IAN FLEMING: A BIOGRAPHY By Andrew Lycett St. Martin’s Press, $29.99, 512 pages illustrated When it comes to James Bond on screen, viewers have their favorite actor to portray this unique brand of spy ...

I’ve been an Ian Fleming aficionado since my teens, so I was pleased to read “Ian Fleming: The Complete Man,” the new biography by Nicholas Shakespeare. I contacted Mr. Shakespeare and asked him why ...

Exhaustive and compulsively readable, Lycett’s latest (first published in the U.K. in 1995) is billed as the first full-length Fleming biography to be published in America. Biographer Lycett (Dylan ...

Filmmakers plans have the blessing of the James Bond creator's estate for the project that is being whispered about to buyers by K5 International. By Stuart Kemp “JFK, why do you mock me so. … Still ...

James Bond is a British icon, but the fictional spy hero really was born in Jamaica, just as the Caribbean island gained its independence from the waning British empire. The relationship between ...

With The Lifeline, the story takes place in 1938 and is all about a teacher named Mark Chalmers, who is asked by British Intelligence to parachute into Austria to bring vital information to a British ...

In their heyday, the Beatles and Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels marked the United Kingdom’s greatest exports. In 1964 alone, the Fab Four sold 25 million records in the United States. Fleming died ...

Shakespeare writes in the biography (via IndieWire): “Since the mid-1950s, many well-known actors had been approached [to play Bond]. Gregory Ratoff had the arresting idea of having Bond played by a ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Ian Fleming was an Australian born character actor with credits in over 100 British movies. He is perhaps best known for playing Dr. John Watson in a series of Sherlock Holmes movies of the 1930s ...