Fiona Fullerton, who played Pola Ivanova in A View to a Kill was born in Nigeria on 10th October 1956.
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From Russia With Love premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square on 10th October 1963.
Freddie Young, cinematographer on You Only Live Twice, was born on 9th October 1902 in London.
Freddie Young, who was responsible for the cinematography on You Only Live Twice, was born on 9th October 1902 in London.
Young was the first British cinematographer to film in CinemaScope, and as well as his work on 007 he won the cinematography Oscar three times for Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Ryan’s Daughter, all directed by David Lean.
No Time to Die opened in US cinemas on 8th October 2021
Dr No went on UK general release on this day in 1962.
The first James Bond film went on UK general release on 8th October 1962, three days after it premiered at the London Pavilion. Directed by Terence Young, Dr No starred Sean Connery as 007 and introduced some of the elements that we still associate with James Bond today.
George Baker died on this day in 2011. He appeared as 3 different characters in 3 different Bond movies!
George Baker, who appeared in three James Bond films, died on 7th October 2011.
Baker was uncredited in You Only Live Twice as a NASA engineer, but in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service played Sir Hilary Bray, and then Captain Benson in The Spy Who Loved Me. Baker also dubbed George Lazenby’s voice in the scenes in which Bond is impersonating the heraldry expert in Piz Gloria.
Britt Ekland played Mary Goodnight in The Man With The Golden Gun. She was born on 6th October 1942.
Britt Ekland, who played Mary Goodnight opposite Roger Moore in The Man With The Golden Gun (1974), was born on 6th October 1942 in Stockholm.
Golden girl Margaret Nolan died on this day in 2020.
Stunt legend Vic Armstrong was born on this day in 1946. He worked on numerous Bond films starting with You Only Live Twice.
Vic Armstrong, who worked on the Bond films first as a stuntman during You Only Live Twice (1967), stunt double and as stunt coordinator on a variety of films, was born in Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire on 5th October 1946.
Armstrong also worked on the Superman films with Christopher Reeves, doubled Harrison Ford in the Indiana Jones series, directed the second unit on many other films and TV shows and as a first unit director. According to the Guinness Book of Records he is the world’s most prolific stunt double.
Donald Pleasence played Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice. He was born on this day in 1919.
Actor Donald Pleasence, who played SPECTRE leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice, was born on 5th October 1919 in Nottinghamshire.
During his long and distinguished career, Pleasence appeared in dozens of films, including Look Back in Anger, The Great Escape, George Lucas’s early science fiction film THX 1138 and was awarded the OBE for his work.
Photo: Donald Pleasence in Eye of the Devil trailer. Licensed under Public Domain.
