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Goldeneye, also sometimes called Goldeneye: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming, is a 1989 British television film loosely based on the life of the author Ian Fleming, portrayed by Charles Dance, focusing on Fleming's life during the Second World War, his love life and the writing of James Bond, [3] and directed by Don Boyd.
Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was an English writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels.Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917.
Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming is a 1990 TV biographical film of the life of Ian Fleming, creator of the James Bond spy character, retracing his playboy youth, his expulsion from several colleges, his experiences as a newspaper writer and his tour of duty for the British intelligence agency during World War II.
Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond is a 2014 British television miniseries of four installments detailing the military career of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.The somewhat fictionalised biography spans the period from 1938 to 1952, dwelling on Fleming's romantic adventures as well as his espionage for the Royal Navy. [1]
James Bond is a fictional character created by British novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. A British secret agent working for MI6 under the codename 007, Bond has been portrayed on film in twenty-seven productions by actors Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig.
In 1953, Casino Royale was published and the Fleming's only child together was born who they named Casper. After the success of his first novel, Fleming wrote one Bond novel per year. In 1962, Fleming had a heart attack. Ann Fleming “confiscated Ian's typewriter” and so Fleming wrote by hand a story for his son, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
While the story was not based on a work by Ian Fleming, the title GoldenEye came from the name of Fleming's Jamaican estate, where he wrote the Bond novels. [38] Fleming gave a number of origins for the name of his estate, including Carson McCullers ' Reflections in a Golden Eye [ 39 ] and Operation Goldeneye , a contingency plan Fleming ...
Ian Fleming (born Ian Macfarlane; 10 September 1888 – 1 January 1969) was an Australian character actor with credits in over 100 British films. [1] One of his best known roles was playing Dr Watson in a series of Sherlock Holmes films of the 1930s opposite Arthur Wontner 's Holmes.