Ursula Andress is often considered the first Bond girl, playing Honey Ryder in the film Dr. No (1962). She was, however, preceeded by Eunice Gayson who played the character Sylvia Trench. Trench is the only Bond girl to appear as the same character in more than one film, appearing again in From Russia with Love (1963). Initially, Trench was planned to be a regular girlfriend of Bond's in the series, but was subsequently ...

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Hammer's first significant experiment with horror came in the form of a 1955 adaptation of Nigel Kneale's BBC Television science fiction serial The Quatermass Experiment, which was directed by Val Guest. As a consequence of the contract with Robert Lippert, American actor Brian Donlevy was imported for the lead role, and the title was changed to The Quatermass Xperiment to cash in on the new X certificate for horror films. The film was an unexpectedly big hit, and led to an almost equally popular 1957 sequel Quatermass 2 ...

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Angela Channing - Jane Wyman Chase Gioberti - Robert Foxworth (Seasons 1-6) Maggie Gioberti/Channing - Susan Sullivan Richard Channing - David Selby (Seasons 2-9) Lance Cumson - Lorenzo Lamas Melissa Agretti/Cumson/Gioberti - Ana Alicia (Seasons 1-8) Cole Gioberti - Billy R. Moses (Seasons 1-7) Emma Channing - Margaret Ladd Chao-Li - Chao-Li Chi Vickie Gioberti/Hogan/Stavros - Jamie Rose (Seasons 1-3), Dana Sparks (Seasons 6-8) Julia Cumson - Abby Dalton (Seasons 1-6) Philip Erickson - Mel Ferrer (Seasons 1-3) Terry Hartford ...

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List of James Bond allies - Gogol General Anatol. General Anatol Gogol is the head of the KGB in the films, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, and A View to a Kill; in his final appearance in The Living Daylights the character has become a post-Glasnost envoy and was succeeded as head of the KGB by General Pushkin. Gogol is played by Walter Gotell. Although with the KGB, Gogol often allies himself with Bond to stave off the possibility of war ...

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This section lists allies who appeared in only one film. Recurring allies are listed, above. Dr. No Pleydell-Smith - played by: Louis Blaazer Puss-Feller - played by: Lester Pendergast Quarrel - played by: John Kitzmiller From Russia with Love Kerim Bey - played by: Pedro Armendariz Goldfinger Colonel Smithers played by: Rich ...

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The 00 Branch of MI6 is considered the elite of the Secret Service. These are agents who have proven themselves capable enough in the field to be entrusted with the licence to kill -- the authorisation to, at their own discretion, commit assassination and acts that might be otherwise considered murder in order to complete their missions, without having to seek permission from headquarters first. The film The World is Not Enough revealed that the 00 Branch has its own area within MI6 headquarters and its own insignia, though it is not known if this has alwa ...

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This section lists allies who appeared in only one film. Recurring allies are listed, above. Dr. No Pleydell-Smith - played by: Louis Blaazer Puss-Feller - played by: Lester Pendergast (uncredited) Quarrel - played by: John Kitzmiller From Russia with Love Kerim Bey - played by: Pedro Armendariz Vavra - played by: Francis de Wolff Goldfinger Colonel Smithers played by: Rich ...

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Bond girl - Ian Fleming. Mary Goodnight was a supporting character in several Bond novels before graduating to full Bond girl in The Man with the Golden Gun. The short stories "Quantum of Solace", "The Living Daylights" and "The Property of a Lady" feature female characters in prominent roles, but none of these women interact with Bond in any sort of romantic fashion. Bond girl - Kingsley Amis a.k.a. Robert Markham. Bond girl - John Gardner. See also:

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Bond girl - Official James Bond girls. In addition to those actresses mentioned above, the Bond films traditionally have groups of women in the background whose general purpose is nothing more than eye candy: they include the sunbathing Miami beauties in Goldfinger, the Thai girls at the kung fu school in The Man With the Golden Gun, Tiger Tananka's bathing beauties in You Only Live Twice, and Sheik Hossein's harem in The Spy Who Loved Me. However, in Moonraker, For Your Eyes OnlySee also:

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In the early 1980s Hammer Films created a series for British television, Hammer House of Horror, which ran for 13 episodes. In a break from their cinema format, these featured plot twists which usually saw the protagonists fall into the hands of that episode's horror. These varied from sadistic shopkeepers with hidden pasts, to witches and satanic rites. The series was marked by a sense of dark irony, its haunting ...

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Gus Nunouz - Nick Ramus (Season 1) Douglas Channing - Stephen Elliott (Season 1) Tony Cumson - John Saxon (Seasons 1, 6-7), Robert Loggia (Season 2) Father Bob - Bob Curtis Carlo Agretti - Carlos Romero (Seasons 1-3) Mario Nunouz - Mario Marcelino (Seasons 1-2) Alicia Nunouz - Silvana Gallardo (Seasons 1-2) Nick Hogan - Roy Thinnes (Season 2-3) Diana Hunter - Shannon Tweed (Season 2) Darryl Clayton - Bradford Dillman (Season 2) Katherine Demery - Joanna Cassidy (Season 2) Sheila Hogan - Katherine Justice (Seasons 2-3) Lind ...

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Jacqueline Perrault - Lana Turner (Seasons 1-2) Dr. Michael Ranson - Cliff Robertson (Season 3) Francesca Gioberti - Gina Lollobrigida (Season 4) Anna Rossini - Celeste Holm (Seasons 4-5) Jordan Roberts - Morgan Fairchild (Season 5) Kit Marlowe - Kim Novak (Season 6) Roland Saunders - Robert Stack (Season 6) Vince Karlotti - Marjoe Gortner (Season 6) Nicole Sauget - Leslie Caron (Season 7) Liz McDowell - Lauren Hutton (Season 7) Carlton Travis - Eddie Albert (Season 7) Madame Malec - Ursula Andress (Season 7) Lillian Nash - Eve Arden (Se ...

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In November 1934, William Hinds, a comedian and businessman registered his own film company — Hammer Productions Ltd.[1] — based in a three-room office suite at Imperial House, Regent Street, London. The company name was taken from Hinds' stage name, Will Hammer. Work began almost immediately on the first Hammer film, The Public Life of Henry the Ninth at the MGM/ATP studios, with shooting concluding on 2 January 1935. During this ...

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James Carreras (son of Enrique) joined Exclusive in 1938, closely followed by William Hinds' son, Anthony. At the outbreak of World War II, both James Carreras and Anthony Hinds left to join the armed services and Exclusive continued to operate only in a limited capacity. In 1946, James Carreras rejoined the company after demobilisation. He resurrected Hammer as the film production arm of Exclusive with a view to supplying 'quota-quickies' - cheaply made films designed to fill gaps in cinema schedules and support more expensive features.See also:

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As audiences became more sophisticated in the late 1960s, with the release of artfully directed, subtly horrific films like Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby, the studio struggled to maintain its place in the market. It responded by bringing in new writers and directors, testing new characters, and attempting to rejuvenate their vampire and Frankenstein films with new approaches to familiar material. Dracula AD 1972 and The Satanic Rites of Dracula, for example, abandon period settings in pursuit of a modern-day se ...

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Hammer consolidated their success by turning their most successful horror films into series. Six sequels to The Curse of Frankenstein were produced between 1959 and 1974: The Revenge of Frankenstein (1959) The Evil of Frankenstein (1964) Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974) All starred Peter Cushing as Baron Frankenstein, except The Ho ...

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List of James Bond allies - M. Bond's superior in the Secret Service. Bernard Lee (1962 - 1979) John Huston (1967) - unofficial Casino Royale Robert Brown (1983 - 1989) Edward Fox (1983) - Unofficial Never Say Never Again Judi Dench (1995 - current) Also, in the spoof Casino Royale, Sir James Bond (David Niven) is promoted to the position of M. See also:

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