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32 unusual facts about Ian Fleming


9007 James Bond

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.

Albert D. Cohen

His interest and talent for writing stemmed out from his close personal friendship with the late British author Ian Fleming.

Andrew Lycett

He has written a number of well-received biographies; he is best known for his biography of Ian Fleming, Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond.

Auxiliary Units

Fleming came from a famous banking family and was the elder brother of Ian Fleming.

Bayfront Health St. Petersberg

Bayfront, in its Mound Park Hospital form, was mentioned in the Ian Fleming 007 novel "Live and Let Die".

Ben Macintyre

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.

Double or Die

Double Or Die is the third novel in the Young Bond series depicting Ian Fleming's superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s.

E. L. Doctorow

To support his family, Doctorow spent nine years as a book editor, first at NAL working with Ian Fleming and Ayn Rand among others; and from 1964, as editor-in-chief at The Dial Press, publishing work by James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, Ernest J. Gaines and William Kennedy, among others.

Fleming Media

Fleming Media is a London based investment fund run by the family of Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels.

Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond

Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond is a BBC America miniseries detailing the military career of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.

Gareth McLearnon

McLearnon is a recipient of the 2003 Ian Fleming Charitable Trust Music Education Award, a Countess of Munster Musical Trust Award and was awarded full scholarships to attend Sir James Galways Masterclasses in Italy (2003) and Switzerland (2004) McLearnon has given recitals all over the U.K. and Europe for the Ireland Funds, Invest Northern Ireland, and the Concordia Foundation, and is currently a Making Music Recommended Artist for 2006.

Gwynedd Mercy University

When devout birdwatcher and author Ian Fleming needed a name for his now-infamous protagonist he turned to a notable bird watching guide written by Bond.

Hannah Maybank

This exhibition also contained In Company, 2008—created especially to be shown alongside Kurt Schwitters's Merzbarn—and her painting The Visit—based upon Ian Fleming’s The Garden of Gethsemane, 1931, from the Hatton’s Historic collection.

Harbour View, Jamaica

In the novel Doctor No by Ian Fleming, James Bond loses a car following him from Palisadoes Airport by turning right at Harbour View.

I Wish I Was James Bond

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).

James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007

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).

Some fans consider it canon with Ian Fleming's James Bond novel series, while other aficionados consider it apocryphal.

Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan

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.

Justice Building

In Ian Fleming's short story "For Your Eyes Only" James Bond visits the RCMP headquarters when it was located in this building, and the book contains a description of the structure.

Lucy Fleming

She is the daughter of the actress Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson and writer Lt-Col Robert Peter Fleming (the brother of James Bond author Ian Fleming ).

Millicent Rogers

Millicent Rogers was romantically linked to a number of notable men throughout her life, including author Roald Dahl, actor Clark Gable, the author Ian Fleming, the Prince of Wales, Prince Serge Obolensky, and an unknown "heir to the Italian throne".

Olga Fedori

She played Tatiana Romanova in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1955 James Bond novel From Russia, With Love opposite Toby Stephens as Bond.

OSS 117 Is Not Dead

Jean Bruce started publishing OSS 117 novels in 1949, four years before Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel was released.

Peter Mason

Creator Ian Fleming was a friend of Mason and would consult him on the gadgets and methods used during the period.

Pett Bottom

James Bond lived here with his aunt after his parents died, in the fictional books by Ian Fleming.

Point Blanc

Horowitz read about it in a newspaper one day, and this inspired the book Point Blanc; although the plot does seem to borrow somewhat from the Ian Fleming novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Ryan David Jahn

He has released three other books, one of which, The Dispatcher, was long-listed for the Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.

Slip of the Lip

In the music video for the song, a female freelance reporter named Kitty Galore (an allusion to Ian Fleming's Pussy Galore character) is sent to a Ratt concert to spy on the band for the fictional "Spy Magazine".

St Margaret-at-Cliffe

At the other end of the beach there are cottages, two of which were owned by Noël Coward and Ian Fleming.

The Facts of Death

The Facts of Death, first published in 1998, was the third novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent, James Bond (including Benson's novelization of Tomorrow Never Dies).

The Vulcan Affair

The producer was Norman Felton who had conceived the original idea for the show and then developed it in consultation with the creator of James BondIan Fleming.

WDDY

Ian Fleming had the main character listening to WOKO in his novel The Spy Who Loved Me


A Cage of Eagles

The book centers on the battle of wits and the ambiguous relationship developing between U-boat ace Otto Kruger, leader of the captured Germans, and Ian Fleming in his real-life WWII role as an intelligence officer which would later inspire the James Bond books.

Amaryllis Fleming

She was the illegitimate daughter of the painter Augustus John by his mistress Eve Fleming, mother of the writers Peter Fleming and Ian Fleming by her late husband, although most of her life she was raised as the adopted daughter of Eve Fleming as a pretence to hide her illegitimacy and only discovered her true parentage when she was in her twenties.

Donald McLachlan

Among his colleagues during the war was Ian Fleming, who would later go on to create the character of James Bond

Duane Hudson

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.

Edwin Manton

In the early 1980s, Manton came to know Leslie Parris, deputy keeper of the British Collection at the Tate, who, together with Ian Fleming-Williams and Graham Reynolds, were the leading authorities in the field.

Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley

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.

Halstead

Nearby Moyns Park, a Grade I listed Elizabethan country house, is said to have been where Ian Fleming put the finishing touches on his novel From Russia, with Love.

Harry Palmer

Needing to name the previously-anonymous secret agent, the production team chose "Harry Palmer", because they wanted a dull, unglamorous name to distance him from Ian Fleming's James Bond, the stereotypical flamboyant, swashbuckling spy.

Hellmuth Walter

His factory was then investigated by 30 Assault Unit, a unit of Royal Marines which had been established by James Bond author Ian Fleming.

High Time to Kill

High Time to Kill, published in 1999, is the fourth novel by Raymond Benson featuring Ian Fleming’s secret agent, James Bond (including Benson’s novelization of Tomorrow Never Dies).

Jimmy Cannon

Cannon is mentioned in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel, Diamonds Are Forever, in which Fleming describes Cannon's prose as "muscular" and "craftsmanlike".

John Cork

As an author, he and Scivally have written the biographies of Ian Fleming, Cubby Broccoli, and Harry Saltzman.

John Henry Godfrey

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".

Kommissar X

With the international success of the films of Ian Fleming's James Bond and the German Jerry Cotton (played by George Nader) series, seven Commissioner X films mostly written and directed by Gianfranco Parolini and starring Tony Kendall as private detective Joe Walker and Brad Harris as New York City Police Lieutenant Tom Rowland were made.

Lillet

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.

Maxwell Knight

Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond series of books, used an amalgam of Knight and his former superior Rear Admiral John Godfrey, Director of the Naval Intelligence Division, as a model for the character 'M', Bond's boss.

O.H.M.S.

O.H.M.S. is a 1937 action comedy film, while the title of Ian Fleming's 1963 James Bond novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service, along with its film adaptation, is a play on the term.

PIDE

Writers such as Ian Fleming (the creator of James Bond) were based there, while other prominent people such as the Duke of Windsor and the Spanish Royal Family were exiled in Estoril.

Potted shrimps

Potted shrimp was a favourite dish of Ian Fleming who passed on his predeliction for the delicacy to his famous fictional creation James Bond.

Sevenhampton, Wiltshire

Sevenhampton is the burial site of James Bond author Ian Fleming, whose grave is marked by an obelisk in the churchyard.

The Apocalypse Codex

According to Stross, while the first three books in the series were written in the style of Len Deighton, Ian Fleming and Anthony Price, respectively, the fourth installment is written in the style of a Peter O'Donnell (Modesty Blaise) novel.

The Book Collector

On its founding editorial board were Ian Fleming, John Hayward and P.H. Muir and it was published in London, England by the Queen Anne Press.

The Fairmont Hamilton Princess

Rumor has it that it was nicknamed 'Bletchley-in-the-Tropics' after the English country house where the Enigma code was broken (Sir William Stephenson, the Canadian-born British spymaster who was the subject of the book and film A Man Called Intrepid resided for a time at the Princess, following the war, before buying a home on the island, and was often visited there by his former subordinate, James Bond novelist Ian Fleming).

The Jennifer Morgue

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.