"altered after film producer Kevin McClory alleged that parts of the biography were untrue regarding the novel and film rights to ""Thunderball"". In 1989 the biography was turned into a movie, ""Goldeneye"". The 1967 American paperback edition was retitled ""Alias James Bond—The Life of Ian Fleming"". No other edition has this title. The Life of Ian Fleming The Life of Ian Fleming is a biography of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond and author of the children’s book ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"". The biography was written by John Pearson, Fleming’s assistant at the London ""Sunday Times,"" in 1966. Pearson"
"Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car is a children's novel written by Ian Fleming for his son Caspar, with illustrations by John Burningham. It was initially published in three volumes, the first of which was released on 22 October 1964 by Jonathan Cape in London. Fleming, better known as the creator of James Bond, took his inspiration for the subject from a series of aero-engined racing cars called ""Chitty Bang Bang"", built by Count Louis Zborowski in the early 1920s at Higham Park. Fleming had known Higham Park as a guest of its later owner, Walter Wigham, chairman of Robert Fleming"
"a better driver than Bond is Sir Hugo Drax, who causes Bond to write off his battleship-grey supercharged Bentley 4½ Litre. Bond subsequently drives a Mark II Continental Bentley, which he uses in the remaining books of the series, although he is issued an Aston Martin DB Mark III with a homing device during the course of ""Goldfinger"". In 1981, writer John Gardner was approached by the Fleming estate and asked to write a continuation novel for Bond. Although he initially almost turned the series down, Gardner subsequently wrote 14 original novels and two novelizations of the films between ""Licence"
"just crackers."" Ian Fleming's character James Bond drives a 1930 Blower Bentley in three of the 007 Novels, ""Casino Royale"", ""Live and Let Die"" and ""Moonraker"". In the books, Bond drives one of the last Blower Bentleys built, a battleship grey Convertible Coupé, with French Marchal headlamps. Bentley 4½ Litre The Bentley 4½ Litre was a British car based on a rolling chassis built by Bentley Motors. Walter Owen Bentley replaced the Bentley 3 Litre with a more powerful car by increasing its engine displacement to . Bentley buyers used their cars for personal transport and arranged for their new"
"the movie. The ""Guinness World Records 2010"" book describes this ""revolutionary jump"" as the ""first astro spiral used in a movie"" and lists it as third among the top ten James Bond film stunts. The actual Bond Hornet is preserved in the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu, UK together with other famous items owned by the Ian Fleming Foundation and used in the 007 films. The AMC Hornet is one of Hagerty's favorites Bond cars for vintage automobile collectors on a budget. Several scale models of the AMC Hornet are available that include the James Bond hatchback versions made by"
"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"
"... In Bond, he created a Bulldog Drummond for the jet age. Following on from the character development of Bond in his previous four novels, Fleming adds further background to Bond's private life, largely around his home life and personal habits, with Bond's introduction to the story seeing him at breakfast with his housekeeper, May. The novelist Raymond Benson—who later wrote a series of Bond novels—sees aspects of self-doubt entering Bond's mind with the ""soft"" life he has been leading when he is introduced in the book. Benson identifies Bond's fear when the flight to Istanbul encounters severe turbulence from"
"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"
"the 1960s; he also managed to use a number of the cultural touchstones of the sixties in the book. Faulks was true to Bond's original character and background too, and provided ""a Flemingesque hero"" who drove a battleship grey 1967 T-series Bentley. On 26 May 2011 American writer Jeffery Deaver, commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications, released ""Carte Blanche"". Deaver restarted the chronology of Bond, separate from the timelines of any of the previous authors, by stating he was born in 1980; the novel also saw Bond in a post-9/11 agency, independent of either MI5 or MI6. Whilst the chronology changed,"
"Chitty Bang Bang, a chain-driven customised Mercedes with a 23-litre 6-cylinder Maybach aero-engine. Fleming had seen the car's owner, Count Louis Zborowski race at the Brooklands race track. The origin of the name ""Chitty Bang Bang"" is disputed, but may also have been inspired by early aeronautical engineer Letitia Chitty. Like Zborowski, Fleming names his car because of the noise it made—and the noise a car made was important to Fleming. As he wrote the novel, Fleming used aspects of his life to flesh out the details, much as he did with many of his Bond stories. Thus, in the"
"have played Bond in these films. The central figure in Ian Fleming's work is the fictional character of James Bond, an intelligence officer in the ""Secret Service"". Bond is also known by his code number, 007, and was a Royal Naval Reserve Commander. During World War II, Ian Fleming had mentioned to friends that he wanted to write a spy novel. It was not until 1952, however, shortly before his wedding to his pregnant girlfriend, Ann Charteris, that Fleming began to write ""Casino Royale"", to distract himself from his forthcoming nuptials. Fleming started writing his first book, ""Casino Royale"", at"
"suits and was chauffeured around Paris in a Rolls-Royce. Sir Fitzroy Maclean was another possible model for Bond, based on his wartime work behind enemy lines in the Balkans, as was the MI6 double agent Duško Popov. Fleming also endowed Bond with many of his own traits, including the same golf handicap, his taste for scrambled eggs, his love of gambling, and use of the same brand of toiletries. After the publication of ""Casino Royale"", Fleming used his annual holiday at his house in Jamaica to write another Bond story. Twelve Bond novels and two short-story collections were published between"
"and background and provided 'a Flemingesque hero' who drove a battleship grey 1967 T-series Bentley. Next, Ian Fleming Publications commissioned Jeffery Deaver to write ""Carte Blanche"", which was published in May 2011. In April 2012, the company announced that William Boyd would write the next Bond novel and Jonathan Cape in the UK and HarperCollins in Canada and the US published ""Solo"" in 2013. Anthony Horowitz's ""Trigger Mortis"" appeared in September 2015. Between 2005 and 2008, Ian Fleming Publications has supported the publication of Charlie Higson's five ""Young Bond"" novels telling the adventures of a teenage James Bond in the"
"wife Evelyn, most of his estate was left in trust to benefit their four sons and their future families. His wife Evelyn would have a generous income from the trust unless she remarried, in which case she would receive a reduced amount of £3000 per annum. Evelyn never remarried and felt it was a ""bad will"". Valentine Fleming Major Valentine Fleming (17 February 1882 – 20 May 1917) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament who was killed in World War I. He was the father of authors Peter Fleming and Ian Fleming who created the James Bond character. Born"
"2011 Fleming became the first English-language writer to have an international airport named after him: Ian Fleming International Airport, near Oracabessa, Jamaica, was officially opened on 12 January 2011 by Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding and Fleming's niece, Lucy. Notes References Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) 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 wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament for Henley from"
"Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) 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 wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst and, briefly, the universities of Munich and Geneva, Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing. While working for Britain's Naval Intelligence Division during the Second"
"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"
"Moonraker (novel) Moonraker is the third novel by the British author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond. It was published by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1955 and featured a cover design conceived by Fleming. The plot is derived from a Fleming screenplay that was too short for a full novel so he added the passage of the bridge game between Bond and the industrialist Hugo Drax. In the latter half of the novel, Bond is seconded to Drax's staff as the businessman builds the Moonraker, a prototype missile designed to defend England. Unknown"
"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"
"Take Over (James Bond) Take Over is an unpublished 1970 James Bond novel purportedly written by Ian Fleming six years after his death. Spy author Donald McCormick believes this ""remarkable story"" is perhaps Ian Fleming's strangest legacy. In 1970 a retired bank officer and his daughter who have never been identified claimed to have transcribed works from the ""great yonder"" by deceased authors. None of the works has ever been published. Few details are known other than the plot involves ""a poisonous gas which will enable its users to dominate the world."" Peter Fleming conceded that this was ""the sort"
"During the Second World War he served as a ferry pilot. After the war he joined the ""Brain drain"" of scientists and engineers moving to the United States to work on the space programme. He became a portrait painter in New York, and his portraits of his friends Ian Fleming and Graham Hill hang in the National Portrait Gallery in London. In Fleming's first James Bond novel, ""Casino Royale"", Bond drives a 4.5-litre Bentley with the Amherst Villiers supercharger. Charles Amherst Villiers married, first, Maya de Lisle Adam. After they were divorced he married Juanita Lorraine Brown. Juanita Lorraine Brown"
"A Kill"", made an appearance. Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming is a 1990 TV biographical film of the life of Ian Fleming, creator of the popular James Bond spy character, retracing his playboy youth, his expulsion from various colleges, his experiences as a newspaper writer and his tour of duty for the British intelligence agency during World War II. Fleming himself is played by Jason Connery, son of Sean Connery, the actor who helped make Bond an icon in the films made in the 1960s. Ex-Bond girl Fiona Fullerton , who"
"ornithologist James Bond, and the code number—007—which referred to the breaking of a World War I German diplomatic code. Some aspects of Bond's character and tastes replicate those of Fleming himself. On the morning of 17 February 1952, Ian Fleming started writing what would become his first book, ""Casino Royale"", at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica. He typed out 2,000 words in the morning, directly from his own experiences and imagination and finished work on the manuscript in just over a month, completing it on 18 March 1952. Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American"
"Ian Fleming, who was a keen bird watcher living in Jamaica, was familiar with Bond's book, and chose the name of its author for the hero of ""Casino Royale"" in 1953, apparently because he wanted a name that sounded ""as ordinary as possible"". Fleming wrote to the real Bond's wife, ""It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born."" He also contacted the real James Bond about using his name in the books, and Bond replied to him, ""Fine with it."" At some"
"bodystyles feature conventional hinged boot lids rather than the innovative hatch back. James Bond drives an Aston Martin DB Mark III in the novel version of ""Goldfinger"", though it is referred to as a ""DB III"" in the book – indeed, the chapter in which he drives to his famous golf-course encounter with the villain is entitled 'Thoughts in a DB III'. It is the only Bond car in the Ian Fleming novels to have gadgets installed. For the film adaptation five years later, the car was updated to the Aston Martin DB5 model and the array of gadgetry was"
"at the opening of the airport. He explained that Ian Fleming gave Jamaica ""an image much larger than it would otherwise have had"", and that this was the place where the creativity emerged that enabled him to write 13 James Bond novels, and to become one of the world's most famous authors. Ian Fleming International Airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 09/27 with an asphalt surface measuring . The airport is designed to handle private and commercial aircraft as large as the Cessna Citation Excel. The airport features a modern terminal,"
"S.H.I.E.L.D. Flying Car The S.H.I.E.L.D. Flying Car is a fictional vehicle appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The S.H.I.E.L.D. Flying Car first appeared in ""Strange Tales"" #135 (August, 1965). The flying car is a S.H.I.E.L.D. personal vehicle that looks like a car but can fly. Phil Coulson's flying car ""Lola"" stands for ""Low-Orbit Liftoff Automobile."" Coulson first used the car to help Deadpool and Agent Adsit escape from criminals. Parker Industries employee Clayton Cole worked to make the flying cars available to the public. It made appearances in ""Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends"", and """". In """","
"of preposterous, cosmic story-line which might have occurred to Ian."" Traditional Bond elements such as M, Miss Moneypenny and Universal Exports also appear, though the story contains lots of sex, unlike other Bond novels. Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, died on 12 August 1964 of a heart attack. His brother Peter Fleming, himself also an author and occasional novelist, was a director of Glidrose Publications, the corporate entity Ian Fleming had established to administer the Bond copyright. Donald McCormick describes Peter Fleming as ""level-headed"" and ""down-to-earth."" In October 1970 a retired 73-year-old bank officer - only identified"
"are protected from the explosion by the reef and Bond watches as Mr Big, who survived the explosion, is killed by the sharks and barracuda. Quarrel then rescues the couple. Between January and March 1952 the journalist Ian Fleming wrote ""Casino Royale"", his first novel, at his Goldeneye estate in Jamaica. Fleming conducted research for ""Live and Let Die"", and completed the novel before ""Casino Royale"" was published in January 1953, four months before his second book was published. Fleming and his wife Ann flew to New York before taking the Silver Meteor train to St. Petersburg in Florida and"
"amongst others. Bond's most famous car is the silver grey Aston Martin DB5, first seen in ""Goldfinger""; it later featured in ""Thunderball"", ""GoldenEye"", ""Tomorrow Never Dies"", ""Casino Royale"", ""Skyfall"" and ""Spectre"". The films have used a number of different Aston Martins for filming and publicity, one of which was sold in January 2006 at an auction in the US for $2,090,000 to an unnamed European collector. Bond also shows his taste for aircraft: a gyrocopter—""Little Nellie""—features in ""You Only Live Twice"", a Cessna 185 Seaplane in ""Licence to Kill"", an Acrostar Jet in ""Octopussy"", the Space Shuttle in ""Moonraker"" and"
"had been ailing for some time - died in February 1971. Journalist Ron Speer believes the death of Vera's husband is ""perhaps fortunate from a literary standpoint"". Thereafter she exclusively devoted her automatic writing to corresponding with her deceased husband. Take Over (James Bond) Take Over is an unpublished 1970 James Bond novel purportedly written by Ian Fleming six years after his death. Spy author Donald McCormick believes this ""remarkable story"" is perhaps Ian Fleming's strangest legacy. In 1970 a retired bank officer and his daughter who have never been identified claimed to have transcribed works from the ""great yonder"""
"in the attic, come over and I'll lend you mine."" The ""Los Angeles Times"" critic claimed that Ian Fleming ""would have cringed at the writing to be found in this book."" Despite this, Wood's novel became a bestseller, remaining on ""The Times"" bestseller list for some time. After the release of the novel, Eon Productions chose not to commission novelizations of the next few Bond films; not until ""Licence to Kill"" ten years later in 1989. James Bond and Moonraker James Bond and Moonraker is a novelization by Christopher Wood of the James Bond film ""Moonraker"". Its name was changed"
"Fleming's literary career, including sales of his early novels about James Bond, the first of which, ""Casino Royale"", he had written at Goldeneye in 1952. Lady Avon later recalled her ""astonishment"" (and Ann Fleming's ""rueful embarrassment"") at the success of the Bond books, which continued after ""From Russia, with Love"" entered the best-seller lists in 1957. The Edens flew back to England just before Christmas 1956. A young witness of their departure from Kingston airport recalled Lady Eden looking ""glacial"" and her husband, pale. Lady Avon noted that, on their return, ""everyone [was] looking at us with thoughtful eyes"". Early"