Octopussy

Roger Moore (Actor) .. James Bond

Born: October 14, 1927
Died: May 23, 2017
Birthplace: Stockwell, London, England

Trivia: The only child of a London policeman, Roger Moore started out working as a film extra to support his first love, painting, but soon found he preferred acting, and so enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He began his film, radio and stage career just after World War II (his early credits are often confused with American actor Roger Moore, a minor Columbia contractee of the 1940s), and also performed with a military entertainment unit. Though in childhood Moore had been mercilessly teased by friends and family alike for being fat, by the time he was ready to start his career, he had become an exceptionally handsome man with a toned, well-muscled body. Signed on the basis of his good looks to an MGM contract in 1954, Moore began making appearances in American films, none of which amounted to much dramatically; his biggest success of the 1950s was as star of the British-filmed TV series Ivanhoe. Signed by Warner Bros. Television for the 1959 adventure weekly The Alaskans, Moore became the latest of a long line of James Garner surrogates on Maverick, appearing during the 1960-1961 season as cousin Beau. After a few years making European films, Moore was chosen to play Simon Templar in the TV-series version of Leslie Charteris' The Saint (an earlier attempt at a Saint series with David Niven had fallen through). Moore remained with the series from 1963-1967, occasionally directing a few episodes (he was never completely comfortable as simply an actor, forever claiming that he was merely getting by on his face and physique). After another British TV series, 1971's The Persuaders, Moore was selected to replace Sean Connery in the James Bond films. His initial Bond effort was 1973's Live and Let Die, but the consensus (in which the actor heartily concurred) was that Moore didn't truly "grow" into the character until 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me. Few of Moore's non-Bond movie appearances of the 1970s and 1980s were notably successful, save for an amusing part as a Jewish mama's boy who thinks he's Bond in Burt Reynolds' Cannonball Run (1981). Moore's last 007 film was 1985's A View to a Kill. In 1991, he was made a special representative of UNICEF, an organization with which he'd been active since the 1960s. Relegated mainly to a series of flops through the 1990s, Moore appeared in such efforts as The Quest (1996) and Spice World (1997) and gained most of his exposure that decade as a television talk show and documentary host. In early May of 2003, fans were dismayed to hear that Moore collapsed onstage during a Broadway performance of The Play That I Wrote. Rushed to a nearby hospital afer insisting on finishing his performance in the small role, reports noted that Moore's subsequent recovery seemed to be coming along smoothly. He lent his distinctive voice to family films such as Here Comes Peter Cottontail and Cats & Dogs, The Revenge of Kitty Galore. Moore died in 2017, at age 89.

Louis Jourdan (Actor) .. Kamal Khan

Born: June 19, 1921
Died: February 14, 2015

Trivia: Born Louis Gendre in Marseille, France in 1921, Louis Jourdan (his mother's maiden name) was Hollywood's go-to Frenchman for the majority of his career, which spanned over five decades. He trained as an actor with Rene Simon at the Ecole Dramatique and made his onscreen debut in 1939, going on to play cultivated, polished, dashing lead roles in a number of French romantic comedies and dramas. After his father was arrested by the Gestapo, Louis and his two brothers joined the French underground; his film career came to a halt when he refused to act in Nazi propaganda films. In 1948 David O. Selznick invited him to Hollywood to appear in The Paradine Case (1948); he remained in the U.S. and went on to star in a number of Hollywood films. Jourdan quickly followed The Paradine Case with Letter From an Unknown Woman, opposite Joan Fontaine and a supporting role in Madame Bovary, directed by Vincente Minnelli. He continued to work in both France and Hollywood, often playing the French playboys. In 1958, he reteamed with Minnelli to play Gaston in the musical Gigi, opposite Leslie Caron, and got to showcase his singing voice in the film.He spent a significant part of his career filming adaptations of Alexandre Dumas works. He played the title character in The Count of Monte Cristo (1961) and later played the villain, De Villefort, in a TV movie of the same story, followed by a turn as D'Artagnan in The Man in the Iron Mask (1977). In 1983, he played a Bond villain, Kamal Khan, in Octopussy. Jourdan slowed his film output by the late 1980s, and made his last film, Year of the Comet, in 1992. He died in 2015, at age 93.

Maud Adams (Actor) .. Octopussy

Kristina Wayborn (Actor) .. Magda

Born: January 01, 1954

Kabir Bedi (Actor) .. Gobinda

Born: January 16, 1946
Birthplace: Bombay, British India

Trivia: India-born leading actor Bedi was onscreen from the '70s.

Steven Berkoff (Actor) .. Orlov

Desmond Llewelyn (Actor) .. Q

Born: September 12, 1914
Died: December 19, 1999

Trivia: "Bond -- James Bond," would have been nothing without Llewelyn -- Desmond Llewelyn. Llewelyn played the tweedy technophile who invented the bizarre gadgetry 007 used to thwart the sinister machinations of Dr. No, Goldfinger, and other dastardly villains in 17 Bond movies. Llewelyn's character was named Geoffrey Boothroyd, but no one in the Bond movies called him that. Instead, they called him "Q," short for "quartermaster." Like an army quartermaster who equips troops, Q equipped Sean Connery, Roger Moore, and other Bonds with the supplies of the espionage trade. Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn was born in South Wales on September 12, 1914, the son of a Welsh coal-mining engineer. Interested in acting at an early age, he first studied accounting and law enforcement before enrolling in the Royal Academy of Arts at age 20. After joining the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at the onset of World War II, he fought in France as a second lieutenant and fell into enemy hands after a two-day battle with a German panzer division. He spent the next five years in German POW camps at Rottenburg, Laufen, and Warburg. He once tried to tunnel his way to freedom, but failed. Llewelyn returned to acting and began his film career in 1950 with a part in They Were Not Divided, then went on to appear in 31 other films, including the Bond films. Among the non-Bond films he appeared in, sometimes in quite minor roles, were Cleopatra (1963), Silent Playground (1964), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), Merlin (1992), and Taboo (1997). Between 1963 and the year of his death, 1999, he played in all but two of the Bond films -- more than any of the actors who starred as James Bond, including Connery, Moore, George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton, and Pierce Brosnan. As Q, Llewelyn was always irascible and cranky in response to 007's carefree nonchalance. Like a professor with a flippant student, he scolded Bond to pay attention and tutored his charge in the use of "Q toys," as his booby-trapped marvels came to be known. Still, Q was a master of mischief, a gray-haired boy who concocted an endless variety of spy paraphernalia and bizarre weapons, like the Rolex watch that could alter the path of a speeding bullet; the pen grenade that, with three clicks of a button, could be set to detonate in four seconds; the key ring that could open almost any lock in the world, release nerve gas, or simply explode; and the Lotus sports car that doubled as a submarine, complete with torpedoes and surface-to-air missiles.In real life, Llewelyn was all thumbs when it came to technology, and he was kind and gentle to all he encountered. On the movie set, his co-workers and other fans crowded around to observe when it came time for him to introduce his new marvel to the Bond de jour, and he spent as long as it took to sign autographs for anyone who wanted one. Ironically, it was an automobile, a blue Renault Megane, that killed Llewelyn. He died in a hospital shortly after the Renault collided with another car near Firle in East Sussex, England, on December 19, 1999. The crash site was not far from his home, Bexhill-on-Sea, south of London. He was survived by his wife Pamela, whom he married in 1938, and two sons. His son Ivor told Britain's Sky Television, "He was a kind, very lovable man, and as a father he was great."

Robert Brown (Actor) .. M

Born: November 12, 1918

Trivia: Beefy British character actor Robert Brown should not be confused with the actor of the same name who starred in TV's Here Come the Brides (1968-1969), nor with film editor Robert N. "Toby" Brown. In films from 1955's Helen of Troy, Brown specialized in roughneck costume roles, such as the Chief of Rowers in Ben-Hur (1959) and Talbot in Billy Budd (1962). In the 1957 Roger Moore TV series Ivanhoe, Brown was appropriately cast as Gurth. After playing Admiral Hargreaves in the 1977 James Bond entry The Spy Who Loved Me, Robert Brown succeeded Bernard Lee as Bond's immediate superior "M", essaying the role for the first time in Octopussy (1983) and for the last time in A View to a Kill (1989).

Lois Maxwell (Actor) .. Miss Moneypenny

Born: February 14, 1927
Died: September 29, 2007

Trivia: Her real name just wouldn't do for a marquee in the Bible Belt, so Canadian-born actress Lois Hooker became Lois Maxwell when she arrived in Hollywood. Maxwell appeared in one British picture and a handful of American programmers before she sought out better opportunities in the Italian film industry. She returned to Britain as a second lead and character actress in 1956. In 1970, Maxwell co-starred in the Canadian TV series Adventures in Rainbow County. Lois Maxwell is best remembered for her appearances as the coolly efficient, subtly predatory Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond films produced between 1962 and 1985 -- at least until she was unceremoniously dumped in favor of a younger actress for the two Timothy Dalton Bond epics of the late 1980s. Maxwell died at age 80 in September 2007.

Vijay Amritraj (Actor) .. Vijay

Born: December 14, 1953
Birthplace: Madras, India

Walter Gotell (Actor) .. Gogol

Born: January 01, 1924
Died: May 05, 1997

Trivia: British character actor Walter Gotell spent most of his screen time as the "enemy." He was especially adept at portraying hissable Nazis in WWII dramas and equally odious KGB agents in Cold War films. His best-known role was Russian General Gogol in three of the James Bond epics: Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, and View to a Kill. Walter Gotell remained active in films and TV throughout the 1990s, as sinister as ever in such works as Puppet Master IV (1991).

Suzanne Jerome (Actor) .. Gwendoline

Born: January 21, 1960

Cherry Gillespie (Actor) .. Midge

Born: February 07, 1955

Albert Moses (Actor) .. Sadruddin

Born: January 01, 1937

Douglas Wilmer (Actor) .. Fanning

Born: January 08, 1920

Trivia: After studying at RADA, London-born Douglas Wilmer made his 1945 stage debut in repertory at Rugby. One year later, Wilmer made his first London theatrical appearance. Though most closely associated with classical roles, he scored one of his biggest stage successes in a contemporary work, One Way Pendulum (1959). Wilmer's film work includes the role of Nayland Smith in two of Christopher Lee's Fu Manchu films. He also repeated his British-TV characterization of Sherlock Holmes in Gene Wilder's The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1977). In addition, Douglas Wilmer was seen in the Ray Harryhausen epics Jason and the Argonauts (1963, as Pelius) and Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1979, as the Vizier); his last film to date was the 1983 Bond flick Octopussy.

Michaela Clavell (Actor) .. Penelope Smallbone

Philip Voss (Actor) .. Auktionär

David Meyer (Actor) .. Zwilling

Born: July 24, 1947

Bruce Boa (Actor) .. U.S. General

Born: July 10, 1930

Trivia: Entering films around 1960, British actor Bruce Boa has had a considerable number of movie credits in the sci-fi/fantasy field. He was seen as Roy in the satiric Man in the Moon (1960), a detective in the allegorical The Adding Machine (1968) and General Reeikan in The Empire Strikes Back (1980). The actor also showed up in unstressed minor roles in such films as The Omen (1976), Ragtime (1981) and the James Bond spectacular Octopussy (1983). Bruce Boa has from time to time played "American" roles, but even his appearance in Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam drama Full Metal Jacket (1987) was filmed in England.

Tony Meyer (Actor) .. Twin

Born: March 25, 1947

Richard Parmentier (Actor) .. U.S Aide

Geoffrey Keen (Actor) .. Minister of Defense

Born: January 01, 1918

Trivia: The son of prominent stage actor Malcolm Keen, London-born Geoffrey Keen proved his talent in his own right when he won the Gold Medal at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. On stage from 1932 and in films from 1946, Keen established himself as one of the premiere purveyors of cold-edged corporate types. If a producer wanted a dryly sarcastic executive or intimidating attorney, Keen was the man. In this vein, Geoffrey Keen was the ideal replacement for the late Bernard Lee as "M" in the James Bond films, essaying the role in such Bond escapades as The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), A View to a Kill (1985) and The Living Daylights (1987).

Paul Hardwick (Actor) .. Soviet Chairman

Born: November 15, 1918
Died: October 22, 1983

Cheryl Anne (Actor) .. Octopussy Girl

Dermot Crowley (Actor) .. Kamp

Born: March 19, 1947
Birthplace: Cork, Ireland

Trivia: Starred in a production of Conor McPherson's The Weir that ran in Dublin, London and Los Angeles. Auditioned for the role of the seventh Doctor on the BBC series Doctor Who in 1987, but the part went to Sylvester McCoy. Often appeared on the BBC Radio series Mind's Eye. Has narrated several audio books, including Morris West's The Shoes of the Fisherman and Barbara Vine's Gallowglass. Starred as Ebenezer Scrooge in the McCarter Theatre's 28th annual production of A Christmas Carol in 2008.

Peter Porteous (Actor) .. Lenkin

Born: July 07, 1930

Eva Reuber-Staier (Actor) .. Rublevitch

Jeremy Bullock (Actor) .. Smithers

Tina Hudson (Actor) .. Bianca

William Derrick (Actor) .. Thug with YoYo

Born: January 16, 1946

Stuart Saunders (Actor) .. Maj. Clive

Died: January 01, 1988

Patrick Barr (Actor) .. British Ambassador

Born: January 01, 1908
Died: January 01, 1985

Trivia: British actor Patrick Barr went from stage to screen with 1932's The Merry Men of Sherwood. Barr spent the 1930s playing various beneficent authority figures and "reliable friend" types, picking up where he left off in 1946 after six years' military service. In the early 1950s Barr began working in British television, attaining a popularity that had undeservedly eluded him while playing supporting parts in such films as The Frightened Lady (1941) and The Blue Lagoon (1948). This latter-day fame enabled Patrick Barr to insist upon better roles and command a higher salary for his films of the 1950s and 1960s: among the movies in which he appeared during this period were The Dam Busters (1955), Saint Joan (1957), Next to No Time (1960), Billy Liar (1963) and The Great Train Robbery (1978).

Gabor Vernon (Actor) .. Borchoi

Hugo Bower (Actor) .. Karl

Ken Norris (Actor) .. Col. Toro

Gertan Klauber (Actor) .. Bubi

Born: March 05, 1932
Died: August 01, 2008

Brenda Cowling (Actor) .. Schatzl

Born: April 23, 1925

David Grahame (Actor) .. Petrol Pump Attendant

Brian Coburn (Actor) .. South American VIP

Born: January 01, 1936
Died: January 01, 1990

Michael Halphie (Actor) .. South American Officer

Susanne Dando (Actor) .. Gymnast Supervisor

Roberto Germains (Actor) .. Circus Ringmaster

Richard Graydon (Actor) .. Francisco the Fearless

Born: May 12, 1922

Mary Stavin (Actor) .. Octopussy Girl

Born: August 20, 1957

Carolyn Seaward (Actor) .. Octopussy Girl

Born: December 20, 1960

Carole Ashby (Actor) .. Octopussy Girl

Born: March 24, 1955

Jani-Z (Actor) .. Octopussy Girl

Julie Martin (Actor) .. Octopussy Girl

Joni Flynn (Actor) .. Octopussy Girl

Born: December 18, 1949

Kathy Davies (Actor) .. Octopussy Girl

Helene Hunt (Actor) .. Octopussy Girl

Gillian De Terville (Actor) .. Octopussy Girl

Louise King (Actor) .. Octopussy Girl

Tina Robinson (Actor) .. Octopussy Girl

Alison Worth (Actor) .. Octopussy Girl

Lynda Knight (Actor) .. Octopussy Girl

Teresa Craddock (Actor) .. Gymnast

Kirsten Harrison (Actor) .. Gymnast

Christine Cullers (Actor) .. Gymnast

Lisa Jackman (Actor) .. Gymnast

Christine Gibson (Actor) .. Gymnast

Tracy Llewellyn (Actor) .. Gymnast

Ruth Flynn (Actor) .. Gymnast

Ravinder Singh Revett (Actor) .. Thug

Gurdial Sira (Actor) .. Thug

Michael Moor (Actor) .. Thug

Sven Surtees (Actor) .. Thug

Peter Edmund (Actor) .. Thug

Ray Charles (Actor) .. Thug

Born: September 23, 1930
Died: June 10, 2004
Birthplace: Albany, Georgia, United States

Trivia: One of the father's of contemporary soul, Ray Charles has become an American musical institution. Born Ray Charles Robinson in a small Georgia town, Charles contacted glaucoma at the age of six and lost his sight, but this has not stopped him from launching an active and productive career that has continued through the 1990s and on. He has often appeared in music documentaries and has performed in feature films, where he usually appears as himself. He has also been on television, either hosting his own specials, or acting as a guest artist on those of others.

Talib Johnny (Actor) .. Thug

Andy Bradford (Actor) .. 009

Born: September 07, 1944

Richard LeParmentier (Actor) .. U.S. Aide

Jeremy Bulloch (Actor) .. Smithers

Born: February 16, 1945

Tony Arjuna (Actor) .. Mufti

Josef Richter (Actor) .. Circus Personnel

Shirley Fossett (Actor) .. Circus Personnel

Ravinder Reyett (Actor) .. Thug

Ken Burns (Actor) .. East German Bodyguard

Born: July 29, 1953
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Trivia: After earning his BA at Hampshire College, Brooklyn-born Ken Burns pursued a career as a documentary filmmaker. At age 22, he formed Florentine Films in his home base of Walpole, New Hampshire. Dissatisfied with dry, scholarly historical documentaries, Burns wanted his films to "live," and to that end adopted the technique of cutting rapidly from one still picture to another in a fluid, linear fashion. He then pepped up the visuals with "first hand" narration gleaned from contemporary writings and recited by top stage and screen actors. Burns' first successful venture was the award-winning documentary The Brooklyn Bridge, which ran on public television in 1981. While he was Oscar-nominated for his 1985 theatrical release The Statue of Liberty, Burns' work has enjoyed its widest exposure on television: such films as Huey Long (1985), Thomas Hart Benton (1986) and Empire of the Air (1991) (a bouquet to the pioneers of commercial radio) have become staples of local PBS stations' seasonal fund drives. In 1990, Burns completed what many consider his "chef d'oeuvre": the eleven-hour The Civil War, which earned an Emmy (among several other honors) and became the highest-rated miniseries in the history of public television. Civil War was the apotheosis of Burns' master mixture of still photos, freshly shot film footage, period music, evocative "celebrity" narration and authentic sound effects. In 1994, Ken Burns released his long-awaited Baseball, an 18-hour saga which, like The Civil War, was telecast at the same time as the publication of a companion coffee-table book. Over the coming decades, Burns would continue to ingrain his reputation as the biggest name in long-form documentary film making, creating multi-part histories of Jazz, WWII, Baseball, and Prohibition.

Sally Dewhurst (Actor) .. Circus Personnel

Nick Hobbs (Actor) .. South American Soldier

Derek Lyons (Actor) .. US Air Force Base Officer

Lenny Rabin (Actor) .. Bidder at Sotheby's

Gary Russell (Actor) .. Boy Teen in Car

Nicola Stapleton (Actor) .. Little Girl at Circus

Born: August 09, 1974

Robert Latham Brown (Actor)

Born: June 20, 1947

Michael G. Wilson (Actor)

Born: January 21, 1942

George Fraser (Actor)

Louis Jordan (Actor)

Died: January 01, 1975

Trivia: A famous black saxophonist and bandleader, he appeared with his band in Follow the Boys.

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