James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced "double-oh seven"), is a fictional British spy introduced by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. Fleming wrote numerous novels and short stories based upon the character and, after his death in 1964, further literary adventures were written by Kingsley Amis (pseudonym "Robert Markham"), John Pearson, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, and Charlie Higson; in addition, Christopher Wood wrote two screenplay novelisations and other authors have also written ...

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Baron Samedi James Bond - Novel bio. In the novel, Baron Samedi does not make an appearance himself, although many people in Harlem and elsewhere believe the novel's chief villain, Mr. Big, to be either the Voodoo god Baron Samedi himself or perhaps his zombie. Mr. Big encourages this belief by keeping a Baron Samedi totem near his desk. Baron Samedi James Bond - Film bio. Baron Samedi is first introduced as a so called entertainer who does a voodoo dance act for tourists, when ...

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James Bond is the son of a Scottish father, Andrew Bond, and a Swiss mother, Monique Delacroix, both of whom died in a mountain climbing accident in the Aiguilles Rouges, when Bond was 11 years old. James went to live with his Aunt, Miss Charmian Bond, in Kent. Bond's family motto, which was later adopted by James Bond during "Operation Corona" in the novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service is Orbis n ...

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James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced "double-oh seven"), is a fictional British spy introduced by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. Fleming wrote numerous novels and short stories based upon the character and, after his death in 1964, further literary adventures were written by Kingsley Amis (pseudonym "Robert Markham"), John Pearson, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, and Charlie Higson; in addition, Christopher Wood wrote two screenplay novelisations and other authors have also written ...

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Alec Trevelyan is the villain in the James Bond film, GoldenEye. Trevelyan, a former secret agent for MI6 (006), was portrayed by actor Sean Bean. The likeness of Sean Bean as Alec Trevelyan was also used for the 1997 video game, GoldenEye 007. Alec Trevelyan - Biography. Once an agent working for Her Majesty's secret service, agent 006, Trevelyan betrayed MI6 on a mission in Russia while working with James Bond, agent 007. During the mission to blow up a chemical weapons facility, Tre ...

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Born in Stockwell, London, England, the son of a policeman, he attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. During World War II, he served in the entertainment branch (above luminaries such as Spike Milligan). He first appeared in films in the 1940s, as an extra, and then was a leading man, notably in television. Besides having been The Saint, many episodes of which he also directed, Moore was Ivanhoe, the noble knight, and Maverick, the Wild West cardsharp, and featured as the leadin ...

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Ian Fleming Publications - James Bond Jr.. Written by Arthur Calder-Marshall under the pseudonym R.D. Mascott, it was the first James Bond related book not written by Ian Fleming to be published after Fleming's death. 003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior (1967) Ian Fleming Publications - The Authorised Biography. Written by Fleming's friend and colleague, John Pearson, the book differs from all other Bond novels in that it is a biography told in ...

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Leiter makes his first appearance and introduction to James Bond in the very first Bond book, Casino Royale. He is an ex- member of the US Marine Corps, now working at NATO Headquarters. In Live and Let Die, the second Bond novel, Felix is fed to a shark by Mr. Big's henchmen and ends up losing an arm and a leg. He is subsequently invalided out of the CIA, but continues to appear throughout the novel series, sometimes working as a private detective for Pinkertons, (as in Diamonds Are Forever) and sometimes working on beh ...

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George Lazenby's first serious acting role was as James Bond in the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). Lazenby is the second official actor to portray the British secret agent. It was rumoured that Lazenby had been "difficult to work with" in this project. According to Lazenby, however, the difficulties were caused by director Peter R. Hunt, who apparently refused to talk directly to him—and this in turn was caused by Lazenby (unaware of studio politics or Hunt's sensibilities) passing on a request for Hunt's friends to cl ...

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George Lazenby was born in Queanbeyan (or Goulburn), New South Wales, Australia, and served in the Australian Army Special forces and as a military unarmed combat instructor. He moved to London in 1964; working as a car salesman and as a model, then as an actor in advertising, by 1968, he was the highest-paid model in the world (it is said that in 1967, he made £40,000 directly from modelling, and £60,000 from commercials and product endorsements—equivalent to more than a million pounds in 2 ...

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Kingsley Amis became associated with Ian Fleming's creation, James Bond, in the 1960s, writing critical works connected with the fictional spy, either under a pseudonym or uncredited. He wrote the popular The James Bond Dossier under his own name. Later, he wrote, The Book of Bond, or, Every Man His Own 007, a tongue-in-cheek how-to manual about being a sophisticated spy, under the pseudonym "Lt Col. William 'Bill' Tanner", Tanner being M's Chie ...

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Timothy Dalton - Youth and early career. Born in Colwyn Bay, Wales, UK, Timothy Dalton is of mixed English and Italian-Irish ancestry. Soon after his birth, the family moved to Belper, Derbyshire, England, UK. He became interested in acting in his teenage years, and left school in 1964 to enrol in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and tour with the National Youth Theatre in the summer. He did not complete his RADA studies, leaving the academy in 1966 to join the ensemble of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. He qu ...

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Ian Fleming Publications - by Ian Fleming. Casino Royale (1953) — first American paperback title: You Asked for It Live and Let Die (1954) Moonraker (1955) — first American paperback title: Too Hot to Handle Diamonds Are Forever (1956) From Russia with Love (1957) Dr. No (1958) Goldfinger (1959) Thunderball (1961) — with Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham. Th ...

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American entertainment magazine The Hollywood Reporter said Urban, was one of several actors being considered for the part of British secret service agent 007 in the next Bond movie, Casino Royale. Directed by fellow New Zealander Martin Campbell. These rumours were never confirmed or denied by Karl. Karl's New Zealand agent, Graham Dunster, said it was news to him, but Urban had been out of reach in recent weeks while filming Viking epic Pathfinder in Canada. Yet Karl U ...

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Kingsley Amis was born in London, educated at the City of London School and St. John's College, Oxford, where he met Philip Larkin, with whom Amis formed the most important friendship of his life. After serving in the Royal Corps of Signals in the Second World War, Amis completed university in 1947, and was a lecturer in English at the University of Wales Swansea (1948–61), and at Cambridge (1961–63). Amis achieved popular success with his first novel Lucky Jim, which is considered by many to be an exemplary novel of Fiftie ...

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Amis's critical interest in science fiction led to New Maps of Hell (1960), his interpretation of the genre's literary qualities. He was particularly enthusiastic about the dystopian works of Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth, and in New Maps of Hell he coined the term "comic inferno", describing a type of humorous dystopia particularly as exemplified in the works of Robert Sheckley. With the Sovietologist Robert Conquest, Amis produced the science fiction anthology series Spectrum I–IV, which drew heavily upon the 1950 ...

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Following Karl's lead role in the film Doom the adaption of the popular video game of the same name, he has been offered leads in the Viking film Pathfinder and the Martian film OutlanderTo be shot in Karl's home town of Wellington . More leads are likely to follow if his next two films are box-office hits. Karl will most likely become a household name, depending on the success of Pathfinder and Outlander. Karl has also had major supporting roles as Krill in the Matt Damon action series The Bourne Su ...

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Arguably the most famous James Bond villain in any film, Goldfinger's obsession was gold. In fact, Goldfinger was a gold smuggler accomplishing this feat by having a workable car built out of gold and transporting it via airplane. Once the car arrived at its destination, Goldfinger would have it melted down. Goldfinger is also an avid golfer who plays with a Slazenger 1 golf ball. He is defeated by Bond, however, wh ...

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Born June 7, 1972, Wellington, New Zealand Karl-Heinz Urban. Son of a leather goods manufacturer,(who had hoped hoped that Karl would follow in his footsteps). Karl attended St Mark's Church School where he showed an early love for public performance. His first acting role was when he was 8 he had a line on a television show. However, he did not act again until after high school. He then went on to Wellington College. Upon leaving High School Karl was offered a role in the hit New Zealand TV-series Shortland Street playi ...

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