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.
It is a spoof of James Bond's Thunderball and a sequel to Un tango dalla Russia (1965) with Dan Christian repeating his role as Agente 070.
The Skyship's sister ship the Skyship 500 registered G-BIHN was used by the character Max Zorin in the James Bond film A View to a Kill.
The yacht posed as the Flying Saucer, the yacht of James Bond villain Largo in the film Never Say Never Again.
Mangels became famous for an array of attractive female travelling companions, with a quota per film approaching that of James Bond.
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.
"Keyser Soze" samples the alien-contacting theme from the 1977 film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, also known as the noise programmed to unlock a door in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker.
In the James Bond novel by Jeffery Deaver, "Carte Blanche", Bond's bourbon of choice at his flat is Basil Hayden's.
The cistern was used as a location for the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love.
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.
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 bar was famous for its appearance in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun.
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.
Mitchell and Nixon’s next play, Spy, was inspired by 1960s British spy films and TV series, including The Ipcress File, James Bond, The Saint, The Prisoner and The Avengers, with one scene echoing Alain Resnais’s Last Year in Marienbad.
The bridge is also portrayed in the beginning of the James Bond film, Die Another Day, where the characters Bond and Zao are swapped (though with rows of concertina wire, bunkers, machine guns, or spotlights not present at the real bridge).
Albert R. Broccoli, the producer of the James Bond film series, objected to the character name "James Bind agent 006½" (intended for Charles Hawtrey) and threatened legal action.
The film is a parody of several famous feature films, mainly the James Bond series.
Omnibus: The British Hero (1973 BBC TV documentary/selected dramatised scenes) — Heroes: Tom Brown, Richard Hannay, Beau Geste, Bulldog Drummond and James Bond
He also did James Bond covers, a number of Star Wars covers, and a "pop-up" Star Wars book called Battle of the Bounty-Hunters.
During Pierce Brosnan's tenure as James Bond, various selections of dress shoes from the Church's range were used in production.
James became well known for playing the comic-relief role of Louisiana Sheriff J.W. Pepper in the James Bond films Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).
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.
After saving Bay City from nuclear annihilation at the hands of the Soviets, Crypto discovers that the KGB have fled to Albion and promptly follows, where he meets Reginald Ponsonby-Smythe, the James Bond-esque head of M16 (a parody of MI6), and a rogue KGB agent named Natalya Ivanova.
Similar to the James Bond stories (which started two years later), every new adventure brings Flandry another beautiful damsel to woo and rescue.
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.
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.
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.
Additional new development, in the form of a PC game in the James Bond franchise (James Bond 007: Nightfire) for Electronic Arts, also occurred during the company's initial 5-year period.
In the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971), the casino can be continually seen in the police chase scene.
However, the town now produces a broader range of ordnance including AK-47's, mini-Kalashnikovs, and hand-held firearms, including the James Bond pen gun (see Khyber Pass Copy).
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.
This position is similar to the job of the fictional character called "Q" in the James Bond series of books and movies.
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).
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Some fans consider it canon with Ian Fleming's James Bond novel series, while other aficionados consider it apocryphal.
After the game daily sports website Diario Olé likened his playing and personal style to Cristiano Ronaldo and also nicknamed him the 'James Bond of Banfield'.
James Tont operazione U.N.O. or Operation Goldsinger is a 1965 Italian spy film spoof based on James Bond directed by Bruno Corbucci.
It was the first of a series of movies created along the lines of the James Bond films.
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.
More recently Joanna has worked on the feature films - The World's End, Molly Moon, Cuban Fury, Sparks and Embers, StreetDance 2 and the new James Bond film Skyfall and can also be seen in an episode of the British TV series Misfits and Peep Show.
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.
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".
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.
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.
She began acting in film in 1982 making several appearances such as in the 1983 James Bond spoof Agentti 000 ja kuoleman kurvit opposite actors Ilmari Saarelainen and Tenho Sauren and in the 2001 Timo Koivusalo film Rentun ruusu more recently.
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.
For the James Bond ally, see Loelia Ponsonby (James Bond).
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.
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.
In 1986 he unsuccessfully auditioned for the part of James Bond in The Living Daylights.
Amongst her most prominent acting roles are bit parts in two James Bond films.
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.
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).
In 1969, she sang John Barry and Hal David's song "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?" in the James Bond movie, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, starring George Lazenby.
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.
Jean Bruce started publishing OSS 117 novels in 1949, four years before Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel was released.
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).
Dame Judi once sent a special filmed message from a James Bond film set during the opening of the school's newly refurbished drama hall.
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.
His biggest claim to fame is being the first actor to portray Major Boothroyd, better known as Q, in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962).
Smithers' Financial Times obituary suggests he was the model for Fleming's most famous character, Commander James Bond.
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.
In the second season the character's name was revealed to be James Potkukelkka, a play on James Bond and the Finnish word for kicksled.
In the James Bond film Octopussy, Bond (Roger Moore) jokes that a new gadget, a pen with acidic ink, is "perfect for writing poison pen letters."
In the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, the fictional Polaris submarine HMS Ranger is hijacked by the film's main villain.
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.
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".
The phone was featured as James Bond's phone in the 2012 film, Skyfall and was officially released in September 2012 in three colours: Black, White and Silver.
Many of the game's names and plot elements are spoofs from the James Bond and Get Smart series.
His writing career, along with his full-time job in Indian Telephone Industries, Delhi, began in the early 1960s with his Hindi translations of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels and the works of James Hadley Chase.
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.
Tania Mallet, born on 19 May 1941 in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, is an English model and actress who is best known for her appearance as Tilly Masterson in the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964).
Frank Race mainly investigated international insurance scams around the globe in various exotic locations, making him something of a cross between James Bond and Johnny Dollar.
The original film had Robert Ryan linking four different spy stories, each helmed by a different director; original James Bond director Terence Young for the English sequences, Christian-Jaque for the French, Carlo Lizzani for the Italian and Werner Klingler for the German sequences, but the German sequences were cut for the American release.
In the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall, Bond and Silva are seen toasting ("To the women we love") with "50-year-old Macallan", a possible reference to 50 years of James Bond.
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.
Timothy Napier Moxon (2 June 1924 – 5 December 2006) was an English-born actor, pilot and restaurateur who is probably best known for playing John Strangways, the character who uttered the first dialogue in the first James Bond film Dr. No and was the first character to die in the film series.
John described his father as a "hard man" who liked to read James Bond novels, and watch western and gangster films.
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.
In the show she often used two commands: "walkies" and "sit"; the latter of which was parodied in the 1983 James Bond film Octopussy where James Bond does a Woodhouse impersonation, puts his hand up in a command posture, repeats Woodhouse's catch-phrase to a tiger and the animal responds to it by obeying.
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 aircraft was produced in a number of variants, one of which, nicknamed Little Nellie, was flown in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice.
The water supply issue in Bolivia was the main theme of the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace.
During the years of the fictional spy mania initially begun by the James Bond stories Haggard was considered by most critics to be at the very top of the field.
A turbocharged variant, the XJ650 Seca Turbo, was featured in the 1983 James Bond film Never Say Never Again.
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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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.
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.
This was followed by A Quantum of Covers, which featured local artists covering James Bond songs.
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.
He wanted to act from a young age, and enjoyed watching Grease, Michael Jackson and James Bond.
The second edition, published in 2004, emphasizes general action-adventure scenarios such as one might find in the adventures of James Bond, Lara Croft, The A-Team, the Die Hard and Lethal Weapon movies, and so forth, though costumed vigilantes are still considered a subgenre (given detail in a supplement, Dark Champions: The Animated Series).
Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond is a BBC America miniseries detailing the military career of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
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 Dragon Garden was featured in The Man with the Golden Gun, a James Bond movie released in 1974, starring Roger Moore as James Bond.
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.
Six James Bond-style spy novels written as "Manning K. Robertson".
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.
He is also known for his part in the James Bond film, The World Is Not Enough, where he plays henchman Gabor.
During her days as Nabila, she was featured in the James Bond movie Never Say Never Again, in which she was seen as Flying Saucer (translated from Italian Disco Volante in the source novel, Thunderball), the villain's superyacht mobile HQ.
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.
The highlands above the village were used for the scene in the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love in which Bond (played by Sean Connery) eliminated two villains in a helicopter by firing gunshots at them.
Mr. Larkin has a pet similar to the running gag in James Bond movies.
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.
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 1963, the producers of the James Bond films approached Brownjohn after disagreements with film title designer Maurice Binder.
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.
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.
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.
A more recent (and so far uncorroborated) source alleges that the three assailants were not college boys but actor Wallace Beery, Albert R. Broccoli (later producer of James Bond films), and Broccoli's cousin Pat DiCicco.
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 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).