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James Bond
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The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. The latest novel is Trigger Mortis by Anthony Horowitz, published in September 2015, additionally Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond, and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character, Moneypenny. The character has also adapted for television, radio, comic strip, video games. As of 2017, there have been twenty-four films in the Eon Productions series, the most recent Bond film, Spectre, stars Daniel Craig in his fourth portrayal of Bond, he is the sixth actor to play Bond in the Eon series. There have also two independent productions of Bond films, Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again. In 2015, the franchise was estimated to be worth $19.9 billion, the Bond films are renowned for a number of features, including the musical accompaniment, with the theme songs having received Academy Award nominations on several occasions, and two wins. Other important elements which run through most of the films include Bonds cars, his guns, the films are also noted for Bonds relationships with various women, who are sometimes referred to as Bond girls. Ian Fleming created the character of James Bond as the central figure for his works. Bond is an officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. Bond is known by his number,007, and was a Royal Naval Reserve Commander. Among those types were his brother, Peter, who had involved in behind-the-lines operations in Norway. Aside from Flemings brother, a number of others also provided some aspects of Bonds make up, including Conrad OBrien-ffrench, Patrick Dalzel-Job and Bill Biffy Dunderdale. The name James Bond came from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies. He further explained that, When I wrote the first one in 1953, I wanted Bond to be a dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened. When I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, is the dullest name I ever heard. On another occasion, Fleming said, I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, James Bond was much better than something more interesting, like Peregrine Carruthers. Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure—an anonymous, likewise, in Moonraker, Special Branch Officer Gala Brand thinks that Bond is certainly good-looking. Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way and that black hair falling down over the right eyebrow
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Ian Fleming 's image of James Bond; commissioned to aid the
Daily Express comic strip artists.
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Hoagy Carmichael —Fleming's view of James Bond
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Goldeneye, in Jamaica, where Fleming wrote all the Bond novels
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John McLusky's rendition of James Bond.
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Donald Pleasence
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Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE was an English film, television, and stage actor. His most notable roles include psychiatrist Dr. Pleasence was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, the son of Alice and Thomas Stanley Pleasence. He was brought up as a strict Methodist in the village of Grimoldby. He received his education at Crosby Junior School, Scunthorpe and Ecclesfield Grammar School, in Sheffield. He served as aircraft wireless-operator with No.166 Squadron in Bomber Command, at the wars end in 1945 he was liberated from captivity and returned to England, being discharged from the R. A. F. in 1946. Returning to acting post-war Pleasence resumed working in theatre companies in Birmingham. In the 1950s Pleasences stage work included performing as Willie Mossop in a 1952 production of Hobsons Choice at the Arts Theatre, in 1960 Pleasence won acclaim as the tramp in Harold Pinters The Caretaker at the Arts Theatre, a part he would again play in a 1990 revival. Other stage work in the 1960s included Anouilhs Poor Bitos and Robert Shaws The Man in the Glass Booth, Pleasences later stage work included performing in a double bill of Pinter plays, The Basement and Tea Party, at the Duchess Theatre in 1970. Pleasence made his debut in I Want to Be a Doctor in 1946. In 1954 he received acclaim as Parsons in a BBC adaptation of George Orwells novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The adaptation was by Nigel Kneale and also starred Peter Cushing, Pleasence played Prince John in several episodes of the ITV series The Adventures of Robin Hood. He appeared twice with Patrick McGoohan in the British spy series, Danger Man, in episodes Position of Trust and Find and Return. Pleasences first appearance in America was in an episode of The Twilight Zone, in 1963, he appeared in an episode of The Outer Limits entitled The Man With the Power. He also guest starred in The fugitive in 1966, titled With Strings Attached In 1973 Pleasence played a sympathetic murderer in an episode of Columbo entitled Any Old Port in a Storm. He also portrayed a murderer captured by Mrs. Columbo in Murder is a Parlour Game, in 1978, he played a scout, Sam Purchas in an adaptation of James A. Micheners Centennial. Pleasence starred as the Reverend Septimus Harding in the BBCs 1982 TV series The Barchester Chronicles, in this series has daughter Angela Pleasence played his onscreen daughter Susan. He hosted the 1981 Halloween episode of Saturday Night Live with music guest Fear, in 1986, Pleasence joined Ronald Lacey and Polly Jo Pleasence for the television thriller Into the Darkness. Pleasence made his debut with The Beachcomber
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Pleasence in London, 1973. Portrait by
Allan Warren
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Donald Pleasence in the trailer for the 1967 film
Eye of the Devil.
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You Only Live Twice (film)
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You Only Live Twice is the fifth spy film in the James Bond series and the fifth to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The films screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, and loosely based on Ian Flemings 1964 novel of the same name. It is the first James Bond film to discard most of Flemings plot, using only a few characters, in the film, Bond is dispatched to Japan after American and Soviet manned spacecraft disappear mysteriously in orbit. The film reveals the appearance of Blofeld, who was previously an unseen character. SPECTRE is working for the government of an unnamed Asian power, implied to be the Peoples Republic of China, during the filming in Japan, it was announced that Sean Connery would retire from the role of Bond. But after a hiatus, he returned in 1971s Diamonds Are Forever and later 1983s non-Eon Bond film Never Say Never Again. You Only Live Twice is the first Bond film to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, who directed the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me. You Only Live Twice was a success, receiving positive reviews. An American NASA spacecraft is hijacked from orbit by an unidentified spacecraft, the US suspect it to be the work of the Soviets, but the British suspect Japanese involvement since the spacecraft landed in the Sea of Japan. To investigate, MI6 operative James Bond is sent to Tokyo after faking his own death in Hong Kong and being buried at sea from the HMS Tenby, upon his arrival, Bond is contacted by Aki, assistant to the Japanese secret service leader Tiger Tanaka while watching sumo. Aki introduces Bond to local MI6 operative Dikko Henderson, Henderson claims to have critical evidence about the rogue craft, but is killed before he can elaborate. Bond chases and kills the assailant, taking the assailants clothing as a disguise and escapes in the getaway car, once there, Bond subdues the driver and breaks into the office safe of president Mr. Osato. After stealing documents, Bond is pursued by armed security, but is rescued by Aki, Bond chases her, but falls down a trap door leading to Tanakas office. The stolen documents are examined and found to include a photograph of the cargo ship Ning-Po with a message saying the tourist who took the photo was killed as a security precaution. Bond goes to Osato Chemicals to meet Mr. Osato himself, Osato humours Bond but, after their meeting, orders his secretary, Helga Brandt, to have him killed. Outside the building, assassins open fire on Bond before Aki rescues him again, Bond and Aki drive to Kobe, where the Ning-Po is docked. They investigate the companys facilities and discover that the ship was delivering elements for rocket fuel. They are discovered, but Bond eludes the henchmen until Aki gets away, however and he wakes, tied up in SPECTRE operative Helga Brandts cabin on the Ning-Po
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British cinema poster for You Only Live Twice, designed and illustrated by
Robert McGinnis and
Frank McCarthy
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The
Himeji Castle, location of the ninjas training.
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The sets of Blofeld's hideout at
Pinewood Studios. From left,
Lois Maxwell,
Akiko Wakabayashi,
Sean Connery,
Karin Dor and
Mie Hama examine the set during a break in filming.
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Aki 's
Toyota 2000GT Open-Top was ranked as the seventh best car in the James Bond series by
Complex in 2011.
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Ian Fleming
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Ian Lancaster Fleming was an English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst and, briefly, the universities of Munich and Geneva and his wartime service and his career as a journalist provided much of the background, detail and depth of the James Bond novels. Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952 and it was a success, with three print runs being commissioned to cope with the demand. Eleven Bond novels and two short-story collections followed between 1953 and 1966, the novels revolved around James Bond, an officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. Bond was also known by his number,007, and was a commander in the Royal Naval Reserve. The Bond stories rank among the series of fictional books of all time. Fleming also wrote the childrens story Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang and two works of non-fiction, in 2008, The Times ranked Fleming 14th on its list of The 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Fleming was married to Ann Charteris, who was divorced from the second Viscount Rothermere owing to her affair with the author, Fleming and Charteris had a son, Caspar. Fleming was a smoker and drinker for most of his life. Two of his James Bond books were published posthumously, other writers have since produced Bond novels, Flemings creation has appeared in film twenty-six times, portrayed by seven actors. Ian Fleming was born on 28 May 1908, at 27 Green Street in the wealthy London district of Mayfair and his mother was Evelyn St Croix Rose, and his father was Valentine Fleming, the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910. As an infant he lived, with his family, at Braziers Park in Oxfordshire. Fleming was the grandson of the Scottish financier Robert Fleming, who founded the Scottish American Investment Trust, in 1914, with the start of the First World War, Valentine joined C Squadron, Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars, and rose to the rank of major. He was killed by German shelling on the Western Front on 20 May 1917, because the family owned an estate at Arnisdale, Valentines death was commemorated on the Glenelg War Memorial. Flemings elder brother Peter became a writer and married actress Celia Johnson. Fleming also had two brothers, Michael and Richard, and a younger maternal half-sister born out of wedlock, cellist Amaryllis Fleming. Amaryllis was conceived during an affair between John and Evelyn that started in 1923, some six years after the death of Valentine
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The
Glenelg War Memorial, listing
Valentine Fleming
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Eton College: Fleming's alma mater from 1921 to 1927
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The Admiralty, where Fleming worked in the
Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War
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Anthony Dawson
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He also appeared as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in From Russia With Love and Thunderball. Dawson was born in Edinburgh, the son of Ida Violet and it was while there that he appeared in Alfred Hitchcocks Dial M for Murder, playing C. A. Swann/Captain Lesgate. In the film, he is blackmailed by Tony Wendice into murdering his wife Margot, in his unpublished memoirs, Rambling Recollections, Dawson reminisced about getting the part. I had never met Hitchcock before, and yet he was about to do me the most fantastic good turn I could imagine, I mumbled my thanks and put the phone down, feeling rather dazed, electrified, stunned, all of these. The full impact of this call from Hitch was very soon to come home to me. He had two memorable roles on his return to Britain, including the evil Marques Siniestro in Hammers Curse of the Werewolf and henchman Professor Dent in the first James Bond film. Young also cast him as the presence of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in his Bond films From Russia with Love and Thunderball. His face was never seen, however, and Blofelds voice was provided by Eric Pohlmann, Dawson appeared alongside fellow Bond veterans Adolfo Celi, Lois Maxwell and Bernard Lee in the Italian Bond knockoff O. K. Connery. After the early 1960s, his roles got smaller. He died in Sussex of cancer at age 75 in January 1992, anthony Dawson at the Internet Movie Database
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Dawson as Professor Dent in the
James Bond film
Dr. No
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Eric Pohlmann
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Eric Pohlmann was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor who worked mostly in Britain. Born Erich Pollak in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, he was a trained actor who studied under the renowned director Max Reinhardt. He appeared at the Raimund Theater, and supplemented his income by working as an entertainer in a bar, in 1939, he followed his fiancée and later wife, Jewish actress Lieselotte Goettinger, into exile in London. There he took part in propaganda broadcasts against the Nazis on the BBC, in order to earn a living, the Pohlmanns temporarily took positions in the household of the Duke of Bedford, Lieselotte as a cook and Eric, as he was now known, as butler. After the war, he began a career on the London stage, among other roles he played Peachum in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weills The Threepenny Opera. From the end of the 1940s, Pohlmann was often present in film and television productions, taking supporting roles in adventure and crime films. His large frame and massive features typecast him in roles as criminals and spies, or conversely as police officers or detectives. One of his earliest film appearances was in Carol Reeds classic The Third Man and he also played supporting roles in such British films as They Who Dare, Chance of a Lifetime, Reach for the Sky, and Expresso Bongo. He also appeared in US productions, notably Moulin Rouge, Mogambo, twice he appeared in films directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Robert Taylor - The Adventures of Quentin Durward and The House of the Seven Hawks. Pohlmann also provided the voice of the head of SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in the James Bond films From Russia with Love. In the 1960s and 1970s, Pohlmann regularly returned to his homeland to play character roles in German and Austrian film. He had guest roles in the crime series Der Kommissar and Derrick. In 1962, Pohlmann also appeared in The Puzzle of the Red Orchid starring Marisa Mell, Christopher Lee and Klaus Kinski, a German film adaptation of an Edgar Wallace novel. Under the direction of William Semmelroth, Pohlmann appeared in the role of the villainous Count Fosco, alongside Heidelinde Weis, Christoph Bantzer, Pinkas Braun, the mini-series has a cult following to this day. In 1978, he worked with the actor-director Maximilian Schell in an Austro/German film production of Ödön von Horváths play Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald, the film was shown at the 1979 London Film Festival. In that year, during rehearsals for his second appearance at the Salzburg Festival, Pohlmann suffered a heart attack. Eric Pohlmann at the Internet Movie Database
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Eric Pohlmann
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Telly Savalas
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Aristotelis Telly Savalas was an American singer and film, television, and character actor whose career spanned four decades of television. He was noted for his deep, gravelly voice and his bald head and he also released the one-hit wonder song, If. which he introduced in the UK in 1975. He had also appeared as a guest on talk and variety shows. Savalass career began in films in 1961 and he then continued achieving success in the television crime drama Kojak, co-starring his real-life brother George Savalas, in which Savalas played the title role. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Birdman of Alcatraz, one set of grandparents originated from Ierakas, Greece, in the Peloponnese. Savalas and his brother Gus sold newspapers and shined shoes to help support the family and he entered Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park, New York, and graduated in 1940. He initially spoke only Greek when he entered school. He attended Cobbett Junior High School in Lynn, Massachusetts and he won a spelling bee there in 1934, though through an oversight he did not receive his prize until 1991, when the Boston Herald newspaper and local school principal decided to award it to him. After graduation from school he worked as a lifeguard, but on one occasion was unsuccessful at rescuing a man from drowning. When he entered Columbia University School of General Studies Savalas took courses including English language, radio, at that time he fell in love with radio and television, which led to his interest in acting. In 1950, Savalas hosted a show called The Coffeehouse in New York City. Savalas began as a director and then senior director of the news special events at ABC. He then became a producer for the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports where he gave Howard Cosell his first job in television. Savalas was an actor on television series during 1959 and the 1960s. His first acting role was on And Bring Home a Baby and he appeared on two more episodes of this same series in 1959 and 1960. The Fugitive, Breaking Point, Bonanza, The Man from U. N. C. L. E, the F. B. I. and the The Twilight Zone classic episode Living Doll in which he can be seen with hair. He had a role as Brother Hendricksen on the popular crime drama series,77 Sunset Strip and was a regular on the short-lived NBC television series Acapulco. In 1980, he starred in the TV film Alcatraz, The Whole Shocking Story, while playing Lucky Luciano on the TV series The Witness, he was discovered by actor Burt Lancaster
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Telly Savalas, 1973
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Telly Savalas and
Sally Field, 1971
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Savalas presenting the much-criticized Return to Titanic Live show on 28 October 1987
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Charles Gray (actor)
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Gray was born Donald Marshall Gray in Bournemouth, Hampshire, the son of Maude Elizabeth and Donald Gray, who was a surveyor. Gray attended Bournemouth School alongside Benny Hill, whose school had been evacuated to the same buildings, some of his friends remember that his bedroom walls were plastered with pictures of film stars. By his mid-twenties, Gray left his first job as a clerk for an agent to become an actor. He began his experience at the theatre club next to Bournemouths Palace Court Hotel. Gray surprised everyone, including himself, with the quality of his performance, when he moved away from Bournemouth in the late 1950s, his parents remained at the family home until their deaths. On becoming an actor he had to change his name. He chose Charles Gray partly because Charles was the name of his grandfather, partly because he had a close friend named Charles. For his first appearance on Broadway, in the 1961 musical Kean, Charles Gray distinguished himself in theatrical roles, in the Regents Park Open Air Theatre, London, at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon and at the Old Vic. He received his training at the RSC and became noted for his imposing stage presence. During the 1960s, Gray established himself as a character actor. Work in this period included Danger Man, with Patrick MacGoohan, Gray also appeared opposite Laurence Olivier in the film version of The Entertainer as a reporter. In 1964 he played murderer Jack Baker in the Perry Mason episode and his breakthrough year came in 1967 when he starred with Peter OToole and Omar Sharif in the Second World War murder-mystery film The Night of the Generals. The following year he played Dikko Henderson, an Australian intelligence officer assigned to their Embassy in Tokyo, four years later he appeared as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, both films starring Sean Connery as Bond. These make Gray one of the number of actors to have played a villain. Grays most prolific work as an actor was between 1968 and 1979 when he appeared in more than forty film and television productions. In this period he is perhaps best known for portraying the Criminologist in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and a similar character, Judge Oliver Wright, in its 1981 sequel Shock Treatment. This more expansive role is said to be the character, as the criminologist was not named in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. In 1985, he starred in an episode of the BBC TV detective series Bergerac, other well-known film work includes The Devil Rides Out, Mosquito Squadron, Cromwell and The Beast Must Die
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Gray as Dikko Henderson in You Only Live Twice
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Robert Rietti
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Robert Rietti, born Lucio Rietti and usually credited as Robert Rietty, was an actor and director of Italian heritage. He was knighted by the Italian government, born in 1923, Rietti was the younger of two sons of the Italian actor Victor Rietti and Rachel Rosenay. In 1932, at the age of nine, he joined his fathers company Teatro Italiano and his father developed his son’s acting career under the name Bobby Rietti. He made his motion picture debut as Fattorino in Monty Banks comedy Heads We Go and he soon caught the eye of David O. Selznick, who offered him an extended film contract. Despite letting down Alfred Hitchcock, who handpicked him to play the lead in Sabotage, he made 17 motion pictures during the 1930s and they would later work together in Hitchcock’s film Frenzy. His successful career on the stage and in pictures was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1945, he was invited by John Gielgud to join his production of Hamlet for troops in the Far East, after the war, he returned to work in the theatre, films, radio, and the latest medium, early television. In radio, he teamed up with Orson Welles in the radio series The Third Man, and then again on the popular series The Black Museum and this was to be the beginning of many collaborations between Rietti and Orson Welles, who remained close friends. His frequent work in television and many guest appearances made him a face in the 1950s and 1960s. He is credited with 164 television appearances and he guest starred together with his father in The Jack Benny Program and in Harrys Girls, which were both directed by his friend Ralph Levy, director of The Burns and Allen Show. They also performed together in three versions of his father’s television success To Live in Peace and his fathers television play Against the Stream, in 1958, George Sanders presented Candle for the Madonna, an original television play Robert had written, in which Robert also played the lead. Rietti also frequently guest starred in television such as The Jack Benny Program, The Buccaneers with Robert Shaw, Man in a Suitcase, The Avengers, The Saint. With Tony Curtis, and The New Avengers, among the earliest of his film appearances were with Leslie Howard in The Scarlet Pimpernel and with Douglas Fairbanks in The Private Life of Don Juan. Of his 77 film appearances throughout his career, he is best remembered for his contribution to the original James Bond pictures, besides Sean Connery, he was the only actor who appeared in both Thunderball and the re-make Never Say Never Again. Other performances include The Italian Job, Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Omen and he played Robert Grant in Hell is Empty for his brother, the producer Ronald Rietti. With the growing popularity of international films in the 1960s, Rietti gained a reputation for directing the English versions of films like Lawrence of Arabia. In the last ten films of Jack Hawkins, who had lost his voice to throat cancer and he was nominated for the Golden Reel Award for his direction of the English version of Once Upon a Time in America, in which he directed Robert De Niro’s post syncing. He often cast a young Catherine Zeta Jones as a re-voicing artist, impressed with her talent, he pushed Samuel Goldwyn Jr. to cast her at a time when the actress was unknown
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Robert Rietti
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Rietti (center) accepting the Honorary Doctorate of the Arts at the
University of Florida in 2012
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Max von Sydow
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Max von Sydow is a Swedish actor who became a French citizen in 2002. He has appeared in films in many languages, including Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, English, French, Italian. He received the Royal Foundation of Swedens Cultural Award in 1954, was made a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 2005, Sydow has appeared in well over a hundred films and TV shows. In 2016, Sydow joined the cast of HBOs hit series Game of Thrones, Max von Sydow was born Carl Adolf von Sydow in Lund, to a wealthy family. His father, Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, was an ethnologist and professor of Irish, Scandinavian and his mother, Baroness Maria Margareta Greta, was a schoolteacher. Some of his ancestry is German, his family’s origin is in Pomerania, now a region mostly in Poland, formerly part of Prussia, the particle von means of and usually indicates aristocratic descent. Sydow was brought up as a Lutheran and later became an agnostic and he attended Lund Cathedral School, where he learned German and English, starting at the age of nine. At school he and some friends founded a theatrical company. He completed his service before studying at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. During his time at Dramaten, he made his debuts in Alf Sjöbergs films Only a Mother and Miss Julie. In 1955, Sydow moved to Malmö, where he met his mentor and his first work with Bergman occurred on stage at the Malmö Municipal Theatre, and he would go on to work with Bergman on films such as The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries and The Virgin Spring. In The Seventh Seal, Sydow is the knight who plays a game with Death. The chess scenes and the film were international breakthroughs for actor and director alike and it was in these films that Sydow honed and perfected his craft. Max von Sydow came to dominate the screen as he did the stage, critical recognition came as early as 1954 when he was awarded the Royal Foundation Culture Award. He worked profusely on both stage and screen while in Scandinavia, resisting the calls from the United States to go to Hollywood. As his talents were soon in demand in other American productions, von Sydow, from 1965, he became a regular on the American screen while maintaining a presence in his native Sweden. In 1969, he appeared in John Hustons The Kremlin Letter, though often typecast as a villain, he was rewarded in the United States with two Golden Globe nominations, for Hawaii in 1966 and The Exorcist in 1973. In the mid-1970s, Sydow moved to Rome and began to appear in a number of Italian films, becoming friendly with another screen legend, Marcello Mastroianni
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Von Sydow at the 2006
San Sebastián International Film Festival
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Von Sydow at the
2013 Cannes Film Festival.
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Christoph Waltz
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Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. For each performance, he won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and he also received the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his portrayal of Landa. Waltz was born in Vienna, the son of Johannes Waltz and Elisabeth Urbancic, set and costume designers from Germany and his maternal grandfather, Rudolf von Urban, was a psychiatrist and psychologist who wrote the book Sex Perfection and Marital Happiness. His maternal grandmother was Burgtheater actress Maria Mayen, and his step-grandfather was actor Emmerich Reimers and his great-grandparents also worked in theatre of dreams. Waltz studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna, in the late 1970s, Waltz spent some time in New York City where he studied method acting with Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler. He started as a actor, performing at venues such as Zurichs Schauspielhaus Zürich, Viennas Burgtheater. He became a television actor in the years 1980 to 2000. In 2000, he made his debut, with the German television production Wenn man sich traut. Before coming to the attention of an audience in Tarantinos Inglourious Basterds he had played Dr. Hans-Joachim Dorfmann in the British TV series The Gravy Train in 1990. The show is a story of intrigue and misdeeds set in the offices of the European Union in Brussels, in Quentin Tarantinos 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, Waltz portrayed SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa, aka The Jew Hunter. Waltz received the Best Actor Award for the performance at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and received acclaim from critics, the following month, he won the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor, and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He is the actor to have won an Academy Award for playing a character in a Tarantino film. Tarantino acknowledged the importance of Waltz to his film by stating, I think that Landa is one of the best characters Ive ever written and ever will write and its true that if I couldnt have found someone as good as Christoph I might not have made Inglourious Basterds. Waltz played gangster Benjamin Chudnofsky in The Green Hornet, that year, he starred in Water for Elephants. He played German bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Quentin Tarantinos Django Unchained, during a training accident prior to filming, Waltz injured his pelvis. His role garnered him awards acclaim once again, with Waltz winning the Golden Globe, the BAFTA, Waltz has been cast as the former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the film Reykjavik, based on the 1986 peace talks between the United States and USSR. In April 2013, he was selected as a member of the competition jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. In late 2013, he directed a production of the opera Der Rosenkavalier at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, in 2014, he was selected as a member of the jury for the 64th Berlin International Film Festival
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Waltz at the Paris premiere of
Django Unchained, January 2013
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Waltz in 2012
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Waltz and his wife, Judith Holste at the
82nd Academy Awards, March 2010
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SPECTRE
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SPECTRE is a fictional organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games. Led by evil genius and supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the international organisation first formally appeared in the novel Thunderball and in the film Dr. No. SPECTRE began in the novels as a group of criminals but became a vast international organisation with its own SPECTRE Island training base in the films. In Ian Flemings novels, SPECTRE is a commercial enterprise led by Blofeld and their début is in the 9th Bond book, Thunderball. Flemings SPECTRE has elements inspired by mafia syndicates and organised crime rings that were hunted by law enforcement in the 1950s. During the events of Thunderball, SPECTRE successfully hijack two nuclear warheads and plan to hold the world to ransom, Blofeld, with a weakened SPECTRE, would appear for the final time in book 12, You Only Live Twice. By this point, the organisation has largely been shut down, in the films, the organisation often acts as a third party in the ongoing Cold War. Its long-term strategy, however, is illustrated by the analogy of the three Siamese fighting fish Blofeld keeps in an aquarium in the version of From Russia with Love. Blofeld notes that one fish is refraining from fighting two others until their fight is concluded, then, that cunning fish attacks the weakened victor and kills it easily. Thus SPECTREs main strategy is to instigate conflict between two enemies, namely the superpowers, hoping that they will exhaust themselves and be vulnerable when it seizes power. SPECTRE thus works with, and against, both sides of the Cold War, in both the film and the novel Thunderball, the physical headquarters of the organisation are laid in Paris, operating behind a terrorist front organisation aiding refugees. Organisational discipline is notoriously draconian, with the penalty for disobedience or failure being death, SPECTRE is headed by the supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld who usually appears accompanied by a Chinchilla Persian cat in the films, but not in the books. In both the films and the novels, Emilio Largo is the second in command and it is stated in the novel that if something were to happen to Blofeld, Largo would assume command. Largo appears in the novel Thunderball, the version and its remake, Never Say Never Again. Members are typically referred to by number rather than by name, in the novels, the numbers of members were initially assigned at random and then rotated on a regular basis to prevent detection. However, in the films the number indicates rank within the organisation, Blofeld is always referred to as Number 1 and Emilio Largo, the SPECTRE cabinet had a total of twenty-one members. Blofeld was the chairman and leader because he founded the organisation, a physicist named Kotze and an electronics expert named Maslov were also included in the group for their expertise on scientific and technical matters. In the original Bond novel series, SPECTREs first and last appearance as a power is in the novel Thunderball
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Blofeld's SPECTRE volcano base complete with spacecraft-swallowing rocket shuttle, helipad and attack helicopter, and command centre in the 1967 film
You Only Live Twice. The world map in the background is common to emphasise the aim of world domination.
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SPECTRE logo
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Dr. No with his aquarium in the background.
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Poland
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Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe, situated between the Baltic Sea in the north and two mountain ranges in the south. Bordered by Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, the total area of Poland is 312,679 square kilometres, making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. With a population of over 38.5 million people, Poland is the 34th most populous country in the world, the 8th most populous country in Europe, Poland is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions, and its capital and largest city is Warsaw. Other metropolises include Kraków, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk and Szczecin, the establishment of a Polish state can be traced back to 966, when Mieszko I, ruler of a territory roughly coextensive with that of present-day Poland, converted to Christianity. The Kingdom of Poland was founded in 1025, and in 1569 it cemented a political association with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by signing the Union of Lublin. This union formed the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, one of the largest and most populous countries of 16th and 17th century Europe, Poland regained its independence in 1918 at the end of World War I, reconstituting much of its historical territory as the Second Polish Republic. In September 1939, World War II started with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, followed thereafter by invasion by the Soviet Union. More than six million Polish citizens died in the war, after the war, Polands borders were shifted westwards under the terms of the Potsdam Conference. With the backing of the Soviet Union, a communist puppet government was formed, and after a referendum in 1946. During the Revolutions of 1989 Polands Communist government was overthrown and Poland adopted a new constitution establishing itself as a democracy, informally called the Third Polish Republic. Since the early 1990s, when the transition to a primarily market-based economy began, Poland has achieved a high ranking on the Human Development Index. Poland is a country, which was categorised by the World Bank as having a high-income economy. Furthermore, it is visited by approximately 16 million tourists every year, Poland is the eighth largest economy in the European Union and was the 6th fastest growing economy on the continent between 2010 and 2015. According to the Global Peace Index for 2014, Poland is ranked 19th in the list of the safest countries in the world to live in. The origin of the name Poland derives from a West Slavic tribe of Polans that inhabited the Warta River basin of the historic Greater Poland region in the 8th century, the origin of the name Polanie itself derives from the western Slavic word pole. In some foreign languages such as Hungarian, Lithuanian, Persian and Turkish the exonym for Poland is Lechites, historians have postulated that throughout Late Antiquity, many distinct ethnic groups populated the regions of what is now Poland. The most famous archaeological find from the prehistory and protohistory of Poland is the Biskupin fortified settlement, dating from the Lusatian culture of the early Iron Age, the Slavic groups who would form Poland migrated to these areas in the second half of the 5th century AD. With the Baptism of Poland the Polish rulers accepted Christianity and the authority of the Roman Church
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Reconstruction of a
Bronze Age,
Lusatian culture settlement in
Biskupin, c. 700 BC
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Flag
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Earliest known contemporary depiction of a Polish ruler; King
Mieszko II Lambert of Poland being presented with a
Liturgical book by
Matilda of Swabia, 1025–1031
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Drawing of the
Battle of Grunwald, which was fought against the
German Order of Teutonic Knights, 15 July 1410
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Supervillain
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A supervillain is a variant of the villainous stock character archetype commonly found in American comic books, sometimes possessing superhuman abilities. A supervillain is the antithesis of a superhero, Supervillains are often used as foils to present a daunting challenge to a superhero. Other traits may include megalomania and possession of considerable resources to further their aims, many supervillains share some typical characteristics of real world dictators, gangsters, and terrorists, with aspirations of world domination or universal leadership. Some notable examples of female supervillains are Catwoman, Mystique, Harley Quinn, Talia al Ghul, Supervillains are sometimes members of supervillain groups, such as the Sinister Six, the Suicide Squad, the Brotherhood of Mutants, the Injustice League, and the Masters of Evil. The dictionary definition of supervillain at Wiktionary Media related to Supervillains at Wikimedia Commons
Supervillain
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Supervillains from the 1966 film
Batman, a film adaptation of the comic books based on
Batman and the 1960s
television show of the same name.
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New York Comic Con 2014 - A fan dressed as
General Zod
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Rosa Klebb
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Colonel Rosa Klebb is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the James Bond 1963 film and 1957 novel From Russia with Love. She was played by Lotte Lenya in the film version and her name is a pun on the popular Soviet phrase for womens rights, khleb i rozy, which in turn was a direct Russian translation of the internationally used labour union slogan bread and roses. Colonel Klebb is a member of the feared Russian counter-intelligence agency SMERSH. It is strongly implied in the novel that she is a lesbian, Ian Fleming believed the description of Klebbs sexual orientation allowed the reader to understand how she fitted in the plot. She has a reputation for overseeing the interrogations of enemy agents in which, after torturing the target, she speaks to them in a warm and she started her career as O. G. P. U agent placed inside POUM during the Spanish Civil War. Her chief was Andreu Nin i Perez, whose mistress she supposedly was and it was later rumoured that it was she who killed him. She is 5 ft 4 inches tall and described as unattractive, teaming with Tov Kronsteen and Red Grant, Klebb sets a trap for Bond, enlisting a cipher clerk, Tatiana Romanova, to pretend to defect, claiming to fall in love with Bond. When Bond takes the bait, Grant will kill him and this plan backfires, however, when Bond foils Grants attempt to kill him, and now with information given to him by the now deceased Grant, Bond heads to Paris to confront Klebb. Bond tracks Klebb to the hotel in Paris, where she was to rendezvous with Grant at the conclusion of his mission and he finds her there dressed as a wealthy widow. The novel ends when Bond collapses to the floor, Fleming had intended to end the series at that point with Bonds death. In the next novel, Dr. No, M reveals that Bond survived as a result of Mathis timely intervention, in the film, Klebb is depicted as the former SMERSH head who has defected to become a member of SPECTRE. She uses Kronsteens plans to obtain the Lektor, a device that is of high value to MI6. She deceives Tatiana Romanova into helping Bond steal the Lektor, and then sends Red Grant to kill Bond, posing as a hotel maid, she attempts to take the Lektor, when she is caught, she points a.25 Beretta 418 pistol at Bond. Tatiana then distracts her, causing her to drop the Beretta, as in the novel, Klebb attempts to kick Bond with the poison-tipped shoe, but Bond blocks the attack with a chair. Tatiana then shoots Klebb with her own Beretta, killing her, Rosa Klebb was one of two inspirations for the character of Frau Farbissina from the Austin Powers series. Rosa Klebbs shoe blade has been featured in other films and it is used by Jade Fox in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ichi in Ichi the Killer, James West in Wild Wild West, the Joker in The Dark Knight and Oleg Vasilyevich Orlov in Salt. It was also referenced in the Family Guy episode Mr. and Mrs. Stewie, in the 2010 reimagining of the video game GoldenEye 007, the weapon that was named Klobb in the original game has had its name changed to Klebb. Klebb herself is also a character in the games multiplayer component
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Rosa Klebb
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Rosa Klebb's
signature weapon
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Dr. Julius No
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Dr. Julius No is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1958 James Bond novel and 1962 film Dr. No. He was the first villain in the series, in which he was portrayed by actor Joseph Wiseman. No was born in Peking to a German Methodist missionary and a Chinese girl, as an adult, he went to Shanghai, where he was involved with the Tongs, a Chinese crime syndicate. Later he was smuggled to the United States and settled in New York City, in the late 1920s, a mob war broke out in New York, forcing the police to crack down on them. No stole a million dollars in gold from the Tongs and disappeared, but the Tongs tracked him down and tortured him to find the location of the gold. When No refused to tell them, the Tongs cut off his hands, shot him through the side of the chest. No survived, due to a condition called dextrocardia, in which his heart is on the side of the body. No spent a time in hospital, then enrolled in medical school in Milwaukee. He adopted the title of Doctor and changed his name to Julius No, symbolic of his rejection of his father, as in the film, No fits himself with metal manual prostheses, but the book describes them as simple pincers. No is tall and very thin and he is described as being at least 6 inches taller than Bond, who is six feet tall, meaning that hes probably around 6 ft 6 inches in height. His head is said to be shaped like an oil drop due to his round head pointed chin. In the novel he wears a gunmetal coloured kimono, due to his inability to hold a bell he uses a walkie-talkie which he carries around his neck and he employs Jamaican and Cuban labourers on good wages for the guano works, brutally supervised by Jamaican Chigroes. No one who comes to the island is allowed to leave, No, with aid from the Soviets, sabotages the nearby tests of American missiles by jamming their signals and making them land and explode on a different target than that planned. This forces the Americans to spend time and money redesigning their missiles and he also recovers missiles from the ocean and turns them over to the Russians. Bond does not actually learn of Nos plot until he and Quarrel — with Honey Rider, Bond had gone there after Commander Strangways had disappeared, murdered by Nos henchmen. Bond eventually kills No by suffocating him in a mound of guano, Miss Taro Miss Chung Sister Rose May Riker Other various Chigroes The Three Blind Mice Dr. No is a brilliant scientist with an implied Napoleon complex, and he is a self-described unwanted child of a German missionary and a Chinese girl of a good family. He later became treasurer of the most powerful criminal society in China, in this case and he then escaped to America with $10,000,000 of Tong gold bullion
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Joseph Wiseman as Dr. No
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Le Chiffre
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Le Chiffre is a fictional character appearing in Ian Flemings 1953 first James Bond novel, Casino Royale. Fleming based the character on occultist Aleister Crowley, there he adopts the name Le Chiffre because as he claims, he is only a number on a passport. Not much else is known about Le Chiffres background or where he comes from, except for educated guesses based on his description. Eyes very dark brown with whites showing all round iris, racially, subject is probably of Albanian ancestry. He dresses well and meticulously, generally in dark double-breasted suits and he is also fluent in Albanian, French, English, and German with traces of a Marseille accent. In the novel, he makes an investment in a string of brothels with money belonging to SMERSH. The investment fails after a bill is signed into law banning prostitution, Le Chiffre then goes to the casino Royale-les-Eaux in an attempt to recover all of his lost funds. MI6 sends Bond, an expert player, to the casino to bankrupt Le Chiffre and force him to take refuge with the British government. Bond bests Le Chiffre in a game of Chemin de Fer, Le Chiffre kidnaps Bonds love interest, Vesper Lynd, to lure him into a trap and get his money back. The trap works, and Le Chiffre tortures Bond to get him to give up the money and he is interrupted by a SMERSH agent, however, who shoots him between the eyes with a silenced TT pistol as punishment for losing the money. Le Chiffres death is seen by the Soviet government as an embarrassment, basil – bodyguard and martial arts expert who takes pleasure in roughing up Bond. He is later killed by a SMERSH agent, kratt - Le Chiffres Corsican bodyguard who wields a walking-stick gun with which he threatens to cripple Bond at the gaming table. He is later killed by a SMERSH agent, Le Chiffre is a secondary villain in the 1967 satire and appears in the only segment of the film actually adapted from Flemings book. As in the novel, Le Chiffre is charged with recovering a large sum of money for SMERSH after he loses it at the baccarat table, with no other option, he returns to the baccarat table to try to win back the money. Later, he encounters baccarat Master Evelyn Tremble, who has been recruited by Bond to stop Le Chiffre from raising the money, Le Chiffre attempts to distract Tremble by performing elaborate magic tricks, but fails to prevent Tremble from winning. Afterwards, he arranges for Tremble to be kidnapped and subjects the agent to psychedelic torture in order to get back the money, the torture session is interrupted when his SMERSH masters, led by the films main villain, Dr. Noah, shoot him dead. Le Chiffre is the villain of the official 2006 James Bond film, Casino Royale. Believed by MI6 to be Albanian and officially stateless, Le Chiffre is a financier of international terrorism, M implies that Le Chiffre conspired with al-Qaeda in orchestrating 9/11, or at least deliberately profiteering from the attacks by short selling large quantities of airline stocks beforehand
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Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre in
Casino Royale (2006)
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Secret Intelligence Service
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The Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6, is the foreign intelligence agency of the British government. The SIS Chief is held accountable to the Foreign Secretary, SIS is bound by the Intelligence Services Act 1994. The name MI6 was used as a flag of convenience during the First World War when it was known by many names, the existence of the SIS was not officially acknowledged until 1994. It forms a part of the UKs intelligence machinery alongside GCHQ, MI5, in late 2010, the head of SIS delivered what he said was the first public address by a serving chief of the agency in its then 101-year history. The remarks of Sir John Sawers primarily focused on the relationship between the need for secrecy and the goal of maintaining security within the UK and his remarks acknowledged the tensions caused by secrecy in an era of leaks and pressure for ever-greater disclosure. Since 1995, the SIS headquarters have been at Vauxhall Cross on the South Bank of the River Thames, the service derived from the Secret Service Bureau, which was founded in 1909. The bureau was split into naval and army sections which, over time, specialised in foreign espionage and internal counter-espionage activities and this specialisation was because the Admiralty wanted to know the maritime strength of the Imperial German Navy. This specialisation was formalised before 1914 and its first director was Captain Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming, who often dropped the Smith in routine communication. He typically signed correspondence with his initial C in green ink and this usage evolved as a code name, and has been adhered to by all subsequent directors of SIS when signing documents to retain anonymity. The services performance during the First World War was mixed, because it was unable to establish a network in Germany itself, most of its results came from military and commercial intelligence collected through networks in neutral countries, occupied territories, and Russia. After the war, resources were reduced but during the 1920s. In August 1919, Cumming created the new passport control department, the post of Passport Control Officer provided operatives with diplomatic immunity. Circulating Sections established intelligence requirements and passed the intelligence back to its consumer departments, mainly the War Office, the debate over the future structure of British Intelligence continued at length after the end of hostilities but Cumming managed to engineer the return of the Service to Foreign Office control. In the immediate post-war years under Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming and throughout most of the 1920s, SIS was focused on Communism, in particular, Russian Bolshevism. Smith-Cumming died suddenly at his home on 14 June 1923, shortly before he was due to retire, an economic intelligence section, Section VII, to deal with trade, industrial and contraband. A clandestine radio communications organisation, Section VIII, to communicate with operatives, Section N to exploit the contents of foreign diplomatic bags Section D to conduct political covert actions and paramilitary operations in time of war. Section D would organise the Home Defence Scheme resistance organisation in the UK, with the emergence of Germany as a threat following the ascendence of the Nazis, in the early 1930s attention was shifted in that direction. Sinclair died in 1939, after an illness, and was replaced as C by Lt Col. Stewart Menzies, the extensive double-cross system run by MI5 to feed misleading intelligence to the Germans Imagery intelligence activities conducted by the RAF Photographic Reconnaissance Unit
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A young Englishman, member of the Secret Intelligence Service, in
Yatung (bo), photographed by
Ernst Schäfer in 1939
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Operation Gold: the Berlin tunnel in 1956
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The SIS building at
Vauxhall Cross, London, seen from
Vauxhall Bridge
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Stone (unit)
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The stone or stone weight is an English and imperial unit of mass now equal to 14 pounds. The United Kingdoms imperial system adopted the wool stone of 14 pounds in 1835, with the advent of metrication, Europes various stones were superseded by or adapted to the kilogram from the mid-19th century on. The stone continues in use in Britain and Ireland used for measuring body weight. The name stone derives from the use of stones for weights, the Biblical law against the carrying of diverse weights, a large and a small is more literally translated as you shall not carry a stone and a stone, a large and a small. There was no standardized stone in the ancient Jewish world, such weights varied in quality, the Yale Medical Library holds 10 and 50-pound examples of polished serpentine, while a 40-pound example at the Eschborn Museum is made of sandstone. The English stone under law varied by commodity and in practice varied according to local standards. The Assize of Weights and Measures, a statute of uncertain date from c. In 1350, Edward III issued a new statute defining the stone weight, to be used for wool and other Merchandizes, at 14 pounds, reaffirmed by Henry VII in 1495. In England, merchants traditionally sold potatoes in half-stone increments of 7 pounds, the Oxford English Dictionary also lists, The Scottish stone was equal to 16 Scottish pounds. In 1661, the Royal Commission of Scotland recommended that the Troy stone be used as a standard of weight, the tron stone of Edinburgh, also standardised in 1661, was 16 tron pounds. In 1789, an enumeration of measurements was printed for the use of his Majestys Sheriffs and Stewards Depute. And to the Magistrates of the Royal Boroughs of Scotland and provided a county-by-county and commodity-by-commodity breakdown of values and conversions for the stone and other measures. The Scots stone ceased to be used for trade when the Act of 1824 established a system of measure across the whole of the United Kingdom. Before the early 19th century, as in England, the stone varied both with locality and with commodity, for example, the Belfast stone for measuring flax equaled 16.75 avoirdupois pounds. )The most usual value was 14 pounds. Among the oddities related to the use of the stone was the practice in County Clare of a stone of potatoes being 16 lb in the summer and 18 lb in the winter. The 1772 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica defined the stone, STONE also denotes a certain quantity or weight of some commodities, a stone of beef, in London, is the quantity of eight pounds, in Hertfordshire, twelve pounds, in Scotland sixteen pounds. The Weights and Measures Act of 1824, which applied to all of the United Kingdom, consolidated the weights and measures legislation of several centuries into a single document. It revoked the provision that bales of wool should be made up of 20 stones, each of 14 pounds, ten years later, a stone still varied from 5 pounds to 8 pounds to 14 pounds. However, the Act of 1835 permitted using a stone of 14 pounds for trade, james Britten, in 1880 for example, catalogued a number of different values of the stone in various British towns and cities, ranging from 4 lb to 26 lb
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A 16th-century
bronze 1 stone weight emblazoned with the
English coat of arms.
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A 2nd-century stone weight of 40
Roman pounds (~13 kg), beside a
credit card for scale.
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A depiction of a medieval German scale weighing bales of wool according to the local stone.
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Thunderball (novel)
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Thunderball is the ninth book in Ian Flemings James Bond series, and the eighth full-length James Bond novel. It was first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 27 March 1961, the story centres on the theft of two atomic bombs by the crime syndicate SPECTRE and the subsequent attempted blackmail of the Western powers for their return. James Bond, Secret Service operative 007, travels to the Bahamas to work with his friend Felix Leiter, seconded back into the CIA for the investigation. Thunderball also introduces SPECTREs leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in the first of three appearances in Bond novels, with On Her Majestys Secret Service and You Only Live Twice being the others. Thunderball has been adapted four times, once in a comic strip format for the Daily Express newspaper, twice for the cinema and once for the radio. The Daily Express strip was cut short on the order of its owner, Lord Beaverbrook, on screen, Thunderball was released in 1965 as the fourth film in the Eon Productions series, with Sean Connery as James Bond. The second adaptation, Never Say Never Again, was released as an independent production in 1983 also starring Connery as Bond and was produced by Kevin McClory, BBC Radio 4 aired an adaptation in December 2016, directed by Martin Jarvis. It starred Toby Stephens as Bond and Tom Conti as Largo, Thunderball begins with a meeting between Bond and his superior, M, during which the agent is told that his latest physical assessment is poor because of excessive drinking and smoking. M sends Bond on a treatment at the Shrublands health clinic to improve his health. At the clinic Bond encounters Count Lippe, a member of the Red Lightning Tong criminal organisation from Macau, when Bond learns of the Tong connection, Lippe tries to kill him by tampering with a spinal traction machine. Bond, however, is saved by nurse Patricia Fearing and later retaliates against Lippe by trapping him in a bath, resulting in the Counts second-degree burns. SPECTRE is headed by criminal mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Count Lippe was dispatched to Shrublands to oversee Giuseppe Petacchi of the Italian Air Force, at the Boscombe Down Airfield, a bomber squadron base. Although Lippe was successful, Blofeld considered him unreliable, because of his clash with Bond and, as a consequence. Acting as a NATO observer of Royal Air Force procedure, Petacchi is in SPECTREs pay to hijack the bomber in mid-flight by killing its crew and flying it to the Bahamas. Once there, Petacchi is killed and the plane, with bombs, are taken by Emilio Largo on board the cruiser yacht Disco Volante, the Americans and the British launch Operation Thunderball to foil SPECTRE and recover the two atomic bombs. On a hunch, M assigns Bond to the Bahamas to investigate, there, Bond meets Felix Leiter, seconded to the CIA from his usual role at Pinkertons because of the Thunderball crisis. While in Nassau, Bond meets Dominetta Domino Vitali, Largos mistress and she is living on board the Disco Volante and believes Largo is on a treasure hunt, although Largo makes her stay ashore while he and his partners hunt hidden treasure. After seducing her, Bond informs her that Largo killed her brother, Domino re-boards the Disco Volante with a Geiger counter to ascertain if the yacht is where the two nuclear bombs are hidden
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First edition cover, published by Jonathan Cape
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The
Vickers Valiant: closest relation to the fictional Vindicator
Thunderball (novel)
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The Ordzhonikidze was a
Sverdlov class cruiser similar to that shown in this photograph (The Alexander Nevsky).
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You Only Live Twice (novel)
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You Only Live Twice is the eleventh novel in Ian Flemings James Bond series of stories. It was first published by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom on 26 March 1964, the book holds the distinction of being the last novel by Fleming to be published in his lifetime, with subsequent works being published posthumously. You Only Live Twice is the chapter in what is known as the Blofeld Trilogy. The story starts eight months after the murder of Tracy Bond, James Bond is drinking and gambling heavily and making mistakes on his assignments when, as a last resort, he is sent to Japan on a semi-diplomatic mission. Whilst there he is challenged by the Head of the Japanese Secret Service to kill Dr. Guntram Shatterhand, Bond realises that Shatterhand is Ernst Stavro Blofeld and sets out on a revenge mission to kill him and his wife, Irma Bunt. The novel deals on a level with the change in Bond from a depressed man in mourning, to a man of action bent on revenge. Through the mouths of his characters, Fleming also examines the decline of post-World War II British power and influence, notably in relation to the United States. The book was popular with the public, with pre-orders in the UK totalling 62,000, critics were more muted in their reactions, the story was serialised in the Daily Express newspaper and Playboy magazine, and also adapted for comic strip format in the Daily Express. In 1967, it was released as the entry in the Eon Productions James Bond film series. The novel has also adapted as a radio play and broadcast on the BBC. After the wedding-day murder of his wife, Tracy, Bond begins to let his slide, drinking and gambling heavily, making mistakes. In exchange, the Secret Service will allow the Japanese access to one of their own information sources, Bond is introduced to Tanaka—and to the Japanese lifestyle—by an Australian intelligence officer, Dikko Henderson. When Bond raises the purpose of his mission with Tanaka, it transpires that the Japanese have already penetrated the British information source and Bond has nothing left to bargain with. Instead, Tanaka asks Bond to kill Dr. Guntram Shatterhand, after examining photos of Shatterhand and his wife, Bond discovers that Shatterhand and his wife are Tracys murderers, Ernst Stavro Blofeld and Irma Bunt. Bond gladly takes the mission, keeping his knowledge of Blofelds identity a secret so that he can exact revenge for his wifes death. Made up and trained by Tanaka, and aided by former Japanese film star Kissy Suzuki, Bond attempts to live, Tanaka renames Bond Taro Todoroki for the mission. After surviving a near execution, Bond exacts revenge on Blofeld in a duel, Blofeld armed with a sword, Bond eventually kills Blofeld by strangling him, then blows up the castle. Upon escaping, he suffers an injury, leaving him an amnesiac living as a Japanese fisherman with Kissy, while the rest of the world believes him dead
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First edition cover
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Blofeld's Samurai armour would have protected him from the poisonous plants.
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Sean Connery played Bond in the 1967 cinema adaptation
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Eon Productions
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Eon Productions is a British film production company known for producing the James Bond film series. The company is based in Londons Piccadilly and also operates from Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom. Eon, a closely held corporation, was started by film producers Albert R. Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman in 1961, at the time they became partners. No the year before they formed Danjaq, which for legal reasons became Eons holding company, Broccoli had been interested in the Bond novel rights for several years but was dissuaded from making them project by his former partner. When they dissolved their relationship he was free to pursue the property, for which Saltzman, the two were introduced by a New York writer who was acquainted with both, and formed a partnership within a week of meeting. The enterprise was and is still a business, including both wives of the principal partners, as well as several of their progeny, the latter group now carrying on their parents work. Albert almost immediately included Dana Broccolis college-aged son Michael G. Wilson in the early films and his engineering education was put to use in some of the series special effects. In 1975, after nine films, Harry Saltzman sold his shares of Danjaq to United Artists. Albert R. Broccolis name has appeared in the opening credit of every Eon-produced James Bond film. After Saltzman left, the credit was Albert R. Broccoli presents through to GoldenEye, even after Barbara Broccoli. On all films since Broccolis death, the credit is Albert R. Broccolis Eon Productions presents. Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall and Spectre were co-distributed with Columbia Pictures, the video rights for all of Eons films are owned by MGM Home Entertainment, and are controlled by MGMs distributor 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment initially assumed the rights to Casino Royale. The Bond films produced by Eon Productions are, Dr, no in 1962, Eon has only made one non-Bond film, Call Me Bwana, starring Bob Hope. In 2008, Eon signed a deal with Columbia Pictures to develop fifteen thrillers and family films outside the Bond franchise, the company hopes the move will allow more British writers to establish themselves in the United States. In 2000, Eon productions served a cease and desist letter to Cheapass Games to stop it from using the name Mr. Bond in the title of its game Before I Kill You, in 2004, the game was reissued under the title James Ernests Totally Renamed Spy Game. James Bond games – list of games authorised by Eon Productions, Ian Fleming Publications – administers all of Ian Flemings literary oeuvre as well as continuation novels by other authors. Eon Productions at the Internet Movie Database
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Films by year (
Films A–Z)
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Portal
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From Russia with Love (film)
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It is the second film in the James Bond film series, as well as Sean Connerys second role as MI6 agent James Bond. In the film, Bond is sent to assist in the defection of Soviet consulate clerk Tatiana Romanova in Turkey, following the success of Dr. No, United Artists greenlit a sequel and doubled the budget available for the producers. In addition to filming on location in Turkey, the scenes were shot at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire. Production ran over budget and schedule, and was rushed to finish by its scheduled October 1963 release date, from Russia with Love was a critical and commercial success. It took more than $78 million in box office receipts, far more than its $2 million budget and more than its predecessor Dr. No. Seeking to exact revenge on James Bond for killing its agent Dr, No and destroying the organizations assets in the Caribbean, SPECTRE begins training agents to kill Bond. Meanwhile, the organizations expert planner, a Czech chess grandmaster named Kronsteen, SPECTREs leader, Number 1, puts Rosa Klebb, an ex-SMERSH operative and the organizations Number 3, in charge of the mission. Klebb recruits Donald Red Grant, ordering him to protect Bond until he acquires the Lektor, before killing him for it and bringing the device back to SPECTRE so they can sell it back to the Soviets. To further assist the scheme, Klebb recruits Tatiana Romanova, a clerk at the Soviet consulate in Istanbul. In London, M informs Bond that Romanova has contacted their Station T in Turkey, offering to defect with a Lektor, however, Romanovas message states that she will only defect if brought back by Bond, whose photo she had supposedly found in a Soviet intelligence file. After traveling to Istanbul, Bond heads into the city to meet with station head Ali Kerim Bey, tailed by Bulgarian secret agents working for the Russians. They are in turn tailed by Grant, who one of them after Bond is taken back to his hotel, stealing their car. After Kerim Bey luckily escapes a limpet mine attempt on his life, however, Krilencu learns of this and promptly attacks with his men. While Kerim Bey is wounded in the attack, Bond narrowly avoids being killed by being saved by Grant. The following night, Bond and Kerim Bey track down Krilencu to his hideout, upon returning to his hotel suite that night, Bond finds Romanova waiting for him in his bed and sleeps with her, neither are aware of SPECTRE filming them. Using the plans, Bond and Kerim Bey successfully steal the Lektor and, together with Romanova, on the train, Kerim Bey quickly notices a Soviet security officer named Benz tailing them, prompting him and Bond to subdue him. At the station in Belgrade, Bond passes on word of Kerim Beys death to one of his sons, however, when the train arrives at the station, Grant intercepts Nash, sent from Station Y, killing him before posing as him. After drugging Romanova at dinner, Grant overcomes Bond, before taunting him about SPECTREs involvement in the theft, Bond quickly convinces him to accept a bribe of gold sovereigns in exchange for a final cigarette, tricking Grant into setting off the booby trap in his attaché case
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British
cinema poster for From Russia with Love, designed and illustrated by Renato Fratini and Eric Pulford
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A still from the
From Russia with Love video game.
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Thunderball (film)
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Thunderball is the fourth spy film in the James Bond series starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the novel of the name by Ian Fleming. It was directed by Terence Young with its screenplay by Richard Maibaum, the search leads Bond to the Bahamas, where he encounters Emilio Largo, the card-playing, eye patch-wearing SPECTRE Number Two. Backed by CIA agent Felix Leiter and Largos mistress, Domino Derval, the film had a complex production, with four different units and about a quarter of the film consisting of underwater scenes. Thunderball was the first Bond film shot in widescreen Panavision and the first to have running time of two hours. The lawsuit was settled out of court and Bond film series producers Albert R, the film was a success, earning a total of $141.2 million worldwide, exceeding the earnings of the three previous Bond films. In 1966, John Stears won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, Thunderball is the second-most financially successful film of the series when adjusting for inflation, after Skyfall. Some critics and viewers showered praise on the film and branded it an addition to the series, while others complained of the repetitively monotonous aquatic action. In 1983, Warner Bros. released a film adaptation of the novel under the title Never Say Never Again. James Bond attends the funeral of Colonel Jacques Bouvar, a SPECTRE operative, Bouvar is alive and disguised as his own widow, but Bond identifies him. Following him to a château, Bond fights and kills him, escaping using a jetpack and his Aston Martin DB5, conveniently driven up by French agent, at a SPECTRE meeting in Paris, chaired by the enigmatic No. 1, Emilio Largo introduces the groups latest project, stealing two atomic bombs and holding NATO for ransom, the plot begins at the Shrublands sanatorium, located close to an air force base. Coincidentally, James Bond is at Shrublands to improve his health, there he notices Count Lippe, a suspicious man with a Tong tattoo. Bond searches Lippes room, but is leaving by Lippes clinic neighbour. Lippe tries to murder Bond with a traction machine, but Bond is saved by his physiotherapist. Lippe and Angelo, the man, are part of SPECTRES plot. Derval is murdered by Angelo, who takes his place on the flight, hijacks the plane, Angelo submerges the jet and the atomic bombs are retrieved by SCUBA-equipped SPECTRE operatives, commanded by Largo. Angelo is killed by Largo for trying to more money than had been agreed
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British cinema poster for Thunderball, designed and illustrated by
Robert McGinnis and
Frank McCarthy
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The home used as Largo's estate in the film
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Diamonds Are Forever (film)
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Diamonds Are Forever is the seventh spy film in the James Bond series by Eon Productions, and the sixth and final Eon film to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film is based on Ian Flemings 1956 novel of the same name, Bond has to battle his nemesis for one last time, to stop the smuggling and stall Blofelds plan of destroying Washington, D. C. and extorting the world with nuclear supremacy. The producers were inspired by Goldfinger, eventually hiring that films director, Guy Hamilton, locations included Las Vegas, California, Amsterdam and Lufthansas hangar in Germany. Diamonds Are Forever was a success, but received criticism for its humorous camp tone. The film marked the appearance of the SPECTRE organization in Eons Bond films until the 2015 film of the same name. James Bond—Agent 007—pursues Ernst Stavro Blofeld out of revenge, hunting down SPECTRE operatives across the world and he eventually finds him at a facility where Blofeld look-alikes are being created through plastic surgery. Bond kills a test subject, and later the real Blofeld, disguised as professional smuggler and assassin Peter Franks, Bond travels to Amsterdam to meet contact Tiffany Case. The real Franks shows up on the way, but Bond intercepts and kills him, Case and Bond then go to Los Angeles, smuggling the diamonds inside Franks corpse. At the airport Bond meets his CIA ally Felix Leiter, then travels to Las Vegas, at a funeral home, Franks body is cremated and the diamonds are passed on to another smuggler, Shady Tree. Bond tells Leiter to ship him the real diamonds, Bond then goes to the Whyte House, a casino-hotel owned by the reclusive billionaire Willard Whyte, where Tree works as a stand-up comedian. Bond watches Trees act and afterwards goes to his room, where he discovers there that Tree has been killed by Wint and Kidd. At the craps table Bond meets the opportunistic Plenty OToole, and after gambling, gang members ambush them, throwing OToole out the window and into a pool. Bond spends the rest of the night with Tiffany Case, instructing her to retrieve the diamonds at the Circus Circus casino. Tiffany reneges on her deal to back with Bond and instead flees. However, seeing that OToole was killed after being mistaken for her and she drives Bond to the airport, where the diamonds are given to Whytes casino manager, Bert Saxby, who is followed to a remote facility. Bond enters the apparent destination of the diamonds, a laboratory owned by Whyte, where a satellite is being built by Professor Metz. Bond fakes Metz by telling him he is Klaus Hergersheimer, a technician he met in the facility and his cover is blown when he is seen by a technician, but evades the security guards by stealing a moon buggy and reunites with Tiffany. They are seen by the Las Vegas police, and assuming Bond is a saboteur and they soon engage in a car chase, but Bond manages to evade all the cars
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British cinema poster for Diamonds Are Forever, designed by Robert McGinnis
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Sean Connery during the filming in Amsterdam, 31 July 1971.
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For Your Eyes Only (film)
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For Your Eyes Only is the twelfth spy film in the James Bond series, and the fifth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It marked the debut of John Glen, who had worked as editor. Some writing elements were inspired by the novels Live and Let Die, Goldfinger, after the science fiction-focused Moonraker, the producers wanted a conscious return to the style of the early Bond films and the works of 007 creator Fleming. For Your Eyes Only followed a grittier, more realistic approach, filming locations included Greece, Italy and England, while underwater footage was shot in The Bahamas. For Your Eyes Only was released on 24 June 1981 to a critical reception. This was the final Bond film to be distributed solely by United Artists, the head of the KGB, General Gogol, has also learned of the fate of the St Georges and already notified his contact in Greece. A marine archaeologist, Sir Timothy Havelock, who had been asked by the British to secretly locate the St Georges, is murdered with his wife by a Cuban hitman, Bond goes to Spain to find out who hired Gonzales. While spying on Gonzales villa, Bond is captured by his men, outside, he finds the assassin was Melina Havelock, the daughter of Sir Timothy, and the two escape. With the help of Q, Bond identifies the man he saw paying off Gonzales as Emile Leopold Locque, and then goes to Locques possible base in Cortina, Italy. After Bond goes with Kristatos protégée, figure skater Bibi Dahl, to a biathlon course, Bond escapes, and then goes with Ferrara to bid Bibi farewell in an ice rink, where he fends off another attempt on his life by men in ice hockey gear. Ferrara is killed in his car, with a pin in his hand. Bond then travels to Corfu in pursuit of Columbo, there, at the casino, Bond meets with Kristatos and asks how to meet Columbo, not knowing that Columbos men are secretly recording their conversation. After Columbo and his mistress, Countess Lisl von Schlaf, argue, Bond offers to escort her home with Kristatos car, the two then spend the night together. In the morning Lisl and Bond are ambushed by Locque and Lisl is killed, Bond is captured by Columbos men before Locque can kill him, Columbo then tells Bond that Locque was actually hired by Kristatos, who is working for the KGB to retrieve the ATAC. After the base is destroyed, Bond chases Locque and kills him, afterwards, Bond meets with Melina, and they recover the ATAC from the wreckage of the St Georges, but Kristatos is waiting for them when they surface and he takes the ATAC. After the two escape an attempt, they discover Kristatos rendezvous point when Melinas parrot repeats the phrase ATAC to St Cyrils. With the help of Columbo and his men, Bond and Melina break into St Cyrils, as Columbo confronts Kristatos, Bond kills the biathlete Kriegler. Bond retrieves the ATAC system and stops Melina from killing Kristatos after he surrenders, Kristatos tries to kill Bond with a hidden flick knife, but is killed by a knife thrown by Columbo, Gogol arrives by helicopter to collect the ATAC, but Bond destroys it first
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British cinema poster for For Your Eyes Only, designed by
Bill Gold
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A
Citroën 2CV 007, similar to the one used in the film.
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The
Monastery of the Holy Trinity in
Meteora served as a location
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For Your Eyes Only watch, released as part of the merchandising for the film
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Spectre (2015 film)
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Spectre is the 24th instalment in the James Bond film series and the twenty-sixth overall. It was produced by Eon Productions for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Columbia Pictures and it is Daniel Craigs fourth performance as James Bond, and Christoph Waltzs first as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, with the film marking the characters re-introduction into the series. It was directed by Sam Mendes as his second James Bond film following Skyfall, with a written by John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade. With a budget around $245 million, it is the most expensive Bond film, the film marks Spectres first appearance in an Eon Productions film since 1971s Diamonds Are Forever, with Christoph Waltz playing the organisations leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Spectre was filmed from December 2014 to July 2015, with locations in Austria and it was released in the United States one week later, on 6 November. Upon its release, the film received positive reviews from critics. The theme song, Writings on the Wall, performed by the British singer Sam Smith won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, Spectre grossed over a total of $880 million worldwide, the second largest unadjusted income for the series after its predecessor Skyfall. Following Gareth Mallorys promotion to M, James Bond takes leave from MI6 and he attacks Marco in a helicopter and before pushing him out, shoves him out of the helicopter grabs his ring which is emblazoned with a stylised octopus. C campaigns for Britain to form Nine Eyes, a surveillance and intelligence co-operation initiative. Bond disobeys Ms order and travels to Rome to attend Sciarras funeral and that evening he seduces Sciarras widow Lucia, who tells him about Spectre, an organisation of businessmen with criminal and terrorist connections to which her husband belonged. Bond uses Sciarras ring to infiltrate a Spectre meeting, where he identifies the leader, when Oberhauser addresses Bond by name, he is pursued across the city by Spectres assassin, Mr. Hinx. Bond asks her to investigate Oberhauser, who was presumed dead years earlier, Bond locates White in Austria, where he learns that White is dying of thallium poisoning. He admits to growing disenchanted with Quantum and tells Bond to find and protect his daughter, Dr. Madeline Swann, who take him to LAméricain. Bond approaches Swann, and after rescuing her from Hinx, the two meet Q, through Sciarras ring, Q forensically links Oberhauser to Bonds previous missions, identifying Le Chiffre, Dominic Greene and Raoul Silva as Spectre agents. Swann reveals that LAméricain is a hotel in Tangier, the two travel to the hotel and discover White left evidence directing them to Oberhausers operations base in the desert. After an encounter with Hinx that sees the assassin killed, Bond, there, Oberhauser reveals that Spectre has been funding the Joint Intelligence Service while staging terrorist attacks around the world, creating a need for the Nine Eyes programme. In return C will give Spectre unlimited access to intelligence gathered by Nine Eyes, allowing them to anticipate, Bond is tortured as Oberhauser discusses their shared history, after the younger Bond was orphaned, Oberhausers father, Hannes, became his temporary guardian. Believing that Bond supplanted his role as son, Oberhauser killed his father and staged his own death, subsequently adopting the name Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Bond and Swann overpower him and escape, destroying the base in an explosion and leaving Blofeld to die
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Theatrical release poster
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Christoph Waltz plays Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the film's villain.
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At the age of 50,
Monica Bellucci became the oldest actor to be cast as a
Bond girl.
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Sam Mendes returned as director.
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Never Say Never Again
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It is the second adaption of Flemings Thunderball, which was previously adapted as the 1965 film of the same name. Unlike the majority of Bond films, Never Say Never Again was not produced by Eon Productions, McClory, one of the original writers of the Thunderball storyline, retained the filming rights of the novel following a rights controversy. Sean Connery played the role of James Bond for the seventh and final time, the films title is a reference to Connerys reported declaration in 1971 that he would never again play that role. As Connery was 52 at the time of filming, the features an aging Bond. Filming locations included France, Spain, the Bahamas and Elstree Studios in England, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, to date, owns the distribution rights and also distributes Eons Bond films, and the company has handled subsequent home video releases of the film. After MI6 agent James Bond,007, fails a routine training exercise, his superior, M, while there, Bond witnesses a mysterious nurse named Fatima Blush giving a sadomasochistic beating to a patient in a nearby room. The mans face is bandaged and after Blush finishes her beating, Bond is seen by Blush and an attempt is subsequently made to kill him in the clinic gym, but Bond manages to defeat the assassin. Blush and her charge, a United States Air Force pilot named Jack Petachi, are operatives of SPECTRE, a criminal organisation run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. While doing so, he replaces the dummy warheads of two cruise missiles with nuclear warheads, SPECTRE then steals the warheads, intending to extort billions of dollars from NATO governments. Blush murders Petachi to cover SPECTREs tracks, under orders from the Prime Minister, M reluctantly reactivates the double-0 section and Bond is assigned the task of tracking down the missing weapons. He meets Domino Petachi, the sister, and her wealthy lover, Maximillian Largo. Bond follows Largo and his yacht to the Bahamas, where he spars with Blush, Bond is informed by Nigel Small-Fawcett of the British Consulate that Largos yacht is now heading for Nice, France. There, Bond joins forces with his CIA counterpart, Felix Leiter, Bond goes to a health and beauty centre where he poses as an employee and, whilst giving Domino a massage, is informed by her that Largo is hosting an event at a casino that evening. At the charity event, Largo and Bond play a 3-D video game called Domination, while dancing with Domino, Bond informs her that her brother had been killed on Largos orders. Bond returns to his villa to find that Nicole, his French contact, has killed by Blush. After a vehicle chase on his motorbike, Blush captures Bond and she admits that she is impressed with him, and forces Bond to declare in writing that she is his Number One sexual partner. Bond distracts her with promises, then uses his Q-branch-issue fountain pen to shoot Blush with an explosive dart, Bond and Leiter attempt to board Largos motor yacht, the Flying Saucer, in search of the missing nuclear warheads. He attempts to make Largo jealous by kissing Domino in front of a two way mirror, Largo becomes enraged, traps Bond and takes him and Domino to Palmyra, Largos base of operations in North Africa
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British
cinema poster for Never Say Never Again, illustrated by Renato Casaro
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This 007 motif takes the place of
Eon's gun barrel sequence.
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The Kingdom 5KR which acted as Largo's ship, the Flying Saucer
