Moonraker 1979 premiere
by nightopeningfan | created - 03 Dec 2019 | updated - 18 Dec 2020 | PublicTuesday June 26th, ODEON Luxe Leicester Square 22-24, Leicester Square, London WC2H 7LQ, United Kingdom
1. Roger Moore
Actor | Moonraker
Roger Moore will perhaps always be remembered as the man who replaced Sean Connery in the James Bond series, arguably something he never lived down.
Roger George Moore was born on October 14, 1927 in Stockwell, London, England, the son of Lillian (Pope) and George Alfred Moore, a policeman. His ...
2. Luisa Mattioli
Actress | La notte del grande assalto
Luisa Mattioli was born on March 23, 1936 in San Stino di Livenza, Veneto, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Night of the Great Attack (1959), La bella Lola (1962) and Romulus and the Sabines (1961). She was married to Roger Moore. She died on October 5, 2021 in Zurich, Switzerland.
3. Richard Kiel
Actor | Moonraker
Towering 7' 2" tall actor who cornered the market on playing giants, intimidating henchmen, bayou swamp monsters and steel toothed villains! Kiel worked in numerous jobs including as a night club bouncer and a cemetery plot salesman, before breaking into film & TV in several minor roles in the late...
4. Diane Rogers
Casting_department | Dead Bang
Diane Rogers is known for Dead Bang (1989), Friends (1988) and Body of Evidence (1988).
5. Britt Ekland
Actress | The Man with the Golden Gun
Britt Ekland was born in Sweden and grew up to be the poster girl for beautiful, big-eyed Scandinavian blondes. She attended a drama school and then joined a traveling theater group. With her looks as her passport, Britt entered films and became a star in Italy. When Peter Sellers met her in a ...
6. Richard Johnson
Actor | The Haunting
Born in Upminster, Essex, England in 1927, Richard Johnson attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and then performed in John Gielgud's repertory company until joining the navy in 1945 until 1948. After the war, he appeared successfully in the West End and made his film debut in the ...
7. Ingrid Seward
Ingrid Seward is known for The Palace (2008), Lady Di: Before Royalty (2022) and Princess Elizabeth: Destined for Greatness (2022). She was previously married to Ross Benson.
8. Albert R. Broccoli
Producer | Moonraker
Albert Romolo Broccoli was born in Astoria, Queens (New York City) on April 5th, 1909. His mother and father, Cristina and Giovanni Broccoli, raised young Albert in New York on the family farm. The family was in the vegetable business, and Albert claimed one of his uncles brought the first broccoli...
9. Dana Broccoli
Actress | Wild Women
Novelist and actress, Dana Broccoli, began her career as an actress on the New York and Boston stage and later moved to Los Angeles, where she met and married film producer Albert R. Broccoli. They moved to London and, together, they formed a film company, Danjaq LLC, which acquired the James Bond ...
10. Prince Philip
Prince Phillip was born on 10 June 1921 as a Prince of Greece and Denmark. His family was deposed and he lived in France and finally went to boarding school in Gordonstoun in Scotland. Eventually he sent his boys there. When he was 18 he met 13 year old Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth, his third ...
11. Shirley Eaton
Actress | Goldfinger
Long before Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty and company showed up in 1980s TV households, Hollywood had, in effect, its own original "Golden Girl"...literally...in the form of stunning British actress Shirley Eaton. Although she found definitive cult stardom in 1964 with her final golden moment in a ...
12. Joan Collins
Actress | Dynasty
Joan Collins is an English actress from Paddington, London. She is most famous for playing the role of vengeful schemer Alexis Carrington Colby in the soap opera "Dynasty" (1981-1989). In 1997, She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama. In 2015, She...
13. Nai Bonet
Actress | Nocturna
Nai Bonet was a stunningly gorgeous and voluptuous brunette actress, singer, and belly dancer who appeared in a handful of pictures and television programs made throughout the 1960's and 1970's. She was born on January 6, 1939 to a Vietnamese mother and a French father in Saigon, Vietnam. Nai began...
14. Michael Lonsdale
Actor | The Day of the Jackal
Tall, bearded, heavy-set Anglo-French character actor, best known internationally for playing Deputy Commissioner Claude Lebel in The Day of the Jackal (1973) and Bond villain Hugo Drax in Moonraker (1979). The son of an English army officer (Edward Lonsdale-Crouch) and a Franco-Irish mother (...
15. Corinne Cléry
Actress | Moonraker
Corinne Cléry was born on March 23, 1950 in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for Moonraker (1979), The Story of O (1975) and Yor: The Hunter from the Future (1983).
16. Blanche Ravalec
Actress | Moonraker
Blanche Ravalec was born on September 19, 1954. She is an actress, known for Moonraker (1979), Une maison, une histoire (1980) and Diabolik (1997).
17. Sydney Tafler
Actor | The Spy Who Loved Me
Sydney Tafler was born on July 31, 1916 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Operation Diplomat (1953) and It Always Rains on Sunday (1947). He was married to Joy Shelton. He died on November 8, 1979 in London, England, UK.
18. Joy Shelton
Actress | Millions Like Us
Joy Shelton was born on June 3, 1922 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Millions Like Us (1943), Impulse (1954) and The Green Finger (1946). She was married to Sydney Tafler. She died on January 28, 2000 in Surrey, England, UK.
19. Dino De Laurentiis
Producer | Le notti di Cabiria
Dino De Laurentiis left home at age 17 to enrol in film school, supporting himself as an actor, extra, propman, or any other job he could get in the film industry. His persistence paid off, and by the time he reached his 20th birthday he already had one produced film under his belt. After serving ...
20. Michael Winner
Director | Death Wish
Winner was an only child, born in Hampstead, London, England, to Helen (née Zlota) and George Joseph Winner (1910-1975), a company director. His family was Jewish; his mother was Polish and his father of Russian extraction. Following his father's death, Winner's mother gambled recklessly and sold ...
21. Toshirô Suga
Actor | Moonraker
Toshirô Suga was born on August 22, 1950 in Tokyo, Japan. He is an actor, known for Moonraker (1979), Tout dépend des filles... (1980) and Charlots connection (1984).
22. Dodi Fayed
Producer | Chariots of Fire
Dodi Fayed was born on April 15, 1955 in Alexandria, Egypt. He was a producer, known for Chariots of Fire (1981), Hook (1991) and F/X (1986). He was married to Susanne Gregard. He died on August 31, 1997 in Paris, France.
23. Barbara Broccoli
Producer | Skyfall
She is one of the entertainment industry's most successful female producers. Barbara Broccoli was born to legendary filmmaker Albert R. Broccoli, affectionately known as Cubby, and Dana Broccoli on June 18, 1960. Not long after, Cubby Broccoli and his new partner, Harry Saltzman, secured studio ...
24. Bernard Lee
Actor | Diamonds Are Forever
Best remembered as 'M' in the James Bond films, Bernard Lee was a popular character player in British films throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Born into a theatrical family, he made his stage debut at age six and later attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He first appeared on the West End stage...
25. Lois Chiles
Actress | Moonraker
Lois Chiles is a former supermodel-turned-actress who gave elegant performances in a variety of films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Her motion picture debut role was as Robert Redford's sexual endeavor in the old-fashioned Hollywood melodrama, The Way We Were (1973). Shortly after, she starred ...
26. Emily Bolton
Actress | Moonraker
Emily Bolton is known for Moonraker (1979), Tenko (1981) and Play for Today (1970).
27. Geoffrey Keen
Actor | Moonraker
Geoffrey Keen was born on August 21, 1916 in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Moonraker (1979), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and For Your Eyes Only (1981). He was married to Doris Groves, Madeline Howell and Hazel Terry. He died on November 3, 2005 in Denville Hall, ...
28. Lois Maxwell
Actress | Dr. No
Everyone knows (or should know) Lois Maxwell as the one and only "Miss Moneypenny," but there's much more to her acting career than that. She started out against her parents' will, and without their knowledge, in a Canadian children's radio program, credited as "Robin Wells." Before the age of 15 ...
29. Irka Bochenko
Actress | Moonraker
Irka Bochenko is known for Moonraker (1979), Bilitis (1977) and L'été rouge (2002).
31. Anne Lonnberg
Actress | Moonraker
Anne Lonnberg was born on February 17, 1948 in Berkeley, California, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Moonraker (1979), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) and Love and Death (1975).
32. Mike Marshall
Actor | Moonraker
Mike Marshall was born on September 13, 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Moonraker (1979), Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966) and The Phantom Planet (1961). He was married to Catherine Prou and Sylvie Elias. He died on June 2, 2005 ...
33. Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Actor | Moonraker
Jean-Pierre Castaldi was born on October 1, 1944 in Grenoble, Isère, France. He is an actor, known for Moonraker (1979), George and the Dragon (2004) and Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (1999). He has been married to Corinne Champeval since May 29, 1999. They have two children. He was previously ...
34. Leila Shenna
Actress | Moonraker
Leila Chenna, is a Moroccan actress and cousin to Malika Oufkir, the writer of "Stolen Lifes: Twenty Years In A Desert Jail," an account of the failed 1972 assasination attempt on the King of Morocco by her father (and Lelia's uncle), General Muhammad Oufkir.
35. Walter Gotell
Actor | Moonraker
Walter Gotell was born on March 15, 1924 in Bonn, Germany. He was an actor, known for Moonraker (1979), A View to a Kill (1985) and The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). He was married to Celeste F. Mitchell and Yvonne Hills. He died on May 5, 1997 in London, England, UK.
36. Lewis Gilbert
Director | Alfie
Lewis Gilbert was a British film director, producer and screenwriter best known for Alfie (1966), as well as three James Bond films: You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).
He also directed Reach for the Sky (1956), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Educating Rita (...
37. Christopher Wood
Writer | The Spy Who Loved Me
Christopher Wood was born on November 5, 1935 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Moonraker (1979) and Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985). He was married to Jane Patrick. He died on May 9, 2015 in France.
38. John Barry
Soundtrack | Out of Africa
John Barry was born in York, England in 1933, and was the youngest of three children. His father, Jack, owned several local cinemas and by the age of fourteen, Barry was capable of running the projection box on his own - in particular, The Rialto in York. As he was brought up in a cinematic ...
39. Jean Tournier
Cinematographer | Moonraker
Jean Tournier was born on April 3, 1926 in Toulon, Var, France. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Moonraker (1979), The Day of the Jackal (1973) and The Train (1964). He died on December 5, 2004 in Paris, France.
40. John Glen
Director | The Living Daylights
He started on the Shepperton Studios cutting rooms in 1948 working on such as 'The Wooden Horse' and 'The Third Man' before moving to Nettlefold Studios where his stay was interrupted by two years National Service after which he joined Group 3 at Beaconsfield . His next move was becoming sound ...
41. Donald Zec
Writer | Mitch
Donald Zec was born on March 12, 1919 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Mitch (1984), Glamour... (1962) and My Name Is Bond... James Bond (1979). He was married to Frances ?. He died on September 6, 2021.
42. Ken Adam
Production_designer | Barry Lyndon
Ken Adam was a British movie production designer, best known for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
His first major screen credit was as production designer on the British ...
43. William P. Cartlidge
Producer | Moonraker
William P. Cartlidge was born on June 16, 1942 in England, UK. He was an assistant director and producer, known for Moonraker (1979), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and You Only Live Twice (1967). He died on March 3, 2021 in Hamble-le-Rice, Hampshire, England, UK.
44. Hylda Gilbert
Costume_department | The 7th Dawn
Hylda Gilbert was born on July 5, 1919. She is known for The 7th Dawn (1964), My Name Is Bond... James Bond (1979) and Ken Adam's Production Films: Moonraker (2006). She was married to Lewis Gilbert. She died in June 2005.
46. Michael G. Wilson
Writer | Licence to Kill
An engineer turned tax lawyer he joined Eon Productions in 1972 as a tax lawyer then was a very junior assistant on Goldfinger, did some work on The Spy Who Loved Me before becoming executive producer on Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy. He was then co producer on A View to a Kill. ...
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