Obituary

The actress and voice artist is best known for dubbing a number of lead female characters in the early James Bond films. Nikki van der Zyl was born in Berlin in 1935, the daughter of a Rabbi. Her family fled Nazi Germany in 1939 for London, where her father was interned for much of the […]

William P Cartlidge, who worked on three James Bond films in the 1960s and 70s, died last week at the age of 78. He regularly worked with Lewis Gilbert, who brought him on board as first assistant director for You Only Live Twice (1967). He returned as associate producer on The Spy Who Loved Me […]

The 90 year old had been suffering from covid and died from complications caused by the disease. Rémy Julienne, who was responsible for the car stunts on six James Bond movies, sadly died in hospital yesterday after contracting covid-19 a fortnight ago. The French stunt driver reportedly performed stunts in no less than 1,400 films […]

The prolific director died at home in Los Angeles. After a string of big name losses in 2020, 2021 has started off much in the same way. At the beginning of the week came the news of Tanya Roberts’ death and the farce surrounding the announcement. Now we have learnt of the death of Michael […]

Tanya Roberts has died after collapsing on Christmas Eve. On Monday night Tanya Roberts, who played Stacey Sutton in A View to a Kill (1985), died in hospital after collapsing at home the day before Christmas. She was just 65. As well as her role in Roger Moore’s final outing as 007, she also had […]

Today we received the sad news of Peter Lamont’s death aged 91. Born in London in 1929, Peter Lamont began his movie career in 1947 as a draftsman. He continued in that role for many years, joining the Bond series on Goldfinger (1964) as draftsman. From Thunderball he worked as a set decorator, was promoted […]

Bond fans around the world mourn the loss of the first man to play James Bond on the big screen. The first actor to play Ian Fleming’s secret agent in a feature film died overnight at his home in Nassau. Connery’s son, Jason, added that the actor had been ill for some time and that […]

Actress played Dink in Goldfinger as well as the title sequence “Golden Girl”. Last week director Edgar Wright announced the death of Margaret Nolan on twitter. In a series of tweets he revealed that she had worked on his forthcoming film Last Night In Soho, due to be released next year. Nolan appeared as Dink […]

Yesterday we learnt of the death of Michael Lonsdale at his home in France. Over the course of Michael Lonsdale’s long career he appeared in more than 200 films as well as a variety of TV shows and stage productions. One of his best known roles remains his portrayal of Huge Drax in Moonraker (1979). […]

According to her family Diana Rigg died at home peacefully and had been suffering from cancer.