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100 unusual facts about James Bond


1956 Winter Olympics

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.

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.

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).

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.

Agneta Eckemyr

She was photographed by Life Magazine appearing opposite the five semi finalist actors for the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

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.

Andrew Martin International

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

Anne Lonnberg

Lonnberg is best remembered for playing the museum guide and one of Drax's girls in the James Bond film Moonraker (1979).

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.

Bank secrecy

Whether quite realistically in James Bond novels/movies or more speculatively in The DaVinci Code novel/movie, the instrument is often used by writers for characters to hide assets from the authorities.

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.

Bottoms Up Club

The bar was famous for its appearance in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun.

Breathe Gentle

The music video for the song was shot at Lake Garda, directed by Gaetano Morbioli and its context is similar to James Bond stories.

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.

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).

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).

Cat City

The film is a parody of several famous feature films, mainly the James Bond series.

Church's

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

Crime Writers' Association

The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger: awarded for the best adventure/thriller novel in the vein of James Bond.

Cuthbert Grant

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.

DeepFlight Super Falcon

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

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

Dulice Liecier

She has had roles in the films Stormy Monday, Half Moon Street and My Beautiful Laundrette, and in 1987 she played an FBI agent, Ava, in the James Bond film The Living Daylights.

Elleston Trevor

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

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.

George Mack

George appeared in an episode of the reality TV show, Blind Date where he dated a girl who referred to herself as Q, a reference to the James Bond character.

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.

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.

Gun politics in Pakistan

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).

Gyrojet

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.

Hawley, Hampshire

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

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.

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.

Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3

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.

Jack Hedley

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

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).

Jedara Bale

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

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.

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".

Joanna Jeffrees

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 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 Seru

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

Johnny Lightning

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.

Jokari

The game has reached some cult status in France, it is featured in several comics, and also in the James Bond spoof movie OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006), in the English translation of which the game is called "paddleball."

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.

Judith Halberstam

To illustrate a cultural mechanism of subordinating alternative masculinities, Halberstam brings up James Bond and Goldeneye as an example, noting that gender performance in this film is far from what is traditional: M is the character who “most convincingly performs masculinity,” Bond can only perform masculinity through his suave clothing and gadgets, and Q can be read “as a perfect model of the interpenetration of queer and dominant regimes.”

Julian Ridsdale

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

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.

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.

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.

Lasse Braun

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.

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.

London Trocadero

Remains of old attractions could still be seen around the centre, such as a wall with a gun-barrel motif that used to house a James Bond ride.

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.

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.

Monsoon Palace

The Monsoon Palace was used as a major location for the filming of the 1983 James Bond film, Octopussy.

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.

National Sports Report

Instead, he used nicknames like "Miss Thang" or "From Russia With Love" (as in the James Bond movie).

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

Operation Alphabet

Many sources cite Dalzel-Job as the inspiration for the James Bond character.

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.

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.

Papillon Soo Soo

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.

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.

Princess and dragon

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.

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.

Resolution-class submarine

In the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, the fictional Polaris submarine HMS Ranger is hijacked by the film's main villain.

Rita Polster

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.

Rose Island, Bahamas

The island's coast was the filming location for the crash-landing of a Vulcan Bomber in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball.

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.

Spy Fox

Many of the game's names and plot elements are spoofs from the James Bond and Get Smart series.

Syd Cain

Sidney B. "Syd" Cain (16 April 1918 – 21 November 2011) was a British production designer who worked on more than 30 films, including four in the James Bond series in the 1960s and 1970s.

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 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 Spy Who Loved Me

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

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 Bond — Ian Fleming.

Theatretrain

In 2010 another 5000 young people performed “Licence to Thrill” a spectacular spoof of James Bond 007.

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.

Toshiro Suga

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.

Tremor of Intent: An Eschatological Spy Novel

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.

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.

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 Haggard

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.

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).

Yamaha XJ650 Maxim

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

Yes Scotland

There has been some criticism over endorsements by high-profile figures who do not reside in Scotland, including Hollywood actor Alan Cumming, James Bond star Sir Sean Connery, and actor Brian Cox.

Zaheera

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


Battlecars

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.

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).

Danny Mac

He wanted to act from a young age, and enjoyed watching Grease, Michael Jackson and James Bond.

Dennis Gassner

He was the production designer for the 22nd and 23rd James Bond films: Quantum of Solace and Skyfall, which were released in 2008 and 2012.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

James Tont operazione U.N.O.

James Tont operazione U.N.O. or Operation Goldsinger is a 1965 Italian spy film spoof based on James Bond directed by Bruno Corbucci.

John Glasby

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Peter R. Hunt

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.

Peter Smithers

Smithers' Financial Times obituary suggests he was the model for Fleming's most famous character, Commander James Bond.

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.

Robert Brownjohn

In 1963, the producers of the James Bond films approached Brownjohn after disagreements with film title designer Maurice Binder.

Sevenhampton, Wiltshire

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

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.

Tag: The Assassination Game

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

Ted Healy

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.

Title role

In the James Bond film and novel The Man with the Golden Gun, the title character is the primary antagonist.

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.