Directing
Guy Hamilton
Birth Date
September 16, 1922
Death Date
April 20, 2016
(passed away at 93)
Place of Birth
Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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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.
Photos
Best Ever Bond
Self
2002
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
Self
2012
Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
2000
Inside 'Live and Let Die'
1999
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
Self
2010
Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary
Self
1973
Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'
Self
2000
Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'
Self
1995
Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger'
Self
1995
A Sense of Carol Reed
Self
2006
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
Self
1982
The Goldfinger Phenomenon
1995
Shadowing the Third Man
Himself
2004
Lesson #007: Close Quarters Combat
Narrator (voice)
1971
Postwar Poetry: Carol Reed and 'Odd Man Out'
Self
2015
Double-O Stunts
2000
Guy Hamilton: The Director Speaks
2006