Guy Hamilton
Birthday: 1922-09-16
Place of Birth: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Biography: Mervyn Ian Guy Hamilton, DSC (September 16, 1922 – April 20, 2016) was an English film director. Hamilton was born in Paris, France where his English parents were living. Remaining in France during the Nazi occupation, he was active in the French Resistance. After the end of the war, he worked as an assistant to Carol Reed on films including The Fallen Idol (1948) and The Third Man (1949), before turning to directing with his first film The Ringer in 1952. He made 22 films from the 1950s to the 1980s, including four installments of the James Bond series, based on the novels by Ian Fleming. He was married at one time to actress Naomi Chance. Description above from the Wikipedia article Guy Hamilton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
Director Guy Hamilton and several of the stars of Agatha Christie's "Evil Under The Sun" walk you th...
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Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
The epic story of how the film The African Queen (1951), directed by John Huston and starring Humphr...
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A Sense of Carol Reed
The film director, Carol Reed, is the subject of this documentary short. The illegitimate son of the...
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Best Ever Bond
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast...
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Postwar Poetry: Carol Reed and 'Odd Man Out'
Discussion about Carol Reed's 1947 film "Odd Man Out."...
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The Goldfinger Phenomenon
A look at the marketing, advertising and merchandising of the James Bond movie Goldfinger (1964) inc...
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Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger'
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Goldfinger"....
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Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
Richard Hammond celebrates 50 years of Bond's amazing history with cars revealing the entertaining b...
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Lesson #007: Close Quarters Combat
Short documentary about the staging and filming of the elevator fight sequence from the James Bond m...
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Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Diamonds are Forever"...
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Inside 'Live and Let Die'
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Live and Let Die"...
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Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary
Original 1973 short promotional documentary on the making of the 8th James Bond movie Live and Let D...
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Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun"...
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Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Thunderball"....
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