• Richard Maibaum (May 26, 1909 – January 4, 1991) was an American film producer, playwright and screenwriter best known for his screenplay adaptations...
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  • Terence Young agreed. Eon had originally hired Wolf Mankowitz and Richard Maibaum to write Dr. No's screenplay, partly because of Mankowitz's help in...
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    Broccoli. Wilson collaborated five times with veteran Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum, starting in 1981 with For Your Eyes Only. In 1989, Wilson was forced...
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  • The Great Gatsby (1949 film) (category Films with screenplays by Richard Maibaum)
    film directed by Elliott Nugent, and produced by Richard Maibaum, from a screenplay by Richard Maibaum and Cyril Hume. The film stars Alan Ladd, Betty...
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  • For Your Eyes Only (film) (category Films with screenplays by Richard Maibaum)
    franchise produced by Eon Productions, For Your Eyes Only was written by Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson. Although the script is principally based on...
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    months and received shared screenplay credit with the original writer, Richard Maibaum. This began a long relationship with the Bond films. Mankiewicz received...
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  • The Spy Who Loved Me (film) (category Films with screenplays by Richard Maibaum)
    directed by Lewis Gilbert. The screenplay was by Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum, with an uncredited rewrite by Tom Mankiewicz. The film takes its title...
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  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film) (category Films with screenplays by Richard Maibaum)
    intended to make On Her Majesty's Secret Service after Goldfinger and Richard Maibaum worked on a script at that time. Thunderball was filmed instead, after...
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  • From Russia with Love (film) (category Films with screenplays by Richard Maibaum)
    produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and written by Richard Maibaum and Johanna Harwood, based on Ian Fleming's 1957 novel From Russia...
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  • Licence to Kill (category Films with screenplays by Richard Maibaum)
    Moneypenny. It was also the last to feature the work of screenwriter Richard Maibaum, title designer Maurice Binder and producer Albert R. Broccoli, who...
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  • Goldfinger (film) (category Films with screenplays by Richard Maibaum)
    finest pieces of work". Richard Maibaum, who co-wrote the previous films, returned to adapt the seventh Bond novel. Maibaum fixed the novel's heavily...
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  • Maibaum is a German surname meaning "maypole". Notable people with the surname include: Richard Maibaum (1909–1991), American film producer, playwright...
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  • Diamonds Are Forever (film) (category Films with screenplays by Richard Maibaum)
    Kingdom. While On Her Majesty's Secret Service was in post-production, Richard Maibaum wrote several drafts about Bond avenging the death of his wife Tracy...
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  • Thunderball (film) (category Films with screenplays by Richard Maibaum)
    Bond film to be directed by Terence Young, with its screenplay by Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins. The film follows Bond's mission to find two NATO...
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  • Dr. No (film) (category Films with screenplays by Richard Maibaum)
    Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman and Jack Lord, it was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather from the 1958 novel of the same...
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  • Octopussy (category Films with screenplays by Richard Maibaum)
    John Glen and the screenplay was written by George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson. The film's title is taken from a short story...
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  • A View to a Kill (category Films with screenplays by Richard Maibaum)
    Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, who also wrote the screenplay with Richard Maibaum. It was the third James Bond film to be directed by John Glen, and...
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  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (category Films with screenplays by Richard Maibaum)
    rewrote Dahl's script. Further rewrites were made by regular Bond scribe Richard Maibaum. Van Dyke was cast in the film after he turned down the role of Fagin...
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  • The Man with the Golden Gun (film) (category Films with screenplays by Richard Maibaum)
    in the series directed by Guy Hamilton. The script was written by Richard Maibaum and Tom Mankiewicz. The film was set in the face of the 1973 energy...
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  • Lord was again approached to play Leiter; according to screenwriter Richard Maibaum, Lord demanded co-star billing with Connery, a bigger role and more...
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  • The Cockleshell Heroes (category Films with screenplays by Richard Maibaum)
    assignment for Cockleshell Heroes." Ferrer had Forbes's script rewritten by Richard Maibaum, who had worked on several Warwick movies, which Forbes admitted "I...
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    in 1962 in the first Bond film, Dr. No. According to screenwriter Richard Maibaum, Lord then demanded co-star billing, a bigger role and more money to...
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  • Ransom (1996 film) (category Films with screenplays by Richard Maibaum)
    titled "Fearful Decision". In 1956, it was adapted by Cyril Hume and Richard Maibaum into the feature film, Ransom!, starring Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, and...
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    work." Ladd's next film was O.S.S, a wartime thriller, produced by Richard Maibaum. He then convinced Ladd that he should play the title role in an adaptation...
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  • Ransom! (category Films with screenplays by Richard Maibaum)
    film about the kidnapping of the son of a wealthy couple. Written by Richard Maibaum and Cyril Hume, the film is based on a popular 1954 episode of The...
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  • also inspired Mankiewicz to name the film's villain after Kananga. Richard Maibaum later claimed he was asked to write the film, but declined, because...
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  • Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and Budd Schulberg, with Bennett, Harrison, Hilton and Benchley the...
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  • O.S.S. (film) (category Films with screenplays by Richard Maibaum)
    screenplay was written by Richard Maibaum, a World War II veteran who would later write twelve of the first fifteen James Bond films. Maibaum, a former Broadway...
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  • appearance was as part of a pictorial essay titled "James Bond's Girls", by Richard Maibaum. According to the special edition DVD of Thunderball, Peters' short...
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  • Ransom! (1956) and Ransom (1996). "Fearful Decision" was co-authored by Richard Maibaum, an American film producer, playwright and screenwriter in the United...
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