Joseph Wiseman, the original Bond villain, dies at 91

Oralndo Sentinel ^ | 10.20.09

[Perdogg]

Joseph Wiseman might have preferred that he be indentified with the Jewish roles he took in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The Night They Raided Minskys, Bye Bye Braverman or his most recent stage appearance, in Judgment at Nuremberg.

[Perdogg]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

We've been expecting you, Mr. Bond.

[Billthedrill]

Who’s that guy with hair that sort of looks like Sean Connery?

[Perdogg]

Wow, he could have almost been the real Dr. No. from the novel.

Fleming actually wrote a teleplay for NBC called “Commander Jamaica” which he used for the bases of Dr. No. The movie was never made.

If you steal from yourself it is not plagiarism.

[Reagan Man]

Joseph Wiseman was a fine character actor. Two of his best were Viva Zapata and Detective Story.

RIP

[Plutarch]

One million dollars.

[fso301]

What kind of pistol is that? Looks like a break action pellet gun.

[Sans-Culotte]

Wiseman was good in a lot of roles. Like Anthony Quinn, he played various nationalities well. I liked him (with Quinn and Brando) in Viva Zapata!. He also had a good role as a mafioso in the Valachi Papers. He could play villainous and kind people equally well.

[Jewbacca]

I would presume an early Walther from the look of the receiver.

[Borges]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366471/posts

[PzLdr]

Played Louis ‘Lepke’ Buchalter at least once, in “Murder, Inc.”, which starred Stuart Whitman, May Britt, and introduced Peter Falk, as Abe ‘Kid Twist’ Reles. Wiseman gave a chilling performance.

[wordsofearnest]

Looks like my Browning Challenger II

[dblshot]

I have wondered on occassion about that pistol myself. I did some web surfing and found this tidbit:
David Hurn recalls that when he was commissioned to shoot the Bond portraits required for the publicity campaign for the second Bond film …it was decided that the main image in the poster and advertising campaign.. should be ..a strong portrait of Sean Connery as Bond 007, with his Walther pistol… According to the photographer, when Connery arrived at his studio for the shoot, it was discovered by publicist Tom Carlile that no one had brought the gun needed for the shoot, a small Walther automatic [Walther PPK]. By chance the photographer practised air pistol target shooting as a hobby and had the air pistol he used for this purpose, also a Walther, on hand …It was decided…that without telling Sean or the other representatives of United Artists – we would use my pistol for the pictures and presumed that should anyone have doubts on their seeing the name Walther on the gun, they would be reassured. This was, in fact, the case. In theory…the long barrel of the air-pistol..was to be removed by airbrushing during the designing of the actual poster – in practise ..this was never done…

[devolve]

[Impy]

Oh no, not Dr. No.

RIP

[Jewbacca]

Makes sense. It looks like a Walther from the receiver back.

It really looks like Walther P38, but the hammer is wrong.

[BenLurkin]

Grandson.

[potlatch]

Gosh, haven’t seen that graphic in ages. I’m missing the Dr No connection to ‘Hillary’, lol.

[potlatch]

Thanks for the ping Perdogg!