"it would be his last film as Bond, leaving Broccoli to tell Alan Whicker, ""it won't be the last Bond under any circumstances—with all due respect to Sean, who I think has been certainly the best man to play this part. We will, in our own way, try to continue the Bond series for the audience because it's too important"". George Lazenby was signed on to play Bond for OHMSS. Between Sean Connery giving his notice at the beginning of filming ""You Only Live Twice"" and its release, Saltzman had planned to adapt ""The Man with the Golden Gun"" in"
"(1969), a crime drama, based on a novel by Harold Robbins, co-starring Alex Cord. She then starred in a string of Italian films, ""Machine Gun McCain"" (1969), ""The Conspirators"" (1969), and as Antigone in ""The Cannibals"" (1970). In 1971, she was cast as a leading lady and gun moll in the iconic crime film ""Get Carter"", opposite Michael Caine, which firmly established her as a blonde bombshell. The 1970s also saw Ekland in several horror films, including ""What the Peeper Saw"" (1972) as a disturbed bride; the Agatha Christie adaptation ""Endless Night"" (1972), playing the friend and companion of an"
"Gail Strickland Gail Strickland (born May 18, 1947) is an American actress. Strickland was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the daughter of Theodosia and Lynn Strickland, who owned a tire shop. She had featured roles in 1970s films such as ""Bound for Glory"", ""The Drowning Pool"" and ""Norma Rae"". In 1973, she appeared as Sister Ann, in the season four episode, ""Almost a Nun's Story"", on ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show"". Strickland had a memorable appearance on the television series ""M*A*S*H"" as Captain Helen Whitfield, a nurse in an ongoing battle with alcoholism. She appeared as Courtney, Jerry's love interest, in"
"Film Festival, where she became highly emotional when she saw the film. In the 2018 film ""My Dinner with Hervé"", Ekland was played by Helena Mattsson. Britt Ekland Britt Ekland (; born Britt-Marie Eklund; 6 October 1942) is a Swedish actress and singer. She appeared in numerous films in her heyday throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including critically acclaimed roles in William Friedkin's ""The Night They Raided Minsky's"" (1968), and the British crime film ""Get Carter"" (1971), which established her as a movie sex symbol. She also starred in the British cult horror film ""The Wicker Man"" (1973) and appeared"
"American heiress; and as a hallucinatory figure in the anthology film ""Asylum"" (1972) opposite Charlotte Rampling. Her most iconic horror role came in the 1973 cult horror film ""The Wicker Man"", in which she played a Pagan villager and seductress; however, her voice was dubbed in the film to disguise her Swedish-accented English. Other roles included in the thriller ""The Ultimate Thrill"" (1974) and the British drama ""Baxter!"" (1973). On television, she was cast in the TV film ""The Six Million Dollar Man: Wine, Women and War"" (1973) opposite Lee Majors. Ekland's next prominent role came when she was cast"
"Academy Award for Best Song and the Golden Globe. A film sequel, ""Rooster Cogburn"", was made in 1975, with Wayne reprising his role and Katharine Hepburn as an elderly spinster, Eula Goodnight, who teams up with him. The plot has been described as a rehash of the original ""True Grit"" with elements of the Bogart-Hepburn film ""The African Queen"". A further made-for-television sequel titled """" appeared in 1978, starring Warren Oates as Rooster Cogburn and Lisa Pelikan as Mattie Ross and featuring subsequent adventures of the valiant pair. In 2010, Joel and Ethan Coen directed another adaptation of the novel."
"varit"" (1963), before landing her first major supporting part in the George Marshall Western ""Advance to the Rear"" (1964). In 1964, she appeared in the Christmas television film ""A Carol for Another Christmas"", meeting her future husband, Peter Sellers, her co-star in the film. She followed this with ""After the Fox"" (1966), also starring Sellers; she made one more film with Sellers, ""The Bobo"" (1967). This was followed with a lead role as an Amish girl turned New York City burlesque dancer in William Friedkin's musical ""The Night They Raided Minsky's"" (1968), which earned Ekland critical acclaim. Next came ""Stiletto"""
"Jim Phantom, who was 19 years younger than her, aged 23. They had a son, Thomas Jefferson (born in 1988). They divorced in 1992. In the 1970s, Ekland was one of the most photographed and talked-about celebrities in the world. In 1980, her best-selling autobiography, ""True Britt"", was published. While Rod Stewart's domestic partner, Ekland inspired his hit song ""Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)"" 1977's overall #1 song. The song features a French spoken part from Ekland. In 2004, Ekland was portrayed by Charlize Theron in ""The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"". She accompanied Theron to the Cannes"
"prominent secondary roles. Her film credits include ""Middle of the Night"" (1959), ""Roseland"" (1977), ""It's My Turn"" (1980), ""A Little Sex"" (1982), ""Happy New Year"" (1987), ""The Laser Man"" (1988), ""Her Alibi"" (1989), ""Jungle 2 Jungle"" (1997), ""The Peacemaker"" (1997), ""The Object of My Affection"" (1998), ""The Adventures of Sebastian Cole"" (1998), ""The Audrey Hepburn Story"" (2000), ""The Last Request"" (2006), and ""The Private Lives of Pippa Lee"" (2009). She also voiced Tanana in Disney's ""Brother Bear"" (2003). In December 2014, Copeland was invited, along with Broadway actor-singer Jamie Ross by The Noel Coward Society to lay flowers on the"
"company bound for an American tour, she came to the U.S. in her twenties, apparently making a few appearances on Broadway in small roles, but primarily touring in stock companies. With her mother and daughter (both also named Mary), she arrived in Los Angeles in the mid-1920s and began playing variations on the roles she would spend her career on. She became friends with John Ford while making ""Hangman's House"" in 1928 and made seven more films with him. In 1939, she took on her best-remembered role as Sherlock Holmes' landlady and played the role in ten films and numerous"
"edited out, as Rowlands felt that these scenes were in poor taste. The alternative print is the only one that has been made available for rental. In 1985, Rowlands played the mother in the critically acclaimed made-for-TV movie ""An Early Frost"". She won an Emmy for her portrayal of former First Lady of the United States Betty Ford in the 1987 made-for-TV movie ""The Betty Ford Story"". In 1988, Rowlands starred in Woody Allen's dramatic film ""Another Woman"". She played Marion Post, a middle-aged professor who is prompted to a journey of self-discovery when she overhears the therapy sessions of"
"(the trilogy is known as ""The Scots Quair""). On film she played Catriona opposite Michael Caine in the 1973 film version of Robert Louis Stevenson's ""Kidnapped"", and also appeared in """" (1978), starring Rutger Hauer and Sylvia Kristel, and the 1998 comedy ""The Sea Change"", with Ray Winstone. She appeared as Emm in ""Ace of Wands"" and as regular Det. Sgt. Louise Colbert in the BBC detective series ""Target"". She received an Emmy nomination for her performance in ""The Moonstone"". She appeared as a minor character, Christine Pretis, in ""EastEnders"" from 1989 to 1992. Other television appearances include ""Hetty Wainthropp"
"""Bonanza, Laramie a""nd ""The Virginian"", and ""The Lonely Hours"", ""Murder Case"" and ""Ride The Nightmare"" on CBS's ""The Alfred Hitchcock Hour"". In 1967, she was cast as socialite Adrienne Van Leyden in the prime time ABC soap opera ""Peyton Place"". Rowlands and Cassavetes made ten films together: ""A Child Is Waiting"" (1963), ""Faces"" (1968), ""Machine Gun McCain"" (1969), ""Minnie and Moskowitz"" (1971), ""A Woman Under the Influence"" (1974; nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress), ""Two-Minute Warning"" (1976), ""Opening Night"" (1977), ""Gloria"" (1980; nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress), ""Tempest"" (1982), and ""Love Streams"" (1984). According to Boston University"
"Christina Hendricks Christina Rene Hendricks (born May 3, 1975) is an American actress and model. She is best known for her starring role as Joan Holloway on the AMC period drama series ""Mad Men"" (2007–2015) and as Beth Boland in the NBC crime drama series ""Good Girls"" (2018–present). Hendricks has also appeared as Saffron in the Fox space western series ""Firefly"" (2002–03), Celine/""Chair"" in the Comedy Central period sitcom ""Another Period"" (2015–16), and as Trudy in the SundanceTV drama series ""Hap and Leonard"" (2016). Her notable film credits include ""Drive"" (2011), ""God's Pocket"" (2014), ""Lost River"" (2014), ""The Neon Demon"""
"Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson and George Sanders. It is based on the novel ""Endless Night"" by Agatha Christie. She made two films for Sidney Hayers, ""What Changed Charley Farthing?"" (1974) and ""Deadly Strangers"" (1975). After ""The Kingfisher Caper"" in 1975, co-written by Boulting, Mills dropped out of the film industry for a few years. In 1981 Mills returned to acting with a starring role in the UK television mini-series ""The Flame Trees of Thika"", based on Elspeth Huxley's memoir of her childhood in East Africa. The series was well received, prompting Mills to accept more acting roles. She then returned"
"Beth Howland Elizabeth ""Beth"" Howland (May 28, 1941 – December 31, 2015) was an American actress. She worked on stage and television, and was best known for playing Vera Gorman in ""Alice"", the sitcom inspired by the Martin Scorsese film ""Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"" (1974). Howland originated the role of Amy in the original Broadway cast of Stephen Sondheim's ""Company"", in which she introduced the patter song ""Getting Married Today"". Howland was born on May 28, 1941, in Boston. At the age of 16, she left home and followed a dancer friend to New York City. After a time"
"top-five single ""Can't Nobody"". Rowland transitioned into acting in 2002, playing the recurring role of Carly in the fourth season of UPN sitcom ""The Hughleys"". She continued her acting career the following year, with guest roles in UPN sitcom ""Eve"" as Cleo, and in NBC drama series ""American Dreams"" as Martha Reeves. In August 2003, Rowland made her big screen debut playing the supporting role of Kia Waterson alongside Robert Englund and Monica Keena in the slasher film, ""Freddy vs. Jason"", which grossed $114.5 million at the box office worldwide. In July 2005, Rowland starred opposite Duane Martin and Shemar"
"few appearances at the swimming pool. She returned to television with a couple of appearances in 1965 on ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" with a role as a beach extra, and then did a role doubling for Claudia Cardinale in ""Blindfold"" (1966). Her best known film was ""In Like Flint"" (1967), directed by Gordon Douglas, where she played Jan, one of secret agent (James Coburn) Derek Flint's girlfriends. Bond was very athletic and often did her own stunts or hired out as a stunt woman between acting jobs. In the 1967 filming of ""House of 1,000 Dolls"" she shinned down a 60-foot"
"frightened cruise passenger in the critically panned """" in 1997. She made a cameo appearance in the international release of the 1997 Bond spoof """", though her scene was cut in the United States release. She has worked in television, playing J.R. Ewing's love interest Holly Harwood in the 1982–1983 season of ""Dallas"" and guest appearances in series such as ""Hart to Hart"" (as a psychotic split-personality model), ""In the Heat of the Night"", ""Murder, She Wrote"", and ""The Nanny"" (with another Bond girl Ivana Miličević). Later high points included the indie films ""Diary of a Hitman"" (1991) and ""Curdled"""
"""Hamlet""). She appeared in movies such as ""The Changeling"" (1980), ""The Hounds of Notre Dame"" (1980), ""Happy Birthday to Me"" (1981), ""The Lotus Eaters"" (1993) and ""Never Talk to Strangers"" (1995), and on television, including a role on ""Road to Avonlea"". Hyland was considered to be one of the highest-ranked Shakespearean actresses of her time. In Canada, she and her close friend, Kate Reid, were acknowledged to be two of the greatest actresses, as stated by Weekend Magazine. Along with being a well-established actress, Hyland has also co-starred with many actors who have gone on to find fame in the"
"Trudie Goodwin Trudie Goodwin (born 13 November 1951) is an English actress best known for playing Sergeant June Ackland in the high-profile British television police drama ""The Bill"" from 1983 to 2007, and Georgia Sharma in the ITV soap ""Emmerdale"", from 2011 until 2015. Goodwin had appeared in ""The Bill"" since its pilot, ""Woodentop"", which was part of the storyboard plays for Thames TV in 1983. However, in February 2006, Goodwin announced she would be leaving the serial drama at the end of the year. She also took a sabbatical from the show lasting several months in 2005 in order"
"like a slave. I willingly accommodate any demands that are made on me, sparing whips, chains and diversions."" ""Sex is a man's supreme game; his own private and perennial Olympics. He must always be made to feel that he is the dominant force, even if the woman generates the state of play."" True Britt True Britt was a best-selling autobiography, published in 1980, by the actress Britt Ekland. Ekland describes her marriage with Peter Sellers, relationships with Rod Stewart and Lord Lichfield and affairs with, among others Warren Beatty and 'Count' Ascanio Cicogna, and discovering she was nearly bankrupt at"
"She was in only two motion pictures, playing the role of Mrs. Faulkner, mother of Kim Stanley's character, in ""The Goddess"" (1958) and playing Roz Moreland in ""The Man in the Net"" (1959). In ""The Goddess"", Holland recalls that the religious conversion scene, which was long, was applauded by the Hollywood crew, not for the acting, but because all actors had remembered their lines. She married Robert Cordier, a Belgian-Franco-American director and poet, in January 1962 in New York. They have two children. Betty Lou Holland Betty Lou Holland (born December 25, 1926) is an American actress who worked on"
"as well as executive-produced ""Blue State"". The film is made by ""Paquin Films"", a production company formed by her and her brother, Andrew Paquin. In November 2006, she completed the film ""Margaret"", which was released in 2011. She played Elaine Goodale in HBO's made-for-TV film ""Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"", based on Dee Brown's best-seller. In 2007, she played the role of Laurie in the horror film ""Trick 'r Treat"", which was released in 2009. Paquin was cast as waitress Sookie Stackhouse in the HBO series ""True Blood"" in 2008, her first role in a TV series. The show"
"""Superbad"" (2007), ""Zombieland"" (2009), ""Easy A"" (2010), ""Crazy, Stupid, Love"" (2011), ""The Help"" (2011), ""The Amazing Spider-Man"" (2012), ""The Amazing Spider-Man 2"" (2014), ""Birdman"" (2014), ""La La Land"" (2016), ""Battle of the Sexes"" (2017), and ""The Favourite"" (2018). Stone has been nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress for ""Birdman"" and Best Actress for ""La La Land"" and three British Academy Film Awards: BAFTA Rising Star Award, Best Supporting Actress for ""Birdman"", and Best Actress in a Leading Role for ""La La Land"", winning both of her nominations for ""La La Land"". She won Best Actress in a Comedy"
"and in more than eighty films, including some that became classics, such as ""Dead End"" (1937), ""Dark Command"" (1940), ""The Shepherd of the Hills"" (1941), ""Meet Me in St. Louis"" (1944), and ""Friendly Persuasion"" (1956), but is best known for her Ma Kettle role in the Ma and Pa Kettle film series. The ""cornball humor"" of the Kettle films endured in subsequent television shows, such as ""The Beverly Hillbillies"" and ""Green Acres"" series of the 1960s. Marjorie Main Marjorie Main is the stage name of Mary Tomlinson (February 24, 1890 – April 10, 1975), was an American character actress and"
"True Britt True Britt was a best-selling autobiography, published in 1980, by the actress Britt Ekland. Ekland describes her marriage with Peter Sellers, relationships with Rod Stewart and Lord Lichfield and affairs with, among others Warren Beatty and 'Count' Ascanio Cicogna, and discovering she was nearly bankrupt at a supposedly prolific time in her career. Ekland refers to Peter Sellers as 'Sellers', he in turn called her 'Britvic' She describes his obsessive behaviour and obsession with pleasing the Royal Family, both contributing factors in their ultimate divorce. ""I would squirm with embarrassment at the demeaning lengths he would stoop to"
"Westwood. This work funded her through drama school and then presenting on Channel Five's The Great Big British Quiz, while modelling for shows like ""This Morning"", ""The Alan Titchmarsh Show"" and GMTV. Since graduating she has played roles including as Dorrabella for BBC's Elgar's Enigma, Beanie in the feature film ""Shank""; directed by Mo Ali, Mary alongside Tamer Hassan in ""Bonded By Blood"" and most recently she played Cheryl in ""Outside Bet"" which was released on 24 April 2012. Rebecca Ferdinando Rebecca Ferdinando is an English actress, best known for playing Mary in the British gangster film ""Bonded by Blood""."
"performers, working for the National Theatre Company and the Royal Shakespeare Company. In television, she achieved success during this period, in the series ""A Fine Romance"" from 1981 until 1984 and in 1992 began a continuing role in the television romantic comedy series ""As Time Goes By"". Her film appearances were infrequent until she was cast as M in ""GoldenEye"" (1995), a role she continued to play in James Bond in films through to ""Spectre"". She has starred in many acclaimed films since then, and won an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress in 1999 for ""Shakespeare in Love"". Judi"
"many other 1970s sitcom stars. In January 2014 she appeared in an episode of the BBC popular drama ""Waterloo Road"". In 2016 she appeared as Mary Goodman in the BBC TV series ""Death in Paradise"" episode 5.5. As of January 2018 she has been appearing in the ITV soap Emmerdale. She was a subject of the television programme ""This Is Your Life"" in February 1970 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews. She was married to Jack Bentley, a trombonist, scriptwriter and journalist, from 1955 until his death in 1994. They had two sons, Alaster (later principal oboist for the"
"Sarah Hadland Sarah Hadland (born 20 February 1971) is an English actress best known for her role as Stevie Sutton in the BBC One BAFTA-nominated comedy television series ""Miranda"" (2009–2015). Hadland appeared as the Ocean Sky receptionist in the 2008 James Bond film ""Quantum of Solace"". Her other movie roles include ""Magicians"" (2007), ""Leap Year"" (2010) and ""Learners"" (2007). Hadland appeared in the comedy-drama television series ""Moving Wallpaper"" (2008–2009) as script writer Gillian McGovern, and had roles in the British comedy TV shows ""That Mitchell and Webb Look"" (2008–2010), ""Horrible Histories"" (2009–2010, 2012–2013), ""The Job Lot"" (2013–2015) and ""Brotherhood"" (2015)."
"Catherine Hickland Catherine Hickland (born February 11, 1956) is an American film, stage, and television actress, as well as a singer, author and cosmetics-company CEO and hypnotist. She began her career in television in 1978, appearing in guest roles on several series before being cast in a recurring role on ""Texas"" from 1980 to 1981. She also had supporting roles in the comedy film ""The Last Married Couple in America"" (1980), and the horror films ""Ghost Town"" (1988) and ""Witchery"" (1988). In 1986, Hickland appeared as Fantine in a Broadway production of ""Les Misérables"". From 1998 to 2008, she appeared"
"first feature was ""The Heart Breaker"" (1930) directed by Edmund Joseph. She was cast with Joan Blondell, Gloria Shea, and Walter Kinsella. She played a reporter ""Wedding Present"" (1936) and a nurse in ""Hit Parade of 1937"". Oakland's film career lasted into the late 1940s with uncredited roles in ""Tonight and Every Night"" (1945), ""Thrill of a Romance"" (1945), and ""Riverboat Rhythm"" (1946). She was married to Captain Garnet Rotan who served with distinction in World War I. Their romance began in 1917 when Oakland was playing in a Broadway theater production. The actress became engaged to English actor Thomas"