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Sunday, 22 June 2014

007 Producer: Barbara Broccoli

Who: Barbara D. Broccoli
Born: 18 June 1960, Los Angeles, USA

 Barbara D. Broccoli, OBE is an American film producer known for her work on the James Bond film series.

 
 Barbara Broccoli's 007 production:

Assistant director

Associate producer

Producer


James Bond: 1983 - present
Barbara Broccoli is the daughter of the James Bond producer Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli and actress Dana Wilson Broccoli (née Natol). As of 2012, she co-produces Bond films with her half-brother Michael G. Wilson.

She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by the Queen of the United Kingdom in the 2008 New Year Honours. In 2014 she was selected as a member of the jury for the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.

 Broccoli started in the Bond franchise at the age of 17, working in the publicity department of The Spy Who Loved Me. Six years later, she became an assistant director on 1983's Octopussy. Soon after she had worked her way up further to become an associate producer on the film The Living Daylights in 1987. However, her most notable role has been a producer of the Bond films starring Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig.

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007 Producer: Michael G. Wilson

Who: Michael Gregg Wilson
Born: 21 January 1942, New York City, New York, USA

Michael Gregg Wilson, OBE is the producer and screenwriter of many of the James Bond films.

Wilson was born in New York City, the son of Dana (née Natol) and actor Lewis Wilson. His father was the first actor to play the DC Comics character Batman in live action, which he did in the 1943 film serial Batman. He is the stepson of the late James Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli and half brother to Bond co-producer, Barbara Broccoli. Wilson graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1963 as an electrical engineer. He later studied law at Stanford. After graduating, Wilson worked for the United States government and later a firm located in Washington D.C. that specialized in international law.
Michael G. Wilson's 007 production:

 Executive producer

Producer with Albert R. Broccoli

Producer with Barbara Broccoli

Screenwriter (with Richard Maibaum)

Actor (cameo roles)

  • Goldfinger (1964) - Soldier at Fort Knox (uncredited)
  • The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) - Audience member at pyramid show (uncredited)
  • Moonraker (1979) - Tourist in Venice (uncredited); NASA technician (uncredited)
  • For Your Eyes Only (1981) - Priest at Greek wedding (uncredited)
  • Octopussy (1983) - Member of the Soviet Security Council (uncredited); tourist on river boat in India (uncredited)
  • A View to a Kill (1985) - Voice heard when Bond enters San Francisco city hall (uncredited)
  • The Living Daylights (1987) - Audience member at Vienna Opera House (uncredited)
  • Licence to Kill (1989) - DEA agent in pre-title sequence (uncredited)
  • GoldenEye (1995) - Member of Russian Security Council (uncredited)
  • Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) - Tom Wallace, Carver employee, appearing in video conference scene (uncredited)
  • The World Is Not Enough (1999) - Employee in Baku casino (uncredited)
  • Die Another Day (2002) - General Chandler (credited); tourist leaning against car in Havana (uncredited)
  • Casino Royale (2006) - Corrupt Montenegrin police chief
  • Quantum of Solace (2008) - Man reading newspaper in Haitian hotel lobby (uncredited)
  • Skyfall (2012) - Mourner at funeral (uncredited)


James Bond: 1964, 1977 - present
In 1972, Wilson joined Eon Productions, the production company responsible for the James Bond film series dating back to 1962 that began with his stepfather Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. Wilson specifically worked in Eon Productions' legal department until taking a more active role as an assistant to Cubby Broccoli for the film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). In 1979 Wilson became executive producer of the film Moonraker and since has been an executive producer or producer in every James Bond film, currently co-producing with his half-sister Barbara.

 Wilson collaborated five times with veteran Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum starting in 1981 with For Your Eyes Only. In 1989 Michael G. Wilson was forced to finish the screenplay to Licence to Kill alone due to a strike by the Writers Guild of America, west which prevented Maibaum from having any further involvement. For both, this was their final James Bond script, as Maibaum died in 1991 and Wilson ceased writing, although Wilson technically went on to outline the next film in the series with Alfonse Ruggiero that was eventually scrapped due to internal legal wranglings between Eon Productions and MGM (the following film, GoldenEye being a completely different story written by Michael France).


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007 Producer: Jack Schwartzman

Who: Jack Schwartzman
Born: 22 July 1932, New York City, New York, USA
Died: 15 June 1994, Los Angeles, California, USA

 Jack Schwartzman was an American producer and husband of actress Talia Shire.


Jack Schwartzman's 007 production:


James Bond: 1983
Among the films he produced was the 1983 non-Eon James Bond film Never Say Never Again, starring Sean Connery.


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007 Producer: Jerry Bresler

Who: Jerome (Jerry) Bresler
Born: 29 May 1914, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: 17 March 2000, Delray Beach, Florida, USA

 Jerome (Jerry) Bresler was an American conductor, songwriter, musician and film producer. He played piano at the age of 2 and conducted the NYU orchestra at 14. He won an Oscar in 1944 as co-producer for Heavenly Music as Best Live Action Short and subsequently had two other nominations for two-reel short films. One of his most famous musical compositions was Five Guys Named Moe.
Jerry Bresler's 007 production:

James Bond: 1967
Jerry Bresler co-produced Casino Royale (1967) with Charles K. Feldman.


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007 Producer: Charles K. Feldman

Who: Charles K. Feldman
Born: 26 April 1904, New York City, New York, USA
Died: 25 May 1968, Los Angeles, California, USA

Charles K. Feldman was a film producer and talent agent.
Charles K. Feldman's 007 production:


James Bond: 1967
Charles K. Feldman co-produced Casino Royale (1967) with Jerry Bresler.

 
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007 Producer: Kevin McClory

Who: Kevin O'Donovan McClory
Born; 8 June 1926, Dublin, Ireland
Died: 20 November 2006, Dublin, Ireland

Kevin O'Donovan McClory was an Irish screenwriter, producer, and director. McClory was best known for adapting Ian Fleming's James Bond character for the screen, for producing Thunderball, and for his legal battles with Fleming (later United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Eon Productions).

Kevin McClory´s 007 production:

Producer
Executive producer & Presenter
Writer
Actor (cameo)
  • Thunderball (1965) - Man smoking at Nassau Casino (uncredited)

James Bond: 1965, 1983
Bryce was a close friend of Ian Fleming. In 1958 Fleming approached McClory to produce the first Bond film. McClory rejected all of Fleming's books but felt that the character James Bond could be adapted for the screen. McClory, Bryce, Fleming and Jack Whittingham developed the new James Bond character through a number of treatments and screenplays. McClory, Fleming and Bryce settled on the screenplay Longitude 78 West (later renamed Thunderball) and went into pre-production. Fleming had assigned his interest in the film to McClory and Bryce's company Xanadu and would make no more money from the project. He conspired with Bryce to force McClory out of the film, denying that McClory had any legal interest in the screenplays and treatments that had been written during their collaboration. Later and without permission, Fleming novelised the draft screenplay Thunderball, his ninth novel, in 1961, which initially did not credit McClory or Whittingham. The two sued, and the case opened to the High Court in London on 20 November 1963.

After nine days, the case was settled. Fleming paid McClory damages of £35,000 and his court costs of £52,000, and future versions of the novel were credited as "based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Ian Fleming" – in that order. Fleming and Bryce conveyed to McClory any rights they held in the screenplays and treatments that McClory, Whittingham and Fleming had written during their collaboration. Fleming also conveyed to McClory the worldwide film rights in the novel Thunderball. Harry Saltzman's and Albert R. Broccoli's production company Eon Productions later made a deal with McClory for Thunderball to be made into a film in 1965, with McClory producing. Under the deal, Eon licensed McClory's rights for a period of ten years and in return they assigned to McClory any rights they had in the scripts and treatments. McClory made an uncredited cameo in the film.

In 1976, McClory announced he was to produce an original James Bond film to be titled either Warhead, Warhead 8, or James Bond of the Secret Service, but the project was severely hampered as a result of legal action brought by the Fleming Trustees and United Artists. McClory won the case. The Trustees and United Artists appealed to the Supreme Court of Judictature The Senior Courts of England and Wales but again they lost to McClory. Lord Justices Waller, Fox and May affirmed McClory's right to make James Bond films and enjoined the Plaintiffs from taking similar legal action against McClory in the future. McClory went on to licence his rights to Jack Schwartzman. The resulting film titled Never Say Never Again starred Sean Connery as Agent 007 in a highly publicized return to the role after a 12-year absence.

In 1989, McClory attempted to recycle the Warhead script again, retitling the project Atomic Warfare. He approached Pierce Brosnan who had missed out on the role of James Bond to Timothy Dalton due to his contract with NBC's Remington Steele.

McClory subsequently continued to try to make other adaptations of Thunderball, including Warhead 2000 A.D. which was to be made by Sony. MGM/UA took legal action against Sony and McClory in the United States to prevent the film going into production. MGM/UA abandoned the claim after settling with Sony. McClory's rights were untouched. In 2004 Sony acquired 20% of MGM; however, the production and final say over everything involving the film version of James Bond is controlled by Eon Productions, Albert R. Broccoli's production company and its parent company Danjaq, LLC. Prior to Sony's settlement with MGM in 1999, they filed a lawsuit against MGM claiming McClory was the co-author of the cinematic 007 and was owed fees from Danjaq and MGM for all past films. This lawsuit was thrown out in 2000 on the ground that McClory had waited too long to bring his claims. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals later affirmed this decision in 2001.

On November 15, 2013 MGM and Danjaq, LLC announced they had acquired all rights and interests of McClory's estate. MGM, Danjaq and the McClory estate issued a statement saying that they had brought to an "amicable conclusion the legal and business disputes that have arisen periodically for over 50 years."


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007 Producer: Harry Saltzman

Who: Harry Saltzman (Herschel Saltzman)
Born: 27 October 1915, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Died: 28 September 1994, Paris, France

 Herschel Saltzman, better known as Harry Saltzman, was a Canadian theatre and film producer best known for his mega-gamble which resulted in his co-producing the James Bond film series with Albert R. Broccoli. He lived most of his life in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England.


 Harry Saltzman's 007 production:


 Producer with Albert R. Broccoli

 Executive producer with Albert R. Broccoli

James Bond: 1962-74
In 1960, Broccoli's Warwick Films undertook to produce and self-distribute the biographical drama Oscar Wilde. Its lack of commercial success began a chain of events leading to dissolution of the company in bankruptcy in 1961 and increased tensions between the two partners. Already in disagreement over James Bond, they ended their partnership, freeing Broccoli to revisit his decision that the Bond novels would make a good film series, only now to be told by the publishers the rights were unavailable. Later, screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz, had a working dinner in New York on another script with Broccoli. Mankowitz knew Saltzman casually from Broadway productions the two had been involved with and knew Saltzman held the rights to Bond. He offered to introduce the two men and arranged a meeting for the next morning. Saltzman and Broccoli formed a partnership in 1962 to create the holding company Danjaq, LLC and the production company Eon Productions and almost immediately began recruiting personnel such as production designer Ken Adam and teaming writers including Richard Maibaum and Mankowitz. With the rights to Casino Royale having gone to an early television adaptation, the team began considering the best novel to adapt and introduce the character. After meeting with United Artists and having received a million dollars in financing, the filmmakers chose Dr. No. Saltzman would remain Broccoli's partner up through the ninth film in the series, 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun.

Saltzman came close to rejecting Paul McCartney's submission for the soundtrack to Live and Let Die. McCartney asked producer George Martin to approach the producers about the title song. Saltzman surprised Martin by asking who they could get to sing it, suggesting only black female vocalists. Martin pointed out that if he did not take McCartney as the singer he did not get the song. Saltzman compromised by having McCartney do the title version and B. J. Arnau do a soul version in the "Fillet of Soul" nightclub.
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007 Producer: Albert R. Broccoli

Who: Albert Romolo Broccoli
Born: 5 April 1909, Queens, New York City, USA
Died: 27 June 1996, Beverly Hills, California, USA
Albert Romolo Broccoli, CBE (Hon), nicknamed "Cubby", was an American film producer who made more than 40 motion pictures throughout his career. Most of the films were made in the United Kingdom and they were often filmed at Pinewood Studios. Co-founder of Danjaq, LLC and Eon Productions, Broccoli is most notable as the producer of the James Bond films. He and Harry Saltzman saw the films develop from relatively low-budget origins to large-budget, high-grossing extravaganzas, and Broccoli's heirs continue to produce new Bond films.


 Albert R. Broccoli's 007 production:

Producer with Harry Saltzman

Executive producer with Harry Saltzman

Producer (solo)

Producer with Michael G. Wilson

Consulting producer

Actor (cameo)

  • Moonraker (1979) – Tourist in Venice with wife Dana Broccoli

James Bond: 1962-95 When Broccoli became interested in bringing Ian Fleming's James Bond character into features, he discovered that the rights already belonged to the Canadian producer Harry Saltzman, who had long wanted to break into film, and who had produced several stage plays and films with only modest success. When the two were introduced by a mutual friend, screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz, Saltzman refused to sell the rights, but agreed to partner with Broccoli and co-produce the films, which led to the creation of the production company EON Productions and its parent (holding) company Danjaq, LLC, named after their two wives' first names—Dana and Jacquiline.

 Saltzman and Broccoli produced the first Bond movie, Dr. No, in 1962. Their second, From Russia With Love, was a break-out success and from then on, the films grew in cost, action, and ambition. With larger casts, more difficult stunts and special effects, and a continued dependence on exotic locations, the franchise became essentially a full-time job. Broccoli made one notable attempt at a non-Bond film, an adaptation of Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1968, and due to legal wrangling over the rights to story elements, ceded producer credit on Thunderball to Kevin McClory. Nonetheless, by the mid-1960s, Broccoli had put nearly all of his energies into the Bond series. Saltzman's interests continued to range apart from the series, including production of a loose trilogy of spy films based on Len Deighton's Harry Palmer, a character who operates in a parallel universe to Bond, with all the danger but none of the glamour and gadgets. Saltzman and Broccoli had differences over Saltzman's outside commitments, but in the end it was Saltzman who withdrew from Danjaq and EON after a series of financial mishaps. While Saltzman's departure brought the franchise a step closer to corporate control, Broccoli lost relatively little independence or prestige in the bargain. From then until his death, the racy credits sequence to every EON Bond film would begin with the words "Albert R. Broccoli Presents." Although from the 1970s onward the films became lighter in tone and looser in plot, at times less successful with critics, the series distinguished itself in production values and continued to appeal to audiences.

 In 1966, Albert was in Japan with other producers scouting locations to film the next James Bond film You Only Live Twice. Albert had a ticket booked on BOAC Flight 911. He cancelled his ticket on that day so he could see a ninja demonstration. Flight 911 crashed after clear air turbulence.


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007 Producer: Bretaigne Windust

Humphrey Bogart (left) and
Bretaigne Windust (right)
Who: Ernest Bretaigne Windust
Born: 20 January 1906, Paris, France
Died: 18 March 1960, New York, USA

Ernest Bretaigne Windust was a US-based French-born theater, film, and television director.

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007 Film (The episode of TV anthology series): Casino Royale / Climax! (1954) 

James Bond: 1954
Casino Royale is a 1954 television adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. An episode of the dramatic anthology series Climax!, the show is the first screen adaptation of a James Bond novel and stars Barry Nelson and Peter Lorre.

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