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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  March 2023 Posts: 12,988

  2015: BOND 24 films helicopter action in Mexico City, Mexico.

  
  
  

  
  2020: Photographer Terry O'Neill's display of Bond - Photographed would have run from today through 30 March. Cancelled due to the gale of the world.

  

  Bond in pictures: Terry
  O'Neill celebrates 007

  https://news.sky.com/story/james-bond-rare-terry-oneill-photographs-celebrate-007-11939689

  

  Rarely seen images from the James Bond franchise are going on public display as part of a new 007 exhibition.

  The collection of images were shot by the late Terry O’Neill, who snapped more James Bond images than any other photographer.
  
  The shots have been dug out of O’Neill’s archive, offering a rare chance to catch a glimpse of long-hidden away shots.
  
  O’Neill worked with a whole host of Bonds including Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig.
  
  Pictures include candid snaps of the actors both on and off-set, as well as body-doubles and stunt performers preparing for scenes.
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  One shows Connery in a white dinner jacket sat at a table, as a topless woman floats through a pool playing the harp in Diamonds Are Forever in 1971.
  
  Another shows Australian actor George Lazenby and British [incorrect] actress Jill St John on the Bond set On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.
  
  And in a shot from the film set of Live And Let Die Roger Moore and Madeline Smith can be seen cavorting on a bed in 1973.
  
  A contact sheet of behind-the-scenes shots from Goldfinger is dedicated to Honour Blackman – who famously played Pussy Galore in the 1964 film.
  
  Images show her heading into the sea with a little trepidation, before emerging with a big smile.
  --

  Looking back on his career working with the world most famous fictional MI6 agent, O’Neill has said: “I photographed the first Bond film, but I’ve lost all the pictures.
  
  “When we started, we all thought it was going to be a one or two film thing. We never dared to think it was going to turn into this huge franchise.
  
  “What’s great about it, and I think it’s the real secret to why it’s been so successful for so many years, is that with each decade, each James Bond, they have really kept up with the times.
  
  “Sean Connery in the 1960s was cool and classic; he really fits that decade. Roger Moore in the 1970s added more humour; very Cary Grant.
  
  “In the 1990s, Pierce Brosnan came aboard and added a real style. Then Daniel Craig —he’s the perfect modern Bond.”

  O’Neill worked on movies including Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, Live And Let Die and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
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  The exhibition will include portraits and on-set photography and one-of-a-kind original press prints, signed by the photographer.
  
  There are also two unique images each signed by Roger Moore – who played Bond between 1973 to 1985 - and Honor Blackman.
  
  The exhibit will coincide with the latest 007 film which will also be Daniel Craig’s last outing as the secret agent.
  
  No Time To Die is out on 3 April.
  
  Bond: Photographed by Terry O’Neill opens on 26 March and runs until 30 April at the Iconic Images Gallery in Chelsea, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2023: James Bond 007 Launch Party at The Lanes Bar and Bowling, Wellington, New Zealand.

  

  

  James Bond 007 Launch Party!

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  26 March | Event in Wellington | AllEvents.in James Bond 007 Launch Party!

  NZ’s first official Stern Pinball launch party is happening!
  
  Sunday March 26th at The Lanes Bar and Bowling, we will be celebrating the launch of James Bond 007 Pro with an 8-strike launch party competition.
  
  There’ll be merch, there’ll be spot prize and the winner gets their name forever engraved on The Lanes cup!
  
  All participants who play on James Bond 007 and log in with Stern Insider will also receive a special launch party profile badge!

  Free play practice from 12pm.
  8-strike fair strikes competition starting at 1pm!
  Entry fee $25
  
  Link for this official event via ifpa nz is:
  https://facebook.com/events/s/james-bond-007-launch-party/1282127952371826/
  
  Mark it in your calendars and we’ll see you all down there!
  
  Date & Time
  Sat Mar 25 2023 at 7:00 pm
  (Eastern Daylight Time)
  
  Location
  The Lanes Bar and Bowling, 238 Wakefield Street,Wellington, New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand

  

  
  2023: Stern Army James Bond Launch Party at pinball bar Gestalt, San Francisco, California.

  

  

  Stern Army James Bond Launch Party

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.ifpapinball.com/tournaments/view.php?t=61001#

  Tournament Information
  Director : Gene X Hwang
  Location : San Francisco, CA
  Country : United States
  Information : Website
  
  Location
  3159 16th St
  San Francisco, CA
  
  Tournament Overview
  Tournament Date: March 26, 2023
  reschedule since 007 has arrived! Come flip and earn some achievements while battling to be the champion - great prizes from Stern and
  
  Format Details
  Event Name : Launch Party
  Qualifying Format : Matchplay Qualifying
  Finals Format : Match Play
  Player Limit : Unknown
  Games Played for TGP : 0
  Unlimited Qualifying? : No
  Qualifying Hours for TGP : 0

  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  March 2023 Posts: 12,988

  March 27th
  
  1935: Julian Glover is born--London, England.
  
  1944: Society hostess Maud Russell writes about young Ian Fleming in her diary.

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

  Monday 27 March, 1944
  I. came to dinner, first time since Muriel Wright’s cruel death. We
  didn’t talk about her at all. I left it to him if he wanted to but he said
  nothing. But he talked about his health and that his fingers trembled.
  He’s going to Scotland for a week.

  
  1961: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's eighth Bond novel Thunderball. Richard Chopping cover.

  THUNDERBALL presents the blue-
  print for a monstrous crime that could
  be just around the corner in history.
  
  James Bond is in disgrace. His
  monthly medical report is critical of the
  high living that is ruining his health, and
  M packs him off for a fortnight to a
  nature-cure clinic to be tuned-up to his
  former pitch of exceptional fitness.
  Furiously, Bond undergoes the shame
  of the carrot juice and nut-cutlet
  regime--and thereby minutely upsets
  the plans of SPECTRE, a new adversary,
  more deadly, more ruthless even than
  SMERSH.
  
  Who is SPECTRE ? What are its plans ?
  Alas, the organization is all to realist-
  ically described, its plans all to contem-
  porary for comfort. Of all James Bond's
  adversaries, the Chief of SPECTRE casts
  the darkest shadow.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1967: Talisa Soto is born--Brooklyn, New York City, New York.
  
  2002: Billy Wilder dies at age 95--Beverly Hills, California.
  (Born 22 June 1906--Sucha Beskidzka, Poland.)

  

  Hollywood mourns loss of icon from golden era /
  6-time Oscar winner shaped careers as director

  https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Hollywood-mourns-loss-of-icon-from-golden-era-2859144.php
  By Edward Guthmann Published 4:00 am PST, Friday, March 29, 2002

  

  Billy Wilder, the witty, puckish director of such Hollywood classics as "Some Like It Hot" and "Sunset Boulevard," died of pneumonia Wednesday night at his Beverly Hills home. He was 95.

  One of the last remaining greats of Hollywood's golden era, Wilder was a master director whose films, which also include "The Apartment," "Double Indemnity" and "Sabrina," are models of intelligence, humor and tight, economic storytelling.
  
  Although he directed his last film, "Buddy Buddy," in 1981, Wilder continued to go to his Beverly Hills office almost daily into his 90s -- answering mail and phone calls, reading the trade papers, maintaining his extensive art collection. In recent years, he suffered from poor eyesight and cancer. In April he was hospitalized with a urinary infection.
  
  Wilder was born in Austria in 1906, came to the United States in 1934 and quickly learned the moxie, energy and rhythms of American speech -- proving the maxim that foreigners are often the best observers of the country they adopt as their own.
  
  "There are few filmmakers who don't crave being compared to him," wrote director Cameron Crowe in his 1999 book "Conversations with Billy Wilder." "His is a tough-minded romanticism and elegance; the lack of sentimentality has left him forever relevant as an artist."
  
  One of the most honored of Hollywood directors, Wilder was nominated for 21 Oscars and won six, two for directing "The Lost Weekend" (1945) and "The Apartment" (1960), two for producing those films and one for writing "Sunset Boulevard." He directed the late Jack Lemmon in seven movies ("He Was My Everyman") gave signature roles to Gloria Swanson in "Sunset Boulevard," Marilyn Monroe in "Some Like It Hot" and Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity, " and directed three men to Oscars: Ray Milland ("The Lost Weekend"), William Holden ("Stalag 17") and Walter Matthau ("The Fortune Cookie").
  
  INTERVIEWED FREUD
  Originally a journalist -- he interviewed Sigmund Freud, who kicked him out of his home -- Wilder broke into filmmaking as a screenwriter in Berlin, fled Hitler in 1933 and directed his first film, "Mauvaise Graine" (Bad Seed), in Paris in 1934.
  
  "People said Hitler was a big, loud, unpleasant joke," Wilder once said. "But at the UFA building, the MGM of Berlin, the elevator boy was suddenly in a storm trooper's uniform. I had a new Graham-Paige American car and a new apartment furnished in Bauhaus, and I sold everything for a few hundred dollars. . . . I was on the train to Paris the day after the Reichstag fire," he said in an interview years ago.
  
  LONG CAREER AS FILMMAKER
  Although he hadn't directed a film since "Buddy Buddy" in 1981 -- and chafed at a system that turned its back on aging directors -- Wilder logged one of the longest careers of any filmmaker in the first century of cinema. Best known as a writer and director of comedy, he was also adept at romance ("Sabrina"), film noir suspense ("Double Indemnity"), courtroom thriller ("Witness for the Prosecution") and social satire ("One, Two, Three").
  
  Wilder had a shrewd, penetrating eye for human vanity and greed, and he converted that view into screenplays that often portrayed people as the helpless victims of their own worst impulses: the faded movie goddess-turned- murderess in "Sunset Boulevard," the bored wife who cons an insurance man into bumping off her husband in "Double Indemnity," the sad-sack accountant who offers his flat to philandering executives and their paramours in "The Apartment."
  
  CO-WROTE SCRIPTS
  He wrote most of his scripts with a collaborator, at first with Charles Brackett and later with I.A.L. Diamond, and said that he had turned to directing only because he grew tired of directors fouling up his scripts. At one point, filmmaker Mitchell Leisen hired a police officer to keep Wilder off the set of a film he had written.
  
  Underneath the wily, irascible exterior was a melancholic soul who lost his father at 22 and whose mother, stepfather and grandmother all died in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. Wilder overcame those tragedies with hard work, stoicism, a brilliant, trenchant wit and a happy, 52-year marriage to his second wife, Audrey.
  
  Late in his life, Wilder longed to make "Schindler's List" as a memorial to his mother, but found that Steven Spielberg already owned the rights to the story. "We spoke about it," Wilder said in Crowe's book. "He was a gentleman, of course, and we acknowledged each other's strong desires. In the end, he could not give it up."
  
  TRIALS OF A DIRECTOR
  Directing, Wilder said, "is a very important job, because you commit yourself. . . . Unlike the director of a play, you cannot change it anymore, that's it. You choose the best of what you have, and it's in the picture.
  
  "If a young man (says) he would like to be a director, he sees only the glory of it. He does not see the trouble, the fights, the things he has to swallow. . . . You feel like a very small, small man."
  
  And yet, it was one measure of Wilder's genius that every attempt to reinterpret his work was disappointing. Sydney Pollack's 1995 remake of "Sabrina" was trounced by critics, and the Broadway musicals that were made from "Sunset Boulevard" and "Some Like It Hot" (renamed "Sugar" for the stage) were doomed to pale when stacked against their source.
  
  "His movies are a worldwide language of love, intelligence and sparkling wit," Crowe said of his mentor yesterday. "To any fan of film or any student of how a great life is lived, all roads lead to Billy Wilder."
  
  When Crowe asked Wilder whether he had advice for future filmmakers, he laughed and said, "I am not anchored there at some observatory, you know. I think that we're living in very, very important and interesting times. . . . But we're not even close to having an assured peace in this world.
  
  "I don't know. I'm just very curious. That's the one thing that keeps me alive, is curiosity."
  
  Wilder is survived by his wife, Audrey; his daughter, Victoria; and one grandchild.

  BILLY WILDER FILMOGRAPHY
  . -- AS WRITER

  -- "People on Sunday," 1929
  -- "Emil and the Detectives," 1931
  -- "Adorable," 1933
  -- "One Exciting Adventure," 1934
  -- "Music in the Air," 1934
  -- "Lottery Lover," 1935
  -- "Champagne Waltz," 1937
  -- "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife," 1938
  -- "Midnight," 1939
  -- "What a Life," 1939
  -- "Ninotchka," 1939
  -- "Rhythm of the River," 1940
  -- "Arise My Love," 1940
  -- "Hold Back the Dawn," 1941
  -- "Ball of Fire," 1942
  -- "A Song Is Born," 1948
  -- "Casino Royale," 1967.

  
  -- AS WRITER-DIRECTOR

  -- "The Major and the Minor," 1942
  -- "Five Graves to Cairo," 1943
  -- "Double Indemnity," 1944
  -- "The Lost Weekend," 1945
  -- "The Emperor Waltz," 1948
  -- "A Foreign Affair," 1948
  -- "Sunset Boulevard," 1950
  -- "Ace in the Hole (also known as 'The Big Carnival')," 1951
  -- "Stalag 17," 1953
  -- "Sabrina," 1954
  -- "The Seven Year Itch," 1955
  -- "The Spirit of St. Louis," 1957
  -- "Love in the Afternoon," 1957
  -- "Witness for the Prosecution," 1958
  -- "Some Like It Hot," 1959
  -- "The Apartment," 1960
  -- "One, Two, Three," 1961
  -- "Irma la Douce," 1963
  -- "Kiss Me, Stupid," 1964
  -- "The Fortune Cookie," 1966
  -- "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," 1970
  -- "Avanti! "1972
  -- "The Front Page," 1974
  -- "Fedora," 1978
  -- "Buddy Buddy," 1981.

  Source: Associated Press

  
  
  

  2002: Die Another Day films Miranda Frost revealed as a double.
  
  2011: Judi Dench confirms her return as M and filming to start in November.
  2015: Spectre teaser trailer is released.

  

  
  2020: Original date for the Decca Records release of the No Time to Die score by Hans Zimmer.

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  March 2023 Posts: 12,988

  March 28th
  
  1959: Bond comic strip Live and Let Die ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Started 15 December 1958.) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  http://www.artofdiving.co.uk/2017/08/live-and-let-dive.html
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1971 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1970_1971.php3

  Leva Och Låta Dö (Live And Let Die)
  

  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1986 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3

  Leva Och Låta Dö (Live And Let Die)
  

  
  Danish 1965 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-3-eng/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 3: “Live and Let Die” (1965)
  

  
  1968: Jonathan Cape publishes Colonel Sun by Robert Markham (Kingsley Amis).
  Tom Adams cover. Sells well.

  Colonel Sun
  A JAMES BOND ADVENTURE
  by
  Robert Markham
  (Kingsley Amis)
  
  Sooner or later, as James Bond's fol-
  lowers have known, certain effects of
  his lifework would begin to show. The
  reflexes would be just as fast; the au-
  dacity as unflagging; but in a man of
  Bond's intelligence and perception a
  certain speculative turn of mind was
  bound to develop. Inevitably, he would
  begin to question not the clear neces-
  sity of his work but its cost in human
  lives and human values. Thus, within
  the old Bond, a new Bond was des-
  
  tined to emerge . . . within the man of
  action, a man of feeling.
  
  It's happened. Bond is pitted against
  a world-menacing conspiracy engi-
  neered by the malign Colonel Sun
  Liang-tan of the People's Liberation
  Army of China. The stakes have never
  been higher, nor the dangers more
  complex and terrible. His allies--the
  fine-boned, tawny-haired agent of a
  rival secret service and the Greek
  patriot with a score to settle--are all
  too quickly neutralized. Alone, un-
  armed, Bond faces the maniacal de-
  vices of Colonel Sun . . . an ordeal that
  pushes him to the verge of his physi-
  cal and moral endurance.
  
  Robert Markham is a nom de plume
  for Kingsley Amis, author of The Anti-
  Death League, Lucky Jim and The
  James Bond Dossier. Incredibly, he
  has added to the Bond saga not only
  his supple prose and marvelous sense
  of place but his own imaginative im-
  petus, which intensifies and deepens
  the excitement, pace and glitter of a
  vintage Fleming novel.

  
  
  
  

  
  
  

  
  1978: At the 50th Academy Awards, Marvin Hamlisch with Sammy Davis Jr. performs a new song "Come Light the Candles". Aretha Franklin sings nominated title song "Nobody Does It Better".

  "In Memoriam" Segment - 1978 Oscars Ceremony (Joan Crawford, Charlie Chaplin etc)
  
  
  Aretha Franklin The Queen of Soul. LIVE
  

  
  2008: Quantum of Solace films the climax in the desert hotel.
  
  2020: Schiffer Publishing Ltd. publishes The Real James Bond: A True Story of Identity Theft, Avian Intrigue and Ian Fleming by Jim Wright.

  Whatever happened to him
  actually outshines anything I've
  had my James Bond do.
  --Ian Fleming

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

  Jim Wright is an author, blogger, and longtime
  birding columnist for The [Bergen] Record in
  northern New Jersey. A prize-winning writer, his
  books include The Nature of the Meadowlands,
  Jungle of the Maya, and Hawk Mountain. Born
  in Philadelphia, he is a lifelong Phillies and
  Eagles fan. Wright is a marsh warden at the
  Celery Farm Natural Area in Allendale, New
  Jersey, where he lives with his wife Patty. In his
  spare time, he spies on birds. Follow his
  adventures on Twitter @1realjamesbond, and
  read his blog at realjamesbond.net.

  
  

  "BOND. JAMES BOND. HERE IS THE INTRIGUING BACKSTORY OF THREE HEROES.
  ONE WAS A CHARMING MUSEUM ORNITHOLOGIST. ONE A FLAMBOYANT
  EX-NAVAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICER TURNED BESTSELLING AUTHOR.
  AND THE THIRD, OF COURSE, OUR SUAVE MI6 AGENT WHO
  SAVE THE WORLD OVER AND OVER AGAIN. BUT THIS
  GOOD READ IS NEITHER FICTION NOR FANTASY.
  RATHER, JIM WRIGHT HAS PENNED A FINE
  BIOGRAPHY THAT MESHES THREE
  FORTUITOUSLY INTERTWINED
  WORLDS."
  --Frank Gill, author

  
  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  RichardTheBruce wrote: »

  March 29th
  
  1922: Dana Natol (Broccoli) is born--New York City, New York.
  (She dies 29 February 2004 at age 82--Los Angeles, California.)

  

  Dana Broccoli

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  12:03AM GMT 03 Mar 2004

  Dana Broccoli who died on Sunday aged 82, was the widow of Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, the producer of the James Bond films; during their 37-year marriage she was her husband's unofficial adviser and muse, and became, after his death, the custodian of the James Bond franchise.
  
  Elegant and well-connected, Dana Broccoli was the perfect foil to her husband who was the son of an Italian-American bricklayer; but while the vast and affable Cubby - who liked to cook pasta for his cast and crew - was noted for his geniality, it was the chic, raven-haired Dana who had a more steely reputation. "I'm half Irish and half Italian," she would explain. "I'm just bloody-minded." Even her adoring husband described her as "formidable" several times in his autobiography. "Dana," he wrote, "takes no prisoners. She does not have the gift of forgiveness".
  
  In 1959 Broccoli was already a successful producer when he married Dana Wilson, a divorcee, following a six-week courtship. A year later Broccoli and the Canadian producer Harry Saltzman set up a film company with the intention of putting Ian Fleming's James Bond novels on the big screen. Broccoli was not the first film-maker to approach Fleming, but, aided by his shrewd and glamorous wife, the bear-like New Yorker struck up an unlikely friendship with Fleming, an Old Etonian with a marked disdain for Hollywood. "I found him a lovely man," Dana Broccoli recalled years later, "charming and intelligent."
  
  Moreover, it was Dana Broccoli who decided that an unknown beefcake named Sean Connery was the right man to play Bond in Dr No (1962), the first of the Bond films. Connery had come to Cubby Broccoli's attention playing a burly farmhand in a Walt Disney film about leprechauns.
  
  "One day," Dana Broccoli later recalled, "Cubby called me and said: 'Could you come down and look at this Disney leprechaun film, Darby O'Gill and the Little People, at the Goldwyn Studios? I don't know if this Sean Connery guy has any sex appeal.' I saw that face and the way he moved and talked, and I said: 'Cubby, he's fabulous!' He was just perfect, he had star material right there."
  
  But she had little sympathy with Connery after he referred, in 1966, to "fat-slob producers living off the backs of lean actors", and after Connery issued a law-suit in 1984 against Broccoli demanding more royalties from the Bond films. Connery eventually abandoned the dispute after settling for merchandising rights.
  
  But, following Cubby Broccoli's death in 1996, Dana Broccoli was surprised and disappointed when Connery did not appear at the memorial service. "I don't have to understand Sean," she said in 2000, "and he doesn't need my understanding; he's doing very well without my understanding."

  She was born Dana Natol in New York on January 3 1922. Having decided at an early age to become an actress, she attended Cecil Clovelly's Academy of Dramatic Arts at Carnegie Hall in New York. There she met her first husband, Lewis Wilson, who was the first actor to play Batman. In 1942 she gave birth to a son, Michael, and three years later the family moved to California where Dana Wilson and her husband joined the Pasadena Playhouse.
  
  After separating from Wilson, she moved to Beverly Hills where she became a screenwriter; in 1959, at a party, she met Broccoli, whose previous wife had died. Broccoli, had been born into an impoverished family of Italian immigrants in Queens, and was a self-made man, descended, apparently, from farmers who had invented broccoli by crossing a cauliflower and a pea.
  
  A keen gambler, he had had a sketchy career, working as a vegetable packer and coffin polisher before getting a job as a tea boy at Twentieth Century Fox. In 1947, while trying to earn some extra dollars, he had got a job selling Christmas trees on a street corner and was particularly struck by a beautiful young woman who had bought one of the trees and for whom he had constructed a stand to hold it. When he was finally introduced to Dana Wilson, 12 years later, he realised that she was the same woman, and she too remembered the incident. Both believed that fate had brought them together.
  
  Following their wedding in Las Vegas (Cary Grant was the best man), the couple returned to Cubby Broccoli's house in London. Dana adopted Cubby's two children from his previous marriage and the following year gave birth to a daughter, Barbara.
  
  In 1967, Danjaq LLC, the film company set up by Cubby and Dana Broccoli, produced Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, another of Fleming's books; and in 2002 Dana Broccoli produced the successful stage version, which is still running in the West End.
  
  Dana Broccoli also published two novels, Scenario for Murder, and Florinda. She adapted the latter for the musical, La Cava, which was staged in London in 2000.

  The Broccolis lived in London for many years until, in 1977, they reluctantly sold their house in Mayfair and moved to Los Angeles for tax reasons. Although the couple enjoyed the wealth acquired through the Bond films (they had a large collection of paintings, including a Renoir and a Picasso) they also raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charities, particularly the NSPCC, which benefited greatly from the Broccolis' largesse.
  
  In 1977 Dana Broccoli's son, Michael G Wilson, and daughter, Barbara Broccoli, took over production of the Bond films, and after her husband's death Dana Broccoli took over as chairman of the board. "It was all family," she explained, "that was a large part of our success; the big extended family . . . We still see a lot of Timothy Dalton, and Roger [Moore] is always popping in. Roger always liked the pasta and the backgammon."
  
  Cubby Broccoli's death left her bereft but by no means bowed. "I was very happy taking care of Cubby," she said recently, adding, "I would never marry again. Cubby was irreplaceable. We went through so much together, ups and downs, but it has been a fabulous journey."
  
  Dana Broccoli is survived by her two sons and two daughters.

  

  Dana Broccoli(1922–2004)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0110484/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actress (5 credits)
  
  1979 Moonraker - Woman at St. Mark's Square (uncredited)
  
  1965 Thunderball - Cafe Martinique Dancer (uncredited)
  
  1952 Craig Kennedy, Criminologist (TV Series) - Sandra Whitney
  - The Golden Dagger ... Sandra Whitney (as Dana Wilson)
  1951 Wild Women - Queen (as Dana Wilson)
  1950 Once a Thief - Jane (as Dana Wilson)
  
  Thanks (26 credits)
  
  2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary)[/b] (special thanks)
  2000 Designing Bond: Peter Lamont (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
  2000 Harry Saltzman: Showman (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
  2000 Ian Fleming: 007's Creator (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
  2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
  2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
  2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
  2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
  2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
  2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
  2000 Inside 'The Living Daylights' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
  2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
  2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
  2000 Inside Q's Lab (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
  2000 Ken Adam: Designing Bond (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
  2000 Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
  2000 The Bond Sound: The Music of 007 (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
  2000 The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
  2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
  2000 Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
  2000 Inside 'Licence to Kill' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
  2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
  2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
  2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
  1999 Inside 'Live and Let Die' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
  1995 The Goldfinger Phenomenon (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
  
  Self (19 credits)
  
  2002 Premiere Bond: Die Another Day (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
  2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) - Herself
  2000 Harry Saltzman: Showman (Video documentary short) - Herself
  2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) - Herself
  2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Herself
  2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Herself
  2000 Inside 'The Living Daylights' (Video documentary short) - Herself
  2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) - Herself
  2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) - Herself
  2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Herself
  2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Herself
  
  1989 Licence to Kill: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
  1987 James Bond: Licence to Thrill (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
  1985 A View to a Kill: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
  1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
  
  1979 The Paul Ryan Show (TV Series) - Herself
  - Albert R. Broccoli and Dana Broccoli (1979) ... Herself
  - Episode #1.63 ... Herself
  1979 My Name Is Bond... James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
  1967 You Only Live Twice: The Royal Premiere (Documentary short) - Herself
  1967 Whicker's World (TV Series documentary) - Herself
  - The World of James Bond (1967) ... Herself
  
  Archive footage (4 credits)
  
  2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Herself
  
  2008 James Bond in the Bahamas (Video documentary short) - Herself
  2006 Premiere Bond: Opening Nights (Video documentary short) - Herself
  2006 The Exotic Locations of 'Thunderball' (Video documentary short) - Cafe Martinique Dancer

  
  
  
  

  1928: Philip Locke is born--St. Marylebone, London, England. (Dies 19 April 2004.)

  

  Philip Locke, actor

  https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/philip-locke-actor-1-523590
  Born: 29 March, 1928, in London
  Died: 24 April, 2004, in London, aged 76
  
  WITH his gaunt and invariably haggard looks, Philip Locke was ideal casting for nervy, rather saturnine villains, corrupt Mafia bosses or somewhat refined bullies. He brought an evil streak to his characters that brought them alive. However, this tall and imposing man also had a fine line in comedy.

  His major cinema credit was as Vargas, the silent assassin who fell foul of James Bond’s spear-gun in Thunderball. His list of television credits was substantial and varied (The Avengers seemed to employ him as their resident baddie for a while) and he was often seen to great advantage in the theatre - especially London’s Royal Court in the Sixties.

  Philip Locke trained at RADA in the Fifties and he was soon being cast in minor roles at the Royal Court, then soon to enter its golden decade. In 1959, he was in the premire of John Osborne’s The World of Paul Slickey, a musical satire about gossip columnists and critics. It was given a real pasting by the critics - indeed, Noel Coward and John Gielgud were said to have led the booing on the first night - but many still recall the satanic dance Locke performed in the second act.
  
  From the Royal Court, he went on to play at the National Theatre and at the Royal Shakespeare Company (he was Quince in Brook’s famous Midsummer Night’s Dream). His career was to burgeon and Locke was seldom out of work: he played Horatio in Peter Hall’s production of Hamlet which opened the National Theatre in 1975 and four years later he was again directed by Hall in the premire of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus. In the latter, he played Salieri’s valet and spent much of the time feeding Mozart cream buns.
  
  Locke’s TV appearances never let up. He was much in demand for the fondly remembered Armchair Theatre plays and was often seen on the wrong side of the small screen’s best-known detectives, including Inspector Morse, Bergerac and Poirot. He also turned up in Minder, played a newspaper editor alongside Michael Caine in Jekyll and Hyde (LWT, 1990) and was a rather camp uncle in Jeeves and Wooster (Granada, 1993).

  His most striking film appearance was undoubtedly in Thunderball (1965), in which he made a particularly sinister appearance in dark glasses and black polo-neck jumper. However, a few years later, he showed his lighter side in the movie version of Porridge. In a favourite scene, Ronnie Barker’s Fletcher asks how Locke can face the prison grub, and Locke laconically replies: "I was at a top English public school and the food was very similar."

  Strangely, Locke was at only one Edinburgh Festival, in 1954, with the Old Vic Company in a star-studded production of Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Scottish National Orchestra was in the pit and Moira Shearer and Robert Helpmann were to dance within the play. It was a bold plan to fuse music, drama and dance.
  
  Locke played Puck and although Shearer, in an article in The Scotsman in 1976, recalled that Festival with "particular surprised pleasure" she did refer to the production as "rambling". However, it filled the Empire (now the Festival Theatre) to capacity.
  
  Locke was always a support actor, never a major star, but he had the ability to bring a certain touch of wicked style or a chilling frisson to a role. The fact that he appeared in so many high-profile and prestigious productions in a career spanning 50 years is a sure reflection of the standing he enjoyed in his profession.
  
  Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/philip-locke-actor-1-523590

  

  Philip Locke (1928–2004)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516784/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (100 credits)
  
  1990-1998 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) - Magnus Mandeville / Kenneth Ames
  - Going Wrong: Part 3 (1998) ... Magnus Mandeville
  - Going Wrong: Part 2 (1998) ... Magnus Mandeville
  - Going Wrong: Part 1 (1998) ... Magnus Mandeville
  - Put on by Cunning (1990) ... Kenneth Ames
  1997 Wilde - Judge
  1995 Othello - 1st Senator
  1994 Jacob (TV Movie) - Diviner
  1994 Tom & Viv - Charles Haigh-Wood
  1993 Jeeves and Wooster (TV Series) - Glossop
  - Honoria Glossop Turns Up (or, Bridegroom Wanted!) (1993) ... Glossop
  1993 Minder (TV Series) - Fingers Rossetti
  - The Roof of All Evil (1993) ... Fingers Rossetti
  1991 Turbulence - Vic
  1991 Inspector Morse (TV Series) - Freddie Mortimer
  - Who Killed Harry Field? (1991) ... Freddie Mortimer
  1991 Van der Valk (TV Series) - Conrad Molenaar
  - Doctor Hoffmann's Children (1991) ... Conrad Molenaar
  1990 Jekyll & Hyde (TV Movie) - Editor
  
  1989 Saracen (TV Series) - Richard Stellman
  - Next Year in Jerusalem (1989) ... Richard Stellman
  1989 Bergerac (TV Series) - Roger Lemaire
  - When Did You Last See Your Father? (1989) ... Roger Lemaire
  1989 Screen Two (TV Series) - Wilfred Stiff
  - Virtuoso (1989) ... Wilfred Stiff
  1989 Poirot (TV Series) - Cutter
  - Four and Twenty Blackbirds (1989) ... Cutter
  1988 Stealing Heaven - Poussin
  1988 The Comic Strip Presents... (TV Series) - Sir Larry
  - Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door (1988) ... Sir Larry
  1987 The Secret Garden (TV Movie) - Pitcher
  1987 The Inquiry
  1985 Theatre Night (TV Series) - Mr. Telfer
  - Trelawny of the Wells (1985) ... Mr. Telfer
  1985 Connie (TV Series) - Borridge - 6 episodes
  1984 The Box of Delights (TV Series) - Arnold of Todi
  - Beware of Yesterday (1984) ... Arnold of Todi
  1969-1984 Horizon (TV Series documentary) - Sir Francis Galton / Dr. Klaus Fuchs
  - The Intelligence Man (1984) ... Sir Francis Galton
  - For the Safety of Mankind (1969) ... Dr. Klaus Fuchs
  1983 And the Ship Sails On - Il Primo Ministro
  1983 Ascendancy - Dr. Strickland
  1982 Jackanory Playhouse (TV Series) - Old man
  - Hawkwing (1982) ... Old man
  1982 The Disappearance of Harry (TV Movie) - Guthfrithson
  1982 The Plague Dogs - Civil Servant #1 (voice)
  1982/I Oliver Twist (TV Movie) - Mr. Sowerberry
  1982 Ivanhoe (TV Movie) - Grand Master
  1982 Doctor Who (TV Series)
  Bigon / Control
  - Four to Doomsday: Part Four (1982) ... Bigon
  - Four to Doomsday: Part Three (1982) ... Bigon
  - Four to Doomsday: Part Two (1982) ... Bigon
  - Four to Doomsday: Part One (1982) ... Bigon / Control
  1981 Codename Icarus (TV Series) - John Doll - 5 episodes
  1980 Dick Turpin (TV Series) - Lord Harrington
  - The Hanging (1980) ... Lord Harrington
  1980 Armchair Thriller (TV Series) - Commander Lloyd - 4 episodes
  
  1979 An Honourable Retirement (TV Movie) - Charles Tranter
  1979 Doing Time - Banyard
  1979 The Omega Factor (TV Series) - Vashrevsky
  - Double Vision (1979) ... Vashrevsky
  1979 Escape to Athena - Vogel
  1979 The Mill on the Floss (TV Mini-Series) - Lawyer Wakem
  - Episode Seven (1979) ... Lawyer Wakem
  - Episode Six (1979) ... Lawyer Wakem
  - Episode Four (1979) ... Lawyer Wakem
  1978 Play for Today (TV Series) - O'Neil - - Butterflies Don't Count (1978) ... O'Neil
  1978 Pennies from Heaven (TV Mini-Series) - Farmer
  - Says My Heart (1978) ... Farmer
  1977-1978 BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series) - Acorn / The church superintendent
  - She Fell Among Thieves (1978) ... Acorn
  - True Patriot (1977) ... The church superintendent
  1974 Antony and Cleopatra (TV Movie) - Agrippa
  1974 2nd House (TV Series) - Belok
  - An Artist's Story (1974) ... Belok
  1973 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Vark
  - The Mystery of the Amber Beads (1973) ... Vark
  1973 Hitler: The Last Ten Days - Hanske
  1972 A Day Out (TV Movie) - Wilkins
  
  1969 Department S (TV Series) - Topek
  - The Perfect Operation (1969) ... Topek
  1965-1969 Z Cars (TV Series) - Ibbs / Thorpe
  - Quiet Day: Part 2 (1969) ... Ibbs
  - Quiet Day: Part 1 (1969) ... Ibbs
  - A Morning's Sport (1965) ... Thorpe
  1968 The Saint (TV Series) - Frug
  - The Fiction Makers: Part 2 (1968) ... Frug
  - The Fiction Makers: Part 1 (1968) ... Frug
  1968 The Fiction-Makers - Frug
  1968 The Champions (TV Series) - Yeats
  - The Body Snatchers (1968) ... Yeats
  1967 The Pilgrim's Progress (TV Series) -Hate-Good / Appollyon / Worldly Wiseman / ...
  - Episode #1.3 (1967) ... Hate-Good / Appollyon / Giant Despair / ...
  - Episode #1.2 (1967) ... Hate-Good / Appollyon / Official
  - Episode #1.1 (1967) ... Interrogator / Worldly Wiseman
  1967 The Informer (TV Series) - Croxley
  - Here's Where Who Takes Over? (1967) ... Croxley
  1960-1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Mr Bateman / Sid / Private Smith / ...
  - The Girl (1967) ... Mr Bateman
  - Always Something Hot (1962) ... Sid
  - Roll on Blooming Death (1961) ... Private Smith
  - The Cupboard (1960) ... Bert
  - A Night Out (1960) ... Kedge
  1967 Honey Lane (TV Series) - Ron
  - One and Nine for Two Bob (1967) ... Ron
  1967 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Johnny Three
  - Boa Constrictor (1967) ... Johnny Three
  1967 The Baron (TV Series) - Compton
  - Countdown (1967) ... Compton
  1956-1967 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Vedoni / Edward / Lenny Roberts
  - The Crossfire (1967) ... Vedoni
  - Goodnight to Heroes (1964) ... Edward
  - The Poisoned Earth (1961)
  - Come Read Me a Riddle (1956) ... Lenny Roberts
  1961-1967 The Avengers (TV Series) - Primble / Roy Hopkins / Moxon
  - From Venus with Love (1967) ... Primble
  - Mandrake (1964) ... Roy Hopkins
  - The Frighteners (1961) ... Moxon
  1966 Out of Town Theatre (TV Mini-Series) - The Man
  - A Pretty Row of Pretty Ribbons (1966) ... The Man
  1966 Four People (TV Mini-Series) - Interrogator
  - Judas (1966) ... Interrogator
  1966 Redcap (TV Series) - Huntly
  - The Pride of the Regiment (1966) ... Huntly
  1966 The Man in the Mirror (TV Series) - Stern - 6 episodes
  1965 Thunderball - Vargas
  1965 Jury Room (TV Series) - Boothby - Juror
  - The Friendless Lady (1965) ... Boothby - Juror
  1965 Front Page Story (TV Series) - Saunders
  - The Public Interest (1965) ... Saunders
  1965 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Pentelow
  - Dan, Dan, the Charity Man (1965) ... Pentelow
  1964 Face of a Stranger - John Bell
  1964 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Peter Quilpe
  - The Cocktail Party (1964) ... Peter Quilpe
  1964 The Hidden Truth (TV Series) - Michael Watt
  - The Final Analysis (1964) ... Michael Watt
  1963-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - John Bell / Dave Hughes / Foster
  - Face of a Stranger (1964) ... John Bell
  - On the Run (1963) ... Dave Hughes
  - Incident at Midnight (1963) ... Foster
  1964 Hamlet at Elsinore (TV Movie) - Osric
  1963-1964 Drama 61-67 (TV Series) - Oliver Willowes / Frame
  - Studio '64: The Happy Moorings (1964) ... Oliver Willowes
  - Drama '63: Rasputin Was a Nice Old Man (1963) ... Frame
  1964 Father Came Too! - Stan
  1963 Incident at Midnight - Foster
  1963 On the Run - Dave Hughes
  1963 Bud (TV Series) - Frank Mer
  - Episode #1.3 (1963) ... Frank Mer
  1963 Maupassant (TV Series) - Limousin
  - Wives and Lovers (1963) ... Limousin
  1962-1963 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Bert Dogg, driver / Ian / Paul Dyson
  - Just You Wait (1963) ... Bert Dogg, driver
  - For Tea on Sunday (1963) ... Ian
  - The Square Peg (1962) ... Paul Dyson
  1958-1963 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Derek Baynes / Al
  - Ben Again (1963) ... Derek Baynes
  - Strictly for the Sparrows (1958) ... Al
  1963 The King's Breakfast (Short) - 2nd Footman
  1962 The Girl on the Boat - Bream Mortimer
  1962 Saki (TV Mini-Series) - Roger
  - Episode #1.1 (1962) ... Roger
  1962 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Brand
  - A Job for Johnny (1962) ... Brand
  1961 Follow That Man - Vicar
  1961 Hurricane (TV Series) - Bob Wilson
  - Part 6 (1961) ... Bob Wilson
  - Part 2 (1961) ... Bob Wilson
  - Part 1 (1961) ... Bob Wilson
  1961 If the Crown Fits (TV Series) - Lucky
  - Gambling (1961) ... Lucky
  1960-1961 The Charlie Drake Show (TV Series) - Scrooge
  - Jester Minute (1961)
  - A Christmas Carol (1960) ... Scrooge
  1961 Seven Keys - Norman's Thug (uncredited)
  1960 The Bulldog Breed - Teddy Boy in Cinema Fight (uncredited)
  1960 Kipps (TV Mini-Series) - Chester Coote - 7 episodes
  
  1959 Knight Errant Limited (TV Series) - Vincent Gough
  - He Fell Among Thieves (1959) ... Vincent Gough
  1958 Heart of a Child - 1st Soldier
  1957 Aladdin (TV Movie) - The Slave of the Ring
  1956 Operation Conspiracy - 1st Soldier
  1955 The Wise Cat (TV Movie) - Pierre
  1955 Benbow and the Angels (TV Series) - Garage proprietor
  - St. Michael and All Angels (1955) ... Garage proprietor
  1954 Earthquake in Macedonia (TV Movie) - Silas
  1952 Jan at the Blue Fox (TV Series)
  2nd Sailor
  - The Day of the Wreck (1952) ... 2nd Sailor
  
  Soundtrack (1 credit)
  
  1978 Pennies from Heaven (TV Mini-Series) (1 episode)
  - Says My Heart (1978) ... ("March Winds and April Showers", uncredited)
  
  Self (1 credit)
  
  1975 The 29th Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) - Self - Nominee
  
  Archive footage (6 credits)
  
  2015 James Bond's Spectre with Jonathan Ross (TV Movie documentary) - Vargas (uncredited)
  2013 Bond's Greatest Moments (TV Movie documentary) - Vargas (uncredited)
  2008 The South Bank Show (TV Series documentary) - Bond (2008)
  2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Vargas (uncredited)
  
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Vargas
  
  1989 MTV Movie Special: Licence to Kill (TV Special documentary) - Vargas (uncredited)

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1965: Thunderball films OO7 and Domino on the beach and the end of Vargas.
  
  1982: At the 54th Academy Awards Albert "Cubby" Broccoli receives the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in Los Angeles, presented by Roger Moore. Nominated title song "For Your Eyes Only" performed by Sheena Easton with appearances by Harold Sakata and Richard Kiel.

  
  
  Albert R. Broccoli receiving the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
  
  
  Sheena Easton - For Your Eyes Only (Academy Awards '82)
  

  
  1983: The choice of Rita Coolidge (a favorite of assistant director Barbara Broccoli) to sing the latest title song is confirmed. Father Cubby Broccoli hoped for popular singer Laura Branigan, with support from composer John Barry and lyricist Tim Rice.
  
  1999: A court ruling confirms sole rights of the Bond franchise to MGM (and EON) over Sony (and McClory, who sought to produce rogue missions due to the original Thunderball complications).

  

  Some Kind of Hero: The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films, Matthew Field, Ajay Chowdhury, 2015.

  ...An eleventh-hour settlement was made on 29 March when Sony declared themselves out of the Bond business, compensating MGM with $5 million to settle outside of court. Additionally, MGM obtained the rights to CASINO ROYALE, owned by Sony's subsidiary Columbia pictures. This news left Kevin McClory out in the cold. He vowed to persue [sic] his claim that he was owed profits for creating the cinematic James Bond independently. Unwilling to accept defeat, McClory took out an advertisement in Variety a week later proclaiming his next production: Warhead 2001 was schedule to be produced in Australia. However, nothing came to fruition.
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  2007: BBC News reports a Colt revolver once owned by Ian Fleming fetches £12,000 at auction.

  

  Bond author's gun fetches £12,000

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6505711.stm

  
  Although a powerful weapon, Bond never used the Colt Magnum

  A revolver owned by James Bond author Ian Fleming has been sold at auction in London for £12,000.
  
  The engraved Colt Python .357 Magnum was specially made for the author and presented to him by the Colt Company.
  
  It was accompanied by a letter from the firearms company and a copy of the 1959 Bond novel Goldfinger.
  
  A Colt was used by villain Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun, but 007 shunned the Colt in favour a gun which could be hidden under a dinner jacket.
  
  The auctioned gun, which is still in working condition, is engraved with the words:

  "Presented To Ian Fleming By Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co".

  Fleming was a journalist and banker, before working in Naval Intelligence during World War II, where he rose to the rank of Commander and was right-hand man to spymaster Admiral John Godfrey.
  
  After the war, he went to Jamaica for a naval conference and fell in love with the island, where he wrote the Bond novels at his home, Goldeneye.

  
  https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/14881/lot/61/
  
  
  
  

  
  2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond comic Hammerhead #6.
  Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #6 (OF 6)

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025272206011
  Cover: Francesco Francavilla
  Writer: Andy Diggle
  Art: Luca Casalanguida
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 3/29

  It all comes down to this. With the Royal Navy facing off against the Hammerhead super-weapon, and Britain's nuclear arsenal in the hands of a war-mongering megalomaniac, 007 alone must infiltrate Kraken's fortified retreat. He has a license to kill, and he aims to use it...

  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2019: Shane Rimmer dies at age 89--Barnet Hospital, Barnet, England.
  (Born 28 May 1929--Toronto, Canada.)

  

  Shane Rimmer, voice of Thunderbirds'
  Scott Tracy, dies aged 89

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/29/shane-rimmer-voice-of-thunderbirds-scott-tracy-dies-aged-89

  The Canadian actor had forged a lengthy career in cult TV shows
  and films, appearing in three James Bond movies
  
  Martin Belam | Fri 29 Mar 2019 10.49 EDT | Last modified on Fri 29 Mar 2019 14.15 EDT

  
  Shane Rimmer, who has died aged 89, pictured here during a stint in ITV’s Coronation Street during the 1980s.
  Photograph: ITV/REX/Shutterstock

  Actor Shane Rimmer, who voiced the character of pilot Scott Tracy in Thunderbirds, has died. The official Gerry Anderson website carried the news, saying that the death of the 89 year old had been confirmed by his widow Sheila Rimmer. Rimmer died at home in the early hours of 29 March. No cause of death has been given.
  
  Rimmer, who was born in Toronto in 1929 and moved to the UK in the 1950s, played the leader of the Thunderbirds crew in 32 episodes produced between 1964 and 1966. The actor also contributed his voice to other Gerry Anderson projects including Joe 90 and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, and appeared in person in the Anderson’s live action project UFO. Behind the scenes, Rimmer also wrote episodes of Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, The Secret Service and The Protectors.

  
  Scott, Lady Penelope and Virgil in Thunderbirds
  Photograph: ITV / Rex Features

  As well as his work with Gerry and Sylvia Anderson he appeared in over 100 films including Dr Strangelove, Gandhi and Out of Africa. He played three different roles in three different James Bond movies, appearing in Diamonds Are Forever, You Only Live Twice, and The Spy Who Loved Me.

  
  Shane Rimmer with James Bond actor Roger Moore on the set of 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me.
  Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock

  Rimmer was also regularly cast in science fiction and fantasy projects, having appeared in William Hartnell era Doctor Who story The Gunfighters, as well as in Space: 1999, and having minor roles in Star Wars and Superman movies. He also played two different characters in British soap opera Coronation Street – in 1988 as shopkeeper Malcolm Reid, and between 1967 and 1970 as Joe Donnelli, an American GI who had murdered an army colleague and eventually shot himself.
  
  Rimmer had continued to work in his later years, and as recently as 2017 was supplying a voiceover in cult kids’ TV show The Amazing World of Gumball.
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/29/shane-rimmer-voice-of-thunderbirds-scott-tracy-dies-aged-89

  He told the Washington Times in 2017 that it was his Bond work he was most proud of. “That was crazy. I have no idea how it happened. I did Diamonds Are Forever first. It wasn’t much. I just came on and got into a bit of a slanging match with Sean Connery, who slangs very well. Then I did You Only Live Twice. They got rid of me up in space in that one. The third, The Spy Who Loved Me was a good one all around. It was Roger Moore’s favourite of all the ones he did. You just get a kind of intuitive thing about a movie. It worked very well.”

  

  Shane Rimmer (1929–2019)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0727300/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (165 credits)
  
  Firestorm (TV Movie) (post-production) - Tbc
  1987-2017 Dick Spanner, P.I. (TV Series) - Dick Spanner - 24 episodes
  2014-2017 The Amazing World of Gumball (TV Series) - Louie - 4 episodes
  2016 Darkwave: Edge of the Storm (Short) - Anderson
  2015 Thunderbirds (TV Series) - Scott Tracy
  2012 Dark Shadows - Board Member 1
  2010/II Half Moon (Short) - Maj Thomas Brennan
  2010 Lovelorn - The Barman
  
  2006 Alien Autopsy - Colonel
  2005 Hiroshima (TV Movie documentary) - James F. Byrnes
  2005 Mee-Shee: The Water Giant - Bob Anderson
  2005 Batman Begins - Older Gotham Water Board Technician
  2004 Caught in the Act (TV Movie) - Father
  2003 Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (TV Series) - William Kingsley
  - The Brooklyn Bridge (2003) ... William Kingsley
  2003 The War of the Starfighters - Tantive Base Operative (voice)
  2001 Spy Game - Estate Agent
  2000 One of the Hollywood Ten - Parnell Thomas
  
  1999 Dockers (TV Movie) - US Longshoreman
  1998 I.K. - Ivar Kreuger (TV Mini-Series) - President Hoover
  - Episode #1.3 (1998) ... President Hoover
  1998 Only Love (TV Movie) - Warren Oliver
  1996 Space Truckers - E. J. Saggs
  1995 A Kid in King Arthur's Court - Coach
  1994 The Saint: The Software Murders (TV Movie) - Bob Harrison
  1993 Piccolo grande amore - Mr. Hughes
  1993 Lipstick on Your Collar (TV Mini-Series) - Lt. Colonel Trekker / Lt. Col. Trekker
  - Episode #1.6 (1993) ... Lt. Col. Trekker
  - Episode #1.4 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
  - Episode #1.3 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
  - Episode #1.2 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
  - Episode #1.1 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
  1992 Double Vision (TV Movie) - Caroline & Lisa's Father
  1992 Casualty (TV Series) - Ed Rhinehart
  - Cry Wolf (1992) ... Ed Rhinehart
  1992 Land of Hope and Gloria (TV Series) - Bob
  - The Authentic Taste of England (1992) ... Bob
  1992 Year of the Comet - T.T. Kelleher
  1991 Stanley and the Women (TV Mini-Series) - Morton Fendig
  - Episode #1.1 (1991) ... Morton Fendig
  1991 Company Business - Chairman, Maxine Gray Cosmetics
  1991 A Kiss Before Dying - Commissioner Malley
  1991 Van der Valk (TV Series) - Lovell J Wallace
  - A Sudden Silence (1991) ... Lovell J Wallace
  1990 Enemy's Enemy (TV Mini-Series) - Skip Harrier
  - Del 4 (1990) ... Skip Harrier
  
  1989 The Nightmare Years (TV Mini-Series) - Ambassador Dodd
  - Episode #1.4 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
  - Episode #1.3 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
  - Part 2 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
  - Part 1 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
  1989 Red King, White Knight (TV Movie) - General
  1989 Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy (TV Movie) - Adm. Riley
  1989 The Bretts (TV Series) - Ben Silverstein
  - Home and Away: Part One (1989) ... Ben Silverstein
  1989 Street Legal (TV Series) - Det. Barnes
  - Basketball Story (1989) ... Det. Barnes
  1988 The Dirty Dozen (TV Series) - Biddle
  - Don Danko (1988) ... Biddle
  1988 The Fortunate Pilgrim (TV Mini-Series) - Reilly
  - Episode #1.3 (1988) ... Reilly
  - The Fortunate Pilgrim (1988) ... Reilly
  - The Fortunate Pilgrim (1988) ... Reilly
  1967-1988 Coronation Street (TV Series) - Joe Donnelli / Joe Donelli / Malcolm Reid - 25 episodes
  1988 A Very British Coup (TV Mini-Series) - The Americans - Secretary of State
  - Episode #1.3 (1988) ... The Americans - Secretary of State
  - Episode #1.2 (1988) ... The Americans - Secretary of State
  - Episode #1.1 (1988) ... The Americans - Secretary of State
  1988 Crusoe - Mr. Mather
  1988 The Bourne Identity (TV Mini-Series) - Gen. Conklin
  - Episode #1.2 (1988) ... Gen. Conklin
  - Episode #1.1 (1988) ... Gen. Conklin
  1987 Roman Holiday (TV Movie) - Hogan
  1987 Breakthrough at Reykjavik (TV Movie) - George Schultz
  1987 Riviera (TV Movie) - Doc
  1987 The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (TV Mini-Series) - Doorman
  - Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Doorman
  - Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Doorman
  1987 The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TV Movie) - Stark
  1986 Space Police (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Chuck Brogan
  1986 Whoops Apocalypse - Marvin Gelber (US Secretary of State)
  1986 Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (TV Mini-Series) - Harvey Coward
  - Part II (1986) ... Harvey Coward
  - Part I (1986) ... Harvey Coward
  1986 Of Pure Blood (TV Movie) - The Colonel
  1986 The Last Days of Patton (TV Movie) - Dr. Col. Lawrence Ball
  1985 Out of Africa - Belknap
  1985 White Nights - Ambassador Smith
  1985 Star Quality: Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (TV Movie) - Brod Sarnton
  1985 Dreamchild - Mr. Marl
  1985 The Holcroft Covenant - Lt. Miles
  1985 Reunion at Fairborough (TV Movie) - Joe Szyluk
  1985 Space (TV Mini-Series) - Gen Quigley / U.S. General Quigley
  - Part III (1985) ... Gen Quigley
  - Part I (1985) ... U.S. General Quigley
  1985 Morons from Outer Space - Redneck (Melvin)
  1985 Gulag (TV Movie) - Jay
  1984 Ellis Island (TV Mini-Series) - Detective Duffy
  - Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Detective Duffy
  1984 Nairobi Affair (TV Movie) - Mr. Gardner
  1984 Mistral's Daughter (TV Mini-Series) - Harry Klein
  - Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Harry Klein
  - Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Harry Klein
  - Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Harry Klein
  1984 Fox Mystery Theater (TV Series) - Dr. Hersh
  - Last Video and Testament (1984) ... Dr. Hersh
  1984 Alas Smith & Jones (TV Series)
  - Episode #1.5 (1984)
  - Episode #1.4 (1984)
  - Episode #1.1 (1984)
  1984 Lace (TV Mini-Series) - Press Agent
  - Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Press Agent
  - Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Press Agent
  1984 Master of the Game (TV Mini-Series) - Carroll
  1984 Partners in Crime (TV Mini-Series) - Hank Ryder
  - The Crackler (1984) ... Hank Ryder
  1983 The Lonely Lady - Adolph Fannon
  1983 Superman III - State Policeman
  1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series) - Detective Murphy
  - Smart Aleck Kill (1983) ... Detective Murphy
  1983 The Hunger - Arthur Jelinek
  1982 Gandhi - Commentator
  1980-1982 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - John Smith / Arthur Beauchamp
  - A Man with a Fortune (1982) ... John Smith
  - My Lady Love, My Dove (1980) ... Arthur Beauchamp
  1982 Nanny (TV Series) - Dick Leonard
  - Fathers (1982) ... Dick Leonard
  1981 Reds - MacAlpine
  1981 Priest of Love - Chief Immigration Officer
  1981 The Rose Medallion (TV Series) - Sgt. Ed Kusborski
  - Episode #1.3 (1981) ... Sgt. Ed Kusborski
  - Episode #1.2 (1981) ... Sgt. Ed Kusborski
  - Episode #1.1 (1981) ... Sgt. Ed Kusborski
  1981 Bognor (TV Series) - Horace Higgins
  - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 6 - Feeding Time (1981) ... Horace Higgins
  - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 5 - Dummy Run (1981) ... Horace Higgins
  - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 4 - I Am Yellow: Memoirs of a Danish Dog Lover (1981) ... Horace Higgins
  - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 3 - Meet the Mole (1981) ... Horace Higgins
  1980 The Dogs of War - Dr. Oaks
  1980 Superman II - Controller #2
  1980 Oppenheimer (TV Mini-Series) - Ed Condon
  - Episode #1.3 (1980) ... Ed Condon
  1980 Very Like a Whale (TV Movie) - Commuter
  
  1979 A Man Called Intrepid (TV Mini-Series) - Willoughby
  - Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Willoughby
  - Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Willoughby
  - Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Willoughby
  1979 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Ambassador Bingham
  - Speed King (1979) ... Ambassador Bingham
  1979 Secret Army (TV Series) - Canadian Commandant
  - The Execution (1979) ... Canadian Commandant
  1979 A Deadly Game (TV Movie) - Braley
  1979 Arabian Adventure - Abu
  1979 Hanover Street - Col. Ronald Bart
  1979 Return of the Saint (TV Series) - Falco
  - Dragonseed (1979) ... Falco
  1978 Superman - Naval Transport Commander (uncredited)
  1978 The One and Only Phyllis Dixey (TV Movie) - US Colonel
  1978 The Famous Five (TV Series) - Mr. Henning
  - Five on Finniston Farm (1978) ... Mr. Henning
  1978 The Billion Dollar Bubble (TV Movie) - Fred Levin
  1978 The Standard (TV Series) - Jack Putnam
  - Two Birds, One Stone (1978) ... Jack Putnam
  1978 Warlords of the Deep - Captain Daniels
  1977 Julia - Customs Officer (uncredited)
  1977 BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series) - Stone
  - Professional Foul (1977) ... Stone
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Cmdr. Carter
  1977 The People That Time Forgot - Hogan
  1977 Alternative 3 (TV Movie) - Bob Grodin
  1977 Silver Bears - American Banker
  1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope - InCom Engineer (uncredited)
  1977 Nasty Habits - Officer I / C
  1977 The Velvet Glove (TV Series) - Senator William Chandler
  - Mother (1977) ... Senator William Chandler
  1977 Twilight's Last Gleaming - Col. Alexander B. Franklin
  1976 Alien Attack (TV Movie) - Eagle Pilot (voice, uncredited)
  1975-1976 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Eagle Pilot - 6 epsiodes
  1976 Horizon (TV Series documentary) - Fred Levin
  - Billion Dollar Bubble (1976) ... Fred Levin
  1976 Second Verdict (TV Series) - Harold Giles Hoffman
  - The Lindbergh Kidnapping (1976) ... Harold Giles Hoffman
  1976 Hadleigh (TV Series) - Pollack
  - Divorce (1976) ... Pollack
  1975 Quiller (TV Series) - Harry Brent
  - Thundersky (1975) ... Harry Brent
  1975 The 'Human' Factor - CIA Man
  1975 Rollerball - Rusty, Team Executive
  1975 You're on Your Own (TV Series) - Peter Kovacs
  - Value for Money (1975) ... Peter Kovacs
  1974 Late Night Drama (TV Series) - Ronald Ziegler
  - I Know What I Meant (1974) ... Ronald Ziegler
  1974 S*P*Y*S - Hessler
  1974 QB VII (TV Mini-Series) - Reporter Outside Court
  - Part Three (1974) ... Reporter Outside Court (uncredited)
  - Part One & Two (1974) ... Reporter Outside Court (uncredited)
  1973 The Protectors (TV Series) - Zeke / Vickers
  - Zeke's Blues (1973) ... Zeke
  - Vocal (1973) ... Vickers
  1973 Take Me High (uncredited)
  1973 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (TV Series) - Police Sergeant Warren
  - In the Confessional (1973) ... Police Sergeant Warren
  1973 Live and Let Die - Hamilton (voice, uncredited)
  1973 The Investigator (Video) - John (voice)
  1973 Scorpio - Cop in Hotel (uncredited)
  1972 Baffled! (TV Movie) - Track Announcer
  1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Lomax
  - Element of Risk (1971) ... Lomax
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Tom (uncredited)
  1970 UFO (TV Series) - Lt. Bill Johnson / Alien / CIA Agent / ...
  - Computer Affair (1970) ... Lt. Bill Johnson / Alien (uncredited)
  - Confetti Check A-O.K. (1970) ... CIA Agent
  - Identified (1970) ... Seagull X-Ray Co-Pilot
  1970 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Goldman
  - The Pueblo Affair (1970) ... Goldman
  
  1968-1969 Joe 90 (TV Series) - Radio Control / Colonel Henderson / Taxi Driver / ...
  - Double Agent (1969) ... Radio Control (voice, uncredited)
  - Business Holiday (1968) ... Colonel Henderson / Taxi Driver (voice, uncredited)
  - Big Fish (1968) ... Gardner (voice, uncredited)
  - International Concerto (1968) ... Kelly / Clerk / Technician (voice, uncredited)
  - Most Special Astronaut (1968) ... Kent (voice, uncredited)
  1968 Thunderbird 6 - Scott Tracy (voice)
  1967-1968 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) - Sergeant / Pilot / Confused Partygoer / ...
  - Flight to Atlantica (1968) ... Sergeant (voice, uncredited)
  - Inferno (1968) ... Pilot (voice, uncredited)
  - Model Spy (1967) ... Confused Partygoer (voice, uncredited)
  - Special Assignment (1967) ... Mason (voice, uncredited)
  1967 You Only Live Twice - Hawaii Radar Operator (uncredited)
  1966 Thunderbirds Are GO - Scott Tracy (voice)
  1965-1966 Thunderbirds (TV Series) - Scott Tracy (voice) - 32 episodes
  1966 Orlando (TV Series) - Kahn - 6 episodes
  1966 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Seth Harper
  - Don't Shoot the Pianist (1966) ... Seth Harper
  - A Holiday for the Doctor (1966) ... Seth Harper
  1966 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Marine Sergeant
  - Lee Oswald: Assassin (1966) ... Marine Sergeant
  1965-1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Ramsey / Morgan
  - All Roads Lead to Callaghan (1966) ... Ramsey
  - No Wreath for an Angel (1965) ... Morgan
  1966 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Bud Burdine
  - The Flipside (1966) ... Bud Burdine
  1965 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Buchanan
  - The Mercenaries (1965) ... Buchanan
  1965 The Bedford Incident - Seaman 1st Class - C.I.C.
  1964 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Corporal Girtin
  - Parade's End #3: A Man Could Stand Up (1964) ... Corporal Girtin
  1964 The Saint (TV Series) - Major Smith
  - The Hi-Jackers (1964) ... Major Smith
  1963-1964 Compact (TV Series) - Russell Corrigan - 30 episodes
  1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Doctor
  - Seven Sisters of Wong (1964) ... Doctor
  1964 Dr. Strangelove - Capt. 'Ace' Owens
  1960 Chasing the Dragon (TV Movie) - Corporal Keegan
  1960 R.C.M.P. (TV Series) - Tom Hopwood
  - Day of Reckoning (1960) ... Tom Hopwood
  1959-1960 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - First generator operator / Campbell / Paul
  - Come in Razor Red (1960) ... First generator operator
  - Roast Goose and Walnut Stuffing (1959) ... Campbell
  - Star in the Summer Night (1959) ... Paul
  
  1959 After Hours (TV Series)
  - Episode #2.13 (1959)
  - Episode #2.12 (1959)
  - Episode #2.10 (1959)
  - Episode #2.6 (1959)
  1958 Cannonball (TV Series) - Tex
  - Sights on Safety (1958) ... Tex
  1958 The Day the Sky Exploded - John McLaren (English version, voice, uncredited)
  1958 Flaming Frontier - Running Bear
  1958 Come Fly with Me (TV Series) - Host
  1957-1958 Encounter (TV Series) - Sharkey / Bill
  - The Riggin' Slinger (1958)
  - Baptism of Fire (1958) ... Sharkey
  - One of Our Men Is Guilty (1957)
  - 99 Times Around the Block (1957) ... Bill
  1957 On Camera (TV Series) - Stanley
  - The Egghead Approach (1957) ... Stanley
  1957 Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (TV Series) - Farber
  - The Prisoner (1957) ... Farber
  1957 A Dangerous Age - Nancy's Father
  1957 Dorchester Theatre (TV Mini-Series) - Rodney Lauder
  - Two Sides to a Tortoise (1957) ... Rodney Lauder
  1957 Folio (TV Series) - Byron Moon
  - Ring Around the Square (1957) ... Byron Moon
  
  Writer (5 credits)
  
  1973-1974 The Protectors (TV Series) (written by - 2 episodes)
  - Blockbuster (1974) ... (written by)
  - Zeke's Blues (1973) ... (written by)
  1973 The Investigator (Video) (story by)
  
  1969 The Secret Service (TV Series) (written by - 1 episode)
  - Hole in One (1969) ... (written by)
  1968-1969 Joe 90 (TV Series) (teleplay by - 6 episodes)
  - Breakout (1969) ... (teleplay by)
  - Relative Danger (1968) ... (teleplay by)
  - Big Fish (1968) ... (teleplay by)
  - Splashdown (1968) ... (teleplay by - uncredited)
  - King for a Day (1968) ... (teleplay by)
  - The Fortress (1968) ... (teleplay by)
  1967-1968 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) (teleplay by - 3 episodes)
  - Inferno (1968) ... (teleplay by)
  - Expo 2068 (1968) ... (teleplay by)
  - Avalanche (1967) ... (teleplay by)
  
  Soundtrack (1 credit)
  
  2016-2018 The Amazing World of Gumball (TV Series) (performer - 3 episodes)
  - The Ghouls (2018) ... (performer: "All Hail All Hallow's Eve!" - uncredited)
  - The Father (2018) ... (performer: "The Vermin Man" - uncredited)
  - The Compilation (2016) ... (performer: "Weird Like You And Me" - uncredited)
  
  Self (15 credits)
  
  Archive footage (3 credits)

  
  
  

  
  2021: BBC Radio 4 airs The Food Programme with a focus on James Bond.

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl7k/2021/03/29
  
  Available Now
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tm9f
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  March 2023 Posts: 12,988

  March 30th
  
  1924: Frank McCarthy is born--New York City, New York.
  (He dies 17 November 2002 at age 78--Sedona, Arizona.)

  

  Frank C. McCarthy

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

  

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

  Note: on some projects Frank McCarthy worked with Robert McGinnis.
  
  Thunderball
  
  
  
  
  
  You Only Live Twice
  
  
  
  
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  
  
  Colonel Sun paperback
  
  
  Casino Royale
  
  
  Dr. No
  
  
  
  From Russia With Love
  
  
  Goldfinger
  
  
  Around the World Under the Sea
  
  
  Where Eagles Dare
  
  
  The Great Escape
  
  
  The Dirty Dozen
  
  
  
  

  
  1950: Anthony Robert McMillan OBE (Robbie Coltrane) is born--Rutherglen, Scotland.
  (He dies 14 October 2022 at age 72--Larbert, Scotland.)
  
  1958: Raymond Chandler reviews Dr. No in The Sunday Times.

  Originally posted on another forum by @Revelator.
  

  

  THE TERRIBLE DR. NO

  (March 30 1958) By RAYMOND CHANDLER

  Ian Fleming first attracted me for three qualities which I thought—perhaps wrongly—almost unique in English writers. The first was escape from mandarin English, the forced pretentiousness, the preoccupation with the precise and beautiful phrase, which to me is seldom precise or beautiful, since our language contains an interior magic which belongs only to those who in a sense, care nothing about themselves.
  
  The second was daring. He was not afraid to attempt any locale anywhere. He wrote expertly of
  New York’s Harlem and Florida’s St. Petersburg, in both of which he didn’t miss a trick. He wrote of Las Vegas and did miss one small trick. He forgot the glass of ice water which is always the first thing a waitress or bus boy would place on your table.
  
  What has happened to him in Dr. No is what happens to every real writer. He has found that a novel, a thriller, or what you choose to call it, is a world, that it has its own depth and subtleties, and that these can be expressed in an offhand way, without calling attention to themselves, and be very much alive.
  
  The first chapter of Dr. No is masterly. The atmosphere and background of the elegant Richmond Road in Kingston, Jamaica, are established with clarity and charm. They had to be, or the ruthless violence which takes place there would be in a vacuum.
  
  The third thing that attracted me in Ian Fleming’s writing was an acute sense at pace. How far to go, when to stop, when to destroy a mood and when to regain it, when to write a scene on a postcard and when to write richly and with leisure. Some of the most honoured novels lack this completely. You have to work at them. You don’t have to work at Fleming. He does the work for you.
  
  The story concerns itself with a strange disappearance of two British agents in Jamaica, and why they disappeared, when no possible reason seemed clear. All was peace, so why suddenly in the night are they gone? James Bond is sent to find out—a trivial matter, a vacation in the sun. Yeah?
  
  I have a few complaints. The beautiful girl does not appear until page 91, but in return for this she is allowed to live, and the last love scene is more gentle and compassionate than Ian Fleming usually permits. My second complaint is that the long sensational business which is the heart of the book not only borders on fantasy, it plunges into it with both feet. Ian Fleming’s impetuous imagination has no rules. I could wish he would write a book with all but one of his other qualities, yet with a plot which, at least to my world, seems part of what I know to be actual. The sequence is beautifully written, there are many very good things in it, especially detailed descriptions of the locale, the birds, the fishes—Fleming seems to be in love with rare fishes, and other dwellers in the water—some interiors, and a long torture scene which I thought a bit too sadistic, as though, he liked to write this sort of thing for its own sake.
  
  The terrible Dr. No is a strange creature, but his motives become clear and his end very original. The beautiful girl this time is no sophisticated doll from the night clubs. The ending of the book is, as I said, written with an unusual tenderness—for Ian Fleming. I’m glad of that.

  

  1959: Bond comic strip Moonraker begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Finishes 8 August 1959. 226-339) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  http://www.frederickmulder.com/john-mclusky
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1979 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1979.php3

  Moonraker (Moonraker)
  

  
  Danish 1966 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-7-1966/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 7: “Moonraker” (1966)

  
  
  
  
  Danish 1975 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no31-1975/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 31: “Moonraker” (1975)

  
  
  

  
  1962: Ian Fleming collaborates with a TV producer leading to television's The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
  1962: The Dr. No production completes 58 days of principal filming.
  1966: Thunderball released in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
  
  1979: Moonraker films Drax ejected into space.
  
  1985: British Hovercraft Corporation/Vickers Supermarine's Princess Margaret SR.N4 Mk (as used in Diamonds Are Forever) is blown onto a Dover breakwater killing four.

  impdb.org/index.php?title=Category:British_Hovercraft_Corporation_SR.N4

  

  
  1999: The Kevin McClory Warhead 2000 AD project is terminated when MGM buys the Casino Royale film rights from Sony for $10 million as a court settlement.
  
  2019: Tania Mallet dies at age 77--England.
  (Born 19 May 1941--Blackpool, Lancashire, England.)

  

  Tania Mallet, ‘Goldfinger’ Bond

  Girl, Dies at 77
  https://variety.com/2019/film/news/tania-mallet-dead-dies-goldfinger-james-bond-1203177293/
  By Dave McNary

  
  CREDIT: Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

  British actress and model Tania Mallet, who played Tilly Masterson in the 1964 James Bond classic Goldfinger, has died. She was 77.
  
  The official James Bond Twitter account announced her death on Sunday. “We are very sorry to hear that Tania Mallet who played Tilly Masterson in Goldfinger has passed away,” the tweet reads. “Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.”

  
  Mallet was a first cousin to actress Helen Mirren. She was born in Blackpool, England, to British father Henry Mallet and Russian mother Olga Mironoff, a sibling of Mirren’s father.

  Mallet was working as a model when she was cast as Masterson by producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli. She had previously auditioned for the role of Tatiana Romanova in 1963’s From Russia With Love, but lost the part to Daniela Bianchi.
  
  In Goldfinger, Mallet’s character portrayed the sister of Shirley Eaton’s Jill Masterson, who betrays the villain Auric Goldfinger and is killed by him through “skin suffocation” after being completely painted in gold paint. Masterson, bent on avenging her sister’s death, is subsequently killed in the movie by Goldfinger’s servant, Oddjob (played by Harold Sakata), who throws a steel-rimmed hat at her.
  
  Mallet told the James Bond fan site MI6 in 2003 that she had always been “more comfortable” in a small studio with “just a photographer and his assistant.”
  
  “The restrictions placed on me for the duration of the filming grated, were dreadful, and I could not anticipate living my life like that,” she added.

  Mirren said in her 2007 memoir, In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures, that Mallet was a “loyal and generous person” who helped pay for for her brothers’ education with her income as a model.

  

  Tania Mallet (1941–2019)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0539965/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actress (2 credits)
  
  1976 The New Avengers (TV Series) - Sara
  - The Midas Touch (1976) ... Sara (uncredited)
  1964 Goldfinger - Tilly Masterson
  
  Self (10 credits)
  
  2013 The Playboy Morning Show (TV Series) - Self
  - Episode #2.99 (2013) ... Self
  2013 Bond's Greatest Moments (TV Movie documentary) - Self / Tilly Masterson
  2012 This Morning (TV Series) - Self
  - Episode dated 5 October 2012 (2012) ... Self
  2012 007 Days of Bond: The Blu-Relay (Video documentary short) - Self - Actress
  
  1972 What's It All About? (TV Series) - Self
  - Episode #1.0 (1972) ... Self
  1971 Glamour... (TV Series) - Self - Judge
  - Episode #9.13 (1971) ... Self - Judge
  
  1967 Call My Bluff (TV Series) - Self
  - Episode #3.10 (1967) ... Self
  1966 Late Show London (TV Series) - Self
  - Episode #1.7 (1966) ... Self
  1965 Thunderball: The London Pavillion Premiere (Documentary short) - Self
  1961 Girls Girls Girls! (Documentary short) - Self
  
  Archive footage (3 credits)
  
  2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Tilly Masterson (uncredited)
  
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Self
  1995 A Day in the Life of GoldenEye (TV Special documentary short) - Tilly Masterson (uncredited)

  
  
  

  
  2022: Car & Driver reports Land Rover unveils Defender 90 as a Bond 60th Anniversary tribute.

  

  

  Land Rover Defender 90 Dons James Bond Livery

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a39572189/land-rover-defender-james-bond-60th-anniversary/

  The modified Defender 90 honors the Bond films' 60th anniversary with a black and gold color treatment.
  By Eric Stafford | Mar 29, 2022

  

  • The Land Rover Defender dons a black-and-gold livery to celebrate the 60th anniversary of James Bond films.
  • Along with the commemorative design, this Defender 90 features a modified suspension and a fully integrated roll cage.
  • This one-off Defender was driven by Mark Higgins–a stunt driver in four Bond films­–in the 2022 Bowler Defender Challenge rally race.

  The automaker most often associated with James Bond is Aston Martin. However, Land Rovers have appeared in Bond films for almost 40 years, starting with Octopussy in 1983 and leading up to the most recent release of No Time to Die. To celebrate the film franchise's 60th birthday, Land Rover built a one-off Defender 90 with a black and gold livery.

  
  Land Rover

  Land Rover didn't only build a special version of the Defender so it could don 007 graphics overlaid with a giant 60 on its doors and roof; the company also modified it for rally racing. Enhancements include a unique suspension setup with different springs and modified subframes. The body was fitted with a new rear spoiler, and the 18-inch wheels were wrapped with all-terrain tires. Inside, the Defender was equipped with a fully integrated roll cage for added safety. Under the hood, its standard 296-hp turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four was paired with a sport exhaust system. Its engine and transmission also benefited from upgraded cooling components.

  
  Car and Driver

  We’ve tested an unmodified Defender with the more powerful powertrain, the 395-hp turbo- and supercharged 3.0-liter inline-six, and the longer 110 wheelbase. It sprinted to 60 mph in 6.3 seconds and cleared the quarter-mile in 14.8 seconds at 94 mph.

  
  Land Rover

  Behind the wheel of this custom-built Land Rover Defender is Mark Higgins, who has also doubled as a stunt driver on the last four Bond films, including Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre. Higgins and his co-driver, Claire Williams, competed in the 2022 Bowler Defender Challenge rally race, which was held on March 26.

  
  Land Rover

  Land Rover Introduces Defender Rally Special - To Celebrate 60 Years Of James Bond
  

  
  
• j_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.

  March 2023 Posts: 8,680

  @RichardTheBruce - I can't claim to adequately appreciate what you have been doing there. It's just great, and a real encyclopedia of what has happened, even though I don't mean to comment on (even nearly) every one of your postings.
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  March 2023 Posts: 12,988

  A pleasure to do it of course @j_w_pepper.
  
  Your comment allows me to apologize for the incomplete representation for Mr. Coltrane, I'm in Europe mid-travel and my device doesn't allow me to easily do the normal due diligence. But i'll make it complete when I can next week.
  
  Comments, additions, and especially corrections always welcome.
  
  
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  1922: Bob Simmons is born--Fullham, London, England. (He dies 21 October 1987 at age 65.)

  

  Bob Simmons (stunt man)

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Simmons_(stunt_man)

  
  Bob Simmons as James Bond 007 in the gun
  barrel sequence featured in the movies Dr. No,
  From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger

  Bob Simmons (Fulham, London, England, 31 March 1922 – 21 October 1987) was an English actor and stunt man, best known for his work in many British made films, most notably the James Bond series.
  
  Biography
  Simmons was a former Army Physical Training Instructor at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst who had initially planned to be an actor, but thought a career in performing stunts would be more lucrative and interesting. Simmons first worked for Albert R. Broccoli and Irving Allen's Warwick Films on the film The Red Beret, that included future Bond film regulars director Terence Young, screenwriter Richard Maibaum and cameraman, later director of photography Ted Moore. Simmons later worked in many other Warwick Films, and worked for Allen in his The Long Ships and Genghis Khan, where he had his eye injured when kicked by a horse.

  When Albert R. Broccoli began to produce the James Bond films, Simmons tested as an actor for the Bond role, but until his death in 1987, he became the stunt coordinator for every Bond film except From Russia with Love, which he joined later in the production, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Man with the Golden Gun. He appeared in the gun barrel sequence for Sean Connery in three James Bond films: Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger. Simmons is the only person to officially perform the scene, while not starring in the main role as James Bond. Simmons also had a role as SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar in the pre-title sequence of the fourth film, Thunderball.
  
  Simmons developed a stunt technique involving trampolines, first used in You Only Live Twice, whereby stuntmen would bounce off a trampoline in concert with a triggered explosion so as to simulate being blown into the air. This was used in many other films, including by Simmons again in The Wild Geese, where Simmons also doubled for Richard Burton.
  
  Upon retirement, Simmons wrote an autobiography entitled Nobody Does It Better titled after the theme song for the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.

  Filmography

  Ivanhoe (1952)
  The Great Van Robbery (1957) - Peters
  The Guns of Navarone (1961) - German Officer (uncredited)
  Dr. No (1962) - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
  From Russia with Love (1963) - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
  The Long Ships (1964)
  Goldfinger (1964) - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
  Thunderball (1965) - Colonel Jacque Bouvar - SPECTRE #6 (uncredited)
  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
  You Only Live Twice (1967)
  Shalako (1968)
  The Adventurers (1969)
  When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
  Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
  Live and Let Die (1973)
  The Next Man (1976) - London Assassin
  The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) - Ivan, KGB Thug (uncredited)
  The Wild Geese (1978) - Pilot (uncredited)
  For Your Eyes Only (1981) - Henchman Lotus Explosion Victim (uncredited)
  A View to a Kill (1985)

  

  Nobody Does It Better, Bob Simmons, 1987.

  "When you double for James Bond you do it
  for real. Stunts and all. You are plunged into
  fantasy where life is lived in the fast lane."

  

  Bob Simmons (I) (1922–1987)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0799689/
  
  Filmography

  Stunts (49 credits)
  
  1987 Going Bananas (stunt coordinator - as Robert Simmons)
  1985 A View to a Kill (stunt team supervisor)
  1983 Octopussy (action sequences arranger)
  1982 The Final Option (stunts - uncredited)
  1982 The Wall (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
  1981 For Your Eyes Only (action sequences arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1980 The Sea Wolves (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1979 All Quiet on the Western Front (TV Movie) (action arranger)
  1979 Moonraker (action sequence arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1979 Zulu Dawn (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1978 The Wild Geese (stunt double: Richard Burton - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1977 Mister Deathman (stunt coordinator)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (action arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1975 De dwaze lotgevallen van Sherlock Jones (fight instructor)
  1975 The Man Who Would Be King (stunts - uncredited)
  1975 Happy Days Are Here Again (stunt coordinator)
  1975 Paper Tiger (action arranger)
  1975 The Wilby Conspiracy (stunts)
  1974 Caravan to Vaccares (stunts: fight sequence)
  1973 Live and Let Die (stunts co-ordinator)
  1973 A Touch of Class (stunt and fight arranger)
  1973 The Offence (stunts - uncredited)
  1972 Lady Caroline Lamb (fight arranger)
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever (stunt arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunt double: Anthony Hopkins - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1971 Murphy's War (stunt arranger)
  1970 The Adventurers (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1968 Shalako (action sequences arranger)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (action sequences) / (stunt double - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1965 Thunderball (stunt double: Guy Doleman - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1965 Genghis Khan (action sequences)
  1964 Goldfinger (action sequences by) / (stunt double: Harold Sakata - uncredited) / (stunt double: Michael Mellinger - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1963 From Russia with Love (stunt double - uncredited) / (train fight double: Sean Connery - uncredited)
  1962 Dr. No (stunt arranger - uncredited) / (stunt double - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1962 Night Creatures (fight sequence staged by)
  1961 The Hellions (stunt double: Lionel Jeffries - uncredited)
  1961 The Secret Ways (stunt supervisor)
  1961 The Guns of Navarone (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunt double: Gregory Peck - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
  1960 Exodus (stunts - uncredited)
  1960 Scent of Mystery (stunt double: Denholm Elliott - uncredited)
  
  1958 Tom Thumb (stunt double: Peter Sellers - uncredited)
  1957 Action of the Tiger (stunts - uncredited)
  1957 Fire Down Below (stunts - uncredited)
  1956 Zarak (stunts)
  1954 The Black Knight (stunt double: Alan Ladd - uncredited)
  1953 Paratrooper (stunts - uncredited)
  1952 Ivanhoe (stunts - uncredited)
  1939 Jamaica Inn (stunts - uncredited)
  
  Actor (25 credits)
  
  1981 For Your Eyes Only - Henchman Lotus Explosion Victim (uncredited)
  
  1978 The Wild Geese - Pilot (uncredited)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - KGB Thug #2 (uncredited)
  1976 The Next Man - London Assassin
  1976 Montana Trap
  1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Jeep Driver / Card Player
  - Chain of Events (1971) ... Jeep Driver (uncredited)
  - To the Death, Baby (1971) ... Card Player (uncredited)
  1971 Murphy's War - member of German sub crew (uncredited)
  
  1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Fake Limo Driver
  - The Queen's Ransom (1966) ... Fake Limo Driver (uncredited)
  1965 Thunderball - Colonel Jacques Bouvar - SPECTRE #6 (uncredited)
  1964 Goldfinger - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
  1963 From Russia with Love- James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
  1963 Sparrows Can't Sing
  Pub Patron (uncredited)
  1962 Dr. No - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
  1962 The Road to Hong Kong - Astronaut (uncredited)
  1961 The Guns of Navarone - German Soldier on Navarone (uncredited)
  1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay - Carlos, a pirate
  1960 Exodus - Man of arms (uncredited)
  1960 And the Same to You - Perce's Opponent
  
  1959 Great Van Robbery - Peters
  1958 The Vise (TV Series) - Brading
  - The Man Who Was Twice (1958) ... Brading
  1958 Tank Force (aka No Time To Die) - Mustapha
  1955 Tangier Assignment - Peter Valentine (as Robert Simmons)
  1953 The Sword and the Rose - French Champion
  1953 Bad Blonde - Booth Man (uncredited)
  
  1939 Reform School - Johnny
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (16 credits)
  
  1982 The Final Option (action arranger)
  1980 The Sea Wolves (action arranger)
  
  1978 The Wild Geese (action arranger)
  1975 The Man Who Would Be King (master of horse)
  1973 The Man Called Noon (action supervisor)
  1971 Catlow (action sequence coordinator)
  1970 The Adventurers (action sequences arranger: second unit)
  
  1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade (action arrangements)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (action sequences by)
  1965 Thunderball (action sequences by)
  1964 Goldfinger (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
  1964 The Long Ships (action sequences)
  1963 From Russia with Love (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
  1962 Dr. No (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
  1962 The Pirates of Blood River (horse master) / (master at arms)
  1961 The Naked Edge (fight arranger)
  
  Camera and Electrical Department (2 credits)
  
  George & Mildred (TV Series) (lighting director - 3 episodes, 1977 - 1978) (lighting - 2 episodes, 1979)
  - The Twenty Six Year Itch (1979) ... (lighting)
  - A Military Pickle (1979) ... (lighting)
  - I Believe in Yesterday (1978) ... (lighting director)
  - The Right Way to Travel (1977) ... (lighting director)
  - All Around the Clock (1977) ... (lighting director)
  1977 The Upchat Line (TV Series) (lighting director - 1 episode)
  - Accommodation Address (1977) ... (lighting director)
  
  Art department (1 credit)
  
  1987 Promised Land (storyboard artist)
  
  Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)
  
  1966 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (second unit director)
  
  Producer (1 credit)
  
  1973 The Man Called Noon (associate producer)

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1935: Herb Alpert is born--Los Angeles, California. (He marries Lani Hall 1974.)
  
  1943: Christopher Walken is born--Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York.
  
  1958: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's sixth Bond novel Dr. No.

  DR. NO
  
  M hasn't forgiven Bond for the
  negligence on his last assignment that
  nearly cost Bond his life. Brusquely,
  almost contemptuously, he tosses Bond
  a time-wasting, shabby little case in the
  Caribbean. It will really be a holiday
  on an island in the sun -- convalescence.
  Angrily, Bond accepts his orders. He
  flies off to Jamaica. The sun shines,
  the palm trees wave, the calypsos throb.
  But on the horizon a cloud forms. It is
  no bigger than a man's hand -- an arti-
  culated steel hand -- the hand of Dr. No!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1960: In a letter to typist Jean Frampton, Ian Fleming credits her keen mind.

  

  Fleming's 'Moneypenny' revealed

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7314336.stm

  

  May 2008 marks the centenary of
  Ian Fleming's birth
  
  Letters written by James Bond creator Ian Fleming, due to be sold at auction next month, reveal a close relationship with his typist Jean Frampton.

  In one letter, dated 31 March, 1960, he asks her to use her "keen mind" to help get his novel Thunderball "into shape".
  
  "Anything your quick eye falls upon... would be endlessly welcome," he adds.
  
  "You can look on Mrs Frampton as Ian Fleming's Miss Moneypenny," said Amy Brenan of Duke's auctioneers in Dorset, which is offering the letters for sale.

  The auction will take place on 10 April to mark the centenary year of the writer's birth.
  
  The entire collection, which includes four signed letters by Fleming, is expected to fetch between £2,000 and £3,000.
  
  'Helpful'
  Also included are letters written by Mrs Frampton and Fleming's secretaries, Una Trueblood and Beryl Griffie-Williams.
  
  Hired to type the manuscripts of Fleming's books, Frampton found herself called upon to offer pointers on plot and literary style.

  

  The collection is expected to fetch up to £3,000
  
  "Your occasional comments on the work you have done for me have been so helpful," the author writes.
  
  Frampton, who lived in the Dorset town of Christchurch, is believed never to have actually met Fleming.

  Their correspondence, however, reveals a close relationship that extended to such Bond novels as You Only Live Twice and The Man with the Golden Gun.
  
  "The collection is interesting because it details how the James Bond books were put together in the early 1960s," said Ms Brenan.

  1964: Agent 007 ... ser rött (Agent 007 ... Sees Red) released in Sweden.

  Sean Connery in a new one...
  
  

  1964: Goldfinger films OO7 and villain and the laser interrogation.
  
  2016: Douglas Wilmer dies at age 96--Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
  (Born 8 January 1920--Brentford, London, England.)

  

  Douglas Wilmer obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/apr/05/douglas-wilmer-obituary-sherlock-holmes

  Actor who portrayed Sherlock Holmes as a steely antihero in the
  1960s BBC TV adaptation of Conan Doyle’s stories

  
  Douglas Wilmer, left, as Holmes, with Nigel Stock as Watson, in The Man with the Twisted Lip,
  a 1965 episode of the BBC series Sherlock Holmes.
  Photograph: BBC

  Toby Hadoke | Tue 5 Apr 2016
  
  Douglas Wilmer, who has died at the age of 96, was a wily, sardonic actor best known for playing Sherlock Holmes on television. He was cast alongside Nigel Stock’s doughty Watson in a 1964 BBC adaptation of The Speckled Band, and then returned for a 12-episode series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories the following year. Wilmer gave his Holmes an arrogance that he found missing from his screen predecessors, and he felt that his steely antihero was closer to Conan Doyle’s intentions for the character.
  
  He was frustrated by the process of making the series, frequently rewriting scripts, clashing with directors and ruing the short rehearsal time typical in television of that period. He did not return for the second series, where Stock was instead joined by Peter Cushing. Wilmer did revisit the role, though – on the big screen in the Gene Wilder film The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother (1975).

  
  Douglas Wilmer as Holmes in the 1975 Gene Wilder film
  The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother.
  Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock

  Son of Kate (nee Tavener) and Harry, Wilmer was born in London, but spent his childhood in Shanghai, where his father worked as an accountant. Douglas returned to the UK for education at King’s school, Canterbury, and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After a year there, he was called up for second world war service in the army and served as a troop commander in Nigeria and the Gambia, before being invalided out with tuberculosis.
  
  After the war he secured leading roles in weekly repertory theatre in Rugby thanks to a recommendation from a fellow student from his Rada days, Elizabeth Melville, who was to become his first wife. He made his West End debut in Antony and Cleopatra at the Piccadilly theatre (1946), spent a season at the Shakespeare Memorial theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon (1948) and joined the Old Vic company in 1951. Among his roles for them was the French king, Charles VI, in Henry V, for which he was singled out for praise by Kenneth Tynan.
  
  Subsequent theatre roles for which he received strong notices included Warwick in St Joan opposite Siobhán McKenna (1954, Arts theatre, then St Martin’s theatre), Claudius to the Hamlet of Alan Bates (Nottingham Playhouse, then Cambridge theatre, 1970) and Patrick Delafield in David Hare’s Knuckle (Comedy theatre, 1974)
  
  His television roles included Father Charles in It Is Midnight, Dr Schweitzer (1953, the earliest complete surviving TV play), the young hero in The Black Tulip (1956), Sir Mulberry Hawk in Nicholas Nickleby (1957), King Charles II in The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1958), and parts in a number of ITV Plays of the Week, before he was cast as Holmes. After hanging up his deerstalker he largely took guest roles in popular series such as The Avengers (1966) and The Main Chance (1970), before adding an addendum to his connection with 221b Baker Street by playing Van Dusen in The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971).

  His film debut came as Dorset in Olivier’s Richard III (1955) and his other films included El Cid (1961), Cleopatra (1963, with Elizabeth Taylor), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966) and The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967), as Nayland Smith, the dogged nemesis of Christopher Lee’s eponymous master villain, Patton (1970, with George C Scott), Antony and Cleopatra (1972, with his good friend Charlton Heston), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), The Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) and Octopussy (1983).

  Growing disillusioned with the profession, he withdrew from acting to open a wine bar – inevitably called Sherlock’s – in Woodbridge, Suffolk. He was a self-taught painter, his work inspired by frequent visits to Malta, who exhibited his watercolours and was a member of the Ipswich Art Society. But there was no escaping his most famous role and he came to embrace the praise bestowed upon his performance by admirers such as the Sherlock Homes Society of London, which appointed him an honorary member.

  
  Douglas Wilmer, right, with Charlton Heston in El Cid, 1961.
  Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock

  He read a number of the Conan Doyle stories for Penguin audiobooks, took a cameo role as an irate customer at the Diogenes Club in an episode of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’s TV series Sherlock (2012) and in 2014 contributed, with typical caustic humour, self-effacing wit and blunt candour, to the BFI’s DVD release of his Sherlock Holmes episodes. He published an autobiography, Stage Whispers, in 2009.
  
  Wilmer’s first two marriages ended in divorce. He is survived by his third wife, Anne, and her daughter, Katherine.

  • Douglas Wilmer, actor, born 8 January 1920; died 31 March 2016

  

  Douglas Wilmer (1920–2016)

  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932811/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  
  

  
  2018: BBC's Radio 4 broadcasts its seventh Bond radio drama Moonraker.

  

  Moonraker: The Radio Play

  Original title: Moonraker
  2018 } 1h 27m
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12139140/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

  Moonraker (2018)
  It's 1954 and Sir Hugo Drax has built an atomic rocket, Moonraker. But after a double-murder, James Bond goes undercover at Moonraker's secret base. He and agent Gala Brand discover possible treachery. Can they prevent a catastrophe?

  Director Martin Jarvis
  Writers
  Ian Fleming (novel: original story); Archie Scottney (adaptation)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Toby Stephens ... James Bond (voice)
  Samuel West ... Sir Hugo Drax (voice)
  John Baddeley ... Sir Winston Churchill (voice)
  Janie Dee ... Moneypenny (voice)
  John Standing ... M (voice)
  Julian Sands ... Q (voice)
  Jared Harris ... Vallance (voice)
  Patricia Hodge ... Professor Train (voice)
  Katherine Kingsley ... Gala Brand (voice)
  Nigel Anthony ... Basildon (voice)
  Simon De Deney ... Meyer (voice)
  Jon Glover ... Movietone (voice)
  Ian Ogilvy ... Broadcaster (voice)
  Matthew Wolf ... Brevett (voice)
  Darren Richardson ... Countdown (voice)
  Kenneth Danziger ... Captain (voice)
  Martin Jarvis ... Ian Fleming (voice)
  

  BBC Radio 4 - James Bond Radio Drama, Moonraker
  
  
  
  

  
  2020: Original date for the No Time To Die World Premiere at Royal Albert Hall, London. Delayed to November and then some.
  
  2022: MidCoast seniors festival program promises a screening of No Time To Die at the Glouster Library, England.

  

  MidCoast seniors festival program is out

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.gloucesteradvocate.com.au/story/7666269/midcoast-seniors-festival-program-is-out/

  From tech workshops to scrabble sessions, there is loads happening across the Mid Coast region for NSW Seniors Festival.
  
  Gloucester library has a couple of tech savvy sessions and an online safety workshop in the program.
  
  NSW Seniors Festival runs from March 25 to April 3 for people over 60.
  
  This year's theme is 'Reconnect'.
  
  You can book into the Gloucester Introduction to Android Tablets session on Monday, March 28 from 10am to 1pm and the Introduction to Social Media session that afternoon from 1.30pm to 3.30pm.
  
  And if you're interested in learning how to avoid an online scam, you can book into the Gloucester session on Tuesday, April 5 from 10.30am to 11.30am or the Stroud library session on Thursday, April 14 from 10.30am until 11.30am.
  
  Bookings are essential for all these sessions and can be made by calling 6592 5290.
  
  To find out more about what's happening across the region, grab a copy of MidCoast Council's NSW Seniors Festival events program.
  
  It's available for free at every MidCoast library.
  
  You can also check out the program online at www.midcoast.nsw.gov.au/seniors
  
  Events are either free or subsidised and there is something for everyone to enjoy.

  Other events happening in the Gloucester area include a bit of James Bond action, with the movie, No Time To Die playing at the Gloucester library on Thursday, March 31 from 1pm to 4pm.

  You can learn more about how to can remain living at home independently at a MyAgedCare information session at the Stroud School of Arts Hall on Wednesday, March 30 from 9am to 10am.
  
  Or if you up for a slightly longer drive, you can create your own carry pouch for your glasses by taking part in the Embracing Embroidery session at the Nabiac library on Monday, March 28 from 9.30am until 11am.
  
  View the full listing of Seniors Festival events being held across the MidCoast Council region, visit www.mymidcoast.com.au.

  

  
  2022: James Bond & Beyond Tour with Canoeing & Lunch By Tour East Thailand.

  

  James Bond & Beyond Tour
  with Canoeing & Lunch

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://fr.travelocity.ca/things-to-do/James-Bond-Beyond-Tour-with-Canoeing-Lunch.a207178.activity-details?endDate=2022-04-13&location=Takua Thung, Phang Nga, Thailand&rfrr=LX.IS.Recommend.2&rid=6143364&srp=true&startDate=2022-03-30&swp=on

  By Tour East Thailand
  4.7/5

  Overview

  • Outing to secluded island from The Man with the Golden Gun
  • Stunning stalactite caves & quiet lagoons at Talu Island
  • Relaxed exploration of idyllic Phang Nga Bay by canoe
  • Delicious Thai seafood lunch at Ko Panyi floating village
  • Opportunity to swim in the bay's emerald green waters

  What's included, what's not
  Guided tour of James Bond Island, Talu Island, and Phang Nga Bay
  Canoe ride
  Lunch
  Life jacket, helmet, and torch
  Roundtrip transport to and from your central Phuket hotel by coach
  Live tour commentary provided in English
  Drinks, bottled water and snacks
  
  Know before you book
  Children aged 2 and younger are not allowed. Children aged 12 and younger must be accompanied by a paying adult.
  If you are pregnant you should not take part.
  Weather and sea conditions determine whether the tour operates.
  Pick-up is available from hotels in Phuket. Please arrange pick-up from your hotel or a nearby location when you call to confirm your reservation. If your hotel is located outside of central Phuket, you must pay an additional surcharge directly to the driver on the day of the activity. .
  
  What you can expect
  
  Cruise across the emerald waters of Phang Nga Bay on your way to discover the famous caves and limestone formations of Khao Phing Kan, also known as James Bond Island for its role in the 1974 film The Man with the Golden Gun. Feast on a delicious Thai lunch of seafood before cooling off with a swim at stunning Naka Island.
  
  Get picked up at your hotel and head to a private pier, where a live band plays music before you hop onto a speedboat to be whisked off to Phang Nga Bay. Once you arrive in this spectacular natural setting, trade the powerboat for paddles as you grab a seat in a canoe. As your guide propels you along, take in the scenery of Talu Island with its hidden caves and secluded lagoons.
  
  Then, refuel with a tasty lunch of fresh local seafood at the captivating floating village of Koh Panyee before making your way back to shore.
  
  Cleaning and safety practices
  Enhanced cleanliness measures
  High-touch surfaces cleaned and disinfected
  Vehicles and venues cleaned with disinfectants
  Vehicles and venues kept vacant between travellers
  
  Social distancing
  Social distancing measures in place
  Protective shields in place at main contact areas
  
  Safety measures
  Personal protective equipment worn by staff
  Temperature checks given to staff
  Temperature checks available
  Masks required
  Hand sanitizer provided
  Individually wrapped food options available
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  March 2023 edited March 29 Posts: 12,988

  April 1st
  
  1931: George Baker is born--Varna, Bulgaria.
  (He dies 7 October 2011 at age 80--West Lavington, Wiltshire, England.)

  

  George Baker: Actor whose career
  climaxed in his portrayal of the
  Shakespeare-quoting DCI Wexford

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/george-baker-actor-whose-career-climaxed-in-his-portrayal-of-the-shakespeare-quoting-dci-wexford-2368541.html
  Anthony Hayward | Tuesday 11 October 2011 00:00

  
  George Baker: Actor whose career climaxed in his portrayal of the Shakespeare-quoting DCI Wexford

  In 1987, two detectives from contemporary literature were transferred to television and their screen lives ran in parallel for 14 years.
  
  While John Thaw stepped into the opera-loving shoes of Colin Dexter's Oxford sleuth Inspector Morse, George Baker had his first outing as Ruth Rendell's Shakespeare-quoting Detective Chief Inspector Wexford in "Wolf to the Slaughter".
  
  The 6ft 4in Baker traded his crisp vowels for a regional burr in the roleof the affable, fatherly figure investigating crimes in the fictional south of England market town Kingsmarkham. With his dour sidekick, Detective Inspector Mike Burden (Christopher Ravenscroft), he plodded thoughtfully through an alarmingly high number of murder cases.
  
  Reg Wexford was also a dependable husband and doting father, and Rendell revealed that the character traits were taken from her own father. She was so enamoured with Baker's portrayal that she admitted to writing The Veiled One, the first new Wexford novel published after the television adaptations began, with him in mind.
  
  Following the stand-alone first mini-series, the programmes – featuring 23 stories in all and running until 2000 – were screened as The Ruth Rendell Mysteries and, occasionally, The Ruth Rendell Mystery Movie. Location filming was done in and around the Hampshire town of Romsey, not far from Baker's own home in Wiltshire.
  
  In 1992, his second wife, the actress Sally Home, died after a three-year fight against cancer. The following year, he married Louie Ramsay – who played his screen wife, Dora, in the Wexford dramas and was a long-time friend of the couple – calling her his "soulmate" and adding: "Sally was the love of my life. With Louie, the love is quite different, but it's almost as strong." Ramsay died last March.
  
  Baker was born at the British Embassy in Varna, Bulgaria, where his father, Frank – originally from Wetherby, West Yorkshire – was the honorary British vice-consul. A literate, cultured individual who was a writer and expert wine-taster, Baker was at pains to point out that, according to diplomatic etiquette, he was born on British soil.
  
  When the Second World War broke out, he, his Irish mother Eva and four brothers and sisters moved to Yorkshire. Baker attended Lancing College, West Sussex, before joining Deal repertory company, in Kent, when he was just 15. During national service in Hong Kong he served with the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment. As a horse rider he was made regimental equitation officer but returned to Britain after contracting the intestinal disease sprue, and finished his Army service on a training range in Pembrokeshire.
  
  Baker then acted in repertory theatre across Britain before making his London début as Arthur Wells in a revival of the Frederick Lonsdale drawing-room comedy Aren't We All? (Haymarket Theatre, 1953). Many roles followed in the West End, and with the Old Vic company (1959-60) and the RSC (1975). He also directed some plays himself, including The Sleeping Prince (St Martin's Theatre, 1968) and The Lady's Not for Burning (Old Vic Theatre, 1978). As artistic director, Baker launched his own provincial touring company, Candida Plays (named after his eldest daughter), in 1966.
  
  Film casting directors spotted his matinee-idol looks early on. His first screen appearance, alongside Jack Hawkins, was in The Intruder (1953) and he followed it with a role in theSecond World War drama The Dam Busters (1955). Then came star billing in another war film, A Hill in Korea (1956), and the Civil War adventure The Moonraker (1958).

  Baker's six-week affair with Brigitte Bardot while he was at Pinewood Studios filming The Woman for Joe (1955) and she was making Doctor at Sea put a strain on his marriage to the costume designer Julia Squire, which also suffered from the constant pressure of being in debt. He lived with Sally Home for 10 years before she became his second wife. His confidence was knocked by the film director Tony Richardson's description of him as the worst actor in England and another disappointment was the James Bond author Ian Fleming's assertion that Baker would make the perfect 007, before the part went to Sean Connery.
  
  However, Baker appeared in three Bond films: as a Nasa engineer in You Only Live Twice (1967), Captain Benson in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Sir Hilary Bray in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), in which he also dubbed the voice of George Lazenby – in that actor's one screen appearance as the secret agent – for a scene in which 007 impersonates his character.

  Television began to play a bigger part in Baker's career, with dramatic roles such as the second Number Two in The Prisoner (1967), Tiberius in I, Claudius (1976) and Detective Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn in four feature-length adaptations of Ngaio Marsh's novels, made in New Zealand in 1977.
  
  He also had some success in sitcoms. After playing Peter Craven's boss in The Fenn Street Gang (1972), Baker was spun off into his own series, Bowler (1973), in which he was seen as a spiv and petty villain trying to exude class but failing abysmally. Later, alongside Penelope Keith in the first two series of No Job for a Lady (1990-91), he played the Conservative MP Godfrey Eagan, sparring with the newly elected Labour MP Jean Price.
  
  As a writer, Baker adapted four of the Ruth Rendell stories himself and scripted many radio dramas and the television play The Fatal Spring (1980), about the First World War poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, which won the United Nations Media Prize Award of Merit.
  
  In 1999, Baker underwent surgery to remove his prostate gland after being diagnosed with cancer. His autobiography, The Way to Wexford, was published three years later. He also collected together recipes from his own culinary exploits in A Cook for All Seasons (1989). In 2007, Baker was made an MBE for youth club fund-raising activities in his then home village of West Lavington, Wiltshire.
  
  George Morris Baker, actor, writer and director: born Varna, Bulgaria 1 April 1931; MBE 2007; married 1950 Julia Squire (divorced 1974, died 1989; four daughters), 1974 Sally Home (died 1992; one daughter), 1993 Louie Ramsay (died 2011); died 7 October 2011.

  

  George Baker (I) (1931–2011)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0048468/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (145 credits)
  
  2007 New Tricks (TV Series) - Steve Palmer
  - Ducking and Diving (2007) ... Steve Palmer
  2007 Heartbeat (TV Series) - Maurice Dodson
  - Vendetta (2007) ... Maurice Dodson
  2005 Spooks (TV Series) - Hugo Ross
  - The Russian (2005) ... Hugo Ross
  2005 Midsomer Murders (TV Series)
  Charlie / Jack Magwood
  - The House in the Woods (2005) ... Charlie / Jack Magwood
  2003 Coronation Street (TV Series) - Cecil Newton - 6 episodes
  2001 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (TV Series) - Berry Pomeroy
  - O Happy Isle (2001) ... Berry Pomeroy
  1987-2000 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) - Det. Chief Insp. Wexford - 50 episodes
  2000 Back to the Secret Garden - Will Weatherstaff
  
  1995 Johnny and the Dead (TV Mini-Series) - Alderman
  - Part 4 (1995) ... Alderman
  - Part 3 (1995) ... Alderman
  - Part 2 (1995) ... Alderman
  - Part 1 (1995) ... Alderman
  1995 Little Lord Fauntleroy (TV Mini-Series) - The Earl of Dorincourt - 6 episodes
  1992 ITV Telethon (TV Series) - Chief Inspector Wexford
  - Telethon '92 (1992) ... Chief Inspector Wexford
  1990-1991 No Job for a Lady (TV Series) - Godfrey Eagan - 12 episodes
  1990 Hudson & Halls (TV Series) - Guest
  1980-1989 Minder (TV Series) - Cooper / Altman
  - Days of Fines and Closures (1989) ... Cooper
  - You Gotta Have Friends (1980) ... Altman
  1988 Journey's End (TV Movie) - The Colonel
  1988 For Queen & Country - Kilcoyne
  1988 Bergerac (TV Series) - Higgins
  - A Man of Sorrows (1988) ... Higgins
  1987 Out of Order - Chief Inspector
  1987 The Charmer (TV Mini-Series) - Harold Bennett
  - Gorse in the Middle (1987) ... Harold Bennett
  - Gorse, the Deceiver (1987) ... Harold Bennett
  1987 Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (TV Movie) - Chief Inspector Fred Davy
  1986-1987 Screen Two (TV Series) - Greaves / Valentine Swift
  - Coast to Coast (1987) ... Greaves
  - Time After Time (1986) ... Valentine Swift
  1986 Lenny Henry Tonite (TV Series) - - Gronk Zillman (1986)
  1986 The Canterville Ghost (TV Movie) - Uncle Hesketh
  1986 Room at the Bottom (TV Series) - Director General
  - Winter Schedule (1986) ... Director General
  - The Siege (1986) ... Director General
  1984-1986 Robin Hood (TV Series) - Sir Richard of Leaford
  - The Power of Albion (1986) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
  - Herne's Son: Part 2 (1986) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
  - Herne's Son: Part 1 (1986) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
  - The Prophecy (1984) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
  1986 If Tomorrow Comes (TV Mini-Series) - Maximillian Pierpont
  - Episode #1.3 (1986) ... Maximillian Pierpont
  1986 Dead Head (TV Mini-Series) - Eldridge
  - The Patriot (1986) ... Eldridge
  - Anything for England (1986) ... Eldridge
  - Why Me? (1986) ... Eldridge
  1985 We'll Support You Evermore (TV Movie) - Colonel
  1985 Marjorie and Men (TV Series) - Norton Phillips
  - Be Your Age (1985) ... Norton Phillips
  1985 Bird Fancier (TV Movie) - Albert Seers
  1985 A Woman of Substance (TV Mini-Series) - Bruce McGill
  - Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Bruce McGill
  - Episode #1.2 (1985) ... Bruce McGill (credit only)
  - Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Bruce McGill
  1984 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - George Damos
  - Death Dig (1984) ... George Damos
  1984 Goodbye Mr. Chips (TV Mini-Series) - Meldrum
  - Episode #1.4 (1984) ... Meldrum
  - Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Meldrum
  - Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Meldrum
  - Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Meldrum
  1983 Spyship (TV Mini-Series) - Irving
  - Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Irving
  1983 The Secret Adversary (TV Movie) - Whittington
  1982-1983 Triangle (TV Series) - David West - 52 episodes
  1982 The Chinese Detective (TV Series) - Jack Balfe
  - Chorale (1982) ... Jack Balfe
  1982 Q.E.D. (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Harold Metcalfe
  - The Great Motor Race (1982) ... Sir Harold Metcalfe
  1982 Little Miss Perkins (TV Movie) - Mr. Macauley
  1981 The Gentle Touch (TV Series) - Gerald Harvey
  - The Hit (1981) ... Gerald Harvey
  1981 The Member for Chelsea (TV Series) - Mr. Chamberlain
  - Episode #1.3 (1981) ... Mr. Chamberlain
  - Episode #1.2 (1981) ... Mr. Chamberlain
  - Episode #1.1 (1981) ... Mr. Chamberlain
  1981 Goodbye Darling (TV Series) - Jonathan Cowper
  - Maude (1981) ... Jonathan Cowper
  - Anne (1981) ... Jonathan Cowper
  1981 Crown Court (TV Series) - - The Merry Widow: Part 1 (1981)
  1981 Jackanory Playhouse (TV Series) - Janaka
  - The Mouse, the Merchant and the Elephant (1981) ... Janaka
  1980 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Login
  - Full Circle: Part Four (1980) ... Login
  - Full Circle: Part Three (1980) ... Login
  - Full Circle: Part Two (1980) ... Login
  - Full Circle: Part One (1980) ... Login
  1980 Hopscotch - Parker Westlake
  1980 Ladykillers (TV Series) - Sir Terence O'Connor, Q.C.
  - Don't Let Them Kill Me on Wednesday (1980) ... Sir Terence O'Connor, Q.C.
  1980 Square Mile of Murder (TV Series) - Mr. Smith
  - A Kiss, a Fond Embrace - Part 2 (1980) ... Mr. Smith
  - A Kiss, a Fond Embrace - Part 1 (1980) ... Mr. Smith
  1980 ffolkes - Fletcher
  
  1979 Empire Road (TV Series) - Mr. Butterworth
  - Godfadder at Bay (1979) ... Mr. Butterworth
  1968-1979 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Robert Ballard / George King
  - Print Out (1979) ... Robert Ballard
  - The Bonegrinder (1968) ... George King
  1978 Died in the Wool (TV Movie) - Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn
  1978 The Thirty Nine Steps - Sir Walter Bullivant
  1977 Colour Scheme (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
  1977 Vintage Murder (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
  1977 Opening Night (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Capt. Benson
  1977 Three Piece Suite (TV Series) - Frank - This Situation / Brad Hunter (segment "Celluloid Dreams")
  - Come in, No.1/This Situation/All in the Mind (1977) ... Frank - This Situation
  - Miss/Celluloid Dreams/Mea Culpa (1977) ... Brad Hunter (segment "Celluloid Dreams")
  1976 I, Claudius (TV Mini-Series) - Tiberius - 10 episodes
  1976 Softly Softly: Task Force (TV Series) - Frank Chandler
  - Baked Beans (1976) ... Frank Chandler
  1976 Intimate Games - Professor Gottlieb
  1976 Get Some In! (TV Series) - Wing-Commander Birch
  - Flight (1976) ... Wing-Commander Birch
  1976 The Twelve Tasks of Asterix - Prefect / Various (English version, voice)
  1970-1976 Z Cars (TV Series) - Gerald / Calvin Flood / Gordon Glossop
  - A Preacher in Passing (1976) ... Calvin Flood
  - Friends (1974) ... Gordon Glossop
  - A Big Shadow: Part 2 (1970) ... Gerald
  - A Big Shadow: Part 1 (1970) ... Gerald
  1975 Sea Area Forties (Short) - Commentator (voice)
  1975 The Firefighters - Station Officer Harrison
  1975 Three for All - Eddie Boyes
  1975 Spy Trap (TV Series) - Colonel Jacoby
  - April Sixty-Seven (1975) ... Colonel Jacoby
  1975 Survivors (TV Series) - Arthur Wormley
  - Genesis (1975) ... Arthur Wormley
  1974 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - Det. Inspector Martin
  - The Final Chapter (1974) ... Det. Inspector Martin
  1974 Dial M for Murder (TV Series) - Martin Willis
  - Murder on Demand (1974) ... Martin Willis
  1974 Zodiac (TV Series) - Mark Braun
  - The Cool Aquarian (1974) ... Mark Braun
  1973 The Laughing Girl Murder (Short) - Chief Sopt Keegan
  1973 Bowler (TV Series) - Stanley Bowler - 13 episodes
  1973 Between the Wars (TV Series) - Walter Jeffries
  - Voyage in the Dark (1973) ... Walter Jeffries
  1973 A Warm December - Dr. Henry Barlow
  1973 Because of the Cats - Boersma
  1973 The Protectors (TV Series) - George Dixon
  - Your Witness (1973) ... George Dixon
  1973 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (TV Series) - Mr. Lewis
  - The Salesman's Job (1973) ... Mr. Lewis
  1972 The Fenn Street Gang (TV Series) - Mr. Bowler
  - Low Noon (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
  - The Left Hand Path (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
  - Smart Lad Wanted (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
  - The Great Frock Robbers (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
  1972 New Scotland Yard (TV Series) - John Randall
  - Two Into One Will Go (1972) ... John Randall
  1972 The Man Outside (TV Series) - Philip Lockley
  - Mandala (1972) ... Philip Lockley
  1972 The Main Chance (TV Series - Major Donovan
  - Love's Old Sweet Song (1972) ... Major Donovan
  1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Britten
  - Chain of Events (1971) ... Britten
  1971 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Morell
  - Candida (1971) ... Morell
  1970 Fraud Squad (TV Series) - Bill Garland
  - Golden Island (1970) ... Bill Garland
  1970 The Goodies (TV Series) - Chief Beefeater
  - Tower of London (1970) ... Chief Beefeater
  1970 Up Pompeii! (TV Series) - Jamus Bondus
  - Secret Agents Jamus Bondus (1970) ... Jamus Bondus
  1970 The Executioner - Philip Crawford
  1970 Doomwatch (TV Series) - John Mitchell
  - Train and De-Train (1970) ... John Mitchell
  1970 Paul Temple (TV Series) - Mark
  - Games People Play (1970) ... Mark
  1970 Kate (TV Series) - Tom Prentice
  - One Good Turn (1970) ... Tom Prentice
  -
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Sir Hilary Bray
  1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Lord Sutterwick
  1969 Justine - British Ambassador David Mountolive
  1968 The Sex Game (TV Series)
  - Women Can Be Monsters (1968)
  1968 Harry Worth (TV Series) - Wing Commander Stebbs
  - Private Pimpernel (1968) ... Wing Commander Stebbs
  1968 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) - Commander Benbow (Naval Attaché)
  - Stiff Upper Lip (1968) ... Commander Benbow (Naval Attaché)
  1957-1968 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Kenny Baker / Theodore Quill / Mike / ...
  - Mrs Capper's Birthday (1968) ... Kenny Baker
  - Love Life (1967) ... Theodore Quill
  - The Paraffin Season (1965) ... Mike
  - The Pillars of Midnight (1958) ... Dr. Stephen Monks
  - The Constant Stranger (1957)
  1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Ernest Whipple
  - Happiness Is E Shaped (1968) ... Ernest Whipple
  1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - The New Number Two
  - Arrival (1967) ... The New Number Two
  1967 You Only Live Twice - NASA Engineer (uncredited)
  1967 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Tim Johnson
  - Myself, I have Nothing Against South Ken (1967) ... Tim Johnson
  1967 Seven Deadly Virtues (TV Series) - Martin
  - Surface of Innocence (1967) ... Martin
  1967 Mister Ten Per Cent - Lord Edward
  1965-1967 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Jacques / Louie Summers / Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodson / ...
  - Days in the Trees (1967) ... Jacques
  - The Big Man Coughed and Died (1966) ... Louie Summers
  - Alice (1965) ... Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodson
  - The Navigators (1965) ... Vera
  1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Frank Ashton
  - So Dark the Night (1966) ... Frank Ashton
  1966 ITV Sunday Night Drama (TV Series) - Patrick
  - Four Triumphant: St Patrick (1966) ... Patrick
  1966 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Matthew Hobhouse / Edward Jackson
  - Up and Down (1966) ... Matthew Hobhouse
  - The Queen and Jackson (1966) ... Edward Jackson
  1966 The Master (TV Series short) - Squadron-Leader Frinton
  - Death by Misadventure (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
  - World of Disbelief (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
  - The Squadron Leader (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
  - Behind the Antlers (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
  - Totty McTurk (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
  1965 Londoners (TV Series) - Bruce
  - Common Ground (1965) ... Bruce
  1965 Undermind (TV Series) - Thallon
  - End Signal (1965) ... Thallon
  1965 Drama 61-67 (TV Series) - Peter Evett
  - Drama '65: A Question of Disposal (1965) ... Peter Evett
  1965 The Sullavan Brothers (TV Series) - Edward Drayton
  - Insufficient Evidence (1965) ... Edward Drayton
  1965 Curse of the Fly - Martin Delambre
  1965 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Bailey
  - The Great Plane Robbery (1965) ... Bailey
  1964 Curtain of Fear (TV Series) - Stewart Caxton - 6 episodes
  1964 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Geoffrey Harrison
  - Any Other Business (1964) ... Geoffrey Harrison
  1964 Rupert of Hentzau (TV Series) - Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V - 6 episodes
  1964 The Finest Hours (Documentary) - Lord Randolph (voice)
  1964 The Full Man (TV Series documentary) - MacBeth
  - Tragedy (1964) ... MacBeth
  1963 Sword of Lancelot - Sir Gawaine
  1963 It Happened Like This (TV Series) - Miles Standish
  - The Hidden Witness (1963) ... Miles Standish
  1962 Zero One (TV Series) - Cargan
  - Glidepath (1962) ... Cargan
  1961 Maigret (TV Series) - Dominic Père
  - The Simple Case (1961) ... Dominic Père
  1957-1961 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series)
  Giorgio / Docker Starkie / Biff Loman / ...
  - Faraway Music (1961) ... Giorgio
  - The Square Ring (1959) ... Docker Starkie
  - Death of a Salesman (1957) ... Biff Loman
  - The Guinea Pig (1957) ... Nigel Lorraine
  1961 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Louis Cornudet
  - Boule de Suif (1961) ... Louis Cornudet
  1961 The Dickie Henderson Show (TV Series) - The Exchange Visit (1961)
  1961 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Bill Walker
  - Episode #2.31 (1961) ... Bill Walker
  - Episode #2.30 (1961) ... Bill Walker
  1959 Nick of the River (TV Series) - Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon - 9 episodes
  1958 Tread Softly Stranger - Johnny Mansell
  1958 The Moonraker - The Moonraker
  1958 The Truth About Melandrinos (TV Series) - David Westbrook
  1958 Doomsday for Dyson (TV Movie) - Goltsev
  1957 No Time for Tears - Dr. Nigel Barnes
  1957 Dangerous Youth - Padre
  1957 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Percy French
  - The Last Troubadour (1957) ... Percy French
  1956 Hell in Korea - The National Servicemen: Lt. Butler / Lt Butler
  1956 Adventure Theater (TV Series)
  - The Wilful Widow (1956)
  1956 The Extra Day - Steven Marlow
  1956 The Gentle Touch - Jim
  1955 The Woman for Joe - Joe Harrop
  1955 The Dam Busters - Flight Lieutenant D. J. H. Maltby, D.S.O., D.F.C.
  1955 PT Raiders - Bill Randall
  1953 The Intruder - Adjutant
  
  Writer (3 credits)
  
  1991-1998 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) (adaptation - 5 episodes)
  - Road Rage: Part Two (1998) ... (adaptation)
  - Road Rage: Part One (1998) ... (adaptation)
  - The Strawberry Tree: Part 1 (1995) ... (adaptation)
  - The Mouse in the Corner: Part One (1992) ... (adaptation)
  - From Doon with Death: Part One (1991) ... (adaptation)
  
  1982 Imaginary Friends (TV Movie) (adaptation)
  1980 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) (screenplay - 1 episode)
  - Fatal Spring (1980) ... (screenplay)
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)
  
  1992 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) (production associate - 3 episodes)
  - Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part One (1992) ... (production associate)
  - The Mouse in the Corner: Part One (1992) ... (production associate)
  - The Speaker of Mandarin: Part One (1992) ... (production associate)
  
  Soundtrack (1 credit)
  
  1987 Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (TV Movie) (performer: "Three Little Maids from School Are We" (1885), "A Policeman's Lot Is Not A Happy One" (1887) - uncredited)
  
  Self (25 credits)
  
  Archive footage (4 credits)

  

  

  
  Up Pompei! Jamus Bondus
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1944: Aliza Gur is born--Ramat Gan, Israel.
  
  1957: The Daily Express serializes From Russia With Love.
  
  1961: Goldfinger ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 3 October 1960. 698-849.)
  John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  
  
  https://www.michaelmay.online/2014/08/goldfinger-comic-strip.html
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1989 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3

  Goldfinger (Goldfinger - Part 1) | Goldfinger (Goldfinger - Part 2)
  
  
  Danish 1965 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk2-goldfinger-1965/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 2: “Contra Goldfinger” (Interpresse 1965)
  
  

  

  1963: This month the London Magazine published the James Bond spoof story "Bond Strikes Camp" by Cyril Connolly.

  https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/connolly-cyril-bond-strikes-camp-london-the-5906696-details.aspx

  1963: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's tenth Bond novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

  ON HER MAJESTY'S
  SECRET SERVICE
  
  'It was one of those Septembers when
  it seemed that the summer would never
  end . . . '
  
  But it did end and winter came in a
  lethal welter of mystery. Bloodshed
  and multiple death amid the snow.
  
  This the eleventh chapter in the
  biography of James Bond, is one of the
  longest. It is also the most enthralling.
  
  Really the most? Really the most.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1963: Principal filming of From Russia With Love begins at Pinewood Studios with Bond's arrival in M's office. Moneypenny. And Q.
  1963: Agent 007 released in Norway.
  
  1965: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's twelfth and final Bond novel The Man With the Golden Gun.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1965: 007 ゴールドフィンガー (007 Gōrudofingā) released in Japan.

  
  
  
  

  1969: Gazino Royal 007 released in Turkey.
  
  1981: Richard Marek publishes John Gardner's Licence Renewed in the US as License Renewed.

  

  
  1990: Armchair Detective Library publishes John Gardner's Licence to Kill.

  
  

  1992: VHS video releases of James Bond Jr in the United States.

  James Bond Jr. 1 April 1992 The Beginning
  James Bond Jr. 1 April 1992 A Chilling Affair
  James Bond Jr 1 April 1992 The Eiffel Missile
  James Bond Jr 1 April 1992 No Such Loch
  James Bond Jr 1 April 1992 A Race Against Disaster
  James Bond Jr 1 April 1992 Dance of the Toreadors
  James Bond Jr 1 April 1992 Red Star One
  James Bond Jr 1 April 1992 Goldie's Gold Scam
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1997: The Kanakee, Illinois, Daily Journal falsely proposes local filming for the next James Bond film "The Anastasia Answer" and invites auditions.
  
  2012: Cinema Retro exposes an April Fool's joke involving James Bond and the Queen.

  

  JAMES BOND TEAMS WITH THE QUEEN : APRIL FOOL'S
  JOKE

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/6645-JAMES-BOND-TEAMS-WITH-THE-QUEEN-APRIL-FOOLS-JOKE.html

  
  Cinema Retro
  JAMES BOND TEAMS WITH THE QUEEN : APRIL FOOL'S JOKE

  Here's an ambitious April Fool's joke.

  The web sites for the London tabloids the Daily Express and The Sun report that Her Majesty The Queen will be teaming with Daniel Craig for a special James Bond promotional stunt for the opening of the London summer Olympics. According to the Sun, Her Majesty has granted access to Buckingham Palace to film a mini-movie that will air on opening night of the games, which will be followed by Daniel Craig parachuting into the Olympics opening ceremony. The Sun reports that Oscar winning director Danny Boyle will oversee directing the events. Before everyone gets excited, we do caution readers to remember this story has appeared on April Fool's Day. The Daily Express reports that Craig actually did film scenes at the palace in February, but they were for the new Bond film Skyfall and featured a look-a-like of Her Majesty. This is a story that contrasts substantially with the Sun's account.

  If all this is still being reported as fact tomorrow, maybe we'll be convinced there might be a tiny grain of truth to the notion that perhaps something was filmed inside the Palace, but for now it appears to be an elaborate April Fool's joke, as there is NO WAY Daniel Craig is parachuting into the Olympics!

  For the Daily Express report, click here.
  http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/311833/On-Her-Majesty-s-Secret-Service
  
  For The Sun's report click here.
  http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/4232299/James-Bond-news-Daniel-Craig-has-been-invited-by-The-Queen-to-open-the-2012-Olympic-games.html

  UPDATE: Well. it's April 2 and the mainstream British press are still reporting this story as though it is true. Until Craig confirms it, we don't believe it. If this does turn out to be an April Fool's joke, there will be a lot of discredited newspapers. Let's see what develops...

  Posted by Cinema Retro in James Bond 007 News on Sunday, April 1. 2012

  
  2015: Skyfall filming in Mexico comes to a close.
  2016: : The New York Post reports Ben Whishaw suggesting a Daniel Craig return in the next Bond film.

  

  Ben Whishaw thinks Daniel Craig will
  return as James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://nypost.com/2016/04/01/ben-whishaw-thinks-daniel-craig-will-return-as-james-bond/

  By Barbara Hoffman | April 1, 2016
  Ben Whishaw. Joel Ryan/Invision/AP

  

  Somewhere under the massive beard he sports in “The Crucible” lies Ben Whishaw. The fine-boned British star of “London Spy” and the last two James Bond flicks hasn’t been this furry since voicing the bear in “Paddington.”
  
  Indeed, “Crucible” director Ivo van Hove has populated Arthur Miller’s classic with an army of men in beards.
  
  “I think everyone arrived with one,” muses Whishaw, 35, stroking his chin. “But Ivo works like that. He doesn’t say much, but everyone knows what they need to do . . . He sort of makes little corrections, and slowly, something emerges.”
  
  One thing that emerged was a need to choreograph the brawl between Whishaw’s upright, married John Proctor and his fatal attraction, Saoirse Ronan’s Abigail.
  Ben Whishaw in “The Crucible” on Broadway.Jan Versweyveld
  
  “ ‘I think maybe you should push her to the ground, fumble around,’ ” Whishaw recalls the director saying. “So Saoirse and me do it in rehearsal, and it’s great. But then you do it eight times a week and you’re black and blue. Actually, she broke her finger!”
  
  This isn’t Whishaw’s first Proctor: He starred in a school production of “The Crucible” at age 15. At 23, he landed the lead in “Hamlet” at London’s Old Vic and has worked steadily since.

  He says the best parts of playing the nerdy gadget-master Q in “Skyfall” and “Spectre” were his scenes with Daniel Craig’s James Bond. Despite Craig’s “I’d rather slash my wrists than play James Bond again” remark, Whishaw suspects his co-star won’t hang up his Walther PPK any time soon.
  
  “I feel sorry for Daniel because I think he spoke to a journalist the day after he finished what must have been an eight- or nine-month shoot,” Whishaw says. “The poor guy was on his knees with exhaustion and he said something flippant . . . All I saw, working with him, was someone incredibly committed.”

  His own commitments have kept him away from the East London home he shares with his husband, composer Mark Bradshaw. So much for the actor’s life — though Whishaw wouldn’t have it any other way.
  
  “My parents aren’t theater people, but they never said, ‘Well, you should have something to fall back on.’ They just said, ‘Go for it, son!’ ”
  
  And from under his beard, you can see a smile.

  

  
  2022: The Historic ​Artcraft Theatre screens From Russia With Love at Franklin, Indiana.

  

  From Russia With Love

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.historicartcrafttheatre.org/movie-and-events-schedule.html

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  From Russia With Love
  April 1 & 2
  2 & 7:30 p.m. - Friday and Saturday
  ​(Doors open ~60 minutes prior to showtime)
  1963 - 1 hour, 55 minutes - Action, Adventure, Thriller
  Rated PG
  ​​​Scheduled to show in 35mm film

  James Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E.

  Starring: Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya
  Sponsored by: 10 Pins Franklin

  
  2024: Mürren-Schilthorn season begins.

  https://www.berneseoberlandpass.ch/public-transport/schilthorn/
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  March 2023 edited September 2023 Posts: 12,988

  2004: A James Bond-related website repeats unfounded rumors regarding Orson Welles and an attempt to film Moonraker in 1956.

  https://spywhothrills.com/moonrakerfleming

  

  2006: The Guardian proposes a Sid James connection to James Bond.

  

  'The name's Bond. Sid James Bond'

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/apr/01/news.xanbrooks

  
  Junked Bond ... Ian Fleming favourite Sid James (left) eventually made way
  for Sean Connery (right) in the 007 role

  Xan Brooks | @XanBrooks | Sat 1 Apr 2006
  The list of the actors who have been considered for the role of James Bond is almost as long as the complete credits of a 007 production. Now an extra name can be set alongside the likes of David Niven, James Mason and Cary Grant - that of Carry On star Sid James.

  A recently discovered screen test, filmed back in 1962, confirms a long-standing rumour that the bawdy comedian auditioned for the lead role in Dr No, the first film in the 007 series. James is believed to have been the favoured choice of Bond author Ian Fleming, but eventually rejected the role due to concerns that he might be typecast. The producers eventually offered the part to Scottish actor Sean Connery.
  
  The screen test, included as an extra on the forthcoming DVD box-set of Bless This House, shows James brandishing a Walther PPK as he confronts the film's villain at the movie's climax. Apparently due to budgetary constraints, the other characters in the scene are played by James's regular Carry On co-stars. Barbara Windsor is Honey Ryder, a role that would eventually be taken by Ursula Andress. Kenneth Williams cameos as M, while Charles Hawtrey brings a silky menace to the character of Dr No.
  
  "The story that Sid was offered the role of James Bond has been known within industry circles for years," explained Michael Sharona, author of the James biography, Carry On Sidney. "But it is wonderful to have it finally proved. Sid might seem like a surprising choice, but he is extremely good in the role. There is an elegance and a sense of mystery about him. It reveals a side of himself he did not often get the chance to show in his other films."

  After turning down the Bond role, James went on to make a number of other successful Carry On comedies. At the time of his death, in 1976, he was reported to have signed to star in an unofficial sequel to Carry On Cabbie. According to sources, the film - entitled Taxi Driver and set in New York - would have revealed a darker side to the Sid James screen persona.
  Topics

  

  
  2016: The Daily Mail prints an exclusive--Broadchurch actress Olivia Coleman cast as first female James Bond.

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3518227/Now-S-real-Bond-girl-O-O-Olivia-Coleman-lined-play-007-Broadchurch-star-set-make-history-taking-Daniel-Craig-movie.html"
  

  2018: A remake of Moonraker is announced.

  

  https://theworldofjamesbond.blog/2017/04/01/bond-25-the-remake-of-moonraker/
  https://www.deviantart.com/armalarm/art/Moonraker-Reboot-333482459
  

  2019: MGM and Bond producers announce Season 2 for James Bond Jr.

  

  Commander James Bond - CJB

  EON annonce une saison 2 à la série James Bond Jr. !

  http://www.commander007.net/2019/04/eon-annonce-saison-2-a-serie-james-bond-jr/
  By Clément Feutry | - 21 heures ago | - in Actualités, Les Films 0

  

  Original English version below.
  
  Pinewood Studios (31 mars 2019) – MGM, Michael G. Wilson et Barbara Broccoli, producteurs des films de James Bond, annoncent aujourd’hui une seconde saison à la série d’animation JAMES BOND JR. originellement diffusée en 1991. Dans celle-ci, le neveu de l’espion international James Bond, James Bond Jr., était déterminé à suivre les traces de son oncle. James Bond Jr. et ses amis I.Q. (le petit-fils de Q) et Gordo Leiter (fils de l’agent de la CIA, Felix) s’inscrivaient à Warfield, une école préparatoire au Royaume-Uni située sur le terrain d’une ancienne base de formation au contre-espionnage. Ensemble, les camarades de classe se battaient contre S.C.U.M. (Saboteurs and Criminals United in Mayhem), un cartel international de terroristes et de scientifiques fous. Michael G. Wilson :

  Quand on a créé James Bond Jr., on voulait raconter une histoire sous un angle nouveau qui parlerait aux enfants des deux cotés de l’Atlantique, tout en rendant hommage au personnage de James Bond avec lequel les plus « grands enfants » ont grandit et ont appris à aimé. Cela fait un moment déjà que nous cherchions à relancer la série mais avions peur de rester trop similaire à l’originale. Le monde ayant bien changé depuis les années ’90, notamment grâce aux nouvelles technologies informatiques, et avec le reboot de la saga avec CASINO ROYALE, nous pensions qu’il était temps de faire revenir la série en l’actualisant à notre époque.

  

  Collaborant avec MGM et EON, l’équipe créative de Titmouse, Inc. (The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, Half-Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past, Ballmastrz: 9009) sera en charge de l’animation et de la coécriture. Le Chief creative officer de Titmouse, Inc., Tim Kalina :

  C’est un honneur de faire partie de la franchise Bond et de travailler avec les équipes prestigieuses de la MGM. Nous avons été impliqués dans le projet parce que nous avons toujours été fans de Bond, qu’étant une entreprise américaine nous pouvions plus facilement écrire pour le public américain, et surtout parce que nous avions la même idée pour relancer la série : la situer aujourd’hui. Notre série n’est pas la suite de l’originale [qui se finissait avec Bond Jr. récupérant le marteau de Thor] mais plutôt une remise à zéro, une sorte de reboot comme ils ont plus faire il y a quelques années avec les films. Les fans de la série originale ne serreront toutefois pas déçus dans la mesure où nous avons gardé le meilleur de celle-ci et la même structure. Nous avons cependant vraiment voulu nous servir de ce que Daniel Craig a apporté à la franchise en ancrant notre série dans son « ère » afin de la mettre au goût du jour.

  Des changements ont ainsi été opérés pour que le jeune public puisse davantage s’identifier aux derniers films :

  Notre James Bond Jr. sera blond et nous avons également penser à changer la couleur de peau de Gordo Leiter pour refléter la participation de Jeffrey Wright aux derniers films. Ce dernier personnage est très important pour nous car il s’agit de la connexion principale avec la culture et la mode américaine qui peut contraster avec celle britannique, donnant un peu de comique à l’ensemble. Dans la série originale Gordo est fan de surf mais ce sport faisant moins rêver les jeunes qu’il y a trente ans, nous avons décidé de lui donner un look « gansta » avec notamment une casquette rouge « make rap great again » afin de l’actualiser pour 2019. De même, Ben Whishaw faisant trop jeune pour être grand-père, nous avons fait de I.Q. le petit frère de Q au lieu de son petit-fils. Nous avons également supprimé le personnage de Tracy Milbanks au profit d’un nouveau : Madeleine Milbanks. Il était très important pour eux et pour nous que la série reflète les films, dit Tim Kalina.

  

  L’une des grandes nouveautés de la série sera la présence de scènes d’action dans un univers de réalité virtuelle :

  Les casques de réalité virtuelle ont envahi le marché ces dernières années et vu que notre I.Q. est une sorte de « geek » fan de jeux vidéo on s’est dit que ce serait amusant que Bond Jr. doive affronter S.C.U.M. dans des mondes virtuels crées par I.Q. et son alter ego « génie-informaticien » du camp des méchants, Boris (comme dans la série orignal nous faisons revenir des méchants emblématiques des films comme Boris ou encore Elvis). Ce qui est génial c’est que dans un monde en réalité virtuelle on peut tout faire : changer l’époque, introduire des éléments fantastiques et même abroger les lois de la physique lorsque l’on en a envie ; je pense que ça créer de superbes décors et des combats originaux jamais vus auparavant dans la saga.

  Pour le producteur associé Gregg Wilson « la série s’annonce déjà encore meilleure que la précédente, j’ai récemment pu assister à une projection test avec des enfants d’un premier jet d’un épisode où le S.C.U.M. vole la Statue de la Liberté et la tour Eiffel pour demander une rançon ; les retours étaient merveilleux. Ils ne peuvent attendre que la série sorte et je pense que leurs parents aussi, qui n’auront d’ailleurs pas à s’inquiéter car la violence est très réduite et aucun personnage ne meurt à l’écran. On est partie sur un peu moins d’épisodes que la première saison, seulement une quarantaine [contre 65]. D’autant plus que cette fois il y aura un fil conducteur, cela concerne le père de Bond Jr. (le frère de James Bond), je ne peux rien dire de plus mais si vous avez vu SPECTRE, vous avez déjà une idée sur quoi vous attendre… ».

  

  « Et puisque nous avons estimé que deux James Bond Jr. girls ne sont pas suffisantes, nous pouvons d’ores et déjà annoncer un partenariat avec Zodiak Media qui permettra à Bond Jr. de faire équipe avec les agentes secrètes des TOTALLY SPIES! au complet le temps d’un épisode. C’est l’une des nombreuses surprises qui attendent les fans de la nouvelle série ».
  
  La saison 2 de James Bond Jr., produite par MGM et EON Production, réalisée par Titmouse, Inc., et distribuée par MGM sera diffusée début 2020 au Royaume-Uni sur BBC One et suivra peu après aux États-Unis sur NBC. Une gamme de jouets et de comics sera plus tard dévoilée dans le courant de l’année.
  
  Source : 007.com.

  Pour « fêter » ça, on se re-regardera bien le premier épisode de la série originale…
  
  
  Et si l’anglais n’est pas votre tasse de thé, en VF ça donne :
  
  
  La série originale avait également été adaptée en comics à l’époque…
  

  English version :
  Pinewood Studios (March 31, 2019) – MGM, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond films, announced today a second season for the animated series JAMES BOND JR. originally released in 1991. In the original, the international spy James Bond’s nephew, James Bond Jr., was determined to follow in his uncle’s footsteps. James Bond Jr. and his friends I.Q. (Q’s grandson) and Gordo Leiter (son of CIA agent Felix) enrolled in Warfield, a preparatory school located on the grounds of an old counter intelligence training base in the UK. Together, the schoolmates fought against S.C.U.M. (Saboteurs and Criminals United in Mayhem), an international cartel of terrorists and mad scientists. Michael G. Wilson on the new series:

  « When we created James Bond Jr., we wanted to tell a story from a new angle that would speak to children on both sides of the Atlantic, while paying tribute to the character of James Bond who the « older children » grew up with and have learned to love. It’s been a while since we thought about restarting the series but were afraid it’d too similar to the original. The world has changed a lot since the 90s, thanks to the computer technologies, and with the reboot of the film series, we thought it was time to bring back the series by updating it to our time.

  Collaborating with MGM and EON Productions, the creative team of TITMOUSE, INC. (The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, Half-Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past, Ballmastrz: 9009) will be in charge of animation and co-writing. Chief Creative Officer of Titmouse, Inc., Tim Kalina:

  « It’s an honor to be part of the Bond franchise and to work with the prestigious MGM team. We were involved in the project because we were always fans of Bond, and being an American company we could write more easily for the American public, and especially because we had the same idea to relaunch the series: to update it for audiences of today. Our series is not a continuation of the original [which ended with Bond Jr. recovering Thor’s hammer] but rather a reboot, similar to the kind of reboot they did a few years ago for the movies. Fans of the original series will not be disappointed since we took the best of the original series and kept the same structure. However, we really want to use what Daniel Craig has brought to the franchise by anchoring our series in the current ‘era’ to bring it up to date ».

  Changes have been made so that young audiences can identify more with the latest films:

  « Our James Bond Jr. will be blond and we changed the skin color of Gordo Leiter to reflect Jeffrey Wright’s participation in the movies. This last character is very important to us because he is the main connection with America’s culture and fashion, which can contrast with the British one, giving a little comedic style to the whole series. In the original series Gordo is a fan of surfing, but this sport is less appealing for young people than it was thirty years ago, so we decided to give him a ‘gansta’ style, especially with a red cap with the inscription « Make Rap Great Again » in order to update him for 2019. Similarly, since Ben Whishaw is too young to be a grandfather, we changed I.Q. to Q’s little brother instead of his grandson. We also changed Tracy Milbanks to Madeleine Milbanks. It is very important for MGM, EON and for us that the series reflects the current movies », says Tim Kalina.

  One of the big novelties of the series will be the presence of action scenes in a world of virtual reality:

  « Virtual reality headsets have invaded the market in recent years and as our I.Q. is a kind of ‘geek’ video game fan we thought it would be fun for Bond Jr. to face S.C.U.M. in virtual worlds created by I.Q. and his alter-ego ‘genius-computer scientist’ baddie, Boris (as in the original series we’re bringing back emblematic villains of the films like Boris and Elvis). The great thing is that in a world of virtual reality you can do anything: change the era, introduce fantastic elements and even do away with the laws of physics when you want to; I think that it creates beautiful scenery and original fights like never seen before in the saga ».

  For Associate Producer Gregg Wilson: « The show is already looking better than the previous one, I was recently able to see a test screening with kids of an episode where S.C.U.M. steals the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower and demand a ransom; the returns were wonderful. They can’t wait for the show to come out and I think their parents won’t either. They won’t worry because the violence is very light and no characters die on the screen. We went with fewer episodes than the first season, only forty. Especially since this time there will be a common thread, it concerns the father of Bond Jr. (the brother of James Bond), I can’t say anything more but if you saw SPECTRE, you already have an idea about what to expect… »

  « Since we felt that two James Bond Jr. girls are not enough, we can already announce a partnership with ZODIAK MEDIA that will allow Bond Jr. to team up with the full team secret agents of the TOTALLY SPIES! for one episode. This is one of the many surprises that awaiting fans of the new series ».

  Season 2 of James Bond Jr., produced by MGM and EON Productions, directed by Titmouse, Inc. and distributed by MGM will be broadcast in early 2020 in the UK on BBC One and will follow shortly after in the USA on NBC. A range of toys and comics will be unveiled later this year.
  
  Source : 007.com.

  
  2022: Corgi offers a diecast version of a classic Bond car from Die Another Day.

  https://twitter.com/corgi/status/1509802853417820160

  
  2022: Real estate developers overtake James Bond Island, Phang Nga Bay, Thailand.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2023: Jimmy Buffet's website reveals Eon's new direction for James Bond.

  

  Jimmy Buffett Cast as Next James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://buffettworld.com/2023/04/01/jimmy-buffett-cast-as-next-james-bond/

  April 1st, 2023
  
  With Daniel Craig finishing his role as 007 in 2021’s No Time to Die, much speculation has been swirling as to who will portray the suave MI6 agent James Bond in future films.
  
  The wait is over. Eon Productions announced this morning that singer Jimmy Buffett will take over the role beginning in 2025 with The Spy Who Got Drunk and Screwed Me.
  
  The choice of Buffett is a dramatic departure for Eon and the James Bond Franchise, especially considering the fact that Buffett is an American, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

  Producer Barbara Broccoli said of the choice: “after the massive success of Daniel Craig as Bond, we felt that choosing another young, handsome Brit to play everyone’s favorite secret agent would be too cliche. Jimmy Buffett is the perfect choice to disrupt the James Bond universe.”

  While known primarily for his 50+ year career as a singer, Buffett is no stranger to the screen. He’s made multiple appearances on the television show Hawaii Five-O as well as a recent guest slot on Blue Bloods. Cameo appearances were also made in the 1995 film Congo and in 2015’s Jurassic World where he’s seen saving margaritas in the midst of a dinosaur attack.
  
  The 76-year-old singer is expected to do many of his own stunts, from piloting airplanes to surfing and snowboarding.
  
  Not everyone is on board with choice of Buffett. One person confused by the selection is British actor Idris Elba, who was seen as a leading candidate to take over the role. When reached for comment, Elba said “really?”
  
  Buffett is expected to portray Bond in at least three films. Titles being discussed include From Margaritaville with Love, Goldfins, The Fruitcake is Not Enough, License to Chill and Octogenarianpussy.

  
  

  
  
• j_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.

  March 2023 Posts: 8,680

  Tracy wrote: »

  March 30 , 1968 : Celine Dion is born (cover singer IYAMT)

  Excuse me, but at the risk of appearing stupid: What is IYAMT? There is no Bond song I can identify by that abbreviation ad-hoc. Besides, why should one consider every cover version? And I admit, I never liked Céline Dion anyway.
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  April 2023 edited April 2023 Posts: 12,988

  April 2nd
  
  1925: George MacDonald Fraser is born--Carlisle, Cumberland, England.
  (He dies 2 January 2008 at age 82--Strang, Isle of Man, United Kingdom.)

  

  George MacDonald Fraser, Author of Flashman Novels, Dies at 82

  https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/arts/03fraser.html
  By MARGALIT FOXJAN. 3, 2008
  
  George MacDonald Fraser, a British writer whose popular novels about the arch-rogue Harry Flashman followed their hero as he galloped, swashbuckled, drank and womanized his way through many of the signal events of the 19th century, died yesterday on the Isle of Man. He was 82 and had made his home there in recent years.
  
  The cause was cancer, said Vivienne Schuster, his British literary agent.
  
  Over nearly four decades, Mr. Fraser produced a dozen rollicking picaresques centering on Flashman. The novels purport to be installments in a multivolume “memoir,” known collectively as the Flashman Papers, in which the hero details his prodigious exploits in battle, with the bottle and in bed. In the process, Mr. Fraser cheerfully punctured the enduring ideal of a long-vanished era in which men were men, tea was strong and the sun never set on the British Empire.
  
  The Flashman Papers include, among other titles, Flashman (World Publishing, 1969); Flashman in the Great Game (Knopf, 1975); and, most recently, Flashman on the March (Knopf, 2005). The second volume in the series, Royal Flash (Knopf, 1970), was made into a film of the same title in 1975, starring Malcolm McDowell as Flashman.
  
  In what amounted to an act of literary retribution, Mr. Fraser plucked Flashman from the pages of Tom Brown’s School Days, Thomas Hughes’s classic novel of English public-school life published in 1857. In that book, Tom, the innocent young hero, repeatedly falls prey to a sadistic bully named Flashman.
  
  In Mr. Fraser’s hands, the cruel, handsome Flashman is all grown up and in the British Army, serving in India, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Now Brig. Gen. Sir Harry Paget Flashman, he is a master equestrian, a pretty fair duelist and a polyglot who can pitch woo in a spate of foreign tongues. He is also a scoundrel, a drunk, a liar, a cheat, a braggart and a coward. (A favorite combat strategy is to take credit for a victory from which he has actually run away.)

  
  George MacDonald Fraser
  Credit HarperCollins, about 2004

  Last, but most assuredly not least, Flashman is a serial adulterer who by Volume 9 of the series has bedded 480 women. (That Flashman is married himself, to the fair, dimwitted Elspeth, is no impediment. She cuckolds him left and right, in any case.
  
  Readers adored him. Today, the Internet is populated with a bevy of Flashman fan sites.
  
  Flashman’s exploits take him to some of the most epochal events of his time, from British colonial campaigns to the American Civil War, in which he magnanimously serves on both the Union and the Confederate sides. He rubs up against eminences like Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, Florence Nightingale and Abraham Lincoln.
  
  For his work, Flashman earns a string of preposterous awards, including a knighthood, the Victoria Cross and the American Medal of Honor.
  
  Mr. Fraser was so skilled a mock memoirist that he had some early readers fooled. Writing in The New York Times in 1969 after the first novel was published, Alden Whitman said:

  “So far, ‘Flashman’ has had 34 reviews in the United States. Ten of these found the book to be genuine autobiography.”

  The son of Scottish parents, George MacDonald Fraser was born on April 2, 1925, in Carlisle, England, near the Scottish border. His boyhood reading, like that of nearly every British boy of his generation, included Tom Brown’s School Days.
  
  In World War II, Mr. Fraser served in India and Burma with the Border Regiment. His memoir of the war in Burma, Quartered Safe Out Here (Harvill), was published in 1993.

  
  The first Flashman novel.

  After leaving the military, Mr. Fraser embarked on a journalism career, working for newspapers in England, Canada and Scotland. He eventually became the assistant editor of The Glasgow Herald and in the 1960s, was briefly its editor.
  
  Tiring of newspaper work, Mr. Fraser decided, as he later said in interviews, to “write my way out” with an original Victorian novel. In a flash, he remembered Flashman, and the first book tumbled out in the evenings after work.
  
  “In all, it took 90 hours, no advance plotting, no revisions, just tea and toast and cigarettes at the kitchen table,” he said in an interview quoted in the reference work Authors and Artists for Young Adults.
  
  Mr. Fraser’s survivors include his wife, Kathy; two sons and a daughter. Information on other survivors could not immediately be confirmed.

  His other books include several non-Flashman novels, among them Mr. American (Simon & Schuster, 1980); The Pyrates (Knopf, 1984); and Black Ajax (HarperCollins, 1997). With Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson, Mr. Fraser wrote the screenplay for the James Bond film Octopussy, released in 1983.

  Mr. Fraser’s latest book, The Reavers, a non-Flashman novel, is scheduled to be published by Knopf in April.
  
  For his work, Mr. Fraser received many honors, among them the Order of the British Empire in 1999. This award, according to every conceivable news account, was entirely genuine.
  
  A version of this article appears in print on , on Page C12 of the New York edition with the headline: George MacDonald Fraser, Author of Flashman Novels, Dies at 82.

  

  George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292129/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Writer (10 credits)
  
  1989 The Return of the Musketeers (screenplay - as George Macdonald Fraser)
  1987 Casanova (TV Movie) (written by)
  1986 The Pyrates (TV Movie) (adaptation)
  1985 Red Sonja (written by)
  1983 Octopussy (screen story and screenplay)
  
  1977 Crossed Swords (final screenplay)
  1975 Royal Flash (novel) / (screenplay)
  1974 The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (screenplay - as George Macdonald Fraser)
  1973 The Three Musketeers (screenplay)
  1972 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) (story "The General Danced At Dawn" - 1 episode)
  - The Dirtiest Soldier in the World (1972) ... (story "The General Danced At Dawn")
  
  Self (1 credit)
  
  1974 The Book Programme (TV Series documentary) - Self
  - Episode #2.5 (1974) ... Self
  
  Archive footage (1 credit)
  
  2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Self

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1962: Producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Salztman complete a deal with United Artists to finance Dr. No.
  1965: Kingsley Amis reviews The Man With the Golden Gun in The New Statesman.

  Shared by @Revelator on the MI6 Community Novel Bondathon discussion.
  https://mi6community.com/discussion/comment/847292

  ***

  
  

  

  M for Murder

  By Kingsley Amis
  
  We left James Bond in Japan, an amnesia victim after a head wound sustained while escaping by balloon from the castle he had destroyed by blocking-up the mud geyser on which it was built. He was under the impression that he was a local fisherman, and Kissy Suzuki, at that time what the newspapers call his friend, did nothing to put him right, at least not mentally. At the end of You Only Live Twice he was taking off for Vladivostok, because it was part of a country that, he sensed, he had had a lot to do with in the past. This was a promising situation. One could hardly wait for the follow-up: inevitable capture by the KGB, questionings and torturings and brainwashings, break out (aided probably by some beautiful firm-breasted female major of the Foreign Intelligence Directorate), the slaying of Colonel-General Grubozaboyschikov of SMERSH, and perhaps of Lieutenant-General Vozdvishensky of RUMID for good measure, in revenge for what happened on the Orient Express in 1957, and final escape over the Wall.
  
  Nothing of this order takes place in Bond’s latest and last exploit. He’s back in England right at the start, telephoning the Ministry of Defence and apparently set on getting his old job back. It soon emerges that he has indeed been brainwashed, and that the commission allotted him by his Russian controllers is nothing less than the assassination of M. Despite the forebodings pf Miss Moneypenny in the outer office Bond is admitted to the presence, chats briefly about the necessity of working for peace and then whips out a cyanide pistol. But M presses a button which lowers a sheet of armour-plate glass from the ceiling, and the jet of viscous brown fluid splashes harmlessly into its centre.
  
  I lament this outcome of the attentat very much, and not only because it helps to make everything that follows seem rather small-scale. M has always seemed to me about as sinister as Captain Nash (the moon-maniac who tried to shoot Bond with a specially designed copy of War and Peace) and considerably less amiable than Dr No. The depth of Bond’s devotion to M’s keen, lined sailor’s face and clear blue sailor’s eyes remains something of a mystery. Perhaps the pitch of the old monster’s depravity is reached in the title story of For Your Eyes Only. Here he manoeuvres Bond into volunteering to murder an ex-Nazi in Vermont as a personal favour, and says absolutely nothing when Bond departs to carry out this arduous, dangerous, difficult assignment. Even Mr. Deighton’s pair of boors, Colonel Ross and Major Dalby, might in such circumstances have gone as far as to wish Bond luck or thank him. A faceful of cyanide would have done M a world of good.
  
  He survives, however, and goes off to luncheon at Blades, just a grilled sole and a spoonful of Stilton. He used to be much greedier than this, cheerfully doing himself harm by guzzling a marrow-bone after his caviar and devilled kidneys and fresh strawberries. In the old days, too, he would go for 20-year-old clarets; he washes down his grilled sole with a bottle of Algerian red too bad to be allowed on the wine-list. We know now why Bond stepped down from broiled lobsters with melted butter in 1953 to cold roast beef and potato salad in 1963. As always, he was following M’s lead.
  
  After luncheon, M decides to send Bond off to the West Indies to kill a certain Scaramanga, the golden-gun-toter of the title and a free-lance assassin often used by the KGB or Castro. He may well perish in the attempt, for Scaramanga is the best shot in the Caribbean, but that’s all right—to fall on the battlefield would be better than doing 20 years for having tried to kill the head of the Secret Service. Having had a bit of shock treatment at the hands of Sir James Molony, the famous neurologist, and some intensive gun practice at the Maidstone police range. Bond is judged fit for the assignment and in due course noses out Scaramanga in Jamaica. What follows is soon told. Scaramanga hires Bond as his security and trigger-man and takes him off to a half-built hotel on the coast where a ‘business conference’ is to be held. Ostensibly its subject is tourist development. Bond’s identity becomes known and Scaramanga arranges to knock him off during a small-gauge-railway excursion as a piece of light entertainment for the conferrers. But…We last see Bond refusing a knighthood: to accept one would be to aspire inadmissibly to M’s level.
  
  It’s a sadly empty tale, empty of the interests and effects that for better or worse, Ian Fleming had made his own. Violence is at a minimum. Sex too: an old chum of Bond’s called Mary Goodnight appears two or three times, and on her first appearance puts an arm smelling of Chanel No 5 round his neck, but he gets no more out of her later than an invitation to convalesce at her bungalow. And there’s no gambling, no gadgets or machinery to speak of, no undersea stuff, none of those lavish and complicated eats and drinks, hardly even a brand-name apart from Bond’s Hofffitz safety razor arid the odd bottle of Walker’s de luxe Bourbon. The main plot, in the sense of the scheme proposed by the villain’s, is likewise thin. Smuggling marijuana and getting protection-money out of oil companies disappoint expectation aroused by what some of these people’s predecessors planned: a nuclear attack on Miami, the dissemination throughout Britain of crop and livestock pests, the burgling of Fort Knox. The rank-and-file villains, too, have been reduced in scale.
  
  In most of the Bond books it was the central villain on whom interest in character was fixed. Moonraker, for instance, is filled with the physical presence of Huger Drax with his red hair and scarred face, bustling about, puffing cigars, playing the genial host when he isn’t working on his scheme to obliterate London. Scaramanga is just a dandy with a special (and ineffective) gun, a stock of outdated American slang and a third nipple on his left breast. We hear a lot about him early on in the 10-page dossier M consults, including mentions of homosexuality and pistol-fetishism, but these aren’t followed up anywhere. Why not?
  
  It may be relevant to consider at this point an outstandingly clumsy turn in the narrative. Bond has always, been good at ingratiating, himself with his enemies, notably with Goldfinger, who took him on as his personal assistant for the Fort Knox project. Goldfinger, however, had fairly good reason to believe Bond to be a clever and experienced operator on the wrong side of the law. Scaramanga hires him after a few minutes’ conversation in the bar of a brothel. (At this stage he has no idea that there’s a British agent within a hundred miles, so he can’t be hiring him to keep him under his eye.) Bond wonders what Scaramanga wants with him: “it was odd, to say the least of it…the strong smell of a trap.” This hefty hint of a concealed motive on Scaramanga’s part is never taken up. Why not?
  
  I strongly suspect—on deduction alone, let it be said—that these unanswered questions represent traces of an earlier draft, perhaps never committed to paper, wherein Scaramanga hires Bond because he’s sexually interested in him. A supposition of this kind would also take care of other difficulties or deficiencies in the book as it stands, the insubstantiality of the character of Scaramanga, just referred to, and the feeling of suppressed emotion, or at any rate the build-up to and the space for some kind of climax of emotion, in the final confrontation of the two men. But of course Ian Fleming wouldn’t have dared complete the story along those lines. Imagine what the critics would have said!
  
  To read some of their extant efforts, one would think that Bond’s creator was a sort of psychological Ernst Stavro Blofeld, bent on poisoning British morality. An article in this journal in 1958 helped to initiate a whole series of attacks on the supposed “sex, snobbery and sadism” of the books, as if sex were bad per se, and as if snobbery resided in a few glossy-magazine descriptions of Blades and references to Aston Martin cars and Pinaud shampoos and what-not, and as if sadism could be attributed to a character who never wantonly inflicts pain. (Contrast Bulldog Drummond and Spillane’s Mike Hammer.)
  
  These are matters that can’t be argued through in this review. But it seems clear that Ian Fleming took such charges seriously. Violent and bloody action, the infliction of pain in general, was very much scaled down in what he wrote after 1958. Many will regard this as a negative gain, though others may feel that a secret-agent story without violence would be like, say, a naval story without battles. As regards ‘sex’ and ‘snobbery’ and the memorable meals and the high-level gambling, these, however unedifying, were part of the unique Fleming world, and the denaturing of that world in the present novel and parts of its immediate forerunners is a loss. Nobody can write at his best with part of his attention on puritanical readers over his shoulder.
  
  Ian Fleming was a good writer, occasionally a brilliant one, as the gypsy-encampment scene in From Russia, With Love (however sadistic) and the bridge-game in Moonraker (however snobbish) will suggest. His gifts for sustaining and varying action, and for holding down the wildest fantasies with cleverly synthesized pseudo-facts, give him a place beside long defunct entertainer-virtuosos like Jules Verne and Conan Doyle, though he was more fully master of his material than either of these. When shall we see another?

  

  
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films Elliott Carver's first scenes.
  
  2012: The British press continue to perpetrate an apparent April Fool's day rumour that the Queen and Daniel Craig as James Bond plan a stunt to open the Olympic Games.

  

  JAMES BOND TEAMS WITH THE QUEEN : APRIL FOOL'S JOKE

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/6645-JAMES-BOND-TEAMS-WITH-THE-QUEEN-APRIL-FOOLS-JOKE.html

  Cinema Retro

  Here's an ambitious April Fool's joke. The web sites for the London tabloids the Daily Express and The Sun report that Her Majesty The Queen will be teaming with Daniel Craig for a special James Bond promotional stunt for the opening of the London summer Olympics. According to The Sun, Her Majesty has granted access to Buckingham Palace to film a mini-movie that will air on opening night of the games, which will be followed by Daniel Craig parachuting into the Olympics opening ceremony. The Sun reports that Oscar winning director Danny Boyle will oversee directing the events. Before everyone gets excited, we do caution readers to remember this story has appeared on April Fool's Day. The Daily Express reports that Craig actually did film scenes at the palace in February, but they were for the new Bond film Skyfall and featured a look-a-like of Her Majesty. This is a story that contrasts substantially with The Sun's account. If all this is still being reported as fact tomorrow, maybe we'll be convinced there might be a tiny grain of truth to the notion that perhaps something was filmed inside the Palace, but for now it appears to be an elaborate April Fool's joke, as there is NO WAY Daniel Craig is parachuting into the Olympics!

  For the Daily Express report, click here.
  http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/311833/On-Her-Majesty-s-Secret-Service
  For The Sun's report click here
  http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/4232299/James-Bond-news-Daniel-Craig-has-been-invited-by-The-Queen-to-open-the-2012-Olympic-games.html

  UPDATE: Well. it's April 2 and the mainstream British press are still reporting this story as though it is true. Until Craig confirms it, we don't believe it. If this does turn out to be an April Fool's joke, there will be a lot of discredited newspapers. Let's see what develops...

  
  2020: Original release date for No Time to Die before diverting to November for: United Kingdom. Greece, James Bond 007: Keine Zeit zu sterben in Germany, Sin tiempo para morir in Spain.
  
  2023: James Bond Symphonique at Théâtre du Léman, Geneve,

  https://www.facebook.com/BONDSymphonique/
  
  

  
  2023: Trina Parks headlines a burlesque dance series at Doraville, Georgia, promoting her as the first black 007 villainess.

  

  

  Intro to Burlesque - Dance Series with 1st Black " James Bond 007" Villainess -
  Trina Parks

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://allevents.in/riverdale/intro-to-burlesque-dance-series-with-1st-black-james-bond-007-villainess-trina-parks/80002823433334

  Sun Apr 2, 2023

  Greetings
  Join Trina Parks (the original Black James Bond Villainess - Thumper) for a rare learning opportunity. She will teach two introductory classes for beginners.
  
  Attendees will build confidence have fun while learning two routines: Broadway Dance and Burlesque for Beginners during a five week workshop to perform before a live audience on 5/14/23 in Doraville Georgia.
  
  As a bonus VIP's will receive an autographed keepsake from Ms. Parks

  The class dates are: 4/2 4/9 4/16 4/23 4/30.
  
  Date & Time
  Sun Apr 2 2023 at 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
  (Eastern Daylight Time)
  Local Time: Sun Apr 02 2023 at 03:00 pm to 04:00 pm
  
  Location
  South Fulton Studios Dance, 5495 Old National Hwy, Suite B5, Riverdale, United States

  
  2023: Press continue announcing a new James Bond novel to be published 2 days prior to the coronation of King Charles. No joke.

  

  New James Bond story
  commissioned to mark King Charles'
  coronation

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/royals/300844906/new-james-bond-story-commissioned-to-mark-king-charles-coronation

  Jens Buettner/AP
  Auckland reporter | Apr 01 2023

  

  A new James Bond book is set to be released two days ahead of King Charles coronation called On His Majesty’s Secret Service.
  
  The book – which will be written by author of the Young Bond series Charlie Higson – follows the 007 spy as he tries to stop mercenaries from wreaking havoc as King Charles is crowned.
  
  Its title is a play on the 1963 bond novel, On her Majesty's Secret Service.
  
  Ian Fleming Publications, the company responsible for all of the late 007 writer's literary works, commissioned the novel to be released on May 4, two days before the coronation.
  
  According to Variety, Higson was excited about writing the novel, until he realised the short time fame.

  “Getting it written and turned around in such a short space of time was going to be as tense and heart-pounding as any Bond mission. Although, of course, nobody would actually be shooting at me.”
  
  “But I’ve been thinking about writing an adult Bond adventure ever since working on the Young Bond books. Fleming famously wrote fast, and I channelled that energy.
  
  “Now it’s exciting for me to finally enter the world of grown-up Bond. Everything you want from a Bond story is in there – sex, violence, cars, a colourful villain with a nasty henchman, and of course, Bond himself, so well-known and yet so unknowable,” he said.

  All royalties from the book will go to support the UK charity, the National Literacy Trust.

  

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  April 3rd
  
  1926: Director of photography Jean Tournier is born--Toulon, Var, France.
  (He dies 5 December 2004 at age 78--Paris, France.)

  

  Jean Tournier (1926–2004)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0869673/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

  Born April 3, 1926 in Toulon, Var, France
  Died December 5, 2004 in Paris, France (cancer)
  
  Mini Bio
  Jean Tournier was born on April 3, 1926 in Toulon, Var, France. He is known for his work on Moonraker (1979), The Day of the Jackal (1973) and Target (1985). He died on December 5, 2004 in Paris, France.

  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)

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1942: Wayne Newton is born--Roanoke, Virginia.
  
  1961: The Daily Express comic run of Risico begins. (Ending 24 June 1961, serials 850-921.)
  John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  https://mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/r.php3
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1975 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1975.php3

  Risicologan! (Risico)
  

  
  Danish 1967 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/tag/risico-en/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 10: “Risico” (1967)
  
  
  
  
  Danish 1976 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no37-1976/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 37: “Risico” (1976)
  
  

  1964: From Russia With Love released in Austria.
  
  1995: GoldenEye main unit filming at the Nene Valley railway, Cambridgeshire, England.
  1997: Hodder & Stoughton publish Raymond Benson's first Bond novel Zero Minus Ten.

  ZERO MINUS TEN
  
  In ten days, Hong Kong will
  pass into the hands of the
  Chinese – and 007 is on
  his way there to undertake
  his most dangerous and
  thrilling mission yet.
  
  In the Australian desert, a nuclear
  bomb explodes. There are no survivors,
  and clues about who has made it or
  detonated it.
  
  In England, two police officer are shot
  dead when they apprehend a cargo
  vessel in Portsmouth dock. Vast
  quantities of heroin are later found on
  board.
  
  And in Hong Kong, an explosion rips
  through one of the colony’s most famous
  floating restaurants, killing the entire
  Board of Directors of EurAsia
  Enterprises Ltd, a multibillion dollar
  shipping corporation.
  
  The People’s Republic of China is about
  to resume control after a century and a
  half of British rule – and the colony is a
  powder keg waiting to explode. The
  tension reaches breaking point when a
  solicitor from one of Britain’s most
  prestigious law firms is killed in a car
  bomb at Government House.
  
  These apparently random events are
  connected – and Bond must find out
  how and why, from the heady casinos
  of Macau to the seedy strip clubs of
  Kowloon 007’s investigations bring
  him into conflict with ruthless Triad
  gangs, a power-hungry Chinese general
  – and a beautiful night club hostess
  called Sunni Pei.
  
  All enquiries seem to lead to
  EurAsia Enterprises Ltd – and its assassinated
  owner. James Bond is about to come
  up against one of the most formidable
  adversaries of his career.
  
  A new era of high adventure, intrigue
  and danger begins for James Bond with
  Raymond Benson’s eagerly awaited
  007 thriller – a story of sensuality and
  nonstop excitement.
  
  Raymond Benson has written over 35 books and served on the Board of Directors of The Ian Fleming Foundation for sixteen years.

  
  
  

  
  2015: Robert Rietti dies at age 92: London, England.
  (Born 8 February 1923--London, England.)

  

  Robert Rietti obituary

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/apr/24/robert-rietti
  Actor best known for his voice, who dubbed in a number of James
  Bond films
  Michael Freedland | Fri 24 Apr 2015 12.05 EDT

  
  Robert Rietti unusually facing the camera, in Time to Remember with Yvonne Monlaur (1962).
  Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive

  As a film and television actor, Robert Rietti, who has died aged 92, was best known for his voice. Although he made occasional on-screen appearances, as in John Schlesinger’s Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) and the ITV series The Avengers, his regular work came from dubbing the dialogue of actors whose command of English was limited or who could not make the final stages of recording a soundtrack.
  
  After the actor Robert Shaw died in 1978, Rietti was called to dub his voice in parts of three movies for which Shaw had not completed the recording. After a diagnosis of cancer compelled the removal of Jack Hawkins’s larynx in 1966, Rietti provided the spoken words for some of his films. In Treasure Island (1972), he revoiced every word spoken by Orson Welles as Long John Silver.

  Rietti had a significant involvement in the James Bond series, providing the voice of the secret agent John Strangways in the first, Dr No (1962), and Adolfo Celi’s voice as Emilio Largo in Thunderball (1965). He even dubbed the Japanese actor Tetsuro Tamba as Tiger Tanaka in You Only Live Twice (1967) and John Hollis as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in For Your Eyes Only (1981). In On Her Majesty’s Secret Service in 1969, he also appeared before the camera as one of the staff in a casino.

  For much of his career his name was spelt differently, or did not appear at all. He was billed as Robert Rietty on radio cast lists and for some of the many films on which he worked, but when employed to dub his name was often absent. This was a source of some annoyance. “I don’t really understand why,” he said, “because if they want singing in a film and they have an actress or an actor who doesn’t sing well, they’ll revoice them with a famous voice and there’ll be a credit afterwards. But if they revoice a voice for speaking, nobody must know.”
  
  Experts in his business could recognise a Rietti dubbing, but few others could, as he was highly skilled in mastering both voices and accents. In one sequence in the film Waterloo (1970), for instance, he was heard talking to himself four times in the course of providing no fewer than 98 voices, one of them for Hawkins as Sir Thomas Picton.
  
  He was often called upon to supply Italian voices, and also spoke fluent German, French and Russian.
  
  Born Lucio Rietti, in Paddington, west London, son of Victor, a well-known character actor, and Rachel (nee Rosenay), he came from Italian-Jewish stock. His family, originally from Ferrara, had lived in England for 200 years and one of his ancestors was Rebecca Rietti, Benjamin Disraeli’s grandmother.
  
  Rietti made more than 6,000 radio broadcasts, frequently reading his own short stories or tales from the Bible. For more than 20 years he would end my own BBC Radio London, and then LBC, programme You Don’t Have to Be Jewish, with a reading from either the Old Testament or the Talmud. For a number of years, he also broadcast to the US for the BBC in what was billed as an answer to Alistair Cooke’s Letter from America.
  
  He had his own company, which was responsible for the complete rerecording of films – such as when a movie with Scottish actors speaking with thick accents had to be made available to the American market. He was nominated for a Golden Reel award in Hollywood for dubbing much of Sergio Leone’s gangster movie Once Upon a Time in America. In 2000, he was nominated for the Bafta special award for outstanding work.
  
  He was also active as a writer. He translated the entire works of Pirandello into English and published a number of anthologies, including the collection A Rose For Reuben: Stories of Hope from the Holocaust (2006). He edited the drama quarterly Gambit.
  
  His Iraqi-born wife, Tina (nee Semah), died in 2008. He is survived by two daughters, Anya and Liana, and two sons, Jonathan and Benjamin.
  
  • Robert (Lucio Herbert) Rietti, actor, born 8 February 1923; died 3 April 2015
  

  

  Robert Rietty (1923–2015)

  Actor | Additional Crew | Sound Department
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0726403/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (280 credits)
  
  2008 Beehive (TV Series) - Opera Fan
  - Episode #1.1 (2008) ... Opera Fan
  2006 Little Britain (TV Series)
  - Little Britain Abroad: Part 2 (2006) ... (as Robert Rietti)
  - Little Britain Abroad: Part 1 (2006)
  2002 Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time (TV Mini-Series) - Bedloe
  - No Child of Earth (2002) ... Bedloe (voice, as Robert Rietti)
  - The Child (2002) ... Bedloe (voice, as Robert Rietti)
  2001 Hannibal - Sogliato (as Robert Rietti)
  
  1998 Hilary and Jackie - Italian Flunky
  1998 The Sea Change - Luigi
  1997 Déjà Vu - Unconfirmed Part (uncredited)
  1996 Beck (TV Series) - Massimo Anconi
  - Episode #1.2 (1996) ... Massimo Anconi
  1994 Faith (TV Mini-Series) - Suit 3
  - Episode #1.2 (1994) ... Suit 3
  1991 Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (TV Movie) - Franz Hoffman
  1991 30 Door Key (as Robert Rietti)
  1990 The March - Leo Borelli
  
  1988 Madame Sousatzka - Leo Milev
  1987 The Fourth Protocol - Colonel Kay (uncredited)
  1986 Love with a Perfect Stranger (TV Movie) - Bruno
  1986 Call Me Mister (TV Series) - Bernard Santori
  - Frozen Assets (1986) ... Bernard Santori
  1985 Christopher Columbus (TV Mini-Series) - Of various roles - 4 episodes
  1984 Ellis Island (TV Mini-Series) - Bruno Santorelli
  - Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Bruno Santorelli
  1984 Fox Mystery Theater (TV Series) - Marcello
  - Last Video and Testament (1984) ... Marcello
  1983 Never Say Never Again - Italian Minister
  1983 Curse of the Pink Panther - Various roles (voice)
  1982 Trail of the Pink Panther - Various roles (voice)
  1982 I Remember Nelson (TV Series) - Messenger
  - Passion (1982) ... Messenger
  1982 The Brack Report (TV Series) - Sr Navaroni
  - Chapter 3 (1982) ... Sr Navaroni
  1982 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (TV Movie) - Dubbing (voice)
  1982 The Story of the Treasure Seekers (TV Mini-Series) - Mr. Rosenbaum
  - Episode #1.3 (1982) ... Mr. Rosenbaum
  1981 The Borgias (TV Mini-Series) - Mantuan Ambassador
  - Part 1 (1981) ... Mantuan Ambassador
  1981 The Flame Trees of Thika (TV Mini-Series) - Italian Priest
  - Friends in High Places (1981) ... Italian Priest
  1981 For Your Eyes Only - Ernst Stavro Blofeld (voice, uncredited)
  1980 Hawk the Slayer - Narrator (uncredited)
  1978-1980 The Professionals (TV Series) - Ambassador / Gino
  - Hijack (1980) ... Ambassador
  - Man Without a Past (1978) ... Gino
  1980 Time of My Life (TV Series) - Giovanni
  - Episode #1.4 (1980) ... Giovanni
  
  1979 Avalanche Express - Gen. Marenkov (voice, uncredited)
  1979 Ashanti - Slave Trader in Market (voice, uncredited)
  1978 The Thief of Baghdad (TV Movie) - Captain of the Guard (voice, uncredited)
  1978 Force 10 from Navarone - Drazak (voice, uncredited)
  1978 Jackanory Playhouse (TV Series) - Monsieur Legrand
  - Big Pete, Little Pete (1978) ... Monsieur Legrand
  1977 The New Avengers (TV Series) - Dom Carlos
  - Trap (1977) ... Dom Carlos
  1977 Gulliver's Travels - Reldresal / King of Blefuscu (voice)
  1977 Jesus of Nazareth (TV Mini-Series) - Various small roles
  - Part 2 (1977) ... Various small roles (voice)
  - Part 1 (1977) ... Various small roles (voice)
  1977 Cross of Iron - German Officer (voice, uncredited)
  1975-1976 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Sphere / Luke Ferro / Voice of Mateo / ...
  - The AB Chrysalis (1976) ... Sphere (voice)
  - The Testament of Arkadia (1976) ... Luke Ferro (voice, uncredited)
  - The Troubled Spirit (1976) ... Voice of Mateo (uncredited)
  - Dragon's Domain (1975) ... Voice of Cellini (uncredited)
  1976 No Longer Alone - Joan's father
  1976 The Devil's Men - Sgt. Vendris (voice)
  1976 The Message of Major and minor roles (voice)
  1976 The Omen - Monk
  1976 Spanish Fly - Antonio (voice, uncredited)
  1975 The Hiding Place - Willem ten Boom
  1975 Paper Tiger - Harok (voice)
  1975 Deadly Strangers
  
  Various voices (uncredited)
  
  1974 The Early Life of Stephen Hind (TV Series) - Tim Cadnam-Plessy
  - Episode #1.2 (1974) ... Tim Cadnam-Plessy
  1974 Murder on the Orient Express - Loudspeaker (uncredited)
  1974 From Beyond the Grave - Dubbed Marcel Steiner / Dallas Adams (segment 1 "The Gate Crasher") (voice, uncredited)
  1973 The Golden Voyage of Sinbad - Haroun / Omar / Koura's Ship Captain (voice, uncredited)
  1973 Wessex Tales (TV Mini-Series) - Sculptor
  - Barbara of the House of Grebe (1973) ... Sculptor
  1973 Gawain and the Green Knight - Green Knight - some lines (voice, uncredited)
  1973/II A Doll's House - Small part actor (voice, uncredited)
  1973 The Crocodile (TV Series) - Monsieur Duclair
  - Stranger from the Sea (1973) ... Monsieur Duclair
  1972 The Adventurer (TV Series) - Bank Director
  - Deadlock (1972) ... Bank Director
  1972 The Ruling Class - Various Roles (voice, uncredited)
  1972 Frenzy - Doctor (voice, uncredited)
  1972 Tales from the Crypt - Radio Newcaster (segment "And All Through the House") (voice, uncredited)
  1972 Brother Sun, Sister Moon - Consul and others (voice)
  1971 Jason King (TV Series) - Angelo
  - All That Glisters...: Part 2 (1971) ... Angelo (voice, uncredited)
  1971 Nicholas and Alexandra - Count Fredericks (voice, uncredited)
  1971 Captain Apache - Dubbing (voice)
  1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Torino
  - Five Miles to Midnight (1971) ... Torino
  1971 The Last Run - Miguel (voice, uncredited)
  1971 Sunday Bloody Sunday - Daniel's Brother
  1971 A Town Called Hell - Paco (voice)
  1971 From a Bird's Eye View (TV Series) - Porter / Casino Manager / Hotel Clerk
  - All in a Day's Work (1971) ... Porter
  - Hurricane Millie (1971) ... Casino Manager
  - Wife Trouble (1971) ... Hotel Clerk
  1971 Flight of the Doves - Irish Airport TV Reporter (voice, uncredited)
  1970 Within and Without (as Roberto Rietti)
  1970 UFO (TV Series) - Keith Ford
  - The Square Triangle (1970) ... Keith Ford (voice, uncredited)
  1970 Song of Norway - Winding (uncredited)
  1970 The McKenzie Break
  
  Various voices (uncredited)
  
  1970 Deep End - of Four Characters (voice, uncredited)
  1965-1970 Mogul (TV Series) - Inspector / Giuseppe
  - They Shall Not Pass (1970) ... Inspector
  - Out of Range (1965) ... Giuseppe
  1970 You Can't Win 'Em All - Col. Enci (voice, uncredited)
  1970 Hell Boats - Salvatore (voice)
  1970 Land Raiders - Harper - Wagon Master (voice)
  
  1969 A Talent for Loving - Of two roles (voice)
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Casino Baccarat Official (uncredited)
  1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Jenkins (voice, uncredited)
  1969 A Walk with Love and Death - Various roles (voice)
  1969 The Royal Hunt of the Sun - Atahuallpa (voice, uncredited)
  1969 The Valley of Gwangi - Carlos (voice, uncredited)
  1969 The Italian Job - Police Chief
  1969 Sax Rohmer's The Castle of Fu Manchu - Curt and others (voice, uncredited)
  1969 Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies - Count Levinovich (voice, uncredited)
  1969 Mackenna's Gold - Hachita (voice)
  1969 Hannibal Brooks - Kellerman (voice)
  1969 The Assassination Bureau - Police Officer with Eleanora (uncredited)
  1969 Department S (TV Series) - Pilot
  - Six Days (1969) ... Pilot
  1969 The Desperados - Deputy (voice)
  1969 The Saint (TV Series) - Lafitre
  - The Ex-King of Diamonds (1969) ... Lafitre (voice, uncredited)
  1968 The Ugliest Girl in Town (TV Series) - Hotel Manager
  - The Paris Incident (1968) ... Hotel Manager
  1968 The Blood of Fu Manchu - of Jansen and Lopez and others (voice)
  1968 Star! - French Ambassador (uncredited)
  1968 The Girl on a Motorcycle - Of two roles (voice)
  1968 Assignment K - Minor Role (voice, uncredited)
  1967 Hell Is Empty - Robert Grant
  1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - Insurance Executive
  - Find the Lady (1967) ... Insurance Executive
  1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - Number Two
  - Many Happy Returns (1967) ... Number Two (voice, uncredited)
  - The General (1967) ... (voice, uncredited)
  1967 Reflections in a Golden Eye - Anacleto (voice, uncredited)
  1967 Vendetta (TV Series) - Umberto di Benco
  - The Scandal Man (1967) ... Umberto di Benco
  1967 You Only Live Twice - Tiger Tanaka (voice, uncredited)
  1967 Five Golden Dragons - Gert (voice, uncredited)
  1967 Casino Royale - Dubbing (voice, uncredited)
  1967 The Night of the Generals - Driver (voice, uncredited)
  1967 Uncle Charles (TV Series) - Signor Guidi
  - Patience (1967) ... Signor Guidi
  1966 Triple Cross - B.B.C. Reporter (voice, uncredited)
  1966 The Bible: In the Beginning... - Abraham's Steward
  1959-1966 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Pollyannis / Mario Comminetti / Roberto Rossi
  - The Killing (1966) ... Pollyannis
  - The Missing Suit (1961) ... Mario Comminetti
  - The Sharp Knife (1959) ... Roberto Rossi
  1966 Khartoum - Various Roles (voice, uncredited)
  1966 Lost Command - Verte (voice, uncredited)
  1966 The Great Metropolis (TV Movie documentary) - Italian (with monkey)
  1966 Where the Spies Are - Operator (voice, uncredited)
  1965 Blood Beast from Outer Space - Medra (voice)
  1965 Doctor Zhivago - Kostoyed (voice, uncredited)
  1965 Battle of the Bulge - Announcer (uncredited)
  1965 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Translator / Receptionist
  - To Our Best Friend (1965) ... Translator
  - You're Not in Any Trouble, Are You? (1965) ... Receptionist
  1965 Thunderball - Emilio Largo (voice, uncredited)
  1965 Return from the Ashes - Paul (voice, uncredited)
  1964-1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Barelli / Young Fabri
  - The Rules of the Game (1965) ... Barelli
  - The Lovers of Florence (1964) ... Young Fabri
  1965 The Crooked Road - Police Chief
  1964 The Yellow Rolls-Royce - Hotel Manager (uncredited)
  1964 The Castle of the Living Dead - Bruno (voice, uncredited)
  1964 The Fall of the Roman Empire - Opening Narrator (voice, uncredited)
  1964 Becket - Alexander III (voice, uncredited)
  1964 Agent 8 3/4 - Various Roles (voice, uncredited)
  1963 The Sentimental Agent (TV Series) - Torta / Bank Manager
  - A Box of Tricks (1963) ... Torta
  - The Beneficiary (1963) ... Bank Manager
  1963 The Ceremony - Sanchez / Chief Warden / Gendarme (voice, uncredited)
  1963 The Crimson Blade - King Charles I (uncredited)
  1963 Harry's Girls (TV Series) - Antonio
  - Pilot ... Antonio
  1963 Siege of the Saxons - Saxon Prince (voice, uncredited)
  1963 Doctor in Distress - Various Roles (voice, uncredited)
  1963 Man of the World (TV Series) - Lieutenant Chivaro
  - The Bandit (1963) ... Lieutenant Chivaro
  1963 55 Days at Peking - Spanish Minister (voice, uncredited)
  1963 I Could Go on Singing - Palladium Stage Manager
  1963 The Avengers (TV Series) - Carlo
  - Conspiracy of Silence (1963) ... Carlo
  1963 Best of Friends (TV Series)
  - Foreign Policy (1963)
  1963 Harpers West One (TV Series) - Carlo
  - Life in the Big Store (1963) ... Carlo
  1962 Time to Remember - Victor
  1962 On the Beat - Italian Lawyer
  1962 Lawrence of Arabia - Majid (voice, uncredited)
  1962 Richard the Lionheart (TV Series) - Father Ignatius
  - Queen in Danger (1962) ... Father Ignatius
  - When Champions Meet (1962) ... Father Ignatius
  1962 Dr. No - John Strangways / Superintendent Duff (voice, uncredited)
  1962 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Decker
  - The Princess (1962) ... Decker
  1962 Two and Two Make Six - Ship captain (voice, uncredited)
  1962 The Cheaters (TV Series) - Felix Adrian
  - The Hands of Adrian (1962) ... Felix Adrian
  1962 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Victor
  - Time to Remember (1962) ... Victor
  1962 Sir Francis Drake (TV Series) - Captain Riccardo
  - Beggars of the Sea (1962) ... Captain Riccardo
  1962 Playbox (TV Series) - Alan Saville
  - Episode #7.10 (1962) ... Alan Saville
  1962 Light in the Piazza - The Priest (uncredited)
  1961 The Middle Course - Jacques
  1961 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone - Bit Part (uncredited)
  1961 Top Secret (TV Series) - Pinerollo
  - Stranger in Cantabria (1961) ... Pinerollo
  1961 Two Wives at One Wedding
  1961 The Story of Joseph and His Brethren - Pharaoh
  1961 Hurricane (TV Series) - Quico - 6 episodes
  1961 The Naked Edge - Dubbing (uncredited)
  1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Bertollini
  - The Villa (1961) ... Bertollini
  1961 The Guns of Navarone - Mallory - German Voice (voice, uncredited)
  1960 The Boy Who Stole a Million - Detective
  1960 Man from Interpol (TV Series) - Giovani / Rafaelo
  - A Man Alone (1960) ... Giovani
  - The Key Witness (1960) ... Rafaelo
  1959-1960 The Four Just Men (TV Series) - Francesco
  - The Man in the Royal Suite (1960) ... Francesco
  - The Rietti Group (1960) ... Francesco
  - The Night of the Precious Stones (1959) ... Francesco (uncredited)
  1960 Bluebeards Ten Honeymoons - Bank Clerk (uncredited)
  1960 The Savage Innocents - Missionary (voice, uncredited)
  1960 Conspiracy of Hearts - Emilio Casella
  1960 Sink the Bismarck! - Captain Lindemann (voice, uncredited)
  
  1959 Dial 999 (TV Series) - George Williams / Mario Renzo
  - Night Mail (1959) ... George Williams
  - Living Loot (1959)
  - Robbery with Violence (1959) ... Mario Renzo
  1959 Glencannon (TV Series) - - Gabriel's Trumpet (1959)
  1959 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Pinelli
  - Diamond S.O.S. (1959) ... Pinelli
  1959 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Victor
  - Man in Disguise (1959) ... Victor
  1951-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Don Ferdinand / Father Landolina / Major- 6 episodes
  1959 Alfred Marks Time (TV Series)
  - Episode #4.5 (1959)
  - Episode #4.4 (1959)
  - Episode #4.3 (1959)
  1959 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Lt. Colbert
  - While the Sun Shines (1959) ... Lt. Colbert
  1958 The Secret Man - John Manning (voice, uncredited)
  1958 Women in Love (TV Movie) - Ramon in 'A Candle for the Madonna'
  1958 The Snorkel - Station Sergeant (uncredited)
  1958/I The Verdict Is Yours (TV Series) - Lawyer (1958)
  1958 The Key - Dubbing (voice, uncredited)
  1958 Shadow Squad (TV Series) - Ionesco
  - Illegal Entry: Part 2 (1958) ... Ionesco
  - Illegal Entry: Part 1 (1958) ... Ionesco
  1958 Tank Force - Alberto
  1958 Hotel Imperial (TV Series)
  - The Prima Donna in 472 (1958)
  1958 The Silent Enemy - Rosati (voice, uncredited)
  1958 A Tale of Two Cities - Foreman of Jury (uncredited)
  1957 Flight of the Dove (TV Movie) - Pilot
  1957 The New Adventures of Martin Kane (TV Series) - Chagal / Pascal
  - The Violin Story (1957) ... Chagal
  - The Night Ferry Story (1957) ... Pascal
  1957 Blue Murder at St. Trinian's - Policeman (uncredited)
  1956-1957 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Bibi de Passanet / Mr. Kosak / Oscar / ...
  - Love Her to Death (1957) ... Bibi de Passanet
  - My Heart's in the Highlands (1957) ... Mr. Kosak
  - Ashes in the Wind (1956) ... Oscar
  - The Burning Glass (1956) ... Gerry Hardslip
  1957 Just My Luck - Italian (uncredited)
  1957 The Truth About Women - Sultan
  1957 O.S.S. (TV Series) - Joe Heinz
  - Operation Flint Axe (1957) ... Joe Heinz
  1957 The Beasts of Marseilles - Salvatore (voice, uncredited)
  1956-1957 Sailor of Fortune (TV Series) - Ginalopulous
  - The Million Dollar Rose Tree (1957)
  - The Desert Hostages (1956) ... Ginalopulous
  1957 Don Kikhot - Carrasco (English version, voice, uncredited)
  1957 Let's Be Happy - Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
  1957 The Jack Benny Program (TV Series) - Waiter
  - Jack Falls Into Canal in Venice (1957) ... Waiter
  1957 A Novel Affair - Carlo / Mario (voice, uncredited)
  1956 Checkpoint - Frontier Guard
  1956 The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Pierre Gringoire (voice, uncredited)
  1956 Pursuit of the Graf Spee - Dubbing (voice, uncredited)
  1956 The Buccaneers (TV Series) - Capt. Philip Catalan
  - Dan Tempest's War with Spain (1956) ... Capt. Philip Catalan
  1956 Aggie (TV Series) - Antoine
  - Top Secret (1956) ... Antoine
  1956 New Ramps for Old (TV Series) - Benjie
  - On Hot Ice (1956) ... Benjie
  1956 Nom-de-Plume (TV Series) - Hazlitt
  - The Counting-House Clerk (1956) ... Hazlitt
  1956 Moby Dick - Revoicing (uncredited)
  1956 Alexander the Great - Cleitus / Philotas (voice, uncredited)
  1956 Jesus of Nazareth (TV Mini-Series) - A Scribe
  - Episode #1.6 (1956) ... A Scribe
  - Episode #1.4 (1956) ... A Scribe
  1955 Born for Trouble - Antoine
  1955 Stock Car - Roberto
  1955 Brother Ass and Brother Lion (TV Movie) - Brother Damon
  1953-1955 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series)
  Jacques Bargeton / French Lieutenant
  - Success Train (1955) ... Jacques Bargeton
  - The Heel (1953) ... French Lieutenant
  1955 As I Was Saying (TV Series) - Bartlett
  - For Art's Sake (1955) ... Bartlett
  1955 Potasch and Perlmutter (TV Movie) - Boris Andrieff
  1955 Miss Patterson (TV Movie) - Cesar
  1955 Confidential Report - Airport Control Tower Operator (uncredited)
  1955 That Lady - Escovedo (voice, uncredited)
  1955 Two Pigeons Flying High (TV Movie) - Chang / Narrator
  1954 The Black Rider - Mario
  1954 Attila - Aetius (voice, uncredited)
  1954 Away in a Manger (TV Movie) - Seth
  1954 If It's a Rose (TV Movie) - Mario
  1954 Special Providence (TV Movie) - Leon Bonnet
  1954 Day for Happiness (TV Movie) - Vito Panuri
  1954 They Who Dare - Italian Officer (uncredited)
  1953 A Loan from Lorenzo (TV Movie) - Mariotti
  1953 Always a Bride - Inspector (uncredited)
  1953 Melba - Italian Policeman (uncredited)
  1953 The Captain's Paradise - Tea Vendor at Market (uncredited)
  1953 Terror on a Train - Mr. Hancock (uncredited)
  1953 The Prodigal Son (TV Movie) - Abner
  1952 A Time to Be Born (TV Movie) - Kaspar
  1952 The Golden Coach - Ramon (voice, uncredited)
  1952 Sister Gold (TV Movie) - Juniper
  1952 The Little World of Don Camillo - Don Camillo (voice)
  1952 Two Dozen Red Roses (TV Movie) - Bernardo
  1951 Never Take No for an Answer - Various Roles (voice, uncredited)
  1951 Othello - Lodovico (voice, uncredited)
  1951 To Live in Peace (TV Movie) - Maso
  1950 Operation X - Prince (voice, uncredited)
  1950 Prelude to Fame - Giuseppe
  
  1949 The Coventry Nativity Play (TV Movie) - Herod's herald
  1949 Give Us This Day - Pietro (uncredited)
  1949 The Queen's Maries (TV Movie) - David Rizzio
  1949 A Man's House (TV Movie)- Jacob
  1949 The Glass Mountain - Gino (voice, uncredited)
  1949 Down Our Street (TV Movie) - Pietro
  1948 Reunion (TV Movie) - An Italian partisan
  1948 Sleeping Car to Trieste - Vincente (voice, uncredited)
  1948 Call of the Blood - Gaspare
  1947 The Coventry Nativity Play (TV Movie) - Herod's herald
  1947 Hamlet Part 2/II (TV Movie) - Rosencrantz
  1947 Hamlet Part 2 (TV Movie) - Rosencrantz
  1947 Hamlet Part 1/II (TV Movie) - Rosencrantz
  1947 Hamlet Part 1 (TV Movie) - Rosencrantz
  1947 Edward II (TV Movie) - Herald
  1947 Tobias and the Angel (TV Movie) - A bandit
  1947 One Fine Day (TV Movie) - Mercury
  1946 A Matter of Life and Death - Man on Stairway (uncredited)
  
  1939 The Little Father of the Wilderness (TV Movie) - Native
  1938 Runaway Ladies - Boy
  1938 The Challenge - Boy (uncredited)
  1935 Children of the Fog - Erbert (uncredited)
  1935 Emil and the Detectives - Professor (as Bobby Rietti)
  1935 In Town Tonight - Boy
  1934 The Scarlet Pimpernel - Boy (uncredited)
  1934 The Doctor's Secret - Horace
  1934 Power - Boy (uncredited)
  1934 Wishes (Short) - Boy (uncredited)
  1934 My Song Goes Round the World
  1934 Girls Will Be Boys - Boy (uncredited)
  1934 The Private Life of Don Juan - Boy (uncredited)
  1934 I Spy - Boy
  1933 Facing the Music - Page Boy (uncredited)
  1933 Spy 77 - Little Boy (uncredited)
  1933 Happy - Bellhop (scenes deleted)
  1933 The Charming Deceiver - Fattorino the Page Boy (uncredited)
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (28 credits)
  
  1990-1992 Coup de foudre (TV Series) (dialogue director - 3 episodes)
  - Rendez-vous à Lisbonne (1992) ... (dialogue director)
  - Retour (1991) ... (dialogue director)
  - Adolphe et les menteuses (1990) ... (dialogue director)
  1991 Inspiration (Short) (dialogue director)
  1990 A Ilha (Short) (dialogue director)
  1990 Carnaval (Short) (dialogue director)
  1990 Pas de deux (Short) (dialogue director)
  1990 Puerto Verde (Short) (dialogue director)
  1990 Ransom (Short) (dialogue director)
  1990 Sleeping Beauty (dialogue director: English version)
  
  1989 Cinderella (TV Movie) (dialogue director: English version - uncredited in German version, uncredited)
  1988 Quicker Than the Eye (dialogue director)
  1987 The Inquiry (dialogue director)
  1982 I Remember Nelson (TV Series) (italian advisor - 1 episode)
  - Passion (1982) ... (italian advisor)
  
  1979 Beyond the Reef (dialogue director)
  1979 Meetings with Remarkable Men (dialogue supervisor)
  1976 The Tenant (dialogue director)
  1976 The Blue Bird (dialogue coach)
  1974 Ten Little Indians (voice dubbing - uncredited)
  1974 The Night Porter (voice dubbing - english version, uncredited)
  1973 Fury (dialogue director)
  1973 Hitler: The Last Ten Days (voice dubbing - English version, uncredited)
  1970/I Waterloo (adr director - uncredited)
  1970 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (dialogue director: English version)
  
  1969 The Red Tent (voice dubbing - English version, uncredited)
  1968 Barbarella (voice dubbing: Marcel Marceau - English version, uncredited)
  1968 Danger: Diabolik (voice dubbing - English version, uncredited)
  1967 Bonditis (dialogue director)
  
  1956 War and Peace (voice dubbing: Jerry Riggio - English version, uncredited)
  1955 Land of the Pharaohs (voice dubbing: Alexis Minotis - uncredited)
  
  Sound department (18 credits)
  
  2001 Shaka Zulu: The Citadel (TV Movie) (adr supervisor - as Robert Rietti)
  2001 The Knights of the Quest (dubbing director: English version - as Robert Rietti)
  
  1998 The Sands of Time (TV Movie) (re-recording director - as Roberto Rietti)
  1997 The Wax Mask (director of dialogue recording)
  1994 Royal Deceit (adr coach)
  
  1989 Eversmile, New Jersey (additional dialogue recording director)
  1989 Torrents of Spring (recording director - as Robert Rietti)
  1988 The Spider Labyrinth (adr & dialogue director)
  1987 Opera (adr director)
  1987 Farewell Moscow (english dialogue director)
  1985 The Berlin Affair (looping supervisor - as Robert Rietti)
  1985 Macaroni (adr supervisor)
  1985 Christopher Columbus (TV Mini-Series) (dialogue editor - 4 episodes)
  1984 Once Upon a Time in America (dubbing editor)
  
  1979 Tess (post-synchronization - as Robert Rietti)
  1976 The Memory of Justice (Documentary) (synch sound - as Robert Rietti)
  1976 The Devil's Men (post synchronization)
  1974 The Night Porter (post synchronisation director)
  
  Writer (11 credits)
  
  1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
  - The Rules of the Game (1965) ... (adaptation)
  1962 Drama 61-67 (TV Series) (translation - 1 episode)
  - Drama '62: The Pinedus Affair (1962) ... (translation)
  1962 Playdate (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
  - The Pinedus Affair (1962) ... (adaptation)
  1958-1961 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) (adaptation - 3 episodes)
  - Duel for Love (1961) ... (adaptation)
  - Strange Meeting (1959) ... (adaptation)
  - A Gust of Wind (1958) ... (adaptation)
  1960 The Poet (TV Short) (english version)
  1960 Limes from Sicily (TV Short) (translated by)
  
  1958 Women in Love (TV Movie) (script)
  1957 Encounter (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
  - The Sacred Scales (1957) ... (adaptation)
  1957 Romantic Chapter (TV Movie) (english version)
  1956 Folio (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
  - Dawn, Day, and Night (1956) ... (adaptation)
  1954 If It's a Rose (TV Movie) (translated by)
  
  Self (7 credits)
  
  Archive footage (2 credits)
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
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  1921: Peter Burton is born--Bromley, Kent, England.
  (He dies 27 November 1989--Chelsea, London, 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.
  
  Burton guest starred in a number of television shows, including The Avengers, The Saint, Return of the Saint and UFO.

  

  Peter Burton (I) (1921–1989)

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

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

  
  

  
  

  
  Dr. No - Walther PPK (2:38)
  
  

  1928: Monty Noserovitch (Monty Norman) is born--London, England.
  (He dies 11 July 2022 at age 94--Slough, England.)

  

  Monty Norman

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  

  Background information
  Birth name Monty Noserovitch
  Born 4 April 1928
  London, England
  Died 11 July 2022 (aged 94)
  Slough, England
  Genres Musical theatre, film score
  Occupation(s) Composer, conductor, music producer
  Instrument(s) Keyboards, Guitar
  
  Spouse(s): Diana Coupland (m. 1956; div. 1975)​; Rina Caesari (m. 2000)​
  
  Monty Norman (né Noserovitch; 4 April 1928 – 11 July 2022) was a British composer, musician and singer. A contributor to West End musicals in the 1950s and 1960s, he is best known for composing the "James Bond Theme", first heard in the 1962 film Dr. No. He was an Ivor Novello Award and Olivier Award winner, and a Tony Award nominee.
  
  Early life
  Monty Norman was born on 4 April 1928 in Stepney in the East End of London. His father, Abraham Noserovitch (anglicised to Norman), was a Jewish cabinet maker who immigrated to the United Kingdom from Latvia when he was a child; his mother, Ann (Berlyn), who was also Jewish, worked as a seamstress. He lived with his Jewish immigrant grandparents for the first few years of his life.
  
  As a child during World War II, Norman was evacuated to St Albans from London but later returned during the Blitz. His mother gave him his first guitar (a Gibson) when he was sixteen. As a young man he did national service in the Royal Air Force, where he became interested in pursuing a career in singing. He also worked as a barber during this time.
  
  Career
  During the 1950s and early 1960s, Norman was a singer for big bands such as those of Cyril Stapleton, Stanley Black, Ted Heath,[5] and Nat Temple. He also sang in various variety shows, sharing top billing with other singers and comedy stars such as Benny Hill, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan,[8] Harry Worth,[5] Tommy Cooper, Jimmy James, and Tony Hancock. One of his songs, "False-Hearted Lover", was successful internationally.
  
  From the late 1950s, he moved from singing to composing, including songs for performers such as Cliff Richard, Tommy Steele, Count Basie, and Bob Hope, and lyrics for musicals and (subsequently) films. In 1957 and 1958, he wrote lyrics for the musicals Make Me an Offer, the English-language version of Irma la Douce (based on a 1956 French musical written by Alexandre Breffort and Marguerite Monnot; the English version was nominated for a Broadway Tony Award in 1961) and Expresso Bongo (which Time Out called the first rock and roll musical). Expresso Bongo, written by Wolf Mankowitz, was a West End hit and was later made into a 1960 film starring a young Cliff Richard. Norman's later musicals include Songbook (also known as The Moony Shapiro Songbook in New York), which was also nominated for a Broadway Tony and won an Ivor Novello Award; and Poppy (1982), which was also nominated for the Ivor Novello Award, and won the SWET award (renamed "the Laurence Olivier Awards" in 1984) for "Best Musical". His further film work included music for the Hammer movie The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960), The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), the Bob Hope Eon Productions movie Call Me Bwana (1963), and the TV miniseries Dickens of London (1976).
  
  Norman worked for several years on his unpublished autobiography, titled A Walking Stick Full of Bagels.

  James Bond Theme
  Norman is best known for writing the "James Bond Theme", the signature theme of the James Bond franchise, and the score to the first James Bond film, Dr. No. Norman received royalty payments for the theme from 1962 on. However, as the producers were dissatisfied with Norman's arrangement, John Barry re-arranged the theme. Barry later claimed that it was actually he who wrote the theme, but Norman won two different libel actions against Barry's claim he was the composer, the last against The Sunday Times in 2001. In the made-for-DVD documentary Inside Dr. No, Norman performed a music piece that he wrote for an unproduced stage musical based on A House for Mr Biswas several years earlier, entitled "Bad Sign, Good Sign", that he claimed resembles the melody of the "James Bond Theme" in several places.
  
  Norman collected around £485,000 in royalties between 1976 and 1999 for the use of the theme since Dr. No.

  Personal life
  Norman married actress Diana Coupland in 1956. Together, they had a daughter[1][4] before divorcing in 1975. He later married Rina Caesari in 2000 or 2001. They remained married until his death. He was a worshipper at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue.
  
  Norman died on 11 July 2022 at a hospital in Slough. He was 94, and suffered from an unspecified short illness prior to his death.
  
  Musicals
  Make Me an Offer (1958)
  Expresso Bongo (1958)
  Irma La Douce (1958)
  The Art of Living (revue, 1960)
  Belle or the Ballad of Dr. Crippen (1961)
  The Perils of Scobie Prilt (1963)
  Pinkus (1967)
  Quick, Quick, Slow (1969)
  Stand and Deliver (1972)
  So Who Needs Marriage? (1975)
  Songbook (1979)
  Poppy (1982)
  Pinocchio (1988)

  

  
  1958: The Spectator prints an article by Ian Fleming called "Automobilia" about his Ford Thunderbird, friend Noël Coward, and driving around Jamaica.

  

  Automobilia

  By IAN FLEMING
  http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/4th-april-1958/8/automobilia
  
  DIG that T-bird!' I had cut it a bit fine round Queen Victoria's skirts and my wing mirror had almost dashed the Leica from the GI's hand. If the tourists don't snap the Queen, at about 10 a.m. on most mornings they can at least get a picture of me and my Ford Thunderbird with Buckingham Palace in the background.
  
  I suspect that all motorists are vain about their cars. I certainly am, and have been ever since the khaki Standard with the enamelled Union Jack on its nose which founded my &uric in the Twenties. Today the chorus of `Smashing!; 'Cor !' and 'Rraauu !' which greets my passage is the perfume of Araby.
  
  One man who is even more childishly vain than myself is Noel Coward. Last year, in Jamaica, he took delivery of a sky-blue Chevrolet Belair Convertible which he immediately drove round to show off to me. We went for a long ride to Outer la bourgeoisie. Our passage along the coast road was as triumphal as, a year before, Princess Margaret's had been. As , we swept through a tiny village, a Negro lounger, galvanised by the glorious vision, threw his hands up to heaven and cried, `Cheesus-Kerist!'
  
  'How did he know?' said Coward.
  
  Our pride was to have a fall. We stopped for petrol.
  
  'Fill her up,' said Coward.
  
  There was a prolonged pause, followed by some quiet tinkering and jabbering from behind the car. 'What's going on, Coley?'
  
  `They can't find the hole,' said Leslie Cole from the rear seat.
  
  Coley got out. There was more and louder argumentation. A crowd gathered. I got out and, while Coward stared loftily, patiently at the sky, went over the car front and back with a tooth- comb. There was no hole. I told Coward so.
  
  `Don't be silly, dear boy. The Americans are very clever at making motor-cars. They wouldn't forget a thing like that. In fact, they probably started with the hole and then built the car round it.'
  
  `Come and look for yourself.'
  
  `I wouldn't think of demeaning myself before the natives.'
  
  'Well, have you got an instruction book?'
  
  'How should I know? Don't ask silly questions.' The crowd gazed earnestly at us, trying to fathom whether we were ignorant or playing some white man's game. I found the trick catch of the glove compartment and took out the instruction book. The secret was on the last page. You had to unscrew the stop-light. The filler cap was behind it.
  
  `Anyone could have told you that,' commented Coward airily.
  
  I looked at him coldly. 'It's interesting,' I said. `When you sweat with embarrassment the sweat runs down your face and drops off your first chin on to your second.'
  
  'Don't be childish.'
  
  I am not only vain about my Thunderbird, but proud of it. It is by far the best car I have ever possessed, although, on looking back through my motley stud book, I admit that there is no string of Bentleys and Jaguars and Aston Martins with which to compare it.
  
  After the khaki Standard, I went to a khaki Morris Oxford which was demolished between Munich and Kufstein. I had passed a notice saying 'Achtung Rollbahn!' and was keeping my eyes peeled for a steamroller when, just before I crossed a small bridge over a stream, I heard a yell in my ear and had time to see a terrified peasant leap off a gravity-propelled trolley laden with cement blocks when it hit broadside and hurled the car, with me in it, upside down into the stream.
  
  I changed to the worst car I have ever had, a 16/80 open Lagonda. I fell in love with the whine of its gears and its outside brake. But it would barely do seventy, which made me ashamed of its sporty appearance.
  
  I transferred to a supercharged Graham Paige Convertible Coupe, an excellent car which I stupidly gave to the ambulance service when war broke out.
  
  Half-way through the war I had, for a time, a battered but handy little Opel. One night at the height of the blitz I was dining with Sefton Delmer in his, top-floor flat in Lincoln's Inn. A direct hit blew out the lower three floors and left us swilling champagne and waiting for the top floor to fall into the chasm. The fireman who finally hauled us out and down his ladder was so indignant at our tipsy insouciance that I made him a present of the crumpled remains of the Opel.
  
  After the war I had an umpteenth-hand beetle-shaped Renault and a pre-war Hillman Minx before buying my first expensive car—a 21-litre Riley, which ran well for a year before developing really expensive troubles for which I only obtained some compensation through a personal appeal to Lord Nuffield.
  
  I transferred to one of the first of the Sapphires, a fast, comfortable car, but one which made me feel too elderly when it was going slowly and too nervous when it was going fast. I decided to revert to an open car and, on the advice of a friend, bought a Daimler Convertible. Very soon I couldn't stand the ugliness of its rump and, when the winter came and I found the engine ran so coolly that the heater wouldn't heat, I got fed up with post-war English cars.
  
  * It was then that a fairly handsome ship came home and I decided to buy myself a luxurious present. I first toyed with the idea of a Lancia Gran Turismo, a really beautiful piece of machinery, but it was small and rather' too busy—like driving an angry washing machine—and it cost over £3,000, which seemed ridiculous. I happened to see a Thunderbird in the street and fell head over heels in love. I rang up Lincoln's. Apparently there was no difficulty in buying any make of American car out of the small import quota which we accept in part exchange for our big motor-car exports to the States. The salesman brought along a fire-engine-red model with white upholstery which I drove nervously round Battersea Park.
  
  I dickered and wavered. Why not a Mercedes? But they are still more expensive and selfish and the highly desirable SL has only room beside the driver for a diminutive blonde with a sponge bag. Moreover, when you open those bat-like doors in the rain, the rain pours straight into the car.
  
  I paid £3,000 for a Thunderbird. Black, with conventional gear change plus overdrive, and as 'few power assists as possible. In due course it appeared. My wife was indignant. The car was hideous. There was no room for taking people to the station (a point I found greatly in its favour) and, anyway, why hadn't I bought her a mink coat? To this day she hasn't relented. She has invented a new disease called 'Thunderbird neck' which she complains she gets in the passenger seat. The truth is that she has a prejudice against all American artefacts and, indeed, against artefacts of any kind. She herself drives like Evelyn Waugh's Lady Metroland, using the pavement as if it were part of the road. Like many women, she prides herself on her 'quick reactions' and is constantly twitting Me with my sluggish consideration for others in traffic. She is unmoved when I remind her that in her previous car, a grey and heavily scarred Sunbeam Talbot whose interior always looked as it it had just been used as dustcart for the circus at Olympia, she had been guilty of misdemeanours which would have landed any man in jail. She once hit an old man in a motorised bathchair so hard in the rear that he was propelled right across Oxford Street against the traffic lights. Turning into Dover Street, she had cut a milk cart so fine that she had left her onside door-handle embedded in the rump of the horse. Unfortunately, she is unmoved by these Memories, having that most valuable of all feminine attributes—the ability to see her vices as virtues.
  
  I have now had my Thunderbird for over two Years. It has done 27,000 miles without a single Mechanical failure, without developing a squeak or a rattle. Its paintwork is immaculate and there Is not a spot of discoloration anywhere on its rather over-lavish chrome, despite the fact that it Is never garaged at night and gets a wash only twice a week. I have it serviced every quarter, but this is only a matter of the usual oil-changing, etc. The only time it ever stopped in traffic was carefully planned to give me a short, sharp reminder that, like other fine pieces of machinery, it has a temperament.
  
  The occasion was, for the car's purposes, well chosen—exactly half-way under the Thames in the Blackwall Tunnel, with lorries howling by nose to tail a few inches away in the gloom, and with a giant petrol tanker snoring impatiently down my neck. The din was so terrific that I hadn't even noticed that the engine had stopped when the traffic in front moved on after a halt. It was only then that I noticed the rev. counter at zero. I ground feverishly at the starter with- out result. The perspiration poured down my face at the thought of the ghastly walk I would have to take through the tunnel to get the breakdown Van and pay the £5 fine. Then, having reminded Me never again to take its services for granted, the engine stuttered and fired and we got going.
  
  The reason why I particularly like the Thunderbird, apart from the beauty of its line and the drama of its snarling mouth and the giant, flaring nostril of its air-intake, is that everything works. Absolutely nothing goes wrong. True, it isn't a precision instrument like English sports cars, but that I count a virtue. The mechanical Margin of error in its construction is wider. Everything has a solid feel. The engine—a huge adapted low-revving Mercury V-8 of 5-litre capacity—never gives the impression of stress or strain. When, on occasion, you can do a hundred Without danger of going over the edge of this small island, you have not only the knowledge that you have an extra twenty. m.p.h. in reserve, but the feel of it. As for acceleration, when the two extra barrels of the four-barrel carburetter come in, at around 3,000 revs., it is a real thump in the back. The brakes are good enough for fast driving, but would have to be better if you wanted to drive dangerously. The same applies to the suspension, where rigidity has been sacrificed slightly to give a comfortable ride. Petrol consumption, using overdrive for long runs, averages 17 m.p.g. Water and oil, practically nil.
  
  There is a hard top for the winter which you take off and store during the summer when the soft top is resurrected from its completely disappeared position behind the seat. The soft top can be put up or down without effort and both tops have remained absolutely weatherproof, which, after two years, is miraculous.
  
  One outstanding virtue is that all accessories seem to be infallible, though the speedometer, as with most American cars, is a maddening 10 per cent optimistic. The heater really heats; the wipers, though unfortunately suction-operated, really wipe; and not a fuse has blown nor a lamp bulb died. The engine never overheats and has never failed to start immediately from cold, even after all night outside in a frost. The solidity of the manufacture is, of course, the result of designing cars for a seller's market and for a country with great extremes of heat and cold.
  
  Cyril Connolly once said to me that, if men were honest, they would admit that their motor-cars came next after their women and children in their list of loves. I won't go all the way with him on that, but I do enjoy well-designed and attractively wrapped bits of machinery that really work—and that's what the Thunderbird is, a first-class express carriage.

  
  
  
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  1964: The Los Angeles Times repeats a rumor that Burl Ives will appear in Thunderball.
  
  2006: Casino Royale films the stairwell fight.
  2010: The Mirror reports Rachel Weisz plays a "criminal mastermind" in the next Bond film.
  
  2015: A message from Daniel Craig recognizes the 10th evolution of Mine Action Day by the United Nations.

  
  Daniel Craig Message for Mine Action Day (1:36)
  

  2018: Soon-tek Oh dies at age 85--Los Angeles, California.
  (Born 29 June 1933--Mokpo, Republic of Korea.)

  https://muse.jhu.edu/article/187375/summary
  
  Short obit from a Korean source.

  

  Pioneering actor Oh Soon-tek is dead at 85
  http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3046619
  Apr 07,2018
  이미지뷰
  
  Actor Oh Soon-tek, one of the first Korean actors to be noticed in Hollywood, passed away due to a chronic disease at the age of 85 in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
  
  Oh was an ambitious college student who, after graduating with a degree in political science at Yonsei University in 1959, flew to Los Angeles to study international relations. However, after arriving in California, he changed his studies to acting and playwriting at the University of California Los Angeles, and then went on to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York.

  

  Oh made his acting debut in the Broadway play “Rashomon” in 1964, and got his big break in 1974 as the of role Lieutenant Hip in the film The Man with the Golden Gun, which was part of the James Bond movie series. Soon after, the actor appeared in numerous movies including well-known films “Good Guys Wear Black” (1978), “Beverly Hills Ninja” (1997) and the hit Walt Disney animation “Mulan” (1998).

  In 2001, Oh came back to Korea to work as a professor at the Korea National University of Arts as well as a jury member for the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival.
  
  By Sung Ji-eun

  

  Soon-Tek Oh (1932–2018)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0644902/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (116 credits)
  
  2006 Les formidables - Jong-chae
  2005 Last Mountain - Karus
  2004 Mulan II (Video) - Fa Zhou (voice)
  2002 Special Weapons and Tactics (Short) - Sayonara
  2002 The Visit (Short) - Sujong's Father
  2001 True Blue - Tiger
  2001 Forgotten Valor - Colonel
  2001 Roads and Bridges - Voice Of Father
  1997-2001 Touched by an Angel (TV Series) - Mr. Aramaki / Kim Chyung Kyung
  - The Face of God (2001) ... Mr. Aramaki
  - Amazing Grace: Part 1 (1997) ... Kim Chyung Kyung
  2001 The District (TV Series) - Colonel Nguyen Duc Chin
  - New World (2001) ... Colonel Nguyen Duc Chin
  2000 The President's Man (TV Movie) - General Vinh Tran
  2000 King of the Hill (TV Series) - Monk
  - Won't You Pimai Neighbor? (2000) ... Monk (voice)
  
  1999 T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger (Video Game) - Si Fu (Mantis Master) (voice, as Soon Teck Oh)
  1998 Seven Days (TV Series) - Dr. Huan Chow Lee
  - Sleepers (1998) ... Dr. Huan Chow Lee
  1998 Mulan - Fa Zhou (voice)
  1997 Stargate SG-1 (TV Series) - Moughal
  - Emancipation (1997) ... Moughal
  1997 Two (TV Series) - Victor Boun
  - Forget Me Not (1997) ... Victor Boun
  1997 Yellow - Woon Lee
  1997 Promised Land (TV Series) - Kim Chyung Kyung
  - Amazing Grace: Part 2 (1997) ... Kim Chyung Kyung
  1997 Life with Louie (TV Series short) - Buddhist Monk
  - The Thank You Note (1997) ... Buddhist Monk (voice, as Soon Tek-Oh)
  1997 Malcolm & Eddie (TV Series) - Man Li
  - Hai Karate (1997) ... Man Li
  1997 Beverly Hills Ninja - Sensei
  1996 The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (TV Series) - General Yala
  - Nemesis (1996) ... General Yala (voice, as Soon Teck-Oh)
  1996 Street Corner Justice - Kwong Chuck Lee (as Soon Teck Oh)
  1996 One West Waikiki (TV Series) - Mr. Kimura
  - Battle of the Titans (1996) ... Mr. Kimura (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1996 Baywatch Nights (TV Series) - Matsuo Sumaro
  - Code of Silence (1996) ... Matsuo Sumaro
  1995 Cagney & Lacey: Together Again (TV Movie) - Sunny Kim Play
  1994-1995 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (TV Series) - Bon Bon Hai
  - Rite of Passage (1995) ... Bon Bon Hai
  - Enter the Tiger (1994) ... Bon Bon Hai
  - Sing Wah (1994) ... Bon Bon Hai
  1994 S.F.W. - Milt Morris (as Soon Teck Oh)
  1994 Red Sun Rising - Yamata
  1994 Babylon 5 (TV Series) - The Muta-Do
  - TKO (1994) ... The Muta-Do (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1994 Time Trax (TV Series) - Akiri
  - Return of the Yakuza (1994) ... Akiri
  1993 A Home of Our Own - Mr. Munimura
  1993 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Kai Kuan
  - A Death in Hong Kong (1993) ... Kai Kuan (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1993 The Legend of Prince Valiant (TV Series) - Sing Lu
  - The Ghost (1993) ... Sing Lu (voice)
  1992 Highlander (TV Series) - Kiem Sun
  - The Road Not Taken (1992) ... Kiem Sun (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1992 Zorro (TV Series) - Hiroshi
  - Test of Faith (1992) ... Hiroshi
  1991 The Trials of Rosie O'Neill (TV Series) - Xay Tao
  - Family Business (1991) ... Xay Tao
  1991 Deadly Game (TV Movie) - Saito (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1990 Last Flight Out (TV Movie) - Air Force Major (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  
  1989 Hunter (TV Series) - Nyuen Tran
  - Yesterday's Child (1989) ... Nyuen Tran (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1989 Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker (TV Movie) - Dr. Chow (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1989 Tour of Duty (TV Series) - Gen. Lam Thoc
  - Doc Hock (1989) ... Gen. Lam Thoc (as Soon-Teck OH)
  1989 Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy (TV Movie) - Capt. Park (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1989 Collision Course - Kitao
  1988 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Mitsuo Nagumo
  - Zen and the Art of the Split-Finger Fastball (1988) ... Mitsuo Nagumo (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1988 Soursweet - Red Cudgel
  1988 MacGyver (TV Series) - Raymond Ling
  - Murderers' Sky (1988) ... Raymond Ling
  1988 The Red Spider (TV Movie) - Sonny Wu
  1987 Death Wish 4: The Crackdown - Det. Phil Nozaki (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1987 Legend of the White Horse - Tai-Ching
  1987 Sky Commanders (TV Series) - Kodiak
  - Back in the Fold (1987) ... Kodiak (voice, as Soon-Teck Oh)
  - Assault on Raider Stronghold (1987) ... Kodiak (voice, as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1987 Steele Justice - Gen. Bon Soong Kwan (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1987 Airwolf (TV Series) - Hayashi
  - Ground Zero (1987) ... Hayashi (as Soon Teck Oh)
  1986 The A-Team (TV Series) - Byron Chin
  - Point of No Return (1986) ... Byron Chin (as Soon Tech-Oh)
  1981-1986 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - North Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Hue / Dr. Bill Su / Dr. Ling / ...
  - Little Girl Who (1986) ... North Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Hue (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  - Kiss of the Sabre (1984) ... Dr. Bill Su / Dr. Ling
  - Two Birds of a Feather (1983) ... Sato (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  - Memories Are Forever (1981) ... General Nguyen Hue (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1986 Jonny Quest (TV Series) - Additional Voices (voice)
  1985-1986 T.J. Hooker (TV Series) - Ginsu Nabutsu / Nguyen Chi
  - Blood Sport (1986) ... Ginsu Nabutsu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  - Outcall (1985) ... Nguyen Chi (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1986 Dynasty (TV Series) - Kai Liu
  - The Rescue (1986) ... Kai Liu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  - The Warning (1986) ... Kai Liu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1985 Cagney & Lacey (TV Series) - Doo Koo Kang
  - Mothers & Sons (1985) ... Doo Koo Kang (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1985 Hill Street Blues (TV Series) - Pak
  - In the Belly of the Bus (1985) ... Pak
  - Hacked to Pieces (1985) ... Pak
  1985 Missing in Action 2: The Beginning - Colonel Yin (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1984-1985 Airwolf (TV Series) - Minh / Tommy Liu
  - The American Dream (1985) ... Minh (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  - Once a Hero (1984) ... Tommy Liu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1984 Matt Houston (TV Series) - The Warlord
  - Escape from Nam: Part 2 (1984) ... The Warlord (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  - Return to Nam: Part 1 (1984) ... The Warlord
  1984 Challenge of the GoBots (TV Series) - Additional Voices (voice)
  1984 The Fall Guy (TV Series) - Kwon Lu
  - Always Say Always (1984) ... Kwon Lu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1984 The Master (TV Series) - Mr. Lika
  - Out-of-Time-Step (1984) ... Mr. Lika (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1984 Airwolf (TV Movie) - Vietnamese farmer
  1983 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - Lang Chen Cheng
  - Year of the Dog (1983) ... Lang Chen Cheng (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1983 Girls of the White Orchid (TV Movie) - Hatanaka
  1983 The Greatest American Hero (TV Series) - Ernie Shikinami
  - Thirty Seconds Over Little Tokyo (1983) ... Ernie Shikinami (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1983 Marco Polo (TV Mini-Series) - Wang Zhu
  - Episode #1.7 (1983) ... Wang Zhu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  - Episode #1.6 (1983) ... Wang Zhu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1982 CBS Children's Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - James Wong
  - The Zertigo Diamond Caper (1982) ... James Wong
  1982 Romance Theatre (TV Series)
  - A Fragile Affair: Part 5 (1982)
  - A Fragile Affair: Part 4 (1982)
  - A Fragile Affair: Part 3 (1982)
  - A Fragile Affair: Part 2 (1982)
  - A Fragile Affair: Part 1 (1982)
  1982 Quincy M.E. (TV Series) - Capt. Bob Nishimura
  - Sword of Honor, Blade of Death (1982) ... Capt. Bob Nishimura (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1982 Tales of the Gold Monkey (TV Series) - Kenji Miura
  - Honor Thy Brother (1982) ... Kenji Miura (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1975-1982 M*A*S*H (TV Series) - Joon-Sung / Ralph / Dr. Syn Paik / ...
  - Foreign Affairs (1982) ... Joon-Sung (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  - The Yalu Brick Road (1979) ... Ralph (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  - The Korean Surgeon (1976) ... Dr. Syn Paik (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  - The Bus (1975) ... Korean Soldier (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  - Love and Marriage (1975) ... Mr. Kwang (as Soon-Taik Oh)
  1982 Bring 'Em Back Alive (TV Series) - Yataki
  - The Warlord (1982) ... Yataki
  1982 Cassie & Co. (TV Series) - Chiang Chang
  - There Went the Bride (1982) ... Chiang Chang
  1982 The Letter (TV Movie) - Ong
  1981 Trapper John, M.D. (TV Series) - Dr. Wang Wu-Shen
  - The Albatross (1981) ... Dr. Wang Wu-Shen
  1981 East of Eden (TV Mini-Series) - Lee
  - Part Three (1981) ... Lee (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  - Part Two (1981) ... Lee (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  - Part One (1981) ... Lee (as Soon-Teck Oh, credit only)
  1980-1981 Charlie's Angels (TV Series) - Lt. Torres
  - Hula Angels (1981) ... Lt. Torres
  - Waikiki Angels (1981) ... Lt. Torres
  - Island Angels (1980) ... Lt. Torres
  - Angels of the Deep (1980) ... Lt. Torres
  1980 The Final Countdown - Simura (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1980 Diff'rent Strokes (TV Series) - Mr. Kim
  - Return of the Gooch (1980) ... Mr. Kim (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  
  1968-1979 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Robert Kwon / David Chung / Chaing / ...
  - Image of Fear (1979) ... Robert Kwon
  - The Silk Trap (1978) ... David Chung (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  - The Defector (1975) ... Chaing (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  - The Jinn Who Clears the Way (1972) ... Tom Wong (as Soon Taik Oh)
  - Wednesday, Ladies Free (1971) ... Vic Tanaka (as Soon Taik Oh)
  - Sweet Terror (1969) ... Lao (as Soon Taik Oh)
  - Face of the Dragon (1969) ... Lewis Shen (as Soon Taik Oh)
  - Cocoon (1968) ... Wo Fat's Lab Technician (as Soon Taik Oh)
  1979 The Fantastic Seven (TV Movie) - Kenny Uto
  1979 How the West Was Won (TV Series) - Kee
  - China Girl (1979) ... Kee (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1978 Good Guys Wear Black - Mjr. Mhin Van Thieu - The Black Tigers (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1977 Black Sheep Squadron (TV Series) - Lieutenant Miragochi / Col. Tokura
  - Divine Wind (1977) ... Lieutenant Miragochi (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  - Poor Little Lambs (1977) ... Col. Tokura (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1977 Logan's Run (TV Series) - Dexter Kim
  - Crypt (1977) ... Dexter Kim (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1977 Enigma (TV Movie) - Mei San Gow
  1976 Pacific Overtures (TV Movie) - Tamate / Samurai / Storyteller / ...
  1974 Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders (TV Movie) - Kang I-Te
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - Hip (as Soon-Taik Oh)
  1973-1974 Kung Fu (TV Series) - Yi Lien / Chen Yi / Kwan Chen
  - The Devil's Champion (1974) ... Yi Lien (as Soon-Taik Oh)
  - The Passion of Chen Yi (1974) ... Chen Yi (as Soon Taik Oh)
  - Sun and Cloud Shadow (1973) ... Kwan Chen (as Soon-Taik Oh)
  1974 Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love (TV Movie) - Mr. Kim (as Soon-Teck Oh)
  1974 The Magician (TV Series) - Sheng
  - The Illusion of the Lost Dragon (1974) ... Sheng (as Soon Taik-Oh)
  1973 The Return of Charlie Chan (TV Movie) - Stephen Chan (as Soon-Taik Oh)
  1973 Search (TV Series) - Interrogator
  - Moment of Madness (1973) ... Interrogator (as Soon-Taik Oh)
  1971 Earth II (TV Movie) - Chinese diplomat (uncredited)
  1971 The Reluctant Heroes (TV Movie) - Korean Officer
  1971 Ironside (TV Series) - Kwangsoo Yung
  - Joss Sticks and Wedding Bells (1971) ... Kwangsoo Yung (as Soon-Taik Oh)
  1971 Night Gallery (TV Series) - Chang
  - Death in the Family/The Merciful/Class of '99/Witches' Feast (1971) ... Chang (uncredited)
  1971 One More Train to Rob - Yung (as Soon-Taik Oh)
  1970 Dan August (TV Series) - Au Chau
  - When the Shouting Dies (1970) ... Au Chau (as Soon Taik Oh)
  1970 Death Valley Days (TV Series) - Matsunosuke Sakurai
  - The Dragon of Gold Hill (1970) ... Matsunosuke Sakurai (as Soon-Taik Oh)
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  1969 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Javanese / Servant
  - Payoff in the Piazza (1969) ... Javanese (as Soon-Taik Oh)
  - Mad in Japan (1969) ... Servant (as Soon Taik Oh)
  1967 The President's Analyst - Chinese Agent (uncredited)
  1967 The Wild Wild West (TV Series) - Chinese Houseboy
  - The Night of the Deadly Blossom (1967) ... Chinese Houseboy (as Soon Taik Oh)
  1967 CBS Playhouse (TV Series) - Vietcong Officer
  - The Final War of Olly Winter (1967) ... Vietcong Officer
  1967 The Invaders (TV Series) - Houseboy
  - The Experiment (1967) ... Houseboy (as Soon Taik Oh)
  1966 Murderers' Row - Tempura - Japanese Secret Agent (uncredited)
  1966 The Wackiest Ship in the Army (TV Series) - Takaoshi
  - My Island (1966) ... Takaoshi (as Soon Taik Oh)
  1966 Mister Roberts (TV Series) - Harry / 1st Japanese - Harry
  - Undercover Cook (1966) ... Harry (as Soon Taik Oh)
  - Damn the Torpedoes (1966) ... 1st Japanese - Harry
  1965 I Spy (TV Series) - Kabuki / Announcer
  - Tigers of Heaven (1965) ... Kabuki (as Soon Taik Oh)
  - No Exchange on Damaged Merchandise (1965) ... Announcer (as Soon Taik Oh)
  
  Soundtrack (1 credit)
  
  1976 Pacific Overtures (TV Movie) (performer: "There Is No Other Way", "Chrysanthemum Tea")
  
  Self (4 credits)
  
  2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Self
  2000 Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (Video documentary short) - Self / Hip (as Soon-Taik Oh)
  
  1997 Kung Pao Chicken (Short documentary) - Narrator (voice)
  
  1986 Miss Universe Pageant (TV Special documentary) - Self - Judge

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2023: Anthony Horowitz presents The Music of Bond at Royal Albert Hall, London, England.

  

  

  The Music of Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.rpo.co.uk/whats-on/eventdetail/1488/85/the-music-of-bond

  Music of Bond artwork
  Tuesday 4 April 2023, 7.30pm
  
  Royal Albert Hall Venue Information
  Gareth Hudson Conductor
  Alison Jiear Vocalist
  Lance Ellington Vocalist
  Anthony Horowitz Special Guest Presenter
  Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

  Back by overwhelming demand, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra promises to take you to double-0-heaven with this sensational concert!
  
  Enjoy iconic theme songs and thrilling Bond anthems from almost six decades of box office blockbusters, presented by James Bond author Anthony Horowitz.
  
  Highlights to include: Goldfinger, Licence To Kill, You Only Live Twice, Thunderball, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, From Russia With Love, Casino Royale, Goldeneye, Spectre and many more!
  
  New for 2023: Music from the 25th and latest film release, No Time To Die.

  Please note, this concert has been rescheduled from 20 September 2022 due to logistical challenges with the Royal Albert Hall’s programme.
  
  Large print versions of the programme for this concert are available on request. Please email your request to Doran Crowhurst [email protected] at least one full week before the performance.
  
  Ticket information
  Doors Opening Time: 45 minutes before the start of the show
  Concert Start Time: 7:30pm
  
  Tickets from £20.
  
  Groups of just 6+ or more save up to 30% – phone 020 7608 8840
  
  Book as early as you can to secure the best choice of seats at the best possible prices. Ticket prices will be adjusted in real-time and will reflect the most current price for each performance based on demand. Prices are subject to change without notice.
  
  Royal Albert Hall booking fees apply (7.5% of the total transaction, plus a recovery levy of £2 per ticket).
  
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  April 5th
  
  1909: Albert Romolo "Cubby" Broccoli is born--New York City, New York.
  (He dies 27 June 1996--Beverly Hills, California.)

  

  Albert "Cubby" Broccoli

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7733431/Albert-Cubby-Broccoli.htm

  Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, the film producer, who has died in Beverly Hills aged 87, was the driving force behind the phenomenally successful James Bond films, 17 of which he either produced or co-produced.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1954: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's second Bond novel Live and Let Die.

  LIVE AND LET DIE
  
  In the higher ranges of Secret Service
  work the actual acts in many cases were in
  every respect equal to the most fantastic
  inventions of romance and melodrama.
  Tangle within tangle, plot and counter-plot,
  ruse and treachery, cross and double-cross,
  true agent, false agent, double agent, gold
  and steel, the bomb, the dagger and the
  firing party, were interwoven in many a
  texture so intricate as to be incredible and
  yet true. The Chief and the High Officers
  of the Secret Service revelled in these subter-
  ranean labyrinths, and pursued their task with
  cold and silent passion. SIR WINSTON
  CHURCHILL in Thoughts and Adventures.
  
  It is in these higher rangers of Secret
  Service work that James Bond operates on
  the very outside edge of danger, and, in
  this story, among hazards no reader will
  easily forget.
  
  Ian Fleming's first book, Casino Royale,
  an account of the gambling assignment
  that nearly cost Bond his life, was described
  as 'the best thriller since the war'.
  
  Live and Let Die, a breath-taking hunt
  for secret treasure that takes Bond to
  Harlem, Florida and Jamaica, is still better.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1955: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's third Bond novel Moonraker.

  MOONRAKER
  by the author of Casino Royale,
  Live and Let Die
  
  It was Monday and a routine day for
  James Bond in the quiet office at the
  headquarters of the Secret Service.
  Idly he ticked off his number--007--on the
  charge sheets of the Top Secret files that
  had come in over the weekend. He was
  bored. Mondays were hell.
  
  Then, suddenly, the red telephone
  screamed in the quiet room. 'M. wants
  you.' And Bond walked out of his office
  and into the assignment that was to put
  even his adventures in France (Casino
  Royale) and Harlem and Jamaica (Live
  and Let Die) in the shade.
  
  And yet what was to happen to him was
  to happen out of the clear blue skies of
  early summer, here, in England. As it
  might have been yesterday. Or, as it
  might be, some dreadful tomorrow.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1955: Anthony Horowitz is born--Stanmore, London, England.
  1958: Regarding Dr. No, Paul Johnson writes about "Sex, snobbery, and sadism" in the New Statesman.

  

  Sex, snobbery and sadism

  https://www.newstatesman.com/society/2007/02/1958-bond-fleming-girl-sex
  By Paul Johnson | 5 April 1958

  I have just finished what is without a doubt the nastiest book I have ever read. It is a new novel entitled Dr. No and the author is Mr. Ian Fleming. Echoes of Mr Fleming’s fame had reached me before, and I had been repeatedly urged to read his books by literary friends whose judgement I normally respect. When his new novel appeared, therefore, I obtained a copy and started to read. By the time I was a third of the way through, I had to suppress a strong impulse to throw the thing away, and only continued reading because I realised that here was a social phenomenon of some importance.
  ...

  1958: Ian Fleming semi-defends the Bond character in a letter to the Manchester Guardian.

  

  Ian Fleming defends James Bond - from
  the archive

  https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2012/oct/01/ian-fleming-james-bond-1958-archive
  The James Bond author writes to the Manchester Guardian in defence of his hero
  Lauren Niland | Mon 1 Oct 2012 05.30 EDT

  
  Ian Fleming smoking a cigarette. James Bond had his cigarettes custom made by Morland's,
  a habit Fleming claimed was 'less expensive than countless other heroes'
  Photograph: Express Newspapers/Getty Images

  Fifty years of the James Bond film franchise - the first in the series, Dr No, was released in October 1962 - has meant 50 years of Bond habits ingrained in the public imagination, from how Bond dresses to what he drinks (although his new tipple of Heineken lager in Skyfall, the 23rd installment of the series which is released this year, has caused comment in some corners).
  
  Yet critics of Bond's lifestyle - not least those who see it as an advertising agency's world - have existed for far longer than the life of the films. In 1958 - the year Dr No was published as a novel - Bernard Bergonzi, writing in The Twentieth Century magazine, attacked Ian Fleming's novels for what the Observer called "a diet of unrestricted sadism and satyriasis."

  

  
  Guardian Bond leader 1958
  Published in the Manchester Guardian on 31 March 1958.

  
  The Manchester Guardian published a defence - of sorts - of Fleming's Bond, but their conclusion that "what is more sinister is the cult of luxury for its own sake...these works are symptomatic of a decline in taste" led to the author himself writing to the paper to set the record straight on where Bond's tastes derive from.

  In the letter to the Manchester Guardian, (below) published on 5 April 1958, Fleming admits that "to create an illusion of depth I had to fit Bond out with some theatrical props...with distinctive cigarettes...I proceeded to invent a cocktail for Bond (which I sampled some months later and found unpalatable)."

  
  Ian Fleming writes to the Manchester Guardian in defence of Bond.

  
  However, he also argues that the exotic and ostentatious parts of Bond's lifestyle - "the cult of luxury" - proved so popular with his readers, still used to war-time rationing, that he included them for their sake. His own favourite food is scrambled eggs and he claims to smoke "your own, Mancunian, brand of Virginia tobacco." (He has no argument, however, against the case that "sex plays an important part in James Bond's life.")

  
  1963: Agent 007 - mission: drab (Agent 007 - Mission: Killing) released in Denmark.

  
  
  
  

  1965: Norman Wanstall receives the Best Sound Effects Oscar for Goldfinger, presented by Angie Dickenson.

  

  Norman Wanstall

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0911232/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Sound department (18 credits)
  
  1985 Romance on the Orient Express (TV Movie) (sound editor)
  1983 Never Say Never Again (dubbing editor)
  
  1972 Chelovek s drugoy storony (sound effects)
  
  1967 You Only Live Twice[/b] (dubbing editor)
  1966 Fahrenheit 451 (sound)
  1966 Road to Saint Tropez (Short) (sound)
  1965 Thunderball (dubbing editor)
  1965 Coast of Skeletons (dubbing editor)
  1965 The Ipcress File (sound editor)
  1964 Goldfinger (dubbing editor)
  1963 From Russia with Love (dubbing editor)
  1963 Call Me Bwana (dubbing editor)
  1962 Dr. No (dubbing editor)
  1961 Operation Snafu (dubbing editor)
  
  1959 Solomon and Sheba (assistant sound editor - uncredited)
  1959 John Paul Jones (assistant sound editor - uncredited)
  1958 A Night to Remember (assistant sound editor - uncredited)
  1958 Carve Her Name with Pride (assistant sound editor - uncredited)
  
  Editor (10 credits)
  
  1978 The Rise and Fall of Ivor Dickie (Documentary)
  1977 Eclipse
  1975 Knots (Documentary)
  1974 Who?
  1972 The Exorcism of Hugh
  1972 The Jerusalem File
  1970 The Only Way
  1970 London Affair
  
  1968 Les bicyclettes de Belsize (Short)
  1968 Joanna
  
  Editorial department (7 credits)
  
  1962 Damn the Defiant! (assistant editor - uncredited)
  1961 Loss of Innocence (first assistant editor - uncredited)
  1960 There Was a Crooked Man (assembly editor)
  1960 Sink the Bismarck! (assistant editor - uncredited)
  
  1957 Miracle in Soho (assistant editor - uncredited)
  1957 Night Ambush (second assistant editor - uncredited)
  1956 Jumping for Joy (second assistant editor - uncredited)
  
  Director (1 credit)
  
  1978 The Rise and Fall of Ivor Dickie (Documentary) (additional sequences)

  
  

  
  
  
  
  You Only Live Twice Commentary Exclusive (2021) (3:11:52)
  

  
  1971: Diamonds Are Forever filming begins near Las Vegas as South Africa locales.
  
  1983: The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. (The Fifteen Years Later Affair) includes George Lazenby as "J.B."

  

  The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair (1983 TV Movie)

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086191/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
  Directed by Ray Austin
  Writing Credits
  Sam Rolfe ... (developer: original series)
  Michael Sloan
  
  Cast
  
  Robert Vaughn ... Napoleon Solo
  David McCallum ... Illya Kuryakin
  Patrick Macnee ... Sir John Raleigh
  Tom Mason ... Benjamin Kowalski
  Gayle Hunnicutt ... Andrea Markovitch
  Geoffrey Lewis ... Janus
  Anthony Zerbe ... Justin Sepheran
  Keenan Wynn ... Piers Castillian
  Simon Williams ... Nigel Pennington-Smythe
  John Harkins ... Alexi Kemp
  Jan Tríska ... Vaselievich
  Susan Woollen ... Janice Friday
  Carolyn Seymour ... Actress
  George Lazenby ... J.B.
  Judith Chapman ... Z-65
  Dick Durock ... Guiedo
  Lois De Banzie ... Delquist
  Randi Brooks ... The Model
  Jack Somack ... The Tailor
  Eddie Baker ... Salesman
  
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Roger Rinehart ... Card Player in Casino (uncredited)

  
  
  

  
  
  

  
  2017: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond: Black Box #2 (of 6).
  Rapha Lobosco, artist. Benjamin Percy, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND #2

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025652202011
  Cover A: Dominic Reardon
  Cover B: Jason Masters
  Cover C: Giovanni Valletta
  Writer: Benjamin Percy
  Art: Rapha Lobosco
  Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
  Publication Date: April 2017
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 4/5

  Black Box Part Two - The Deadly Game
  As part of Operation Black Box, James Bond infiltrates the Tokyo underworld and makes a deadly gamble at a Yakuza-controlled casino. All this time 007 is being tailed by a beautiful, mysterious assassin whose mission might be dangerously complicated with his own.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2020: Honor Blackman dies at age 94--Lewes, Sussex, England.
  (Born 22 August 1925--Plaistow, London, England.)
  

  

  Honor Blackman, James Bond’s Pussy
  Galore, Dead at 94

  https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/honor-blackman-bond-girl-dead-979014/

  Goldfinger star also appeared in The Avengers and The Upper Hand
  By Claire Shaffer
  

  
  Honor Blackman, the British actress best known for portraying
  the James Bond villain Pussy Galore, has died at age 94.
  Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/Shutterstock

  Honor Blackman, the British actress best known for portraying the James Bond girl Pussy Galore in 1964’s Goldfinger, has died. She was 94.
  
  “It’s with great sadness that we have to announce the death of Honor Blackman, aged 94,” Blackman’s family wrote in a statement to the Guardian. “She died peacefully of natural causes at her home in Lewes, Sussex, surrounded by her family.
  
  “As well as being a much-adored mother and grandmother, Honor was an actor of hugely prolific creative talent,” they added. “With an extraordinary combination of beauty, brains and physical prowess, along with her unique voice and a dedicated work ethic, she achieved an unparalleled iconic status in the world of film and entertainment and with absolute commitment to her craft and total professionalism in all her endeavours she contributed to some of the great films and theatre productions of our times.”

  For Goldfinger, in which Blackman’s Pussy Galore helps Auric Goldfinger attempt to rob Fort Knox, Blackman learned judo for the role. The experience helped spur her to co-write the 1966 book Honor Blackman’s Book of Self-Defence, a book that, as NBC News notes, was “among the first books about martial arts aimed at young women.” Goldfinger would go on to become a massive hit, though it would be the only Bond film she would appear in.

  
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  Honor Blackman (1925–2020)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000303/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  

  2021: Simon Paul Adams (Paul Ritter) dies at age 54--Faversham, England.
  (Born 20 December 1966--Kent, England.)

  

  English actor Paul Ritter dies aged 54

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.bolnews.com/entertainment/2021/04/english-actor-paul-ritter-dies-aged-54/

  Komal Fatima, Web Editor | 07th Apr, 2021

  English actor Paul Ritter, who played Eldred Worple in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, has passed away at the age of 54.
  
  Paul Ritter was famous for his role dad Martin Goodman in Channel 4 comedy Friday Night Dinner. His roles in Sky drama Chernobyl and James Bond film Quantum of Solace were also prominent.

  Paul Ritter died due to a brain tumor. Friday Night Dinner creator Robert Popper expressed condolences, saying he was “a deeply clever, funny, intelligent, kind man”.
  
  “But he also had that rare thing, he had the common touch, so people could just relate to him,” Popper told an international media source.
  
  Popper talked more about Ritter said: “He was so quiet and focused before he went on, and then as soon as he went on, all that energy just popped out of him. It was amazing.
  
  “I don’t think he ever did anything wrong… he was very professional and he was a lovely guy.”
  
  Ritter’s agent said he was “an exceptionally talented actor playing an enormous variety of roles on stage and screen with extraordinary skill”, describing him as “fiercely intelligent, kind and very funny”.
  
  Big Talk, the producers of Friday Night Dinner, said in a statement, “He was a brilliant, kind and talented man much loved by everyone lucky enough to know and work with him, and Paul will forever be part of both the Big Talk and Friday Night Dinner families.
  
  “Our thoughts are with his own family at this time and following their wishes we will be making a donation to the Old Vic Impact Fund.”
  

  

  Paul Ritter (I) (1966–2021)

  Actor | Soundtrack
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0728795/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
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  April 6th
  
  1320: Scotland declares its independence.
  
  1940: Pedro Armendáriz Jr. is born--Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
  (He dies 26 December 2011 at age 71--New York City, New York.)

  

  Pedro Armendariz Jr. dies at 71

  https://variety.com/2011/film/news/pedro-armendariz-jr-dies-at-71-1118047888/
  Character actor, son of Mexican star, appeared in 'Zorro'
  By James Young
  
  ...

  He, like his father, landed a role in a James Bond film — he played the arch President Hector Lopez in “License to Kill” [sic]; his father had played Bond ally Kerim Bey in “From Russia With Love.” They both played revolutionary General Pancho Villa onscreen.

  ...

  

  Pedro Armendáriz Jr. (1940–2011)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001917/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
  
  Filmography [includes]

  1989 Licence to Kill - President Hector Lopez (as Pedro Armendariz)

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1966: Operación Trueno (Operation Thunder) released in Argentina.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1967: Operación Trueno (Operation Thunder) released in Mexico.

  

  
  1973: Live and Let Die finishes insert shots and all filming.
  1977: Live and Let Die released in Iceland.
  
  2002: On Tartan Day in the Tunes of Glory Parade, Sean Connery leads a procession of 10,000 as the world's largest pipe and drum parade up Sixth Avenue, New York City, New York.

  

  
  2011: Sam Mendes and Barbara Broccoli scout South African locations for Bond 23.
  2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #6 VARGR (of 6).
  Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND #6

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181806011
  Cover A: Dom Reardon
  Writer: Warren Ellis
  Art: Jason Masters
  Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
  Publication Date: April 2016
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 pages
  ON SALE DATE: April 6

  The secret of VARGR is revealed, and it means that Bond has to descend into a nightmare scenario - alone. Just his gun and his skills versus a murderous conspiracy to turn Britain into a testing zone for death drugs. Dynamite Entertainment proudly concludes the debut storyline to the first ongoing James Bond comic book in over 20 years! "Ian Fleming's James Bond is an icon, and it's a delight to tell visual narratives with the original, brutal, damaged Bond of the books." - Warren Ellis

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2023: The Music Of James Bond at Stadthalle-Saal Chenmitz, Germany.

  

  The Music Of
  James Bond, Stadthalle-
  Saal Chenmitz

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.marycarewe.com/performance-calendar/2023/4/6/the-music-of-james-bond-stadthalle-chenmitz

  Thursday, April 6, 2023
  7:00pm – 9:00pm
  
  Stadthalle-saal CHENMITZ (map)
  GERMANY

  Mary performs the iconic hits from the James Bond Movies in Chenmitz with conductor Nicholas Milton. Songs include No Time To Die, Goldfinger, Licence To Kill, Live And Let Die, Diamonds Are Forever and Skyfall.

  
  

  
  2023: Alan Committie Live and Let Laugh at Pieter Toerien Montecasino Main Theatre, Magaliessig, Johannesburg, South Africa.

  

  Alan Committie Live and Let Laugh

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://joburg.co.za/event/alan-committie-live-and-let-laugh/

  April 6 @ 8:00 pm – April 16 @ 10:00 pm

  Alan Committie’s twenty-fifth solo stand-up show, titled “Live and Let Laugh,” sees the funny man take his inspiration from the 25 James Bond movies that have been released over the last 70 years! The show runs from Thursday, 6 April 2023 until Sunday, 16 April 2023.
  
  What Can I Expect from the Alan Committie Live and Let Laugh Performance?
  Alan Committie is a leading South African award winning comic performer and he’s bringing his latest show to the Pieter Toerien Montecasino Main Theatre. He’s performed in the UK, USA and travelled across the country for his well known one-man comic shows. He’s a man of many talents and has tried his hand at teaching, producing, writing, acting and directing!

  He is known by his fans as a comedian who unpacks the complex and nuanced new gender landscape. His shows also attempt to examine the world and the dynamics of relationships. Audiences can anticipate Committe’s exploration of stunts, espionage, international travel, gadgets, and, above all, double entendres!
  
  You can also expect a special guest appearance by part-time security guard and full-time relationship guru, Johann van der Walt.Tickets start from R270 per person.

  

  
  2023: Movie Classics: James Bond screens From Russia with Love at the Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center, Sanford, Florida.

  

  

  Movie Classics: James Bond – From Russia with Love

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://events.sanford365.com/events/2023-04-06/

  April 6 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
  
  Wayne Densch Performing Arts Center 201 S Magnolia Ave, Sanford
  $5
  
  EVENT DETAILS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE PLEASE CALL BUSINESS TO VERIFY.

  
  
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  April 7th
  
  1966: Doktor No released in Turkey.

  

  1966: Thunderball released in the Netherlands.
  
  2006: Casino Royale films Bond ordering the Vesper martini.
  2007: Barry Nelson (Haakon Robert Nielsen) dies at age 89--Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
  (Born 16 April 1917--San Francisco, California.)

  

  Barry Nelson, Broadway and Film Actor, Dies at 86

  
  By STUART LAVIETES | APRIL 14, 2007
  
  https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/obituaries/14nelson.html
  

  Barry Nelson, an actor who had a long career in film and television, starred in some of the more durable Broadway comedies of the 1950s and ’60s, and achieved a permanent place in the minds of trivia buffs as the first actor to portray James Bond, died last Saturday, his wife said yesterday. He was 86.

  The cause was not immediately known. His wife, Nansi Nelson, said he died while traveling in Bucks County, Pa., The Associated Press reported.
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  Barry Nelson (I) (1917–2007)

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  2009: A plaque unveiling renames the Cloisters building as the Broccoli Cloisters, Wokingham.

  

  Benovolent Bond

  By Linda Serck
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2009/04/07/albert_broccoli_cloisters_wing_feature.shtml

  

  Some of the most important people from the James Bond film franchise were in Wokingham on Monday 7 April 2009 to unveil a special plaque. We chat to late Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli's family to find out more.
  
  James Bond locations are famously exotic and outlandish, be it Casino de Monte-Carlo or crystal-clear waters containing one Ursula Andress.
  
  But on Monday 7 April 2009 the family of Bond producer Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli visited an altogether more serene location in leafy Wokingham.

  
  Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson

  Daughter Barbara Broccoli, herself a producer, and her half-brother Michael G Wilson unveiled a special plaque outside Glebelands, the film and TV industry retirement and care home.
  
  Glebelands received a £1 million cash injection from the Albert R. Broccoli and Dana Broccoli Foundation, and the plaque officially marked the renaming of the Cloisters building at Glebelands as the Broccoli Cloisters.
  
  As well as the inaugeration the Broccoli clan met up with residents and walked round the facilities.
  
  Barbara Broccoli, who received an OBE for her services to the film industry, tells BBC Berkshire: "The Bond films were made in Great Britain, they were started by my father Albert Broccoli, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1952 and felt England was home.
  
  "He felt that he was very lucky and had a wonderful professional career here and always wanted to support the people in the industry that helped make him a successful producer."

  
  James Bond creator Ian Fleming with co-producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli.

  She was joined by Samantha Bond, who played Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond films starring Pierce Brosnan, but also by Glebelands resident Lewis Gilbert, who directed You Only Live Twice, The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker.
  
  "And what fantastic films they turned out to be," he says, "and not because I directed them, but because Albert Broccoli produced them."
  
  He adds: "I directed 40 films, but why is it that the three Bond films that I worked on - they live in my memory so much.
  
  "It's because of something very unique in the film industry and that was Broccoli himself.

  
  The plaque

  "I've made many films with every kind of producer that there was but Broccoli had something that was a very rare commodity as a film producer - he cared, he cared for the unit, he was unique in the way he behaved with the unit and the way the unit loved him.
  
  "Units don't love the producer, he's there to bully them and make them work harder, but Broccoli had this unique way of talking to people, you knew he cared whether you were happy or unhappy."
  
  Michael G Wilson, step-son of Cubby Broccoli and producer/ screenwriter of James Bond films, says that his step-father was actively involved in the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF), which runs Glebelands:
  
  "I think it's been fantastic to come out here and see this place, we met the residents, we looked in the rooms, this is something that Cubby and his wife Dana would've loved to have seen.

  
  Fiona Fullerton, Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, Tanya Roberts and Roger Moore,
  during the making of A View to a Kill at Pinewood Studios.

  "They were always interested in the welfare of the people in the industry, they were always lending a helping hand.
  
  "Cubby was a governor of the CTBF and this is something that he would have been very proud of."
  
  Barbara adds: "I'm feeling very proud, today were are kicking off the Albert R Broccoli centenary year and I feel this is an appropriate way of doing it, and if he were here, this is what he'd be doing."
  
  Broccoli's late wife Dana founded launched the foundation with Barbara and Michael. It supports the arts, children's services, medicine, and higher education.

  
  2010: Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson with David Pope engage in an international phone conversation to discuss whether the next Bond film production can go forward considering the state of MGM.
  
  2012: Tonia Sotiropoulou reveals she auditioned for the role of Sévérine, and was cast in a supporting role in Skyfall.

  
  THR Cover: How the Bond Franchise Almost Died

  After MGM's collapse
  threatened to derail 007 for
  good, "Skyfall's" $17 million
  star Daniel Craig lined up
  director Sam Mendes and
  villain Javier Bardem -- over
  drinks — and delivered the
  biggest Bond yet.

  
  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bond-franchise-daniel-craigs-skyfall-387238
  

  
  
  

  
  2017: Timothy Peter Pigott-Smith dies at age 70--Northampton, England.
  (Born 13 May 1946--Rugby, Warwickshire, England.)

  

  Tim Pigott-Smith obituary

  
  Stage and screen actor best known for his role in the TV series The Jewel in the Crown
  Michael Coveney | Sun 9 Apr 2017 13.34 EDT
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/apr/09/tim-pigott-smith-obituary
  
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  Television roles after The Jewel in the Crown included the titular chief constable, John Stafford, in The Chief (1990-93) and the much sleazier chief inspector Frank Vickers in The Vice (2001-03). On film, he showed up in The Remains of the Day (1993); Paul Greengrass’s Bloody Sunday (2002), a harrowing documentary reconstruction of the protest and massacre in Derry in 1972; as Pegasus, head of MI7, in Rowan Atkinson’s Johnny English (2003) and the foreign secretary in the Bond movie Quantum of Solace (2008).

  
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  Tim Pigott-Smith (1946–2017)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0683116/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  2018: Heritage Auctions' April 7-8 Movie Poster Auction in Dallas, Texas, includes one of Bond's rarest: the Thunderball advance British quad. Plus many other Bond pieces.

  
  https://movieposters.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=54+793+794+791+792+2088&Ntk=SI_Titles&Nty=1&Ntt=bond&ic4=KeywordSearch-A-K-071316
  
  LOT #86419 |
  Thunderball (United Artists, 1965).
  British Quad (30" X 40") Advance Quad Crown Style, Frank McCarthy and Robert McGinnis
  https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/james-bond/thunderball-united-artists-1965-british-quad-30-x-40-advance-quad-crown-style-frank-mccarthy-and-robert-mcginnis-ar/a/7178-86419.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

  

  
  2020: One-time scheduled date for the No Time To Die World Premiere at Monoco.
  2021: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond: Agent of SPECTRE #2.
  Luca Casalanguida, artist. Christos Gage, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: AGENT OF SPECTRE #2

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513030383702011
  Cover A: Sean Phillips
  UPC: 725130303837 02011
  Writer: Christos Gage
  Art: Luca Casalanguida
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: April 2021
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 4/7/2021

  James Bond is in the USA...but NOT as part of Her Majesty's Secret Service. Shockingly, he's there as an Agent of SPECTRE, sent to eliminate an upstart rival SPECTRE boss at the bidding of Ernest Blofeld himself! The leverage Blofeld has against Bond is a threat to the life of one of the few people in the world Bond can trust... but that friend may have the interests of Bond's target as the higher priority!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/FEB210719?Prevue=1
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2023: On the Tracks of 007 tour with 40 tourists returns to Japan through 21 April.

  

  TOUR OF JAPAN 2023

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.onthetracksof007.com/tour-of-japan-2023

  Tour of Japan 2023

  Jump on board of the bullet train and travel all across JAPAN with us, on a 15 day journey to the filming locations of YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE!
  
  The tour starts in Tokyo and ends in Kagoshima. It will include 4-5 star accomodation and transportation (train, boat, bus) inside the country. All the locations from the 1967 film will be visited: New Otani Hotel, Nachisan, Himeji, Kobe, Kagoshima, Akime, and many others. Additionally we will visit the abandoned island from Skyfall, off coast of Nagasaki!
  
  For practical reasons, the tour is limited to 40 people, so when interested please register a.s.a.p.!

  to [email protected]

  "Of all the locations in the Bond films, Japan still stands firmly as the most exotic ever used. In my opinion at least. Back in 1966-67, it was definitely considered exotic. Unspoiled and unknown enough to send Bond there on his latest mission. Today, some 55 years later, these things can still be said of this beautiful country. Its cultural heritage, being so different - not only from the West, but different from the rest of the East as well - and a very turbulent history filled with samurai, ninja, kamikaze pilots and two devastating atomic bombs, make Japan one of the most interesting countries one can visit!"
  - YOLT 50 GUIDE TO JAPAN (get it here!)

  

  
  2023: Central Connecticut State University screens Skyfall at the Torp Theater, Hartford, Connecticut.
  

  

  James Bond Films At CCSU

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.courant.com/2017/02/06/james-bond-films-at-ccsu/

  Thursday, April 6th 2023
  By Susan Dunne | [email protected] | Hartford Courant
  
  Central Connecticut State University, 1615 Stanley St. in New Britain, will host a series of screenings of James Bond movies, accompanied by discussions on the themes of the films and the series. All screenings will be held on Fridays at 2 p.m. at Torp Theater, Davidson Hall on campus. Admission is free.

  The series opens on Feb. 10 with “From Russia With Love.” The 1963 installment int he series, starring Sean Connery, will be accompanied by a talk by history Prof. Jay Bergman, who will discuss the Cold War roots of the Bond films.
  
  On March 3, the title is “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” the 1969 title starring George Lazenby. Information technology Prof. Greg Schroll will discuss the Bond films as an entire series. On March 31, “The Spy Who Loved Me,” from 1977 and starring Roger Moore. Michelle Dischino, who teaches technology and engineering education, will discuss Bond’s gadgets. The series will close on April 7 with “Skyfall,” the 2012 film starring Daniel Craig, and featuring Adele’s Oscar-winning theme song. Dan D’Addio, a music instructor, will discuss the history of theme songs in the Bond series.

  ccsu.edu/alumni/classicFridays.html.

  
  
  
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  April 8th
  
  1931: John Gavin (Juan Vincent Apablasa) is born--Los Angeles, California.
  (He dies 9 February 2018 at age 86--Beverly Hills, California.)

  

  John Gavin, Actor in ‘Psycho’
  and ‘Spartacus,’ Dies at 86

  See the full article here:
  
  https://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-gavin-dead-dies-psycho-spartacus-1202694312/

  By Carmel Dagan | Staff Writer

  
  CREDIT: Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock

  John Gavin, who reached the pinnacle of his acting career with roles in Douglas Sirk’s “Imitation of Life,” Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” and the epic “Spartacus,” later serving as president of the Screen Actors Guild in the early ’70s and as U.S. ambassador to Mexico under Ronald Reagan, died Friday morning in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 86.
  
  The actor was signed to a contract and almost played James Bond in the film Diamonds Are Forever.
  
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  In the late ’60s he returned to film work, starring in Carlos Velo’s Spanish-language art film “Pedro Paramo,” based on the novel that Susan Sontag called “one of the masterpieces of 20th-century world literature.” Also in 1967 he had a supporting role in the Julie Andrews musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” The following year he starred in Italian-French spy thriller “OSS 117 — Double Agent,” and Gavin had a supporting role in “The Madwoman of Chaillot” (1969), starring Katharine Hepburn.
  
  After the departure of George Lazenby, Gavin was signed to play James Bond in the 1971 film Diamonds Are Forever, but United Artists ultimately decided to make an offer that Sean Connery couldn’t refuse, and he returned to play 007. Gavin’s contract was nevertheless honored in full.

  
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  John Gavin (I) (1931–2018)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001260/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

  
  
  

  
  1957: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming’s fifth Bond novel From Russia With Love.

  FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE
  
  SMERSH is the Soviet organ of vengeance
  -- of interrogation, torture and death --
  and James Bond is dedicated to the
  destruction of its agents wherever he finds
  them.
  
  But, in its turn, the cold eye of SMERSH
  focuses on James Bond and far away in
  Moscow a trap is laid for him -- a death-
  trap with an enticing lure.
  
  Ian Fleming takes us into the head-
  quarters of SMERSH. We watch Bond's
  assassination being minutely devised. We
  meet the executioner. We sit in at the
  planning. We inspect the lure.
  
  Then the lever is pulled in Moscow
  and in London, Istanbul and Paris the
  wheels begin to turn. . . .
  
  Ian Fleming's other Secret Service
  thrillers -- Casino Royale, Live and Let Die,
  Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever -- may
  have made your pulse race.
  
  Be careful of From Russia With Love. Weak nerves
  will be shredded by it.
  
  Jacket devised by the author and executed
  by Richard Chopping.
  
  The revolver is a Smith & Wesson
  Military and Police Model in .38 S. & W.
  calibre. Barrel cut to 2-3/4 in., stock modified
  and front trigger guard removed to
  facilitate use as a close-combat holster
  weapon. Also fitted with a 'quick draw'
  ramp foresight and adjustable rear sight for
  aimed fire. Modified by, and the property
  of, Geoffrey Boothroyd.

  
  
  
  

  
  
  

  
  1964: From Russia With Love has its US premiere in New York City. (That's after the London premiere 10 October 1963/UK release 11 October 1963, and prior to the US general release 27 May 1964.)

  
  
  

  1965: Thunderball starts underwater filming of battles at Potter’s Wharf, Nassau.
  
  2017: Ian Fleming Publications releases a 60th anniversary image recognizing From Russia With Love.

  

  2019: Nadja Regin (Nadja Poderegin) dies at age 87--London, England.
  (Born 2 December 1931--Niš, Serbia.)

  

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

  By Dave McNary | April 8, 2019 10:14AM PT

  See the full article here:
  
  https://variety.com/2019/film/obituaries-people-news/obituary-nadja-regin-james-bond-movies-1203183106/

  
  
  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.”

  
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  Nadja Regin (1931–2019)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716605/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2020: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond Vol. 3 #5, includes limited edition hardcover.
  Eric Gapstur, artist. Vita Ayala & Danny Lore, writers.

  

  JAMES BOND VOL. 3 #5

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513028697005051
  Cover A: Afua Richardson "Virgin" Cover
  Writer: Vita Ayala & Danny Lore
  Art: Eric Gapstur
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: April 2020
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 4/8/2020

  Fakes are everywhere. 007 has no clue who to trust. His training and intuition are all that stand between the shadows and the light.

  By VITA AYALA (Morbius, Gamora), DANNY LORE (Queen Of Bad Dreams) and ERICA D'URSO (Captain Marvel).

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2023: Free James Bond Walking Tour at the Clermont Hotel, Charing Cross. The Strand London, England.

  

  

  Free James Bond
  Walking Tour

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-james-bond-walking-tour-tickets-607498413107

  Join and step into the shoes of the world’s most famous spy!
  By London with a Local
  
  When and where
  Date and time
  Sat, 8 Apr 2023 15:30 - 17:30 BST
  
  Location
  Clermont Hotel Charing Cross The Strand London WC2N 5HX United Kingdom
  About this event
  2 hours
  

  Join the Free James Bond & The History of Espionage to step into the shoes of the world’s most famous spy, as you explore Westminster and uncover some of the most iconic locations from the James Bond films, including Die Another Day, the Living Daylights, A View to a Kill, Skyfall and SPECTRE!
  
  Hear about the time the Queen spent a few minutes with Bond for the 2012 Olympics! Take a few detours along the way to delve into the life of Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming, who spent the Second World War working in Naval Intelligence and built his own team of super spies along the way.
  
  On the Free James Bond & The History of Espionage you will wing by the Ministry of Defence to learn about the Secret Service’s real ‘C’, Mansfield Cumming, first director of the Secret Intelligence Service, and more in a fun, entertaining 2-hour stroll that will absolutely captivate you!

  The tour begins in front of The Clermont Hotel, Charing Cross, Strand, WC2N 5HX. https://goo.gl/maps/JKWWHFofEd6Dkm3h6
  
  Look for the guide with the red umbrella.
  
  The tour operates on a ‘pay what you think it’s worth’ basis. There is no booking fee and no payment is required to join, so that it is accessible to every budget. However our guides are all freelancers who work for tips, so if you enjoy the tour, you are welcome to make a donation at the end. The value is up to you, whatever fits in with you budget and your levels of enjoyment.
  
  You can contact us on 07709703141 or email [email protected].

  
  
  

  
  2023: Spy & Espionage London: Guided tour at St. James Park, London, England.

  

  

  Spy & Espionage London:
  Guided tour

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.ticmate.com/p/28040/spy--espionage-london-guided-tour

  
  This is your chance to uncover London’s secret world of spies and espionage. Get an rare insight into a world known for it's secrecy. See the home of MI6 - featured in several James Bond movies and discover the locations of private members’ clubs where the secret service recruited some of their agents.
  
  Highlights
  - Join a 3-hour guided spies and espionage themed tour
  - See the home of MI6 - featured in several James Bond movies
  - Discover the locations of private members’ clubs
  - Enjoy a Vodka Martini cocktail (or soft drink)
  - Get transported in a luxurious 16-seater coach with air-conditioning
  - Enjoy a small group tour – maximum 16 people
  - Borrow a VOX Personal Audio Headset & never miss a word
  
  How does it work?
  How do I get my tickets?
  Shortly after your booking is complete your e-ticket will be sent directly to your email. Please print it out and bring it on your tour.
  
  Where does the tour begin?
  Meet your guide at the concierge desk at St Ermin's hotel.
  
  Where does the tour end?
  Your tour ends at Trafalgar Square.
  
  How long does the tour last?
  The tour lasts approx. 3 hours.
  
  Ticket categories
  Adult (17+)
  Child (3-16)
  Book From $ 85.00
  Select date
  Tue, 18 Apr 2023
  
  Change date free of charge
  Instant confirmation
  Mobile voucher accepted
  Audio guide
  Live guide
  Running Time: 3 hours
  
  Departure times
  Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday at 1:30 PM.
  What’s included?
  - 3 hour tour with an expert guide
  - VOX Personal Audio Headset to ensure you never miss a word of your guide’s commentary
  
  Directions
  Spy & Espionage London: Guided tour
  Address
  Caxton Street St. James Park London

  

  
  
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  April 9th
  
  1933: Jean-Paul Belmondo is born--Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
  (He dies 6 September 2021 at age 88--Quai d'Orsay, Paris, France.)

  

  Jean-Paul Belmondo, ‘Breathless’ Star and Epitome of
  Gallic Cool, Dies at 88
  The former boxer was a standout in New Wave classics and then an action star and box office draw in the 1980s.

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jean-paul-belmondo-breathless-star-dies-at-88-1235008952/

  By Jordan Mintzer, Duane Byrge | September 6, 2021

  
  Jean-Paul Belmondo Photofest

  Jean-Paul Belmondo, the rugged French actor who swept to international stardom as the anti-hero in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 classic Breathless, has died. He was 88.
  
  Belmondo died Monday in his Paris home, his lawyer Michel Godest told the AFP.
  
  In his role in Breathless, as a professional car thief, amoral killer and lover of an American expat played by Hollywood star Jean Seberg, Belmondo was hailed as the French Humphrey Bogart. Many saw him as a cross between Bogie and James Dean.
  
  With his boxer’s nose, shaggy haircut and lopsided smile, he was not your typical matinee idol; he played characters that were often reckless tough guys yet also nonchalantly French.
  
  During the course of six decades and more than 80 films, Belmondo starred in art house movies by Godard, Francois Truffaut, Alain Resnais, Claude Sautet and Jean-Pierre Melville in addition to scores of action flicks in which he did his own stunts.
  
  In 1989, he was awarded a best actor Cesar Award for his performance in the Claude Lelouch dramedy Itineraire d’un enfant gate (Itinerary of a Spoiled Child). But he refused to accept the trophy because it was designed by a famous artist (Cesar Baldaccini) who had never acknowledged the work of Belmondo’s father, the sculptor Paul Belmondo.
  
  The actor suffered a severe stroke in 2001 that paralyzed the right side of his body and left him unable to speak for six months. But he went on to appear in two more movies, including playing the lead in A Man and His Dog (2009), a remake of the Vittorio De Sica neorealist classic Umberto D.
  
  Belmondo received an honorary Palme d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, an honorary Golden Lion at the 2016 Venice Film Festival and an honorary Cesar in 2017, when he appeared onstage surrounded by a throng of French stars.
  
  In a 2016 interview with film magazine Premiere, Belmondo, then 85, reflected on his career: “I’ve had the luck to be among those actors who’ve delved into all sorts of genres, from brainy New Wave films to laugh-out-loud comedies. I really have no regrets.”
  
  Jean-Paul Belmondo was born on April, 9, 1933, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, an affluent neighborhood just outside of Paris. His father’s works can be found in the Tuileries Garden near the Louvre and on the facade of the Paris Opera.
  
  The young Belmondo was an avid cyclist and soccer goalie who would co-found the Paris Saint-Germain soccer squad in 1970. He also was a boxer who fought professionally in his teens, with nine fights, four wins and one draw.
  
  When he was 16, Belmondo decided to become an actor and was eventually admitted to the prestigious Paris Conservatoire of Drama, where he would befriend fellow thespians Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle and Bruno Cremer. He graduated in 1956 but was denied entry to the Comedie-Francaise after the Conservatoire jury refused to award him with honors, for which Belmondo apparently responded by giving them the finger.
  
  After minor roles in such films as Marcel Carne’s Youthful Sinners (1958) and Marc Allegret’s Un drole de dimanche (1958), Belmondo crossed paths with the burgeoning French New Wave, starring in Claude Chabrol’s third feature, the seldom-seen crime drama A Double Tour (1959), and the Godard short film Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1960).
  
  But it was with Godard’s Breathless that the actor skyrocketed to fame in France and abroad. Starring alongside Seberg, Belmondo played a wily gangster named Michel Poiccard who models himself on Bogart, just as Godard fashioned his film after Hollywood B-movies that he deconstructed into a bold new work of modernity.
  
  Chain-smoking and speaking directly to the camera, Belmondo turned in a lively, funny and physical performance that would become one of the most notable of his career while making Breathless one of history’s most influential films.
  
  The actor starred in another 1960 release that also would become a local hit in years to come: Sautet’s debut Classe tous risques, where he played opposite Lino Ventura.
  
  To the public, Belmondo represented a new wave of actors with regular, flawed features. “The revolution of Breathless was that the young lead wasn’t pretty to look at,” he said years later. He would set a precedent for everyday-looking stars like De Niro, Pacino and Hoffman, who would mark Hollywood films of the next two decades.
  
  During the rest of the ’60s, the actor headlined more than 30 movies by a variety of renowned filmmakers: Peter Brook’s Seven Days … Seven Nights (1960); De Sica’s Two Women (1960); Melville’s Leon Morin, Priest (1961), Le Doulos (1962) and Magnet of Doom (1963); Henri Verneuil’s A Monkey in Winter (1962) and Greed in the Sun (1964); Philippe de Broca’s That Man From Rio (1964); Rene Clement’s Is Paris Burning? (1965) and Truffaut’s Mississippi Mermaid (1969).
  
  The actor also would star in two of Godard’s most memorable films: A Woman Is a Woman (1961) and Pierrot le Fou (1965). His performance in the latter — as a family man who falls for a dangerous old flame (Anna Karina) and soon loses his mind — is among his greatest.
  
  In the 1970s, Belmondo switched to more commercial fare, headlining a number of French action flicks in which he famously performed his own stunts and injured himself several times. His most daring work was in Henri Verneuil’s thriller The Night Caller (1975), where he was suspended from a helicopter and stood atop a moving metro.
  
  By the early ’80s, Belmondo had become France’s biggest box-office star, with films like Georges Lautner’s The Professional (1981) and Gerard Oury’s Ace of Aces (1982) attracting millions of moviegoers. A serious injury on the set of Alexandre Arcady’s 1985 police comedy Hold-Up helped put an end to Belmondo’s reign as an action hero.
  
  “I don’t want to be the flying grandpa of French cinema,” he said at the time.
  
  In the years that followed, he returned to the stage, playing Cyrano de Bergerac in 1989 and headlining two renditions of classic works by Georges Feydeau.
  
  After Itineraire d’un enfant gate, he worked again with Lelouch in 1995 on an adaption of the Victor Hugo classic Les Miserables, where he played a character inspired by the novel’s hero, Jean Valjean.
  
  In 2018, it was announced that Belmondo would reteam with Lelouch once more for a sequel to Itineraire d’un enfant gate, with the actor once again starring alongside Richard Anconina.
  
  Belmondo was married to dancer Elodie Constantin, with whom he had three children, Florence, Paul and the late Patricia, from 1952 until their 1966 divorce, which came after he began dating Swiss actress Ursula Andress on the set of Up to His Ears (1965). (She was separated from director John Derek at the time.) Belmondo then was romantically involved with Italian actress Laura Antonelli from 1972-80.
  
  In 1989, he began dating ballet and television danseuse Natty Tardivel. They were married from 2002-08 and had a daughter, Stella.

  

  Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933–2021)

  Actor | Producer | Stunts
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000901/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  The son of the renowned French sculptor Paul Belmondo, he studied at Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique (CNSAD); after the minor stage performances he made his screen debut in À pied, à cheval et en voiture (1957) but the episodes with his participation were cut before release. However, the breakthrough role in ... See full bio »
  Born: April 9, 1933 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France], France
  Died: September 6, 2021 (age 88) in Paris, France
  
  Filmography

  Actor (91 credits)
  2008 A Man and His Dog - Charles
  2001 Ferchaux (TV Series) - Paul Ferchaux
  2000 Amazon - Edouard
  2000 Actors - Jean-Paul Belmondo
  
  1999 Frédérick ou le Boulevard du Crime (TV Movie) - Frédérick Lemaitre
  1999 Maybe - Ako
  1998 Half a Chance - Léo Brassac
  1997 La puce à l'oreille (TV Movie) - Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise - Poche
  1996 Désiré - Désiré
  1995 Les Misérables - Henri Fortin / Jean Valjean
  1995 One Hundred and One Nights - Professeur Bébel
  1993 Tailleur pour dames (TV Movie) - Docteur Moulineaux
  1992 Stranger in the House - Loursat
  1990 Cyrano de Bergerac (TV Movie) - Cyrano de Bergerac
  
  1988 Itinerary of a Spoiled Child - Sam Lion
  1988 Kean (TV Movie) - Kean
  1987 The Loner - Stan Jalard
  1986 Les pros (Short) - Star de cinéma
  1985 Hold-Up - Grimm
  1984 Happy Easter - Stephane Margelle
  1984 The Vultures - Sgt. Pierre Augagneur
  1983 Le Marginal - Commissaire Philippe Jordan
  1982 Ace of Aces - Jo Cavalier
  1981 The Professional - Josselin Beaumont dit 'Joss'
  1980 Le Guignolo - Alexandre Dupré
  
  1979 Cop or Hood - Antonio Cerutti / Stanislas Borovitz
  1977 Animal - Mike Gaucher et Bruno Ferrari
  1976 Body of My Enemy - François Leclercq
  1976 The Hunter Will Get You - Roger Pilard, dit l'Alpagueur
  1975 Incorrigible - Victor Vauthier
  1975 The Night Caller - Le commissaire Jean Letellier
  1974 Stavisky - Serge Alexandre Stavisky
  1973 Le Magnifique - Bob Saint-Clar / François Merlin
  1973 The Inheritor - Bart Cordell
  1972 Scoumoune - Roberto Borgo
  1972 Scoundrel in White - Le docteur Paul Simay
  1971 The Burglars - Azad
  1971 Swashbuckler - Nicolas Philibert - un candidat au divorce entraîné malgré lui dans la Révolution française
  1970 Borsalino - François Capella
  
  1969 Love Is a Funny Thing - Henri
  1969 God Chose Paris - Le Photographe / Récitant / Présentateur
  1969 Mississippi Mermaid - Louis Mahé
  1969 The Brain - Arthur Lespinasse
  1968 Ho! Criminal Face - François Holin, aka Ho

  1967 Casino Royale French Legionnaire (as Jean Paul Belmondo)

  1967 The Thief of Paris - Georges Randal
  1966 Is Paris Burning? - Pierrelot - Yvon Morandat
  1966 Tender Scoundrel - Tony Maréchal
  1965 Bande-annonce de 'Pierrot le fou' (Short)
  1965 Up to His Ears - Arthur Lempereur
  1965 Pierrot le Fou - Ferdinand Griffon dit Pierrot (as Jean Paul Belmondo)
  1965 Crime on a Summer Morning - Francis
  1964 Weekend at Dunkirk - Julien Maillat
  1964 Male Hunt - Fernand
  1964 Backfire - David Ladislas
  1964 Greed in the Sun - Rocco
  1964 That Man from Rio - Pvt. Adrien Dufourquet
  1963 Banana Peel - Michel Thibault
  1963 Magnet of Doom - Michel Maudet
  1963 Sweet and Sour - Raymond La Légion
  1963 Mare matto - Il livornese (as Jean Paul Belmondo)
  1963 The Shortest Day - Erede siciliano (uncredited)
  1962 Beach Casanova - Cameo (uncredited)
  1962 Le Doulos - Silien
  1962 A Monkey in Winter - Gabriel Fouquet
  1962 Cartouche - Louis-Dominique Bourguignon alias Cartouche
  1961 Bande-annonce de 'Une femme est une femme' (Short)
  1961 Riviera-Story - L'homme qui fait du karting
  1961 Un coeur gros comme ça - Un spectateur au match de boxe
  1961 Man Called Rocca - Roberto La Rocca
  1961 Famous Love Affairs - Lauzun (segment "Lauzun)
  1961 Léon Morin, Priest - Léon Morin
  1961 A Woman Is a Woman - Alfred Lubitsch (as Belmondo)
  1961 The Love Makers - Amerigo (as Jean Paul Belmondo)
  1960 Two Women - Michele Di Libero (as Jean Paul Belmondo)
  1960 Lettere di una novizia - Giuliano Verdi
  1960 Love and the Frenchwoman - Gilles (segment "Adultere, L'")
  1960 Trapped by Fear - Paul Frapier
  1960 Seven Days... Seven Nights - Chauvin
  1960 Classe Tous Risques - Eric Stark
  1960 Breathless - Michel Poiccard a.k.a. Laszlo Kovacs
  
  1959 The Three Musketeers (TV Movie) - D'Artagnan
  1959 À double tour - Laszlo Kovacs
  1959 An Angel on Wheels - Michel Barrot
  1958 Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (Short) - Jules
  1958 Un drôle de dimanche - Patrick
  1958 Youthful Sinners - Lou (as J.P. Belmondo)
  1958 Be Beautiful But Shut Up - Pierrot
  1958 Les copains du dimanche - Trébois
  1957 À pied, à cheval et en voiture - Venin (as J.P. Belmondo)
  1956 Molière (Short) - Le Merluche
  
  Producer (25 credits)
  Stunts (14 credits)
  Additional Crew (2 credits)
  Soundtrack (1 credit)
  Thanks (3 credits)
  (73 credits)
  Archive footage (68 credits)

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1963: From Russia With Love films Rosa Klebb battling Bond and Tatiana.
  1964: Bosley Crowther in The New York Times and his piece "James Bond Travels the Orient Express" reviews From Russia With Love.

  

  James Bond Travels
  the Orient Express

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/09/archives/james-bond-travels-the-orient-express.html

  By Bowsley Crowther | 9 April 1964
  
  SECRET AGENT 007 is very much with us again, and anyone who hasn't yet got to know him is urged to do so right away!He is, of course, the snappy fellow who goes by the name of James Bond in Ian Fleming's thrilling novels and is reproduced on the screen by an equally snappy actor by the name of Sean Connery. His reappearance in this instance is in the second delightfully wild film made from a Fleming novel, From Russia With Love. Don't miss it! This is to say, don't miss it if you can still get the least bit of fun out of lurid adventure fiction and pseudo-realistic fantasy. For this mad melodramatization of a desperate adventure of Bond with sinister characters in Istanbul and on the Orient Express is fictional exaggeration on a grand scale and in a dashing style, thoroughly illogical and improbable, but with tongue blithely wedged in cheek. Again good old "Double Oh Seven" is sent by his London chief, "M," to look into a promised opportunity to tweak the hide of the Russians in the Near East. It seems there's a secret mechanism called a Lektor that may be filched from the Soviet Embassy in Turkey, if the cards — and the cads — are smartly played. This means the agent who does it must work in consort with a beautiful girl and a Turkish voluptuary, which is right down old "Double Oh Seven's" street.Of course, he doesn't know the whole set-up is a diabolical plant of that international apparatus, Spectre, aimed to snag Lektor for itself and also to place its favorite nemesis in the gravest jeopardy. And he doesn't sense that the strange and solemn fellow who tails him all over the place is a homicidal paranoiac ("the best kind") working for Spectre, until almost too late.Well, there's no point in trying to tell you all the mad, naughty things that take place — the meetings with mysterious people, the encounters with beautiful girls, the bomb explosions, the chases, the violent encounter of Bond with a helicopter, a motor boat race. Nor is there any point in trying to locate the various characters in the plot, all of whom are deliciously fantastic and delightfully well played.There's Lotte Lenya as an arch Spectre agent, Robert Shaw as the paranoiac, Pedro Armendariz as the jovial Turkish contact and Daniela Bianchi as the beautiful girl. And, oh, how beautiful, luscious and voluptuous she is! Even old "Double Oh Seven" cannot resist her, and takes her home at the end.Terence Young has directed the whole thing grandly, with some color photography of Istanbul and surrounding country that gives it the proper key. Don't ask any more. Just go to see it and have yourself a good time. It is at the Astor and other "showcase" theaters.

  FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, screenplay by Richard Maibaum, from the novel by Ian Fleming; directed by Terence Young; produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli; released through United Artists. At the Astor Theater, Broadway and 45th Street, and other metropolitan area theaters. Running time: 116 minutes.
  The Cast
  James Bond . . . . . Sean Connery
  Tatiana Romanova . . . . . Daniela Bianchi
  Kerim Bey . . . . . Pedro Armendariz
  Rosa Klebb . . . . . Lotte Lenya
  Red Grant . . . . . Robert Shaw
  "M" . . . . . Bernard Lee
  Sylvia . . . . . Eunice Gayson
  Morzeny . . . . . Walter Gotell
  Vavra . . . . . Francis de Wolff
  Train Conductor . . . . . George Pastell
  Kerim's Girl . . . . . Nadia Regin
  Miss Moneypenny . . . . . Lois Maxwell
  Belly Dancer . . . . . Leila

  
  

  
  1974: The Man With the Golden Gun films in Thailand. Includes: the Cessna 206/Seabee; opening sequence with Scaramanga, Andrea, Nick Nack, and Rodney.
  
  1991: Maurice Binder dies at age 72--London, England.
  (Born 4 December 1918--New York City, New York.)

  

  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_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2013: An article in New Statesman relates Anthony Burgess' obsession with James Bond.

  

  Anthony Burgess’s 007 obsession

  Unbreakable Bond.
  https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/03/anthony-burgesss-007-obsession
  FILM - 9 April 2013
  By Andrew Biswell
  
  Ian Fleming and Anthony Burgess might seem an unlikely double act at first glance. It’s hard to imagine Fleming, the suave Old Etonian and veteran of British naval intelligence, having much time for Burgess’s defiantly northern, Catholic, working-class values. Had they met, Fleming may well have agreed with Burgess’s aristocratic pupils at the Malay College in Kuala Kangsar, the “Eton of the east” (where he taught in the 1950s), one of whom later said that Burgess was “not quite a gentleman”. Although Burgess and Fleming shared an agent – the amiable Peter Janson-Smith – there is no evidence to suggest that Fleming ever took the trouble to read A Clockwork Orange or any of Burgess’s other early novels.

  Yet Burgess was fascinated by Fleming and in particular by the James Bond novels, which he read with close attention after Terence Young’s film version of Dr No was released in 1962. Burgess’s book collection, now at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester, includes a complete run of the Bond novels and short stories, John Pearson’s The Life of Ian Fleming, Christopher Wood’s novelisations of the films and two copies of The James Bond Bedside Companion. Like his friend Kingsley Amis (who wrote the first post-Fleming Bond novel, Colonel Sun, under the pseudonym Robert Markham), Burgess was excited by the potential of the cold war espionage novel to reach a larger readership than his upmarket literary fictions were ever likely to attract.

  Writing on the occasion of Bond’s 35th anniversary in 1988, Burgess celebrated the enduring figure of the international agent known for drinking vodka Martinis and “cold lovemaking with other men’s wives”. In his general introduction to the Coronet series of James Bond reprints, Burgess identified Bond as a hero figure who seemed to defy the austerity of post-1945 Britain.

  There is an element of self-identification with Fleming on Burgess’s part, since both of them had come to the writing of popular novels in their middle years. Yet Burgess was aware of the growing distance between Fleming’s novels and the series of films that threatened to displace them in the popular imagination. “Bond,” he wrote, “is often compared facially to Hoagy Carmichael, the composer of ‘Stardust’, a song hit of the 1920s, but for very young readers the name ought to be glossed in a footnote. Bond belongs to history and these are historical novels.”

  Burgess’s first attempt at a spy thriller came in 1966, with the publication of Tremor of Intent, a kind of parody of the James Bond novels, featuring a British spy whose enormous appetites for food and athletic sexual intercourse cancel each other out. Having spent time with his first wife in Leningrad and having used elements of Russian vocabulary to construct an invented slang for Alex and his “droogs” in A Clockwork Orange, Burgess was well placed to write about what he had seen in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and Brezhnev years.

  It is clear from Tremor of Intent that Burgess did not share Fleming’s fathomless hatred of Soviet Russia. In From Russia, with Love, for example, Fleming presents his Soviet characters as deformed villains or sinister masturbators. Burgess’s Russians tend to be either inefficiently buffoonish or harmlessly drunk. This was a reflection of his own experience of visiting Russia for the first time in July 1961. He had expected to find an Orwellian dictatorship full of secret police. When a large fight broke out in the street outside the Metropol restaurant at 3am, no police arrived to break it up. “It is my honest opinion that there are no police in Lenin - grad,” Burgess noted shortly afterwards. When he wrote as much in the pages of the Listener, there was a complaint from the Soviet ambassador and he was officially denounced on Radio Moscow.

  Tremor of Intent is also a critique of the excessive appetites to be found in Fleming’s books. One of the set pieces in Burgess’s parodic Bond novel is an eating competition between the British spy Hillier and Theodorescu, a sybaritic villain with a suspiciously perfect English accent. Burgess describes the endless courses with relish:

  They got through their sweets sourly. Peach mousse with sirop framboise. Cream dessert ring Chantilly with zabaglione sauce. Poires Hélène with cold chocolate sauce. Cold Grand Marnier pudding, strawberry Marlow. Marrons panaché vicomte. “Look,” gasped Hillier, “this sort of thing isn’t my line at all . . . I think I shall be sick.”

  Many critics did not notice that Burgess had written an allegory of the seven deadly sins. William Pritchard, who understood the point of Tremor of Intent, wrote in the Partisan Review: “It might be thought odd that a book whose subjects include gluttony satyriasis, covetousness, smacking self-regard and nagging self-disgust turns out to be not just human but humane.”
  
  Determined to appeal to at least some of Fleming’s readers, Burgess told his editor at William Heinemann that he wanted a dust jacket suitable for the espionage genre. The art department duly produced an image of a spy in a white shirt and black tie, holding a gun and apparently being fellated by a naked woman. This provoked the outrage of the state censors in Malta, as Burgess discovered when he moved there and tried to import a copy.

  In 1975, Burgess revived some of the characters from Tremor of Intent when he was commissioned by Albert R Broccoli to write a screenplay for The Spy Who Loved Me. Fleming’s original novel was considered unsuitable for adaptation but the title was retained with the aim of building a new story around it. Burgess’s script, which is now at the University of Texas at Austin, is an outrageous medley of sadism, hypnotism, acupuncture and international terrorism.
  
  The plot concerns a private clinic in Switzerland, where small nuclear devices are secretly inserted into the bodies of wealthy patients while they are under anaesthetic, turning them into human bombs. An organisation called Chaos (Consortium for Hastening the Annihilation of Organised Society) plans to detonate one of these devices at the Sydney Opera House while the Queen is in the audience. Bond uses his newly acquired acupuncture skills to perform an emergency operation and defuse the bomb.
  
  Having read Burgess’s script, Broccoli and his associates decided not to put it into production. They probably suspected (quite rightly) that Burgess was not taking the assignment entirely seriously. The only element from Burgess’s script that survived into the 1977 Roger Moore film was the villain’s underwater base. The script credit went to Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum.
  
  That may not be the end of the story, however. When Burgess was in the early stages of negotiating with Broccoli, they agreed that the book rights would remain with Burgess and that he would be free to publish a novelisation of his script. The opportunity is still there for another novelist, with the blessing of the Burgess estate, to write an espionage novel based on the materials that Burgess left behind. Perhaps Sebastian Faulks or William Boyd, who have both written Bond novels of their own, could be persuaded to take up the gauntlet?

  Tremor of Intent is published in paperback by Serpent’s Tail (£8.99). Andrew Biswell is the director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation

  

  Anthony Burgess (I) (1917–1993)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0121256/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  

  
  
  
  
  https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/anthony-burgess-and-james-bond/
  

  2015: In a GQ Magazine feature article Christoph Waltz categorically denies he is playing Blofeld in Spectre.

  

  Christoph Waltz Categorically
  Denies He's Playing Blofeld in
  SPECTRE

  See the complete article here:
  
  https://www.ign.com/articles/2015/04/08/christoph-waltz-categorigally-denies-hes-playing-blofeld-in-spectre

  Waltz says no, world says yes.
  By Chris Tilly | Posted: 8 Apr 2015 6:22 am
  Might Christoph Waltz be toying with us? Like a super-villain’s cat, toying with a mouse? When the cast for new Bond film SPECTRE was announced, he was listed as playing Franz Oberhauser, but there's a school of thought that the character is really Bond’s arch-nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
  
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  2023: London 007 James Bond Bus Tour at London, England.

  

  

  London 007 James Bond Bus Tour

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  https://bookyourtour.com/London-l87/London-007-James-Bond-Bus-Tour-t10526

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  About the activity
  Discover the London of James Bond on a fascinating tour visiting film locations, real spy stories, and places familiar to the author - Ian Fleming. Discuss some of the classic James Bond London settings and take part in trivia about the actors.
  
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  Cancel up to 24 hours in advance for a full refund.
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  Special health and safety measures apply.
  
  All areas that customers touch are frequently cleaned
  The number of visitors is limited to reduce crowds
  
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  Start time - Available today
  9:30 AM
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  • Professional guide
  • Transport by mini coach
  • Gratuities (optional)

  Highlights & Description

  • Stand on the spot where the traffic wardens were splashed in "The World is Not Enough"
  • Try to spot a real spy at the Mi6 HQ
  • See the different Whitehall buildings that have stood in for the offices of the James Bond London HQ - Universal Exports in various movies
  • See the St Petersburg Square James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) visits in "Goldeneye"
  • See film locations from Bond 25, "No Time to Die"

  Description
  Dive into the excitingly dangerous world of 007, and other secret agents, on a James Bond tour of London!
  
  Visit movie locations and sites linked with Ian Fleming and 007, including locations from the latest Bond film, No Time to Die.. Travel by mini coach, and visit over 12 James Bond film locations.
  
  See where fiction becomes reality as you are taken into a world of actual spy locations associated with the real world of espionage. Learn about how films were made, get an insight into the secret world of spies, discuss some of the classic James Bond London settings and novels, plus trivia about the actors.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
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  April 2023 Posts: 12,988

  April 10th
  
  1929: Max von Sydow is born--Lund, Skåne län, Sweden.
  (He dies 8 March 2020: Provence, France.)

  

  Max von Sydow obituary

  See the full article here:
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/09/max-von-sydow-obituary

  Swedish stage and screen actor who starred in The Seventh Seal,
  The Exorcist and Flash Gordon
  Ronald Bergan | Mon 9 Mar 2020 12.10 EDT

  
  Max von Sydow in The Seventh Seal, 1957, directed by Ingmar Bergman.
  Photograph: Moviestore/Rex/Shutterstock

  The great Swedish film and stage actor Max von Sydow, who has died aged 90, will be remembered by different people for different roles: the title role in The Exorcist, Christ in The Greatest Story Ever Told, and his Oscar-nominated part as the slave-driven Lasse in Pelle the Conqueror, but his passport to cinema heaven will be his many remarkable performances under the direction of Ingmar Bergman.
  
  The tall, gaunt and imposing blond Von Sydow, pronounced Suedorff, made his mark internationally in 1957 as the disillusioned 14th-century knight Antonius Block, in Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.
  
  Returning from the crusades to his plague-stricken country, he finds that he has lost his faith in God and can no longer pray. Suddenly, he is confronted by the personification of Death. Seeking more time on Earth, he challenges Death to a game of chess. Von Sydow’s portrayal of a man in spiritual turmoil demonstrated a maturity beyond his years and was to exemplify his solemn and dignified persona in further Bergman films, even extending to some of his less worthier enterprises.
  
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  Von Sydow refused offers of work outside Sweden, even the title role in the first James Bond movie, Dr No (1962), though two decades later he played the evil genius Blofeld to Sean Connery’s Bond in Never Say Never Again, 1983. He finally gave in when George Stevens begged him to play Jesus in his 225-minute epic The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). However, despite Von Sydow’s charisma, the epic turned out to be Jesus Christ Superbore.

  
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  Max von Sydow (I) (1929–2020)

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  1962: Danjaq signs the agreement giving United Artists Corporation distribution rights to Dr. No.
  1964: Time reviews From Russia With Love in "Cinema: Once More Unto the Breach".

  

  Cinema: Once More Unto the Breach

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,875772,00.html

  Friday, Apr. 10, 1964 | Follow @TIME
  
  From Russia with Love. Ian Fleming is the late late late show of literature.
  
  Perused at the witching hour, the violent adventures and immoderate amours of James Bond, Agent 007 of the British Secret Service, seem as normal as Ovaltine—and rather more narcotic.
  
  Shown on screen, they are apt to seem absurd. Doctor No [sic], the first of Fleming's novels to be filmed, was shot as a straight thriller, but most spectators took it as a travesty and had a belly laugh. The reaction was not lost on Director Terence Young. From Russia, his second treatment of a Fleming fiction, is an intentional heehaw at whodunits, an uproarious parody that may become a classic of caricature.
  
  "Once more unto the breach, dear friends," the hero (Sean Connery) announces as the story begins. He means, somebody hastens to explain, a breach of Soviet security; a libidinous Russian cipher clerk (Daniela Bianchi), who has somehow heard of Bond's charms, informs the British Secret Service that for one night with him she'll do anything—like turn over the latest Soviet cipher machine. Obviously a trap, but Hero Bond steps into it as casually as he steps into his rep silk undershorts.
  
  The lovers meet in Istanbul. He wears a hand towel, and she is covered by his automatic. "You're beautiful," he mutters. "Some people think my mouth is too big," she pants in reply. "No," he assures her, "it's the right size—for me." Bang! A bomb explodes in the Russian consulate, and in the ensuing confusion Bond and his musky Russki escape with a cipher machine. But the end is not yet. In the next hour or so, 007 is slugged by a phony British agent, bombed by a passing helicopter, pursued by an avalanche of rats, and drop-kicked by a homicidal charlady (Lotte Lenya) with a poisoned dagger planted in the toe of her terribly sensible shoes.
  
  All this is marvelously exciting. Director Young is a master of the form he ridicules, and in almost every episode he hands the audience shocks as well as yocks. But the yocks are more memorable. They result from slight but sly infractions of the thriller formula. A Russian agent, for instance, does not simply escape through a window; no, he escapes through a window in a brick wall painted with a colossal poster portrait of Anita Ekberg, and as he crawls out of the window, he seems to be crawling out of Anita's mouth. Or again, Bond does not simply train a telescope on the Russian consulate and hope he can read somebody's lips; no, he makes his way laboriously into a gallery beneath the joint, runs a submarine periscope up through the walls, and there, at close range, inspects two important Soviet secrets: the heroine's legs.
  
  Sophisticated? Well, not really. But fast, smart, shrewdly directed and capably performed. And though the film will scarcely eradicate the sex and violence that encumber contemporary movies, it may at least persuade producers that sick subjects may be profitably proffered with a healthy laugh.

  
  
  

  
  1975: David Harbour is born--New York City, New York.
  
  1992: Cec Linder dies at age 71--Toronto, Canada.
  (Born 10 March 1921--Galicia, Poland.)

  
  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  Cec Linder

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

  Born March 10, 1921, Galicia, Poland
  Died April 10, 1992 (aged 71), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Nationality Canadian
  Other names Cecil Linder
  Occupation Actor
  Years active 1955–92

  
  Cec Linder as paleontologist Doctor Matthew Roney
  in the BBC Television serial Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59)

  Cec Linder (March 10, 1921 – April 10, 1992) was a Polish-born Canadian film and television actor. In the 1950s and 1960s, he worked extensively in the United Kingdom, often playing Canadian and American characters in various films and television programmes.

  In television, he is best remembered for playing Dr. Matthew Roney in the BBC serial Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59). In film, he is best remembered for his role as James Bond's friend, CIA agent Felix Leiter, in Goldfinger (1964). Another well-known film in which he appeared was Lolita (1962), as Doctor Keegee.

  Career
  Linder enjoyed an extensive and successful television career on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, probably his most prominent role was as the palaeontologist Roney in the original BBC version of Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59).
  
  In the United States, he was a regular in the CBS soap operas The Secret Storm and The Edge of Night and in the 1980s appeared in several of the Perry Mason revival TV films as District Attorney Jack Welles.
  
  Linder was also a regular on the popular 1980s Canadian crime series Seeing Things, playing Crown Attorney Spenser.
  
  During his career, he also had guest roles in episodes of a variety of other popular British, American and Canadian television programmes, including: The Forest Rangers, Doomwatch, The Littlest Hobo, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Ironside, The Saint, Danger Bay, The New Avengers, The Secret Storm (as Peter Ames), and The Edge of Night as Senator Ben Travis #2.
  
  During his early years in Canada, Linder worked as an announcer at CKGB in Timmins.
  
  Linder appeared as Inspector Cramer in the CBC 1982 radio dramatizations of Nero Wolfe short stories.
  
  Linder's last work was as Syd Grady in two episodes of the television series Sweating Bullets (1991).
  
  He died the following year at home in Toronto, Ontario, of complications from emphysema.
  
  He accumulated over 225 credits in film and television productions in a long performing career.
  
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  Cec Linder (1921–1992)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511695/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2012: Michael O'Mara Books publishes Bond On Bond by Roger Moore.

  
  
  
  

  2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond: Origin #8.
  Ibrahim Moustafa, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND ORIGIN #8

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244708011
  Cover A: Dan Panosian
  Cover B: Katie O'Meara
  Cover C: Will Sliney
  Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
  Cover E: Bob Q
  Writer: Jeff Parker
  Art: Ibrahim Moustafa
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: April 2019
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 4/10/2019

  Captured by the Russians, Lieutenant Bond meets the beautiful Oksana, who may be his ticket to safety, or lead to his doom. But it's quite difficult to know ally from foe, when you've been drugged.
  
  The epic World War 2 tale continues from JEFF PARKER (Aquaman, Fantastic Four) and superstar artist IBRAHIM MOUSTAFA (Mother Panic, The Flash)!

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  2021: Philip Hawkins and sound editor Norman Wanstall host and support a live watchalong of You Only Live Twice on Zoom 7PM BST. Request by email.

  https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/20288/you-only-live-twice-watch-along-party#latest
  

  You Only Live Twice Watch Along Party!

  LivesinthePictures
  April 5

  Join myself and special guest Norman Wanstall (Oscar Winning Sound Editor) for a live watch along of You Only Live Twice via Zoom on Saturday 10th April at 7:00pm (BST)). To register, simply email: [email protected], along with your full name. Norman will answer your questions throughout the film. Please submit your questions upon registration or any time prior to the event, and as many questions as possible will be put to Norman during the event. You will need to have your own copy of the film to participate in the event, after a brief introduction at 7:00pm everyone will press play on the film simultaneously and the event will begin. We hope you can join us.
  
  Philip Hawkins
  Event Coordinator
  Lives In The Pictures

  You Only Live Twice Commentary Exclusive - Norman Wanstall
  

  
  2023: Sold out performance by Herb Alpert & Lani Hall at The Arden Theatre, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada.

  

  Herb Alpert & Lani Hall Sold Out

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://tickets.stalbert.ca/TheatreManager/1/online?performance=702

  Monday, April 10, 2023 at 8:00 PM MDT

  

  Tickets starting at $89.50; prices do not include GST, handling charges, and fees
  
  Herb Alpert, iconic trumpeter, A&M Records co-founder, artist and philanthropist, has announced additional tour dates for the Herb Alpert & Lani Hall North American Tour 2023.

  Herb Alpert and his wife, the Grammy award-winning vocalist Lani Hall, and their gifted band - Michael Shapiro on drums, Hussain Jiffry on bass and Bill Cantos on piano - perform an eclectic set, covering some of Herb and Lani's classics from their Tijuana Brass and Brasil '66 days to Cole Porter, The Beatles and improvisational jazz tunes. The show features a multi-media experience with a large video screen projecting classic moments and rare footage from Herb & Lani’s music careers.
  
  A 2006 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Alpert’s extraordinary musicianship has earned him five #1 hits, nine GRAMMY® Awards, the latest from his 2014 album, Steppin’ Out, fifteen Gold albums, fourteen Platinum albums and over 72 million records sold. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass propelled his sound into the pop music limelight, at one point outselling the Beatles two to one. In 1966, they achieved the since-unmatched feat of simultaneously having four albums in the Top 10- and five in the Top 20. Herb Alpert also has the distinction of being the only artist who has had a #1 instrumental and #1 vocal single. Billboard also listed Herb as #7 on their Greatest Of All Time Billboard 200 Artists.
  
  Two-time Grammy award-winning vocalist, Lani Hall, was the lead singer and “voice” of Sergio Mendes’ iconic group, Brasil ’66. She has the distinction of recording over 22 albums in 3 different languages: English, Portuguese and Spanish. She is also known for her recording of the theme song to the 1983 James Bond film, Never Say Never Again. She penned many English lyrics for the Brazilian songs she sang while with Brasil ’66, as well as throughout her solo albums. She is also the author of Emotional Memoirs, a book of short stories, fiction and non-fiction, with personal memoirs that lead the reader into each story.

  Through the Herb Alpert Foundation, Herb and Lani have dedicated their lives to philanthropy, funding programs that help bring creativity to young students and keep creativity alive for all the arts, for artists young and old, including jazz education and programs that teach compassion and well-being. 2019 also marks the 25th anniversary of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts celebrating 125 awardees over the past 25 years.
  
  Venue
  The Arden Theatre
  5 St. Anne Street
  St. Albert AB T8N 3Z9
  
  We're sorry, the ticket(s) you wanted to Herb Alpert & Lani Hall for the performance on Monday, April 10, 2023 at 8:00 PM MDT have just sold out or the event is no longer available for sale via the internet if the curtain time is nearing.
  
  If you wish to contact the box office at (780) 459-1542, our representatives will be more than happy to assist you.
  
  Contact
  Telephone: 780-459-1542
  www.ardentheatre.com
  [email protected]
  
  Hours
  Monday - Friday
  10:00 AM - 2:00 PM MST
  (also for one hour prior to performances)

  
  

  
  
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  April 11th
  
  1960: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's short story collection For Your Eyes Only - Five Secret Occasions in the Life of James Bond.

  FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
  
  The destruction of a Russian hideout at
  SHAPE headquarters near Paris; the
  planned assassination of a Cuban thug in
  America; the tracking of a heroin ring
  from Rome to Venice and beyond; sudden
  and ghastly death in the Seychelles islands;
  and, in between, a story of love and hate
  in Bermuda.
  
  These are five episodes in a short span of
  tough life--the life of James Bond, agent
  number 007 in the Secret Service.

  
  
  
  
  
  https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/007-a-collection-of-books-and-manuscripts-the-property-of-a-gentleman/fleming-chopping-howard-archive-relating-to-the
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1969: Roger Moore weds Luisa Mattioli in London, England,

  
  (AP Photo/Frank Leonard Tewksbury)

  
  1981: Alessandra Ambrosio is born--Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
  1988: At the 60th Academy Awards, Sean Connery receives the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Untouchables. Earlier in the show he introduces himself with "My name is Connery--Sean Connery."

  

  
  1994: From the set of Scarlett, Timothy Dalton announces his departure from Bond.

  

  
  2002: BOND 20 films Jinx emerging from the sea.
  2005: John Raymond Brosnan dies at age 57--South Harrow, Harrow, London, England.
  (Born 7 October 1947--Perth, Australia.)

  

  John Brosnan
  Science-fiction writer and film critic

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-brosnan-489441.html
  Saturday 16 April 2005 00:00

  John Raymond Brosnan, writer and film critic: born Perth, Western Australia 7 October 1947; died London c11 April 2005.

  The writer and film critic John Brosnan was a man of deep friendships, some of which had lasted half a century - the Australian writer John Baxter, with whom Brosnan collaborated on a novel, knew him that long - and he enjoyed a wide range of acquaintances throughout the science-fiction and film subcultures of London.

  He wrote seven books on film. The first of these was James Bond in the Cinema (1972). His interest in filmed science fiction culminated in Future Tense: the cinema of science fiction (1978). He wrote most of the film entries for The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1979), edited by Peter Nicholls and John Clute.

  As a writer of science fiction and often comically exaggerated horror, Brosnan published at least 23 novels. His collaborations with Leroy Kettle were pseudonymous; the best known of these horror tales is probably Bedlam (1992), the film version of which (Beyond Bedlam) gave Liz Hurley her first main role. More ambitious science-fiction novels, under his own name, included the Sky Lords novels from 1988, and his last published novel, Mothership (2004). He had already completed a draft of the sequel at the time of his death.
  
  Brosnan was born in 1947 in Perth, Western Australia, and became active as an SF fan in the mid 1960s. By 1970 he had moved to London, where he settled for good. Though he was convivial from the start - my own 25-year-old memories of post-launch drinks with him at the Troy Club off the Tottenham Court Road remain warm - the story of his life is essentially one of hard work.
  
  His death was reported on 11 April. Friends had become alarmed at his absence over Easter, and gained access to his flat in South Harrow, where he was found. He had died in his sleep, possibly several days earlier. An autopsy determined that the cause of death was acute pancreatitis. This finding has scotched rumours that he had met with foul play.
  
  It was perhaps to be expected that Brosnan died alone, as he had lived alone for many years. But he was a continual and welcome presence in many lives, a friend to some and companion to many. He was a funny and surprisingly tough-minded writer.
  
  John Clute

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2011: Angela Scoular dies at age 65--Maide Vale, London, England.
  (Born 8 November 1945--London, England.)

  

  Angela Scoular obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/apr/14/angela-scoular-obituary

  Wuthering Heights star, Bond girl and Leslie Phillips’s wife
  Anthony Hayward | Thu 14 Apr 2011 13.12 EDT
  First published on Thu 14 Apr 2011 13.12 EDT

  
  Angela Scoular takes a bath with David Niven’s version of 007
  in Casino Royale, 1966 [sic, 1967], the first of her two Bond films.
  Photograph: Snap/Rex Features

  Angela Scoular, who has died aged 65 after reportedly taking her own life, was known as the wife of the actor Leslie Phillips, but she also had several acting roles of her own that brought her public attention.

  She twice played a "Bond girl". First, she took the part of Buttercup, sharing a bath with David Niven as James Bond, in the spoof, "unofficial" release Casino Royale (1966) [sic, 1967]. Then she was the flirtatious farmer's daughter Ruby, bedded by once-only-007 George Lazenby, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), which also featured the former Avenger Diana Rigg and the future New Avenger Joanna Lumley.

  
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  Angela Scoular (1945–2011)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0780029/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases the hardcover James Bond Kill Chain.
  Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN HARDCOVER

  Cover: Greg Smallwood
  Writer: Andy Diggle
  Art: Luca Casalanguida
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: April 2018
  Format: Hardcover
  Page Count: 160 pages
  ON SALE DATE: 4/11/2018

  When a counterespionage operation in Rotterdam goes catastrophically wrong, James Bond finds himself in the crosshairs of a plot to smash NATO. Someone is assassinating allied agents, and 007 is the next target in the kill chain. Having kept the peace for decades, the old alliance is collapsing, pitting MI6 against its former ally - the CIA! Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents the return of writer Andy Diggle (James Bond: Hammerhead, The Losers, Green Arrow: Year One) and artist Luca Casalanguida (James Bond: Hammerhead) as they plot the return of James Bond's oldest and deadliest foe: SMERSH!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2023: Harper Collins releases Double or Nothing by Kim Sherwood in the United States.

  JAMES BOND IS MISSING...
  007 has been captured, perhaps even killed,
  by a sinister private military company.
  His whereabouts are unknown.
  
  MEET THE NEW GENERATION OF SPIES...
  Johanna Harwood, 003. Jospeph Dryden, 004.
  Sid Bashir, 009, Together, they represent the
  very best and brightest of MI6. Skilled,
  determined and with a licence to kill, they
  will do anything to protect their country.
  
  THE FATE OF THE WORLD
  RESTS IN THEIR HANDS...
  Tech billionaire Sir Betram Paradise claims
  he can reverse the climate crisis and save
  the planet. But can he really? The new spies
  must uncover the truth, because the future
  of humanity hands in the balance.

  
  
  

  KIM SHERWOOD is a novelist
  and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the
  University of Edinburgh. Her award-winning
  debut novel Testament was released in 2018,
  and in 2019, Kim was shortlisted for the
  Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.
  A WIld & True Relation, following a woman
  who joins a smuggler's crew in eighteenth-century
  Devon, will be published by Virago in 2023.
  Double or Nothing is the first in a trilogy
  of DOUBLE O novels expanding
  the James Bond universe.

  
  2023: James Bond Films: The First Decade Featuring Goldfinger at Allen Public Library, Civic Auditorium, Allen, Texas.

  

  

  James Bond Films: The First Decade Featuring Goldfinger

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.allenlibrary.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=14940

  Tuesday, April 11, 2023
  For all ages. Clyde Ponder and Brian Hughes present a brief discussion on the first decade of James Bond movies followed by a showing of Goldfinger. A Q&A period after the movie allows you to ask any questions you may have about one of the most famous movie franchises of all time!

  A blockbuster hit in 1964, Goldfinger attracted lengthy lines at the theatre and was the first Bond film to garner an Oscar for Best Sound Editing. Goldfinger's $3 million budget was recouped in two weeks, and box office records were shattered in multiple countries.
  
  Go behind the scenes with film historians Brian Hughes and Clyde Ponder as they analyze and discuss the actors, set designs, videography challenges, innovative sound effects, music and more. Hughes has written and lectured extensively about the James Bond phenomenon, publishing articles and reviews in local and national publications. Ponder is a Dallas film poster collector, film buff and long-time friend of Hughes.
  
  Following their presentation at 7 p.m., a film on a British MI6 agent will be featured. And be sure to view the gallery collection for April: James Bond: The First Decade 1962-1972, Dr. No, Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and Diamonds Are Forever.

  The presentation (not the film) will be streamed live on ACTV. For online, cable channel and streaming app options, view the Watch ACTV page or use the live streaming link provided in the sidebar.
  
  Date:
  April 11, 2023
  Time:
  6:30 PM
  Location:
  Allen Public Library - Civic Auditorium
  Address:
  300 N. Allen Drive
  Allen, TX 75013
  Contact:
  214.509.4911
  Cost:
  Free. Admittance is first come, first served.
  
  Link to live presentation
  https://actv.org/

  

  
  
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  April 12th
  
  1944: Society hostess Maud Russell writes about Fleming in her diary.

  

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

  

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

  Wednesday 12 April, 1944
  
  I. dined. Still we don’t mention Muriel. He’s just back from Scotland and looks better. I am seeing about his rations. Found Muriel used to. He was in a state and I saw he wouldn’t feel like bothering about any mortal thing connected with himself. So I said nothing but took round marmalade, sugar, butter etc. of my own and said I would look after him till he wanted someone else to.

  
  1956: The Daily Express serializes Fleming's fourth novel Diamonds Are Forever. Illustrations by Robb.

  https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2014/10/diamonds-are-forever-artwork-from-daily.html
  
  
  

  
  1961: A few days after appearing in court over whether Thunderball can be published, Ian Fleming has a heart attack.
  1963: From Russia With Love pretitle sequence filmed at Pinewood's own main administration block. [Some refilming and a mustache is required due to the Bond imposter looking a bit too much like Connery.]
  
  1984: Never Say Never Again released in Colombia.
  1984: Nunca digas nunca jamás (Never Say Never Again) released in Argentina, Mexico, and Peru.

  

  
  2006: Casino Royale films Bond losing at cards.
  
  2012: Late by previous standards, Skyfall on-set photos come available.

  
  
  
  
  

  2013: Michael France dies at age 51--St. Pete Beach, Florida.
  (Born 4 January 1962--St. Petersburg, Florida.)

  

  Michael France, screenwriter and
  Beach Theatre owner, dies

  Full article at this lin:
  
  https://www.tampabay.com/news/obituaries/michael-france-screenwriter-and-beach-theatre-owner-dies/2115065

  The screenwriter was one of the region's most successful movie industry figures.
  By Steve Persall | Published April 14 2013
  
  ST. PETE BEACH — Hollywood screenwriter and Beach Theatre owner Michael France was discovered dead at his St. Pete Beach home Friday morning after an extended illness, his sister said. He was 51.
  
  In recent years Mr. France struggled with diabetes that impaired his left arm and right leg. Nine months ago he was found comatose at his residence by his sister, who also discovered his body Friday.
  
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  Mr. France was one of Tampa Bay's most successful movie industry figures, starting with his screenplay for 1993's Cliffhanger starring Sylvester Stallone. That was followed two years later with a story credit for GoldenEye, reinvigorating the James Bond franchise with Pierce Brosnan. Mr. France also did uncredited work on the script for another 007 adventure, The World is Not Enough.

  His final three produced screenplays were among the first Marvel Comics adaptations to the screen: Oscar winning director Ang Lee's 2003 version of Hulk, Fantastic Four (2005) and a co-writing credit on The Punisher (2004), filmed around Tampa Bay.
  
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  Michael France (I) (1962–2013)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289833/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1
  
  Trivia

  Produced a James Bond fan magazine as a youngster in the early 1970s.

  France's favorite Punisher comic writer is Chuck Dixon. France told Comicbook Resources, "Chuck's comics had the best crime story tone of them all - they were larger than life, they had huge stylized action, but they still felt realistic. I had to use a hilarious bit of his from one of the comics - the scene where Frank threatens to blowtorch some information out of a crook is straight out of an old 'War Journal.'"

  When preparing to write GoldenEye, he toured Russian airbases, a mob casino named Casino Royale, and KGB facilities around Red Square.

  Though uncredited on The World Is Not Enough, he wrote the first versions of key sequences, including the buzzsaw helicopter attack and the battle in the nuclear disarmament plant at Kazakhstan.

  On the Hulk movie, he was hired twice. The first time he was replaced before he began when the studio decided to hire Jonathan Hensleigh to write and to make his directorial debut. When Hensleigh's version collapsed, France was hired to bring the movie back on track. (Ironically, Hensleigh later made his directorial debut with another France screenplay based on a Marvel character, "The Punisher".)

  Although he may be best known for adapting Marvel characters, he has also worked with Marvel comics guru Stan Lee to create new characters for film and television.

  

  Goldeneye James Bond first draft Michael France 007 Pierce
  Brosnan

  https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/goldeneye-james-bond-first-draft-505742184

  
  

  
  
  

  
  2018: James Bond in A Convenient Lie (an opera!) begins its 12-14 April run--Centrepoint Theater, Ottawa, Canada.

  

  James Bond in A Convenient Lie

  http://www.ottawaseniors.com/events/event/james-bond-in-a-convenient-lie/
  A New Opera in English

  Presented by Savoy Society of Ottawa in collaboration with Malfi Productions
  Centrepointe Studio Theatre
  8 p.m. April 12 – April 14, 2018[/b]

  Lyrics by Kyle McDonald, Music by various composers
  

  Bond, James Bond. An Opera Unlike Any Other
  A new opera in pasticcio featuring the “hits of opera”, combined with an original storyline, James Bond: A Convenient Lie offers a never before seen kind of operatic spectacle blending the beautiful and demanding classical style of singing with the fast paced and exciting story of a contemporary film!

  Fast, Funny, and full of Fights
  Bond, with the help of Audrey, a French actress, and her tech genius brother, Pierre, must confront a bee-keeping eco-terrorist – who calls himself The Naturalist – and his henchmen, Salvatore the Sword, Tiny, and the sultry Miss Bliss, and stop his evil plan to make humanity suffer for its heedless consumption.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: Sonny Caldinez dies at age 89-La Push, Washington.
  (Born 1 July 1932--Trinidad.)

  

  Sonny Caldinez

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Born 1 July 1932
  Trinidad, British West Indies
  Died 12 April 2022 (aged 89)
  La Push, Washington, U.S.
  Occupation(s) Actor, wrestler
  
  Sonny Caldinez (1 July 1932 – 12 April 2022) was a Trinidadian actor and professional wrestler.[1] He was often cast in television and films for his great height and muscular physique. He appeared as various Ice Warriors on the British programme Doctor Who and also in films such as The Man with the Golden Gun, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ali G Indahouse, Arabian Adventure and The Fifth Element.[2]
  
  Caldinez played Ice Warriors in all four of the classic Doctor Who serials in which they appeared. His Ice Warrior roles include Turoc from The Ice Warriors, an unnamed Ice Warrior in The Seeds of Death, Ssorg in The Curse of Peladon and Sskel in The Monster of Peladon. He also appeared as Kemel in The Evil of the Daleks.[3][4][5] Other television roles include Abdullah on Sexton and Blake and the mulatto on The Return of Sherlock Holmes (episode "Wisteria Lodge").[2][6]
  
  Caldinez moved to the U.S. from Trinidad in 2011. He died of a ruptured aortic aneurysm in his personal campsite in La Push, Washington on 12 April 2022, at the age of 89.[6][7]
  
  Filmography
  A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967) – Wrestler (uncredited)
  White Cargo (1973) – Bodyguard
  The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) – Kra (uncredited)
  The Fosters – Series 2, Episode 1: "The Nude" (1977) – Clyde Davies[8][9]
  Mind Your Language – (TV series) Season 1, episode 4 – Surinders' father (1977)
  Arabian Adventure (1979) – Nubian
  Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) – Mean Mongolian
  The Fifth Element (1997) – Emperor Kodar Japhet
  Ali G Indahouse (2002) – Ambassador (uncredited)
  
  References
  "WRESTLING HERITAGE". WRESTLING HERITAGE.
  "Sonny Caldinez". BFI.
  "BBC – Doctor Who – Classic Series – Photonovels – The Evil of the Daleks". www.bbc.co.uk.
  "Sonny Caldinez – Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.
  "Doctor Who – The Ice Warriors". homepages.bw.edu.
  "Sonny Caldinez". Aveleyman. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  "Sonny Caldinez 1932–2022". Doctor Who News. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
  "Anglia". Weekend Entertainment. Saffron Walden Weekly News. 14 April 1977. p. VI – via Newspapers.com.
  "London ITV". TV and radio. Reading Evening Post. 16 April 1977. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.

  
  
  
  
  Sonny Caldinez in ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’ (1974) (2:58)
  
  
  
  

  
  2023: Dann and Raymond (Benson)'s Movie Club - The James Bond Films at the Palatine Library, Palatine, Illinois.

  

  
  

  Dann and Raymond's Movie Club: The James Bond Films

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://patch.com/illinois/palatine/calendar/event/20230412/ac06e9e4-8d14-4bc7-8ba9-8172701761ec/dann-and-raymonds-movie-club-the-james-bond-films

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  Apr
  12
  Dann and Raymond's Movie Club: The James Bond Films
  
  Event Details
  Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 6:30 PM
  
  Palatine Library District, 700 N North Ct, Palatine, IL, 60067
  
  More info here

  Daily Herald film critic Dann Gire and film historian Raymond Benson present the James Bond films. Sign up begins 3/29. For more information, call 847-907-3600 or visit palatinelibrary.org.

  
  

  
  2023: Bond for a Day - Immersive Tour & Dining Experience at Whitehall, London, England.

  

  

  Bond for a Day: Immersive
  Tour & Dining Experience

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://feverup.com/m/93085

  Wed 12 Apr, 2023
  
  Tickets
  🎫 Ticket for 1 to the Bond for a Day immersive tour, including:

  • An expert to guide you through your mission of the murky world of spies, sabotage, and assassination!
  • Full breakfast with tea, coffee, or soft drink during a briefing in a Whitehall venue
  • A visit to “Q” / shooting range activity using 300 rounds with a wide range of firearms
  • A sample of the Ian Fleming & Bond’s preferred fragrance Floris 89, perfumers to royalty & nobility (patrons included Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, Ian Fleming (and of course, James Bond!)
  • A 10% discount to enjoy at Floris!
  • A chauffeured, guided tour of Mayfair visiting locations relating to the life of Ian Fleming & its espionage ‘secret corners’
  • 3 short walking tours of hidden London in St James’s, Whitehall, and Mayfair
  • Light lunch (3 small plates per person) at The Caxton Bar at St Ermins Hotel
  • Your own version of Bond’s favourite cocktail; the ‘Vesper’ (or other alcoholic/non-alcoholic drink)

  
  Highlights
  🔍 Live the life of fiction's favourite spy and enjoy a luxurious immersive experience guided by an espionage expert
  🔫 Use Bond's preferred weapons at an airsoft shooting range, armed with 300 rounds
  🍸 Sip on Your own version of Bond’s favourite cocktail; the Vesper
  🍽️ Full breakfast and a light lunch
  
  General Info
  📅 Date: various dates (select during purchase)
  🕒 Time: 10 a.m.
  ⏳ Duration: approximately 6 hours
  📍 Meeting point: Horse & Guardsman, 6-18 Whitehall
  👤 Age requirement: 12+. Children must be accompanied by an adult of over 18 years
  🍽️ Dietary requirements: allergies and other dietary requirements are catered for
  ❓ Please note: this experience requires significant immersion/participation. This is a half-day experience with approx. 70% walking and standing and 30% being transported/sitting down
  
  Menu
  Breakfast and lunch options include:

  • Sourdough toasts
  • Potato rösti
  • Eggs florentine or benedict
  • Baked eggs
  • Full English
  • Veggie breakfast
  • Bubble & squeak fritter
  • Buttermilk pancakes
  • Granola

  Description
  Live a jam-packed day in the life of the most famous spy in the world! Start this immersive experience with a full breakfasst in Great Scotland Yard in true Bond style. Then, after an action-packed afternoon mastering your shooting skills and walking in the footsteps of Bond's creator in Mayfair, take in the views as a true '00' with a Vesper (vodka martini). You earned it! Get ready to go behind the scenes of one of the world's most successful movie franchises and play the leading role—who knows, you may even get your own '00' Licence.

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  2023: Dynamite Entertainment releases 007 - For King and Country #1.
  Giorgio Spalletta, artist. Phillip Kennedy Johnson, writer.

  

  007 - For King and Country
  #1

  Cover A: JOSEPH MICHAEL LINSNER
  Cover B: REBECA PUEBLA
  Cover C: CHUMA HILL
  Cover D: LESLEY "LEIRIX" LI
  Cover E: Blank Authentix
  Genre: Spy Fiction / Action Adventure
  Publication Date: April, 2023
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32
  ON SALE DATE: 4/12/2023

  An all-new nail-biting Bond mission from superstar Phillip Kennedy Johnson (Action Comics) and Giorgio Spalletta (Red Sonja). Accused of murder on British soil, James Bond has been branded a traitor by his own government. As M sends the entire 00 division after 007, Bond must go underground with only one ally: Gwendolyn Gann, 003 - another traitor, presumed dead, secretly on a clandestine mission with global implications.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  April 13th
  
  1937: Edward Fox is born--Chelsea, London, England.
  
  1942: Bill Conti is born--Providence, Rhode Island.
  
  1953: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's first Bond novel Casino Royale.

  CASINO ROYALE
  
  The dry riffle of the cards and the soft
  whirr of the roulette wheel, the sharp call
  of the croupiers and the feverish mutter of
  a crowded casino hide the thick voice at
  Bond's ear which says, 'I will count up
  to ten.'
  
  Anyone who has ever gambled will find
  this tense and sometimes horrifying story
  of espionage and high gambling irresistible.
  So will readers who have never entered a
  casino. Connoisseurs of realistic fiction
  will particularly note the careful documen-
  tation of the Secret Service background,
  the chilling portrait of Le Chiffre, the
  authentic menace of SMERSH, and the
  sensual appeal of the girl in 'soie sauvage'.
  
  Jacket devised by the author.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1962: In The New Yorker piece "James Bond Comes to New York", Geoffrey T. Hellman interviews Ian Fleming.

  
  The Talk of the Town
  April 21, 1962 Issue

  James Bond Comes to New York

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/04/21/bonds-creator

  The author Ian Fleming spent a weekend in the city to see his publishers and “assorted crooks” en route from his Jamaica hideaway to his London home.
  By Geoffrey T. Hellman
  April 13, 1962

  
  Photograph by Horst Tappe / Hulton Archive / Getty

  Ian Fleming, whose nine Secret Service thrillers (Casino Royale, Doctor No, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia with Love, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, and Thunderball) have had phenomenal sales in this country and abroad (more than eleven hundred thousand hardcover copies and three and a half million paperbacks), was here for a weekend recently en route from his Jamaica hideaway to his London home, and we caught him on Sunday morning at his hotel, the Pierre, where he amiably stood us a lunch. He ordered a prefatory medium-dry Martini of American vermouth and Beefeater gin, with lemon peel, and so did we.

  “I’m here to see my publishers and assorted crooks,” he said. “Not other assorted crooks, mind you. By ‘crooks,’ I don’t mean crooks at all; I mean former Secret Service men. There are one or two of them here, you know.”

  “Who?” we asked.

  “Oh, men like the boss of James Bond, the operative who’s the chief character in all my books,” said our host. “When I wrote the first one, in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be the blunt instrument. One of the bibles of my youth was Birds of the West Indies, by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, My God, that’s the dullest name I’ve ever heard, so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one. Mrs. Bond once wrote me a letter thanking me for using it.”
  
  Mr. Fleming, a sunburned, tall, curly-haired, blue-eyed man of fifty-three in a dark-blue suit, blue shirt, and blue-dotted bow tie, ordered another Martini, and so did we. “I’ve spent the morning in Central Park,” he said. “I went there to see if I’d get murdered, but I didn’t. The only person who accosted me was a man who asked me how to get out. I love the Park; it was so wonderful to see the brown turning to green. I went to the Wollman skating rink and saw all those enchanting girls skating around, and then I thought, This is the place to meet a spy. What a wonderful place to meet a spy! A spy with a child. A child is the most wonderful cover for a spy, like a dog for a tart. Do tarts here have dogs? I was interested to see that in the bird reservation in the Park there was not a single bird. There are no people there—It’s fenced in, you know, with a sign—but no birds, either. Birds can’t read.”
  
  Mr. Fleming lit a Senior Service cigarette and, in answer to some questions from us, said that he was a Scot, that he had been brought up in a hunting-and-fishing world where you shot or caught your lunch, and that he was a graduate of Eton and Sandhurst. “I shot against West Point,” he said. “When I got my commission, they were mechanizing the Army, and a lot of us decided we didn’t want to be garage hands running those bloody tanks. My poor mamma, in despair, suggested that I try for the diplomatic. My father was killed in the ‘14-‘18 war. Well, I went to the Universities of Geneva and Munich and learned extremely good French and German, but I got fed up with the exams, so in 1929 I joined Reuters as a foreign correspondent and had a hell of a time. Wonderful! I went to Moscow for Reuters. My God, it was fun! It was like a tremendous ball game.”
  
  He ordered a dozen cherrystones and a Miller High Life, and we followed suit. “I like the name ‘High Life,’ ” he said. “That’s why I order it. And American vermouth is the best in the world.”

  He added that he had been with Reuters for four years, and we asked what happened next.

  “I decided I ought to make some money, and went into the banking and stock-brokerage business—first with Cull & Company and then with Rowe & Pitman,” he said. “Six years altogether, until the war came along. Those financial firms are tremendous clubs, and great fun, but I never could figure out what a sixty-fourth of a point was. We used to spend our whole time throwing telephones at each other. I’m afraid we ragged far too much.”

  We inquired about the war, from which, according to the British Who’s Who, Mr. Fleming emerged a naval commander, and he said, “I was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, so I went everywhere.”
  
  We asked what he’d done after the war.

  “I joined the editorial board of the London Times,” he said. “I still write articles for it, and I’m a stockholder. And in 1952, when I was in Jamaica, Cyril Connolly asked me to write an article about Jamaica for his magazine, Horizon. It was rather a euphoric piece, about Jamaica as an island for you and me to go to.”
  
  We promised to go, and he said, “How about some domestic Camembert? It’s better here than the French.”
  
  During this and the coffee, he reverted to the non-ornithological James Bond. “I think the reason for his success is that people are lacking in heroes in real life today,” he said. “Heroes are always getting knocked—Philip and Mountbatten are examples of this—and I think people absolutely long for heroes. The thing that’s wrong with the new anticolonialism is that no one has yet found a Negro hero. They’re scratching around with Tshombe, but . . . Well, I don’t regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way, and in the end, after giant despair, he wins the girl or the jackpot or whatever it may be. My books have no social significance, except a deleterious one; they’re considered to have too much violence and too much sex. But all history has that. I finished the last one, my tenth James Bond story, in Jamaica the other day; it’s long and tremendously dull. It’s called The Spy Who Loved Me, and it’s written, supposedly, by a girl. I think it’s an absolute miracle that an elderly person like me can go on turning out these books with such zest. It’s really a terrible indictment of my own character—they’re so adolescent. But they’re fun. I think people like them because they’re fun. A couple of years ago, when I was in Washington, and was driving to lunch with a friend of mine, Margaret Leiter, she spotted a young couple coming out of church, and she stopped our cab. ‘You must meet them,’ she said. ‘They’re great fans of yours.’ And she introduced me to Jack and Jackie Kennedy. ‘Not the Ian Fleming!’ they said. What could be more gratifying than that? They asked me to dinner that night, with Joe Alsop and some other characters. I think the President likes my books because he enjoys the combination of physical violence, effort, and winning in the end—like his PT-boat experiences. I think James Bond may be good for him after the dry pack of the day.”
  
  Mr. Fleming is married to a former wife of Lord Rothermere and has a nine-year-old son, Caspar, who is away at boarding school. “He doesn’t read me, but he sells my autographs for seven shillings a time,” his father said.

  ♦
  
  Published in the print edition of the April 21, 1962, issue, with the headline “Bond’s Creator.”

  

  1967: Charles K. Feldman's Casino Royale has its world premiere at London's Odeon Leicester Square, two months ahead of Eon's You Only Live Twice. It breaks many opening records.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1973: Live and Let Die films its title sequence on D Stage, Pinewood Studios.
  
  1988: Movieland Wax Museum unveils James Bond in Buena Park, California.

  
  

  
  1999: Sean Connery imprints hands and feet in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood, California.

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  2003: The Guardian enthusiastically speculates on BOND 21 with Brosnan plus India Bond Girls and locations.

  

  Bond goes to Bollywood for love as well
  as money

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/13/film.filmnews

  007 makes a play for Eastern affections as producers choose
  between two former Miss Worlds and a model to star opposite
  Brosnan
  Vanessa Thorpe, arts and media correspondent | Sun 13 Apr 2003
  
  A commercial and creative meeting of the popular culture of the East and the West is destined to make 'Bond 21' the most lucrative James Bond adventure of all time.
  
  Pierce Brosnan's co-star for his fifth outing in the role now looks likely to be drawn from the ranks of top Bollywood talent.
  
  The former Miss World Aishwarya Rai, who is already a huge star in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), the movie-making capital of the Indian subcontinent, may well become the first Indian actress to star as a Bond girl, according to reports in India.
  
  Casting agents working on the new film for the Pinewood-based Bond film company, Eon Productions, have been travelling around India to meet and watch rival talents at work.
  
  Rai's secretary Hari Singh, who has been on set with her for the filming of her latest project, Rajkumar Santoshi's Khaki with co-star Amitabh Bachchan, has confirmed that the 'unbelievable' approach has been made. Although the actress is currently in the Hinduja hospital in Mumbai having injured her toe during filming near Nashik, Singh has said that the production deadlines could still be worked out.
  
  Bond 21 is due to start filming this summer, in prompt succession to Bond 20, or Die Another Day which came out last November and earned more than £400 million at the international box office. The film, which also starred Oscar winner Halle Berry as the American agent Jinx, has beaten Brosnan's The World Is Not Enough by more than £50m. And still it goes on. This February the film took £1.2m on its opening weekend in Italy, the best-ever return on a Bond picture.
  
  Keen to capitalise on the moment, Eon Productions have secured the services of their 49-year-old, Irish leading man from August and booked the sound stages at Pinewood Studios from the end of the year.
  
  Casting directors will be looking at the work of other leading Bollywood stars too, including Priyanka Chopra, another former Miss World, who recently starred in the film Andaaz with yet another contender and model-turned-actress, Lara Dutta. Dutta is a former Miss Universe, so the competition for the chance to appear with Brosnan is intense. The young star of the film The Hero, Preity Zinta, is also thought to have caught the eye of Western producers.
  
  Whoever is chosen, cultural differences may dictate a change in style for the Bond screenwriters, as actresses with a career in Bollywood ahead of them may not want to appear scantily clad or in bed with Bond.
  
  Rai is still the current favourite and her secretary has been quoted as confirming her interest in the 'unbelievably grand project'.
  
  'Yes, for Aishwarya, it's something unbelievable,' he said. 'An international coordinating agency has approached us on behalf of the studio making the Bond movies.
  
  'They were waiting on the sets and watching the rehearsals, with Aishwarya, Amitabh Bachchan and others,' adds Singh. 'They are keen to cast her. Let's see what Aishwarya has to say. We'd have to rework our earlier schedules.'
  
  The actress is also at the centre of a fiery Bollywood scandal after she refused to work again with her former boyfriend, the actor Salman Khan. On Friday Khan would not speak to Mumbai reporters who quizzed him about Rai and the actor Vivek Oberoi, who accused Khan of threatening him at the beginning of this month.
  
  Khan, who has a reputation as Bollywood's 'superbrat', allegedly suspects Oberoi of having an affair with Rai and in response to the suggestion Oberoi called a press conference during which he claimed that Khan had threatened to kill him.
  
  The much sought-after Rai has since admitted that Khan has bombarded her with messages since their split, but she claims she is indifferent. Oberoi meanwhile has accused Khan of being 'mentally sick'.
  
  Further contenders for the role of Bondgirl 21 include the British singer Sophie Ellis Bextor who was hotly tipped for a part last time around.

  Miss World Aishwarya Rai
  
  
  Miss World Priyanka Chopra
  
  
  Miss Universe Lara Dutta
  
  
  Sophie Ellis Bextor
  
  

  2008: Guy Hamilton receives a Cinema Retro Award at Pinewood Studios' Goldfinger reunion.

  
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  For James Bond fans, Sunday's Goldfinger reunion had the Midas Touch in every regard. Organized by Cinema Retro colmunist Gareth Owen and his partner Andy Boyle of www.bondstars.com, the event gave 120 lucky attendees from around the world the opportunity to celebrate the classic James Bond film in the ultimate fashion. With the exception of Sean Connery, John Barry and Shirley Bassey, virtually every living actor and technician from the film were reunited at London's Pinewood Studios where principal photography had taken place in 1964. Among the attendees: director Guy Hamilton, cast members Shirley Eaton, Tania Mallett, Burt Kwouk, Martin Benson, Margaret Nolan, Caron Gardner, production designer Sir Ken Adam, art director Peter Murton, Peter Lamont (who served as draughtsman on the film), Leslie Bricusse, who co-wrote the lyrics to the smash hit title song, and sound man Norman Wanstall, who won an Oscar for the film. This was literally an all-day event, as the stars arrived at 10:30 AM for autograph sessions that were followed by a tour of the studio led by Cinema Retro co-publisher Dave Worrall. A highlight was the surprise appearance of one of the original Aston Martin DB5's which was on loan for the event from The Louwman Collection in The Netherlands. In the afternoon, everyone gathered at Pinewood's Theatre 7 for a screening of the film in digital format. It was to be an historic occasion: the largest gathering of cast and crew to view the movie since its original premiere. The digital print was simply stunning and it's safe to say that no matter how many times you've seen the film, you haven't truly seen it until you've experienced the flawless digital presentation. At the conclusion of the film, Cinema Retro editor-in-chief Lee Pfeiffer conducted Q&A sessions with Shirley Eaton, Tania Mallett, Burt Kwouk, Leslie Bricusse, Margaret Nolan and Guy Hamilton. At the conclusion of the session, Honor Blackman, who made a surprise appearance at the screening, joined Pfeiffer and Dave Worrall on stage to present Guy Hamilton with the Cinema Retro Lifetime Achievement award in recognition of his remarkable body of work that includes serving as assistant director to Sir Carol Reed on The Third Man and John Huston on The African Queen and his own hit films as director that include Live and Let Die, Diamonds Are Forever, The Man With the Golden Gun, Funeral in Berlin, The Colditz Story and Battle of Britain. A clearly moved Guy Hamilton gave a gracious acceptance speech and relished reliving his memories of Goldfinger with Honor Blackman.

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  (L to R) Shirley Eaton, Honor Blackman, Tania Mallett and Margaret Nolan with event
  organizers Andy Boyle and Gareth Owen.
  
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  Cinema Retro's Dave Worrall and Lee Pfeiffer (r) with Honor Blackman and Guy Hamilton
  
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  Finally, there was a memorable photo session as Cinema Retro photographer Mark Mawston posed many of the cast and crew members around the Aston Martin DB5. The event finally ended at 7:00 PM, with weary but enthusiastic attendees recognizing they had been part of a day they will not soon forget.

  (Tickets for this event sold out in 24 hours. For those who were not able to attend, but who would like a souvenir of the day, there are a limited number of the illustrated collector's programs available for sale.)

  
  
  

  
  2011: Sony announces its partnership with MGM continues--they will co-release BOND 23 (later Skyfall).
  
  2023: Essential Bond - Breakfast Briefing Experience at London, England.

  

  

  Essential Bond: Breakfast
  Briefing Experience

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://feverup.com/m/125358

  Thu 13 Apr, 2023
  
  Tickets for Essential Bond: Breakfast Briefing Experience in London
  🎫 Adult ticket for 1, including a martini, breakfast, and an immersive tour and experience
  
  Highlights
  🔎 Be guided through a mission by an expert in the dangerous world of spies, sabotage, and assassination!
  🎬 Walk through the London scenes made famous by the Bond films
  🖊️ Enjoy a delicious breakfast during a special briefing in Whitehall
  🍸 Relax in true 007 style with a Vesper martini, shaken, not stirred (non-alcoholic option available)
  ✨ Sample Bond's preferred fragrance at a perfumery
  
  General Info
  📅 Date: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays (select during purchase)
  🕒 Time: 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Arrival at 9:45 p.m.)
  ⏳ Duration: 3.5 hours
  📍 Meeting location: Horse & Guardsman Pub, London
  👤 Age requirement: 18+ with valid ID
  
  Menu
  Served with tea, coffee, or a soft drink

  • A selection of sourdough toasts: topped with your choice of topping
  • Potato Rosti Florentine: baby spinach, poached eggs, hollandaise, and cress
  • Potato Rosti Benedict: smoked streaky bacon, poached eggs, hollandaise, and cress
  • Baked Eggs: with red pepper, chickpeas, baby spinach, tomato ragu, and smoked paprika, served on sourdough toast
  • Full English: smoked streaky bacon, old spot sausage, fried egg, slow-roasted tomato, flat mushroom, potato rosti, baked beans, toasted sourdough and butter
  • Veggie Breakfast: halloumi, poached egg, avocado and corn salsa, potato rosti, hollandaise, toasted seven seeds, sourdough toast and butter
  • Bubble & Squeak Fritter: smoked streaky bacon, bubble and squeak fritter, celeriac crisp, crispy fried egg, chilli jam, and cress
  • Buttermilk Pancakes: five buttermilk pancakes stacked up and finished with a selection of toppings to choose from
  • Granola (variety of flavours)

  Description
  Play the lead role in the world's most successful movie franchise! This incredible experience makes the dreams of every James Bond fan come true—to step into the shoes of 007 for the morning. Embark on a glamorous Ian Fleming trail, spritz a splash of Floris 89, and sip on Bond's preferred tipple, as you immerse yourself into the cloak-and-dagger world of espionage and get briefed over breakfast. Learn about the real stories of 007, as you're escorted through the London scenes where Bond was born and immortalised in celluloid. This elegant experience makes for a perfect gift for James Bond fans. Get your tickets now for Essential Bond: Breakfast Briefing Experience in London!

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  Horse & Guardsman
  16-18 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2DY

  

  
  2023: Ian Fleming Publications honours the original publication of Casino Royale with a 70th anniversary release of Fleming titles.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  April 14th
  
  1912: Joie Chitwood is born--Denison, Texas.
  (He dies 3 January 1988 at age 75--Tampa, Florida.)

  

  Joie Chitwood

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  
  Joie Chitwood

  Born April 14, 1912 | Denison, Texas
  Died January 3, 1988 (aged 75) | Tampa Bay, Florida
  Formula One World Championship career

  Nationality United States American
  Active years 1950
  Teams Kurtis Kraft
  Entries 1
  Championships 0
  Wins 0
  Podiums 0
  Career points 1
  Pole positions 0
  Fastest laps 0
  First entry 1950 Indianapolis 500
  Last entry 1950 Indianapolis 500

  George Rice Chitwood (April 14, 1912 – January 3, 1988), nicknamed "Joie", was an American racecar driver and businessman. He is best known as a daredevil in the Joie Chitwood Thrill Show.
  
  Born in Denison, Texas of Cherokee Indian ancestry, he was dubbed "Joie" by a track promoter and the name stuck.
  
  Racing career
  Chitwood started his racecar driving career in 1934 at a dirt track in Winfield, Kansas. From there, he began racing sprint cars. In 1939 and 1940 he won the AAA East Coast Sprint car championship.[1] He switched to the CSRA and won its title in 1942.[1] Between 1940 and 1950 he competed at the Indianapolis 500 seven times, finishing fifth on three different occasions.[1] He was the first man ever to wear a safety belt at the Indy 500.[1]
  
  Joie Chitwood Thrill Show
  Chitwood also operated the "Joie Chitwood Thrill Show", an exhibition of auto stunt driving that became so successful he gave up racing. Often called "Hell Drivers," he had five units that for more than forty years toured across North America thrilling audiences in large and small towns alike with their death-defying automobile stunts.
  
  His show was so popular, that in January 1967, the performance at the Islip Speedway, New York was broadcast on ABC television's Wide World of Sports.
  
  On May 13, 1978, Joie Chitwood Jr.(b. Aug. 31, 1943) set a world record when he drove a Chevrolet Chevette for 5.6 miles (9.0 km) on just 2 wheels. His sons, Joie Jr. and Tim both joined the auto thrill show and continued to run the "Joie Chitwood Chevy Thunder Show" after their father's retirement. The Chitwood show toured the US from 1945-98. His grandson, Joie Chitwood III, is the President of Daytona International Speedway and a former president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
  
  The show was featured during season 3 of CHiPs in an episode entitled "Thrill Show". Joie Jr. did stunts for Miami Vice on several occasions. Joie Jr. (b. 1943) also appeared as a guest challenger on the TV game show To Tell The Truth. Joie Jr. worked in over 60 feature films and national commercials.
  
  Chitwood's show was credited by Evel Knievel as being his inspiration to become a daredevil when his show appeared in his home town of Butte, Montana.
  
  Stuntman
  Chitwood was frequently hired by Hollywood film studios to either do stunt driving for films or to act as auto-stunt coordinator. On a few occasions he appeared in a minor role, notably with Clark Gable and Barbara Stanwyck in the 1950 film about auto racing, To Please a Lady.

  In 1973, Joie Chitwood Jr. is credited as a Stunt Coordinator for the hugely successful James Bond film Live and Let Die, where he was also the stunt driver and acted in a minor part.

  Safety Consultant
  Joie Chitwood Jr. also acted as a car safety consultant, intentionally crashing vehicles for subsequent investigation. He had intentionally crashed more than 3000 vehicles by the time he appeared on the game show I've Got A Secret in 1965. Joie Jr. and Joie Sr. test-crashed guardrails and breakaway Interstate signs for US Steel and aluminum light poles for ALCOA. The highways are safer today because of these tests.
  
  Retirement
  When Chitwood retired, his sons took over the business. Joie Chitwood died in 1988,[1] aged 75, in Tampa Bay, Florida.
  
  He was inducted in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 1993. He was inducted in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2010 in the Historic category.[1] Among his contributions to the sport was the supervision of the construction of Pennsylvania's Selinsgrove Speedway in 1945.

  

  Joie Chitwood (I) (1912–1988)

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  1917: Richard Wasey Chopping is born--Colchester, Essex, England.
  (He dies 17 April 2008 at age 91--Colchester, Essex, England.)

  

  Richard Chopping: Versatile
  illustrator best known for his
  distinctive Bond book jackets

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/richard-chopping-versatile-illustrator-best-known-for-his-distinctive-bond-book-jackets-813974.html

  Wednesday 23 April 2008 00:00

  Richard Chopping is probably best known today as the creator of dust-jackets for the publisher Jonathan Cape's Ian Fleming James Bond novels. From Russia with Love (1957), with its pistol and flower design, the skull and rose for Goldfinger (1959), and the slightly eerie spyhole and Ian Fleming's name-plate artwork for For Yours Eyes Only [sic] (1960) are distinctively Chopping's work.

  The creator of these confections, with their meticulous attention to detail and delicacy of colour, was, however, much more than a book-jacket designer. By the time they appeared, Chopping had established a reputation as a versatile illustrator who was noted for his depictions of natural objects such as butterflies, flowers, insects and fruit, based on close observation, as well as being a sympathetic teacher, busy exhibitor and author.
  
  Richard Wasey Chopping was born in 1917 in Colchester, Essex – Wasey was an old family name. His father was an entrepreneurial businessman from a milling family, was himself a miller and store owner and eventually became mayor of Colchester. Chopping's twin brother died when young. He also had an older brother, a pilot killed on a Pathfinder mission over Europe in the Second World War.
  
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  A 1956 three-man exhibition at the Hanover Gallery, with Francis Bacon as the main attraction and separate rooms given over to pictures by a French aristocrat and Chopping, led to the Bond dust-jacket commissions. Chopping's flower paintings and trompe-l'oeil works were upstairs, as he remembered, "in a little gallery at the back, that was like a kind of long lavatory".

  Bacon took Ann, Ian Fleming's wife, in to see his own work, Chopping recalled. "Then he took her upstairs to see mine, which was very good of him, and Ann went back to Ian and said, 'Well, you ought to get this chap to do your next book jacket.'" They met at one of the Flemings' artistic salons, where Fleming granted Chopping the commission for From Russia with Love.
  
  Although the first edition jacket announced that it had been designed by the author, Chopping later said:

  He in no way designed it. He did tell me the things he wanted on it. It had to be a rose with a drop of dew on it. There had to be a sawn-off Smith & Wesson. We never discussed the type of revolver we would use. It had to be that one.

  
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  1961: Ian Fleming is inspired to pursue republishing favorite books gone out of print.

  

  Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.

  A glance through The Times Literary
  Supplement while he was still at the London Clinic suggested another idea.
  In the issue of 14 April he read a leading article which put the case for
  republishing books long out of print. This encouraged him to remind his
  own publisher that he had several times pushed for a reprint of one of his
  favourite novels, All Night at Mr Stanyhurst's by Hugh Edwards, with an
  introduction he would write himself. In putting forward such ideas, Ian
  was thinking about his future. As he told William Plomer, he had again
  almost killed off Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me. He had decided not to,
  but the appropriate time had now certainly come.

  1961: Robert Carlyle is born--Glasgow, Scotland.
  1967: Casino Royale general release in the UK.

  
  
  

  
  1980: Moonraker receives an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects.
  
  1996: English Heritage establishes a ceramic plaque at 22 Ebury Street, Belgravia, London:

  IAN FLEMING 1908-1964 Creator of James Bond lived here.

  
  

  
  1999: BBC News reports on a "minor planet" named after James Bond. Maybe asteroid.

  

  Sci/Tech
  The name's Bond, James
  Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/319237.stm

  Wednesday, April 14, 1999 Published at 17:25 GMT 18:25 UK

  
  Asteroid 9007 captured on film

  By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse

  Czech astronomers have named a minor planet they discovered in 1983 after Her Majesty's Secret Agent 007 - James Bond.

  Giving a minor planet a name is one of the privileges given to those astronomers who find them. Mostly, these objects are a few miles across and orbit the Sun in-between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
  
  When a newly-discovered minor planet has been observed several times, and an orbit for it has been well established, it is given a number.
  
  At present, there are 10,448 numbered minor planets of which 7,000 have been officially named.
  
  According to Brian Marsden of the Minor Planet Center at Harvard there are rules about choosing names.
  
  Naming rules
  No military or political names are allowed until at least 100 years after the event or death of the person concerned.
  
  No unpronounceable names or those that are obscene or in bad taste. None must be too similar to existing names and none must be longer than 16 characters.
  
  Following these guidelines, 223 minor planets have just received names - a record.
  
  They include asteroid 9007 which according to its discoverers at the Klet observatory in the Czech republic, could only be called James Bond.
  
  Minor planets have also just been named after the writers Iris Murdoch and Arthur Ransome, as well as painters Constable, Holbein and Gainsboroug.
  
  Star gazing
  There is also Minor Planet DENI which stands for the Department for Education in Northern Ireland.
  
  But perhaps the most touching name given to a minor planet is 1992 QJ Lewispearce.
  
  Lewis Percival Pearce was born at Nedlands, Western Australia on 23 January this year.
  
  He suffered oxygen deprivation during birth and never regained consciousness.
  
  Twelve days later, he died but not without sharing some experiences with his parents. One of them was observing the stars with his dad, Andrew Pearce.

  
  
  

  1999: Anthony Newley dies at age 67--Jensen Beach, Florida.
  (Born 24 September 1931--Hackney, London, England.)

  

  Obituary: Anthony Newley

  See full article here:
  

  https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-anthony-newley-1087464.html

  Tom Vallance | Friday 16 April 1999 00:02
  
  ONE OF Britain's most distinctive talents, Anthony Newley was an actor, singer, composer and writer who had his first starring role in films at the age of 16, composed hit musicals and songs, topped the hit parade himself as a pop star, played everything from romantic leads to quirky character roles in movies, starred on both the West End and Broadway stages, and became a favourite of cabaret audiences from New York to Las Vegas.
  
  His elongated Cockney vowel sounds made his voice an unmistakable one which people either loved or hated. It served him well on novelty songs such as "Pop Goes the Weasel", but he was also a fine ballad singer. "What Kind of Fool Am I", "Who Can I Turn To" and "Candy Man" were just three of the hit songs he co-wrote. "I'm not a trained musician or singer," he once said, "but I can turn out a song."
  
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  With Bricusse, Newley wrote the book and score of Stop the World I Want To Get Off, in which Newley starred as Littlechap, an Everyman figure whose whole life is depicted in the show. Newley said, "The role of Littlechap, surrounded by the type of chorus once used in Greek drama, has presented us with a challenge which any cast would surely enjoy tackling." Directed by Newley, the show opened at the Queen's Theatre in July 1961 and was a smash hit, its songs including "What Kind of Fool Am I", "Gonna Build a Mountain" (a hit record for Matt Monro) and "Once in a Lifetime". Sammy Davis was one of many who recorded the songs - he became a close friend of Newley and a great champion of the Newley-Bricusse catalogue.
  
  When Newley was asked why most of his songs became hit records for other singers, he replied, "Sammy Davis, Andy Williams, Tony Bennett . . . their records sell in the millions; when I do it, it just trickles. But for the composer and lyricist there's a tidy bit to be made that way too, so I don't really mind." "What Kind of Fool Am I" won the 1962 Grammy Award as song of the year and has been recorded by over 70 vocalists, though Newley's own recording ran into trouble because he sang the word "damn" - he later made another recording which could be played on sensitive radio stations.
  
  In 1962 Stop the World moved to Broadway where, produced by David Merrick who had bought the American rights while it had been trying out in Nottingham ("I felt no need to wait and see if it would be a hit in London - I had been thoroughly entertained and absorbed by the freshness of conception shown by its authors"), it ran for over 500 performances. Both the London and New York productions were directed by Newley, of whom Merrick was to write, "I have no doubts at all that Mr Newley is going to enjoy widespread and durable success in America. The man does everything - he acts well; he sings with individuality and verve; and most importantly, he is an exceptionally attractive performer. His personality is dynamic and he projects a brilliance of spirit."
  
  During the show's run in 1963 Newley, who had previously been wed to Tiller Girl-turned-actress Ann Lynn, married Joan Collins. "Like most men of my generation," he said, "I had drooled over pictures of Joan. And there she was, backstage at Stop the World and I could not believe it. Did I ask her for a date? Yes I did." Collins described Newley at the time as "a half- Jewish Cockney git" and herself as "a half-Jewish princess from Bayswater via Sunset Boulevard".

  The following year the Bricusse-Newley team had a big hit with their lyrics to John Barry's music for Goldfinger, sung over the titles of the James Bond film by Shirley Bassey. The next Newley-Bricusse musical, The Roar of the Greasepaint - the Smell of the Crowd, "a comic allegory about the class system in contemporary Britain", had a better score than its predecessor but its 1964 tryout in Nottingham, starring Norman Wisdom and directed by Newley, did not prove satisfactory and it failed to reach London. David Merrick was again impressed, and offered to take it to Broadway if Newley would assume the leading role.

  

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  2021: Rowman & Littlefield Publisher release an updated version of Jeremy Black's
  World Of James Bond: The Lives & Times Of 007.

  

  
  2023: Stern Army James Bond 60th Anniversary Amazing Race at Fort Wayne, Indiana.

  

  Stern Army James Bond 60th Anniversary Amazing
  Race

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.ifpapinball.com/tournaments/view.php?t=61035#

  Tournament Information
  Director : Mike Burgess
  Location : Fort Wayne, IN
  Country : United States
  Information : Website
  
  Location
  14601 Lima Rd
  Fort Wayne, IN
  
  Tournament Overview
  Tournament Date: April 14, 2023
  Amazing Race Format

  • 1 night, 3 races
  • 6pm Stern Army James Bond 60th Anniversary Amazing Race
  • 8pm Stern Army shaken not stirred Amazing Race
  • 10pm Stern Army Goldeneye Amazing Race

  
  Amazing Race has all participants playing 1 machine, with the player finishing in last place being eliminated. Assuming this event is played until only 1 player remains, the number of meaningful games towards TGP is one more than the total number of players participating in the race. For example, a 16 player race would be +17 meaningful games towards TGP.
  
  Watch this fun event they held at Pincinnati:
  
  
  IFPA rules
  Machines are on street rules, in other words, we plunge extra balls. Special tournament modes may be used and will be called out at machine assignment.
  
  It is the players responsibility to make sure it is their turn before plunging the ball! If you play someone elses ball you get a DQ for that game. If you walk up to a machine and you cant tell whos turn it is, contact a TD (tournament director) to make the call.
  
  All rulings must be made by a TD.
  
  No abuse whatsoever is acceptable, be nice to each other and yourself and The Machines.
  
  Nudging is allowed. Sliding, slapping or end of ball frustration abuse is strictly prohibited.
  
  Format Details
  Event Name : Main Tournament
  Qualifying Format : Not Set
  Finals Format : Match Play
  Player Limit : Unknown
  Games Played for TGP : 0
  Unlimited Qualifying? : No
  Qualifying Hours for TGP : 0

  

  
  2023: Essential Bond: Breakfast Briefing Experience at London, England.

  

  

  Essential Bond: Breakfast
  Briefing Experience

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://feverup.com/m/125358

  Fri 14 Apr, 2023
  
  Tickets for Essential Bond: Breakfast Briefing Experience in London
  🎫 Adult ticket for 1, including a martini, breakfast, and an immersive tour and experience
  
  Highlights
  🔎 Be guided through a mission by an expert in the dangerous world of spies, sabotage, and assassination!
  🎬 Walk through the London scenes made famous by the Bond films
  🖊️ Enjoy a delicious breakfast during a special briefing in Whitehall
  🍸 Relax in true 007 style with a Vesper martini, shaken, not stirred (non-alcoholic option available)
  ✨ Sample Bond's preferred fragrance at a perfumery
  
  General Info
  📅 Date: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays (select during purchase)
  🕒 Time: 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Arrival at 9:45 p.m.)
  ⏳ Duration: 3.5 hours
  📍 Meeting location: Horse & Guardsman Pub, London
  👤 Age requirement: 18+ with valid ID
  
  Menu
  Served with tea, coffee, or a soft drink

  • A selection of sourdough toasts: topped with your choice of topping
  • Potato Rosti Florentine: baby spinach, poached eggs, hollandaise, and cress
  • Potato Rosti Benedict: smoked streaky bacon, poached eggs, hollandaise, and cress
  • Baked Eggs: with red pepper, chickpeas, baby spinach, tomato ragu, and smoked paprika, served on sourdough toast
  • Full English: smoked streaky bacon, old spot sausage, fried egg, slow-roasted tomato, flat mushroom, potato rosti, baked beans, toasted sourdough and butter
  • Veggie Breakfast: halloumi, poached egg, avocado and corn salsa, potato rosti, hollandaise, toasted seven seeds, sourdough toast and butter
  • Bubble & Squeak Fritter: smoked streaky bacon, bubble and squeak fritter, celeriac crisp, crispy fried egg, chilli jam, and cress
  • Buttermilk Pancakes: five buttermilk pancakes stacked up and finished with a selection of toppings to choose from
  • Granola (variety of flavours)

  Description
  Play the lead role in the world's most successful movie franchise! This incredible experience makes the dreams of every James Bond fan come true—to step into the shoes of 007 for the morning. Embark on a glamorous Ian Fleming trail, spritz a splash of Floris 89, and sip on Bond's preferred tipple, as you immerse yourself into the cloak-and-dagger world of espionage and get briefed over breakfast. Learn about the real stories of 007, as you're escorted through the London scenes where Bond was born and immortalised in celluloid. This elegant experience makes for a perfect gift for James Bond fans. Get your tickets now for Essential Bond: Breakfast Briefing Experience in London!

  How to get there?
  
  Horse & Guardsman
  16-18 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2DY

  

  
  
  
  
  
  2048: The first Ian Fleming Bond novel Casino Royale is timed to enter the public domain in the United States.
  (And each of the following 13 years another book will do that.)
  
  
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  April 15th
  
  1947: Lois Chiles is born--Houston, Texas.
  1948: Michael Arnold Kamen is born--New York City, New York.
  (He dies 18 November 2003 at age 55--London, England.)

  

  Michael Kamen

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

  

  Michael Kamen (1948–2003)

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  Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
  

  
  1960: Ian Fleming short story "Risico" (as "The Double Take") ends its serial run in The Daily Express.
  (Started 11 April 1960.)
  1965: Goldfinger released in the Netherlands.
  1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films Moneypenny and a new Bond.

  

  
  1978: 007 나를 사랑한 스파이 (007 Love Me Spy) released in the Republic of Korea.

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  1988: The Los Angeles Times reports Timothy Dalton will return.

  

  MOVIES

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-15-ca-1309-story.html

  By DEBORAH CAULFIELD
  April 15, 1988 12 AM PT
  
  Timothy Dalton apparently passed muster as Agent 007--he’ll return as James Bond in “License Revoked,” set to start filming in Mexico City in mid-July, United Artists announced this week. No word yet on whether the Welsh-born Shakespearean-trained actor will again do many of his own stunts, as he did in “The Living Daylights.”

  

  
  2017: Clifton James dies at age 96--Gladstone, Oregon.
  (Born 29 May 1920--Spokane, Washington.)

  

  Gladstone hometown hero Clifton James
  fondly remembered

  See original article here:
  

  http://pamplinmediagroup.com/pt/9-news/357972-237884-gladstone-hometown-hero-clifton-james-fondly-remembered

  Raymond Rendleman - Monday, May 08, 2017

  James, awarded the Silver Star for his bravery in combat in 1945, went on international fame as Louisiana Sheriff JW Pepper in two James Bond films

  Clifton James, Gladstone's hometown hero for his World War II bravery and extensive acting career spanning nearly six decades, died last month at the age of 96.

  
  SUBMITTED PHOTO - In the photo circa 1980, Clifton James enjoys
  the Clackamas River with his family near High Rocks in Gladstone.

  James grew up in Gladstone, a town that he always loved. After studying drama at the University of Oregon, he lived in New York and Los Angeles for most of his life, but his sisters lived in Gladstone, so he would often visit them along with his nieces and nephews. He moved in with his daughter, Gladstone resident Mary James, for the final years of his life before succumbing to diabetes on April 15.

  
  SUBMITTED PHOTO - Clifton James as Sheriff JW Pepper plays opposite
  Roger Moore as James Bond in 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun.

  James' memorial service with full military honors is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 25, at Willamette National Cemetery, 11800 S.E. Mt Scott Blvd., Portland.
  
  "He almost always played that tough, Southern sheriff type," said James' sister Bev Anslow of his successful acting career that included more than 50 film credits.
  
  James made his Broadway stage debut as a construction foreman in "The Cave Dwellers" (1958). He was involved in a lot of off-Broadway shows, where he played various roles, including starring with Al Pacino in "American Buffalo" from 1980-81, which was turned into a 1997 film production starring Dustin Hoffman.

  James played a floor walker in the classic film "Cool Hand Luke" (1967). His most famous role was fast-talking Louisiana Sheriff JW Pepper in two James Bond films opposite Roger Moore: 1973's Live and Let Die and 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun. Anslow said an elephant was supposed to knock James' stunt double, not James himself as JW Pepper, into a Southeast Asian river during a memorable scene in The Man with the Golden Gun.

  Moore paid tribute to James on Twitter: "Terribly sad to hear Clifton James has left us. As JW Pepper he gave my first two Bond films a great, fun character."

  As a character actor, James was called upon to reprise variations on JW Pepper many times. Did he mind being type-cast?

  "It didn't bother him, and he rather liked it," Anslow said. "He was an actor's actor, and he would act whatever part was given to him and genuinely enjoy the work."

  James loved putting on a show throughout his long life. He was a well-known character around Gladstone, often seen with an unlit cigar in his mouth or taking out his false teeth to scare children.

  James' mother taught grade school in Woodland, Washington, and would organize local drama productions, including at the old Gladstone Grade School, which which was K-8 at that time. James went to school in Gladstone through the eighth grade and graduated from Milwaukie High School.

  
  SUBMITTED PHOTO - Staff Sgt. Clifton James of Gladstone
  served in the U.S. Army for 42 months during World War II.

  James was one of the last survivors of WWII's 41st Division, composed of National Guard units from Idaho, Montana, Oregon, North Dakota and Washington state. Serving in the U.S. Army for 42 months in the South Pacific during WWII, he was awarded the Silver Star for his bravery in combat on April 21, 1945.
  
  During the spring of '45, James served as a staff sergeant leading a combat patrol to determine the strength of enemy entrenchments on several ridges on the Philippines' Jolo Island, where previous U.S. attacks had been repulsed. Rather than endanger the whole patrol on April 21, he asked them to stay under cover and watch him try to crawl undetected toward an enemy's trench system. James came under "heavy automatic fire" once he crawled within 20 yards of the trench.
  
  "Then, with complete disregard for his life, [James] charged the position, killing its occupants," a now-declassified military document says. "Continuing on his mission, he crawled to a vantage point, where he could observe the activity of the enemy on the next ridge. With this valuable information gained, the forthcoming attack was a success."
  
  More information about James' military service and letters he sent home to family is available in copies of "Gladstone, Oregon: A History" by Gladstone historian Herbert K. Beals available at City Hall. James suffered various injuries during WWII, including the loss of his front teeth. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a drama degree in 1950.
  
  In 1951, James married Laurie Harper, who died in 2015. He is survived by six children, 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

  

  Clifton James (I) (1920–2017)

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  Clifton James The Dukes of Hazzard
  
  
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  2021: Paper Idol releases their single "James Bond."

  

  Electronic indie-pop band
  Paper Idol premieres single “James Bond”

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.rockatnight.com/2021/04/electronic-indie-pop-band-paper-idol-premieres-single-james-bond/

  April 15, 2021 Rock At Night Contributor New Releases

  
  Paper Idol

  Rock At Night says: “James Bond is one song that makes you want to get off your seat and dance across the floor. With its retro 70s disco sound, it’s exactly what we need at this time!
  
  Paper Idol is the genre-bending pop project of LA-based artist and auteur Matan KG. The music weaves dance music and alternative into “something unique and utterly disarming” (Beats per Minute), with storytelling that blurs the line between reality and fantasy, optimism and delusion.
  
  After graduating university with a Neuroscience degree, Matan left medical-school ambitions behind to pursue music in LA. In under two years, he has released a string of singles and a four-track EP, multiple collaborations with forward-thinking dance artists (Yung Bae, Wankelmut, NASAYA), and has been lauded by BBC Radio 1, Billboard, Under the Radar, and Dancing Astronaut.
  
  Paper Idol’s live act, featuring former classmate Adam Rochelle (keys), has played alongside Louis Futon and Sam Gellaitry at legendary venues the Fonda Theatre and the Echoplex. With another single in late October and a sophomore EP due early 2021, Paper Idol continues to rally a generation bombarded by reality and desperate for an escape.

  Paper Idol - James Bond (Official Music Video)
  

  
  
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  April 16th
  
  1917: Barry Nelson (Haakon Robert Nielsen) is born--San Francisco, California.
  (He dies 7 April 2007 at age 89--Bucks County, Pennsylvania.)

  

  Barry Nelson, Broadway and Film Actor, Dies at 86

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/obituaries/14nelson.html[/center[

  By STUART LAVIETES | APRIL 14, 2007

  Barry Nelson, an actor who had a long career in film and television, starred in some of the more durable Broadway comedies of the 1950s and ’60s, and achieved a permanent place in the minds of trivia buffs as the first actor to portray James Bond, died last Saturday, his wife said yesterday. He was 86.

  The cause was not immediately known. His wife, Nansi Nelson, said he died while traveling in Bucks County, Pa., The Associated Press reported.
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  1918: Syd Cain is born--Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.
  (He dies 21 November 2011 at age 93--England.)

  

  Syd Cain obituary
  Production designer behind the deadly gadgets used by James Bond – and his foes

  See the full article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/dec/01/syd-cain

  Kim Newman - Thu 1 Dec 2011 13.29 EST

  
  Syd Cain at Pinewood Studios with the model used in the explosive climax to
  On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969). Photograph: 007magazine.com

  The production designer Syd Cain, who has died aged 93, was one of many behind-the-scenes professionals elevated to something like prominence by the worldwide interest in the James Bond films. An industry veteran who began work in British cinema as a draughtsman in 1947, contributing to the look of the gothic melodrama Uncle Silas, Cain is credited on a range of film and television projects, but remains best known for his work in various design capacities on the 007 series, from Dr No in 1962 to GoldenEye in 1995.
  
  Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Cain served in the armed forces in the second world war, surviving a plane crash and recovering from a broken back. Working at Denham Studios in Buckinghamshire in the 1940s and 50s, he moved up from uncredited draughtsman (on Adam and Evelyne, The Interrupted Journey, You Know What Sailors Are and Up to His Neck) to assistant art director (for The Gamma People, Fire Down Below, Interpol, How to Murder a Rich Uncle and The World of Suzie Wong). During this time, he developed a habit of slipping his name on to the screen among documents provided as props. In Carol Reed's Our Man in Havana (1959), where the blueprints for a vacuum cleaner are mistaken for rocket secrets, he is listed on the papers as the designer of the device. His first credit as art director was on The Road to Hong Kong (1962), the British-produced last gasp of the series of Bob Hope/Bing Crosby comedies. Cain also worked on the Hope vehicle Call Me Bwana (1963), best remembered because of an in-joke reference to it in From Russia With Love, where a sniper is concealed behind a billboard advertising the film.
  
  Having worked as a draughtsman on Hell Below Zero (1954) and assistant art director on The Cockleshell Heroes (1956), both produced by Albert R Broccoli, he was chosen by Broccoli to work on the Bond films. Though uncredited, he worked with the production designer Ken Adam – in whose shadow he modestly remained for much of his career – on Dr No, taking over as art director when Adam was not available for the immediate follow-up, From Russia With Love (1963). This was the film that introduced the character of Q (Desmond Llewelyn). Cain was responsible for the design of the gadgets issued to Sean Connery's Bond, notably the briefcase with concealed sniper rifle and tear-gas talcum tin. For the villains, Cain also provided Rosa Klebb's shoes, with poison-tipped blade, and the chess-themed decor of Blofeld's lair.
  
  Later, he was production designer for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). With a new Bond (George Lazenby) and a move away from the gadgets and vast sets of Connery and Adam's later work, Thunderball and Goldfinger, this tried to seem less fantastical – the only contraption issued to Bond is a photocopier. Cain was the supervising art director on Roger Moore's first Bond film, Live and Let Die (1973), then left the series, eventually returning as a storyboard artist for Pierce Brosnan's 007 debut, GoldenEye.

  Arguably more impressive than his Bond associations, Cain worked with a number of notable film-makers throughout the 1960s and 70s, as assistant art director for Stanley Kubrick (Lolita, 1962), art director for Ronald Neame (Mister Moses, 1965) and François Truffaut (Fahrenheit 451, 1966), executive art director for Richard Lester (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, 1966) and production designer for Ken Russell (Billion Dollar Brain, 1967), Alfred Hitchcock (Frenzy, 1972) and Jack Gold (Aces High, 1976).

  Contributing to lasting British pop-culture artefacts, he was also art director on the Cliff Richard vehicle Summer Holiday (1963) and production designer of the revival series The New Avengers (1976). After the popular, action-oriented Alistair Maclean adventure Fear Is the Key (1973), Cain became associated with a brand of high adventure that grew out of the Bond films, working with Peter R Hunt (director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service) on the Moore movies Gold (1974) and Shout at the Devil (1976), both set in Africa, and with the producer Euan Lloyd on a series of boozy, British macho epics – The Wild Geese (1978), The Sea Wolves (1980) and Who Dares Wins (1982).
  
  Cain retired as a production designer after Tusks (1988), but contributed storyboards to a select run of high-profile films, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). His final credit was on the Michael Caine boxing movie Shiner (2000). In retirement, he illustrated children's books, wrote an autobiography (Not Forgetting James Bond: The Autobiography of James Bond Production Designer Syd Cain, 2002) and was a well-liked guest at Bond-themed fan events.

  Cain was married twice. His five sons and three daughters survive him.
  
  • Sidney Cain, production designer, art director and illustrator, born 16 April 1918; died 21 November 2011

  

  Syd Cain (1918–2011)

  Filmography

  Production designer (17 credits)
  
  1988 Tusks
  1985 Wild Geese II
  1982 The Final Option
  1981 Loophole
  1980 Lion of the Desert
  1980 The Sea Wolves
  
  1978 The Wild Geese
  1976 The New Avengers (TV Series) (13 episodes)
  - Dirtier by the Dozen (1976)
  - Gnaws (1976)
  - Sleeper (1976)
  - Faces (1976)
  - Three Handed Game (1976)
  - The Tale of the Big Why (1976)
  - Target! (1976)
  - Cat Amongst the Pigeons (1976)
  - To Catch a Rat (1976)
  - The Last of the Cybernauts...? (1976)
  - House of Cards (1976)
  - The Midas Touch (1976)
  - The Eagle's Nest (1976)
  1976 Aces High
  1976 Shout at the Devil
  1974 Gold
  1972 Fear Is the Key (as Sidney Cain)
  1972 Frenzy
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  1967 Billion Dollar Brain
  1966 Fahrenheit 451
  1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
  
  Art department (27 credits)
  
  2001 The Fourth Angel (storyboard artist)
  2000 Shiner (storyboard artist)
  
  1998 Tarzan and the Lost City (storyboard artist)
  1995 GoldenEye (storyboard artist)
  1994 The NeverEnding Story III (storyboard artist)
  1991 Robin Hood (storyboard artist - as Sydney Cain)
  
  1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit (storyboard artist: UK)
  1984 Supergirl (research art director)
  
  1966 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (executive art director)
  1962 Lolita (associate art director - as Sidney Cain)
  1960 The World of Suzie Wong (assistant art director - as Sydney Cain)
  1959 Our Man in Havana (assistant art director)
  1958 Tank Force (assistant art director)
  1957 High Flight (assistant art director)
  1957 How to Murder a Rich Uncle (assistant art director)
  1957 Fire Down Below (assistant art director)
  1957 Pickup Alley (assistant art director)
  1956 Zarak (assistant art director - uncredited)
  1956 The Gamma People (assistant art director)
  1955 The Cockleshell Heroes (assistant art director)
  1954 Up to His Neck (draughtsman - uncredited)
  1954 You Know What Sailors Are (draughtsman - uncredited)
  1954 Hell Below Zero (draughtsman - uncredited)
  
  1949 The Interrupted Journey (draughtsman - uncredited)
  1949 Madness of the Heart (draughtsman - uncredited)
  1949 Adam and Evalyn (draughtsman - uncredited)
  1947 The Inheritance (draughtsman - uncredited)
  
  Art director (10 credits)
  
  1973 Live and Let Die (supervising art director)
  1966 Fahrenheit 451
  1965 Mister Moses
  1965 McGuire, Go Home!
  1964 Agent 8 3/4
  1963 From Russia with Love
  1963 Call Me Bwana
  1963 Summer Holiday
  1962 Dr. No (uncredited)
  1962 The Road to Hong Kong

  
  
  

  
  1922: Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE is born--Clapham, London, England.
  (He dies 22 October 1995 at age 73--London, England.)

  

  Obituary: Sir Kingsley Amis

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sir-kingsley-amis-1579017.html

  David Lodge | Monday 23 October 1995 01:02
  
  Kingsley Amis was the most gifted of the British novelists who began publishing in the 1950s and were grouped together - by the media rather than by their own volition - as "Angry Young Men". He also proved himself to be the one with the most stamina and capacity for development.
  
  Amis was a key figure in the history of British post-war fiction, but his originality was not always fully appreciated because it did not manifest itself in any obvious novelty of form. Indeed the literary new wave of the Fifties, in which Amis played a leading role (its poetic wing, to which he also contributed, was known as "The Movement"), was an aesthetically conservative force, consciously setting itself against modernist experimentation. A passage in a review Amis contributed to the Spectator in 1958 is representative in both its sentiments and the down-to-earth blokeishness of its manner:
  
  The idea about experiment being the life-blood of the English novel is one that dies hard. "Experiment" in this context boils down pretty regularly to "obtruded oddity", whether in construction - multiple viewpoints and such - or in style. It is not felt that adventurousness in subject matter or attitude or tone really count.
  
  This is a thinly disguised manifesto for Amis's own early fiction, but it is as obscuring as it is revealing. It is true that Lucky Jim (1954) and its successors dealt with what was then new or neglected social territory (for example, the provincial university) from unhackneyed perspectives (for example, the upwardly mobile young professional who is unimpressed by the values and lifestyle of the bourgeoisie). This is presumably what Amis meant by adventurousness of subject matter, attitude and tone. And it is also true that these novels were very traditional in form - the specific tradition to which they belonged being that of the English comic novel, in which satirical comedy of manners and robust farce are combined in an entertaining and easily assimilable story. Fielding, Dickens, Wodehouse and Waugh are some of Amis's obvious precursors. But it is also true that Amis's novels are triumphs of "style" - a way of using language that, if not obtrusively "odd", is highly original, and wonderfully expressive.
  
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  In the late Sixties and Seventies he experimented a good deal with "genre" fiction: science fiction (The Anti-Death League, 1966, and The Alteration, 1976), the James Bond thriller (Colonel Sun, 1968), the classic detective story (The Riverside Villas Murder, l973) and the ghost story (The Green Man, 1969). These forms perhaps attracted him as ways of escaping the constraints of the realistic novel and the expectations of an audience who kept hoping he would repeat Lucky Jim. In some of them he addressed himself to weighty philosophic and religious themes, such as the nature of evil.

  
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  This year, Eric Jacobs published a biography, with Amis's collaboration. It revealed (as literary biographies tend to do) a closer correspondence between the life and the fiction than one might have supposed, especially as regards difficulties with women. It also revealed a surprisingly vulnerable person behind the bluff, blimpish public mask, and the poised, sardonic prose stylist: a rather timid man, fearful of flying, unable to drive a car or perform the simplest domestic tasks, needing a regular and repetitive daily routine to keep the black dog of depression at bay: work, club, pub, telly. Work was the most important of these resources. In spite of increasing physical debility, Amis kept writing up till the end of his life. You Can't Do Both (1994) was generally well received and is perhaps the most openly autobiographical of his novels. If The Biographer's Moustache, published earlier this year, was not the biographee's revenge that many reviewers had hoped for, it still had more than a touch of past mastery.
  
  In That Uncertain Feeling the hero is accosted one evening in the street of a small Welsh town by two lascars, one of whom seems to ask him:

  "Where is pain and bitter laugh?" This was just the question for me, but before I could smite my breast and cry, "In here, friend", the other little man had said: "My cousin say, we are new in these town and we wish to know where is piano and bit of life, please?"

  That is one of my favourite quotations from Amis because it seems to epitomise his art. He did not dodge the pain of existence and his laughter was sometimes bitter, but he always retained the liberating, life- enhancing gift of comic surprise.

  Kingsley Amis, writer: born London 16 April 1922; CBE 1981; Kt 1990; books include A Frame of Mind 1953, Lucky Jim 1954, That Uncertain Feeling 1955, A Case of Samples 1956, I Like it Here 1958, Take a Girl Like You 1960, New Maps of Hell 1960, My Enemy's Enemy 1962, One Fat Englishman 1963, The Egyptologists 1965, (with Robert Conquest) The James Bond Dossier 1965, The Anti-Death League 1966, The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007 1966, A Look Round the Estate 1967, Colonel Sun 1968, I Want it Now 1968, The Green Man 1969, What Became of Jane Austen? 1970, Girl, 20 1971, On Drink 1972, The Riverside Villas Murder 1973, Ending Up 1974, Rudyard Kipling and His World 1975, The Alteration 1976, Jake's Thing 1978, Collected Poems 1944-79 1979, Russian Hide-and-Seek 1980, Collected Short Stories 1980, Every Day Drinking 1983, How's Your Glass? 1984, Stanley and the Women 1984, The Old Devils 1986, (with J. Cochrane) Great British Songbook 1986, The Crime of the Century 1987, Difficulties with Girls 1988, The Folks that Live on the Hill 1990, We are All Guilty 1991, Memoirs 1991[/i], The Russian Girl 1992, Mr Barrett's Secret and Other Stories 1993, You Can't Do Both 1994, The Biographer's Moustache 1995; married 1948 Hilary Bardwell (two sons, one daughter; marriage dissolved 1965), 1965 Elizabeth Jane Howard (marriage dissolved 1983); died London 22 October 1995.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1939: Dusty Springfield is born--Hampstead, London, England.
  (She dies 2 March 1999 at age 59--Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England,.)

  

  Dusty Springfield

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/5900498/Dusty-Springfield.html
  04 Mar 1999

  Dusty Springfield, who has died aged 59, was one of Britain's most successful female pop singers; she had nine Top 10 hits in the 1960s, and with her upswept hair and panda-shadowed eyes was among the emerging pop scene's most readily identifiable stars.

  
  Photo: GETTY IMAGES

  She was distinguished from her contemporaries both by her choice of material and by the quality of her voice. Dusty Springfield was a fine judge of a lyric, and favoured emotional songs written by the American teams of Burt Bacharach and Hal David and Jerry Goffin and Carole King. Their songs, rooted in the Broadway tradition, were perfectly suited to a voice often described as soulful but whose ideal setting would perhaps have been cabaret.
  
  Usually backed by lush string arrangements, she sang with a voice that was low and sensual and made her songs sound like confessions of sins she took increasing pleasure in committing. Her voice sounded mature and smooth too, and the assurance of her performances gave her records longer life than the fizzier offerings of such rivals as Lulu and Cilla Black.
  
  Dusty Springfield was among the first British singers to champion the sound of black America, Motown. She was much influenced by that label's girl groups, and in turn her rich voice surprised them. The singer Mary Wells believed Dusty Springfield must be black before seeing her on television, while Cliff Richard dubbed her "The White Negress".
  
  When Motown's stars came to London to host an edition of the pop programme Ready, Steady, Go, they invited only one British guest - Dusty Springfield.
  
  She was born Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien in Hampstead, north London, on April 16 1939. Her father was a tax inspector and she was educated at a convent school in Ealing.
  
  - - -
  

  But her star was declining. Although she had had some success with a song from the soundtrack of the Bond film Casino Royale - "The Look of Love", perhaps her definitive vocal performance - her two most recent albums had flopped. She seemed out of step with the mood of popular music as it edged towards rock, psychedelia and more overt rebellion.

  In 1968 she fled London for Memphis. She had long been fascinated by America - she was a considerable expert on the Civil War - and in Tennessee recorded her finest album, Dusty in Memphis (1968). It was supervised by Jerry Wexler - Ray Charles's and Aretha Franklin's producer - who gave her voice more room to breathe, unlike the British producers who had tended to bury it beneath over-elaborate arrangements.
  
  - - -
  
  A new generation discovered her music when Son of a Preacher Man featured in the film Pulp Fiction (1994). Then shortly afterwards she began her fight against breast cancer.
  
  Published March 4 1999

  

  Dusty Springfield (1939–1999)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0819778/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  

  
  
  "I Only Want To Be With You"
  
  "The Windmills of Your Mind"
  
  "The Look of Love"
  
  "Six Million Dollar Man"
  

  
  1962: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's ninth James Bond novel The Spy Who Loved Me.

  VIVIENNE MICHEL writes:
  
  'The spy who loved me was called
  James Bond and the night on which he
  loved me was a night of screaming
  terror in The Dreamy Pines Motor
  Court, which is in the Adirondacks in the
  north of New York State.
  
  'This is the story of who I am and how
  I came through a nightmare of torture
  and the threat of rape and death to a
  dawn of ecstacy. It's all true--absolutely.
  Otherwise Mr. Fleming certainly would
  not have risked his professional reputa-
  tion in acting as my co-author and per-
  suading his publisherss, Jonathan Cape,
  to publish my story. Ian Fleming has
  also kindly obtained clearnace for
  certain minor breaches of The Official
  Secrets Act that were necessary to my
  story.'

  FLEMING
  The Adventures of James Bond
  
  Casino Royale
  Live and Let Die
  Moonraker
  Diamonds Are Forever
  From Russia, With Love
  Dr No
  Goldfinger
  For Your Eyes Only
  Thunderball
  The Spy Who Loved Me
  
  Non-Fiction:
  Thrilling Cities
  The Diamond Smugglers
  
  Introduces
  his choice among 'lost' books
  All Night at Mr Stanyhurst's
  by Hugh Edwards

  Jacket design by Richard Chopping
  Dagger by Wilkinson Swords Ltd;
  Ian Fleming 1962

  
  
  
  Watermarked promotional letter in early editions.
  
  Richard Chopping at work.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1964: From Russia With Love released in Australia.

  Daybills
  
  
  
  

  
  2021: Helen Elizabeth McCrory OBE dies at age 52--London, England.
  (Born 17 August 1968--Paddington, London, England.)

  

  Helen McCrory, British ‘Skyfall’ and
  ‘Harry Potter’ Actress, Dies at Age 52

  ‘GO NOW, LITTLE ONE’

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.thedailybeast.com/helen-mccrory-british-skyfall-and-harry-potter-actress-dies-at-age-52

  Cheyenne Roundtree | Entertainment Reporter
  Published Apr. 16, 2021 12:18PM ET

  
  Photo: Stuart C. Wilson

  British actress Helen McCrory has died of cancer at age 52 surrounded by family, her husband, actor Damian Lewis, announced Friday. “I’m heartbroken to announce that after a heroic battle with cancer, the beautiful and mighty woman that is Helen McCrory has died peacefully at home, surrounded by a wave of love from friends and family,” he wrote on Twitter. “She died as she lived. Fearlessly. God we love her and know how lucky we are to have had her in our lives. She blazed so brightly. Go now, Little One, into the air, and thank you.” Lewis and McCrory had been married for 14 years, with 14-year-old daughter Manon and 13-year-old son Gulliver.

  With more than 72 acting credits to her name, McCrory was best known for her roles in Peaky Blinders, the Harry Potter franchise, and the James Bond movie Skyfall.

  

  Helen McCrory (1968–2021)

  Actress
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567031/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  
  

  
  2023: Stern Army James Bond 60th Anniversary Amazing Race at Fort Wayne, Indiana.

  

  Stern Army James Bond 60th Anniversary Amazing
  Race

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.ifpapinball.com/tournaments/view.php?t=61035#

  Tournament Information
  Director : Mike Burgess
  Location : Fort Wayne, IN
  Country : United States
  Information : Website
  
  Location
  14601 Lima Rd
  Fort Wayne, IN
  
  Tournament Overview
  Sunday 16 April
  1pm James Bond 60th Launch Party Playoffs
  
  Amazing Race has all participants playing 1 machine, with the player finishing in last place being eliminated. Assuming this event is played until only 1 player remains, the number of meaningful games towards TGP is one more than the total number of players participating in the race. For example, a 16 player race would be +17 meaningful games towards TGP.
  
  Watch this fun event they held at Pincinnati:
  
  
  IFPA rules
  Machines are on street rules, in other words, we plunge extra balls. Special tournament modes may be used and will be called out at machine assignment.
  
  It is the players responsibility to make sure it is their turn before plunging the ball! If you play someone elses ball you get a DQ for that game. If you walk up to a machine and you cant tell whos turn it is, contact a TD (tournament director) to make the call.
  
  All rulings must be made by a TD.
  
  No abuse whatsoever is acceptable, be nice to each other and yourself and The Machines.
  
  Nudging is allowed. Sliding, slapping or end of ball frustration abuse is strictly prohibited.
  
  Format Details
  Event Name : Main Tournament
  Qualifying Format : Not Set
  Finals Format : Match Play
  Player Limit : Unknown
  Games Played for TGP : 0
  Unlimited Qualifying? : No
  Qualifying Hours for TGP : 0

  

  
  2023: Burlesque for Beginners with James Bond 007 Villainess - Trina Parks at Fulton Dance Studio, College Park, Georgia.

  

  

  Burlesque for Beginners with
  James Bond 007 Villainess -
  Trina Parks

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/burlesque-for-beginners-with-james-bond-007-villainess-trina-parks-tickets-558230872567

  Join Trina Parks (the original Black James Bond Villainess - Thumper) for a rare, opportunity. She will teach an intro to Burlesque class.
  By Sweet Treats Productions
  
  When and where
  Date and time
  Sunday, April 16 · 3 - 5pm EDT
  Location
  South Fulton Dance Studio 5495 Old National Highway Suite B5 College Park, GA 30349
  Refund Policy
  Contact the organizer to request a refund.
  Eventbrite's fee is nonrefundable.
  
  About this event
  2 hours
  Mobile eTicket

  Join Trina Parks (the original Black James Bond Villainess - Thumper) for a rare, learning opportunity. She will teach two introductory classes for beginners.
  
  Attendees will build confidence, have fun while learning two routines: Broadway Dance and Burlesque for Beginners during a five week workshop to perform before a live audience on 5/14/23 in Doraville, Georgia.

  
  

  
  2023: Cocktail Class – License to Shake (and Stir) - Cocktails with James Bond
  at Famous Last Words Bar, Toronto, Canada.

  

  

  COCKTAIL CLASS – License to Shake
  (and Stir): Cocktails with James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://famouslastwordsbar.com/events/category/in-person/day/2023-04-16/

  April 16 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
  famous last words 392 Pacific Avenue, Toronto

  Break out of your Quantum of Solace…For Your Eyes Only, our very own Q will walk you through some Ian Fleming-worthy drinks.

  Featuring:
  CHAMPAGNE COCKTAIL
  VESPER MARTINI
  NEGRONI
  WHISKY SOUR
  
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  April 17th
  
  1918: William Holden is born--O'Fallon, Illinois.
  (He dies 12 November 1981 at age 63--Santa Monica, California.)

  

  William Holden

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  

  Holden in a publicity photo, 1954

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

  Cause of death Exsanguination
  Resting place Ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean
  Nationality American
  Alma mater South Pasadena High School
  Occupation Actor, wildlife conservationist
  Years active 1938–1981
  Home town South Pasadena, California, U.S.
  Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
  Political party Republican
  Spouse(s) Brenda Marshall
  (m. 1941; div. 1971)
  Partner(s) Stefanie Powers (1972–1981) (his death)[1]
  Children 3

  Awards

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

  Military career

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

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

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

  Holden was born William Franklin Beedle Jr. on April 17, 1918, in O'Fallon, Illinois, son of William Franklin Beedle (1891–1967), an industrial chemist, and his wife Mary Blanche Beedle (née Ball, 1898–1990), a schoolteacher.[3] He had two younger brothers, Robert Westfield Beedle (1921–1944) and Richard P. Beedle (1924–1964). One of his father's grandmothers, Rebecca Westfield, was born in England in 1817, while some of his mother's ancestors settled in Virginia's Lancaster County after emigrating from England in the 17th century.[3] His younger brother, Robert W. "Bobbie" Beedle, became a U.S. Navy fighter pilot and was killed in action in World War II, over New Ireland, a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific, on January 5, 1944.
  
  His family moved to South Pasadena when he was three. After graduating from South Pasadena High School, Holden attended Pasadena Junior College, where he became involved in local radio plays.
  
  Career
  Paramount
  Holden appeared uncredited in Prison Farm (1939) and Million Dollar Legs (1939) at Paramount.
  
  A version of how he obtained his stage name "Holden" is based on a statement by George Ross of Billboard: "William Holden, the lad just signed for the coveted lead in Golden Boy, used to be Bill Beadle. [sic] And here is how he obtained his new movie tag. On the Columbia lot is an assistant director and scout named Harold Winston. Not long ago he was divorced from the actress, Gloria Holden, but carried the torch after the marital rift. Winston was one of those who discovered the Golden Boy newcomer and who renamed him—in honor of his former spouse!"[4]
  
  Golden Boy
  Holden's first starring role was in Golden Boy (1939), costarring Barbara Stanwyck, in which he played a violinist-turned-boxer.[5] The film was made for Columbia who negotiated a sharing agreement with Paramount for Holden's services.
  
  Holden was still an unknown actor when he made Golden Boy, while Stanwyck was already a film star. She liked Holden and went out of her way to help him succeed, devoting her personal time to coaching and encouraging him, which made them into lifelong friends. When she received her Honorary Oscar at the 1982 Academy Award ceremony, Holden had died in an accident just a few months prior. At the end of her acceptance speech, she paid him a personal tribute: "I loved him very much, and I miss him. He always wished that I would get an Oscar. And so tonight, my golden boy, you got your wish".[6][7]
  
  Next he starred with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart in the Warner Bros. gangster epic Invisible Stripes (1939).[8]
  
  Back at Paramount he starred with Bonita Granville in Those Were the Days! (1940) followed by the role of George Gibbs in the film adaptation of Our Town (1940), done for Sol Lesser at United Artists.[9]
  
  Columbia put Holden in a Western with Jean Arthur, Arizona (1940), then at Paramount he was in a hugely popular war film, I Wanted Wings (1941) with Ray Milland and Veronica Lake.
  
  He did another Western at Columbia, Texas (1941) with Glenn Ford, and a musical comedy at Paramount, The Fleet's In (1942) with Eddie Bracken, Dorothy Lamour and Betty Hutton.[10]
  
  He stayed at Paramount for The Remarkable Andrew (1942) with Brian Donlevy then made Meet the Stewarts (1943) at Columbia. Paramount reunited him and Bracken in Young and Willing (1943).
  
  World War Two
  Holden served as a second and then a first lieutenant in the United States Army Air Force during World War II, where he acted in training films for the First Motion Picture Unit, including Reconnaissance Pilot (1943).
  
  Post War
  Holden's first film back from the services was Blaze of Noon (1947), an aviator picture at Paramount directed by John Farrow.
  
  He followed it with a romantic comedy, Dear Ruth (1947) and he was one of many cameos in Variety Girl (1947).[11]
  
  RKO borrowed him for Rachel and the Stranger (1948) with Robert Mitchum and Loretta Young, then he went over to 20th Century Fox for Apartment for Peggy (1948).
  
  At Columbia he did a film noir, The Dark Past (1948) and a Western with Ford, The Man from Colorado (1949). At Paramount he did another Western, Streets of Laredo (1949).
  
  Columbia teamed him with Lucille Ball for Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) then he did a sequel to Dear Ruth, Dear Wife (1949). He did a comedy at Columbia Father Is a Bachelor (1950).

  
  With Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

  His career took off in 1950 when Billy Wilder tapped him to play a role in Sunset Boulevard, in which he played a down-at-heel screenwriter taken in by a faded silent-screen star, played by Gloria Swanson. Holden earned his first Best Actor Oscar nomination with the part.[12]
  
  Getting the part was a lucky break for Holden, as the role was initially cast with Montgomery Clift, who backed out of his contract.[13] Swanson later said, "Bill Holden was a man I could have fallen in love with. He was perfection on- and off-screen."[14] And Wilder commented "Bill was a complex guy, a totally honorable friend. He was a genuine star. Every woman was in love with him."[14]
  
  Paramount reunited him with Nancy Olson, one of his Sunset Boulevard costars, in Union Station (1950).
  
  Holden had another good break when cast as Judy Holliday's love interest in the big screen adaptation of Born Yesterday (1950). He made two more films with Olson: Force of Arms (1951) at Warners and Submarine Command (1951) at Paramount.
  
  Holden did a sports film at Columbia, Boots Malone (1952) then returned to Paramount for The Turning Point (1952).
  
  Stalag 17 and Peak Era of Stardom
  Holden was reunited with Wilder in Stalag 17 (1953), for which Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor. This ushered in the peak years of Holden's stardom.[5]
  
  He made a sex comedy with David Niven for Otto Preminger, The Moon Is Blue (1953), which was a huge hit, in part due to controversy over its content. At Paramount he was in a comedy with Ginger Rogers that was not particularly popular, Forever Female (1953). A Western at MGM, Escape from Fort Bravo (1953) did much better, and the all star Executive Suite (1954) was a notable success.[15]

  
  With Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina (1954)

  Holden made a third film with Wilder, Sabrina (1954), billed beneath Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.[16] Holden and Hepburn became romantically involved during the filming, unbeknown to Wilder: "People on the set told me later that Bill and Audrey were having an affair, and everybody knew. Well, not everybody! I didn't know."[14]:174 The interactions between Bogart, Hepburn, and Holden made shooting less than pleasant, as Bogart had wanted his wife, Lauren Bacall, to play Sabrina. Bogart was not especially friendly toward Hepburn, who had little Hollywood experience, while Holden's reaction was the opposite, wrote biographer Michelangelo Capua.[17]
  
  Holden recalls their romance:

  Before I even met her, I had a crush on her, and after I met her, just a day later, I felt as if we were old friends, and I was rather fiercely protective of her, though not in a possessive way.[18]
  
  Their relationship did not last much beyond the completion of the film. Holden, who was at this point dependent on alcohol, said, "I really was in love with Audrey, but she wouldn't marry me."[19] Rumors at the time had it that Hepburn wanted a family, but when Holden told her that he'd had a vasectomy and having children was impossible, she moved on. A few months later, Hepburn met Mel Ferrer, whom she would later marry.[20]

  He took third billing for The Country Girl (1954) with Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly, directed by George Seaton from a play by Clifford Odets.
  
  It was a big hit, as was The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954), a Korean War drama with Kelly.[21][22]
  
  In 1954, Holden was featured on the cover of Life. On February 7, 1955, Holden appeared as a guest star on I Love Lucy as himself.[23]
  
  The golden run at the box office continued with Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), from a best-selling novel, with Jennifer Jones, and Picnic (1955), as a drifter, in an adaptation of the William Inge play with Kim Novak.[24][25] Picnic was his last film under the contract with Columbia.
  
  A second film with Seaton did not do as well, The Proud and Profane (1956), where Holden played the role with a moustache.
  
  Neither did Toward the Unknown (1957), the one film Holden produced himself.
  
  The Bridge on the River Kwai
  Holden had his most widely recognized role as an ill-fated prisoner in David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) with Alec Guinness,[26] a huge commercial success.
  
  He made another war film for a British director, The Key (1958) with Trevor Howard and Sophia Loren for director Carol Reed.[27] He played an American Civil War military surgeon in John Ford's The Horse Soldiers (1959) opposite John Wayne, which was a box office disappointment.[28] Columbia would not meet Holden's asking price of $750,000 and 10% of the gross for The Guns of Navarone (1961); the amount of money Holden asked exceeding the combined salaries of the stars Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn.[29]
  
  Holden had another big hit with The World of Suzie Wong (1960) with Nancy Kwan that was shot in Hong Kong.
  
  Less popular was Satan Never Sleeps (1961), the last film of Clifton Webb and Leo McCarey; The Counterfeit Traitor (1962), this third film with Seaton; or The Lion (1962), with Trevor Howard and Capucine. The latter was shot in Africa and sparked a fascination with the continent that was to last until the end of Holden's life.

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

  
  Holden in The Revengers (1972)

  In 1969, Holden made a comeback when he starred in director Sam Peckinpah's graphically violent Western The Wild Bunch,[5] winning much acclaim.
  
  Also in 1969, Holden starred in director Terence Young's family film L'Arbre de Noël, co-starring Italian actress Virna Lisi and French actor Bourvil, based on the novel of the same name by Michel Bataille. This film was originally released in the United States as The Christmas Tree and on home video as When Wolves Cry.[30]
  
  Holden made a Western with Ryan O'Neal and Blake Edwards, Wild Rovers (1971). It was not particularly successful. Neither was The Revengers (1972), another Western.
  
  For television roles in 1974, Holden won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his portrayal of a cynical, tough veteran LAPD street cop in the television film The Blue Knight, based upon the best-selling Joseph Wambaugh novel of the same name.[31][5]
  
  In 1973, Holden starred with Kay Lenz in a movie directed by Clint Eastwood called Breezy, which was considered a box-office flop.[32]
  
  Also in 1974, Holden starred with Paul Newman and Steve McQueen in the critically acclaimed disaster film The Towering Inferno,[33] which became a box-office smash and one of the highest-grossing films of Holden's career.
  
  Two years later, he was praised for his Oscar-nominated leading performance in Sidney Lumet's classic Network (1976),[34] an examination of the media written by Paddy Chayefsky, playing an older version of the character type for which he had become iconic in the 1950s, only now more jaded and aware of his own mortality.
  
  Around this time he also appeared in 21 Hours at Munich (1976).
  
  Final Films
  Holden made a fourth and final film for Wilder with Fedora (1978). He followed it with Damien: Omen II (1978) and had a cameo in Escape to Athena (1978).
  
  Holden had a supporting role in Ashanti (1979) and was third-billed in another disaster movie with Paul Newman for Irwin Allen, When Time Ran Out... (1980), which was a flop.[35]
  
  In 1980, Holden appeared in The Earthling with popular child actor Ricky Schroder,[36] playing a loner dying of cancer who goes to the Australian outback to end his days, meets a young boy whose parents have been killed in an accident, and teaches him how to survive.
  
  After making S.O.B. (1981) for Blake Edwards, Holden refused to star in Jason Miller's film That Championship Season.[37]
  
  Personal life

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

  Holden was best man at the wedding of his friend Ronald Reagan to Nancy Davis in 1952; however, he never involved himself in politics.
  
  While in Italy in 1966, Holden killed another driver in a drunk-driving incident. He received an eight-month suspended sentence for vehicular manslaughter.[38]
  
  Holden maintained a home in Switzerland and also spent much of his time working for wildlife conservation as a managing partner in an animal preserve in Africa. His Mount Kenya Safari Club in Nanyuki (founded 1959) became a mecca for the international jet set.[39] On a trip to Africa, he fell in love with the wildlife and became increasingly concerned with the animal species that were beginning to decrease in population. With the help of his partners, he created the Mount Kenya Game Ranch and inspired the creation of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation.[40] The Mount Kenya Game Ranch works to assist in Kenya with the wildlife education of its youth.[41] Within the Mount Kenya Game Ranch is the Mount Kenya Conservancy, which runs an animal orphanage as well as the Bongo Rehabilitation Program in collaboration with the Kenya Wildlife Service. The orphanage provides shelter and care for orphans, injured and neglected animals found in the wild, with the aim of releasing these animals back into the wild whenever possible. The conservancy is home to the critically endangered East African mountain bongo, and aims to prevent its extinction by breeding.[42][43]
  Marriage and relationships
  
  Holden was married to actress Ardis Ankerson (stage name Brenda Marshall) from 1941 until their divorce 30 years later, in 1971.[5] They had two sons, Peter Westfield "West" Holden (1943–2014)[44] and Scott Porter Holden (1946–2005).[45] He adopted his wife's daughter, Virginia, from her first marriage with actor Richard Gaines. During the filming of the film Sabrina (1954), costar Audrey Hepburn and he had a brief but passionate affair. Holden met French actress Capucine in the early 1960s. The two starred in the films The Lion (1962) and The 7th Dawn (1964). They reportedly began a two-year affair, which is alleged to have ended due to Holden's alcoholism.[46] Capucine and Holden remained friends until his death in 1981.
  
  In 1972, Holden began a nine-year relationship with actress Stefanie Powers, and sparked her interest in animal welfare.[1] After his death, Powers set up the William Holden Wildlife Foundation at Holden's Mount Kenya Game Ranch.[47]
  
  Death
  According to the Los Angeles County Coroner's autopsy report, Holden was alone and intoxicated in his apartment in Santa Monica, California, on November 12, 1981, when he slipped on a rug, severely lacerating his forehead on a teak bedside table, and bled to death. Evidence suggests he was conscious for at least half an hour after the fall. He likely may not have realized the severity of the injury and did not summon aid, or was unable to call for help. His body was found four days later. The causes of death were given as "exsanguination" and "blunt laceration of scalp."[48] Rumors existed that he was suffering from lung cancer, which Holden himself had denied at a 1980 press conference. His death certificate made no mention of any cancer.[39][48] He had dictated in his will that the Neptune Society cremate him and scatter his ashes in the Pacific Ocean. In accordance with his wishes, no funeral or memorial service was held.[49]
  
  Ronald Reagan released a statement, saying, "I have a great feeling of grief. We were close friends for many years. What do you say about a longtime friend – a sense of personal loss, a fine man. Our friendship never waned." [5] For his contribution to the film industry, Holden has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1651 Vine Street.[50] He also has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.[51] His death was noted by singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, whose 1987 song "Tom's Diner" (about a sequence of events one morning in 1981) included a mention of reading a newspaper article about "an actor who had died while he was drinking". Vega subsequently confirmed that this was a reference to Holden.[52]
  
  Filmography

  Film
  Year . . . Title . . . . Role . . . . Notes
  1938 Prison Farm Prisoner Film debut
  Uncredited
  1939 Million Dollar Legs Graduate Who Says 'Thank You' Uncredited
  1939 Golden Boy Joe Bonaparte
  1939 Invisible Stripes Tim Taylor
  1940 Those Were the Days! P.J. "Petey" Simmons
  1940 Our Town George Gibbs
  1940 Arizona Peter Muncie
  1941 I Wanted Wings Al Ludlow
  1941 Texas Dan Thomas
  1942 The Fleet's In Casey Kirby
  1942 The Remarkable Andrew Andrew Long
  1942 Meet the Stewarts Michael Stewart
  1943 Young and Willing Norman Reese
  1947 Blaze of Noon Colin McDonald
  1947 Dear Ruth Lt. William Seacroft
  1947 Variety Girl Himself
  1948 Rachel and the Stranger Big Davey
  1948 Apartment for Peggy Jason Taylor
  1948 The Dark Past Al Walker
  1949 The Man from Colorado Del Stewart
  1949 Streets of Laredo Jim Dawkins
  1949 Miss Grant Takes Richmond Dick Richmond
  1949 Dear Wife Bill Seacroft
  1950 Father Is a Bachelor Johnny Rutledge
  1950 Sunset Boulevard Joe Gillis Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor
  1950 Union Station Lt. William Calhoun
  1950 Born Yesterday Paul Verrall
  1951 Force of Arms Sgt. Joe "Pete" Peterson
  1951 Submarine Command LCDR Ken White
  1952 Boots Malone Boots Malone
  1952 The Turning Point Jerry McKibbon
  1953 Stalag 17 Sgt. J.J. Sefton Academy Award for Best Actor
  Nominated – New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
  1953 The Moon Is Blue Donald Gresham
  1953 Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach Tourist Uncredited
  1953 Forever Female Stanley Krown
  1953 Escape from Fort Bravo Capt. Roper
  1954 Executive Suite McDonald Walling Venice Film Festival Special Award for Ensemble Acting
  1954 Sabrina David Larrabee
  1954 The Bridges at Toko-Ri LT Harry Brubaker, USNR
  1954 The Country Girl Bernie Dodd
  1955 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Mark Elliott
  1955 Picnic Hal Carter Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor
  1956 The Proud and Profane Lt. Col. Colin Black
  1956 Toward the Unknown Maj. Lincoln Bond
  1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai Cmdr. Shears
  1958 The Key Capt. David Ross
  1959 The Horse Soldiers Major Henry Kendall
  1960 The World of Suzie Wong Robert Lomax Nominated – Laurel Award for Top Male Dramatic Performance
  1962 Satan Never Sleeps Father O'Banion
  1962 The Counterfeit Traitor Eric Erickson
  1962 The Lion Robert Hayward
  1964 Paris When It Sizzles Richard Benson / Rick Shot in 1962, given delayed release
  1964 The 7th Dawn Major Ferris
  1966 Alvarez Kelly Alvarez Kelly
  1967 Casino Royale Ransome Cameo role
  1968 The Devil's Brigade Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick
  1969 The Wild Bunch Pike Bishop
  1969 The Christmas Tree Laurent Ségur
  1971 Wild Rovers Ross Bodine
  1972 The Revengers John Benedict
  1973 Breezy Frank Harmon
  1974 Open Season Hal Wolkowski Cameo role
  1974 The Towering Inferno Jim Duncan
  1976 Network Max Schumacher Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor
  Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
  Nominated – National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
  1978 Fedora Barry "Dutch" Detweiler
  1978 Damien: Omen II Richard Thorn
  1979 Escape to Athena Prisoner smoking a cigar in prison camp Uncredited
  1979 Ashanti Jim Sandell
  1980 When Time Ran Out Shelby Gilmore
  1980 The Earthling Patrick Foley
  1981 S.O.B. Tim Culley Final film role

  Television

  1955 Lux Video Theatre Intermission Guest Episode: "Love Letters"
  1955 I Love Lucy Himself Episode: "Hollywood at Last"
  1956 The Jack Benny Program Himself Episode: "William Holden/Frances Bergen Show"
  1973 The Blue Knight Bumper Morgan Television film
  Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
  1976 21 Hours at Munich Chief of Police Manfred Schreiber Television film

  Radio

  1940 Lux Radio Theatre Our Town
  1946 Lux Radio Theatre Miss Susie Slagle's[53]
  1952 Lux Radio Theatre Submarine Command[54]
  1952 Hollywood Star Playhouse The Joyful Beggar[54]
  1953 Lux Radio Theatre Appointment with Danger[55]
  1953 Lux Summer Theatre High Tor[56]

  Box-office ranking
  For a number of years, exhibitors voted Holden among the most popular stars in the country:

  1954 – 7th (US)
  1955 – 4th (US)
  1956 – 1st (US)
  1957 – 7th (US)
  1958 – 6th (US), 6th (UK)
  1959 – 12th (US)
  1960 – 14th (US)
  1961 – 8th (US)
  1962 – 15th (US)

  
  

  
  1930: Rémy Julienne is born--Cepoy, Loiret, France.
  (He dies 21 January 2021 at age 90--Montargis, France.)

  

  Legendary stunt driver Rémy Julienne has
  passed away

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.topgear.com/car-news/movies/legendary-stunt-driver-remy-julienne-has-passed-away

  The skills behind the stunts on The Italian Job and six Bond films dies aged 90
  Jason Barlow | 22 Jan 2021

  

  Rémy Julienne, arguably the greatest stunt driver of all time, has died at the age of 90 having contracted Covid-19. According to French news sources, he had been in intensive care in a hospital in the town of Montargis since early January. “What was bound to happen has happened,” a relative commented. “He left us early in the evening [Thursday]. It was predictable, he was on a respirator.”
  
  Julienne was perhaps best-known for his work on 1969’s The Italian Job, in which his sheer bravery was matched by his peerless driving skills and the balletic precision of the sequences he devised, along with his right-hand man, Raphaël Olivotti. “We were very, very lucky to get Rémy Julienne [and his] stunt driving team,” Michael Caine noted, “because they were really the stars of the film in a way.” Added producer Michael Deeley, “During our initial meeting with Rémy, Peter Collinson [the film’s director] and I were delighted to discover that he was prepared to take the chase sequence even further than we had envisaged, suggesting a different range of hair-raising stunts that could be written into the script.”
  
  Julienne was born on 17th April 1930 in the village of Cepoy, and grew up riding motorbikes. By 1957, he was French motocross champion, and began his movie career doubling for Jean Marais in the 1964 film Fantômas. He would go on to amass 1400 film and many more commercial credits, famously allying with Fiat and conducting a variety of improbable stunts for the Italian giant during the Seventies. The great Claude Lelouch, (whose 1976 short film C’était un rendez-vous is a car chase classic), was once moved to call him a ‘reasonable madman’.

  Although not a household name – unless the occupants of the house were car obsessives – Julienne’s work on six James Bond films was certainly appreciated by millions of cinema fans worldwide. His speciality was in making ordinary cars do extraordinary things, not least the Citroen 2CV in 1981’s For Your Eyes Only or the Renault 11 in 1985’s A View To A Kill. Then there was the truck tanker sequence in 1989’s Licence To Kill, during which Julienne expanded his core team to include a man who could make a Kenworth perform a wheelie, and another who could get it onto half of its 18 wheels.
  
  “The tanker chase was the most dangerous sequence I ever devised,” the film’s director John Glen told me. But he also points out that, for all his flamboyance, Julienne was fastidious in his preparation. “Remy never really spoke particularly good English, but we somehow managed to communicate very well. He was fantastic, a stopwatch man, nothing was left to chance. He didn’t do anything daring – it was all worked out meticulously.”

  As the man himself confirms. “I was a scared little boy, but I had a taste for risk. Over time, I discovered that the real difficulty is finding the right balance between doubt and self-confidence,” he told France Dimanche in 2015. “You must have constant concern for perfection, precision and absolute safety while ensuring that the wishes of the director are met. My job was to calculate the risks.”

  Julienne worked with a number of big names during his long career, including Lee Marvin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Harrison Ford, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. “I shot three James Bond films with Roger Moore,” he recalled. “This kind of Anglo-Saxon production is so strict that insurers refuse to let him do anything. He would say to me, ‘My only stunts, I do them with women’.”

  In 1998, he worked with John Frankenheimer on Ronin, another memorable showcase for his commitment to panel-crunching car chase verité. But there was tragedy during the making of Taxi 2 the following year, during which cameraman Alain Dutartre was killed and his assistant seriously injured when one of the stunts went badly wrong. The French authorities alleged safety compromises, and Julienne was given a one year suspended jail sentence and €13,000 fine. He claimed that the film’s producers rejected his demand that the stunt be trialled ahead of shooting. The Paris Court of Appeal subsequently overturned the verdict.
  
  Julienne’s sons Michel and Dominique continue in the family business, and TG.com sends them and the extended Julienne clan our condolences. Rémy Julienne was the original maestro of the car chase and a fearless cinematic pioneer. Back to the man himself, his defining moment, and the film star who he made look very good indeed.
  
  “Very often people ask, ‘what was my favourite stunt?’ I’d say the jump between the two Fiat factory roofs must be the one, because it was emotional, because it was difficult. We worked on the ground, we prepared the ramps, calculated distances, speeds etc. [Originally] it was decided I had to do three separate jumps in each Mini. I explained that, as the roof was very wide, we could make the three Minis jump all together… it looked much better as a shot. It was more complicated, but really amazing.”

  Adds Michael Caine: “Afterwards, I said to Rémy, ‘Bloody hell, my heart was in my mouth.’
  He said, ‘Michael, it’s mathematics.’”

  

  Rémy Julienne (1930–2021)

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  1959: Sean Bean is born--Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
  
  1992: Arthur Calder-Marshall dies at age 84.
  (Born 19 August 1908--Wallington, London.)

  

  Arthur Calder-Marshall

  See the complete article here:
  

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  Arthur Calder-Marshall (19 August 1908 – 17 April 1992) was an English novelist, essayist, critic, memoirist and biographer.
  
  Life and career
  Calder-Marshall was born in El Misti, Woodcote Road, Wallington, Surrey, the son of Alice (Poole) and Arthur Grotjan Marshall (later Calder-Marshall; 1875 –1958), a civil engineer. The elder Arthur was grandson of the sculptor William Calder Marshall (1813–1894). William Calder Marshall's father William Marshall (1780–1859), D.L. (Edinburgh), a goldsmith (including to the King in the early nineteenth century) and jeweller, had married Annie, daughter of merchant William Calder, Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1810-11, by his wife Agnes, a daughter of landed gentleman Hugh Dalrymple. The Marshall family were Episcopalian goldsmiths from Perthshire; the Calder family were merchants.
  
  A short, unhappy stint teaching English at Denstone College, Staffordshire, 1931–33, inspired his novel Dead Centre. In the 1930s, Calder-Marshall adopted strong left-wing views. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and was also a member of the London-based left-wing Writers and Readers Group which also included Randall Swingler, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mulk Raj Anand, Maurice Richardson and Rose Macaulay.
  
  In 1937, Calder-Marshall wrote scripts for MGM although none appears to have been filmed.
  
  Calder-Marshall's fiction and non-fiction covered a wide range of subjects. He himself remarked, "I have never written two books on the same subject or with the same object."

  In the 1960s, Calder-Marshall took on commissioned work which included a novelisation of the Dirk Bogarde film Victim. He has additionally been proposed as the author of The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ a children's novel about British spy James Bond's nephew, published under the pseudonym R. D. Mascott.

  With his wife, writer Ara Calder-Marshall (born Violet Nancy Sales), he was the father of the actress Anna Calder-Marshall and the grandfather of the actor Tom Burke.
  Media adaptations
  
  Orson Welles adapted The Way to Santiago in 1941 for RKO. However Welles's troubles with the studio saw to it that no film got made.
  
  James Mason purchased the film rights to Occasion of Glory, intending to make this project his directorial debut. Mason hired Christopher Isherwood to write the script.
  
  Bibliography

  Biography
  "The Enthusiast; An Enquiry into the Life Beliefs and Character of the Rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne alias Fr. Ignatius,O.S.B., Abbot of Elm Hill, Norwich and Llanthony Wales" (1962, Faber and Faber; Facsimile reprint 2000, Llanerch Publishers, Felinfach)
  
  Adult fiction
  
  Novels:
  Two of a Kind (1933)
  About Levy (1933)
  At Sea (1934)
  Dead Centre (1935)
  Pie in the Sky (1937)
  The Way to Santiago (1940)
  A Man Reprieved (1949)
  Occasion of Glory (1955)
  The Scarlet Boy (1961)
  
  Short fiction:
  Crime Against Cania (1934)
  A Pink Doll (1935)
  A Date with a Duchess (1937)
  
  Play:
  Season of Goodwill (1965) (based on Every Third Thought by Dorothea Malm) [15]
  
  As William Drummond:
  Midnight Lace (1960) (novelisation)
  Victim 1961 (novelisation)
  Life for Ruth 1962 (novelisation)
  Night Must Fall 1964 (novelisation)
  Gaslight 1966 (novelisation)
  
  Children's fiction
  The Man from Devil's Island (1958)
  The Fair to Middling (1959)
  
  Adult non-fiction
  
  Memoirs
  The Magic of My Youth (1951)
  
  Travel
  Glory Dead (Trinidad) (1939)
  The Watershed (Yugoslavia) (1947)
  
  Miscellany
  (With Edward J. H. O'Brien and J. Davenport) The Guest Book (1935 and 1936)
  Challenge to Schools: A Pamphlet on Public School Education (1935)
  The Changing Scene (essays on English society) (1937)
  (With others) Writing in Revolt: Theory and Examples (1937)
  The Book Front (1947)
  No Earthly Command (biography of Alexander Riall Wadham Woods) (1957)
  Havelock Ellis: A Biography (1959) US title The Sage of Sex: A Life of Havelock Ellis (1960)
  The Enthusiast (biography of Joseph Leycester Lyne) (1962)
  The Innocent Eye (biography of Robert Flaherty) (1963)
  Wish You Were Here: The Art of Donald McGill (1966)
  Lewd, Blasphemous, and Obscene: Being the Trials and Tribulations of Sundry Founding Fathers of Today's Alternative Societies (1972)
  The Grand Century of the Lady (1976)
  The Two Duchesses (1978)
  
  Children's non-fiction
  Lone Wolf: The Story of Jack London (1963)
  
  Editor - Calder-Marshall edited and wrote the introduction to:
  Tobias Smollett (1950)
  The Bodley Head Jack London (four volumes: 1963–66)
  Prepare to Shed Them Now: The Ballads of George R. Sims (1968)
  Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man and Other Writings (1970)

  
  
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  2002: Die Another Day films 007 and Jinx killing Mr. Kil.
  2008: Richard Wasey Chopping dies at age 91--Colchester, Essex, England.
  (Born 14 April 1917--Colchester, Essex, England.)

  

  Richard Chopping: Versatile
  illustrator best known for his
  distinctive Bond book jackets

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/richard-chopping-versatile-illustrator-best-known-for-his-distinctive-bond-book-jackets-813974.html

  Wednesday 23 April 2008 00:00

  Richard Chopping is probably best known today as the creator of dust-jackets for the publisher Jonathan Cape's Ian Fleming James Bond novels. From Russia with Love (1957), with its pistol and flower design, the skull and rose for Goldfinger (1959), and the slightly eerie spyhole and Ian Fleming's name-plate artwork for For Yours Eyes Only [sic] (1960) are distinctively Chopping's work.

  The creator of these confections, with their meticulous attention to detail and delicacy of colour, was, however, much more than a book-jacket designer. By the time they appeared, Chopping had established a reputation as a versatile illustrator who was noted for his depictions of natural objects such as butterflies, flowers, insects and fruit, based on close observation, as well as being a sympathetic teacher, busy exhibitor and author.
  
  Richard Wasey Chopping was born in 1917 in Colchester, Essex – Wasey was an old family name. His father was an entrepreneurial businessman from a milling family, was himself a miller and store owner and eventually became mayor of Colchester. Chopping's twin brother died when young. He also had an older brother, a pilot killed on a Pathfinder mission over Europe in the Second World War.
  
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  A 1956 three-man exhibition at the Hanover Gallery, with Francis Bacon as the main attraction and separate rooms given over to pictures by a French aristocrat and Chopping, led to the Bond dust-jacket commissions. Chopping's flower paintings and trompe-l'oeil works were upstairs, as he remembered, "in a little gallery at the back, that was like a kind of long lavatory".

  Bacon took Ann, Ian Fleming's wife, in to see his own work, Chopping recalled. "Then he took her upstairs to see mine, which was very good of him, and Ann went back to Ian and said, 'Well, you ought to get this chap to do your next book jacket.'" They met at one of the Flemings' artistic salons, where Fleming granted Chopping the commission for From Russia with Love.
  
  Although the first edition jacket announced that it had been designed by the author, Chopping later said:

  He in no way designed it. He did tell me the things he wanted on it. It had to be a rose with a drop of dew on it. There had to be a sawn-off Smith & Wesson. We never discussed the type of revolver we would use. It had to be that one.

  
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  2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #6.
  Stephen Mooney, artist. Greg Pak, artist.

  

  JAMES BOND 007 #6

  Rating: Teen +
  Cover A: Dave Johnson
  Cover B: Declan Shalvey
  Cover C: Raffaele Ienco
  Cover D: Stephen Mooney
  Writer: Greg Pak
  Art: Stephen Mooney
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: April 2019
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 4/17/2019

  The modern Bond epic continues by superstars GREG PAK (Planet Hulk, Firefly) and STEPHEN MOONEY (Grayson, The Dead Hand). Secrets are revealed, allegiances confirmed. Bond and Oddjob learn the awful truth of the terrorist organization ORU, and how they're helpless to prevent the destruction of global infrastructure as we know it...

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2020: Tony Parsons proposes he is ready to write a Bond novel.

  

  Tony Parsons has planned his first
  James Bond novel

  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/books/article/tony-parsons-james-bond

  By Tony Parsons | 17 April 2020
  
  As his latest detective thriller #Taken comes out in paperback and e-book, Tony Parsons muses on the appeal of ‘the space between books’ and how it has shaped the idea for his first James Bond novel. All he needs now is the tap on the shoulder…
  
  Like every writer of a certain vintage, I have always prepared myself for the day I am called by Ian Fleming’s estate. “Tony,” they will say, “we need you now. It’s what Ian would have wanted.”
  
  James Bond’s dapper creator may have died in 1964, but the James Bond books – the first books to fill my dreams – have never stopped coming. Fleming wrote just 13 007 books in his lifetime but since then numerous writers have had a crack at extending his legacy, including Kingsley Amis, Anthony Horowitz, Jeffery Deaver, Sebastian Faulks and William Boyd: some big names trying to catch that Fleming voice and to capture that 007 essence. My day, I always felt – and still do, between you and me – will come to carry on what my literary hero started back in 1953. And I know exactly what I will do – I will write my James Bond story in the space between books.

  I have always planned to set my own James Bond book after the end of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and before the start of You Only Live Twice. That means the lost days between the murder of Bond’s wife, Tracy, in the final chapter of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service but before the first chapter of You Only Live Twice, which finds our hero out east in a geisha house, given one last chance of redemption by M. That is surely fertile ground for any novelist – between the loss of the love of your life and your last chance to do something right. I even have a title – spoiler alert – Always Say Die. You can almost imagine Adele or Shirley Bassey singing it.

  So I have thought a lot about the space between books. What happens to a series hero when the lights go out? What agonies and ecstasies is he suffering when one adventure ends and the next begins? I spent years thinking about what James Bond did between all those iconic Ian Fleming books and more recently I have thought long and hard about what my own series hero, Max Wolfe, got up to between books.
  
  The space between books was my model and inspiration for the three Max Wolfe short stories – “Dead Time”, “Fresh Blood” and “Tell Him He’s Dead”. The latter is now being brought to you by GQ; you can read the whole thing for free.
  
  When you write a series, the reader should be able to pick up any title and jump right in – this is because almost nobody in the world ever reads a series in order. But when you write a series – and I have published six Max Wolfe titles over the last six years – you need it all to fit together and make perfect sense, because if you choose to run the marathon of writing a series of books about one character – from Lee Child’s Jack Reacher to Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, from Ian Fleming's Bond to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock and Watson – you better believe in every single word.
  
  The Max Wolfe short stories were conceived as novellas that would only be available as e-books – but they always had to fit perfectly with the rest of the Max Wolfe universe. So if Max carries a scar at the end of a book – physical, psychological, romantic – then that scar must still be throbbing with pain when the next story starts.
  
  “Dead Time”, the first digital short, happens immediately after The Murder Bag, the first Max Wolfe title. It is Christmas at the end of The Murder Bag so it is a snowy new year in London at the start of "Dead Time", when Max is tasked with hunting down the villain who invented the recreational drugs industry. The second short, “Fresh Blood”, takes place after the end of The Slaughter Man, the second Max Wolfe title, and sees Max hunting a couple of spiffy young villains who are obsessed with the Kray brothers. And the third title, “Tell Him He’s Dead” sees the apparent return of the terrorist who dies in the first chapter of the first book. But these stories were not conceived as full-length books. They were meant to be what happens between books, they were conceived as somewhere between marketing device and bonus for hard-core Max Wolfe fans. I probably tried too hard on them. I thought when I wrote them – and still do – that they would have all made good full-length books, that there is enough in them to sustain a proper novel. But I would never sneer at a cracking short story. A lot of my literary heroes have been short story writers.
  
  Raymond Carver never wrote a novel in his brief, chain-smoking life, but in my eyes, Carver stands up there with Philip Roth and John Updike.
  
  Ian Fleming wrote good short stories – and some of them were turned into full-length films – but that is no doubt because, as someone who only wrote a series hero, he thought a lot about the place between books. If your character is real to you (and he has to be to write book after book, year after year about him), then inevitably your mind often drifts to what he is up to now like it might an old lost lover.
  
  So: Max Wolfe.
  
  He is a detective in homicide and serious crime at West End Central, the massive police station that stands on Savile Row. Max is youngish – pushing 30 – the single father of a young daughter. They have a cavalier King Charles spaniel called Stan and a loft overlooking the meat market in Smithfield. And he boxes. When I write this down, I realise how much of myself I have used to create this character who has been my shadow for six years. But then that is exactly what Fleming did with Bond – when Bond talks about women, or Jamaica, or alcohol, or a good shirt, you can hear Fleming’s voice.
  
  But the big difference is that Bond was a hero and Fleming was not. But Fleming knew what it was like to stand in the shadow of a hero. Me too, Ian, me too.

  

  
  2023: Dundee Museum of Transport hosts some Fleming- and Bond-related vehicles on display at New South Wales, Australia.

  

  

  Movie Vehicle Month
  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.datathistle.com/event/2097488-movie-vehicle-month/

  Visit the museum to see vehicles from the movies including James Bond's Land Rover Defender from Skyfall, the Back to the Future DeLorean, a special 40th Anniversary BMX as seen in ET and family favourite Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!
  
  Movie Vehicle Month
  Performance times
  Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the information displayed here is accurate, always check with the venue before attending.
  
  Dundee Museum of Transport
  Unit 10 Market Mews, Market Street, Dundee, DD1 3LA

  Mon 17 Apr
  £7.50–£8.50 (£6–£7; Children £4–£4.50; Family £18–£20; Members free) / 01382 455196
  10:00 – 16:30

  Wed 19 Apr
  £7.50–£8.50 (£6–£7; Children £4–£4.50; Family £18–£20; Members free) / 01382 455196
  10:00 – 16:30
  
  Thu 20 Apr
  £7.50–£8.50 (£6–£7; Children £4–£4.50; Family £18–£20; Members free) / 01382 455196
  10:00 – 16:30
  
  Fri 21 Apr
  £7.50–£8.50 (£6–£7; Children £4–£4.50; Family £18–£20; Members free) / 01382 455196
  10:00 – 16:30
  
  Sat 22 Apr
  £7.50–£8.50 (£6–£7; Children £4–£4.50; Family £18–£20; Members free) / 01382 455196
  10:00 – 16:30
  
  Sun 23 Apr
  £7.50–£8.50 (£6–£7; Children £4–£4.50; Family £18–£20; Members free) / 01382 455196
  10:00 – 16:30
  
  Mon 24 Apr
  £7.50–£8.50 (£6–£7; Children £4–£4.50; Family £18–£20; Members free) / 01382 455196
  10:00 – 16:30
  
  Wed 26 Apr
  £7.50–£8.50 (£6–£7; Children £4–£4.50; Family £18–£20; Members free) / 01382 455196
  10:00 – 16:30
  
  Thu 27 Apr
  £7.50–£8.50 (£6–£7; Children £4–£4.50; Family £18–£20; Members free) / 01382 455196
  10:00 – 16:30
  
  Fri 28 Apr
  £7.50–£8.50 (£6–£7; Children £4–£4.50; Family £18–£20; Members free) / 01382 455196
  10:00 – 16:30
  
  Sat 29 Apr
  £7.50–£8.50 (£6–£7; Children £4–£4.50; Family £18–£20; Members free) / 01382 455196
  10:00 – 16:30
  
  Sun 30 Apr
  £7.50–£8.50 (£6–£7; Children £4–£4.50; Family £18–£20; Members free) / 01382 455196
  10:00 – 16:30