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100 unusual facts about James Bond


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.

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.

Agentti 000 ja kuoleman kurvit

The film stars Ilmari Saarelainen as James Bond impersonator Joonas G. Breitenfeldt (Agent 000) and Tenho Saurén as a bank robber.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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).

Carry On Spying

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.

Christopher Cazenove

Omnibus: The British Hero (1973 BBC TV documentary/selected dramatised scenes) — Heroes: Tom Brown, Richard Hannay, Beau Geste, Bulldog Drummond and James Bond

Church's

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

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).

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.

Danny Mac

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Eye Spy Magazine

Eye Spy has featured articles which discuss and analyze 'James Bond' style spy technology on a perfectly serious level.

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.

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.

Game of the Generals

There were no spies in the experimental game; but after Ronnie Pasola remembered the James Bond movies and Mata Hari, he added the spies.

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.

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.

Goodwin Sands

Ian Fleming refers to the Goodwin Sands in Moonraker, one of the James Bond novels, as well as making them a major plot point in his children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

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).

Helga Liné

Although she appeared in James Bond spoof films such as Agent 077: Mission Bloody Mary (1965) alongside Ken Clark, she is well noted for her horror film work in particular, starring as the spy Natasha in the Gothic feature Horror Express, in the title role in The Lorelei's Grasp, as a predatory vampire countess in the erotic film The Vampires' Night Orgy, and as the leader of a Satanic cult in the Black Candles.

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 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.

Jedara Bale

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

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 Glasby

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

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.

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.

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.

Julian Ridsdale

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

Kantilal Jivan

He has been featured in over a hundred newspaper and magazine articles and radio and television programs from more than 30 countries, and has been visited by some of the world's best known personalities ranging from Queen Elizabeth II and Mother Teresa to Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond.

Keeps Gettin' Better

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.

Kherson

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

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.

Lake Pichola

Octopussy, a 1983 James Bond film, was filmed in the precincts of the Lake Palace and other two palaces in Udaipur (Shiv Niwas Palace and Monsoon Palace).

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.

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.

Marilyn Galsworthy

She is also known for a number of television and movie roles including a small one in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) as the secretary/assistant to the villain Karl Stromberg.

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".

Molly Peters

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).

Monsoon Palace

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

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.

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).

New Otani

During this time, the building was a filming location for the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice, where it appeared as the headquarters of Osato Chemicals, the Japanese front for Ernst Stavro Blofeld's SPECTRE organization.

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.

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

On the Fiddle

It was one of the last films released before Connery was cast as James Bond in the 1962 film Dr No.

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.

Pierre Vervloesem

But tellingly, the same album also contains a cover of John Barry's composition Ski chase, from the soundtrack of the James Bond film On her Majesty's Secret Service.

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.

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.

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.

Rémy Julienne

Notable large film projects in which he has arranged stunts, consulted or manufactured special stunt cars include The Italian Job and six James Bond films, five of which were directed by John Glen and three with his sons Dominique and Michel.

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.

Run, Spy, Run

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

Sean Banks

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.

Seaspeed

The two hovercraft were named The Princess Margaret and The Princess Anne; the former featured in the James Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever".

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.

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.

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.

Tag: The Assassination Game

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

Take My Time

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

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).

That Man from Rio

This fast-moving spoof of James Bond-type movies features striking location photography of Rio de Janeiro, Oscar Niemeyer's nascent Brasília, and Paris.

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 Grand Moments

Les Grands Moments was a parody of the James Bond style of the period, but the film never found a distributor, and Lelouch thought the film was so bad that he attempted to destroy the negatives of the film, so that it would never be shown.

The Shrine of Ultimate Bliss

The film was to pit Lee against "The Western Adversary" played by James Bond star George Lazenby.

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.

Water supply and sanitation in Bolivia

The water supply issue in Bolivia was the main theme of the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace.

William E. Fairbairn

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

Wings 1973 UK Tour

The tour was for the purpose of promoting the band's latest album, Red Rose Speedway, as well as the single "Live and Let Die" from the James Bond film of the same name.

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.


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.

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.

Camille Montes

Maud Adams appeared in both The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy, but as two different characters (Andrea Anders and Octopussy, respectively).

Cassandra Harris

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).

Cat City

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

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.

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.

Emilio Echevarría

Echevarría also had small parts in two international productions, first as Raoul, a Cuban agent in the James Bond film Die Another Day and then as Antonio López de Santa Anna in The Alamo.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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 Georgopoulos

The "Guns of Cinema" series also expresses his affinity for the film and television industry by photographing a number of motion picture and television cameras; which include those from Titanic, Star Wars, Thriller, James Bond, Kill Bill, and Apocalypto).

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.

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 Moreno

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.

Julie T. Wallace

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

Living Museum of the Horse

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.

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.

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

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).

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.

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.

Theatretrain

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

Toyota USA Automobile Museum

1. Hollywood/Futuristic: the Lexus “Minority ReportTom Cruise movie prototype, three very rare Toyota 2000GTs, along with a poster of the James Bond movie, “You Only Live Twice”, where the car appeared, plus a cutaway drawing and technical schematics

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.

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).