In Memoriam: Bond girl Daliah Lavi

007 Travelers is sorry to hear that Bond girl Daliah Lavi, who played The Detainer in "Casino Royale" (1967), has passed away. She was 74.

Daliah Lavi Gans passed away peacefully at her residence, Wednesday, May 3, 2017.

Source: Daliah Lavi´s Obituary, published in the Asheville Citizen-Times on May 4, 2017.





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In Memoriam: Joe Powell

Joe Powell (21 March 1922 - 30 June 2016) has passed away.

Joe Powell, doubling for Sean Connery on the set of "The Man Who Would be King"
PHOTO CREDIT:PENELOPE REIFFER

Joe Powell, who has died aged 94, was known as the “daddy of British stuntmen” for the gut-wrenchingly high-risk feats he performed in classic adventure films such as "Where Eagles Dare" and "The Guns of Navarone".

For "The Man Who Would Be King", John Huston’s adaptation of a Rudyard Kipling story filmed in the Atlas mountains, Powell, doubling for Sean Connery, had to plunge 100 ft from a collapsed rope bridge into a perilous ravine: if he had missed the target area covered with boxes to cushion his fall, he would have plummeted a further 2,000 ft. The co-star Michael Caine walked away saying: “I’m not going to watch this one.” Huston was delighted, saying it was “the darnedest stunt I ever saw”.

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Source: The Telegraph

Photo: From the set of "The Man Who Would Be King": Penelope Reiffer


Joe Powell in James Bond movies:

Stunts (uncredited) in "Casino Royale" (1967)
Stunt rigger (uncredited) / stunts (uncredited) in "You Only Live Twice" (1967)
Stunt double Blofeld (uncredited) in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969)
Stunt arranger in "A View to a Kill" (1985)

According to Movie-Dude.co.uk site Joe Powell acted also in "Casino Royale" (1967) having two roles: British Officer and Strong Man / Piper.

Joe Powell as British Officer in
"Casino Royale" (1967)
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Joe Powell as Strong Man / Piper in
"Casino Royale" (1967)
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In Memoriam: Burt Kwouk dies at the age of 85

Burt Kwouk as Mr. Ling in "Goldfinger"
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Sad news today: 

Burt Kwouk has passed away.

Born: 18 July 1930, Warrington, Cheshire, England
Died: 24 May 2016, at the age of 85 

Burt Kwouk's 007 production
Mr. Ling in "Goldfinger" (1964)
Chinese General (uncredited) in "Casino Royale" (1967) 
Spectre 3 in "You Only Live Twice" (1967)

His probably best known performances were in seven Pink Panther movies, where he played Cato Fong, the servant of Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers).

Yle Teema: BOND, JAMES BOND: Casino Royale (30.4.2016)

James Bond elokuva "Casino Royale" (2006) juhlii tänä vuonna 10-vuotistaivaltaan, mutta Casino Royalen tarina on filmattu ennen vuoden 2006 versiota jo peräti kaksi kertaa aiemminkin!

Vappuaaton viihteeksi nähdään Yle Teemalla nuo kaksi ensimmäistä versiota samasta James Bond -tarinasta! Ensimmäisenä nähtävä Bond on todellinen harvinaisuus, kaikkien aikojen ensimmäinen Bond-filmatisointi. Vajaan tunnin mittainen "Climax!-tv-sarjan jakso Casino Royale" on vuodelta 1954, ja Bondia esittää Barry Nelson. 

Barry Nelson James Bondina
Climax! - TV-sarjan jaksossa "Casino Royale"

Sen jälkeen nähdään vuoden 1967 parodiahulluttelu samasta tarinasta. "Casino Royale" (1967) -elokuvassa näyttelevät muun muassa David Niven, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles ja Daliah Lavi.

Elokuvalla on peräti viisi ohjaajaa: Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish ja Val Guest sekä heidän lisäksi Richard Talmadge laittoi lusikkansa soppaan vaikkei saanutkaan nimeään ohjaajien listalle!



Yle Teema: Lauantai 30.4.2016 klo 21.00

David Niven James Bondina vuoden 1967
elokuvassa "Casino Royale"

In Memoriam: Ronnie Corbett

Ronnie Corbett
(4 December 1930 – 31 March 2016)



Sad news again. 007 Travelers is sorry to hear that Ronnie Corbett has passed away.

Bond fans remember him as "Polo" in "Casino Royale" (1967)

Ronnie Corbett as Polo in "Casino Royale" (1967)
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In Memoriam: Julie Harris, costume designer of "Live and Let Die" and "Casino Royale" (1967) has passed away

007 Travelers is saddened to hear that costume designer Julie Harris has passed away.

Who: Julie Harris
Born: 26 March 1921, London, England
Died: 30 May 2015 London, England (Cause of death: Chest infection)

Harris designed clothes worn by the Beatles in the films "A Hard Day's Night" and "Help!" and by Sir Roger Moore in the James Bond film "Live and Let Die" (1973).

She won an Oscar in 1966 for the Julie Christie film "Darling".

Her Bafta came the following year for her work on "The Wrong Box".

Bond credits of Julie Harris:

Costume designer in:

"Casino Royale" (1967) 
"Live and Let Die" (1973)

Source: BBC News
Photo: PA

Julie Harris (right) designed clothes worn by Ursula Andress (left)
in 1967's "Casino Royale"

007 Soundtrack: Casino Royale (1967)

FILM: Casino Royale (1967)

SOUNDTRACK RELEASED: 1967 

SCORE COMPOSER: Burt Bacharach

TITLE SONG: Casino Royale Theme

COMPOSED BY: Burt Bacharach, Hal David

PERFORMED BY: Herb Albert & The Tijuana Brass

Casino Royale´s original music is by Burt Bacharach. Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass performed some of the songs with Mike Redway singing the lyrics to the title song as the end credits rolled (a version of the song was also sung by Peter Sellers). The title theme was Alpert's second number one on the Easy Listening chart where it spent two weeks at the top in June 1967 and peaked at number twenty-seven on the Billboard Hot 100.






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TRACK LISTING

1. "Casino Royale Theme" - Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - (2:35)
2. "The Look of Love" - Dusty Springfield - (4:08)
3. "Money Penny Goes for Broke" - (1:36)
4. "Le Chiffre's Torture of the Mind" - (2:10)
5. "Home James, Don't Spare the Horses" - (1:30)
6. "Sir James' Trip to Find Mata" - (3:47)
7. "The Look of Love" (Instrumental) - (2:46)
8. "Hi There Miss Goodthighs" - (1:15)
9. "Little French Boy" - (2:23)
10. "Flying Saucer" - First Stop Berlin - (2:57)
11. "The Venerable Sir James Bond" - (2:30)
12. "Dream On James, You're Winning" (1:17)
13. "The Big Cowboys and Indians Fight at Casino Royale" / "Casino Royale Theme" (reprise) - (4:52)

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