Christopher Lee is James Bond
Under consideration for Role were several Actors like Cary Grant, Patrick McGoohan, David Niven , who refused the role
Saltzman and Flemming proposed another actor perfect for role: Christopher Lee
he look like the novel version
Christopher Lee in 1963
But Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli was not impress because Lee play at Hammer production, the monster Dracula
during casting Lee had chance to talk with Broccoli about that
"What else you got to offer next biting women in neck ?!" ask Broccoli
"i serve as Special service at the Battle of Monte Cassino during the War, I know to kill people behind enemy lines" Lee reply
and demonstrate it with Albert Broccoli as "model" how to stab a man in back and what sound the victim made
Broccoli hired on spot Christopher Lee as James Bond
Dr NO 1962
Directed by Terence Young, was begin of Bond franchise
Lee war time experience was gold mine for Young to make the Movie, who also make a allusion to Dracula in movie
in a scene Bond want to kiss a woman on neck but stops in last second, look up and instead kiss the girl on lips.
Sean Connery played impressive Dr. No henchman, Mr. Jones, that Broccoli and Saltzman consider to let live Mr Jones in next Bond movies
From Russia with Love 1963
Following the financial success of Dr. No, United Artists greenlit a second James Bond film.
That JFK mention the Bond Novel in interview, Broccoli and Saltzman jump on train
on suggestion by Lee, the producer casting Peter Cushing as Q
SPECTRE's want vengeance for death of Dr No and expert planner Kronsteen send Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya)and Mr. Jones (sean Connery) to Kill Bond
They lure Bond to Istanbul into a plot to steal a Lektor cryptographic device from the Soviets embassy and kill him on escape.
the duel between Bond and Jones happen on Train on way to Transilvania (another allusion to Dracula role of Lee)
it let to open end if Mr Jones has died as Bond trow him out train, there for we get Bond Duell with Kronsteen and Rosa Klebb.
Goldfinger 1964
With success of "From Russia with Love" Eons wanted to film Thunderball
but sadly the the court case between Kevin McClory and Fleming was still going on, so they take another Bond Novel Goldfinger
another problem what almost canceled the Movie, was delay in filming of "Goldfinger" and Filming of "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines"
in that production play Gert Fröbe and Christopher Lee ! in master piece of Logistic and Back to back filming
"Goldfinger" and "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" were made on same studio komplex were Fröbe and Lee could move from take to take
some times hilarious effect as Gert Fröbe show up on set of Goldfinger as Prussian General Colonel Manfred von Holstein
While Lee show op the Sets of "Those Magnificent Men..." as James Bond, he play a Count from Transilvania piloting a Bat like aircraft.
German actor Gert Fröbe and Christopher Lee (who speaks germans) became friends during filming of movies
Thunderball 1965
At last Eons could start filming of Thunderball
acutely planed as SPECTRE Trilogy, it could now be completed by Terence Young,
Bond's mission is to find two NATO atomic bombs stolen by SPECTRE operative Mr Jones (sean Connery)
Mr Jones has risen in SPECTRE hierarchy after several member were executed on screen, after they embezzlement SPECTER.
Bond find Mr Jones trace in the Bahamas (Dr No) what let to series of event to final Duell on "The Free Scotland" a hydrofoil and HQ of Mr Jones
With harpoon in chest Mr jones died, fired by Domino (Raquel Welch) to avenge here dead Husband (RAF pilot help jones to steal the Nukes)
Original Broccoli and Saltzman wanted sean Connery to play next Bond movie, but the extreme filming of under water scene was hard for Lee, Welch, Connery
Sean Connery demanded in end the producer, to let his Caracter to die finally and completed the trilogy, was was praised by Critics " the indestructibility of Mr Jones is over!"
On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1967
The problem was the Novel play in Swiss and in 1967 problems with a warm Swiss winter and inadequate snow cover,
but Lee and Fröbe help the Producer to find another location Austrians alps. they went regular to skiing in winter there.
as new Villain Donald Pleasence play Blofeld
Bond is order to find Ernst Stavro Blofeld after the Thunderball crisis.
the former Head of SPECTER is out for Revenge, in a Austrians sanatorium were he is a psychiatrist, brainwashing the Daughters of Politician and Military to kill there Fathers.
Bond save one of Blofeld test subjects, Contessa Teresa "Tracy" di Vicenzo ( Emma Peel) who murder here father after treatment
Bond manage to foil the Blofeld Plot, but with high price Tracy is killed during Attack on Sanatorium, she sacrificed her self to save Bond life and to find redemption...
You Only Live Twice 1969
One of the polemic Bond movies in series, still forbidden in Japan !
Eight months after the murder of Tracy, US and Soviet manned spacecraft are attack by a unknown Spacecraft coming some were from Japan.
While the superpowers accuse each other and China doing this act of murder.
in order to investigate "Bond Death" is arrange and he smuggled into Japan, were he met Head of Japanese secret service: Tiger Tanaka (Tetsurō Tamba)
the trace let to powerful Mr Osato (Teru Shimada) head of Osato zaibatsu, one of the rich companies in Japan
Bond discover the hide out of Attacker on Mr Osato private Island with strange Vulcan and he find real identity of Mr Osato
He is son of Hajime Sugiyama a minister of war in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II who committed suicide as japan surrender.
Sugiyama jr. planned with attacks that Superpowers start World War III on each other, to avenge Japan and make it new Superpower on ruins of old ones.
but Japanese secret service storm the installation
Bond attached Sugiyama jr. on launching Rocket (a fate destiny for Mr Bond), then activated Bond the rocket self destuct
The movie a huge success in World, except in Japan who consider the movie as major scandal, especially the Plot of Japan triggering a World war in revenge of losing the Last war.
the Sugiyama family sue EONS production, while terror attack on cinemas happen who play the movie in Japan
still to day Christopher Lee is forbidden to visit Japan by the Japanese Government.
Diamonds Are Forever 1971
Bond get trace of Blofeld who escaped in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
but find a lab that produce "Copies" of Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Donald Pleasence), Bond killed several of them but unclear if the original is under them.
After that M orders Bond to uncover a Diamonds smuggling ring, in same time that smuggling ring members are murder by assassins Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd.
Bond manage to enter the smuggling ring as Peter Franks, actually assassin who had to killed ring contact Tiffany Case (Jane Fonda)
Bond and the opportunistic Tiffany travel with Franks body (with Diamonds) to USA over Los Angels to Las Vegas
And Hotel were the mysterious entrepreneur William Whyte live, as Bond brakes in Whyte apparment, he find more Blofeld's !
one of the Blofeld take Tiffany as hostage and start the Plan launching a Damond laser satellite into orbit and blackmail the World powers
Bond killed remaining Blofeld and find real William Whyte (Vincent Price) , who give the clue were Blofeld hides on oil platform off the coast of Baja California.
the US forces attack the Platform while Bond start rescue Tiffany and to kill Blofeld once and for all
Tiffany talk Bond to reason as he willing to died with Blofeld together, Tiffany & James escape in last moment from exploding platform
Bond and Tiffany then head back on a cruise ship Britain, were Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd are waiting for them...
promo photo of Lee, Cushing and Price
Live and Let Die 1972
Another polemic Bond movies of series, daring to use black as villains. aka the blaxploitation Bond.
Bond has order to brake up a Drogue smuggling ring, who dumping huge quantity of Pure Heroin on world market
It's boss Mr. Big plans put rival drugs barons out of business and take them over.
Bond try to trace Mr Big down in New York, but trace let to Ambassador Dr. Kananga (Yaphet Kotto) from island San Monique.
with help of Medium Solitaire (Diana Ross, who sing also the opening song "Live and Let Die) Bond uncovers the truth
Mr. Big, Dr. Kananga and the Dictator "Pepe Durvalie" are one and same person !
Bond killed the Bad Guy, while US drop Napalm on San Monique poppy fields.
The Man with the Golden Gun 1974
with polemic of last one the Produce decide to go back to Flemming Novel of same name
Here Bond get from legendary assassin Francisco Scaramanga (Roger Moore) a message "YOUR NEXT"
Bond then travels over Italy and Beirut to Macau with several attempt to kill him (tests by Scaramanga)
So has Bond proven himself to see Francisco Scaramanga in Person on his private Island in Chinese sea
Here Scaramanga then proposes a pistol duel with Bond to find out who is best assassin in the World.
Famous scene were Bond and Scaramanga exchange there weapons prior to Duel "to make matter more exciting"
This was last Bond Movie for Christopher Lee for moment.
After 9 Movie, Lee wanted other Roles, like he play in critical Acclaimed "The Wicker Man" produce by Lee in 1973.
later Lee played the role as Obiwan Kenobi in Lucas Star Wars (together with Peter Cushing as grand Moff Tarkin)
Eons Production had find a new Bond and found perfect men for roll: Jeremy Brett
Under consideration for Role were several Actors like Cary Grant, Patrick McGoohan, David Niven , who refused the role
Saltzman and Flemming proposed another actor perfect for role: Christopher Lee
he look like the novel version
Christopher Lee in 1963
But Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli was not impress because Lee play at Hammer production, the monster Dracula
during casting Lee had chance to talk with Broccoli about that
"What else you got to offer next biting women in neck ?!" ask Broccoli
"i serve as Special service at the Battle of Monte Cassino during the War, I know to kill people behind enemy lines" Lee reply
and demonstrate it with Albert Broccoli as "model" how to stab a man in back and what sound the victim made
Broccoli hired on spot Christopher Lee as James Bond
Dr NO 1962
Directed by Terence Young, was begin of Bond franchise
Lee war time experience was gold mine for Young to make the Movie, who also make a allusion to Dracula in movie
in a scene Bond want to kiss a woman on neck but stops in last second, look up and instead kiss the girl on lips.
Sean Connery played impressive Dr. No henchman, Mr. Jones, that Broccoli and Saltzman consider to let live Mr Jones in next Bond movies
From Russia with Love 1963
Following the financial success of Dr. No, United Artists greenlit a second James Bond film.
That JFK mention the Bond Novel in interview, Broccoli and Saltzman jump on train
on suggestion by Lee, the producer casting Peter Cushing as Q
SPECTRE's want vengeance for death of Dr No and expert planner Kronsteen send Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya)and Mr. Jones (sean Connery) to Kill Bond
They lure Bond to Istanbul into a plot to steal a Lektor cryptographic device from the Soviets embassy and kill him on escape.
the duel between Bond and Jones happen on Train on way to Transilvania (another allusion to Dracula role of Lee)
it let to open end if Mr Jones has died as Bond trow him out train, there for we get Bond Duell with Kronsteen and Rosa Klebb.
Goldfinger 1964
With success of "From Russia with Love" Eons wanted to film Thunderball
but sadly the the court case between Kevin McClory and Fleming was still going on, so they take another Bond Novel Goldfinger
another problem what almost canceled the Movie, was delay in filming of "Goldfinger" and Filming of "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines"
in that production play Gert Fröbe and Christopher Lee ! in master piece of Logistic and Back to back filming
"Goldfinger" and "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" were made on same studio komplex were Fröbe and Lee could move from take to take
some times hilarious effect as Gert Fröbe show up on set of Goldfinger as Prussian General Colonel Manfred von Holstein
While Lee show op the Sets of "Those Magnificent Men..." as James Bond, he play a Count from Transilvania piloting a Bat like aircraft.
German actor Gert Fröbe and Christopher Lee (who speaks germans) became friends during filming of movies
Thunderball 1965
At last Eons could start filming of Thunderball
acutely planed as SPECTRE Trilogy, it could now be completed by Terence Young,
Bond's mission is to find two NATO atomic bombs stolen by SPECTRE operative Mr Jones (sean Connery)
Mr Jones has risen in SPECTRE hierarchy after several member were executed on screen, after they embezzlement SPECTER.
Bond find Mr Jones trace in the Bahamas (Dr No) what let to series of event to final Duell on "The Free Scotland" a hydrofoil and HQ of Mr Jones
With harpoon in chest Mr jones died, fired by Domino (Raquel Welch) to avenge here dead Husband (RAF pilot help jones to steal the Nukes)
Original Broccoli and Saltzman wanted sean Connery to play next Bond movie, but the extreme filming of under water scene was hard for Lee, Welch, Connery
Sean Connery demanded in end the producer, to let his Caracter to die finally and completed the trilogy, was was praised by Critics " the indestructibility of Mr Jones is over!"
On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1967
The problem was the Novel play in Swiss and in 1967 problems with a warm Swiss winter and inadequate snow cover,
but Lee and Fröbe help the Producer to find another location Austrians alps. they went regular to skiing in winter there.
as new Villain Donald Pleasence play Blofeld
Bond is order to find Ernst Stavro Blofeld after the Thunderball crisis.
the former Head of SPECTER is out for Revenge, in a Austrians sanatorium were he is a psychiatrist, brainwashing the Daughters of Politician and Military to kill there Fathers.
Bond save one of Blofeld test subjects, Contessa Teresa "Tracy" di Vicenzo ( Emma Peel) who murder here father after treatment
Bond manage to foil the Blofeld Plot, but with high price Tracy is killed during Attack on Sanatorium, she sacrificed her self to save Bond life and to find redemption...
You Only Live Twice 1969
One of the polemic Bond movies in series, still forbidden in Japan !
Eight months after the murder of Tracy, US and Soviet manned spacecraft are attack by a unknown Spacecraft coming some were from Japan.
While the superpowers accuse each other and China doing this act of murder.
in order to investigate "Bond Death" is arrange and he smuggled into Japan, were he met Head of Japanese secret service: Tiger Tanaka (Tetsurō Tamba)
the trace let to powerful Mr Osato (Teru Shimada) head of Osato zaibatsu, one of the rich companies in Japan
Bond discover the hide out of Attacker on Mr Osato private Island with strange Vulcan and he find real identity of Mr Osato
He is son of Hajime Sugiyama a minister of war in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II who committed suicide as japan surrender.
Sugiyama jr. planned with attacks that Superpowers start World War III on each other, to avenge Japan and make it new Superpower on ruins of old ones.
but Japanese secret service storm the installation
Bond attached Sugiyama jr. on launching Rocket (a fate destiny for Mr Bond), then activated Bond the rocket self destuct
The movie a huge success in World, except in Japan who consider the movie as major scandal, especially the Plot of Japan triggering a World war in revenge of losing the Last war.
the Sugiyama family sue EONS production, while terror attack on cinemas happen who play the movie in Japan
still to day Christopher Lee is forbidden to visit Japan by the Japanese Government.
Diamonds Are Forever 1971
Bond get trace of Blofeld who escaped in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
but find a lab that produce "Copies" of Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Donald Pleasence), Bond killed several of them but unclear if the original is under them.
After that M orders Bond to uncover a Diamonds smuggling ring, in same time that smuggling ring members are murder by assassins Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd.
Bond manage to enter the smuggling ring as Peter Franks, actually assassin who had to killed ring contact Tiffany Case (Jane Fonda)
Bond and the opportunistic Tiffany travel with Franks body (with Diamonds) to USA over Los Angels to Las Vegas
And Hotel were the mysterious entrepreneur William Whyte live, as Bond brakes in Whyte apparment, he find more Blofeld's !
one of the Blofeld take Tiffany as hostage and start the Plan launching a Damond laser satellite into orbit and blackmail the World powers
Bond killed remaining Blofeld and find real William Whyte (Vincent Price) , who give the clue were Blofeld hides on oil platform off the coast of Baja California.
the US forces attack the Platform while Bond start rescue Tiffany and to kill Blofeld once and for all
Tiffany talk Bond to reason as he willing to died with Blofeld together, Tiffany & James escape in last moment from exploding platform
Bond and Tiffany then head back on a cruise ship Britain, were Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd are waiting for them...
promo photo of Lee, Cushing and Price
Live and Let Die 1972
Another polemic Bond movies of series, daring to use black as villains. aka the blaxploitation Bond.
Bond has order to brake up a Drogue smuggling ring, who dumping huge quantity of Pure Heroin on world market
It's boss Mr. Big plans put rival drugs barons out of business and take them over.
Bond try to trace Mr Big down in New York, but trace let to Ambassador Dr. Kananga (Yaphet Kotto) from island San Monique.
with help of Medium Solitaire (Diana Ross, who sing also the opening song "Live and Let Die) Bond uncovers the truth
Mr. Big, Dr. Kananga and the Dictator "Pepe Durvalie" are one and same person !
Bond killed the Bad Guy, while US drop Napalm on San Monique poppy fields.
The Man with the Golden Gun 1974
with polemic of last one the Produce decide to go back to Flemming Novel of same name
Here Bond get from legendary assassin Francisco Scaramanga (Roger Moore) a message "YOUR NEXT"
Bond then travels over Italy and Beirut to Macau with several attempt to kill him (tests by Scaramanga)
So has Bond proven himself to see Francisco Scaramanga in Person on his private Island in Chinese sea
Here Scaramanga then proposes a pistol duel with Bond to find out who is best assassin in the World.
Famous scene were Bond and Scaramanga exchange there weapons prior to Duel "to make matter more exciting"
This was last Bond Movie for Christopher Lee for moment.
After 9 Movie, Lee wanted other Roles, like he play in critical Acclaimed "The Wicker Man" produce by Lee in 1973.
later Lee played the role as Obiwan Kenobi in Lucas Star Wars (together with Peter Cushing as grand Moff Tarkin)
Eons Production had find a new Bond and found perfect men for roll: Jeremy Brett
he'd make a great bond!