964 Goldfinger: The World Premiere (Documentary short) - Herself / Bonita

  
  
  

  1966: You Only Live Twice films Bond's last scene, with Blofeld.
  1992: Michael Gothard dies at age 53--London, England. (Born 24 June 1939--Hendon, Middlesex, England.)

  

  Michael Gothard

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

  
  as Emile Locque in For Your Eyes Only, 1981
  Born Michael Alan Gothard, 24 June 1939, London, England
  Died 2 December 1992 (aged 53), Hampstead, London, England
  Years active 1961–1992

  Michael Alan Gothard (24 June 1939 – 2 December 1992) was an English actor, who portrayed Kai in the television series Arthur of the Britons and the mysterious villain Emile Leopold Locque in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.

  Early life
  Michael Gothard was born in London in 1939. As a child, he lived in both Wales and London. After leaving Haverstock School, he travelled in France for several months before returning home. He went through various jobs, including being a building labourer and a trainee reporter. He even had a brief spell as a clothes model, but he never felt comfortable doing that job. He said: "I was as stiff as a board and I couldn’t overcome my sense of the ridiculous. I was a clothes hanger, an object, not a person."
  
  Career
  He joined the New Arts Theatre as a scenery mover, and became part of an amateur film a friend was making. After landing the lead role, he was encouraged to take up the profession. He attended evening classes at an actors' workshop whilst holding down a day job. He was involved working in some of the first "Lunchtime theatre" productions in the 1960s, from pub cellars to top floor spaces off St. Martin's Lane. His first television role was in an episode of Out of the Unknown in 1966 called "The Machine Stops". He was then cast in Don Levy's film Herostratus in 1967 and Up the Junction in 1968. He then acquired a female following after taking a role as the villainous Mordaunt in the BBC's adaptation of Twenty Years After (Further Adventures of the Musketeers).
  
  His performance as the nightclubbing killer Keith in Scream and Scream Again, directed by Gordon Hessler, was a break-out role for him, giving him exposure and leading to other, more prominent parts. In the film, Keith makes one of the most memorable escapes from the police ever seen. The film also starred Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Executive producer Louis M. Heyward said of Gothard's performance: "I felt that Michael Gothard was going to be the biggest thing that ever happened. He had that insane look and that drive, and he was wonderful. Here is a kid who really threw himself into the picture wholeheartedly. Do you remember the scene where he appears to be walking up the cliff? That's a stunt that, as an actor, I would not have agreed to; I’d say, 'Hey, get a double or get a dummy. I ain't either one.' But the kid agreed to do it, without a double—he was that driven. He had a lot of class and a lot of style. Gordon (Hessler) came up with the idea of using an overhead cable to give that illusion of his walking up the cliff."
  
  He appeared in Ken Russell's 1971 horror film, The Devils, in which Gothard had a stand-out role as a fanatic witch-hunter and exorcist who defiles Vanessa Redgrave and tortures Oliver Reed. His performance as a young disillusioned hippie in Barbet Schroeder's La Vallée (1972) contrasted with the rest of his career. He also played a fictionalised version of the 17th century assassin John Felton in Richard Lester's 1973 film of The Three Musketeers and its 1974 sequel, The Four Musketeers.

  He had a regular role as Kai opposite Oliver Tobias's King Arthur on the aforementioned Arthur of the Britons during the early 1970s. He became known to a wider cinema audience for his menacing turn as the villainous (and non-speaking) Belgian henchman, Emile Leopold Locque, in the 1981 James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only. Gothard was actually the one who suggested Locque's signature octagonal glasses in an effort to make the character more menacing. His later appearances included supporting roles in Tobe Hooper's 1985 science-fiction horror extravaganza, Lifeforce, and as George Lusk in the 1988 TV movie, Jack the Ripper, with Michael Caine. He appeared with Dean Stockwell and Shirley Knight in a Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (a.k.a. Fox Mystery Theatre) episode, The Sweet Scent of Death.[4] His last few roles were in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery in 1992, where he briefly acted opposite Marlon Brando. It was directed by his For Your Eyes Only director John Glen, but was a box office failure.

  Glen had actually cast Gothard in the role beneath Brando with the intention of moving Gothard into the role of Tomás de Torquemada, Brando's character, in case Brando did not show up for filming. Brando did indeed miss the first day of filming, and Gothard took over this role for the day's shooting. However, Tom Selleck told the director that without Brando, he would quit the film. Word apparently got out, for Brando was on the set the next day, and assumed the role of Torquemada, with Glen reshooting the scene. Glen described Gothard as "a very good" and "captivating" actor, as well as a friend.
  
  His final role was in David Wickes's Frankenstein, starring Patrick Bergin and Randy Quaid.
  
  Death

  Gothard, who struggled with depression for much of his life, committed suicide by hanging on 2 December 1992. He was fifty-three years old.

  

  Michael Gothard (1939–1992)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0331788/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (42 credits)
  
  1992 Frankenstein (TV Movie) - Boatswain
  1992 Christopher Columbus: The Discovery - Inquisitor's Spy
  1990 Out of Time - Xaros
  
  1989 Massacre Play - Zabo
  1989 Capital City (TV Series) - Stefan
  - Twelve Degrees Capricorn (1989) ... Stefan
  1988 Jack the Ripper (TV Mini-Series) - George Lusk
  - Episode #1.2 (1988) ... George Lusk
  - Episode #1.1 (1988) ... George Lusk
  1987 Destroying Angel - Ennio Volpe
  1985 Lytton's Diary (TV Series) - Jake Cutler
  - Daddy's Girls (1985) ... Jake Cutler
  1985 Minder (TV Series) - Sergei
  - From Fulham with Love (1985) ... Sergei
  1985 Going Undercover - Strett
  1985 Lifeforce - Dr. Bukovsky
  1984 Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV Series) - Karl Portillo
  - Our Man in Tegernsee (1984) ... Karl Portillo
  1984 Fox Mystery Theater (TV Series) - Terry Marvin
  - The Sweet Scent of Death (1984) ... Terry Marvin
  1982 Ivanhoe (TV Movie) - Athelstane
  1981 For Your Eyes Only - Locque
  1981 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Dieter
  - The Perfect House (1981) ... Dieter
  1980 Shoestring (TV Series) - Harry
  - The Mayfly Dance (1980) ... Harry
  1980 A Tale of Two Cities (TV Mini-Series) - Gaspard
  - Part 3 (1980) ... Gaspard
  - Part 1 (1980) ... Gaspard
  
  1979 The Professionals (TV Series) - Kodai
  - Stopover (1979) ... Kodai
  1978 Warlords of the Deep - Atmir
  1978 Warrior Queen (TV Series) - Volthan
  - Episode #1.6 (1978) ... Volthan
  - Episode #1.5 (1978) ... Volthan
  - Episode #1.4 (1978) ... Volthan
  - Episode #1.3 (1978) ... Volthan
  - Episode #1.2 (1978) ... Volthan
  - Episode #1.1 (1978) ... Volthan
  1975 King Arthur, the Young Warlord - Kai
  1974 The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge - Felton
  1973 The Three Musketeers - Felton
  1972-1973 Arthur of the Britons (TV Series) - Kai
  - The Girl from Rome (1973) ... Kai
  - The Treaty (1973) ... Kai
  - The Games (1973) ... Kai
  - Daughter of the King (1973) ... Kai
  - Six Measures of Silver (1973) ... Kai
  - In Common Cause (1973) ... Kai
  - The Marriage Feast (1973) ... Kai
  - Go Warily (1973) ... Kai
  - Some Saxon Women (1973) ... Kai
  - The Prisoner (1973) ... Kai
  - Rowena (1973) ... Kai
  - The Swordsman (1973) ... Kai
  - The Prize (1973) ... Kai
  - The Wood People (1973) ... Kai
  - The Slaves (1973) ... Kai
  - Enemies and Lovers (1973) ... Kai
  - Rolf the Preacher (1973) ... Kai
  - The Pupil (1973) ... Kai
  - The Duel (1973) ... Kai
  - People of the Plough (1973) ... Kai
  - The Penitent Invader (1972) ... Kai
  - The Challenge (1972) ... Kai
  - The Gift of Life (1972) ... Kai
  - Arthur Is Dead (1972) ... Kai
  1972 The Valley (Obscured by Clouds) - Olivier
  1971 The Devils - Father Barre
  1971 Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? - Albie
  1971 The Last Valley - Hansen
  1970 Menace (TV Series) - Pip
  - Nine Bean Rows (1970) ... Pip
  1970 Paul Temple (TV Series) - Ivan
  - Games People Play (1970) ... Ivan
  1970 Scream and Scream Again - Keith
  1970 My Partner the Ghost (TV Series) - Perrin
  - When the Spirit Moves You (1970) ... Perrin
  
  1969 Department S (TV Series) - Weber
  - Les Fleurs du Mal (1969) ... Weber
  1969 Fraud Squad (TV Series) - Jacky Joyce
  - Run for Your Money (1969) ... Jacky Joyce
  1969 Michael Kohlhaas - Der Rebell - John
  1969 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Brian
  - The Story-teller (1969) ... Brian
  1968 Up the Junction - Terry
  1967 The Further Adventures of the Musketeers (TV Series) - Mordaunt
  - Hunted (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - Treachery (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - The Scaffold (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - The Trial (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - The Oath (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - Escape (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - The Boy King (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - Abduction (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - Peril (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - Conflict (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - Conspiracy (1967) ... Mordaunt
  1967 Herostratus - Max
  1966 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Grady
  - The Excavation (1966) ... Grady
  1966 Out of the Unknown (TV Series) - Kuno
  - The Machine Stops (1966) ... Kuno
  
  Self (1 credit)
  
  1971 Director of Devils (Documentary short) - Himself
  
  Archive footage (6 credits)
  
  2013 Carlsen's Curse with Steve Railsback (Video short) - Bukovsky
  2013 Dangerous Beauty with Mathilda May (Video short) - Bukovsky
  
  2006 For Your Eyes Only: Expanded Angles (Video documentary short) - Locque
  2006 The Exotic Locations of 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Locque
  
  1981 Clapper Board (TV Series) - Locque
  - For Your Eyes Only Special (1981) ... Locque (uncredited)
  1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short)

  
  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Lebanon.
  2011: Skyfall films Bond swimming at the top of the Four Seasons, Canary Wharf, London (doubling for Shanghai).
  2015: Gabriele Ferzetti dies at age 90--Rome, Lazio, Italy. (Born 17 March 1925--Rome, Lazio, Italy.)

  

  Gabriele Ferzetti obituary

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/22/gabriele-ferzetti

  Charismatic Italian actor who starred in Antonioni’s L’Avventura
  and played opposite George Lazenby in On Her Majesty’s Secret
  Service

  Ronald Bergan | Tue 22 Dec 2015 10.41 EST | Last modified on Sun 4 Mar 2018 07.48 EST
  
  
  Gabriele Ferzetti (right) with Lea Massari in Antonioni’s classic L’Avventura (1960), in which he played Sandro, a wealthy playboy searching for his missing lover. Photograph: Snap Stills/Rex Shutterstock
  
  The Italian actor Gabriele Ferzetti, who has died aged 90, was never in danger of being typecast. He played a multitude of different film roles in every known genre, over seven decades, and just about the only constant in his long career was that he was perennially handsome and charismatic without being showy.

  To cinephiles, he was most memorable for his intense performance of quiet desperation as the unfulfilled wealthy playboy seeking his missing lover in Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura (1960). However, his most widely known roles, dubbed into English, were as the unscrupulous railroad baron on crutches in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and as James Bond’s father-in-law, a powerful crime boss, in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), the one with George Lazenby as 007.

  Ferzetti was born in Rome, where he attended the Silvio d’Amico drama school before winning a scholarship to the Rome Academy of Dramatic Art. However, he was eventually expelled for appearing with a professional theatrical troupe. After his role on stage as the young shepherd Sylvius in Luchino Visconti’s 1948 production of As You Like It, designed by Salvador Dalí, Ferzetti had small roles in several films, soon becoming a leading man.
  
  He was first noticed internationally in Mario Soldati’s The Wayward Wife (La Provinciale,1953), although the spotlight was on the ascending star Gina Lollobrigida in the title role. Ferzetti made the most of the thankless part of her husband, a bespectacled science professor who realises his wife does not love him but who wins her round in the end.
  
  In the same year he landed the title role in the sumptuous biopic Puccini, in which he portrayed the philandering Italian opera composer from his student days to a man in his 80s, with a little help from the makeup department. He reprised the role in House of Ricordi (1954), about the music-publishing house.
  
  Ferzetti was then cast by Antonioni in Le Amiche (The Girl Friends, 1955), which won the director the Silver Lion at the Venice film festival. Adapted from a Cesare Pavese story, the film manages to hold the 10 bourgeois characters in balance, giving almost equal weight to their individuality and the shifting pattern of relationships. Among them is Ferzetti, giving a nuanced performance as a morose, frustrated artist, envious of his more successful wife, and the cause of a woman’s suicide attempt.
  
  It would take five years and several mediocre melodramas and epics, including the elephantine Hannibal (1959), in which Ferzetti was impressive as a Roman senator, before he was reunited with Antonioni.
  
  L’Avventura, the film in which the director’s style reached maturity, allowed Ferzetti to play a weak and disillusioned man, a failed architect who complains, while looking around his Sicilian town: “Who needs beautiful things nowadays? How long will they last? All of this was built to last centuries. Today, 10, 20 years at the most, and then?” He later peevishly spills ink over a young man’s sketch of a church. At the film’s bitter end, not a resolution of the conventional type, he weeps pathetically out of guilt and emptiness. Nothing Ferzetti did in films subsequently equalled this.
  
  L’Avventura led him to a number of English-language movies, including the paper-thin romance Jessica (1962) – set in Sicily, and in which he played a reclusive aristocrat who falls for a young midwife (Angie Dickinson) – and a conventional war film, Torpedo Bay (1963), in which he is a noble Italian submarine captain being stalked by a British ship commanded by James Mason. Ferzetti was suitably grim as Lot, fleeing Sodom with his daughters and wife in The Bible (1966), a bad film from the Good Book, directed by the self-proclaimed atheist John Huston.
  
  Though dubbed, Ferzetti was convincing in Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) as the rail tycoon Morton, a smooth, cowardly baddie who employs a villainous hired gun, Frank (Henry Fonda), to frighten an owner into selling one of the rare pieces of land with water on it. Being disabled, Morton is vulnerable in his encounters with various unscrupulous bandits, at one stage having his crutches kicked away from him. He is last seen crawling towards a puddle of muddy water in the desert. It was Ferzetti’s favourite role.

  He was Draco, a gentlemanly mafia boss in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), enticing Bond to marry his daughter (Diana Rigg), and offering to help 007 track down Blofeld. And he was chilling in Costa-Gavras’s The Confession (1970) as the head Stalinist interrogator who manages to extract a false confession from the Czech dissident Artur London (Yves Montand).

  His Italian accent notwithstanding, Ferzetti was equally nasty as an ex-SS officer, now psychiatrist, intent on covering up his tracks in Liliana Cavani’s meretricious The Night Porter (1974), a study of a sadomasochistic relationship between a former Nazi (Dirk Bogarde) and the woman he raped in a concentration camp (Charlotte Rampling).
  
  Ferzetti was kept busy throughout the 70s and 80s in supporting roles in mostly unremarkable Italian/French co-productions, as well as the occasional English-language film, such as the dreadful Inchon (1981), in which he played a Turkish officer in the Korean war with a miscast Laurence Olivier as General MacArthur.
  
  In the 90s Ferzetti appeared more frequently on television, but played the Duke of Venice in Oliver Parker’s Othello on the big screen and won the Ubu prize for his performance in August Strindberg’s The Dance of Death on stage (both 1992). In 2009, aged 84, he gained much praise for playing the head of a wealthy Milanese industrial family in I Am Love (Io Sono l’Amore).
  
  He is survived by his daughter, Anna, also an actor, from his marriage to the actor Maria Grazia Eminente, which ended in divorce, and by two granddaughters.
  
  • Gabriele Ferzetti, actor, born 17 March 1925; died 2 December 2015

  

  Gabriele Ferzetti (1925–2015)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0275213/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (168 credits)
  
  2010 18 Years Later - Enrico
  2009 I Am Love - Edoardo Recchi Senior
  1992-2007 A Wonderful Family (TV Series) - Nono
  - Les adieux de Nono (2007) ... Nono
  - Un Beaumont peut en cacher un autre (2002) ... Nono
  - Panique à bord (2000) ... Nono
  - L'amour en vacances (1996) ... Nono
  - Nicolas s'en va-t-en guerre (1996) ... Nono (credit only)
  - Des vacances mouvementées (1993) ... Nono
  - Bonnes et mauvaises surprises (1993) ... Nono (credit only)
  - Des jours ça rit, des jours ça pleure (1992) ... Nono
  - Des vacances orageuses (1992) ... Nono
  - Les parents disjonctent (1992) ... Nono
  2006 Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God (TV Movie) - Cardinal Siri
  2005 Callas e Onassis (TV Movie) - Livanos
  2004 Concorso di colpa - Vito Santamaria
  2003 Lost Love - Tommaso Pasini
  2003 Counselor de Gregorio - Alfonso
  2002 Le ragazze di Miss Italia (TV Movie) - The Professor
  
  1998 The Sands of Time (TV Movie) - Father Jacob
  1997 Un prete tra noi (TV Series) - Ettore (1997)
  1997 Porzûs - Storno vecchio
  1997 Con rabbia e con amore - Leone
  1995 Natale con papà (TV Movie) - Vittorio
  1995 Othello - The Duke of Venice
  1994 First Action Hero - Ben Costa
  1994 Black as the Heart (TV Movie) - Signor Noé Alga Croce
  1993 Private Crimes (TV Mini-Series) - Dottor Guido Braschi
  - Episode #1.4 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
  - Episode #1.3 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
  - Episode #1.2 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
  - Episode #1.1 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
  1992 Alta società (TV Mini-Series) - - Episode #1.3 (1992)
  - Episode #1.1 (1992)
  1992 Die Ringe des Saturn (TV Movie)
  1992 Il coraggio di Anna (TV Movie)
  1991 Suffocating Heat - Gaetano Castelli
  1990 Pronto soccorso (TV Series)
  1990 Una fredda mattina di maggio - Signor Mantoni
  1990 Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (TV Movie)
  
  1989 Around the World in 80 Days (TV Mini-Series) - Italian Chief of Police
  - Episode #1.3 (1989) ... Italian Chief of Police
  - Episode #1.2 (1989) ... Italian Chief of Police
  - Episode #1.1 (1989) ... Italian Chief of Police
  1988 Computron 22 - Il nonno
  1988 Due fratelli (TV Mini-Series) - Procuratore
  - Episode #1.3 (1988) ... Procuratore
  - Episode #1.2 (1988) ... Procuratore
  - Episode #1.1 (1988) ... Procuratore
  1988 Gli angeli del potere (TV Movie) - Dr. Donhal
  1987 Julia and Julia - Padre di Paolo
  1987 La voglia di vincere (TV Mini-Series) - Professor Besson
  - Episode #1.3 (1987) ... Professor Besson
  - Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Professor Besson
  - Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Professor Besson
  1986 Follia amore mio (TV Movie)
  1985 Quo Vadis? (TV Mini-Series) - Piso
  - Episode #1.6 (1985) ... Piso
  - Episode #1.5 (1985) ... Piso
  - Episode #1.4 (1985) ... Piso
  - Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Piso
  - Episode #1.2 (1985) ... Piso
  - Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Piso
  1983 Die goldenen Schuhe (TV Mini-Series) - Marquesade Buenaventa
  - Episode #1.5 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
  - Episode #1.4 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
  - Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
  - Episode #1.3 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
  - Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
  1983 Le ambizioni sbagliate (TV Movie) - Prof. Malacrida
  1983 Delitto e castigo (TV Mini-Series) - Svidrigàjlov
  - Episode #1.5 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
  - Episode #1.4 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
  - Episode #1.3 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
  - Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
  - Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
  1983 The Scarlet and the Black (TV Movie) - Prince Mataeo (uncredited)
  1983 Il quartetto Basileus - Mario Cantone
  1982 Quasi quasi mi sposo (TV Movie) - The Engineer
  1982 Vatican Conspiracy - Cardinale Ixaguirre
  1982 Grog - Alberto
  1981 I giochi del diavolo (TV Mini-Series) - Mastro Gomin
  - La mano indemoniata (1981) ... Mastro Gomin
  1981 Inchon - Turkish Brigadier
  
  1979 Anni struggenti - Prof. Bivona
  1979 Bloodline - Maresciallo Campagna (uncredited)
  1978-1979 I vecchi e i giovani (TV Mini-Series) - Flaminio Salvo
  - Episode #1.5 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
  - Episode #1.4 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
  - Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
  - Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
  - Episode #1.1 (1978) ... Flaminio Salvo
  1979 Encounters in the Deep - Miles
  1978 A torto e a ragione (TV Series)
  1978 Porci con la P.38 - Max Astarita
  1978 Last In, First Out - Herzog
  1978 Mon premier amour - Georges
  1978 Suggestionata - Gregorio Lori
  1977 Man of Corleone
  1977 The Psychic - Emilio Rospini
  1977 Oedipus orca - Valerio
  1976 La orca - Valerio
  1976 A Matter of Time - Antonio Vicari
  1976 Nick the Sting - Maurice
  1976 The Hornet's Nest - Gaspard
  1976 Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga - Father of Stella
  1975 Jackpot
  1975 End of the Game - Dr. Lutz
  1975 Calling All Police Cars - Professore Andrea Icardi
  1975 Un uomo curioso (TV Movie) - Moriondo
  1975 Smiling Maniacs - Prandó
  1974 La prova d'amore - Angela Father
  1974 Processo per direttissima - L'avvocato Finaldi
  1974 Kidnap - Don Francesco Salvatore
  1974 Appassionata - Dr. Emilio Rutelli
  1974 The Night Porter - Hans
  1973 Secrets of a Nurse - Prof. Daniele Vallotti
  1973 Hitler: The Last Ten Days - Fieldmarshall Keitel
  1973 Divorce His - Divorce Hers (TV Movie) - Turi Livicci
  1972 3000 Million Without an Elevator - M. Raphaël
  1972 Mendiants et Orgueilleux
  1972 Alta tensión - Pablo Moncada
  1972 Ripped-Off - Tony La Monica
  1971 Million Dollar Eel - Vasco
  1970 Cold Sweat (uncredited)
  1970 French Intrigue - Inspector Bardeche
  1970 Die Welt des Pirandello - Liebe! - Liebe? (TV Movie) - Memmo Viola (segment "Wenn man das Spiel kennt")
  1970 The Confession - Kohoutek
  
  1969 L'amica - Paolo Marchesi
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Draco
  1969 That Splendid November - Biagio
  1969 Machine Gun McCain - Don Francesco DeMarco
  1968 Il mondo di Pirandello (TV Series) - Memmo Viola
  - Amori senza amore (1968) ... Memmo Viola
  1968 Once Upon a Time in the West - Morton - Railroad Baron
  1968 Bandits in Rome - Commissioner
  1968 L'età del malessere - Guido
  1968 Better a Widow - Don Calogero Minniti
  1968 The Protagonists - Il Commissario
  1968 Come Play with Me - Stefano / Lea's lover
  1968/I Escalation - Augusto Lambertinghi
  1968 Un diablo bajo la almohada - Anselmo
  1967 Dossier Mata Hari (TV Mini-Series) - Bouchardon
  - Episode #1.4 (1967) ... Bouchardon
  - Episode #1.3 (1967) ... Bouchardon
  - Episode #1.2 (1967) ... Bouchardon
  - Episode #1.1 (1967) ... Bouchardon
  1967 We Still Kill the Old Way - Avvocato Rosello
  1966 The Devil in Love - Lorenzo de' Medici
  1966 I Spy (TV Series) - Aldo
  - To Florence with Love: Part 2 (1966) ... Aldo
  - To Florence with Love: Part 1 (1966) ... Aldo
  1966 The Bible: In the Beginning... - Lot
  1966 Luce a gas (TV Movie) - Rough
  1965 Lo scippo - Gambetti
  1965 Three Rooms in Manhattan - Comte Larsi
  1965 Crime on a Summer Morning - Victor Dermott
  1964 Crucero de verano - Carlos Brul y Betancourt
  1964 Desideri d'estate
  1964 The Warm Life - Guido
  1964 Death Where Is Your Victory? - Max Gurgine
  1963 Un tentativo sentimentale - Giulio, Carla's Husband
  1963 Torpedo Bay - Leonardi
  1963 The Shortest Day - Tenente in trincea
  1962 Beach Casanova - Avvocato Leblanc
  1962 Imperial Venus - Freron
  1962 Cross of the Living - L'abbé Delcourt / Abbe
  1962 Crime Does Not Pay - Angelo Giraldi (segment "Le masque")
  1962 La monaca di Monza - Gian Paolo Osio
  1962 Congo vivo - Roberto Santi
  1962 Meetings - Ralph Scaffari
  1962 Jessica - Edmondo Raumo
  1960 Love, the Italian Way - Alberto Bressan
  1960 Il carro armato dell'8 settembre - Tommaso
  1960 Red Lips - Avvocato Paolo Martini
  1960 It Happened in '43 - Franco Villani
  1960 L'Avventura - Sandro
  
  1959 Hannibal - Fabius Maximus
  1959 Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon
  Bernard Turquet de Mayenne (as Gabriel Ferzetti)
  1959 Everyone's in Love - Arturo
  1958 Love on the Riviera - Giulio Ferrari
  1958 Tant d'amour perdu - Frédéric Solingen
  1958 Angel in a Taxi - Andrea
  1958 March's Child - Sandro
  1957 It Happened in Rome - Lawyer Alberto Cortini
  1957 Honor Among Thieves - Desiderio / Plebari
  1956 Il prezzo della gloria - comandante Alberto Bruni
  1956 Defend My Love - Pietro Leonardi
  1956 Donatella - Maurizio
  1955 Un po' di cielo - Frank Lo Giudice
  1955 Le Amiche - Lorenzo
  1955 Adriana Lecouvreur - Maurizio di Sassonia
  1955 Sins of Casanova - Giacomo Casanova
  1954 House of Ricordi - Giacomo Puccini
  1954 Camilla - Dott. Mario Rossetti
  1954 Modern Virgin - Gabriele Demico
  1954 100 Years of Love
  Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segment "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti")
  1954 Vestire gli ignudi - Ludovico Nota
  1953 Empty Eyes - Fernando Maestrelli
  1953 The Counterfeiters - Dario
  1953 Puccini - Giacomo Puccini
  1953 The Wayward Wife - Il professore Franco Vagnuzzi
  1952 Three Forbidden Stories - Comm. Borsani (First segment)
  1952 Inganno - Andrea Vannini
  1951 Gli amanti di Ravello - Sandro Deodata
  1951 The Naked and the Wicked - Giorgio Suprina
  1951 The Forbidden Christ - 1950 Lo zappatore
  1950 Sigillo rosso
  1950 Mountain Smugglers - Lieutenant Berti
  1950 Welcome Reverend
  
  1949 Flying Squadron - Ufficiale D'aviazione
  1949 Sicilian Uprising
  1949 William Tell - Corrado Hant
  1949 Fabiola - Claudius
  1949 Vertigine d'amore (as Gaetano Ferzetti)
  1948 Les Misérables - Tholomyes, un cliente di Fantina (uncredited)
  1946 Lost Happiness
  1942 The Countess of Castiglione (as Pasquale Ferzetti)
  1942 Bengasi (uncredited)
  1942 Via delle cinque lune
  
  Self (6 credits)
  
  2006 Press Day in Portugal (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2003 An Opera of Violence (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2003 Something to Do with Death (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2003 The Wages of Sin (Video documentary short) - Himself
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself
  1968 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Filming of James Bond Epic in Progress in the Swiss Alps (Documentary short) - Himself

  
  
  

  
  
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  December 2019 edited December 2019 Posts: 13,043

  December 3rd
  
  1963: Copyright lawyer Peter Carter-Ruck reaches a settlement awarding Kevin McClory Thunderball film rights plus £50,000 damages. Kevin diverts from Jack Whittingham to partner with Broccoli & Saltzman, receiving the producer credit (Broccoli & Saltzman represented as ‘presented by’).
  1971: Ola Rapace (Pär Ola Norell) is born--Tyresö, Stockholms län, Sweden.
  1973: Bond comic strip The Girl Machine ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 19 June 1973. 2257–2407)
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1010
  
  
  https://www.popoptiq.com/the-girl-machine/
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1975.php3
  Jakten På Det Svarta Guldet ("Hunt For The Black Gold" - The Girl Machine)
  
  
  Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-34-1975/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 34: “The Girl Machine” (1975)
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  1985: Roger Moore declares he's retiring from the Bond role after 12 years on screen and 7 films.
  1987: Με το δάχτυλο στη σκανδάλη (James Bond, praktor 007: Me to daktylo sti skandali, meaning With the Finger on the Trigger) released in Greece.
  1991: Geffen releases the "Live and Let Die" single from the Guns 'N Roses Use Your Illusion album. (B-side is "Live and Let Die" Live at Wembley Stadium, London recorded 31 August 1991, plus "Shadow of Your Love" (Live).)

  
  
  
  UK Orange Vinyl
  

  

  1999: Amb el món no n'hi ha prou (There Is Not Enough With the World, and Catalan title El mundo nunca es suficiente meaning The World Is Never Enough) released in Spain.

  
  
  

  1999: Världen räcker inte till released in Finland.

  
  Later DVD cover.
  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Norway and Thailand.
  1999: 007 - O Mundo Não Chega (The World Does Not Arrive) released in Portugal.

  
  

  2018: BOND 25 original scheduled production start date with planned director Danny Boyle.
  2019: No Time To Die releases character posters anticipating the next day's full trailer.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  December 2019 edited December 2019 Posts: 13,043

  December 4th
  
  1913: John Kitzmiller is born--Battle Creek, Michigan. (He dies 23 February 1965 at age 51--Rome, Lazio, Italy.)

  
  Keeping a wild eye on European Cinema of the past and present

  John Kitzmiller

  http://www.thewildeye.co.uk/blog/performers-directors/black-actors-in-italy/john-kitzmiller/
  November 25, 2010 Matt Blake Americans in Cinecitta, Black Actors in Italy 7
  
  John Kitzmiller was one of the most prominent Afro-American actors to work in Italy during the post war period. Born in Michigan in 1913, he first came to Europe as a soldier during the liberation of Italy, winning a Victory Medal for his efforts. He fell in love with the country, deciding to stay there rather than head home once the conflict was over, and soon drifted into acting, starting his career playing a stock selection of GIs and American expats. In 1948 he had a career defining role in Alberto Lattuada’s Senza pietà, as a GI who becomes friendly with an Italian girl (played by Carla Del Poggio). As well as bringing his face to the international arthouse crowd, this was a popular film on the US university circuit, where it gained a considerable following among Afro-American students.
  
  
  John Kitzmiller in Dr. No
  
  More roles followed, although with the decline of neo-realism and the growing emphasis on using professional actors they shrunk in size. He was a trumpet player in Luci del varietà (directed by Lattuada and a young Federico Fellini), played a valet in Marino Girolami’s Canto per te (a vehicle for the famed tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano), and appeared as a selection of servants, criminals or workmen. With the resurgence of the swashbuckler and peplum in the 1950s his workrate stepped up a notch, and by the early 60s he was appearing in three or four films a year.

  It was at this time that he won a further degree of international success, starring as Quarrel in the hugely succesful Dr No, where his role – most of which was shot in Jamaica – was more prominent than his lowly billing would suggest. This led to one final key role, as the titular character in Géza von Radványi’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was released in the same year as his death in 1965 from cirrhosis of the liver (caused, reputedly, by his long term alcoholism).

  Kitzmiller’s importance wasn’t so much for the films he appeared in – although he certainly appeared in some important films. It was in the fact that he was a trailblazer for black actors both in Italy and in the US, at a time in which cinema was an almost entirely caucasian occupation. Given that, it’s surprising how little biographical information is available about him.
  
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  5 Comments

  Tom B. | July 22, 2009 at 3:35 pm
  
  Thanks Matt. I agree he was trailblazer in opening up roles for blacks in Italian cinema. Any fan of Italian films has heard of his name, but as you say so little biographical information is available. Thanks for posting on this unique actor in European films.

  mattblake | July 23, 2009 at 1:20 pm
  
  A little bit more info on Mr. Kitzmiller. In a book on Fellini (Federico Fellini: his life and work by Tullio Kezich, Minna Proctor, Viviana Mazza), he’s described as: “a former chemical engineer who’d slipped accidentally into movie acting”

  mattblake | July 23, 2009 at 1:26 pm
  
  And a bit more, an obituary from a magazine called Jet, March 11th 1965.
  

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

  And, from From Sambo to Superspade by Daniel J. Leab
  
  John Kitzmiller became an actor while on occupation duty in Italy in 1946. He was playing poker in a sidewalk cafe when he was spotted by two Italians who thought him physically perfect for a war movie they were casting

  ...

  mattblake | November 25, 2010 at 4:41 pm
  
  And here’s another newspaper article mentioning his marriage:

  John Kitzmiller's wedding article from Jet
  
  
  Luciano Benetti was a little known Italian actor who turned up in a handful of cape and sword films

  

  John Kitzmiller (I) (1913–1965)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457839/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (53 credits)
  
  1976 Uncle Tom's Cabin - Uncle Tom
  
  1965 Uncle Tom's Cabin - Uncle Tom
  1965 Le inchieste del commissario Maigret (TV Series) - Un cliente della Citanguette
  - Una vita in gioco (1965) ... Un cliente della Citanguette
  1964 Biblioteca di Studio Uno (TV Mini-Series) - Sam
  - La storia di Rossella O'Hara (1964) ... Sam
  1964 Il ribelle di Castelmonte - Ali
  1964 Indios a Nord-Ovest
  1964 Night of the Vampires - John - Black Servant
  1962 Tiger of the Seven Seas - Serpente - Il pianista
  - Episode #1.2 (1962) ... Il pianista
  1962 Dr. No - Quarrel (as John Kitzmuller: end credits)
  1962 The Son of Captain Blood - Moses
  1962 Blood and Defiance
  1962 Mars, God of War - Afros
  1961 Chiamami bugiardo (TV Movie) - Dr. Bowker
  1961 La corona di fuoco - Akim
  1961 Totòtruffa '62 - Ambasciatore del Katonga
  1961 Revolt of the Mercenaries - Tago
  1960-1961 Giallo club - Invito al poliziesco (TV Series) - Joke / Peter
  - Partita a tre (1961) ... Joke
  - Ultimo avviso (1960) ... Peter
  1960 Il corsaro della tortue (TV Movie)
  1960 Pirates of the Coast - Rock
  1960 Seven in the Sun - Salvador
  
  1959 Due selvaggi a corte - Kato
  1959 Pensione Edelweiss - Bougron
  1959 Lost Souls - Luca
  1958 Aphrodite, Goddess of Love - Tomoro
  1958 The Naked Earth - David
  1957 A vent'anni è sempre festa - John Miller
  1957 I misteri di Parigi - Lo Squartatore
  1956 Valley of Peace - Sgt. Jim
  1955 Il nostro campione - Raimondo
  1954 Lacrime d'amore
  1954 Acque amare - Mezzanotte
  1954 Il grande addio
  1954 Desiderio 'e sole - Simone
  1954 Quai des blondes - Michel
  1954 Non vogliamo morire - John - il timoniere
  1954 Island Sinner - Abul - il pescatore negro
  1954 Foreign Earth
  1953 Canto per te - Angenore
  1953 Frine, cortigiana d'Oriente - Nabus, lo schiavo muto
  1953 Trouble for the Legion - Djalmar
  1952 Delitto al luna park
  1952 Ultimo perdono
  1952 At Sword's Edge
  1952 Wolves Hunt at Night - Le domestique noir de Miguel
  1952 Massacre en dentelles - Rocky Saddler
  1950 Variety Lights - Trumpet player Johnny
  1950 La forza del destino - Lo scudiero moro
  
  1949 Monastero di Santa Chiara - Il negro
  1949 Lieutenant Craig: Missing - The MP
  1948 Without Pity - Jerry Jackson
  1947 Tombolo - Jack
  1947 To Live in Peace - Joe (as Jonny Kitzmiller)
  
  Archive footage (3 credits)
  
  2006 The Exotic Locations of 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Quarrel
  2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  
  1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary)

  

  1913: Claude Renoir is born--Paris, France. (He dies 5 September 1993 at age 79--Troyes, Aube, France.)

  

  Claude Renoir

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

  Born December 4, 1913, Paris, France
  Died September 5, 1993 (aged 79), Troyes, Aube, Champagne, France
  Nationality French

  Claude Renoir (December 4, 1913[1] – September 5, 1993) was a French cinematographer. He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir, the nephew of director Jean Renoir, and the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

  He was born in Paris, his mother being actress Véra Sergine. He was apprenticed to Boris Kaufman, a brother of Dziga Vertov, who much later worked in the United States on such films as On the Waterfront (1954). Renoir was the lighting cameraman on numerous pictures such as Monsieur Vincent (1947), Jean Renoir's The River (1951), Cleopatra (1963), Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968), and the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). At the time of Claude Renoir's death, The Times of London wrote of The River that "its exquisite evocation of the Indian scene, helped to inaugurate a new era in the cinema, one in which color was finally accepted as a medium fit for great film makers to work in."

  He also participated in the making of The Mystery of Picasso (1956), the documentary on painter Pablo Picasso directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. He was the cinematographer for The Crucible (1957) and lived in East Germany during filming. Renoir's career came to a close in the late 1970s, as he was rapidly losing sight. In his final years he was largely blind.
  
  He married twice and had two children, a son and a daughter, actress Sophie Renoir. Claude Renoir died at age 79 in Troyes, 55 miles east of Paris, near the village of Essoyes, where he had a home.

  

  Claude Renoir

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005841/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Cinematographer (89 credits)
  
  1981 Sphinx (uncredited)
  
  1979 The Medic
  1978 Attention, the Kids Are Watching
  1978 The Discord
  1977 Animal
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (director of photography)
  1976 The Wing or The Thigh? (director of photography)
  1976 Une femme fidèle
  1976 Femmes Fatales
  1976 Docteur Françoise Gailland
  1975 French Connection II (director of photography)
  1975 The Track
  1974 Paul and Michelle
  1973 Story of a Love Story (director of photography)
  1973 The Serpent
  1972 Hellé
  1972 Killer
  1971 The Burglars
  1971 The Horsemen
  1971 Swashbuckler
  1970 The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
  1970 The Adventurers
  
  1969 The Madwoman of Chaillot
  1969 Soluna
  1968 Barbarella (director of photography)
  1968 Spirits of the Dead (director of photography - segment "Metzengerstein")
  1966 La Grande Vadrouille
  1966 The Game Is Over
  1966 Paris au mois d'août
  1965 Marco the Magnificent
  1965 The Hour of Truth
  1964 The Unvanquished
  1964 Paris When It Sizzles (uncredited)
  1963 The Corrupt
  1962 Il fiore e la violenza (segment "La scampagnata")
  1962 II Marco Polo
  1962 Les amants de Teruel
  1962 Lafayette
  1960 Wasteland
  1960 Blood and Roses
  1960 Sergeant X of the Foreign Legion
  
  1959 Gorilla's Waltz
  1959 Honeymoon (uncredited)
  1959 Hit and Run
  1958 Youthful Sinners
  1958 End of Desire
  1957 The Crucible
  1956 Crime and Punishment
  1956 Elena and Her Men (director of photography)
  1956 The Mystery of Picasso (Documentary) (director of photography)
  1955 A Missionary
  1954 Madame Butterfly
  1954 Fabulous India (Documentary)
  1954 Maddalena
  1953 Puccini
  1952 The Golden Coach
  1952 The Green Glove
  1951 Images de l'ancienne Égypte (Documentary short)
  1951 Amazing Monsieur Fabre
  1951 The River
  1951 Clara de Montargis
  1951 Dr. Knock
  1950 Gunman in the Streets
  1950 Born of Unknown Father
  1950 Prélude à la gloire
  
  1949 Rendezvous in July
  1949 Docteur Laennec
  1949 Alice in Wonderland (photography)
  1948 Dilemma of Two Angels
  1948 La grande volière
  1947 Monsieur Vincent
  1947 La maison sous la mer
  1947 The Royalists
  1947 Passionnelle (disposal of the body sequence, uncredited)
  1946 Mr. Orchid
  1946 A Day in the Country (Short)
  1946 Le couple idéal
  1946 Behind These Walls
  1945 The Queer Assignment
  1944 L'aventure est au coin de la rue
  1944 Bonsoir mesdames, bonsoir messieurs
  1943 Aristide Maillol, sculpteur (Documentary short)
  1942 Opéra-musette
  1940 Sérénade
  
  1938 Les rois de la flotte
  1938 Lumières de Paris
  1937 Le chanteur de minuit
  1936 La vie est à nous
  1935 Toni
  
  Camera and Electrical Department (11 credits)
  
  1964 Circus World (second unit cameraman)
  1963 Cleopatra (photographer: second unit)
  
  1946 Mr. Orchid (camera operator)
  1946 Reunion (Documentary short) (assistant camera - one topic, uncredited)
  
  1939 Le dernier tournant (camera operator - as Cl. Renoir Junior)
  1938 La Bête Humaine (camera operator - as Claude Renoir Jr.)
  1938 Prison sans barreaux (camera operator)
  1938 Legions of Honor[/i] (camera operator)
  1937 La Grande Illusion (assistant cameraman)
  1933 Chotard and Company (assistant camera)
  1932 Night at the Crossroads (assistant camera)
  
  Set decorator (1 credit)
  
  1980 Mont-Oriol (TV Movie)
  
  Self (4 credits)
  
  2006 The Spy Who Loved Me: 007 in Egypt (Video documentary short) Himself
  1977 The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (TV Series documentary) Himself
  - Shooting Scene 341 (1977) ... Himself
  - Also Starring... (1977) ... Himself
  1975 Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (TV Series documentary)
  Himself
  - Le désordre et après 1961-1966 (1975) ... Himself
  - Une certaine tradition de qualité 1945-1955 (1975) ... Himself
  -
  1956 The Mystery of Picasso (Documentary) Himself (uncredited)
  
  Archive footage (2 credits)
  
  2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) - Himself

  
  

  1918: Maurice Binder is born--New York City, New York. (He dies 9 April 1991--London, England.

  
  Maurice Binder, 73, 007 Film-Title Artist
  https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/15/obituaries/maurice-binder-73-007-film-title-artist.html
  APRIL 15, 1991

  Maurice Binder, a graphic arts designer known chiefly for his dazzling title sequences in the James Bond films, died on Tuesday at the University College Hospital in London. He was 73 years old and lived in London.

  
  He died of lung cancer, his brother, Mitchell, said.

  Mr. Binder was one of the rare film-title artists to receive rave reviews for his work, which critics said was an essential part of the James Bond success story.
  
  In a review of the 1981 film, "For Your Eyes Only," Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times: "And Maurice Binder's opening titles, always one of the fancier features of the Bond movies, are still terrific."

  Mr. Binder's unusual witty designs introduced other films including "Indiscreet" in 1958; "The Mouse That Roared," 1959; "The Grass is Greener," 1960; "Repulsion," 1964, and "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," 1971.
  
  He also produced several musicals, and in association with John Quested and Lester Goldsmith, produced the 1979 film "The Passage," starring Anthony Quinn.
  
  Born in New York City, Mr. Binder began his career as assistant art director in Macy's art department.
  
  A resident of London for 27 years, he was honored last year by the National Film Club.
  
  Besides his brother, who lives in Boca Raton, Fla., he is survived by two nieces.

  

  Maurice Binder (1925–1991)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082800/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Miscellaneous Crew (84 credits)
  
  1991 The Strauss Dynasty (TV Mini-Series) (title designer - 8 episodes)
  - Adele (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Hetti (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Lili (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Josef (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Revolution of 1848 (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Schani (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Emilie (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Anna (1991) ... (title designer)
  1990 A Captive in the Land (title designer)
  1990 Hamlet (title designer)
  1990 The Sheltering Sky (title designer)
  1990 Mister Johnson (title designer)
  
  1989 Licence to Kill (title designer)
  1988 The Deceivers (title designer)
  1987 The Last Emperor (title designer: main title)
  1987 The Living Daylights (title designer)
  1986 Shanghai Surprise (title designer)
  1986 Max mon amour (title designer)
  1986 If Tomorrow Comes (TV Mini-Series) (title designer - 3 episodes)
  - Episode #1.2 (1986) ... (title designer)
  - Episode #1.3 (1986) ... (title designer)
  - Episode #1.1 (1986) ... (title designer)
  1985 A View to a Kill (main title designed by)
  1985 Rustlers' Rhapsody (main title design)
  1983 Octopussy (main title designed by)
  1981 For Your Eyes Only (main title designed by)
  1981 Green Ice (main title designer)
  1980 The Awakening (titles)
  1980 The Sea Wolves (titles)
  
  1979 Moonraker (title designer: main titles)
  1978 The Wild Geese (main title designed by)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (main title designed by)
  1976 Shout at the Devil (title designer: main title)
  1975 e'Lollipop (title designer)
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (title designer: main title)
  1974 The Little Prince (main title design)
  1974 Gold (title designer)
  1974 The Tamarind Seed (title designer: main title)
  1973 Live and Let Die (main title designed by)
  1972 Young Winston (main title designed by)
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever (main title designed by)
  1970 Wuthering Heights (title designer)
  1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (title designer: main title)
  1970 Brotherly Love (title designer)
  
  1969 A Talent for Loving (designer: main title)
  1969On Her Majesty's Secret Service (main title designed by)
  1969 Battle of Britain (title designer: main title)
  1969 Staircase (title designer)
  1968 Barbarella (titles designer - uncredited)
  1968 The Magus (title designer)
  1967 Bedazzled (main title)
  1967 Billion Dollar Brain (title designer)
  1967 The Day the Fish Came Out (title designer)
  1967 A Matter of Innocence (title designer: main titles)
  1967 Fathom (main title sequence)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (main title designed by)
  1967 Two for the Road (title designer)
  1967 Eye of the Devil (title designer: main titles)
  1967 The Taming of the Shrew (main title graphics)
  1966 After the Fox (title designer)
  1966 Kaleidoscope (title designer: main titles)
  1966 Arabesque (title designer: main title)
  1966 Promise Her Anything (title designer)
  1966 The Chase (main title)
  1965 Thunderball (main title designed by)
  1965 The Wild Affair (title designer)
  1965 Repulsion (title designer - uncredited)
  1965 Young Cassidy (title designer)
  1964 The 7th Dawn (title designer: main titles)
  Espionage (TV Series) (titles - 22 episodes, 1963 - 1964) (titles designed by - 2 episodes, 1963 - 1964)
  - A Tiny Drop of Poison (1964) ... (titles designed by)
  - A Free Agent (1964) ... (titles)
  - Some Other Kind of World (1964) ... (titles)
  - The Liberators (1964) ... (titles)
  - Once a Spy... (1964) ... (titles)
  - Snow on Mount Kama (1964) ... (titles)
  - Castles in Spain (1964) ... (titles)
  - The Frantick Rebel (1964) ... (titles)
  - We the Hunted (1964) ... (titles)
  - Do You Remember Leo Winters? (1964) ... (titles)
  - Final Decision (1964) ... (titles)
  - Medal for a Turned Coat (1964) ... (titles)
  - Never Turn Your Back on a Friend (1964) ... (titles)
  - A Camel to Ride (1963) ... (titles)
  - Festival of Pawns (1963) ... (titles)
  - The Light of a Friendly Star (1963) ... (titles)
  - The Whistling Shrimp (1963) ... (titles)
  - The Dragon Slayer (1963) ... (titles)
  - To the Very End (1963) ... (titles)
  - He Rises on Sunday and We on Monday (1963) ... (titles)
  - The Gentle Spies (1963) ... (titles)
  - The Incurable One (1963) ... (titles)
  - The Weakling (1963) ... (titles)
  - Covenant with Death (1963) ... (titles designed by)
  1964 The Long Ships (prologue and main title by)
  1963 Charade (main title designed by)
  1963 Stolen Hours (title designer: main titles)
  1963 The Running Man (main titles by)
  1963 The Mouse on the Moon (title designer)
  1963 Call Me Bwana (main title design)
  1963 I Could Go on Singing (title designer: main titles)
  1962 Dr. No (main title designed by)
  1962 Sodom and Gomorrah (prologue and main title design)
  1962 Reach for Glory (title designer)
  1962 The Road to Hong Kong (title designer)
  1961 Goodbye Again (title designer: main title)
  1960 The Grass Is Greener (title designer: main title)
  1960 Surprise Package (main title designed by)
  1959-1960 Hotel de Paree (TV Series) (title designer - 11 episodes)
  - Sundance and the Fallen Sparrow (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Sundance and the Long Trek (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Vengeance for Sundance (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Sundance and the Black Widow (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Sundance and the Greenhorn Trader (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Hard Luck for Sundance (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Sundance Goes to Kill (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Sundance and the Blood Money (1960) ... (title designer)
  - The Man Who Believed in Law (1959) ... (title designer)
  - Return of Monique (1959) ... (title designer)
  - The High Cost of Justice (1959) ... (title designer)
  1960 Purple Noon (title designer)
  1960 Once More, with Feeling! (title designer)
  
  1959 The Mouse That Roared (titles designed by)
  1959 Richard Diamond, Private Detective (TV Series) (title designer - 7 episodes)
  - Design for Murder (1959) ... (title designer)
  - Family Affair (1959) ... (title designer)
  - Rough Cut (1959) ... (title designer)
  - Hideout (1959) ... (title designer)
  - The Limping Man (1959) ... (title designer)
  - Jukebox (1959) ... (title designer)
  - Crown of Silla (1959) ... (title designer)
  1959 The Young Philadelphians (title designer - uncredited)
  1958 Damn Yankees (title designer: main titles - uncredited)
  1958 Indiscreet (title designer - uncredited)
  1957 The James Dean Story (Documentary) (title designer)
  1951 Cry Danger (assistant to producer)
  
  Art department (9 credits)
  
  1985 King David (graphic designer)
  1984 Oxford Blues (graphic designer)
  1982 Twilight Time (graphics)
  1982 The Final Option (graphic artist)
  1980 The Sea Wolves (graphic design)
  
  1978 Brass Target (graphic artist)
  1977 A Little Night Music (graphics)
  1964 Of Human Bondage (graphic designer)
  1963 I Could Go on Singing (graphic designer)
  Hide Hide Visual effects (2 credits)
  1980 The Final Countdown (special visual effects) / (storm sequence)
  1979 Dracula (visual consultant)
  
  Director (1 credit)
  
  1960 The Children of Lindos (Short)
  
  Art director (1 credit)
  
  1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series)
  
  Producer (1 credit)
  
  1979 The Passage (associate producer)
  
  Self (2 credits)
  
  1977 The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (TV Series documentary) - Himself
  - Producing (1977) ... Himself
  1976 Die Titelmacher (TV Movie) - Himself
  
  Archive footage (4 credits)
  
  2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Himself
  2000 Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Himself

  
  

  1968: 4 December 1968: Peter R. Hunt shot the action-packed rescue of Tracy di Vicenzo
  1973: Bond comic strip Beware of Butterflies begins its run in The Daily Express. (Finishes 11 May 1974. 2408–2541)
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence , writer.

  https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1011
  
  
  https://www.popoptiq.com/beware-of-butterflies/
  
  
  
  
  Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no36-1976/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 36: “Beware of Butterflies” (1976)
  
  
  

  1989: Licence to Kill released in Hong Kong.
  1997: MGM announces their purchase of the rights to Never Say Never Again from Taliafilm. Earlier in 1997 the Sony Corporation acquired most of McClory's rights, later bought by MGM.
  2006: Casino Royale premieres in Sydney, Australia.

  
  
  

  2014: Spectre press conference.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2015: Spectre general release in Japan.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2019: No Time To Die trailer.

  

  
  
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  December 5th
  
  1944: Jeroen Krabbé is born--Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
  1976: The 007 Stage officially opens at Pinewood Studios, former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in attendance. Construction began March 1976 supporting the film production of The Spy Who Loved Me. Available for other film-making thereafter.
  1985: Halálvágta (Death Gallop) released in Hungary.

  Eventual DVD and Blu-ray covers.

  
  

  2002: Die Another Day released in Malaysia and Singapore.
  1923: Norman Burton is born--New York City, New York. (He dies 29 November 2003 at age 79--Imperial, California.)

  

  Norman Burton

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

  Norman Burton
  Born December 5, 1923
  New York City, New York, U.S.
  Died November 29, 2003 (aged 79)
  Imperial, California, U.S.
  Occupation Film, television actor
  Years active 1957–1993

  Norman Burton (December 5, 1923 – November 29, 2003), occasionally credited as Normann Burton, was an American stage film and television actor.
  
  Early life
  Born in New York City, Burton was a student of The Actor's Studio. After early work on stage, he broke into films with a minor role in Fright (1956).
  
  Career

  His career in film and television was long and relatively successful, but he never achieved major recognition. He played the Hunt Leader, a gorilla, in the science fiction film Planet of the Apes, notable as being the first ape to be seen by both Taylor and the audience, and also appeared as a (human) army officer in the second sequel Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971). In film, he is perhaps best known for his unconventional (and frequently disparaged) performance as Felix Leiter in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971). He played Will Giddings, an ill fated engineer, in the action film The Towering Inferno (1974), and his later films included The Gumball Rally (1976), Crimes of Passion (1984) and Deep Space (1988). He played Dennis Christopher's mean and ill fated boss in the slasher Fade To Black (1980).

  On television, he is best known for his performance as Inter-Agency Defense Command's supervisor Joe Atkinson during the second season of the DC Comics-based fantasy adventure drama series The New Adventures of Wonder Woman starring Lynda Carter. He also played Burt Dennis in the situation comedy The Ted Knight Show in the spring of 1978, and appeared as General George Marshall in the 1988 television miniseries War and Remembrance. Throughout his life, Burton was a devotee of the method school of acting, and taught method acting in Lakeside, California.
  
  Death
  Burton was just six days short of his 80th birthday when he died as a result of an auto accident while returning from Ajijic, Mexico near the California-Arizona state line.

  

  Norman Burton (1923–2003) Actor

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123680/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (89 credits)
  
  1993 American Ninja 5 - Ambassador Halden
  1992 Live Wire - Senator Victor
  1991 The New Adam-12 (TV Series) - Eric Monroe
  - 211 Pizza (1991) ... Eric Monroe
  1990 Dragnet (TV Series) - Safe Job (1990)
  1990 Thirtysomething (TV Series) - Charley Sayers
  - Arizona (1990) ... Charley Sayers
  
  1988-1989 War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series) - Gen. George C. Marshall
  - Part XII (1989) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
  - Part III (1988) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
  - Part I (1988) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
  1988 Shakedown on the Sunset Strip (TV Movie) - Ward Sullivan
  1988 Deep Space - General Randolph
  1988 Bloodsport - Helmer
  1988 Highway to Heaven (TV Series) - Captain Friend
  - Back to Oakland (1988) ... Captain Friend
  1986 Bad Guys - Captain Watkins
  1986 St. Elsewhere (TV Series) - Monsignor Senti
  - Time Heals: Part 1 (1986) ... Monsignor Senti
  1983-1986 Knight Rider (TV Series) - Damon Leland / Barnswell
  - Redemption of a Champion (1986) ... Damon Leland
  - A Nice, Indecent Little Town (1983) ... Barnswell
  1986 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Drew Narramore
  - Trial by Error (1986) ... Drew Narramore
  1985 Pray for Death - Lt. Anderson
  1984 Crimes of Passion - Lou Bateman
  1983 Mausoleum - Dr. Simon Andrews
  1982 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Carl Emory
  - Fowl Play (1982) ... Carl Emory
  1982 The Facts of Life (TV Series) - Dr. Green
  - The Affair (1982) ... Dr. Green
  1982 CHiPs (TV Series) - Kessler
  - Tiger in the Streets (1982) ... Kessler
  1981 Amy - Caruthers
  1980 Fade to Black - Marty Berger (as Normann Burton)
  1980 To Race the Wind (TV Movie) - Mr. Krents (as Normann Burton)
  1980 Bogie (TV Movie) - Hopkins
  1977-1980 Quincy M.E. (TV Series) - Dr. George Danner / Max
  - Cover-Up (1980) ... Dr. George Danner (as Normann Burton)
  - No Deadly Secret (1977) ... Max (as Normann Burton)
  
  1979 The Ultimate Impostor (TV Movie) - Papich
  1978 Lou Grant (TV Series) - Franklin Nash
  - Conflict (1978) ... Franklin Nash (as Normann Burton)
  1978 Project U.F.O. (TV Series) - Dr. Phil Greiner
  - Sighting 4022: The Camouflage Incident (1978) ... Dr. Phil Greiner (as Normann Burton)
  1978 The Eddie Capra Mysteries (TV Series)
  - Murder, Murder (1978) ... (as Normann Burton)
  1978 Insight (TV Series) - Sam
  - The Flawed Magi (1978) ... Sam (as Normann Burton)
  1978 The Ted Knight Show (TV Mini-Series) - Burt Dennis
  - The Honeymoon Game (1978) ... Burt Dennis
  - Sweet Sixteen (1978) ... Burt Dennis
  - The Wedding (1978) ... Burt Dennis
  - Hop to It (1978) ... Burt Dennis
  - My Hero (1978) ... Burt Dennis
  - Strike (1978) ... Burt Dennis
  1977 Wonder Woman (TV Series) - Joe Atkinson
  - The Man Who Made Volcanoes (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - I Do, I Do (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - The Queen and the Thief (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - The Pied Piper (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - Knockout (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - The Bermuda Triangle Crisis (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - The Man Who Could Move the World (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - Anschluss '77 (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - The Return of Wonder Woman (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  1977 Murder in Peyton Place (TV Movie) - Jay Kamens (as Normann Burton)
  1977 Dog and Cat (TV Series) - Tedesco
  - Dead Skunk (1977) ... Tedesco
  1974-1976 The Rockford Files (TV Series) - Markell / Melvyn Moss
  - Return to the 38th Parallel (1976) ... Markell (as Normann Burton)
  - The Big Ripoff (1974) ... Melvyn Moss (as Normann Burton)
  1976 Rhoda (TV Series) - Ben Levy
  - Meet the Levys (1976) ... Ben Levy (as Normann Burton)
  1976 Black Sheep Squadron (TV Series) - General Carl Gant
  - Presumed Dead (1976) ... General Carl Gant (as Normann Burton)
  1976 Scorchy - Chief Frank O'Brien (as Normann Burton)
  1976 The Gumball Rally - Lieutenant Roscoe (as Normann Burton)
  1976 Harry O (TV Series) - Dr. Lusk
  - Death Certificate (1976) ... Dr. Lusk (as Normann Burton)
  1975-1976 Lincoln (TV Mini-Series) - General Ulysses S. Grant
  - The Last Days (1976) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
  - The Unwilling Warrior (1975) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
  - Sad Figure, Laughing (1975) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
  1975 Conspiracy of Terror (TV Movie) - Lt. Rossos (as Normann Burton)
  1975 Baretta (TV Series) - Councilman
  - The Goodbye Orphan Annie Blues (1975) ... Councilman (as Normann Burton)
  1975 The Reincarnation of Peter Proud - Dr. Frederick Spear (as Normann Burton)
  1975 Force Five (TV Movie) - Arthur Haberman
  1974 Let's Call It Quits (Short) - Bill
  1974 The Towering Inferno - Giddings (as Normann Burton)
  1974 Kojak (TV Series) - 'Fish' Fisher
  - The Best War in Town (1974) ... 'Fish' Fisher (as Normann Burton)
  1974 Planet of the Apes (TV Series) - Yalu
  - The Interrogation (1974) ... Yalu (as Normann Burton)
  1974 The Terminal Man - Det. Capt. Anders
  1974 The Magician (TV Series) - Malloy
  - The Illusion of Black Gold (1974) ... Malloy (as Normann Burton)
  1974 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Bren
  - Selkirk's War (1974) ... Bren
  1973 Hit! - The Director
  1973 Save the Tiger - Fred Mirrell
  1972 A Great American Tragedy (TV Movie)
  1972 The Partners (TV Series) - Romero
  - The 217 in 402 (1972) ... Romero
  1972 Fuzz - Police Commissioner Nelson
  1971 They Call It Murder (TV Movie) - Movie Director
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Leiter
  1971 Escape from the Planet of the Apes - Army Officer
  1971 Simon, King of the Witches - Willard Rackum
  1971 Jud - Uncle Hornkel
  1970 R.P.M. - Coach McCurdy
  
  1969 Land of the Giants (TV Series) - Sergeant
  - The Chase (1969) ... Sergeant
  1968 The Felony Squad (TV Series) - Solly Hirt
  - Matched for Murder (1968) ... Solly Hirt
  1968 Judd for the Defense (TV Series) - Roger Helmsman
  - Transplant (1968) ... Roger Helmsman
  1968 Planet of the Apes - Hunt Leader
  1968 I Spy (TV Series) - Brandon
  - Tag, You're It (1968) ... Brandon
  1967 Valley of the Dolls - Neely O'Hara's Director (uncredited)
  1967 Days of Our Lives (TV Series) - Cab Driver
  - Episode #1.391 (1967) ... Cab Driver
  1966 The Hero (TV Series)
  - The Day They Shot Sam Garrett (1966)
  1966 Get Smart (TV Series) - Control Agent
  - The Decoy (1966) ... Control Agent (uncredited)
  1966 I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) - Mr. Asher
  - What's New, Poodle Dog? (1966) ... Mr. Asher
  1966 Love on a Rooftop (TV Series)
  - 117 Ways to Cook Hamburger (1966)
  1965 Gunsmoke (TV Series) - Ed
  - The Reward (1965) ... Ed
  1965 Wild Seed - Policeman
  1965 The Farmer's Daughter (TV Series) - Mr. Hilmer
  - Never Listen to Rumors (1965) ... Mr. Hilmer
  1965 Bewitched (TV Series) - Moving Man
  - Pleasure O'Riley (1965) ... Moving Man
  1963 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Car Salesman
  - See Hollywood and Die (1963) ... Car Salesman (uncredited)
  1963 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Office Worker
  - Miniature (1963) ... Office Worker (uncredited)
  1963 Sam Benedict (TV Series) - Lt. Warren Jones
  - Some Fires Die Slowly (1963) ... Lt. Warren Jones
  1961-1962 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Solly / Wally Dagan
  - The Floyd Gibbons Story (1962) ... Solly
  - 90-Proof Dame (1961) ... Wally Dagan
  1962 Hand of Death - Chief Homicide Investigator
  1962 Shannon (TV Series) - John Herman
  - Dolphin and the Mermaid (1962) ... John Herman
  1962 Womanhunt
  1961 Checkmate (TV Series) - Lou Lewis
  - Kill the Sound (1961) ... Lou Lewis
  1961 The New Breed (TV Series) - Poulos
  - Death of a Ghost (1961) ... Poulos
  1960 Pretty Boy Floyd - Bill Courtney
  
  1956 Fright - Thompkins - Reporter
  
  Archive footage (2 credits)
  
  2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) - Felix Leiter
  1980 Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes (TV Movie) - Yalu

  
  Werner Keppler outside the trailer at Ape Town at the Fox Ranch with the chief gorilla, played by Norman Burton
  
  
  

  2004: Jean Tournier dies at age 78--Paris, France. (Born 3 April 1926--Toulon, Var, France.)

  

  Jean Tournier (1926–2004)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0869673/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Cinematographer (55 credits)
  
  1994 Cache Cash
  1992 Le secret du petit milliard (TV Movie)
  1991 La neige et le feu
  1990 Les 1001 nuits
  
  1989 Les mannequins d'osier
  1988 Bonjour l'angoisse
  1987 Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
  - Part III (1987)
  - Part II (1987)
  - Part I (1987)
  1986 Monte Carlo (TV Mini-Series) (director of photography - 2 episodes)
  - Episode #1.2 (1986) ... (director of photography)
  - Episode #1.1 (1986) ... (director of photography)
  1986 Sins (TV Mini-Series) (director of photography - 3 episodes)
  - Episode #1.3 (1986) ... (director of photography - 1986)
  - Episode #1.2 (1986) ... (director of photography - 1986)
  - Episode #1.1 (1986) ... (director of photography - 1986)
  1985 Target
  1984 Camille (TV Movie)
  1984 Mistral's Daughter (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
  - Episode #1.3 (1984)
  - Episode #1.2 (1984)
  - Episode #1.1 (1984)
  1984 Femmes de personne
  1983 Par ordre du Roy (TV Movie)
  1983 Le battant
  1981 Pour la peau d'un flic
  1980 3 hommes à abattre
  1980 The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
  
  1979 Moonraker (director of photography)
  1978 Les Miserables (TV Movie)
  1976 Destinée de Monsieur de Rochambeau (TV Movie)
  1975 Le cantique des créatures: Georges Braque ou Le temps différent (Documentary)
  1974 Black Thursday
  1974 The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
  1973 The Day of the Jackal (photographed by)
  1972 3000 Million Without an Elevator
  1972 The Annuity
  1971 On the Lam
  1971 Countdown
  1970 Start the Revolution Without Me (director of photography)
  1970 The Comeuppance
  
  1968 The Little Bather (director of photography)
  1968 The Man in the Buick
  1967 Le grand bidule
  1967 Shock Troops
  1966 Divertissement pour amoureux... et concierges (Short)
  1966 Father's Trip
  1966 Trap for the Assassin
  1966 Your Money or Your Life
  1965 Compartiment tueurs
  1965 The Two Orphans
  1965 Fire at Will (director of photography)
  1964 The Counterfeit Constable
  1964 The Train (photographed by)
  1962 Les mystères de Paris
  1961 C'est l'heure (Short)
  1961 C'est pour demain (Short)
  1961 Les bras de la nuit
  1961 Amelie or The Time to Love
  1960 Les deux entêtés (Short)
  1960 Ladies Man
  1960 One Does Not Bury Sunday
  1960 Quai du Point-du-Jour
  
  1958 Auditorium (Short)
  1956 L'album de famille de Jean Renoir (Documentary short)
  
  Camera and Electrical Department (5 credits)
  
  1986 Liberty (TV Movie) (cinematographer: France)
  1983 Man, Woman and Child (director of photography: France)
  1968 The Troops get Married (director of photography: second unit)
  1966 Is Paris Burning? (director of photography: second unit)
  1961 Goodbye Again (camera operator)
  
  Actor (1 credit)
  
  1979 Moonraker - Painter at St. Mark's Square (uncredited)

  

  2008: 007 released in Venezuela.
  2012: Skyfall becomes the highest grossing film to that time in the UK.
  2018: Playboy highlights Dynamite Comics' James Bond Origin: A Train to Catch. Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

  

  James Bond Origin: A Train to Catch

  https://www.playboy.com/read/james-bond-origin-a-train-to-catch
  
  It's the British operative as you've never seen him in this exclusive-to-Playboy pre-007 adventure
  Written by Jeff Parker Illustration by Bob Q Published on December 05, 2018
  
  Jeff Parker/Bob Q/Jordie Bellaire/Simon Bowland/Nate Cosby
  
  James Bond has enlivened PLAYBOY's pages for nearly 60 years, beginning with the March 1960 publication of The Hildebrand Rarity, Ian Fleming's short story about the dashing 007's adventures. Before his fiction appeared in the magazine, Fleming dropped by the Playboy Building in Chicago, where he displayed a curiosity about real-life local villains, asking the editors, "I don't suppose you could introduce me to any of the Mafia chaps?" Fleming's famous hero, of course, is a secret agent of the British government. But how did Bond become the daring operative we know and love? For one chapter of his pre-007 backstory, we turn to this exclusive installment of James Bond Origin from the creative team at Dynamite Comics.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #2.

  

  JAMES BOND 007 #2

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532502011
  SKU: C72513027532502011
  Cover A: Dave Johnson
  UPC: 725130275325 02011
  Cover B: Marguerite Sauvage
  UPC: 725130275325 02021
  Cover C: Clayton Henry
  UPC: 725130275325 02031
  Cover D: Marc Laming
  UPC: 725130275325 02041
  Writer: Greg Pak
  Art: Marc Laming
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: December 2018
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 12/5/2018

  The ODD JOB epic continues, by superstars GREG PAK (Planet Hulk, Mech Cadet Yu) and MARC LAMING (Star Wars, Wonder Woman)!
  Somewhere in the world, a smuggler is trying to deliver a mysterious briefcase to the world's most deadly terrorists. 007 must get this case and is licensed to kill anyone that gets in his way.
  
  This is the story of the man who gets in his way.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  2003: Norman Burton is born--New York City, New York. (He dies 29 November 2003 at age 79--Imperial, California.)
  
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  December 6th
  
  1921: George Leech is born--London, England. (He dies 17 June 2012 at age 90--Cardiff, Wales.)

  

  George Leech: Stuntman and actor
  best known for his work on the Bond
  films franchise

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/george-leech-stuntman-and-actor-best-known-for-his-work-on-the-bond-films-franchise-8008516.html
  Gavin Gaughan | Monday 6 August 2012 00:00

  The resourceful stunt arranger and performer George Leech epitomised the phrase "unsung hero of the film business".
  
  Alongside the usual falls and fights of his trade, Leech walked along the arm of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio di Janeiro, fell from a cable car, and swam with sharks. He was particularly noted for his work on the James Bond franchise, which began with its inception in Dr No; he demonstrated remarkable durability and, in a minor way, established a dynasty of screen stunting.
  
  Stern-visaged, with receding hair and slender in build compared to most stuntmen, Leech was among a generation who parlayed their military experiences during the Second World War into film action sequences, through an agency known as HEP (Howard, Evans and Powell). Another was Bob Simmons, stunt arranger for the Bond films.

  George Leech was born in north London in 1921; his father worked in the London docks, and George was a small, pale child. To build him up, George's father and uncle gave him boxing lessons and he was soon a regular at a St Pancras boxing club. He won the ABA National Championships when he was 15 (at six and a half stone). After leaving school at 14, he joined the Navy in 1943 and won four fights as a welterweight. In 1946 he got his first job in the film industry, in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947); his first stunt involved rolling down a flight of stone steps in place of James Mason.
  
  When flim work was not forthcoming, Leech performed in the then popular "open-air aqua shows", once appearing with Johnny Weismuller at the Earls Court Aqua Show.
  
  Leech was among a team of British stuntmen provided by HEP for Helen of Troy (1955), made in Rome by the Italian division of Warner Brothers, with the pioneering Hollywood stuntman Yakima Canutt as second-unit director. When rehearsing one stunt jump of around 15 feet, Leech landed badly due to a gap between two mattresses, and broke his foot. An Italian first-aid man promptly realigned his foot to its correct place and bound it tightly; despite being in bandages, he was soon back at work, on Port Afrique (1956), starring Pier Angeli.
  
  His earliest work for television was Teddy Gang (1956), an hour-long drama about rebellious youth made for Lew Grade's company ITC, by the producer Harry Alan Towers, who used Leech again on two minor film thrillers, Coast of Skeletons and Mozambique (both 1964). Again for ITC, Leech lurked in the background in a rollneck jumper and dark glasses, only emerging to take part in punch-ups, in Man in a Suitcase and The Prisoner (both 1967).

  After The Guns of Navarone (1961), Leech was recruited as Simmons' assistant for Dr No (1962), in which he also doubled Sean Connery in a pool fight, and he continued in that position for the next four films. His onscreen appearances included taking a fall from a Fort Knox balcony in Goldfinger (1964), and a minor, nautical henchman in Thunderball (1965).
  
  When Simmons was unavailable, Leech was his ideal replacement as stunt arranger for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), personally selecting a dozen stuntmen for the film. He later likened this task to "being in charge of a gang of unruly schoolboys." The production office once rang him to complain: "Please control your men. One is climbing the Eiger, another is skiing across a table while hotel guests are having breakfast and [George] Lazenby is shooting at animals on the Alps with a pistol and driving the insurance people and producers mad." To which Leech replied, "You can't keep a gang of virile men sitting on their arses waiting."
  
  One of Leech's OHMSS stuntmen was Vic Armstrong, with whom he had previously worked on You Only Live Twice (1967). Armstrong would become one of the film world's most respected stuntmen, particularly for his work for Steven Spielberg; he also became Leech's son-in-law, marrying his daughter Wendy, who had successfully followed her father into the stunting profession. All three worked on Superman (1978), and later two granddaughters, Nina and Georgie, entered the family trade.
  
  Simmons returned for Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Leech remained on hand, doubling for the campy assassin Putter Smith as he was set on fire at the climax. He also contributed to The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and For Your Eyes Only (1981), as a Greek heavy; neither The Wild Geese (1978) nor North Sea Hijack (1979) were Bonds, but both starred Roger Moore.

  Leech took charge of stunts for Philip Martin's Gangsters (BBC, 1975) a Play For Today that led to a series. He was also a beekeeper accidentally assaulted with a spiked mace by Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976). One of his last credits as stunt arranger was in Ireland, on The Fantasist (1986), part of the sparse filmography of Robin Hardy, director of The Wicker Man.

  Leech recalled the experience of working alongside genuine, hungry, sharks during Thunderball on an ITV documentary, 30 Years of James Bond (1992). In retirement he kept fit – even at the beginning of 2012 he was still jogging – and was a guest at Bond-themed conventions.
  
  George Daniel Leech, stunt arranger and performer: born London 6 December 1921; married 1952 Elizabeth Mary Hopkins (two daughters); died Cardiff 17 June 2012.

  

  George Leech (I) (1921–2012)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498543/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Stunts (34)
  
  1985 No Surrender (stunt coordinator)
  1985 A View to a Kill (stunt double: Willoughby Gray - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1984 Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (TV Movie) (stunts)
  1983 Never Say Never Again (additional stunts - uncredited)
  1983 Octopussy (explosion stunt - uncredited) / (stunt driver - uncredited)
  1981 For Your Eyes Only (stunt team)
  1980 The Sea Wolves (stunts: attacker on dock - uncredited)
  1980 ffolkes (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1979 Game for Vultures (stunt coordinator)
  1979 The Passage (stunts - uncredited)
  1978 Superman (stunts: Man in burglar's office - uncredited)
  1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther (stunt double: Peter Sellers - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1978 The Wild Geese (stunts - uncredited)
  1978 The Professionals (TV Series) (stunt double - 1 episode)
  - When the Heat Cools Off (1978) ... (stunt double - uncredited)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunt driver: Lotus Esprit - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1977 A Bridge Too Far (stunts - uncredited)
  1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (stunts - uncredited)
  1976 The Eagle Has Landed (stunts - uncredited)
  1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again (stunts - uncredited)
  1975 Brannigan (stunts - uncredited)
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever (stunts - uncredited)
  1971 Puppet on a Chain (stunts - uncredited)
  1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunts - uncredited)
  1970 Kelly's Heroes (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (stunt arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (stunts - uncredited)
  1967 Casino Royale (stunts - uncredited)
  1965 Thunderball (stunts - uncredited)
  1964 Goldfinger (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunt driver - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1962 Dr. No (stunt double: Joseph Wiseman - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1961 The Guns of Navarone (stunts - uncredited)
  1960 Exodus (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1956 Helen of Troy (stunts - uncredited)
  
  Actor (36 credits)
  
  1985 Dempsey and Makepeace (TV Series) - 1st. Warder
  - Hors de Combat (1985) ... 1st. Warder
  1981 For Your Eyes Only - Henchman Shark Victim (uncredited)
  1980 ffolkes - Magnussen
  
  1978 Superman - Man in Office (uncredited)
  1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther - Asylum Policeman (uncredited)
  1978 The Wild Geese - Stone (uncredited)
  1978 People Like Us (TV Mini-Series) - 2nd Thief
  - Hungry Men Are Angry Men (1978) ... 2nd Thief
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Cortina Gunman #2 (uncredited)
  1976 The Eagle Has Landed - Traumer (uncredited)
  1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again - Mr. Stutterstutt
  1975 Brannigan - Man in Bar (uncredited)
  1971 Puppet on a Chain - Thug (uncredited)
  1971 When Eight Bells Toll - Thug (uncredited)
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Strangled SPECTRE Skier (uncredited)
  1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - 4th Guardian / First Corridor Guard
  - Hammer Into Anvil (1967) ... 4th Guardian (as George Leach)
  - The General (1967) ... First Corridor Guard
  1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - Second Guard
  - Brainwash (1967) ... Second Guard
  1967 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Guard
  - Shinda Shima (1967) ... Guard (uncredited)
  1963-1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Chauffeur / Production Assistant
  - The Queen's Ransom (1966) ... Chauffeur (uncredited)
  - Marcia (1963) ... Production Assistant (uncredited)
  1966 Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
  1966 The Spies (TV Series) - Karl
  - I Don't Even Volunteer (1966) ... Karl
  1965 Thunderball - Largo's Crewman (uncredited)
  1965 The Face of Fu Manchu - Manchu Minion (uncredited)
  1965 Coast of Skeletons - Carlo Seton
  1964 Mozambique - Carl
  1964 Scene Nun, Take One (Short)
  1964 The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb - Ship Attacker (uncredited)
  1964 Goldfinger - Man in Bulletproof Vest at 'Q' Division (uncredited)
  1964 Carry On Spying - Waiter (uncredited)
  1962 Dr. No - Decontamination Technician (uncredited)
  1962 Billy Budd - Marine (uncredited)
  1960 And the Same to You - Jake
  1960 Sink the Bismarck ! - War Room Officer (uncredited)
  
  1959 Hot Money Girl - Man In Fight (uncredited)
  1956 Port Afrique - Second Arab
  1956 Private's Progress - German Soldier (uncredited)
  1956 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series)
  - Teddy Gang (1956)
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (2 credits)
  
  1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (film extra - uncredited)
  
  1947 Odd Man Out (stand-in: Mr. Mason - uncredited)
  
  Self (5 credits)
  
  2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Himself
  1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself
  
  Archive footage (1 credit)
  
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Hyderfoil Crewman

  
  
  

  30 Years of James Bond, 3/5, George Leech at 4:35
  

  1962: Colin Salmon is born--Luton, Bedfordshire, England.
  1967: Critic Marjorie D. Lawrie from Punch praises the illustrations by Christopher Chamberlain in The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ as "satisfying". (Short of commenting on the prose.)
  1982: Octopussy films Kamal Khan speaking to a concealed Octopussy.
  1985: A View to a Kill released in Sri Lanka.
  1999: Radioactive's release of the "Die Another Day" three-track CD digipak single (from 15 November) ends this day.
  2001: BBC News reports a rare book find.

  

  Rare Bond find in charity shop

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1695888.stm
  Thursday, 6 December, 2001, 18:08 GMT
  
  Ian Fleming began writing Bond novels late in life
  
  A rare copy of a James Bond book by Ian Fleming has been discovered in a charity shop in Scotland.

  The first edition copy of Live and Let Die was handed in by a mystery donor in a plastic bag full of other books.

  It had been in storage when John Fyfe, a volunteer at the Morningside branch of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), spotted the rare edition.
  
  The item has been valued at about £5,000 by book experts at Sotheby's in London, where it is due to be auctioned next Thursday.
  
  Shock
  Mr Fyfe admitted he was very surprised at the find.
  
  He said: "I've no idea who handed it in. I work two days a week and I was off when the books were left in the shop.
  
  "It was just lying with a pile of books and we go through them all to check for anything special.
  
  
  Sean Connery starred as Bond
  
  "It's quite a plain looking thing, although its dust jacket was in good condition. When I saw it was a first edition I knew it would be worth a bit."
  
  Jay Hogarty, ICRF area retail manager, said: "If the auction estimate is right, this will be the biggest find we've had in Scotland.
  
  "Mr Fyfe is a volunteer specialist who knows about books, and not all our shops have those specialists.
  
  "The money will go back to the shop and then to our central fund to help vital cancer research."
  
  Origins
  In July 2000 a copy of Fleming's first James Bond book, Casino Royale, published in 1953, sold at Sotheby's for £6,500.
  
  Fleming was born in 1908 but it was not until 1952 that he wrote his first James Bond draft.
  
  Casino Royale was a hit, and was televised in the US in 1954.
  
  In the following years he dedicated himself to its successors and oversaw the move of James Bond onto the big screen.
  
  Among his other works was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - the story of a mad professor who invents an amazing flying car.

  

  2002: Die Another Day released in South Africa.
  2011: Skyfall films Moneypenny handing a box to OO7 on the Department of Energy and Climate Change rooftop, Whitehall.
  2012: Skyfall released in the Dominican Republic.
  2014: Scheduled start date for the filming of BOND 24.
  
  
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  December 7th
  
  1941: The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service bombs the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

  
  

  1955: Priscilla Barnes is born--Fort Dix, New Jersey.
  1959: Kevin McClory registers the title Thunderball anticipating a future film based on meetings with Ian Fleming and Jack Whittingham.
  1965: Jeffrey Wright is born--Washington, District of Columbia.
  1972: Live and Let Die films Bond taking the top off a double decker bus.
  1995: GoldenEye released in Argentina, the Netherlands, and Singapore.
  1997: The New York Times prints Adam Bryant's piece "007: License to Shill."

  

  Agent 007: License to Shill

  https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/07/weekinreview/agent-007-license-to-shill.html
  By Adam Bryant | Dec. 7, 1997
  
  IT seems like only yesterday that the dream of any self-respecting teen-age boy with a freshly minted driver's license was to have his date lean across the front seat and whisper, ''Oh James, you drive beautifully.''
  
  That's James as in ''Bond, James Bond,'' a phrase that got hard-wired into the brains of an entire generation of guys who grew to admire this founding member of the Pantheon of Real Men. After all, nobody ever gets the best of Bond, women are his life and he's smart enough to instantly recognize a counterfeit license plate on a Ferrari in France.
  
  But now this secret agent with a knack for being in the right place at the right time is turning up everywhere, and that hard-wired reverence for the original super-suave Bond is threatening to short out.
  
  These days, it is hard to miss all the Bond cross-promotional ads. Ericsson cellular phones are suddenly ''Bond Approved.'' His BMW car and motorcycle are described as ''Bond's new loves.'' Visa, Smirnoff, Heineken, Avis and Omega are all in on the act. In the market for makeup? L'Oreal is now selling lipstick and nail polish in shades of ''Bond Bordeaux.''
  
  True, Bond and marketing tie-ins are nothing new (guys could once buy 007 cologne, and the last movie, ''Goldeneye,'' helped BMW sell thousands of new Z3 roadsters). But the sheer number of promotional partners for the 18th Bond movie, ''Tomorrow Never Dies,'' which opens Friday, seems over the top. Could this really be James Bond, the seemingly omniscient and omnipotent secret agent for whom stuff and gadgets were simply a means to a variety of ends?
  
  ''The blubbery arms of the soft life had Bond round the neck and they were slowly strangling him,'' Ian Fleming wrote in an early Bond book, From Russia, With Love. ''He was a man of war and when, for a long period, there was no war, his spirit went into decline.''
  
  Seeing Bond -- or at least his latest incarnation, Pierce Brosnan -- over and over in ads with a Visa card waved in front of his face by his gadget guru Q will surely cause many other spirits to dip, too. But Karen C. Sortito, executive vice president for worldwide promotions at MGM/UA, which is releasing the new movie, is adamant that the essence of Bond has not been compromised in the name of cutting through ad clutter.
  
  For one thing, she said, Bond is not making any you-should-buy-this-product pitches himself. The ads are also clever and funny, Ms. Sortito said, and are a kind of celebration of Bond in the same way that agencies show off some of their best work for the Super Bowl.
  
  ''It's all cool and hip,'' she said. ''If this wasn't creative, we would not be doing it.''
  
  The advertising is also helpful in reaching a broader audience and drawing them into the 35-year-old Bond phenomenon, Ms. Sortito said. It has been hard to generate a lot of interest among the many women who see Bond movies as popcorn for guys, so the L'Oreal products should help. The Heineken and BMW motorcycle ads build interest among young males, she said, while the Smirnoff vodka ads appeal to traditionalists.
  
  ''How can you justifiably criticize this when we are trying to grow the audience?'' she asked. Another important test, she added, was that the products were not forced into the screenplay. ''We would never sell out Bond for that and we haven't yet.''
  
  Perhaps the problem is that a lot of these products are kind of pedestrian. Bond and Heineken? Beer cans, unlike martinis, are not supposed to be shaken. Bond and Avis? Avis may boast that ''We Try Harder,'' but the real Bond makes everything look effortless.
  
  Of course, debates over quintessential Bondness are endless. Which actor came closest to capturing the Bond of Ian Fleming's books -- a secret agent who is neither witty nor dapper, but somebody who is somber, ruthless and deadly serious?
  
  But one thing seems beyond dispute: the sight of a cardboard cutout of Mr. Brosnan next to a stack of Heineken cases -- coming to a supermarket near you -- is not what Mr. Fleming had in mind. In Moonraker, Bond describes how he thinks others see him: ''The tough man of the world. The secret agent. The man who is only a silhouette.''
  
  A silhouette should never be confused with a cardboard cutout.

  1999: European CD single for "The World Is Not Enough" released.

  

  2006: Casino Royale released in Argentina, Australia, Chile, Hungary, New Zealand, Peru, and Thailand.
  2008: Daniel Craig confirms BOND 23's plot will not continue the Casino Royale nor Quantum of Solace story arc: "I'm done with that story. I want to lie on a beach for the first half an hour of the next movie drinking a cocktail."
  
  
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  December 8th
  
  1925: Sammy Davis Jr. is born--Harlem, New York City, New York.)
  (He dies 16 May 1990 at age 64--Beverly Hills, California.

  

  From the Archives: Consummate
  Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. Dies at
  64

  https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-sammy-davis-jr-19900517-story.html
  
  Altovise and Sammy Davis Jr. in 1972
  By Edward J. Boyer | May 17, 1990 | Times Staff Writer
  
  Sammy Davis Jr., the quintessential showman embraced by his peers as “Mr. Entertainment” for his enormous talent and versatility, died early Wednesday morning at his home in Beverly Hills after a nine-month battle with throat cancer.
  
  Death came as friends and fans of the diminutive, 64-year-old entertainer maintained a vigil outside his home. They had been gathering there since Tuesday when word began to circulate that the end was near.
  
  The tributes were immediate:

  Frank Sinatra, who with Davis, Joey Bishop, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford became Hollywood’s fast-living “Rat Pack” of the 1960s and who knew him for 40 years, said he “wished the world could have known Sam as I did. . . . It was a generous God who gave him to us for all these years . . . . Sam was the best friend a man could have.”

  Said Bishop: “Guess they must need a good show up in Heaven, that’s all I can say.” Then he added, “God I’m sorry. I loved him.”

  Martin hailed Davis as a great entertainer and “an even greater friend, not only to me, but to everyone whose life he touched.”

  Former President Ronald Reagan remembered him as “a special talent which made him more than just a great entertainer--it made him magical.” Comedian Bill Cosby said that “it would have been fantastic to see him at age 82 still enjoying performing for the people. I’ll see him later.”

  Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley—who counted Davis among his friends and political supporters—ordered the city’s flags flown at half staff.

  
  Davis had battled the cancer in his throat since September, when a tumor was discovered growing behind his vocal cords. He began a series of radiation treatments that left his skin discolored and raw enough to bleed when he touched his throat.
  
  When his illness became known, fans around the world deluged him with letters letting him know that he was in their prayers.
  
  Show business friends from Sinatra and Cosby to Liza Minnelli and Steve Lawrence rallied to his side, putting themselves at his disposal. A month before the cancer was detected, Davis, Sinatra and Minnelli (filling in for an ailing Dean Martin) had been on a reunion tour, bringing sellout audiences to their feet.
  
  His friends’ affection for the man who enjoyed describing himself as a “little one-eyed colored guy” was nowhere more evident than during a television tribute earlier this year, commemorating his more than six decades in show business.
  
  Said singer Whitney Houston, a guest on the televised tribute taped last year: “He helped to break down the color barriers. I think he fought the battle for the rest of us.”
  
  Davis would have been the first to acknowledge that he was but one soldier among generations of troops who assaulted color barriers. Nonetheless, he determinedly fought his battles with whatever weapons were available, including one that he felt the haters could not withstand—his talent.
  
  Whether dancing with his father and uncle on countless television guest spots, captivating movie audiences as Sportin’ Life in “Porgy and Bess,” singing his way through “Mr. Wonderful” on Broadway, or finding a hit song and a theme in “Candy Man,” Davis brought an exuberance to every performance.
  
  His versatility was such that he could go on a bare stage alone and weave a stunning evening of entertainment with song, dance, impressions and comedy.
  
  “This is what I want on my tombstone,” he once told an interviewer:
  
  “Sammy Davis Jr., the date, and underneath, one word: ‘Entertainer.’ That’s all, because that’s what I am, man.”
  
  Behind Davis’ superb stagecraft, however, and despite the adoration of faithful fans, Davis was for much of his life a man at war with himself.
  
  He buried his pain in alcohol and cocaine—chasing the delusion that his “swinging” lifestyle somehow compensated for his two divorces, his estrangement from his children, and his futile efforts to become what he thought others expected him to be.
  
  “I didn’t like me,” Davis told an interviewer in 1989. “So it made all the sense in the world to me at the time that if you don’t like yourself, you destroy yourself.
  
  “The monkey on my back is that I created a lifestyle that was no good for me. My life was empty. I had drugs, booze and broads, and I had nothing.”
  
  He had to fight his way through what he has called “the tortures of the damned,” and he credited Altovise, his wife of 20 years, with helping him make a turnaround.
  
  “She was there for me,” he said. “She gave me all the support in the world.”
  
  The turnaround began when doctors told him in 1983 that his stomach and liver were so damaged that he would die soon if he didn’t stop drinking. He stopped. In 1984 and 1985, he underwent hip replacement surgery.
  
  But he returned to dance again and charmed movie fans as Little Mo, the veteran hoofer with still enough moves to accept a “challenge” dance, in the 1989 film “Tap.”
  
  The drinking was only one of his excesses. He spent money just as easily.
  
  During his illustrious career, he had earned millions and spent or given away more. And by the 1980s, the Internal Revenue Service was clamoring for unpaid millions in taxes it said he owed.
  
  Davis also shamelessly gushed over every guest on his television shows. And his ostentation became a trademark. If one gold ring was good, four had to be better.
  
  Try as he might to win love with his talent, his public persona had become an easy target--grist for a devastating (and, he said, all too accurate) impersonation by comedian Billy Crystal.
  
  But if his excesses were obnoxious to some, Davis, the individual, was a monument to generosity for others. He marched for civil rights in Selma, Ala., played benefits for Jesse Jackson’s Operation PUSH, and helped raise funds to investigate the Atlanta child murders.
  
  Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, remembered him Wednesday as “a humanitarian whose heart was so big . . . that it dwarfed his frame.”
  
  Hooks, in a statement, called attention to Davis’ accomplishments “in the struggle of African-Americans,” much of which “was not widely known . . . .”
  
  Coretta Scott King called him “not only one of the greatest performing artists of our age” but “an ardent, tireless supporter of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement . . . .”
  
  Davis would break into his schedule to play a benefit for a blind ex-fighter or sell bonds for Israel. Even as his bank account slid toward empty, he was contributing thousands of dollars to his child’s school.
  
  This consummate entertainer whose career has been described as a series of radical mood swings was born Dec. 8, 1925, in Harlem, N.Y., where his father was lead dancer and his mother, Elvera (Sanchez) Davis, was in the chorus of a vaudeville troupe headed by his adopted uncle, Will Mastin.
  
  When the act went on the road, Davis remained with his paternal grandmother, Rosa (Mama) Davis, who raised him until his parents divorced. His father took custody, and by age 3 a mugging little Sammy had made his stage debut.
  
  He learned to dance by watching routines from the wings, and the rhythms from his flashing feet soon became a popular addition to the act. He made his film debut in 1933, at age 7, in “Rufus Jones for President,” a comedy in which a boy dreams he is elected President.
  
  Davis never attended school. His father and Mastin hired tutors—especially when truant officers applied pressure—to teach the youngster the three Rs. That irregular instruction and Davis’ later friendship with a U.S. Army sergeant who loaned him books and taught him remedial reading was as close as he came to formal education.
  
  Mastin’s troupe, which had included 12 members, began to shrink with the decline of vaudeville and eventually was reduced to “The Will Mastin Trio, Featuring Sammy Davis Jr.”
  
  Touring in the 1930s and ‘40s, the trio often could not find hotels that would rent rooms to blacks or restaurants that would serve them. But it was not until Davis was drafted into the Army’s first integrated unit at age 18 that he ran into the naked racism never far beneath the surface of World War II America.
  
  During basic training in Wyoming, he was beaten, kicked and spat upon by bigoted whites in his barracks. Describing those days in his best-selling 1965 biography, “Yes, I Can,” Davis said his knuckles were covered with scabs from fighting racists during his first three months in the Army.
  
  Perhaps the ugliest incident occurred when a group of white enlistees decided to teach him a lesson for being too familiar with a white female officer.
  
  Davis said they lured him to a remote spot on the base, where they beat him and painted racial slurs on his chest and forehead. They forced him to tap dance and smeared more white paint over his body, only to remove a spot to demonstrate that beneath the paint he was still “just as black ‘n’ ugly as ever.”
  
  The pain of that incident motivated him to pump even more energy into his performances at camp shows. He felt that his sheer talent could reach the haters, “neutralize them,” force them to recognize him as a person.
  
  He used an audience’s affection as fuel, and he made no secret of his “joy of being liked.” And he would work himself to exhaustion to please an audience, friends said, in a futile effort to make the world love him--to erase the brutal memories of his Army experiences.
  
  Davis rejoined his father and uncle after the war, but the trio led a hand-to-mouth existence as vaudeville died and they tried breaking into nightclubs. They worked hotels in Las Vegas, where they could neither register as guests nor enter the casinos because they were black.
  
  Some New York City clubs would not allow him to enter, and he needed a special permit just to be on the streets of Miami Beach at night when he performed there.
  
  But Davis continued to increase his repertoire—adding trumpet, drums, celebrity impressions—as the trio crisscrossed the country, taking whatever dates they could find.
  
  In 1946, Metronome magazine named him “Most Outstanding New Personality” on the strength of his Capitol recording of “The Way You Look Tonight,” the magazine’s selection as record of the year. Davis recorded it under a deal paying him $50 a side for each recording.
  
  During the next two years, the trio appeared with headliners such as Mickey Rooney, Sinatra and Bob Hope. Jack Benny later intervened to get them a booking at Ciro’s nightclub in Hollywood where they opened for singer Janis Paige. The audience would not let them off—or Paige on—stage. The next night, Paige was the opening act for the Will Mastin Trio.
  
  The group’s later appearance on Eddie Cantor’s NBC television show was such a hit that they became the comedian’s summer replacement.
  
  By 1954, when Davis released his first album under a contract to Decca Records, his father and Mastin had become background accompaniment to his soaring performances.
  
  With Davis as its centerpiece, the trio sold out clubs from Los Angeles to New York, and the group was in constant demand for guest spots on television variety shows.
  
  Davis’ on-target impersonations of Jimmy Cagney, Jerry Lewis and Jimmy Stewart were a revelation to audiences who simply had never imagined a black performer being able to so accurately capture a white celebrity’s character.
  
  But it all nearly ended in November, 1954, in a car crash on a stretch of highway between Las Vegas and Los Angeles that cost him his left eye. During his recuperation at a San Bernardino hospital, he said, he began thinking seriously about religion and converted to Judaism.
  
  Once out of the hospital, he was in even more demand. And contract offers began a steady march upward through five figures for a week’s work. In 1956, he made his Broadway debut in “Mr. Wonderful,” a musical comedy created for him.
  
  By the late 1950s, the Will Mastin Trio had broken up, but Davis continued dividing his income with his father and uncle for months—some friends say years.
  
  He became a member of Hollywood’s so-called “Rat Pack” and made six of his 23 movies with them, beginning with “Ocean’s Eleven” in 1960 and ending with “One More Time” in 1970.
  
  After a brief marriage to dancer Loray White in 1959, Davis married Swedish actress May Britt in 1960. The couple had a daughter, Tracey, and adopted two sons, Mark and Jeff. The couple divorced in 1968, and two years later Davis married dancer Altovise Gore. They adopted a son, Manny, last year.
  
  During his marriage to Britt, his celebrity could not shield him from white anger and black consternation.
  
  Davis noted in an interview with Playboy magazine that his mother was Puerto Rican.
  
  “So I’m Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman,” he said. “When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.”
  
  He was bitterly criticized in 1972, during the Republican National Convention in Miami, for hugging Richard M. Nixon. To many black Americans, the photo of that incident was eloquent testimony to what they saw as Davis’ misplaced values.
  
  That criticism, however, wasn’t as painful as the rejection that came his way from John F. Kennedy, whose candidacy he had tirelessly supported.
  
  Davis had been invited to Kennedy’s 1961 inauguration, but the invitation was rescinded a few days after it was offered because the Kennedy camp felt Davis and his white wife might anger Southerners.
  
  “The guy I ran with is the man that told me, ‘Don’t come to the White House cause you’ll embarrass me’ because I was married to a white woman,” Davis said in a 1987 interview. “And I had to accept that. But that was the man I campaigned for, and went all out for. That was John Kennedy.”
  
  By now Davis was a fixture in the firmament of American stars. Before his “Rat Pack” movies, he had appeared in “The Benny Goodman Story,” co-starred with Eartha Kitt in “Anna Lucasta” and won rave notices as Sportin’ Life in the film version of “Porgy and Bess.”
  
  He returned to the stage in the mid-1960s in a musical adaptation of Clifford Odets’ “Golden Boy,” a production that ran for 568 performances before closing in March, 1966.
  
  Davis, meanwhile, had remained busy in films, producing the forgettable “A Man Called Adam” with his own company in 1966. He also appeared as revivalist Big Daddy in “Sweet Charity” and performed in the 1972 documentary “Save the Children.”
  
  While moving between stage, television and movies, Davis also recorded dozens of albums and released several hit singles, including his all-time top-seller, “Candy Man.”
  
  His was a familiar face in America’s living rooms as he turned up on television in shows ranging from “The Beverly Hillbillies” to “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” to the soap opera “One Life to Live.” He hosted several specials of his own, sat in for Johnny Carson and did the brief and ill-fated “Sammy Davis Jr. Show” on NBC from 1965 to 1966.
  
  He was a smash hit in “Sammy,” a television retrospective of his first half-century in show business. But his second try at a network show, “NBC Follies,” was canceled midway through the 1973-74 season.
  
  Last year he published a second biography, Why Me? co-written, as was his best-selling first book, with Jane and Burt Boyar. In interviews discussing the new book, he acknowledged that racial prejudice had profoundly affected him.
  
  He poignantly told a story of a man coming to his table at a nightclub to greet him after he had become an international celebrity. The man was the very person who had refused him admission to the same club some years before.
  
  He felt he should have told the man “to get away from me with his hypocrisy.” But he was silent.
  
  “So I went home and threw up,” he said. “I had stifled my own feelings and made myself sick. That night I vowed: ‘I’ll never let that happen again.’ ”
  
  He said he began to fight the subtle prejudices he encountered, whether it was fellow board members of a company being surprised that he could do more than sing and dance, or making it clear to guests at a party that he could talk about more than what Carson or Sinatra are “really like.”
  
  Still, by his own admission, he had mellowed in the last five years.
  
  He overcame what he called his obsession with his career even as he was being increasingly called upon to accept yet another honor for his body of work or for his commitment to various social and political causes.
  
  “I’ve been looking inward,” he said last year. “I’ve been counting my blessings. I no longer feel I have to do it all. I don’t yearn to be at the top of the mountain.”
  
  Davis is survived by his wife, four children and two grandchildren. His mother and a sister also survive. Services are scheduled at 11 a.m. Friday at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Hollywood Hills. Burial will follow at Forest Lawn, Glendale.
  
  The family suggested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Sammy Davis Jr. National Liver Institute at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark.
  
  Times staff writer Eric Malnic contributed to this obituary.

  

  Sammy Davis Jr. (I) (1925–1990)

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  1950: Rick Baker is born--Binghamton, New York.
  1953: Kim Basinger is born--Athens, Georgia.
  1964: Teri Hatcher is born--Palo Alto, California.
  1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films on the cable car.
  1979: Moonraker released in Japan.

  
  
  
  

  1983: Never Say Never Again released in the Netherlands.
  1989: Licence to Kill released in Cyprus.
  1995: GoldenEye released in Israel and Sweden.
  1995: 007 - GoldenEye released in Portugal.
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Malta.
  1999: Världen räcker inte till released in Sweden.

  

  2006: Casino Royale released in Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
  2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Mexico.
  2014: BOND 24 production begins at Pinewood Studios. Filming commences the next 7 months in London, Mexico City, Rome, Morocco.
  
  
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  December 2019 edited December 2020 Posts: 13,043

  December 9th
  
  1912: Blanche Blackwell is born--Costa Rica. (She dies 8 August 2017 at age 104--London, England.)

  

  Blanche Blackwell obituary

  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/29/blanche-blackwell-obituary

  Heiress who became the ‘Jamaican wife’ of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and was supposedly the model for Goldfinger’s Pussy Galore

  Ian Thomson | Tue 29 Aug 2017 12.26 EDT
  [
  Blanche Blackwell and Ian Fleming. Photograph:
  Taken from the biography of Ian Fleming by Andrew Lycett

  Blanche Blackwell, who has died aged 104, was a divorcee in her 40s when in 1956 she met Ian Fleming, her neighbour in Jamaica and the creator of James Bond; and soon they became lovers. Cracks had by then begun to show in Fleming’s marriage to Ann Charteris. Ann was ashamed of her husband’s success as a thriller writer (the Bond novels were “pornography”, she told friends), and had begun to stay away from their Jamaican home, Goldeneye.
  
  Blackwell’s friendship with Fleming intensified when Ann began an affair with the politician Hugh Gaitskell. Ann became suspicious of “Ian’s Jamaican wife” after Anthony Eden’s wife, Clarissa, mentioned how helpful Blackwell had been at Goldeneye when the prime minister recuperated there in 1956 after the debacle of Suez. In an attempt to make Goldeneye more welcoming for the Edens, Blackwell had planted the garden with flowers; Ann later tore them out and threw them over the cliff.
  
  Fleming wrote all 13 of his 007 novels in Jamaica, though only three (Dr No, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun) were set partly on the island. Noël Coward, another neighbour, dubbed Fleming’s home “Goldeneye, nose and throat” for its lack of creature comforts. It was in this Spartan retreat that Fleming immersed himself in a Bond-like life of tropical oblivion fuelled by vodka and cigarettes (like 007, Fleming smoked 70 a day).
  
  Impishly, he included sketches of his friends (and enemies) in his fiction. Blackwell was supposedly a model for Pussy Galore, the trapeze artist turned leader of a team of lesbian cat burglars who passes herself off as an air stewardess in his novel Goldfinger; for the film, she is a pilot and martial arts expert. In Dr No, the guano-collecting ship was named the Blanche. Blackwell claimed not to have read any of the books, though: “I don’t like violence.”

  Daughter of Hilda (nee Lindo) and Percy Lindo, cousins who married, she was born into a wealthy Jamaican family, descended from Sephardic Jews from western Europe who had settled in Kingston in the mid-18th century and came to control much of the island’s commerce. Her father had helped to consolidate the family fortune in Costa Rica – where Blanche was born, in San José – before returning to Jamaica, where he owned property and produced rum.
  
  In 1936, in London, Blanche married Joseph Blackwell, a captain in the Irish Guards and heir to the Crosse & Blackwell foods fortune. Together they ran the family estates in Jamaica and owned a string of racehorses. In 1937 their son Christopher was born. Blanche was not happy in the marriage, however. The actor Errol Flynn (“a gorgeous god,” Blackwell called him) became one of her admirers.
  
  By the time she and Joseph divorced in 1949, she had moved to Jamaica’s north coast, to a house equidistant between Coward’s and Fleming’s. “Noël became a special pal of mine,” Blackwell told me during an interview in 2007, and Coward was said to have based his play Volcano on island life, and one of its central characters, Adela, on Blackwell.
  
  Fleming adored “Birdie” Blackwell and her darting, kingfisher mind. And Blackwell, in her turn, considered Fleming a “charming, handsome, gifted man”, but one plagued by self-doubt and self-hate. “Ian was an angel”, she told me. “Errol was another … Both lovely men – both exceptionally gifted and definitely not for domesticating.”
  
  When Fleming died of a heart attack in 1964, Blanche was invited neither to the funeral nor the memorial service. For years, she kept watch over Goldeneye for Fleming’s son Caspar; and after Caspar’s death in 1975 the house was bought first by Bob Marley, and then by her son, Chris, the founder in 1959 of Island Records, who had “discovered” Marley.
  
  Tough and good-humoured, in later life Blackwell wore her white hair bobbed round an animated, heart-shaped face. Her life, until she decamped in 2003 to a flat in Knightsbridge, London, had been one of island entertainments and literary friendships. Now, looked after by three Jamaican maids, Blackwell became an unlikely devotee of bingo. Each week her chauffeur took her to the Cricklewood Mecca to play. In Kingston, she had liked to bet on the horses, but London bingo was not without its thrills. “Cricklewood might seem a little dull to you,” she said. “It isn’t really. I could sit for hours in the Mecca. The tension as your number comes up. Bing-bing-bingo!”
  
  She is survived by her son.
  
  • Blanche Blackwell, born 9 December 1912; died 8 August 2017
  
  This article was amended on 13 September 2017. The original description of Pussy Galore as a pilot and martial arts expert applies only to the film; in the novel she is a trapeze artist turned leader of a team of lesbian cat burglars who passes herself off as an air stewardess.

  

  1934: Judi Dench is born--York, North Yorkshire, England.
  1961: Bond comic strip For Your Eyes Only ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Started 11 September 1961. 988-1065) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/fyeo.php3
  
  http://www.michaelmay.online/2014/08/for-your-eyes-only-comic-strip.html
  
  
  
  
  
  Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-8-1966/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 8: “For Your Eyes Only” (1966)
  Note: The title of the main story is announced as "Fra dødelig synsvinkel" in issue no. 7 and on page 3, but the front page says "Fra en dræbende synsvinkel". Rather confusingly, both Danish titles translate as "From a view to a kill", even though this particular comic is adapted from another Ian Fleming short story, "For Your Eyes Only".
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no29-1974/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 29: “For Your Eyes Only” (1974)
  Note: The story's Danish title somewhat confusingly translates af "From a View to a Kill", though it is based on "For Your Eyes Only".
  [img]Note: The story's Danish title somewhat confusingly translates af "From a View to a Kill", though it is based on "For Your Eyes Only"[/img]
  
  

  1965: 007/Sandâbôru sakusen (_________ Strategy, aka Thunderball) premieres in Tokyo, Japan.

  
  
  Frank McCarthy
  
  
  1974 Re-release
  
  
  
  

  1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in Australia and South Africa.
  1987: Barbara Walters interviews Sean Connery on ABC-TV.

  

  1997: World Charity premiere of Tomorrow Never Dies at the London Odeon. No Royal family in attendance this time.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/tnd_premiere
  
  http://pbfiles.net/tnd/tnd-premiere1.html

  
  
  
  
  
  

  1999: James Bond 007 - Die Welt ist nicht genug released in Germany.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2004: Jean Tournier dies at age 78--Paris, France.
  (Born 3 April 1926--Toulon, Var, France.)

  

  Jean Tournier (1926–2004)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0869673/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Cinematographer (55 credits)
  
  1994 Cache Cash
  1992 Le secret du petit milliard (TV Movie)
  1991 La neige et le feu
  1990 Les 1001 nuits
  
  1989 Les mannequins d'osier
  1988 Bonjour l'angoisse
  1987 Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
  - Part III (1987)
  - Part II (1987)
  - Part I (1987)
  1986 Monte Carlo (TV Mini-Series) (director of photography - 2 episodes)
  - Episode #1.2 (1986) ... (director of photography)
  - Episode #1.1 (1986) ... (director of photography)
  1986 Sins (TV Mini-Series) (director of photography - 3 episodes)
  - Episode #1.3 (1986) ... (director of photography - 1986)
  - Episode #1.2 (1986) ... (director of photography - 1986)
  - Episode #1.1 (1986) ... (director of photography - 1986)
  1985 Target
  1984 Camille (TV Movie)
  1984 Mistral's Daughter (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
  - Episode #1.3 (1984)
  - Episode #1.2 (1984)
  - Episode #1.1 (1984)
  1984 Femmes de personne
  1983 Par ordre du Roy (TV Movie)
  1983 Le battant
  1981 Pour la peau d'un flic
  1980 3 hommes à abattre
  1980 The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
  
  1979 Moonraker (director of photography)
  1978 Les Miserables (TV Movie)
  1976 Destinée de Monsieur de Rochambeau (TV Movie)
  1975 Le cantique des créatures: Georges Braque ou Le temps différent (Documentary)
  1974 Black Thursday
  1974 The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
  1973 The Day of the Jackal (photographed by)
  1972 3000 Million Without an Elevator
  1972 The Annuity
  1971 On the Lam
  1971 Countdown
  1970 Start the Revolution Without Me (director of photography)
  1970 The Comeuppance
  
  1968 The Little Bather (director of photography)
  1968 The Man in the Buick
  1967 Le grand bidule
  1967 Shock Troops
  1966 Divertissement pour amoureux... et concierges (Short)
  1966 Father's Trip
  1966 Trap for the Assassin
  1966 Your Money or Your Life
  1965 Compartiment tueurs
  1965 The Two Orphans
  1965 Fire at Will (director of photography)
  1964 The Counterfeit Constable
  1964 The Train (photographed by)
  1962 Les mystères de Paris
  1961 C'est l'heure (Short)
  1961 C'est pour demain (Short)
  1961 Les bras de la nuit
  1961 Amelie or The Time to Love
  1960 Les deux entêtés (Short)
  1960 Ladies Man
  1960 One Does Not Bury Sunday
  1960 Quai du Point-du-Jour
  
  1958 Auditorium (Short)
  1956 L'album de famille de Jean Renoir (Documentary short)
  
  Camera and Electrical Department (5 credits)
  
  1986 Liberty (TV Movie) (cinematographer: France)
  1983 Man, Woman and Child (director of photography: France)
  1968 The Troops get Married (director of photography: second unit)
  1966 Is Paris Burning? (director of photography: second unit)
  1961 Goodbye Again (camera operator)
  
  Actor (1 credit)
  
  1979 Moonraker - Painter at St. Mark's Square (uncredited)

  

  2006: “You Know My Name” written by Chris Cornell and David Arnold peaks at 57 on The Billboard Hot 100. Cornell's highest charting single.

  Making of video
  

  2016: Radio Christmas interviews John Glen.

  

  Director John Glen on
  Radio Christmas

  https://bondonthebox.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/director-john-glen-on-radio-christmas/
  
  On 9 Dec, 2016 By Bond on the BoxIn Radio Broadcast
  
  Former James Bond director John Glen will be on the charity station Radio Christmas on Friday, 9 December 2016 from 7:00 – 9:00PM (GMT).

  
  

  
  
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  December 10th
  
  1963: Jack Whittingham issues a writ against Ian Fleming for damages citing libel, malicious falsehood, damage to professional reputation.
  1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in Japan.

  
  
  
  

  1992: MGM/UA settles lawsuits delaying production of Bond films--key executives depart. Credit Lyonnais finances future operations.
  1995: Zlato oko (The Golden Eye) released in Slovenia.
  1999: James Bond 007 - Die Welt ist nicht genug released in Austria.

  
  
  
  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Denmark.

  [img]“The World is Not Enough”: Danish press book and ad sheet (1999) https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/twine-dk-pressbook-1999/[/img]

  2011: Skyfall films late night action on Childers Street, Lewisham, London, for the escape to Scotland.
  2019: Last day of Sotheby's online literature sale for the letters of Anne and Ian Fleming.

  

  'Extraordinary' letters between Ian
  Fleming and wife to be sold
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/11/extraordinary-letters-between-ian-fleming-and-wife-to-be-sold
  
  More than 160 letters written over 20 years shine light on James Bond author’s life
  
  Mark Brown Arts correspondent | Mon 11 Nov 2019 15.01 EST
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  Ann Fleming, née Charteris, was born into the aristocracy and married wealthy men. Photograph:
  ©The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby's
  
  An extraordinary stash of letters that shine a light on the tangled relationship between the James Bond creator, Ian Fleming, and his wife, Ann, from their intense and secret affair to the bitter end of their marriage, are to appear at auction.
  
  Sotheby’s is selling more than 160 letters between the couple, written over 20 years. Gabriel Heaton, a specialist in books and manuscripts at the auction house, said the letters in their scope and scale provided what “must surely be an unmatchable record of the life of the author as his fortunes changed”.
  
  They also provide insight into the rise of Bond. Heaton said it was no coincidence that Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in the year of his marriage.
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  Ian Fleming had numerous flings and affairs with other women. Photograph:
  ©The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby's
  
  It was “both as an outlet for his libido and imagination, and also in an attempt to make money for a woman who was used to being unthinkingly rich”.
  
  Ann Fleming, née Charteris, was born into the aristocracy and married wealthy men. Her first husband was Shane O’Neill, the 3rd Baron O’Neill. After his death in military action in 1944, she married the newspaper magnate Esmond Harmsworth, the 2nd Viscount Rothermere.
  
  During both marriages she and Fleming were lovers, an intense relationship that had sado-masochistic elements. “I long for you even if you whip me because I love being hurt by you and kissed afterwards,” Ann once wrote to Fleming.
  
  In 1948 Ann became pregnant with Fleming’s child, a girl who was a month premature and lived only eight hours. The collection includes a number of sad and gentle letters written by Fleming on Gleneagles stationery shortly after he played golf with Rothermere, the cuckolded husband.
  
  In one letter he writes: “I have nothing to say to comfort you. After all this travail and pain it is bitter. I can only send you my arms and my love and all my prayers.”
  
  Fleming had numerous flings and affairs with other women and when the couple finally married in 1952 that was never likely to stop.
  
  Ann once wrote to him: “You mention ‘bad old bachelor days’ – the only person you stopped sleeping with when they ceased was me!”
  
  A letter from Fleming written on British Overseas Airways Corporation stationery reads: “In the present twilight, we are hurting each other to an extent that makes life hardly bearable.”
  
  Heaton said the letters were packed with stories of high society, travel, love of nature and gossip.
  
  “They are quite something, it has been a real treat,” he said. “They are an extraordinary read because Ian Fleming is pretty much incapable of writing a dull sentence.”
  
  Fleming wrote all of the Bond novels at GoldenEye, his house in Jamaica, a place visited by many of Ann’s remarkable circle of friends. The artist Lucian Freud, for example, and the Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell, with whom she had a long affair.
  
  There were also surprising visitors. “Truman Capote has come to stay,” Fleming writes. “Can you imagine a more incongruous playmate for me. On the heels of a telegram he came hustling and twittering along with his tiny face crushed under a Russian Commissars’ uniform hat [...] he had just arrived from Moscow.”
  
  The letters consist of more than 500 typed and handwritten pages, at least three written on endpapers torn from books. Two of the letters from Ann are written on the back of a gin rummy card and a hospital temperature chart.
  
  They will be offered in Sotheby’s online literature sale between 3 and 10 December and come with an estimate of £200,000-300,000.
  
  It was important to keep them together, said Heaton. “They are much more than the sum of their parts, the correspondence as a whole is far more substantial and interesting and revealing and exciting than simply an accumulation of individual letters.”

  

  Ian Fleming's Love Letters at Sotheby's

  https://www.thebookcollector.co.uk/features/ian-flemings-love-letters-sothebys
  
  

  

  
  
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  December 11th
  
  1961: James Bond comic strip Thunderball begins its run in The Daily Mail. (Ends 10 February 1962. 1066-1128)
  John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tb.php3
  
  
  1122-1123
  
  1126-11327
  
  
  First ending, [Daily Express.
  
  Second ending in syndication.
  
  
  Danish 1966 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-6-eng/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 6: “Thunderball” (1966)
  
  
  

  1965: Thunderball released in Japan.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  1975: The British-American Chamber of Commerce honors Roger Moore--Man of the Year.
  1979: Moonraker released in the Philippines.
  1986: Prince Charles and Princess Diana visit the set of The Living Daylights and meet Timothy Dalton.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  2002: Die Another Day released in Venezuela.
  2006: "You Know My Name" CD single released.

  

  2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die in the hardcover graphic novel format.

  

  JAMES BOND: LIVE AND LET DIE
  GRAPHIC NOVEL HARDCOVER

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C1524113727
  Cover: Fay Dalton
  Writer: Van Jensen, Ian Fleming
  Art: Kewber Baal
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: September 2019
  Format: Hardcover
  Page Count: 168 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 9/11/2019

  In this second adaptation of the Fleming novels...
  Bond is sent to New York City to investigate "Mr. Big", an agent of SMERSH and a criminal voodoo leader. With no time for superstition-and with the help of his colleague in the CIA, Felix Leiter, Bond tracks "Mr. Big" through the jazz joints of Harlem, to the everglades and on to the Caribbean, knowing that this criminal heavy hitter is a real threat. No-one, not even the mysterious Solitaire, can be sure how their battle of wills is going to end...
  ISBN-13: 978-1-5241-1372-8

  

  
  
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  December 12th
  
  1964: The Goldfinger soundtrack makes the Billboard chart, eventually reaches #1. Spends 77 weeks in top 200.
  1964: Playboy magazine publishes its Ian Fleming interview.

  

  1981: Sólo para sus ojos (Only For Your Eyes, also Catalan title Només per als teus ulls) released in Spain.

  
  
  

  1987: The Living Daylights released in Japan.

  
  
  

  1993: The (James Bond 007 International Fan Club's) "Diamonds are Forever 22-Carat Christmas Lunch" is held at Pinewood Studios with Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, and the moon buggy.

  

  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in the UK, Ireland, and Iceland.
  2002: Die Another Day released in Australia, the Dominican Republic, and Lebanon.
  2002: 007: Otro día para morir (Another Day to Die) released in Mexico.
  2002: Умри, но не сейчас (Die But Not Now) released in Russia.

  

  2016: Jamaica reports its nine wins at the 23rd World Travel Awards from 4 December.

  

  JAMAICA WINS NINE AWARDS AT
  WTA CEREMONY

  https://www.un.int/jamaica/news/jamaica-wins-nine-awards-wta-ceremony
  Date: Monday, 12 December 2016
  
  MONTEGO BAY, Dec. 4 (JIS):
  Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says the nine awards won by Jamaica at the 23rd World Travel Awards (WTA) ceremony on Friday (December 2) are a testament to the current international value of Brand Jamaica.
  
  Mr. Bartlett said the awards were a vindication of all the hard work and dedication that have been put into enhancing the tourism product and “a ringing endorsement of all the policies and programmes we have been undertaking.”
  
  “Jamaica starred big time and had the most combined awards from the scores of destinations that were nominated,” Mr. Bartlett said via email from the Maldives, southern Asia, on Saturday (December 3).
  
  “It is not an exaggeration to say that the garnering of such prestigious accolades, on such a stage and on that particular night, will be a major advertising boost for us and something which could positively improve on our projections throughout the winter tourist season,” he added.
  
  The ceremony, which was held at the Sun Siyam Iru Fushi Hotel in the heart of the Maldives, saw Jamaica winning individual awards for: World’s Leading Cruise Destination and World’s Leading Wedding Destination.
  
  Mr. Bartlett also received the distinctive award of the World’s Leading Personality for Outstanding Services to Travel at the function.

  Other awards won by Jamaica and its resorts and travel partners were: World’s Leading Luxury Hotel Villa (Ian Fleming Villa at GoldenEye); World’s Leading New Island Resort (Melia Braco Village); World’s Leading Villa Resort (Round Hill Hotel and Villas); World’s Leading Family Resort Brand (Beaches); World’s Leading All-Inclusive Company (Sandals Resorts International) and World’s Leading Caribbean Attractions Company (Island Routes Caribbean Adventure).

  Meanwhile, Mr. Bartlett stressed that now is not the time for complacency as “rest assured that as we celebrate, our competitors are busy plotting marketing strategies”.
  
  “We must also be cognisant of the fact that the success of our tourism will not be sufficiently measured by the number of international awards that are won, but by the resilience of our people and the nimbleness of our models,” he explained.
  
  He added that the consistency of Jamaica’s tourism growth, both in revenues and visitor arrivals, has positioned the country as world-beaters.
  
  “I offer my deepest and most profound gratitude to the many partners in tourism who over time have conspired to give Jamaica a moment of glory like this,” Mr. Bartlett noted.
  
  Jamaica was also represented at the ceremony by Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang who collected the award for World’s Leading Cruise Destination on behalf of the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ).
  
  CONTACT: GARWIN DAVIS
  JIS REGIONAL OFFICE
  MONTEGO BAY

  

  2018: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond Origin #4.

  

  JAMES BOND ORIGIN #4

  Cover A: John Cassaday
  Cover B: Kev Walker
  Cover C: Wilfredo Torres
  Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
  Cover E: Bob Q
  Writer: Jeff Parker
  Art: Bob Q
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: December 2018
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 12/12/2018

  "Rocket Sea" continues...Forced to surface in enemy waters, a damaged Royal Navy submarine docks at a mysterious island for repairs. Lieutenant James Bond leads a hunting expedition across the island. But while hunting beasts, he discovers a far more dangerous prey...

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  1915: Curd Jürgens is born--Solin, Munich, Germany. (He dies 18 June 1982 at age 66--Vienna, Austria.)

  

  CURT JURGENS, WAR FILMS' STAR

  https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/19/obituaries/curt-jurgens-war-films-star.html
  UPI | JUNE 19, 1982
  
  Curt Jurgens, the West German movie actor who was a star of countless World War II films, died in a hospital here today. He was 66 years old.
  
  Mr. Jurgens had been hospitalized for the last two months. Friends said he had refused to reduce his activities despite years of heart trouble and the replacement of three heart valves in an operation in the United States two years ago.
  
  His physician, Dr. Anton Neumayr, said he had been making progress up to a week ago but suffered a relapse Monday. Mr. Jurgens, who made more than 160 films, began his film career in 1936 with ''Imperial Waltz.'' He established himself internationally with performances in ''The Enemy Below'' in 1957 and a year later in ''Inn of the Sixth Happiness,'' co-starring with Ingrid Bergmann.

  Mr. Jurgens went on to star in such films as ''The Blue Angel'' (1958), ''I Aim at the Stars'' (1959), ''Nicholas and Alexandra'' (1971) and the James Bond thriller ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977).

  Born in Munich, Dec. 13, 1915, the son of a Hamburg tradesman and a French teacher, Mr. Jurgens's personality was a blend of German roughness and Southern charm. Swedish fans dubbed him the ''Viking with steel eyes.'' In Love With Screen Partners
  
  Mr. Jurgens once said he enjoyed acting alongside any actress. ''Every time I fall madly in love with the woman I make love with on the screen,'' he said.
  
  A strong believer in love at first sight, he was married five times, to three actresses - Lulu Basler, Judith Holzmeister and Eva Bartok - and to the model Simone Bicheron, before marrying Margie Schmitz in 1978.
  
  With a taste for the romantic and extravagant, he once said the things he liked best were ''comfort, women, whisky, marriage and work.''
  
  Mr. Jurgens owned a luxury villa on France's Cote d'Azur and a house in Lausanne, Switzerland. But his favorite retreat was a farm he owned in Vence, France, with a house consisting of just one big room with a bath for two sunken in front of a fireplace.

  

  Curd Jürgens (1915–1982)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0432007/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (169 credits)
  
  1982 Smiley's People (TV Mini-Series) - The General
  - Episode #1.2 (1982) ... The General
  - Episode #1.1 (1982) ... The General
  1981 Collin (TV Movie) - Hans Collin
  1981 Assassination Attempt - Maître Legraine
  1980 The Sleep of Death - Count St. Alyre
  1980 Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen - UFO Commander
  
  1979 Berggasse 19 (TV Movie) - Siegmund Freud
  1979 The Other One's Mug - Wilfrid
  1979 Goldengirl - Dr. Serafin
  1979 Breakthrough - Gen. Hofmann
  1979 Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident - Baron Marchant (as Curt Jurgens)
  1978 Just a Gigolo - Prince
  1978 Im Zweifel für den Angeklagten (TV Movie) - Clarence Darrow
  1978 Tatort (TV Series) - Konrad Pfandler
  - Rot - rot - tot (1978) ... Konrad Pfandler
  1977 La lunga strada senza polvere - Cameo (uncredited)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Karl Stromberg (as Curt Jurgens)[/b]
  1977 La foire (TV Movie) - Alexis B., le grand-père
  1976 The Twist - Le bijoutier / Jeweller
  1976 Am laufenden Band (TV Series) - Standesbeamter
  - Episode #3.2 (1976) ... Standesbeamter
  1976 As of Tomorrow - Senator Shelton
  1976 Auch Mimosen wollen blühen - Josef Popov
  1976 Povero Cristo -Man Engaging Giorgio
  1975 Second Spring - Fox
  1975 Derrick (TV Series)- Paul Bubach
  - Madeira (1975) ... Paul Bubach
  1975 Die gelbe Nachtigall (TV Movie) - Schauspieler Korz
  1975 Cagliostro - Cardinal Braschi (as Curd Jurgens)
  1974 Galileo (Short) - 1974 Radiografia di una Svastika
  1974 Fräulein Else (TV Movie) - Dorsday
  1974 Les flocons rouges (TV Movie) - Gunther Richter
  1974 Fall of Eagles (TV Mini-Series) - Otto von Bismarck
  - The Honest Broker (1974) ... Otto von Bismarck
  - The English Princess (1974) ... Otto von Bismarck
  1974 Undercovers Hero - General von Grotjahn (as Curt Jurgens)
  1973 Occupation (TV Series)
  1973 3. November 1973 (TV Movie) - Ölmillioär
  1972-1973 Der Kommissar (TV Series)
  Harald Bergmann / Dr. Hochstätter
  - Ein Mädchen nachts auf der Straße (1973) ... Harald Bergmann
  - Traum eines Wahnsinnigen (1972) ... Dr. Hochstätter
  1973 Profession: Adventurers - Alvarez
  1973 The Vault of Horror - Sebastian (segment "This Trick'll Kill You") (as Curt Jurgens)
  1972 War Is Hell - Russian general
  1971 Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! - Grueningen
  1971 Nicholas and Alexandra - The German Consul (as Curt Jurgens)
  1971 Two Males for Alexa - Ronald Marvelling
  1971 Nurses for Sale - Käpt'n Markus Jolly
  1971 The Mephisto Waltz - Duncan Ely (as Curt Jurgens)
  1970 Millionen nach Maß (TV Mini-Series) - Carlos Ribeiro
  - Bitte, zur Kasse (1970) ... Carlos Ribeiro
  - Wir zahlen bar (1970) ... Carlos Ribeiro
  1970 French Intrigue - Henri Emery
  1970 Der Pfarrer von St. Pauli - Konrad Johannsen
  1970 Hello-Goodbye - Baron De Choisis (as Curt Jurgens)
  1970 The Invincible Six - Baron
  1970 Das Stundenhotel von St. Pauli - Kommissar Canisius
  1970 Slap in the Face - Thomas Nathan Terbanks
  
  1969 The Battle of Neretva - Lohring
  1969 Battle of Britain - Baron von Richter (as Curt Jurgens)
  1969 The Bedroom - Hannes Teversen
  1969 Battle of the Commandos - Gen. von Reilow (as Curd Jurgens)
  1969 The Assassination Bureau - Gen. von Pinck (as Curt Jurgens)
  1968 Les yeux crevés (TV Movie) - Gottfried von Esch (scenes deleted)
  1968 Babeck (TV Mini-Series) - Der Mann im Rollstuhl
  - Tödliche Geschäfte (1968) ... Der Mann im Rollstuhl
  - Das Geheimnis der Calasetta (1968) ... Der Mann im Rollstuhl
  1968 Bedroom Stewardesses - Dr. Jan Diffring
  1968 OSS 117 Murder for Sale - Il Maggiore - il capo dei gangster
  1968 Le fil rouge (TV Movie) - Sigmund Freud
  1967 Dirty Heroes - Gen. Edwin von Keist
  1967 Der Lügner und die Nonne - The cardinal
  1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Carl Von Kesser
  - The Five Daughters Affair: Part II (1967) ... Carl Von Kesser (as Curt Jurgens)
  - The Five Daughters Affair: Part I (1967) ... Carl Von Kesser (as Curt Jurgens)
  1966 Der schwarze Freitag (TV Movie) - Richard Whitney
  1966 The Gardener of Argenteuil - Le Baron Edouard de Santis
  1966 Target for Killing - Gérard van Looch / Giant
  1966 Congress of Love - Czar Alexander I
  1966 An Affair of States - Dave O'Connor
  1966 Spiel um Schmuck (TV Series)
  1965 Who Wants to Sleep? - Stefan von Cramer
  1965 Lord Jim - Cornelius (as Curt Jurgens)
  1965 They're Too Much - Kurt Lehnert
  1964 Psyche 59 - Eric Crawford (as Curt Jurgens)
  1964 Pariahs of Glory - Ludwig Goetz
  1964 Begegnung in Salzburg - Hans Wilke, General Director
  1964 Hide and Seek - Hubert Marek
  1964 The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) - Kleinerts
  - The Hell Walkers (1964) ... Kleinerts
  1963 Nutty, Naughty Chateau - Hugo Falsen
  1963 Of Love and Desire - Paul Beckmann (as Curt Jurgens)
  1963 Berlin-Melodie - Vom Zille-Ball zum Jazzlokal (TV Movie)
  1963 Miracle of the White Stallions - Gen. Tellheim (as Curt Jurgens)
  1963 Three Penny Opera - Captain Macheath
  1963 Curd Jürgens erzählt... (TV Series) - Husband
  - Die Phantasten (1963) ... Husband
  1962 Beach Casanova - Mr. Edmond (as Curd Jurgens)
  1962 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) - Amatole Respighi
  - The Great Anatole (1962) ... Amatole Respighi (as Curt Jurgens)
  1962 The Longest Day - Maj. Gen. Gunther Blumentritt (as Curt Jürgens)
  1962 Disorder - Carlo's Father (as Curd Jurgens)
  1961 Le triomphe de Michel Strogoff - Michel Strogoff
  1961 Bankraub in der Rue Latour - Cliff MacHardy
  1960 Gustav Adolfs Page - König Gustav Adolf
  1960 Brainwashed - Werner von Basil
  1960 I Aim at the Stars - Wernher von Braun
  
  1959 Adorable Sinner - Czar Alexander II
  1959 The Blue Angel - Professor Immanuel Rath (as Curt Jurgens)
  1959 Ferry to Hong Kong -Mark Conrad (as Curt Jurgens)
  1959 Time Bomb - Eric Muller
  1958 Duel in the Forest - Johann 'Schinderhannes' Bückler
  1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness - Capt. Lin Nan (as Curt Jurgens)
  1958 Me and the Colonel - Colonel Prokoszny (as Curt Jurgens)
  1958 This Happy Feeling - Preston Mitchell (as Curt Jürgens)
  1958 Tamango - Captain John Reinker
  1957 The Enemy Below - Von Stolberg (as Curt Jurgens)
  1957 Les espions - Alex
  1957 An Eye for an Eye - Dr. Walter
  1957 Bitter Victory - Major Brand
  1956 Michael Strogoff - Michel Strogoff
  1956 The House of Intrigue - Colonel Bernes (as Curt Jurgens)
  1956 ...And God Created Woman - Eric Carradine (as Curd Jurgens)
  1956 Ohne dich wird es Nacht - Dr. Robert Kessler
  1956 The Golden Bridge - Balder
  1956 Teufel in Seide - Thomas Ritter
  1955 Du mein stilles Tal - Gerd
  1955 Heroes and Sinners - Wolf Gerke (as Curd Jüergens)
  1955 Die Ratten - Bruno Mechelke
  1955 Love Without Illusions - Walter
  1955 The Devil's General - General Harry Harras
  1955 Du bist die Richtige - Stefan Selby
  1954 Afraid to Love - Paul Kahr
  1954 Orient Express - Bate
  1954 Prisoners of Love - Willi Kluge
  1954 Circus of Love - Toni
  1954 Eine Frau von heute - Heinz Bender
  1954 Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline - Pat
  1953 Alles für Papa - Clemens Haberland
  1953 The Last Waltz - Rittmeister Graf Sarassow
  1953 Music by Night - Hans Kersten
  1953 Man nennt es Liebe - Peter Malmö
  1953 Praterherzen - Toni Brandstetter
  1952 Rose of the Mountain - Composer Jack Long
  1952 1. April 2000 - Capitano Herakles
  1952 Knall und Fall als Hochstapler - John Vandergold
  1952 Haus des Lebens - Axel Jolander
  1951 Gangsterpremiere - Kommissar
  1951 Der schweigende Mund - Architekt Reinhold
  1951 Geheimnis einer Ehe - Dirigent Felix Adrian
  1951 Ein Lächeln im Sturm - Jean Langrand
  1950 Eine seltene Geliebte - Sascha Borotraz
  1950 Die gestörte Hochzeitsnacht - Lawrence Vinning
  1950 Kissen Is No Sin - Kammersänger, Felix Alberti
  1950 Der Schuß durchs Fenster - Dr. Winkler
  1950 Prämien auf den Tod - Gunarson, Operntenor
  
  1949 Young Girls of Vienna - Graf Lechenberg
  1949 Hexen - Heinz Wagner
  1949 Lambert Is Threatened - Roland
  1949 Das Kuckucksei - Dr. Kurt Walla
  1948 Verlorenes Rennen - George Miller
  1948 The Heavenly Waltz - Clemens M. Weidenauer
  1948 The Mozart Story - Emperor Joseph II
  1948 An klingenden Ufern - Stefan Keller
  1948 The Angel with the Trumpet - Graf Leopold Thraun
  1948 Hin und her - Prinz Bernardo von Lappalien
  1947 The Singing House - Bandleader Hans Storch
  1944 Eine kleine Sommermelodie - Wolfgang Schwab
  1944 Ein Blick zurück - Dr. Erich Thienwiebel
  1943 Ein glücklicher Mensch - Petersen
  1943 Frauen sind keine Engel - Bandini
  1942 Wen die Götter lieben - Emperor Joseph II
  1942 Stimme des Herzens - Volontär Drews
  1940 Operette - Karl Millöcker
  1940 Herz ohne Heimat - Bob (uncredited)
  1940 Weltrekord im Seitensprung - Peter Enderlein - Kapellmeisster
  1939 Die gute alte Zeit (Short) - Fritz, Gretes Verlobter
  1939 Salonwagen E 417 - Prinz Heinrich Karl
  1938 The Girl of Last Night - Die drei Attachés (uncredited)
  1937 Tango Notturno - Ein Freund Jacs, Musiker (uncredited)
  1937 To New Shores - Bobby Wells' Freund
  1937 Liebe kann lügen - Student Holger Engström
  1936 The Unknown - Hans Wellenkamp
  1936 Familienparade - Graf Erik Stjernenhö
  1935 Königswalzer - Kaiser Franz Joseph von Österreich (as Kurt Jürgens)
  
  Director (6 credits)
  
  1979 Curd Jürgens: Bonn, wie ich es sehe (TV Movie documentary) (uncredited)
  1966 Spiel um Schmuck (TV Series) (4 episodes)
  - Immer die Bigelows (1966)
  - Flug nach Ankara (1966)
  - Mit Brillanten und Schwertern (1966)
  - Sein letzter Einsatz (1966)
  1961 Bankraub in der Rue Latour
  1956 Ohne dich wird es Nacht
  1951 Gangsterpremiere
  1950 Prämien auf den Tod
  
  Soundtrack (4 credits)
  
  1994 Forsthaus Falkenau (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Irrungen und Wirrungen (1994) ... (performer: "60 Jahre und kein bißchen weise")
  1967 Schauspieler sind Schauspieler - Musikalische Seitensprünge (TV Movie) (performer: "Blacky Jones")
  1963 Three Penny Opera (performer: "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?", "Der Kanonensong", "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?" (reprise), "Zuhälter-Ballade", "Ballade vom angenehmen Leben", "Verfolgt das Unrecht nicht zu sehr" - uncredited)
  1957 The Enemy Below (performer: "So leben wir alle Tage" (Drinking Song) - uncredited)
  
  Writer (2 credits)
  
  1951 Gangsterpremiere (idea) / (co-writer)
  1950 Prämien auf den Tod (story and screenplay)
  Hide Hide Music department (1 credit)
  1944 Eine kleine Sommermelodie (singer)
  

  

  1925: Dick Van Dyke is born--West Plains, Missouri.
  1941: Anouska Hempel (The Australian Girl) is born--Wellington, New Zealand.
  1958: Lynn-Holly Johnson is born--Chicago, Illinois.
  1958: The first Bond comic strip Casino Royale ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Started 7 July 1958. 1-138) John McLusky, artist. Anthony Hern, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/cr.php3
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1972 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1972.php3
  Högt Spel I Monte Carlo (High Game In Monte Carlo - Casino Royale)
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1981 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1981.php3
  Högt Spel I Monte Carlo (High Game In Monte Carlo - Casino Royale)
  
  
  Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/007jb-dk1-1965-eng/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 1: “Casino Royale” (1965)
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1964: The New York Times prints Richard Maibaum's piece "James Bond's 39 Bumps".

  

  James Bond's 39 Bumps

  http://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/13/james-bonds-39-bumps.html?_r=0
  RICHARD MAIBAUM - DEC. 13, 1964
  
  I ONCE told the late Ian Fleming that he wrote too well. Speaking strictly as a screenwriter, that is, who is handed a novel by a producer and told to trans­late it into celluloid. In the long run, of course, the di­rector does that, but the screenplay is his blueprint and has inherent in it the completed motion picture.
  
  Mr. Fleming seemed pleased, beaming when I as­cribed to him “an untrans­ferable literary quality,” but I’m sure he did not entirely realize I was paying him a left - handed compliment. Again from the standpoint of the screen dramatist.
  
  There is little doubt in my mind that the success of the Bond films stems directly from the success of the nov­els, their combination of ter­ror and elegance, sophisti­[cation]...
  
  Fleming's tongue‐in-cheek attitude toward his material (intrigue, expertise, violence, love, death) finds a rea­dy mass response in a world where audiences enjoy sick jokes. Incidentally, it is the aspect of Fleming which the films have most developed. Sometimes, I think, far be­yond what Fleming himself intended. He said as much to me once when he com­mented rather innocently, “Somehow the pictures seem funnier than my books.”
  
  Digging Deep
  
  Having said all this about the novels, it would appear that a screenwriter adapting them would feel like a for­tunate prospector discovering an inexhaustible mother‐lode of pure gold. And yet there are problems.
  
  A screenwriter is limited to setting down, as sugges­tion to the director, only what can be said and done by actors and what can be photographed by the camera­man. Lovely descriptive pass­ages; illuminating streams of consciousness revealing char­acter; great hunks of bril­liant, interesting exposition; carefully documented quasi­treatises; all must go.
  
  A case in point is a scene in Goldfinger in which Bond is strapped to a work­bench and menaced by an approaching circular saw. Somehow in the reading, be­cause Fleming writes so effectively, “The Perils of Pauline” do not immediately occur to one. Vividly depicted on the screen, however, we were sure audiences would find the episode old‐fashioned, hackneyed and ludicrous. What to do? We substitut­ed an industrial laser beam, a development as fresh as tomorrow, for the antiquated circular saw. Do I hear any­one asking sotto voce about the screenwriter's blushes? If he was the blushing type he wouldn't be doing Bond screenplays in the first place. Besides, it's all good clean fun, or so he tells himself.
  
  Logic is another problem. Once, as a young man, I worked as Writer Number 34, I think, for Alfred Hitchcock on Foreign Correspondent. I told him I thought a cer­tain situation was illogical. He looked at me sadly and replied, “Dear boy, don't be dull. I’m not interested in log­ic, but in effects. If the au­dience ever thinks about log­ic it's on their way home from the theater and by that time they’ve already paid for their tickets.”
  
  Verisimilitude
  
  Still there is a point be­yond which audiences will re­ject a film for too many abuses of actuality. In Gold­finger, for example, Flem­ing has Goldfinger, a suppos­edly criminal genius, plot to break into Fort Knox and steal 16 billion dollars worth of gold bullion. Fleming, bless him, in the best Hitchcockian tradition, never bothered his head about how long it would take to transport that amount of gold, or how many men and vehicles would be re­quired. Obviously, it would take weeks, hundreds of trucks and hundreds of men. The problem that faced us was not an easy one. Why, we...
  
  Rough Grind
  
  Then there is the question of “bumps.” Hitchcock once said to me, “If I have 13 ‘bumps’ I know I have a pic­ture.” By “bumps,” he meant, of course, shocks, highpoints, thrills, whatever you choose to call them. From the be­ginning, through Dr. No, From Russia With Love, and now with Goldfinger, Mr. Broccoli and Mr. Saltzman, the producers, and myself have not been content with 13 “bumps.” We aim for 39. Our objective has been to make every foot of film pay off in terms of exciting en­tertainment. Fleming, too, has his “bumps,” but not nearly enough for the kind of films we’re trying to make.
  
  Actually, Fleming himself, unlike many authors of well­-known literary works to be made into films, seemed un­usually complacent as to how his books were treated. The only question he ever asked...
  
  The actual characterization of James Bond (and we are lucky devils to have Sean Connery) was also a depar­ture from the novels. Both Terence Young and Guy Hamilton, our directors, shared and augmented the concept of Bond as visualized by the producers and myself. That concept retained a basic super‐sleuth, super‐fighter, super‐hedonist, super‐lover of Fleming's, but added another large dimension: humor. Hu­mor vocalized in wry com­ments at critical moments. In the books, Bond was singu­larly lacking in this.
  
  A bright young produc­er accord me one day with glittering eyes. “I’m making a parody of the James Bond films.” How, I asked myself, does one make a parody of a parody? For that is precisely, in the final analysis, what we have done with Fleming's books. Parodied them. I’m not sure that Ian himself ever completely realized this. Or perhaps I underestimate his perception. At any rate, he seemed happy with what we were doing.

  The writer adapted Dr. No, From Russia With Love,” and Goldfinger which opens at the DeMille and Coronet Theaters on Dec. 21, to the screen.

  This article can be viewed in its original form.
  query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C06E1D7143BE233A25750C1A9649D946591D6CF&src=DigitizedArticle
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  1969: 女王陛下の007 (Joô heika no 007, Her Majesty's OO7) released in Japan. That's ahead of UK 18 December, US 19 December.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1973: Live and Let Die released in the Netherlands.
  1973: Å leve og la dø (To Live and Let Die) released in Norway.

  

  1973: Lev og lad dø (live and Let Die) released in Denmark.

  
  
  
  
  

  1984: A View to a Kill films the death of Bob Conley.

  

  1985: Ölüme Bir Bakis (A Look to Death) released in Turkey.
  1997: 007 - O Amanhã Nunca Morre premieres in Portugal.

  

  2002: Die Another Day released in Colombia, Ecuador, Thailand, and Uruguay.
  
  
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  December 14
  
  1953: Vijay Amritraj is born--Madras, Madras State, India.
  1960: Gregory Ratoff (born 20 April 20 1897--Samara, Russian Empire) dies at age 63--Solothurn, Switzerland. Later in 1961, his widow sells the Casino Royale film rights to producer Charles K. Feldman for $75,000.
  1967: You Only Live Twice released in Australia and Hong Kong.

  Daybill

  

  1971: Diamonds Are Forever UK premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square, London. Ahead of the US (17 December) and UK (30 December).

  
  

  1971: James Bond 007 - Diamantenfieber released in West Germany.

  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1983: Never Say Never Again UK Royal Charity Premiere at the Warner West End Cinema, Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  

  1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and Stacey in the mine confirming Zorin's caper.
  1995: Aranyszem released in Hungary.

  https://vitrinfotok.blogspot.com/2018/01/aranyszem-goldeneye-1995.html
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies limited release in the Netherlands.
  2006: "You Know My Name" release as a single. B-side: Soundgarden song "Black Hole Sun" acoustic version.

  
  

  2009: The Orient Express, featured in the From Russia With Love book and film, ceases operations. Replaced by high-speed trains and air travel. (The Venice-Simplon Orient Express train--an Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. private venture, now Belmond--still runs carriages circa 1920s-1930s from London to Venice and even the original Paris to Istanbul route.)
  2014: EON releases statements confirming a cyber-attack on Sony stole an early version of the BOND 24 screenplay .
  2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Hammerhead #3.

  

  JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #3 (OF 6)

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025272203011
  Cover: Francesco Francavilla
  Writer: Andy Diggle
  Art: Luca Casalanguida
  Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
  Publication Date: December 2016
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  UPC: 725130252722 03011
  ON SALE DATE: 12/14

  After a massacre in Dubai, 007 closes in on the mysterious Kraken. But while investigating a mercenary safehouse in Yemen, Bond discovers the most advanced Q-Branch technology can sometimes prove less an asset than a liability. And a weapon is only as lethal as the man who wields it...

  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  Cassandra Harris; TV, Movie Actress

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

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

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

  

  Cassandra Harris (I) (1948–1991)

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

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

  
  

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

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

  Leva Och Låta Dö (Live And Let Die) 1961 | Leva Och Låta Dö (Live And Let Die) 1986
  

  
  Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-3-eng/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 3: “Live and Let Die” (1965)
  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  

  1983: Nunca Mais Digas Nunca released in Portugal.

  

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

  
  

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

  

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

  

  1995: Altin Göz (Golden Eye) released in Turkey.
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Venezuela.
  2006: Casino Royale released in Pakistan and Uruguay.
  2006: 007: Cassino Royale released in Brazil.

  

  2006: Prapanchaniki Okkadu (One to the World) released in India.
  2014: Spectre films on the River Thames.
  2014: Vodka producer Belvedere showcases two limited edition 007 bottles at a London Film Museum launch party.

  

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

  businessinsider.com/belvedere-vodka-partners-james-bond-spectre-2014-12
  Lara O'Reilly - Dec. 15, 2014, 7:01 PM
  
  Belvedere, the luxury vodka brand owned by the LVMH Group, is partnering with the next movie in the James Bond franchise, Spectre.
  
  Harnessing Bond’s penchant for vodka martinis and his iconic “Shaken, not stirred” line, Belvedere becomes the official vodka of the movie, which is due for cinematic release next November from Sony Pictures Entertainment.
  
  The news will be something of a relief for Bond fans: In previous movies the spy had been seen (implausibly) drinking Heineken and (more plausibly) Smirnoff. Fans tend to forget he also drank Red Stripe in the first movie, Dr. No. The arrival of Belvedere will therefore pull Bond upmarket a bit.
  
  Sitting down with Business Insider at a suitably secretive London location this week (think "spies," that's all we're allowed to say,) Belvedere Vodka president Charles Gibbs told us the partnership marks the brand’s “biggest” marketing push to date, although he declined to divulge financial details. It is hoped the partnership will raise awareness of the brand globally and highlight Belvedere vodka's quality credentials.
  
  To kick off the partnership, Belvedere has created two (very large) 1.75l limited edition bottles, which it will showcase at a launch party at London's Film Museum tonight (December 15.)
  
  The MI6 bottle pays homage to 007's HQ, swapping the signature Belvedere blue ink with the color of green ink used by MI6 officials to sign documents. Belvedere has also replaced the iconic Belvedere Palace that appears on its bottles with an etching of the MI6 building. Only 100 of this bottle will be made, but they won’t be available to buy. Instead Belvedere plans to gift them to “Bond aficionados” and put them up for charity auctions.
  
  Here's the MI6 bottle:
  
  
  The second, more flashy bottle is called the 007 Silver Saber. The metallic bottle lights up, thanks to an in-built LED system. It will be available on sale next year "in selective distribution."
  
  Here's the 007 Silver Saber:
  
  
  Next year, the campaign will ramp up with TV, cinema, digital ads, additional special packs and events planned. As the film is still in production, Gibbs could not confirm exactly what role Belvedere will play in Spectre. Gibbs also turned coy when asked whether there was the possibility of partnering with one of the other brands paying for product placement in the film (Aston Martin is the only other brand confirmed to appear so far, although that doesn't seem a likely fit.)
  
  The main appeal of the partnering with the Bond franchise was its global reach beyond its core base of 25 to 40-year-old customers, but Gibbs also hopes the partnership will allow the aspirational Belvedere brand to "break through the clutter" of marketing messages from big-spending alcohol brands by associating with a "moment in popular culture."
  
  The martini story also allows Belevedere to authentically talk up the provenance of its ingredients. The vodka is made from Dankowskie Rye and blended with own water from its own source in Poland, all key messages the brand hopes will hit home with lapsed drinkers as well as those new to the brand. It is hoped that making Belvedere Bond's choice for a vodka martini will also encourage bartenders to push the product to their cocktail lists.
  
  LVMH, which also owns the Moët Hennessy brand, saw a 7% drop year on year in reported revenue in the first 9 months of 2014 to €2.63 billion. At the time of reporting, the company said the trend was reflective of a declining cognac market in China. It did not split out separate figures for Belvedere, but said the brand had "sustained volume growth."

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

  
  

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

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

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

  Swedish Semic 1977 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3
  Ubåt Saknas (The Hildebrand Rarity)
  
  
  Danish 1969 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no17-1969/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 17: “The Hildebrand Rarity” (1969)
  
  
  
  

  1967: Casino Royale released in Japan.

  
  
  
  

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

  

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

  

  1989: Licence to Kill released in the Philippines.
  1995: GoldenEye released in Japan and the Republic of Korea.

  Japan

  
  
  

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

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

  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Hong Kong.

  
  

  1999: Svijet nije dovoljan released in Croatia.

  

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

  

  North Korea Denounces James Bond Film

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

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

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

  2014: Spectre films at Notting Hill.
  
  
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  December 17th
  
  1965: Thunderball released in Australia.

  
  

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

  
  

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

  
  
  

  1965: Åskbollen released in Sweden.

  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  

  1968: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang released in the UK.

  

  1969: Honor Blackman is featured on This is Your Life, Thames TV. (They had to do it again 17 February 1993. And she's still going strong today.)
  
  1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in US.

  
  
  
  

  

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

  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1973: Lev og lad dø released in Denmark.

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

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

  
  
  
  

  1975: Producer Harry Saltzman concludes the sale of his interests in the Bond franchise to United Artists, ending his partnership with Albert R. Broccoli.
  
  1982: Octopussy films OO7 and Octopussy attacked in her bedroom.
  
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Switzerland and Kuwait.
  1997: Demain ne meurt jamais released in France.

  
  

  1999: 007: Liiga kisas maailm (007: Too Narrow a World) released in Estonia.
  
  2014: Spectre films in Camden.
  
  
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  December 18th
  
  1967: Bond comic strip The Spy Who Loved Me begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 3 October 1968. 603-815) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
  The 18th and final Bond comic for them.

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

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

  Swedish Semic 1989 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3
  Operation Spökflyg (The Spy Who Loved Me - Part 1) |

  

  Bäddat För Bond... Skräcknatten (Part 2)
  https://www.comics.org/issue/73996/

  

  
  Danish 1970 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-18-1969/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 18: “The Spy Who Loved Me, pt. I” (1969)
  
  
  
  
  
  Danish 1970 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-20-1970/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 20: “The Spy Who Loved Me, pt. II” (1970)
  
  

  
  

  1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service London premiere at the Leicester Square Odeon.

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

  
  
  

  

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

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

  1969: James Bond i hemmelig tjeneste (James Bond in Secret Service) released in Norway.
  1969: I hennes majestäts hemliga tjänst (In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Sweden.

  

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

  
  

  1969: Στην υπηρεσία της αυτής μεγαλειότητος (In the Service of the Same Majesty) released in Greece.
  1969: Agente 007 - Al servizio segreto di Sua Maestà (At the Secret Service of His Majesty) released in Italy.

  
  
  
  

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

  
  

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

  

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

  

  1997: James Bond - Jutri nikoli ne umre (Tomorrow He Never Dies) released in Slovenia.
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in the Republic of Korea.
  
  2002: Die Another Day released in Indonesia and Kuwait.
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  December 2019 edited December 2019 Posts: 13,043

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

  

  Albert Moses: End of ‘A thousand apologies…’

  Sunday, 15 Dec 2019

  

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

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

  Moses had worked at the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya before beginning his acting career in the 1960s. It was in India that he made his first appearances in movies, produced and directed for the first time. He acted in seven movies and was the producer and director of the eighth movie. From there, he had moved on to Africa to work on documentaries. Afterwards, he moved to London to pursue studies in theatre and drama, where his acting career began.
  
  It was after responding to a newspaper advertisement that he had landed the part of Ranjeet Singh, in Mind Your Language. It was set in a class teaching English as foreign language, at an adult education college in London, illustrating the daily trials of the teacher, handling his diverse group of students.
  
  At the auditions, Moses outdid a native Sikh and went on to win the part. Moses spent days learning the lifestyle of the Sikhs, including the food they eat, the way they speak and even the way they wrap the turban round their heads, from his many Sikh friends. Perhaps, it was his indepth research into minute details of the character of Ranjeet Singh which made the character and his ‘thousand apologies’ such a success. Moses went on to produce 13 episodes of Mind Your Language, which was telecast from 1977 to 1986. In his later days, Moses lived in Hertfordshire, teaching English to Eastern European migrant workers, free of charge.
  
  Moses has been in the television and movie industry for over 30 years. During the span of his career, he has worked with legendary directors of the day, including, John Landis, John Houston, Rob Cohen and Alan Parker.
  
  He starred in numerous movies, including, The Man Who Would Be King, a John Huston film; What's Up Nurse, a Derek Ford sex comedy; Stand Up; Virgin Soldiers; Carry On Emmanual; The Little Drummer Girl; The Awakening; The Great Quest; Pink Floyd: The Wall, an Alan Parker film; The Little Drummer Girl, a George Roy Hill film; Scandalous; The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo; and East Is East which was a BAFTA award winning Film4 production.
  
  Albert Moses with Roger Moore
  
  Moses has acted alongside many accomplished actors including, Sean Connery, Michael Caine , Christopher Plummer, Roger Moore, Sir John Gielguld and Pamela Stevenson.
  
  He has participated in theatre productions in London, including, Phædra Britannica , at National Theatre, in which he acted with Diana Rigg, Long March to Jerusalem at the Watford Palace Theatre and Freeway at National Theatre.
  
  He was popular for his acting in the television series including Queenie, a Hollywood mini series; On the Buses, on London Weekend Television; Warship, a BBC television drama; Robin's Nest a Thames Television sitcom; Juliet Bravo, a BBC television drama; four episodes of The Jewel in the Crown, on Granada Television; The Little and Large Show, a BBC television comedy; The Benny Hill Show, a Thames Television comedy; Boon, an ITV Central drama; five episodes of The Bill a talkback, a Thames television drama; Never the Twain, a Thames Television sitcom; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Man With The Twisted Lip, on Granada Television; London's Burning, a London Weekend Television drama; and Tandoori Nights, on Channel 4.
  
  Moses directed and produced the television series Gabriella, which was produced in Malta. He has written scripts for The Seventh Commandment, a TV drama, Side by Side, a TV comedy, Don't Talk to Strangers, a TV thriller and The Jokers, a TV drama.
  
  He was also a past Chairman of the St Albans Film Society and of Asian, Caribbean, Oriental and Asian Artistes of EQUITY, and a member of the London regional committee of ITV under the chairmanship of Lord Lipsey.
  
  Moses also wrote children’s books, including Tales from India, The Hawk and the Turtles, and Mustapha Mouse Goes to the City, and published a poetry book consisting of 87 poems.
  
  He was a philanthropist, and the trustee and patron of the children's charity, Ivy Trust. He has also volunteered at hospitals, schools and elders' homes. In recognition of his work for children, he was made a Knight of the Order of St. John.
  
  The man Albert Moses has become the soil of his motherland, but Ranjeet Singh, with his thousand apologies, will eternally remain in the hearts of the millions of fans around the world.
  
  - D A

  

  

  Albert Moses (II) (1937–2017)

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

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

  
  

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

  
  

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

  

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

  
  
  

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

  
  The New York Times
  Screen: New James Bond:George Lazenby Follows the Connery Pattern
  December 19, 1969 - By A. H. WEILER
  http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F07E5DC1131EE3BBC4152DFB4678382679EDE&pagewanted=print
  
  A BARE fact must be faced. The superheated screen activities of Ian Fleming's supersleuth and sex symbol, James Bond, are as inevitable as sex or crime or On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the sixth steaming annal in the sock 'em and spoof 'em spy series that crashed into the DeMille and other local theaters yesterday.
  
  Serious criticism of such an esteemed institution would be tantamount to throwing rocks at Buckingham Palace, but it does call for a handful of pebbles. Devotees will note that Sean Connery, the virile, suave conqueror of all those dastards and dames in the five previous capers, has given up his 007 Bond credentials to George Lazenby, a 30-year-old Australian newcomer to films. He's tall, dark, handsome and has a dimpled chin. But Mr. Lazenby, if not a spurious Bond, is merely a casual, pleasant, satisfactory replacement.
  
  For the record, he plays a decidedly second fiddle to an overabundance of continuous action, a soundtrack as explosive as the London Blitz, and flip dialogue and characterizations set against some authentic, truly spectacular Portuguese and Swiss scenic backgrounds, caught in eyecatching colors.
  
  What are Bond's problems now? They're too numerous, as usual, to hold the constant attention of anyone other than a charter member of Her Majesty's Secret Service. What sets our bully boy off and fighting, running, shooting and loving this time is a lissome, leggy lass mysteriously bent on drowning herself in the waves thunderously crashing on a lonely Portuguese beach.
  
  First thing you know he's involved in a battle with two toughs that is as full of karate chops and belts in the belly as a brawl in a Singapore alley. To the credit of Richard Maibaum, the scenarist, the film's tongue-in-cheek attitude is set right at the outset. Once our new Bond emerges triumphant, he turns to the audience and says, somewhat plaintively: "This never happened to the other fellow."
  
  But it does. The lady of his life, the svelte Diana Rigg, who learned her karate chops from the British TV "Avenger" series, is the daughter of the blandly effete Gabriele Ferzetti, Mafioso-like tycoon, who likes Bond and wants to destroy that Spectre chief, Telly Savalas, his competition in world crime. That suits Bond too, and practically right off he's in Switzerland, where our villain maintains an eyrie atop an Alp.
  
  It's an inaccessible retreat, supposedly an institute for allergy research complete with hired guns, scientific gimmicks and an international conclave of allegedly allergic beauties who are really being brainwashed by the oily, bald-domed Mr. Savalas to spread his biological destruction of the world's food supply. Get it?
  
  Bond dallies with the dolls, of course, but the heart of the matter is a series of chases shot by the 41-year-old Peter Hunt, second unit director of the previous adventures, who's making his directorial debut with this one. The chases are breakneck, devastating affairs.
  
  A viewer must remember what seems to be the longest ski chase and bobsled run ever, full of gunfire and spills, that even includes an avalanche. There also is a decibel-filled fight amid clanging Swiss cow bells, the jarring bombing of that eyrie by helicopter-borne rescuers and the inadvertent clashes of the escaping Bond and Miss Rigg in a slithering, bang-up stock car race. One must say amen to a colleague's observation:
  
  "I never expected to see Switzerland defoliated like "this."
  
  It should be reported that the producers and distributors already have rung up a reported $82,200,000 on their first five Bond issues. It is not ungallant to report that Bond marries Miss Rigg, who is gunned down and killed by Savalas on their honeymoon. So it is reasonable to expect that Bond inevitably will be loving, shooting and running again.

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

  
  

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

  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  

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

  
  

  1974: Manden med den gyldne pistol (There Male Give Me The Golden Colt) released in Denmark.

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

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

  

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

  
  
  
  Danish Teaser
  

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

  

  1997: Huominen ei koskaan kuole released in Finland.

  

  1997: 007 - O Amanhã Nunca Morre released in Portugal.
  1997: Завтра не умрёт никогда (Tomorrow Will Never Die) released in Russia,

  
  

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

  

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

  
  The New York Times
  FILM REVIEW; Shaken, Not Stirred, Bond Is in Business
  nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F04E1DB113FF93AA25751C1A961958260
  By JANET MASLIN - Published: December 19, 1997
  
  No need to feel badly if the right watch, drink, cell phone, etc., don't turn you into James Bond. They don't really do it for Pierce Brosnan in Tomorrow Never Dies, either. Despite Mr. Brosnan's best efforts to be lethally debonair, the Bond franchise has sacrificed most of what made this character unique in the first place, turning the world's suavest spy into one more pitchman and fashion plate. This latest film is such a generic action event that it could be any old summer blockbuster, except that its hero is chronically overdressed.
  
  This is not to say that Tomorrow Never Dies won't be an international success like Goldeneye, which wasn't much better. But it should fare best in corners of the world where nobody knows how little the title means, or how accurately it reflects the rest of the film's shallowness. Closer than ever to cartoon superhero status, Bond is seen battling ridiculous odds, dodging computer-generated explosions, delivering lame bon mots and boasting pitifully about his sexual prowess. All that gives this an up-to-date sensibility is the audience's awareness that M (Judi Dench) and Moneypenny (Samantha Bond) could sue him for sexual harassment on the basis of his small talk.
  
  This film does have a lively villain in Jonathan Pryce, as a media mogul who dreams of everything from manufacturing his own war to marketing software with bugs (so that customers will have to upgrade for years). Mr. Pryce reigns mischievously over an empire that Bond must infiltrate, and he also has a wife (Teri Hatcher) who is one of Bond's approximately one million ex-flames. Ms. Hatcher, like Mr. Brosnan, speaks in a perfect monotone, and so does Michelle Yeoh, the Hong Kong action star who is meant to kick some life into the series.
  
  The film's other attempts to show Bond in a romantic light are so hopeless that it's a lucky thing his partnership with Ms. Yeoh's character, the svelte and athletic Wai Lin, stays confined to toylike weaponry and flat double-entendres.
  
  ''And now a word from our sponsor,'' muttered the critic beside me, as the camera offered a good look at James Bond's vodka bottle midway through the so-called story. (The humor-free screenplay is by Bruce Feirstein, author of Real Men Don't Eat Quiche as well as Goldeneye. The workmanlike director is Roger Spottiswoode.) Indeed, despite Bond's mission to defeat the evil mogul, product plugs are the film's most serious business, especially since the audience may be bored enough to start looking at labels.
  
  The film's two best supporting turns come from Vincent Schiavelli, who has a cheerfully outrageous scene as a torture expert, and from a nice, smart BMW that works on remote control. Hiding in the back seat, Bond pilots the car through a tire-screeching chase. Don't try this at home.
  
  Tomorrow Never Dies/b] is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes violence a la videogames, smirky innuendoes and a couple of brief sexual situations.
  

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

  
  Culture

  Obituary: Desmond Llewelyn

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

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

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

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

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

  
  Desmond Llewlyn
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  Filmography

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

  

  
  2002: Die Another Day released in Chile.
  2002: Halj meg máskor (Hang On at Another Time) released in Hungary.
  2002: Otro día para morir (Another Day to Die) released in Peru.

  

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

  

  
  2018: Dynamite Comics James Bond: 007 #2 comes available. Oddjob returns.
  Marc Laming, artist. Greg Pak, writer.

  http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/james-bond-007-2-preview/
  Dave Johnson, Cover A.
  
  Marguerite Sauvage, Cover B.
  
  Clayton Henry, Cover C.
  
  Mark Laming, Cover D.