"attributed to Francis Matthews, who voiced Scarlet in the series, Cary Grant and Roger Moore. Ed Bishop later claimed that Captain Blue had been modelled on his likeness, but sculptor Terry Curtis states that he made the puppet to resemble himself and simply added a blond wig when he learnt that Bishop was to voice Blue. Curtis, a James Bond fan, based the appearance of Captain Grey on Sean Connery and Destiny Angel on Ursula Andress, Connery's co-star in the 1962 Bond film ""Dr No"". Meanwhile, the character of Lieutenant Green was sculpted on its voice actor, Cy Grant; Rhapsody"
"producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli combined sex with exotic locations, casual violence and self-referential humour in the phenomenally successful James Bond series with Sean Connery in the leading role. The first film ""Dr. No"" (1962) was a sleeper hit in the UK and the second, ""From Russia with Love"" (1963), a hit worldwide. By the time of the third film, ""Goldfinger"" (1964), the series had become a global phenomenon, reaching its commercial peak with ""Thunderball"" the following year. The series' success led to a spy film boom with many Bond imitations. Bond co-producer Saltzman also instigated a rival"
"1943, usually playing German villain officer, such as in ""We Dive at Dawn"" (1943). He began to have more established roles by the early 1950s, starring in ""The African Queen"" (1951), ""The Red Beret"" (1953) for Albert R. Broccoli, ""Ice Cold in Alex"" (1958), ""The Guns of Navarone"" (1961), ""The Road to Hong Kong"" (1962), ""Lord Jim"" (1965), ""Black Sunday"" (1977), ""The Boys from Brazil"" (1978) and ""Cuba"" (1979). His first role in the James Bond film series was in 1963, when he played the henchman Morzeny in ""From Russia with Love"". From the late 1970s, he played the recurring"
"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"
"Sean Connery Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is a retired Scottish actor and producer, who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films, between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in ""The Untouchables"". His film career also includes such films as ""Marnie"", ""The Name of"
"now Rolex Manufacture. TM Gruen is currently owned worldwide by MZ Berger, Long Island City, New-York, US. A Gruen Precision 510 is believed to be the first watch worn on screen by James Bond (played by Sean Connery) in the 1962 film Dr No, and subsequently in From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice and Diamonds Are Forever. Gruen Watch Co. The Gruen Watch Company was formerly one of the largest watch manufacturers in the United States. It was in business from about 1894 to 1958 and was based in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was founded in 1908 by"
"on the popularity of Sean Connery, who by then had become world-famous as James Bond in ""Dr No"", ""From Russia with Love"" and ""Goldfinger"". The titles, as well as the advertising campaign, downplayed the comedic aspects of the film as well as Connery's original second-billing. During a 1961 trip to England Alan King made a brief appearance in the film and forgot about it until the American release gave him second billing. Reviewing the film in ""The New York Times"", following its 1965 US release, Howard Thompson noted that the release was ""an obvious cash-in"" on Connery's popularity as James"
"the US during this period and led US media to proclaim the United Kingdom as the center of music and fashion. The Beatles movie ""A Hard Day's Night"" marked the group's entrance into film. ""Mary Poppins"", released on August 27, 1964, and starring English actress Julie Andrews as the titular character, became the most Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated Disney film in history, and ""My Fair Lady"", released on December 25, 1964, starring British actress Audrey Hepburn as Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle, won eight Academy Awards. Besides the Bond series which commenced with Sean Connery as James Bond in 1962, films"
"previous Bond actors, to which viewers had apparently become accustomed. Although the choice of Craig was controversial, numerous actors publicly voiced their support. Most notably four of the five actors who had previously portrayed Bond – Pierce Brosnan, Timothy Dalton, Sean Connery and Roger Moore – called his casting a good decision. George Lazenby has since voiced his approval of Craig also. Clive Owen, who had been linked to the role, also spoke in defence of Craig. The first film, ""Casino Royale"", premiered on 14 November 2006, and grossed a total of US$594,239,066 worldwide, which made it the highest-grossing Bond"
"made a deal with McClory, to undertake a joint production of ""Thunderball"", which stopped McClory from making any further version of the novel for a period of ten years following the release of the Eon-produced version. ""Thunderball"" premiered in Tokyo on 9 December 1965, grossing $141.2 million at the global box office. In 1983 Kevin McClory produced a version of the ""Thunderball"" story, again with Sean Connery as Bond. The film premiered in New York on 7 October 1983, grossing $9.72 million ($ million in dollars) on its first weekend, which was reported to be ""the best opening record of"
"became the film ""Joan of Arc"". Wiseman appeared in several films in the 1950s. He made his first major film appearance in 1951's ""Detective Story"", where he recreated his performance from Broadway as an unstable small-time hood. Soon after, he played Marlon Brando's archenemy in ""Viva Zapata!"" (1952). Wiseman's most famous role as the titular Dr. No in the first James Bond film by Eon Productions came from producer Harry Saltzman, who cast Wiseman in the role in December 1961. It was Wiseman's performance in ""Detective Story"" that won him the part. (Later in his life, he viewed the film"
"listed at number 73. Thunderball (film) Thunderball is a 1965 British spy film and the fourth in the ""James Bond"" series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham. It was directed by Terence Young, with its screenplay by Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins. The movie would have been the first of the Bond series if not for legal disputes over copyright issues. The film follows Bond's mission"
"16 other people, including the lawyers who helped with the house sale. Sean Connery Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is a retired Scottish actor and producer, who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films, between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in ""The Untouchables""."
"Thunderball (film) Thunderball is a 1965 British spy film and the fourth in the ""James Bond"" series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham. It was directed by Terence Young, with its screenplay by Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins. The movie would have been the first of the Bond series if not for legal disputes over copyright issues. The film follows Bond's mission to find two NATO"
"Grant as James Bond. They eventually gave up once they saw the 1962 film ""Dr. No"", the first Bond adaptation made by Broccoli and his partner Harry Saltzman through their company Eon Productions. By 1964, with Feldman having invested nearly $550,000 of his own money into pre-production of ""Casino Royale"", he decided to try a deal with Eon Productions and its distributor United Artists. The attempt at a co-production eventually fell through as Feldman frequently argued with Broccoli and Saltzman, specially regarding the profit divisions and when the ""Casino Royale"" adaptation would start production. Feldman approached Sean Connery to play"
"around the world (garnering the film high honors at the Cannes Film Festival and several BAFTA Award nominations). Sean Connery returned to the role of James Bond in 1971 in ""Diamonds Are Forever"" after George Lazenby filled the role in 1969. Roger Moore succeeded Connery in 1973 with an adaptation of Ian Fleming's ""Live and Let Die"" which was the most successful of his Bond films in terms of admissions. ""Live and Let Die"" was followed by an adaptation of ""The Man with the Golden Gun"" in 1974, which at the time garnered the lowest box office taking of any"
"No"" was serialised in the ""Daily Express"", first in an abridged story form and later as a comic strip. The story was adapted in 1962 as the first film in the Bond series, with Sean Connery in the lead role; in 2008 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a version, with Toby Stephens as Bond. After recovering from serious poisoning inflicted by the SMERSH agent Rosa Klebb (in ""From Russia, with Love"") the MI6 agent James Bond is sent by his superior, M, on an undemanding mission to the British Colony of Jamaica. He is instructed to investigate the disappearance of Commander"
"007 Magazine to determine the greatest ever Bond film. ""Goldfinger"" came second in the poll and ""From Russia With Love"" was third. On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film) On Her Majesty's Secret Service is a 1969 British spy film and the sixth in the ""James Bond"" series produced by Eon Productions. It is based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Following Sean Connery's decision to retire from the role after ""You Only Live Twice"", Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby, to play the part of James Bond. During the making of"
"approached producer Cubby Broccoli at a party, and somewhat drunkenly asked ""When are you going to get someone ""decent"" to do one of your theme songs?"" During the opening sequence, a cover version of the 1965 Beach Boys song ""California Girls"", performed by Gidea Park with Adrian Baker (a tribute band), is used during a chase in which Bond snowboards; it has been suggested that this sequence helped initiate interest in snowboarding. This was the first Bond film with a premiere outside the UK, opening on 22 May 1985 at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts. The British premiere was"
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film) On Her Majesty's Secret Service is a 1969 British spy film and the sixth in the ""James Bond"" series produced by Eon Productions. It is based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Following Sean Connery's decision to retire from the role after ""You Only Live Twice"", Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby, to play the part of James Bond. During the making of the film, Lazenby announced that he would play the role of Bond only once. In the film, Bond faces Blofeld (Telly Savalas),"
"into film, and who had produced several stage plays and films with only modest success. When the two were introduced by a common friend, screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz, Saltzman refused to sell the rights, but agreed to partner with Broccoli and co-produce the films, which led to the creation of the production company EON Productions and its parent (holding) company Danjaq, LLC, named after their two wives' first names—Dana and Jacqueline. Saltzman and Broccoli produced the first Bond movie, ""Dr. No"", in 1962. Their second, ""From Russia with Love"", was a break-out success and from then on the films grew in"
"in October 1983, and opened to positive reviews, with Connery's return to the role being singled out for praise. The film was a commercial success, grossing $160 million at the box office, although less overall than the Eon-produced ""Octopussy"" released in the same year. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, to date, owns the distribution rights and also distributes Eon's 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, orders Bond to a health clinic outside London to get back into shape. While there, Bond witnesses"
"York on 13 April 1962. The film was originally released in the UK under the title The Grip of Fear. Ross Martin was nominated for a 1963 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Experiment in Terror Experiment in Terror is a 1962 suspense-thriller released by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Blake Edwards and written by Mildred Gordon and Gordon Gordon based on their 1961 novel ""Operation Terror"". The film stars Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, and Ross Martin. A psychotic killer, Garland ""Red"" Lynch, uses a campaign of terror to force San Francisco bank teller Kelly Sherwood"
"tracking down his betrayer and all those involved. The film, produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, and directed by Lee Tamahori, marked the ""James Bond"" franchise's 40th anniversary. The series began in 1962 with Sean Connery starring as Bond in ""Dr. No"". ""Die Another Day"" includes references to each of the preceding films. The film received mixed reviews. Some critics praised the work of Tamahori, while others criticised the film's heavy use of computer-generated imagery, which they found unconvincing and a distraction from the film's plot. Nevertheless, ""Die Another Day"" was the highest-grossing ""James Bond"" film up to"
"on a documentary at the age of 79 in Cannes. Terence Young (director) Shaun Terence Young (20 June 1915 – 7 September 1994) was a British film director and screenwriter best known for directing three James Bond films, including the first two films in the series, ""Dr. No"" (1962) and ""From Russia with Love"" (1963), as well as ""Thunderball"" (1965). All three films starred Sean Connery as Bond. The son of a Police Commissioner of the Shanghai Municipal Police, Young was born in Shanghai, China and was public-school educated. He read oriental history at St Catharine's College at the University"
"Aleksandrovich Ramius in ""The Hunt for Red October"" (1990), and Allan Quatermain in ""The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"" (2003). Along with his Academy Award, Connery has won two BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globes, and a Henrietta Award. Sean Connery filmography Sir Sean Connery is a retired Scottish actor and producer. He was the first actor to have portrayed the literary character James Bond in a film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and again in an unofficial Bond film in 1983. He is also known for his roles as Jimmy Malone in ""The Untouchables"" (1987), for which he won"
"and Ken Loach's first feature film ""Poor Cow"" (1967). He was approached to play the role of James Bond when Sean Connery retired from the role, but did not receive a second call from producer Harry Saltzman because, in Stamp's opinion, 'my ideas about [how the role should be portrayed] put the frighteners on Harry. I didn’t get a second call from him'. Stamp then travelled to Italy to star in Federico Fellini's ""Toby Dammit"", a 50-minute portion of the Edgar Allan Poe film adaptation ""Histoires extraordinaires"" (1968, aka ""Spirits of the Dead""). Stamp lived in Italy for several years,"
"cancelled the strip on 10 February 1962 after Fleming signed an agreement with ""The Sunday Times"" for them to publish the short story ""The Living Daylights"". ""Thunderball"" was reprinted in 2005 by Titan Books as part of the ""Dr. No"" anthology that also includes ""Diamonds Are Forever"" and ""From Russia, with Love"". In 1965, the film ""Thunderball"" was released, starring Sean Connery as James Bond. The film was produced as the fourth Eon Productions film and, as well as listing Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman as producers, Kevin McClory was also included in the production team: Broccoli and Saltzman"
"by Connery, was selected as the third-greatest hero in cinema history by the American Film Institute. When Sean Connery had been cast in November 1961, David Niven had been Fleming's choice for the role as the actor reflected his image of the character. In 1965 producer Charles Feldman signed Niven to play Sir James Bond for ""Casino Royale"", a film not made by Eon Productions. Connery and Peter Sellers had both turned down the role. Niven was 56 when he played Bond and his characterisation was that of an elderly man who had won the Victoria Cross at the Siege"
"""Thriller"", ""La Strega"" (1962) with Alejandro Rey. She soon became internationally famous as Honey Ryder, a shell diver and James Bond's woman of desire in ""Dr. No"" (1962), the first Bond movie. In what became an iconic moment in cinematic and fashion history, she rose out of the Caribbean Sea in a white bikini sporting a large diving knife on her hip. Due to her heavy Swiss-German accent, the character's voice was provided by Nikki van der Zyl, while the calypso was sung by Diana Coupland. The scene made Andress a ""quintessential"" Bond girl. Andress later said that she owed"
"recognizable. He was a stunt performer and minor actor in the following James Bond films: ""Dr. No"" (1962), ""From Russia with Love"" (1963), ""Goldfinger"" (1964), ""Casino Royale"" (1967) and ""You Only Live Twice"" (1967). He also acted and did stunt work in films such as ""Ivanhoe"" (1952), ""A Night to Remember"" (1958), ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962), ""Where Eagles Dare"" (1968), ""Star Wars"" (1977), ""Flash Gordon"" (1980), ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" (1981), ""Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"" (1984), ""Highlander"" (1986), ""Willow"" (1988), ""Batman"" (1989), """" (1991), ""Chaplin"" (1992) and ""Braveheart"" (1995). Brace was the stunt double for Clancy"
"popular film of 1969. It recorded admissions of 1,385,466 in France. However, according to ""Variety"", because of its high costs the film recorded a loss for ABC of $1,275,000. Later, ""Shalako"" became a cult classic; it has been regarded as having the hallmarks of a European Western. Critics noted this was Sean Connery's first attempt to go mainstream in film and to distance himself from the James Bond role. Connery continued to experiment with other roles, although he starred in two more Bond films, ""Diamonds Are Forever"" and ""Never Say Never Again."" ""Shalako"" was released to DVD by MGM Home"
"her name as Zaherra. Zaheera Zaheera is an Indian actress. She debuted in the James Bond movie ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"" in 1969. She played the role of an Indian girl named Zara. She acted in Bollywood movies over the next decade. She appeared in a lead role for the first time in ""Call Girl"" (1974), a movie with a controversial theme at that time. She also had roles in ""Aadmi Sadak Ka"" and ""Naukri"". One of her hit films was ""Gambler"" with Dev Anand, Shatrughna Sinha, Zahida and Jeevan. She has worked in few Punjabi movies as well."