Posted on 10/20/2009 5:30:58 AM PDT by Borges
Joseph Wiseman, a longtime stage and screen actor most widely known for playing the villainous title character in “Dr. No,” the first feature film about James Bond, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 91.
His daughter, Martha Graham Wiseman, confirmed the death, saying her father had recently been in declining health.
Released in 1962, “Dr. No” was the first in what proved to be a decades-long string of Bond movies. Starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress, the film featured Mr. Wiseman as Dr. Julius No, the sinister scientist who was Bond’s first big-screen adversary.
Mr. Wiseman’s other film credits include “Detective Story” (1951); “Viva Zapata!” (1952); “The Garment Jungle” (1957); “The Unforgiven” (1960); “The Night They Raided Minsky’s” (1968) and “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz” (1974).
He had guest roles on many television shows, among them “Law & Order,” “The Streets of San Francisco,” “The Untouchables” and “The Twilight Zone.” In the late 1980s, he had a recurring role as the crime boss Manny Weisbord on the NBC drama “Crime Story.”
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Oh Noooo’s !
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Ursula Undress,,,,er,,, Andress. Yum!
Yum! Pass the clam chowder!
Ahhhh - back when Bond movies were worth watching....
thanks I did a search and nothing came up.
In the novel when Bond sees her for the first time, she wearing only her knife belt.
I remember the summer of 1964 when Fleming died. the Bond books that followed were no so good!
The last Bond Novel was published on April 1st 1965, it was the movies that underperformed.
The bond novels continued after Flemings death.
1953 Casino Royale
1954 Live and Let Die
1955 Moonraker
1956 Diamonds Are Forever
1957 From Russia, with Love
1958 Dr. No
1959 Goldfinger
1960 For Your Eyes Only
1961 Thunderball
1962 The Spy Who Loved Me
1963 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
1964 You Only Live Twice
1965 The Man with the Golden Gun
1966 Octopussy and The Living Daylights
Kingsley Amis
1968 Colonel Sun
John Gardner
1981 Licence Renewed
1982 For Special Services
1983 Icebreaker
1984 Role of Honour
1986 Nobody Lives for Ever
1987 No Deals, Mr. Bond
1988 Scorpius
1989 Win, Lose or Die
1990 Brokenclaw
1991 The Man from Barbarossa
1992 Death Is Forever
1993 Never Send Flowers
1994 SeaFire
1996 COLD
Raymond Benson
1997 Zero Minus Ten
1998 The Facts of Death
1999 High Time to Kill
2000 DoubleShot
2001 Never Dream of Dying
2002 The Man with the Red Tattoo
Sebastian Faulks
2008 Devil May Care
not for me they didn't.
I dream of the day, when the BBC/Masterpiece theater...will get permission to run the Bond series from Casino Royale onward...and play it as it was written, with just the tech stuff that was written into it...and for the time period it was suppose to take place in....That would be great.....
misunderstood you! Actually Col Sun is pretty good.
See, that’s why they should be filmed EXACTLY as written (and at least in those days, women weren’t as bald as 6-year old girls).
in the novel Goldfinger, Jill Masterson is not killed until later in the novel. She and Bond take the train to New York so that Bond can catch a flight at Idlewild. They “make love” the entire train trip.
GF wouldn’t have been as dramatic, nor as memorable, without seeing the golden corpse of Jill Masterson at the Fountainbleu. That and Connery about to be split in half on the laser board are two of the most identifiable moments of the film, not even the exciting raid on Fort Knox. You see a clip or still of either, and you instantly know what film it is.
I would like to a screen treatment of Jack Whittingham’s script for “thunderball” since Kevin McClory threw him under the bus. I believe I could come up with script that combine’s element of JW script plus Kingley Amis Colonel Sun.
Sounds interesting. Now if only we could get Clive Owen to take over as JB instead of that blonde Vulcan hitman.
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