In 1986, Gauntlett negotiated the return of fictional British secret agent James Bond to Aston Martin.

Blue Remembered Hills, a television play by Dennis Potter, takes its title from " Into My Heart an Air That Kills " from A Shropshire Lad, the cycle also providing the name for the James Bond film Die Another Day: " But since the man that runs away / Lives to die another day ".

The most famous movie monsters are King Kong and Godzilla, the archetypical detective is Sherlock Holmes and most people's idea of a spy is James Bond.

* Dr. Julius No in the James Bond film Dr. No.

He declined to play the villain Max Zorin in the James Bond film A View to a Kill ( 1985 ).

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.

Edinburgh has been home to the actor Sir Sean Connery, famed as the first cinematic James Bond ; Ronnie Corbett, a comedian and actor, best known as one of The Two Ronnies ;, actor Brian Cox and Dylan Moran, the Irish comedian.

Critics have referred to Enter the Dragon as " a low-rent James Bond thriller ", a " remake of Doctor No " with elements of Fu Manchu.

Johnny Fedora achieved popularity as a fictional agent of early Cold War espionage, but James Bond is the most commercially successful of the many spy characters created by intelligence insiders during that struggle.

Due to the success of the James Bond film series the Italian film industry made large amounts of imitations and spoofs in the Eurospy genre from 1964-1967.

Some of the most commercially successful films of all time have been produced in the United Kingdom, including the two highest-grossing film franchises ( Harry Potter and James Bond ).

This reputation has continued through the 1990s and into the 21st century with films such as the James Bond series, Gladiator ( 2000 ) and the Harry Potter franchise.

* Gene therapy also plays a major role in the plot of the James Bond movie Die Another Day, where a scientist has developed a means of altering peoples ' entire appearances through the use of DNA samples acquired from others-generally homeless people that would not be missed-that are subsequently injected into the bone marrow, the resulting transformation apparently depriving the subjects of the ability to sleep.

James Bond specifies a recipe of how to make a gin and tonic whilst in Kingston, Jamaica in the book Dr. No. Unusually it involves the juice of a whole lime.

The Harry Potter series was filmed at the studios, whilst the 1996 James Bond film GoldenEye was also filmed there.

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections.

Additionally, Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character, Moneypenny.

As the central figure for his works, Ian Fleming created the fictional character of James Bond, an intelligence officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6.

Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies ; Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that " It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born ".

On another occasion Fleming said: " I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, ' James Bond ' was much better than something more interesting, like ' Peregrine Carruthers '.

Hoagy Carmichael — Fleming's view of James Bond.

Fleming did not provide Bond's date of birth, but John Pearson's fictional biography of Bond, James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, gives Bond a birth date on 11 November 1920, while a study by John Griswold puts the date at 11 November 1921.

Perhaps the most extreme example in science fiction is James White's Sector General: a series of novels and short stories about multienvironment hospital for the strangest life-forms imaginable, some of them breathing methane, chlorine, water and sometimes also oxygen.

James Hadley Chase wrote a few novels with private eyes as the main hero, including Blonde's Requiem ( 1945 ), Lay Her Among the Lilies ( 1950 ), and Figure It Out for Yourself ( 1950 ).

The name Daedalus is used in James Joyce's novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, though spelled differently in the last name of the character Stephen Dedalus.

* The film director " Fritz Wong " in Ray Bradbury's novels A Graveyard for Lunatics and Let's All Kill Constance is a composite of Fritz Lang and James Wong Howe

* Jardines ' history was the inspiration for a series of novels written by James Clavell, including Tai-Pan, Gai-Jin, and Noble House.

American novelist James Fennimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans and other novels reflect republican and egalitarian ideals present alike in Rousseau, Thomas Paine, and also in English Romantic primitivism.

Robert Jordan was the pen name of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. ( October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007 ) He used this pseudonym for fantasy novels, including the bestselling The Wheel of Time series for which he was best known.

Much of the thriller genre would be included, such as the novels of Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, or the James Bond films.

Their novels, which were written and structured in the genre's 1930s style, feature protagonists antithetical to James Bond.

In the cultural sphere, Scott's Waverley novels played a significant part in the movement ( begun with James Macpherson's Ossian cycle ) in rehabilitating the public perception of the culture of the Scottish Highlands and its culture, which had been formally suppressed as barbaric – and viewed in the southern mind as a breeding ground of hill bandits, religious fanaticsim, and Jacobite rebellions.

Smuggling is a common trope or theme in literature and can be found in a wide range of works – from the 18th century novels of Charlotte Turner Smith to Prosper Mérimée's 19th century novella, Carmen ( the inspiration for numerous films as well as Bizet's opera, Carmen ) to the James Bond novel ( and later film ) Diamonds are Forever.

" The film is inconsistent with the novels, which are generally considered canonical, not least in their depiction of Ryan's first meeting with Admiral James Greer.

Morris ' prose style in these novels has been praised by Edward James, who described

* William Jardine and other Jardine tai-pans are fictionally portrayed in author James Clavell's popular fiction novels Tai-Pan ( 1966 ), Gai-Jin ( 1993 ), Noble House ( 1981 ) and Whirlwind ( 1987 ).

* Emilio Largo and Maximillian Largo, characters from the James Bond series of novels and films

Dr. Leary himself called the trilogy " more important than Ulysses or Finnegans Wake ," two novels by author James Joyce-who appears as a character in The Illuminatus!

His large novels from the period after this, once described unflatteringly by Henry James as examples of " loose baggy monsters ," have faded from view, perhaps because they reflect a mellowing in the author, who became so successful with his satires on society that he seemed to lose his zest for attacking it.

** James Bond novels, the original literary works by Fleming, plus works by other authors after Fleming's death ( usually commissioned by the owner of the Fleming copyrights, a company now known as Ian Fleming Publications )

At the same time, the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming were adapted into an increasingly fantastical series of tongue-in-cheek adventure films by producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, with Sean Connery as the star.

* James Michener: 40 + epic novels, including Tales of the South Pacific.

" In his own novels James explored more of the psychological motives of the characters and less of the historical sweep exhibited by Balzac – a conscious style preference.

The Wheel of Time is a series of epic fantasy novels written by American author James Oliver Rigney, Jr., under the pen name Robert Jordan.