Guy Hamilton

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Guy Hamilton (born September 16, 1922 in Paris , France , † April 20, 2016 in Palma , Spain ) was a British director , who mainly through his Bond films Goldfinger , Diamond Fever , Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Colt became known. He also made the agent film Finale in Berlin (1966) and three years later the Battle of Britain for Bond co-producer Harry Saltzman . Guy Hamilton was responsible for a total of 22 films from 1952 to 1989.

Life

Guy Hamilton was born in Paris in 1922 to English parents and first attended Haileybury College in France, which he successfully completed. At the age of 16 he began an apprenticeship at the “La Victorine” film studios in Nice until he was called up by the British Navy during World War II .

After serving in the military, Hamilton became assistant director to a number of well-known directors, including Julien Duvivier with Anna Karenina (1948), Carol Reed with Little Heart in Need (1948), The Third Man (1949) and The Damned of the Islands (1952) and John Huston with African Queen (1951). A year later he rose to director himself and shot his first film The Strangler Comes at midnight . After a short interlude as an actor in Jack Webb's Gross Razzia (1954), he showed competent film craftsmanship with Manuela (1957) and High Treason with Obstacles (1961) and tried himself again as a co-scriptwriter after he had first experiences in this story in 1955 with The Colditz Story Metier had collected. For Manuela , Hamilton was nominated for the Golden Bear in 1957 .

From the mid-sixties onwards, Hamilton directed several spy films by producer Harry Saltzman ; in addition to Finale in Berlin (1966), there were four James Bond films. Hamilton's work on the series began with the hugely successful Bond classic James Bond 007 - Goldfinger (1964) and continued with Sean Connery's last (official) appearance as 007 in James Bond 007 - Diamond Fever (1971). In 1973 and 1974 he introduced the new Bond actor Moore into his role, who was just making his first steps as Bond in James Bond 007 - Live and Let Die and James Bond 007 - The Man with the Golden Gun .

In 1975 he received the Evening Standard British Film Award for the James Bond film Live and Let Die .

Hamilton was originally supposed to direct Superman (1978) after his engagement with Bond , but for tax reasons he was only allowed to stay for 30 days in England, where production was relocated at the last moment. Then Richard Donner took over the direction .

Hamilton tackled two Agatha-Christie adaptations, on the one hand Mord im Spiegel (1980), created in the present day and with Angela Lansbury in the role of Miss Marple , and on the other hand the Hercule Poirot crime novel Evil Under the Sun. (1982).

Hamilton returned to the action genre in 1985 with the film adaptation Remo - Unarmed and Dangerous, based on the novel series The Destroyer , in which Fred Ward plays the lead role. For the first time in almost three decades he was working on a script again, at the time he was working on his comedy Trau kein Schurken (1989).

Hamilton was married twice, first to the actress Naomi Chance, then to the also acting Kerima .

Filmography

Director

Assistant director

Screenwriter

  • 1955: The Colditz Story
  • 1957: Manuela
  • 1959: High Treason with Obstacles (A Touch of Larceny)

actor

  • 1954: Large-scale raid (Dragnet)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jennifer Ruby: Goldfinger director Guy Hamilton dies aged 93. In: standard.co.uk. Evening Standard , April 21, 2016, accessed April 21, 2016 .
  2. ^ Caroline Westbrook: James Bond director Guy Hamilton - who made Goldfinger and Live and Let Die - has died aged 93. In: metro.co.uk. Metro, April 21, 2016, accessed April 21, 2016 .
  3. ↑ variety.com, accessed April 22, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Hamilton, Guy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 2016
Place of death Palma , Spain