"Lucy Fleming Eve Lucinda ""Lucy"" Fleming (born 15 May 1947) is a British actress. She is the daughter of the actress Celia Johnson and the writer Lt-Col Robert Peter Fleming (the brother of James Bond author Ian Fleming ). Since 1997, Ian Fleming's two nieces, Lucy and her sister Kate Fleming, have controlled Ian Fleming Publications. Lucy Fleming is best known for her role as Jenny Richards in the BBC post-apocalyptic drama series ""Survivors"", which originally aired from 1975–1977, with Jenny the only character to appear in both the first and last episodes of the show. Her numerous credits in"
"childhoods. In forming the early Bond character, Higson created the origins of some of Bond's character traits, including his love of cars and fine wine. Adaptations of Bond started early in Fleming's writings, with CBS paying him $1,000 ($ in dollars) to adapt his first novel, ""Casino Royale"", into a one-hour television adventure; this was broadcast on 21 October 1954. The Bond character, played by Barry Nelson, was changed to ""Card Sense"" Jimmy Bond, an American agent working for ""Combined Intelligence"". In 1957 the ""Daily Express"" newspaper adapted Fleming's stories into comic strip format. In order to help the artists,"
"Chiffre. In 1954 CBS paid Ian Fleming $1,000 ($ in dollars) to adapt his first novel, ""Casino Royale"", into a one-hour television adventure as part of their dramatic anthology series ""Climax!"", which ran between October 1954 and June 1958. It was adapted for the screen by Anthony Ellis and Charles Bennett; Bennett was best known for his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, including ""The 39 Steps"" and ""Sabotage"". Due to the restriction of a one-hour play, the adapted version lost many of the details found in the book, although it retained its violence, particularly in Act III. The hour-long ""Casino Royale"""
"the TV rights, and on October 21, 1954 broadcast an hour-long adaptation on its ""Climax!"" series, with Barry Nelson playing American agent ‘Jimmy Bond’ and Peter Lorre playing the villain, Le Chiffre. CBS also approached Fleming about developing Bond as a TV series. In 1955 Ratoff and Garrison bought the rights to the novel in perpetuity for an additional $6,000. They pitched the idea for a motion picture to 20th Century Fox, but were turned down. After Ratoff died in 1960, his widow and Garrison sold the film rights to Charles K. Feldman for $75,000. Feldman eventually produced the spoof"
"introduced Johnny Fedora, the secret agent with a licence to kill, the government-sanctioned assassin. Ian Fleming, a former member of naval intelligence, followed swiftly with the glamorous James Bond, secret agent 007 of the British Secret Service, a mixture of counter-intelligence officer, assassin and playboy. Perhaps the most famous fictional spy, Bond was introduced in ""Casino Royale"" (1953). After Fleming's death the franchise continued under other British and American authors, including Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver and William Boyd. Despite the commercial success of Fleming's extravagant novels, John le Carré, himself a former"
"1954 and starred Barry Nelson as secret agent ""Card Sense"" James 'Jimmy' Bond and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre. A brief tutorial on baccarat is given at the beginning of the show by the presenter of the programme, William Lundigan, to enable viewers to understand a game which was not popular in America at the time. For this Americanised version of the story, Bond is an American agent, described as working for ""Combined Intelligence"", while the character Leiter from the original novel is British, renamed ""Clarence Leiter"". The agent for Station S., Mathis, does not appear as such; his surname"
"""Climax!"" series, with Barry Nelson playing American agent 'Jimmy Bond' and Peter Lorre playing the villain, Le Chiffre. CBS also approached Fleming about developing a Bond TV series. (Fleming later contributed ideas to NBC's ""The Man From U.N.C.L.E."") In 1955 Ratoff and Garrison bought the rights to the novel in perpetuity for an additional $6,000. They pitched the idea for a film to 20th Century Fox, but studio turned them down. After Ratoff died in 1960, his widow and Garrison sold the film rights to Charles K. Feldman for $75,000. Feldman eventually produced the spoof ""Casino Royale"" in 1967. By"
"in the second draft. Publishers Jonathan Cape passed the manuscript to Kingsley Amis for his thoughts and advice on the story, although his suggestions were not used. The novel was serialised in 1965, firstly in the ""Daily Express"" and then in ""Playboy""; in 1966 a daily comic strip adaptation was also published in the ""Daily Express"". In 1974 the book was loosely adapted as the ninth film in the Eon Productions ""James Bond"" series, with Roger Moore playing Bond and Fleming's cousin, Christopher Lee, as Scaramanga. A year after James Bond's final confrontation with Ernst Stavro Blofeld, while on a"
"Fleming commissioned a sketch to show how he saw Bond; illustrator John McLusky considered Fleming's version too ""outdated"" and ""pre-war"" and changed Bond to give him a more masculine look. In 1962 Eon Productions, the company of Canadian Harry Saltzman and American Albert R. ""Cubby"" Broccoli released the first cinema adaptation of an Ian Fleming novel, ""Dr. No"", featuring Sean Connery as 007. Connery was the first of seven actors to play Bond on the cinema screen, six of whom appeared in the Eon series of films. As well as looking different, each of the actors has interpreted the role"
"unarmed combat, skiing, swimming and golf. While Bond kills without hesitation or regret, he usually kills only when carrying out orders, while acting in self-defence and occasionally as revenge. American actor Barry Nelson was the first to portray Bond on screen, in a 1954 television adaptation, ""Casino Royale"". In 1961 Eon Productions began work on ""Dr. No"", an adaptation of the novel of the same name. The result was a film that spawned a series of twenty-four films produced by Eon Productions and two independent films. After considering the likes of ""refined"" English actors such as Cary Grant and David"
"Fleming examines Englishness, and the novel shows the virtues and strength of England. Adaptations include a broadcast on South African radio in 1956 starring Bob Holness and a 1958 ""Daily Express"" comic strip. The novel's name was used in 1979 for the eleventh official film in the Eon Productions Bond series and the fourth to star Roger Moore as Bond; the plot was significantly changed from the novel to include excursions into space. The British Secret Service agent James Bond is asked by his superior, M, to join him at M's club, Blades. A club member, the multi-millionaire businessman Sir"
"as they ""form the backbone of the industry"". Television also saw the effect of Bond films, with the NBC series ""The Man from U.N.C.L.E."", which was described as the ""first network television imitation"" of Bond, largely because Fleming provided advice and ideas on the development of the series, even giving the main character the name Napoleon Solo. Other 1960s television series inspired by Bond include ""I Spy"", and ""Get Smart"". A British cultural icon, by 2012, James Bond had become such a symbol of the United Kingdom that the character, played by Craig, appeared in the opening ceremony of the"
"Inspirations for James Bond A number of real-life inspirations have been suggested for James Bond, the fictional character created in 1953 by British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence officer Ian Fleming; Bond appeared in twelve novels and nine short stories by Fleming, as well as a number of continuation novels and twenty-six films, with seven actors playing the role of Bond. Although the stories and characters were fictional, a number of elements had a real life background, taken from people whom Fleming knew or events he was aware of. These included the spy's name, which Fleming took from the American"
"make baccarat clear even to one who's never played it and produced as exciting a gambling sequence as I've ever read. But then he decides to pad out the book to novel length and leads the weary reader through a set of tough clichés to an ending which surprises nobody save Operative 007. You should certainly begin this book; but you might as well stop when the baccarat game is over."" In 1954 CBS paid Ian Fleming $1,000 to adapt ""Casino Royale"" into a one-hour television adventure as part of its ""Climax!"" series. The episode aired live on 21 October"
"ran between October 1954 and June 1958. It was adapted for the screen by Anthony Ellis and Charles Bennett; Bennett was well known for his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, including ""The 39 Steps"" and ""Sabotage"". Due to the restriction of a one-hour play, the adapted version lost many of the details found in the book, although it retained its violence, particularly in Act III. The hour-long ""Casino Royale"" episode, which starred American actor Barry Nelson as Bond and Peter Lorre as the villain Le Chiffre, aired on 21 October 1954 as a live production. In 1959 producer Albert R. ""Cubby"""
"The first screen interpretation of the Leiter character was in the 1954 CBS one-hour television adventure ""Casino Royale"", broadcast as part of the dramatic anthology series ""Climax Mystery Theater"", which ran between October 1954 and June 1958. For the American audience the Bond character from ""Casino Royale"" was re-cast as an American agent—""Card Sense"" Jimmy Bond, played by Barry Nelson—described as working for ""Combined Intelligence"", supported by the British agent, Clarence Leiter; ""thus was the Anglo-American relationship depicted in the book reversed for American consumption"", according to Jeremy Black. Leiter, who was an agent for Station S, was a combination"
"this, however, Fleming grouped and adapted three of the outlines into short stories and released the 1960 anthology ""For Your Eyes Only"" along with an additional two new short stories. This was the first screen adaptation of a James Bond novel and was made before the formation of Eon Productions. When MGM eventually obtained the rights to the 1967 film version of ""Casino Royale"", it also received the rights to this television episode. The ""Casino Royale"" episode was lost for decades after its 1954 broadcast until a black and white kinescope of the live broadcast was located by film historian"
"Originally a short story, he expanded it into a novel, followed by a further four books, the titles of the first four of which were used as episode titles for the TV series: The first novel in the series was originally adapted to the screen in 1959 as ""The Mating Game"", starring Debbie Reynolds and Tony Randall as Mariette and Charley. The fifth novel, ""A Little of What You Fancy?"", was never adapted for television, but it was adapted into a six-part series by Eric Pringle for BBC Radio, with Jason and Ferris reprising their roles, first airing in February"
"compared to contemporary versions of both Sapper and John Buchan. ""Goldfinger"" was serialised as a daily story and as a comic strip in the ""Daily Express"" newspaper, before being the third James Bond feature film of the Eon Productions series, released in 1964 and starring Sean Connery as Bond. Most recently, ""Goldfinger"" was adapted for BBC Radio with Toby Stephens as Bond and Sir Ian McKellen as Goldfinger. Fleming structured the novel in three sections—""Happenstance"", ""Coincidence"" and ""Enemy action""—which was how Goldfinger described Bond's three seemingly coincidental meetings with him. Whilst changing planes in Miami after closing down a Mexican"
"bringing him pleasure. Separate sections of the saga, as well as the lengthy story in its entirety, have been adapted for cinema and television. The first book, ""The Man of Property"", was adapted in 1949 by Hollywood as ""That Forsyte Woman"", starring Errol Flynn, Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, and Robert Young. The BBC produced a popular 26-part serial in 1967, that also dramatised a subsequent trilogy concerning the Forsytes, ""A Modern Comedy"". In 2002, Granada Television produced two series for the ITV network called ""The Forsyte Saga"" and """", and the two Granada series made their runs in the US"
"In thriller writing, Ian Fleming created the character James Bond 007 in January 1952, while on holiday at his Jamaican estate, Goldeneye. Fleming chronicled Bond's adventures in twelve novels, including ""Casino Royale"" (1953), ""Live and Let Die"" (1954), ""Dr. No"" (1958), ""Goldfinger"" (1959), ""Thunderball"" (1961), ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" (1962), and nine short story works. In contrast to the larger-than-life spy capers of Bond, John le Carré was an author of spy novels who depicted a shadowy world of espionage and counter-espionage, and his best known novel ""The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"" (1963), is often regarded"
"serialisation in the ""Daily Express"" newspaper on a daily basis from 2 March 1964 onwards. ""You Only Live Twice"" was serialised in the April, May and June 1964 issues of ""Playboy"" magazine. Ian Fleming's novel was adapted as a daily comic strip published in the ""Daily Express"" newspaper, and syndicated worldwide. The adaptation, written by Henry Gammidge and illustrated by John McLusky, ran from 18 May 1965 to 8 January 1966. It was the final James Bond strip for Gammidge, while McClusky returned to illustrating the strip in the 1980s. The strip was reprinted by Titan Books in ""The James"
"star Roger Moore as British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. Although Fleming had insisted that no film should contain anything of the plot of the novel, the steel-toothed character of Horror was included, although under the name Jaws. The Spy Who Loved Me (novel) The Spy Who Loved Me is the ninth novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published by Jonathan Cape on 16 April 1962. It is the shortest and most sexually explicit of Fleming's novels, as well as a clear departure from previous Bond novels in that the story is told in the first person"
"in the UK, on 2 October 2008 (). On 16 October 2012, ""Bond on Bond"" was published to tie in with the 50th anniversary of the James Bond films. The book, with many pictures, is based on Moore's own memories, thoughts, and anecdotes about all things 007, with some of the profits of the book going to UNICEF. Roger Moore Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 1927 – 23 May 2017) was an English actor. He is best known for having played Ian Fleming's fictional British secret agent James Bond in seven feature films from 1973 to 1985. Moore took"
"James Bond filmography Commander James Bond RN—code number 007—is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1952. The character appeared in a series of twelve novels and two short story collections written by Fleming and a number of continuation novels and spin-off works after Fleming's death in 1964. There have been twenty-six films in total, produced between 1962 and 2015. Fleming portrayed Bond as a tall, athletic, handsome secret agent in his thirties or forties; he has several vices including drinking, smoking, gambling, automobiles and womanising. He is an exceptional marksman, and skilled in"
"Eurocom in 1991 and the latter developed by Gray Matter in 1992). James Bond Jr. James Bond Jr. is a fictional character described as the nephew of Ian Fleming's masterspy, James Bond. The name was first used in 1967 for a spinoff novel entitled ""The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½"" authored by the never clarified pseudonym R. D. Mascott. The idea of Bond having a nephew was used again in 1991 in an American animated series for television, in which the title character defeats threats to ensure the safety of the free world. The series was mildly successful, spawning"
"James Bond (literary character) Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional 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 wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. His final two books—""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1965) and ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"" (1966)—were published posthumously. The Bond character is a Secret Service agent, code number 007, residing in London but active internationally. Bond was a composite character who was based on a number of commandos whom"
"of Bond in a different way. James Bond (literary character) Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR, is a fictional 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 wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. His final two books—""The Man with the Golden Gun"" (1965) and ""Octopussy and The Living Daylights"" (1966)—were published posthumously. The Bond character is a Secret Service agent, code number 007, residing in London but active internationally. Bond was a composite character who was based"
"Mrs. Rouncewell, Jerome Willis as Mr. Woodcourt, Michael Aldridge as Mr. George, Nora Nicholson as Miss Flite, Annette Carell as Mlle. Hortense, and Angela Crow as Charley. The complete series still exists. Bleak House (1959 TV serial) Bleak House (1959) is the first BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. It was adapted by Constance Cox as an eleven-part series of half-hour episodes first transmitted from 16 October 1959. It stars Andrew Cruickshank in the role of John Jarndyce, Diana Fairfax as Esther Summerson, Colin Jeavons as Richard Carstone, Elizabeth Shepherd as Ada Clare, Iris Russell"
"Lionel Barrymore Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ""A Free Soul"" (1931), and remains best known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr. Potter in Frank Capra's 1946 film ""It's a Wonderful Life"". He is also particularly remembered as Ebenezer Scrooge in annual broadcasts of ""A Christmas Carol"" during his last two decades. He is also known for playing Dr. Leonard Gillespie in MGM's"
"In 1957 the ""Daily Express"" approached Ian Fleming to adapt his stories into comic strips, offering him £1,500 per novel and a share of takings from syndication. After initial reluctance, Fleming, who felt the strips would lack the quality of his writing, agreed. To aid the ""Daily Express"" in illustrating Bond, Fleming commissioned an artist to create a sketch of how he believed James Bond looked. The illustrator, John McLusky, however, felt that Fleming's 007 looked too ""outdated"" and ""pre-war"" and changed Bond to give him a more masculine look. The first strip, ""Casino Royale"" was published from 7 July"
"1954-55 television series. Owen first played Watson in the film ""Sherlock Holmes"" (1932), and then Holmes himself in ""A Study in Scarlet"" (1933). Having played Ebenezer Scrooge, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, Owen has the odd distinction of playing three classic characters of Victorian fiction only to live to see those characters be taken over and personified by other actors, namely Alastair Sim as Scrooge, Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Watson. Later in his career, Owen appeared with James Garner in the television series ""Maverick"" in the episodes ""The Belcastle Brand"" (1957) and ""Gun-Shy"" (1958) and guest"
"all appeared in subsequent films. These conventions were also lampooned in spoof films, such as the ""Austin Powers"" series. The first spoof films happened relatively soon after ""Dr. No"", with the 1964 film ""Carry On Spying"" showing the villain Dr. Crow being overcome by agents who included Charlie Bind (Charles Hawtrey) and Daphne Honeybutt (Barbara Windsor). A further legacy saw the sales of Fleming's novels rise sharply after the release of ""Dr. No"" and the subsequent films. In the seven months after ""Dr. No"" was released, 1.5 million copies of the novel were sold. Worldwide sales of all the ""Bond"""