Argentine boxer Carlos Monzon, who didn't have a clear diction, had his voice dubbed by a professional actor when he played the lead in the drama La Mary, and Gert Frobe, who played Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film of that name ( Goldfinger ) was because of his heavy German accent dubbed by Michael Collins.

Mirabilis was first established in June 1996 by five Israelis: Yair Goldfinger, Sefi Vigiser, Amnon Amir, Arik Vardi, and Arik's father Yossi Vardi.

The company was founded by four young Israelis: Yair Goldfinger, Arik Vardi, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir.

Before the project could gain momentum Blackman was cast opposite Sean Connery in Goldfinger, requiring her to leave the series.

The German actor Gert Fröbe, well known as the bad guy Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film Goldfinger, was born in Zwickau.

The goal of world domination was only ever stated in You Only Live Twice, and SPECTRE was working not for itself but for an unnamed Asian government whose two representatives Blofeld speaks to during the movie ; perhaps Red China, who earlier backed Goldfinger.

The irony being that the area was a trap set by Goldfinger, where the air would drain out and the player would die.

Honor Blackman, notable for her appearances in the James Bond film Goldfinger and the TV series The Avengers, was born in Plaistow, as were actor Jimmy Akingbola and comedienne, actor, and playwright Andi Osho.

Goldfinger originally bore the title The Richest Man in the World and was written in January and February 1958.

In common with Fleming's other Bond stories, he used the names of people he knew, or knew of, throughout his story, including the book's eponymous villain, who was named after British architect Ernő Goldfinger.

Upon learning of the use of his name, Goldfinger threatened to sue over the use of the name, before the matter was settled out of court.

Fleming had based the actual character on American gold tycoon Charles W. Engelhard, Jr .. Fleming also used a number of his own experiences within the book, and the round of golf played with Goldfinger was based upon a tournament in 1957 at the Berkshire Golf Club in which Fleming partnered the Open winner Peter Thomson.

Upon its release, Goldfinger went to the top of the best-seller lists ; the novel was broadly well received by the critics, being favourably compared to contemporary version of both Sapper and John Buchan.

Goldfinger was serialised as a daily story and as a comic strip in the Daily Express newspaper, before being the third James Bond feature film of the Eon Productions series, released in 1964 and starring Sean Connery as Bond.

Most recently, Goldfinger was adapted for BBC Radio with Toby Stephens as Bond and Sir Ian McKellen as Goldfinger.

Fleming structured the novel in three sections —" Happenstance ", " Coincidence " and " Enemy action "— which was how Goldfinger described Bond's three seemingly coincidental meetings with him.

The character of Bond was developed more than in the previous novels ; academic Jeremy Black considers that, in Goldfinger, Bond " was presented as a complex character ".

Auric Goldfinger was described by Raymond Benson as " Fleming's most successful villain to date " and Fleming gives him a number of character flaws that are brought out across the novel.

As with Ladenson's observation that Bond was being depicted as " the worthy knight ", Raymond Benson also identifies the Saint George theme in Goldfinger, which he says has run in all the novels, but is finally stated explicitly in the book as part of Bond's thoughts after Goldfinger reveals he will use an atomic device to open the vault: " Bond sighed wearily.

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Barrington doubles as the blond Gold Girl ( inspired by Shirley Eaton in Goldfinger ) while her red-headed " Shirley " character watches her perform.

Rider is one of three women in the Bond canon who have been scarred by rape ( Tiffany Case in Diamonds Are Forever and Pussy Galore in Goldfinger being the others ).

Goldfinger is eventually killed by the Omen when it explodes, releasing the energy and killing everyone ( except the player, who is safe from the Omen in a cut off area.

The same era also saw the construction of the Robin Hood Gardens housing complex ( overlooking the northern portal of the Blackwall Tunnel ) – designed by architects Peter and Alison Smithson – and the similarly brutalist Balfron Tower, Carradale House and Glenkerry House ( to the north ) – designed by Ernő Goldfinger.

Goldfinger is the seventh novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 23 March 1959.

The story centres on the investigation by MI6 operative James Bond into the gold smuggling activities of Auric Goldfinger, who is also suspected by MI6 of being connected to SMERSH, the Soviet counter-intelligence organisation.

Whilst changing planes in Miami after closing down a Mexican heroin smuggling operation, British Secret Service operative, James Bond is asked by Junius Du Pont, a rich American businessman ( whom he briefly met and gambled with in Casino Royale ), to watch Auric Goldfinger, with whom Du Pont is playing Canasta in order to discover if he is cheating.

Bond contrives to meet and have a round of golf with Goldfinger ; Goldfinger attempts to win the golf match by cheating, but Bond turns the tables on him, beating him in the process.

Issued by MI6 with an Aston Martin DB Mark III, Bond trails Goldfinger as he takes his vintage Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost ( adapted with armour plating and armour-plated glass ) via air ferry to Switzerland, driven by Oddjob.

Bond foils an assassination attempt on Goldfinger by Jill Masterton's sister, Tilly, to avenge Jill's death at Goldfinger's hands: he had painted her body with gold paint, which killed her.

Bond is tortured by Oddjob when he refuses to confess his role in trailing Goldfinger.

In a desperate attempt to survive being cut in two by a circular saw, Bond offers to work for Goldfinger, a ruse that Goldfinger initially refuses, but then accepts.

In Goldfinger ( 1964 ) he played a Chinese counterpart of Bond's ; in the spoof Casino Royale ( 1967 ) he played a general and in You Only Live Twice ( 1967 ) Kwouk played the part of a Japanese operative of Blofeld.

2 Willow Road is part of a terrace of three houses in Hampstead, London designed by architect Ernő Goldfinger and built in 1938.

She played a small part in the film Goldfinger.

It continued the series of Bond radio adaptations featuring Jarvis and Stephens following Dr. No ( 2008 ) and Goldfinger ( 2010 ).

Dr. No and Auric Goldfinger appear as SPECTRE members, with Dr. No "...( Doctor Julius No ) having broken ranks with our organisation.

After Dr. No is killed, Goldfinger takes over the Volcano Lair using the OMEN Mass Energy Neutralizer which causes Disintegration of Organic Matter.

Once more ( as with Live and Let Die and Dr. No ) it is Bond the British agent who has to sort out what turns out to be an American problem and this can be seen as Fleming's reaction to the lack of US support over the Suez Crisis in 1956 as well as Bond's warning to Goldfinger not to underestimate the English.

Goldfinger received more positive reviews than Fleming's previous novel, Dr. No, which had faced widespread criticism in the British media.

" The critic for The Times wrote that Thunderball " relies for its kicks far less than did Dr. No or Goldfinger on sadism and a slightly condescending sophistication.

Lord was the first actor to play the character Felix Leiter in the James Bond film series, introduced in the first Bond film, Dr. No. According to screenwriter Richard Maibaum, Lord demanded co-star billing, a bigger role and more money to reprise the role in Goldfinger, which resulted in director Guy Hamilton casting the role to an older actor to make Leiter more of an American " M ".

The series starred Lois Maxwell, the actress who played " Miss Moneypenny " in Bond films such as Dr. No and Goldfinger.

Hamilton was one of many directors who turned down Dr. No, but he entered the series after Terence Young's departure from Goldfinger.

Set in an alternate timeline of the James Bond universe, the player takes the role of an ex-MI6 agent who is recruited by Auric Goldfinger, a member of a powerful unnamed criminal organization, to assassinate his rival Dr. No. Several other characters from the Bond film series make appearances throughout the game, including Pussy Galore, Oddjob, and Xenia Onatopp as well as Francisco Scaramanga, playing a Q type character with the voice and likeness of Christopher Lee, who played the same character in 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun.

He is eventually sent to Crab Key, where he confronts Dr. No. During their duel, GoldenEye uses his mechanical eye to sabotage the island's nuclear reactor, causing it to electrocute Dr. No. Upon No's death, Goldfinger contacts GoldenEye and informs him that he believes he is too dangerous to be left alive, and that he had contacted GoldenEye earlier and told him to activate a program which would shut down the Lair's defense grid.

In a poll on IMDb, Auric Goldfinger was voted the most sinister James Bond villain, beating out in order Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Dr. No, Max Zorin, and Emilio Largo .< ref >

He blew up the villain's Jamaican hideout at the end of Dr. No ( 1962 ), and for Goldfinger ( 1964 ), he created Agent 007's celebrated Aston Martin DB5, featuring bullet-proof windows, revolving license plates, forward-firing machine guns, a rear oil-slick dispenser and a passenger-side ejector seat.

On the other hand, nobody since the Grimm brothers could equal Fleming's gift for improvising such audaciously grotesque adversaries as Dr. No, Blofeld, Auric Goldfinger and his henchman, Oddjob.

A first-person shooter loosely connected to the Bond franchise, it stars a former MI6 spy known as " GoldenEye ", who works for Auric Goldfinger against Dr. Julius No. The game was panned for its misleading title and poor storyline.

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He appeared in the James Bond gun barrel sequence for Sean Connery in three James Bond films: Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger.

In 1962 Broccoli and director Terence Young chose him as the cinematographer for an adaptation of Ian Fleming's Dr. No. Moore would go on to make another six Bond films ; From Russia with Love ( for which he won a BAFTA award ), Goldfinger, Thunderball, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, and portions of The Man with the Golden Gun, on which he was replaced due to illness by Oswald Morris.