Three of the venues for these games (the bobsleigh run, indoor arena, and ski jump) would serve as film location for the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.
Several movies have been filmed on the bridge, including some scenes in the 1969 James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service when James Bond is in a car with Marc Ange Draco's henchmen and they drive across a bridge, and the bridge is featured near the end of the movie when Bond marries Tracy and drives with her in Bond's Aston Martin across the bridge again.
It is named in honour of the British novelist Ian Fleming who wrote a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the fictional British spy James Bond between 1953 and 1964.
In 2009, Croasdell confirmed that his voice would be heard in a 2010 released video game, where in he will play the role of James Bond.
Very much the typical spoof the film includes all the typical elements of the James Bond films, an evil genius villain, car chases, helicopters, gadgets and beautiful women.
Obsidian has said that these options are based on the personalities of the "three J.B.'s": Jason Bourne of The Bourne Identity novels and films, James Bond of the eponymous film and book series, and Jack Bauer of the television series 24, although the game itself does not use these names.
The first movie to use music made with a (Moog) synthesizer was the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.
As well as designing residences, in the 1980s Martin worked on James Bond film sets.
The later scenes of the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love were filmed around the lochs and hills of Argyll and Bute.
In the 1960s, Calder-Marshall took on commissioned work which included novelizations of movies such as the Dirk Bogarde film Victim and a children's novel about British spy James Bond's nephew.
A colour pilot episode for another puppet series called Paul Starr: Space Agent about a James Bond-style action hero failed to be commissioned, as did a 1967 live-action science fiction series The Solarnauts, for which Provis filmed the model sequences.
His dynamic live performances and his reputation for putting on explosive shows led him to perform at the Edinburgh Festival, Soho Jazz Festival, Miami AT&T Caribbean Jazz Festival, St. Lucia, Antigua, Curaçao, St. Kitts, St.Vincent, Grenada and Barbados Jazz Festivals, Arturo continued his live performance schedule at Bob Marley's Birthday Bash, James Bond Film Festival in Jamaica, and Trinidad's Independence Day celebration in Miami.
In the James Bond novel by Jeffery Deaver, "Carte Blanche", Bond's bourbon of choice at his flat is Basil Hayden's.
Each player has one or more "battlecars" that are equipped with machine guns, flamethrowers, spike droppers and the like, with much taken from the cinematic James Bond mythology of modified vehicles.
In 2008 MacIntyre wrote an informative illustrated account of Ian Fleming, creator of the fictional spy James Bond, to accompany the For Your Eyes Only exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum, which was part of the Fleming Centenary celebrations.
The chess game between "Kronsteen" and "McAdams" in the early part of the James Bond movie From Russia With Love is based on a game in that opening played between Spassky and David Bronstein in 1960 in which Spassky ("Kronsteen") was victorious.
Boss has teamed up with the creators of James Bond and Super Mario offering collectible figurines when you purchase one to two cans of boss coffee.
The music video for the song was shot at Lake Garda, directed by Gaetano Morbioli and its context is similar to James Bond stories.
Over April and May 2008, scenes for the 22nd James Bond film Quantum of Solace were filmed on the Seebühne during a performance of Tosca and in June 2008 the German broadcasting corporation ZDF hosted its 2008 European Football Championship live broadcast studio on the floating stage.
Several major movies have featured bungee jumps, most famously the opening sequence of the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye in which Bond makes a jump over the edge of a dam in Russia (in reality the dam is in Switzerland: Verzasca Dam, and the jump was genuine, not an animated special effect).
The film is a parody of several famous feature films, mainly the James Bond series.
Carrying on with not only period pieces such as Hunebelle's Fantômas series, Claude became the stunt arranger to André Hunebelle's OSS 117 film series in a manner similar to Bob Simmons of the James Bond films.
During the 1960s, Canadian-born James Bond film producer Harry Saltzman attempted to make a film about Grant that would have been shot in Canada.
One of his earlier submersibles was featured in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.
Similar to the James Bond stories (which started two years later), every new adventure brings Flandry another beautiful damsel to woo and rescue.
Among his colleagues during the war was Ian Fleming, who would later go on to create the character of James Bond
According to The Sunday Times, Ian Fleming used Hudson as a model for his character James Bond, although it has also been suggested that the character was modelled on his brother, Peter Fleming.
Quiller (not his real name) occupies a literary middle ground between James Bond and John le Carré.
Lenthan has sent away for a human expert on rocketry but has instead gotten Zifnab, a bizarre long-bearded fellow who seems utterly senile, especially since he seems to think he's some person named "James Bond" one moment, and "Dorothy Gale" the next; his "dog Toto" (actually one of Pryan's native "dragons") spends a lot of time reining him in.
in Playboy Magazine as part of the 13-page James Bond parodie pictorial "The Girls of Casino Royale".
Fleming Media is a London based investment fund run by the family of Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels.
The Olympia Brass Band had a notable part in the 1973 James Bond movie Live and Let Die where they lead a funeral march for a victim asassinated during the march.
There were no spies in the experimental game; but after Ronnie Pasola remembered the James Bond movies and Mata Hari, he added the spies.
Sub-titled A Comprehensive Guide to the Practice and Principles of Modern Journalism, this featured an introduction by Kemsley and an essay from his Foreign Manager Ian Fleming, later the author of the James Bond novels.
The book follows two main narrative threads: one which follows the exploits of Ian Cormac, a 007-like agent from ECS (Earth Central Security), and another thread which follows the story of Arian Pelter and his band of Separatists from Cheyne III.
Including the opening sequence of the 2002 film Die Another Day in which James Bond is in North Korea.
A UK registered civil UH-12 was seen attacking James Bond in the 1963 film From Russia with Love .
In February 2008, the production for the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace used the base to double for an airport in Bolivia.
The suave nature of the hero, Banjō Haran, was a direct attempt at capturing some of the spirit of the James Bond movies, which can be seen in the fact almost as much action takes place with Banjo, Reika Sanjō (ex-Interpol agent) and Beautiful Tachibana (also called "Beauty") playing superspies as Banjō fighting against Meganoid robots in Daitarn 3.
Hedley later appeared in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only as Sir Timothy Havelock, also voicing Havelock's parrot.
James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (laterJames Bond: The Authorised Biography) by John Pearson, is a fictional biography of James Bond, first published in 1973; Pearson also wrote the biography The Life of Ian Fleming (1966).
James Tont operazione D.U.E. or The Wacky World of James Tont is an 1966 Italian spy film spoof based on James Bond's Thunderball directed by Bruno Corbucci.
James Tont operazione U.N.O. or Operation Goldsinger is a 1965 Italian spy film spoof based on James Bond directed by Bruno Corbucci.
By the late 1980s, she had switched completely to Foley work, including such films as My Left Foot (1989), Shakespeare in Love (1998), Muppet Treasure Island (1996), the James Bond movie Die Another Day (2002), and The Phantom of the Opera (2004) based on the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
Six James Bond-style spy novels written as "Manning K. Robertson".
Ian Fleming—who served under Godfrey in Naval Intelligence during World War II—based M, the fictional head of MI6 and James Bond's superior, on him; Godfrey complained that Fleming "turned me into that unsavoury character, M".
John Moreno a.k.a. Juan Moreno (born 4 March 1939) is a British actor, probably best known for his role as Luigi Ferrara in the 1981 James Bond feature film For Your Eyes Only.
Also they make a lot film-inspired cars, like the Ghostbusters Cadillac, the Green Hornet's Black Beauty, Batman's Batmobile, the James Bond Aston Martin, Dukes Of Hazzard-related models, etc.
He has been featured in over a hundred newspaper and magazine articles and radio and television programs from more than 30 countries, and has been visited by some of the world's best known personalities ranging from Queen Elizabeth II and Mother Teresa to Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond.
Directed by Peter Berg, the music video for the song is said to have been influenced by films Minority Report and the James Bond series, and was conceived to show Aguilera "through time and fashion in an homage to her 10-year career" according to a statement by her label.
Octopussy, a 1983 James Bond film, was filmed in the precincts of the Lake Palace and other two palaces in Udaipur (Shiv Niwas Palace and Monsoon Palace).
storylines featuring Viking invasions, James Bond spoofs, and exotic locales such as Caribbean islands, the Dutch castle of Groeneveld and an Amsterdam art gallery, not to mention props such as chocolate cake, champagne and bananas contribute to a more playful and relaxed atmosphere than commonly seen in this inherently limited genre.
The Turk's bodyguard (played by Gary Tiplady) is a reference to the notorious hitman known as "Jaws" played by Richard Kiel in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).
The film was an attempt to create a French franchise equal to James Bond, and the film From Russia with Love is referenced within the film that features the film's female lead Daniela Bianchi.
In Ian Fleming's 1953 novel Casino Royale, James Bond invents and orders a Kina Lillet martini, which he named the "Vesper" after his love interest in the story.
While serving in that capacity, she played the role of Dr. No's photographer, Annabelle Chung, in the first ever James Bond film Dr No, in 1962.
Some writers consider Stephenson to be one of the real life inspirations for the fictitious character "James Bond".
Her best known appearance was the role of Bond girl, Patricia Fearing or Pat, a nurse who takes care of James Bond (Sean Connery) while he's on vacation at her health clinic in Thunderball (1965).
Parts of the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me were filmed at the Mosque of Ibn Tulun and in the Gayer-Anderson Museum.
He wore a black tuxedo and bowler hat–akin to the James Bond series character Oddjob, and would carry a little bag of salt on his person.
Instead, he used nicknames like "Miss Thang" or "From Russia With Love" (as in the James Bond movie).
The Fortress was the location of a scene from the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only in which the Mercedes of the evil adversary of Bond, Emile Locque, gets pushed off a cliff by Bond.
The Chinese title is a parody of the 1996 film Forbidden City Cop which starred Stephen Chow and also produced by Wong and the English title is a parody of the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
It was one of the last films released before Connery was cast as James Bond in the 1962 film Dr No.
However, instead of taking the genre seriously, the film parodies the original series and other conventional spy and Eurospy films, most noticeably the early James Bond series right down to the cinematography, art direction, music and costume of the 1960s (although this is a slight anachronism as the film is stated in dialogue to be set in 1955, hence a sequence where OSS 117 briefly dances the twist is out of place).
The area was used as a filming location in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only, where Bond (played by Roger Moore) and Melina Havelock (Carole Bouquet) fled from villains in their yellow Citroen 2CV.
Papillon Soo Soo appeared as Pan Ho in the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill, the first of three films that she appeared in.
Hunt then acted as second unit or action unit director until his directorial debut, the sixth James Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Smithers' Financial Times obituary suggests he was the model for Fleming's most famous character, Commander James Bond.
But tellingly, the same album also contains a cover of John Barry's composition Ski chase, from the soundtrack of the James Bond film On her Majesty's Secret Service.
James Bond and Honeychile Rider are menaced by the dragon, do battle with it, have their friend Quarrel killed and are captured by the crew of the Dragon tank.
Notable large film projects in which he has arranged stunts, consulted or manufactured special stunt cars include The Italian Job and six James Bond films, five of which were directed by John Glen and three with his sons Dominique and Michel.
In the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, the fictional Polaris submarine HMS Ranger is hijacked by the film's main villain.
Polster began acting in Finnish film in 1976 and has made a number of appearances in Finnish film throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, appearing in many films such as the 1983 James Bond spoof Agentti 000 ja kuoleman kurvit where she acted alongside actors such as Ilmari Saarelainen and Tenho Sauren.
In Dr. No, James Bond is first sent to Jamaica to investigate the missing Strangways.
Banks was said to be involved with an offshoot of what had been called the "James Bond Gang", which had used high-end sports cars in attempts to outrun police.
Sevenhampton is the burial site of James Bond author Ian Fleming, whose grave is marked by an obelisk in the churchyard.
He went on to say the album mostly concerned itself with "who is doing whom and whether or not there will be enough spangles, muscle boys, and cocktails available." He noted with approval its lounge music vibe in places, as well as its sampling of theme songs from James Bond movies including Thunderball.
In the 1957 novel From Russia, with Love by Ian Fleming, protagonist James Bond fights his enemy, SMERSH-agent Donovan Grant, eventually killing him, while passing through the Simplon Tunnel by Orient Express.
The plot resembles some movies and novels of the James Bond series and takes place in the U.S. in an unspecified time period called ingame as "199X".
Many of the game's names and plot elements are spoofs from the James Bond and Get Smart series.
Stonor has been used as a location for a number of film and television productions, including the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987).
A parent company does not have to be the larger or "more powerful" entity; it is possible for the parent company to be smaller than a subsidiary, such as for example DanJaq LLC., a closely held family company which spawned and control Eon Productions, the large corporation which produces the James Bond franchise.
In the US, the album was simply titled Sheena Easton and included only two singles (“Morning Train“ and “Modern Girl”) before Easton was to chart highly with a new song, the James Bond theme, “For Your Eyes Only”; however "When He Shines" was released as a single from Sheena's second US album.
The series is similar to the book, and focuses on the adventures of a newspaper proofreader who through years of secret practice has gained James Bond-like skills in many forms of physical combat, shooting, and in activities as diverse as rock climbing and scuba diving.
Les Grands Moments was a parody of the James Bond style of the period, but the film never found a distributor, and Lelouch thought the film was so bad that he attempted to destroy the negatives of the film, so that it would never be shown.
Where 2004's The Atrocity Archives is written in the idiom of Len Deighton, The Jennifer Morgue is a pastiche of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and refers to the real-life Project Azorian (incorrectly named by the press as Project Jennifer); Stross also uses footnotes and narrative causality, two literary devices common in the novels of Terry Pratchett.
In addition to the panel of critics giving their opinions on newly released films, there were other segments which helped to set the show apart from other similar shows of the day (predictions for the biggest movies of the summer, the panel describing their favorite sequels, awards for the best elements of the James Bond series, etc.)
The film was to pit Lee against "The Western Adversary" played by James Bond star George Lazenby.
James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me, the novelization of the film by Christopher Wood
In 2010 another 5000 young people performed “Licence to Thrill” a spectacular spoof of James Bond 007.
He had a brief career in cinema, thanks in part to his student Michael G. Wilson, where his best known part was as Chang in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker.
Burgess conceived it as a reaction to both the heavy-handed, humorless spy fiction of John le Carré and to Ian Fleming's James Bond, a character Burgess thought an imperialist relic.
As part of the 2007 Leipzig Games Convention, Activision announced that Treyarch would be one of three developers behind their first James Bond based game, Quantum of Solace.
It is a spoof of James Bond's From Russia With Love.
The ESO Hotel, the Residencia, is an award-winning building, and served as a backdrop for part of the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace.
In 1987, the opera house was used for a scene set in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now part of Slovakia), for the James Bond film The Living Daylights, where Timothy Dalton made his debut as Bond near the very beginning of the film, where he first spotted the key female character Kara Milovy (played by Maryam d'Abo).
In the 1930s, the inn was owned by Gwladys and Maxwell Knight, a spy-ring leader and radio broadcaster upon whom Ian Fleming based the character of James Bond's boss, M.
She debuted in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.
Ted Moore, who handled some of the Technicolor/CinemaScope photography, later performed similar work on the early James Bond films, and art director John Box and costume designer Phyllis Dalton later won Oscars for their work on Doctor Zhivago.
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The yacht posed as the Flying Saucer, the yacht of James Bond villain Largo in the film Never Say Never Again.
Amongst other credits, Bigden played the drums on many of the James Bond scores, with Henry Mancini for the Pink Panther movies, as well as Oliver!, The Dam Busters and The Dirty Dozen.
The tiny jet also appeared in two James Bond movies; Octopussy starring Sir Roger Moore, and later in a cameo appearance, hanging from the wall of Q's workshop in Die Another Day starring Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007.
She appeared in The Greek Tycoon (1978), Rough Cut (1980), and the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only as the Countess Lisl von Schlaf, the ill-fated mistress of Milos Colombo (played by Israeli actor Topol).
McQueen had a minor role in the Ice Palace in the Pierce Brosnan James Bond movie "Die Another Day" as a Russian model.
George Clifton James (born May 29, 1921) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Sheriff J.W. Pepper alongside Roger Moore in the James Bond films Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) and as the prison guard in Cool Hand Luke (1967).
The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger: awarded for the best adventure/thriller novel in the vein of James Bond.
Echevarría also had small parts in two international productions, first as Raoul, a Cuban agent in the James Bond film Die Another Day and then as Antonio López de Santa Anna in The Alamo.
In 1962 the James Bond film Dr. No was being filmed in Jamaica and Ranglin was hired by Carlos Malcolm, music director for the Jamaican Broadcasting Corporation, to compose music for some of the scenes set in Jamaica.
It was France's answer, with the Fantômas trilogy starting in 1964, to the James Bond phenomenon that swept the world at around the same time.
The James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me was partially shot in the museum, in the ceremonial reception hall and the rooftop terrace.
About 1,000 of the "Rocketeer" model pistols were produced; a few saw service in the Vietnam War, and were featured in a James Bond book and movie You Only Live Twice, as well as one of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. novels.
The song is about the spy James Bond from Ian Fleming's books and the James Bond movies and his world in general (girls, gadgets, 00 status, licence to kill and vodka martinis).
An IBM Thinkpad 701 is briefly seen being used by James Bond in the film GoldenEye.
In the 2002 James Bond film, Die Another Day, villain Gustav Graves has built a massive ice palace in Iceland for a demonstration to the world media.
It was the first of a series of movies created along the lines of the James Bond films.
Jock was an old friend and golfing partner of Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond spy novels, who had recently been diagnosed as terminally ill with less than a year to live.
Whilst some spy novels, such as those of le Carré are often set mainly inside the offices of the spy department, and attract praise for the depth of their characterization and plotting, others (such as the James Bond series) are set in the field, and provide explosive action.
She is reported to have been a model for the character Miss Moneypenny, secretary to James Bond.
The video for the song, directed by Brumby Boylston and Chris Dooley of National Television is an homage to the James Bond film title sequences (in the style of Robert Brownjohn and Maurice Binder), featuring all of the band, and the credits for the music video itself.
The château and museum appeared in the 1985 James Bond film "A View to a Kill", where it portrayed the French home and stables of villain Max Zorin, played by Christopher Walken.
One of the things that has fascinated me about The Wall Street Journal editorial page is its occasional capacity to rise above the routine moral callousness of hack conservative punditry and attain a level of exquisite depravity normally reserved for villains in James Bond movies.
In this publication, Merv goes on a James Bond-esque adventure in which he attempts to foil the schemes of a would-be world conqueror, and along the way meets beautiful women and evil villains.
In 1974 he appeared as the Thai billionaire tycoon Hai Fat in the James Bond film, The Man With The Golden Gun, opposite Roger Moore and Christopher Lee.
Rick Sylvester (Born April 3, 1942) is a climber and was a Hollywood stuntman, most famous for his BASE jump using skis and a Union Flag parachute from Canada's Mount Asgard for the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me in July 1976.
In great demand as a session musician, Roger has recorded film scores with top studio composer's Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, James Horner, Michael Kamen, Howard Shore, David Arnold, Hans Zimmer, John Barry, Elmer Bernstein, Maurice Jarre, Danny Elfman and Lalo Schifrin working on such recent films as Gladiator, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings and James Bond.
Shinmoe-dake is also notable for having been used as a location in the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice, as the volcano in which the villains' secret rocket base is located.
In the James Bond film and novel The Man with the Golden Gun, the title character is the primary antagonist.
1. Hollywood/Futuristic: the Lexus “Minority Report” Tom Cruise movie prototype, three very rare Toyota 2000GTs, along with a poster of the James Bond movie, “You Only Live Twice”, where the car appeared, plus a cutaway drawing and technical schematics
The glacier was used as the setting for the opening sequence (set in Siberia) of the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill, in which Bond (played for the last time by Roger Moore) eliminated a host of armed villains before escaping in a submarine to Alaska.