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100 unusual facts about James Bond


25 de Abril Bridge

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.

7th Grade Civil Servant

Han Gil-ro (Joo Won) realizes his dream of becoming an international man of mystery, after a childhood spent pouring over James Bond films.

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.

Aces Go Places 2

A James Bond-type burglar King Kong (Sam Hui) and his friend Albert "Baldy" Au (Karl Maka), a bald police detective join forces to try to track down a rare set of stolen precious diamonds before it ends up in the hands of a notorious European mobster named "Black Gloves" (Filthy Harry in the dubbed version and during the English-speaking parts of the original film).

Adam Croasdell

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.

Agent 077 From the Orient with Fury

It is a parody film of the James Bond genre about a scientist who has invented a weapon capable of mass destruction being kidnapped by a criminal gang for lethal usage.

Agente Segreto 070: Thunderbay Missione Grasshopper

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.

Airship Industries Skyship 600

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.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

The yacht posed as the Flying Saucer, the yacht of James Bond villain Largo in the film Never Say Never Again.

Analog synthesizer

The first movie to use music made with a (Moog) synthesizer was the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.

Andrew Martin International

As well as designing residences, in the 1980s Martin worked on James Bond film sets.

Argyll and Bute

The later scenes of the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love were filmed around the lochs and hills of Argyll and Bute.

Arthur Calder-Marshall

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.

Arthur Provis

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.

Arturo Tappin

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.

Back to the Heavyweight Jam

"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.

BBC Oxford Introducing

This was followed by A Quantum of Covers, which featured local artists covering James Bond songs.

Belle Tout lighthouse

In 1986, the BBC purchased the lease to Belle Tout for the filming of mini-series The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and a year later it featured in the James Bond film The Living Daylights.

Boss Coffee

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.

Bregenzer Festspiele

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.

Bridge of No Return

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).

Bruce Glover

Bruce Herbert Glover (born May 2, 1932) is an American character actor perhaps best known for his portrayal of the assassin Mr. Wint in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971).

Catherine McQueen

McQueen had a minor role in the Ice Palace in the Pierce Brosnan James Bond movie "Die Another Day" as a Russian model.

Church's

During Pierce Brosnan's tenure as James Bond, various selections of dress shoes from the Church's range were used in production.

Claude Carliez

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.

Clifton James

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).

DeepFlight Super Falcon

One of his earlier submersibles was featured in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.

Denise Perrier

Her most memorable scene is an uncredited appearance in the 1971 James Bond movie, Diamonds Are Forever.

Destroy All Humans! 2

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.

Dominic Flandry

Similar to the James Bond stories (which started two years later), every new adventure brings Flandry another beautiful damsel to woo and rescue.

Donald McLachlan

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

Elleston Trevor

Quiller (not his real name) occupies a literary middle ground between James Bond and John le Carré.

Eva Rueber-Staier

Her acting career contains a recurring James Bond credit: she played General Gogol's assistant Rubelvitch in the films The Spy Who Loved Me, For Your Eyes Only, and Octopussy.

Fleming Media

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

Funeral march

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.

Gayer-Anderson Museum

The James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me was partially shot in the museum, in the ceremonial reception hall and the rooftop terrace.

Gearbox Software

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.

Giant oceanic manta ray

In the James Bond movie “Licence to Kill” a manta ray over-cover is used to disguise Bond as a fish when he is infiltrating Krest’s ship.

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.

Gridlinked

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.

Groove Squad

Popular teen lingo pervades this feature-length presentation that's packed with humorous detail like flower power hippies, a fully equipped car à la James Bond, and a character who sounds like Austin Powers and Officer Tom Hanson.

Hawley, Hampshire

Including the opening sequence of the 2002 film Die Another Day in which James Bond is in North Korea.

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).

Jack Hedley

Hedley later appeared in the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only as Sir Timothy Havelock, also voicing Havelock's parrot.

James Rodríguez

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 D.U.E.

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.

Jenny Lee-Wright

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.

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.

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".

John Seru

He is also known for his part in the James Bond film, The World Is Not Enough, where he plays henchman Gabor.

Joseph Hone

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.

Julie T. Wallace

The following year, she made a cameo playing the part of Rosika Miklos in the James Bond film The Living Daylights.

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.

Kherson

He is reputed to be the real inspiration for Ian Fleming's spy character, James Bond.

Kielo Tommila

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.

Kingdom 5KR

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.

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.

Lake Toplitz

Lake Toplitz is mentioned in the scene in the James Bond movie Goldfinger, where Bond receives the gold bar used to tempt Auric Goldfinger; the bar is said to have been part of a Nazi hoard that was recovered from the lake.

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.

Marguerite LeWars

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.

Medal for Merit

Some writers consider Stephenson to be one of the real life inspirations for the fictitious character "James Bond".

Merv Pumpkinhead

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.

Michael Jayston

He portrayed James Bond in a radio adaptation of You Only Live Twice in 1990.

Mosque of Ibn Tulun

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.

Motion picture credits

Some opening credits are built around animation or production numbers of some sort (such as the James Bond films).

Muldraugh, Kentucky

In the 1963 James Bond movie Goldfinger, a section of Main Street appears in the film.

Nina van Pallandt

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.

Old Fortress, Corfu

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.

On His Majesty's Secret Service

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

Pagoi

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.

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.

Pirkka-Pekka Petelius

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.

Poison pen letter

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."

RAF Oakley

A hangar at RAF Oakley was actually used as a film set in the James Bond film Octopussy in 1983, for the opening sequence (scripted as being in a Latin American country) in Roger Moore's penultimate appearance as Bond.

Red-billed Streamertail

The bird is featured in Ian Fleming's James Bond short story For Your Eyes Only.

Roger Spottiswoode

Spottiswoode turned to directing in the early 1980s and has since directed a number of notable films and television productions, including Under Fire (1983) and the 1997 James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies starring Pierce Brosnan.

Run, Spy, Run

In Dr. No, James Bond is first sent to Jamaica to investigate the missing Strangways.

Secret Agent Clank

As the title suggests, the theme of the game is a spoof of the James Bond series, though it is technically based on the Secret Agent Clank element of Up Your Arsenal.

Simplon Tunnel

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.

Sony Xperia T

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.

Stonor Park

Stonor has been used as a location for a number of film and television productions, including the James Bond film The Living Daylights (1987).

Surender Mohan Pathak

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.

Tag: The Assassination Game

Gersh slowly transforms from an average student to a James Bond-type killer.

Tania Mallet

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).

The Dirty Game

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.

The Fuller Memorandum

Where The Atrocity Archives was written in the idiom of Len Deighton and The Jennifer Morgue was a pastiche of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, The Fuller Memorandum is a homage of sorts to Anthony Price's Dr David Audley/Colonel Jack Butler series of spy thrillers, and features two minor characters named Roskill and Panin, names which appeared as recurring characters in Price's series.

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.

The New Movie Show with Chris Gore

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 Spy Who Loved Me

James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me, the novelization of the film by Christopher Wood

Tor Endresen

A single called "Black Rain" which was released from his album Call Me Stranger in 1986, was nearly chosen as the themesong for the James Bond film The Living Daylights in 1987.

Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley

Torrente enlists the help of Rafi's equally nerdy friends: Malaguita, a martial artist, Bombilla, an electronics expert, and Toneti, a James Bond aficionado.

Treyarch

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.

Un tango dalla Russia

It is a spoof of James Bond's From Russia With Love.

Ventricular tachycardia

In the 2006 film Casino Royale, the protagonist, James Bond, suffers ventricular tachycardia from intoxication of digitalis and goes into cardiac arrest.

Very Large Telescope

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.

Vienna Volksoper

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).

William E. Fairbairn

The television series Secrets of War suggested him as a possible inspiration for Q branch in James Bond.

Withypool

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.

Yamaha XJ650 Maxim

A turbocharged variant, the XJ650 Seca Turbo, was featured in the 1983 James Bond film Never Say Never Again.

Zaheera

She debuted in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.


Alf Bigden

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.

Anya Amasova

Major Anya Amasova (aka Agent XXX) is a fictional character in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, portrayed by Barbara Bach.

Bungee jumping

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).

Dark Champions

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).

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 Starr

The song which began his career was "Agent Double'O'Soul" (1965), a reference to the James Bond films popular at the time.

Ernest Ranglin

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.

Fantômas se déchaîne

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.

Geoff Love

Big Bond Movie Themes (1975) featuring a selection of instrumental versions of music and songs from the James Bond film series from Dr. No up to The Man with the Golden Gun (including Burt Bacharach's Casino Royale from the 1967 spoof Bond film) has since become one of Love's most sought after MFP albums.

Hong Kong Dragon Garden

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.

Howard Air Force Base

In February 2008, the production for the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace used the base to double for an airport in Bolivia.

IBM ThinkPad Butterfly keyboard

An IBM Thinkpad 701 is briefly seen being used by James Bond in the film GoldenEye.

Ice palace

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.

Jedara Bale

It was the first of a series of movies created along the lines of the James Bond films.

John Glasby

Six James Bond-style spy novels written as "Manning K. Robertson".

Julian Ridsdale

She is reported to have been a model for the character Miss Moneypenny, secretary to James Bond.

Le Tigre aime la chair fraiche

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.

Lochgoilhead

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.

Lucky duckies

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.

Michaela Clavell

She portrayed Penelope Smallbone in the James Bond film Octopussy, and "Teacher" in the 1982 television adaptation of her father's short story "The Children's Story".

Mission Stardust

Mr. Larkin has a pet similar to the running gag in James Bond movies.

Ovingdean Hall School

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.

Quiller

Fourth, in contrast to the glamorous lifestyles depicted in the James Bond canon, Quiller's operational locations are almost always unfriendly (Warsaw in winter, the Sahara Desert under the blazing sun, etc.) and he is aware that his expenses will be scrutinised minutely.

Richard Loo

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

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.

Roger Argente

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.

Shinmoedake

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.

Vatnajökull

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.

X-Kaliber 2097

In combat, Cocktail uses his cane like a sword and can throw his hat like a flying blade (similar to Oddjob of the James Bond movies).