H. C. McNeile
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Herman Cyril McNeile, MC, commonly known as Cyril McNeile and publishing under the name H. C. McNeile or the pseudonym Sapper, was a British soldier and author. Drawing on his experiences in the trenc
McNeile, 1930s Portrait by Howard Coster
US cover of No Man's Land, published in 1917
Lobby card for US screenings of the 1922 film, Bulldog Drummond
O. Henry was a literary model for McNeile
Commander James Bond is a character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the James Bond series of novels, films, comics and video games. Fleming
H. C. McNeile
…literary heroes created in the 1940s and '50s. W. E. Johns used McNeile's work as a model for his character Biggles, while Ian Fleming admitted that James Bond was "Sapper from the waist up and Mickey Spillane below". Sydney Horler's popular character "Tiger" Standish was also modelled on Drummond. McNeile's…
Ian Fleming's image of James Bond; commissioned to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists.
James Bond, ornithologist; the accepted provider of Bond's name
Fleming compared Bond's appearance to Hoagy Carmichael.
1930 4.5 Litre Blower Bentley