"Donald Hamilton Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (March 24, 1916 – November 20, 2006) was an American writer of novels, short stories, and non-fiction about the outdoors. His novels consist mostly of paperback originals, principally spy fiction, but also crime fiction and westerns, such as ""The Big Country"". He is best known for his long-running Matt Helm series (1960-1993), which chronicles the adventures of an undercover counter-agent/assassin working for a secret American government agency. The noted critic Anthony Boucher wrote: ""Donald Hamilton has brought to the spy novel the authentic hard realism of Dashiell Hammett; and his stories are as compelling, and"
"1967 film adaptation of ""The Ambushers"" starring Dean Martin. The Menacers The Menacers, first published in 1968, was the eleventh novel in the Matt Helm spy series by Donald Hamilton and the first published since the launch of the ""Matt Helm"" film series starring Dean Martin. For reasons unknown, flying saucers apparently with United States Air Force markings have begun attacking locations in Mexico. Helm's mission is to transport a witness to one of these attacks to Washington, and to stop her at all costs from being captured by Soviet agents, even if that means killing her. The flying saucer"
"The Menacers The Menacers, first published in 1968, was the eleventh novel in the Matt Helm spy series by Donald Hamilton and the first published since the launch of the ""Matt Helm"" film series starring Dean Martin. For reasons unknown, flying saucers apparently with United States Air Force markings have begun attacking locations in Mexico. Helm's mission is to transport a witness to one of these attacks to Washington, and to stop her at all costs from being captured by Soviet agents, even if that means killing her. The flying saucer aspect of the plot was loosely borrowed for the"
"The Wrecking Crew (1968 film) The Wrecking Crew is a 1968 American comedy spy-fi film starring Dean Martin as Matt Helm, along with Elke Sommer, Nancy Kwan, Tina Louise, and Sharon Tate. It is the fourth and final film in the Matt Helm series, and is very loosely based upon the 1960 novel of the same name by Donald Hamilton. Chuck Norris makes his film debut in a small role. Matt Helm is assigned by his secret agency, ICE, to bring down an evil count named Contini, who is trying to collapse the world economy by stealing a billion dollars"
"Mind"". Recently, English label Vocalion have issued full movie soundtrack on a CD, catalog number CDLK4573. ""The Silencers"" borrows a plot element from the first Helm novel, ""Death of a Citizen"", as it begins with the agent being coaxed out of retirement. Helm's mission is to stop an evil organization called ""BIG O"" (the Bureau for International Government and Order) from their plan of ""Operation Fallout"": diverting an American missile into an underground atomic bomb testing site in New Mexico. The Silencers (film) The Silencers is an American spy film spoof motion picture released in 1966 and starring Dean Martin"
"Columbia Pictures acquired the film rights to eight Matt Helm novels. A five-film parody or spoof spy movie series was planned and four were made, debuting with ""The Silencers"" (from Hamilton's novels ""The Silencers"" and ""Death of a Citizen"", adapted by acclaimed ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" screenwriter Oscar Saul). They were made to star Dean Martin, who co-produced with his Meadway-Claude Production company and received a partnership in the films. The series was produced by Irving Allen, who had once been the partner of James Bond film producer Albert R. ""Cubby"" Broccoli—the same man who had told Ian Fleming that"
"Hutton and Klaus Kinski; ""Forgotten Sins"" (1996) with John Shea; ""Exception to the Rule"" (1997); ""Payback"" (1999); ""Hollow Man"" and ""Space Cowboys"" (2000). Devane has played members of the Presidential Cabinet on two evening dramas. In 2004, on ""The West Wing"", he guest-starred as the Secretary of State and potential Vice-Presidential nominee. In Season 4 (2005), he joined the cast of ""24"" as Secretary of Defense James Heller. He also ""Special Guest Starred"" as Heller in season 5 & 6. On ""The West Wing,"" Devane appeared in several scenes with Martin Sheen; they also appeared together as President John F."
"The Dominators (novel) The Dominators is the title of an unpublished novel by Donald Hamilton. The book, which was completed in the early 2000s, was intended to be the 28th novel in Hamilton's Matt Helm spy series, continuing the adventures of the character introduced in the 1960 novel ""Death of a Citizen"" and later popularized (in a comedic vein) by actor Dean Martin in a series of late-1960s motion pictures. According to the Web site ""The Matt Helm Dossier"", the first draft manuscript was completed by Hamilton in 2001. The same site reported that in 2002 the 86-year-old author was"
"film in the Matt Helm series. The film was the first of four produced between 1966 and 1969 starring Martin. The film series includes James Gregory as Macdonald, Helm's superior (played by John Larch in the fourth film) and Beverly Adams as Lovey Kravezit, Helm's photo assistant (character missing in fourth film). Whereas Hamilton's books were generally serious spy novels about a former Second World War assassin who is recruited to continue killing for an American government agency, the film versions were lighthearted spy romps spoofing the James Bond series in the same spirit as ""Our Man Flint"", which was"
"as Luther Stickell (played by Ving Rhames) and Benji Dunn (played by Simon Pegg) have recurring roles in the films. The series has received a positive reception from critics and is the 16th-highest-grossing film series of all time, with a worldwide gross of over $3.5 billion to date. The sixth and most recent film, titled """", was released in July 2018. Ethan Hunt is framed for the murder of his IMF team during a botched mission in Prague and accused of selling government secrets to an arms dealer known only as ""Max"". On the run, Ethan seeks to uncover the"
"personal visits and very few media appearances, his last one since 1985 being a 2006 interview that formed part of a ""Len Deighton Night"" on BBC Four. He and his wife Ysabele divide their time between homes in Portugal and Guernsey. Several of Deighton's novels have been adapted as films including ""The IPCRESS File"", ""Funeral in Berlin"", ""Billion Dollar Brain"" and ""Spy Story"". His first five novels featured an anonymous and cynical anti-hero named ""Harry Palmer"" in the films (produced by Bond co-producer Harry Saltzman) and portrayed by Michael Caine. The atmosphere was considered quite realistic, not the least because"
"and sings the Boyce & Hart song, ""If You're Thinkin' What I'm Thinkin'"". Murderers' Row (film) Murderers' Row (sometimes incorrectly punctuated ""Murderer's Row"") is a 1966 American comedy spy-fi film starring Dean Martin as Matt Helm. It is the second of four films in the Matt Helm series, and is very loosely based upon the spy novel ""Murderers' Row"" by Donald Hamilton, which was published in 1962. Ann-Margret and Karl Malden co-star in this sequel to ""The Silencers"". The film begins with a shot of the United States Capitol being destroyed. It is actually a scale model being used in"
"Murderers' Row (film) Murderers' Row (sometimes incorrectly punctuated ""Murderer's Row"") is a 1966 American comedy spy-fi film starring Dean Martin as Matt Helm. It is the second of four films in the Matt Helm series, and is very loosely based upon the spy novel ""Murderers' Row"" by Donald Hamilton, which was published in 1962. Ann-Margret and Karl Malden co-star in this sequel to ""The Silencers"". The film begins with a shot of the United States Capitol being destroyed. It is actually a scale model being used in the demonstration of a heliobeam weapon in the headquarters of the Bureau of"
"Ted Hamilton Edward Leslie Hamilton (OAM) (born 1937), billed as Ted Hamilton is an Australian singer, composer, playwright, entrepreneur and actor. He is possibly best known for playing the Pirate King in ""The Pirate Movie"" and police constable Kevin Dwyer in ""Division 4"" (1969–73). More recently, he played Merlin in the TV series ""Guinevere Jones"". Among his many other acting credits are ""Homicide"", ""The Love Boat"", ""M*A*S*H"", ""The Six Million Dollar Man"", ""Hawaii Five-O"", """", and ""Rafferty's Rules"". In 1955, hailed as a teenage singing sensation, Hamilton began performing in nightclubs, and live on national radio. He guest starred on"
"tremendous success. Allen decided to make his own spy series. He optioned film rights to the Matt Helm novels in 1964 in association with Columbia Pictures. ""The Silencers"" was to be the first. Dean Martin signed to play the lead. Director Phil Karlson had the idea to make the film in a tongue-in-cheek style. Comedy writer Herbert Baker revised Oscar Saul's original script. Dean Martin was a co-producer of the Helm series. Moss Mabry provided the costumes, except for Martin's Sy Devore suits. Richard Levinson and William Link also worked on the script of this and ""The Ambushers"", the third"
"Action Drama and Best Action Performance for Martin. ""Murderers' Row"" was followed by ""The Ambushers"" (1967) and ""The Wrecking Crew"" (1969). A fifth film, ""The Ravagers"" with Sharon Tate reprising her ""Wrecking Crew"" character and Dean Martin doing a dual role, was announced but never produced. Martin refused to make ""The Ravagers"" so Columbia reportedly held up Martin's share of the profits on ""Murderers' Row"". The 1960s Helm spoofs (as well as the two Derek Flint movies with James Coburn, the first of which came out the same year as the first Helm feature) seemed to become the template of"
"a shoestring budget, and Allen occupied himself with other projects. Some years later, Allen cast about for his own spy series. He acquired the rights to Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm series. Allen was responsible for the Matt Helm series, ""The Silencers"" (1966), ""Murderers' Row"" (1966), ""The Ambushers"" (1967), and ""The Wrecking Crew"" (1969). Allen's Helm series had one major effect on Broccoli's Bond movies (produced at the time in partnership with Harry Saltzman). To get Dean Martin on board as Matt Helm, Allen had to make the actor a partner in the enterprise. Dean Martin ended up making more money"
"and journalists such as columnist Jack Anderson. The protagonist is Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) William ""Bill"" Martin, a longtime CIA agent who was appointed DCI by Democratic President Esker Scott Anderson. Anderson, as Vice President, succeeded William Curry, who was killed in a crash of Air Force One in the early 1960s. Martin's friendship with Anderson dates from the 1950s, when he was a lower-level agent and Anderson held a great deal of power as Senate Majority Leader. As Deputy CIA Director, Martin was responsible for planning an undercover invasion of the Dominican Republic by emmigres trained and supported"
"told Lewis that he was ""nothing to me but a fu***** dollar sign."" Martin left the act at his first opportunity, following their farewell appearance at the Copacabana Club on July 25, 1956, exactly ten years after their first official teaming. Their final film together, ""Hollywood or Bust"", was released that December. Dean Martin's career arguably reached new heights after the team split up, as a recording artist for the Capitol and Reprise labels, as a movie actor both on his own (""Rio Bravo"", ""The Young Lions"", the Matt Helm series) and as a member of the Rat Pack (""Ocean's"
"Dean Marshall Dean Stewart Marshall (born October 9, 1969) is a Canadian film, television, and theater, actor, writer, and director. Who is probably best known for portraying Sgt. Bates on ""Syfy"" original series ""Stargate Atlantis"", and for portraying Carter on both ""Da Vinci's Inquest"", and ""Da Vinci's City Hall"". Marshall began performing at a young age in a steel band. His family was originally from Trinidad and Tobago, but immigrated to Canada before he was born. He was born and raised in a Montreal suburb. Before acting he joined the Canadian Forces at age 18, and served for some 6"
"At the end of the fourth film, 1969's ""The Wrecking Crew"", it is announced that Matt Helm's next cinematic adventure would be ""The Ravagers"" (presumably based upon this novel). Martin, however, declined to return to the role for a fifth time and the film was never made. Sharon Tate, his co-star in the fourth film was murdered by the Charles Manson ""family."" She was to have co-starred in ""The Ravagers."" Martin didn't want to do it without her. The Ravagers The Ravagers is a novel by Donald Hamilton that was first published in 1964. It was the eighth novel in"
"of ""Minder"". Between 1986 and 1988 he appeared in two series of ""King and Castle"", devised and co-written by ""The Sweeney"" creator Ian Kennedy Martin, alongside Nigel Planer. He played the role of ex policeman Ronald King, now running a debt collection agency in London's East End. He then starred in ""Eldorado"", as Alex Morris. He has also made guest appearances in many television programmes including ""Doctor Who"" (appearing in ""The Ambassadors of Death"" as an uncredited heavy, ""The Claws of Axos"" as an uncredited UNIT soldier and ""Image of the Fendahl"" as policeman David Mitchell), ""The Sweeney"" episode 'Messenger"
"the series’ subsequent season premiere""."" In 2004, Steven became the first actor to appear as a recurring character in four television series simultaneously: ""The West Wing"", ""Star Trek: Enterprise"", ""JAG"" and ""ER"". Culp portrayed Robert F. Kennedy twice, in the TV movie ""Norma Jean & Marilyn"" (1996) and the film ""Thirteen Days"" (2000). In 1995, Culp briefly starred on ""The Young and the Restless"" as Brian Hamilton. He played Commander Martin Madden in """" (2002), a character written to replace William Riker as first officer of the ""Enterprise"". However, due to the film's length, Culp's scenes were included in several"
"He originated the role of milksop Harry Holt, Jane's fiance, in the 1932 film ""Tarzan the Ape Man"", and he actually received top billing in the film. Hamilton reprised the role in the 1934 pre-Code sequel, ""Tarzan and His Mate"", at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He appeared in 268 films, both silents and talkies, and made five films in England in 1936 and 1937. ""A""-level work in Hollywood dried up for Hamilton by the 1940s, and he was reduced to working in serials, ""B"" films, and other low-budget projects. He starred as the villain in ""King of the Texas Rangers"", one of the"
"and Washington DC, resulting in the nuclear devastation of each, the effective decapitation of the Soviet Union and weakening of the United States and the restoration of the (machiavellean) United Kingdom as the world's only superpower. ""The Agency"" also contains pastiches of other Anderson series such as ""Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons"" and ""Joe 90"", as well as the ""James Bond"" film and ""Green Hornet"" multimedia series. The comedy of the American puppet film """" (2004), produced by ""South Park"" creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, was inspired by the idiosyncrasies of ""Thunderbirds""-era Supermarionation techniques. In an interview, Stone and"
"idol was Dean Martin. He has also released a line of hand-rolled cigars which have his picture prominently displayed on the band. He played Lieutenant Marino in the independent film ""The Tested"" (2008), directed by Russell Costanzo. The following year, he made a cameo appearance alongside fellow ""Sopranos"" actor Steve Schirripa in the ""Stargate Atlantis"" episode ""Vegas"" (2009). The year following that, he starred in ""Chicago Overcoat"" (2009) as the main protagonist. In 2013, he starred in the hit IDW Publishing comic series ""Killogy"" created by Life of Agony's Alan Robert as the character Sally Sno Cones alongside Marky Ramone"
"""Twist in the Tale""). He had a guest-starring role on the seventh season of ""The West Wing"" and a guest spot on ""Law & Order"". Foxworth played the murderer, an Army colonel, in ""Grand Deceptions"", a 1989 episode of the TV series ""Columbo"". He has also guest-starred in ""Hawaii Five-O"", ""Password Plus"", ""Murder She Wrote"", ""seaQuest DSV"", """", ""The Outer Limits"", """", ""Stargate SG-1"", and ""Babylon 5"". He has done voice acting as the corrupt Professor Hamilton on ""Justice League Unlimited"". He also voiced the autobot Ratchet, in the film version of ""Transformers"" and its sequels. Foxworth was married from"
"who is accidentally re-launched on the road to fame and fortune by a fan in ""Starstruck"". ""Variety"" noted that Dean ""nails his role with precision"". He was also lauded for his performance as a mysterious small-town psychologist in ""Mumford"" (1999). Dean's performance was considered ""plausible and generous,"" and he was favorably compared to a ""young Charles Grodin."" Much of his acting career, however, has been in supporting roles. His films include ""Apollo 13"" (1995), ""How to Make an American Quilt"" (1995), ""Gattaca"" (1997), ""Enemy of the State"" (1998) and ""Space Cowboys"" (2000). Dean has appeared in a number of independent"
"now) with a double assignment: destroy a crime gang run by the son of the villain from ""The Wrecking Crew"", and prevent the atomic destruction of Norfolk, Virginia. The Damagers The Damagers, published in 1993, is a spy novel by Donald Hamilton, and the twenty-seventh volume of the adventures of government assassin Matt Helm. Hamilton had launched the series in 1960 with ""Death of a Citizen"" and this novel is a sequel to the second Helm book, ""The Wrecking Crew"", also from 1960. ""The Damagers"" is, to date, the final Matt Helm novel to be published. Hamilton did complete a"
"""The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse"", """", ""Clash of the Titans"", ""Centurion"", and ""Harry Brown"". On television, he appeared as President ""Richard Tate"" in the BBC programme ""Outcasts"". In 2012, Cunningham joined the main cast for the second season of HBO's ""Game of Thrones"" portraying former smuggler Davos Seaworth, and in 2013 he starred in ""The Numbers Station"" alongside John Cusack. He was also cast in season 5 of the BBC series ""Merlin"" as a sorcerer. He featured in the music video for ""High Hopes"" by Irish alternative rock band Kodaline from their EP ""The High Hopes"". In April 2013, he"
"the PM at the time the novel was published); American president William ""Bill"" Matthews is James ""Jimmy"" Carter (although the fictional Matthews is finishing up his 2nd term of office in the book, while Carter was nearing the end of his 1st and only Presidential term in 1979); his Polish National Security Advisor Stanislaw Poklewski is Zbigniew Brzezinski; and Secretary of State David Lawrence is Cyrus Vance. Margaret Thatcher would later appear as herself in ""The Fourth Protocol"", ""The Negotiator"", ""The Fist of God"", ""A Little Bit of Sunshine"" and ""Icon"". The Devil's Alternative The Devil's Alternative is a novel"
"must destroy the Primula Report and assign Martin as ambassador to Jamaica in exchange for Martin's silence on Monkton's illegal activity. Despite Martin's efforts, Monkton's activities are revealed by an investigative reporter, initiating the fall of his administration. In 1977, ABC television broadcast a six-part mini-series adaptation of the book, titled """", starring Cliff Robertson as William Martin, Jason Robards as President Monkton, Andy Griffith as President Anderson, Robert Vaughn as Frank Flaherty, and Harold Gould as Carl Tessler. The mini-series was produced by Paramount Television. The Company (Ehrlichman novel) The Company is a political fiction ""roman à clef"" novel"
"Martin and Lewis (film) Martin and Lewis is a 2002 American made-for-television biographical film written and directed by John Gray, exploring the lives of the comedy team of Martin and Lewis. The film stars Jeremy Northam as Dean Martin and Sean Hayes as Jerry Lewis. When lounge singer Dean Martin (Northam) and burlesque comic Jerry Lewis (Hayes) clicked during an impromptu pairing in 1946, neither anticipated their unparalleled success as a team. Lewis was going nowhere fast with an act built around miming to records, while Martin was making a subpar living as a crooner, sleeping on his agent's couch."