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Richard Maibaum

Biography

The name is "Maibaum, Richard Maibaum".....the brilliant screenwriter who adapted the Ian Fleming 007 novels into the highly entertaining screenplays of nearly every James Bond film from Dr. No (1962) through to Licence to Kill (1989).

Maibaum attended New York University, then studied acting at the University of Iowa. By the time he was in his late twenties, Maibaum was a well established Broadway actor and playwright. He entered films as a screenwriter in 1937, spending the war years with the army's Combat Film Division. In 1946, he joined Paramount as both screenwriter and producer, contributing to such films as The Big Clock (1948) and The Great Gatsby (1949).

From advice that making films abroad was an excellent tax shelter, Maibaum formed a partnership in the 1950s with producers Irving Allen and Albert R. Broccoli This led to his involvement in the phenomenally successful James Bond series of the 1960s and 1970s and, after Ian Fleming, Maibaum has arguably been the person most responsible for shaping the image of the screen's most famous spy!

Production

Jarrett

1973

Producer

Battle at Bloody Beach

1961

Producer

No Man of Her Own

1950

Producer

Captain Carey, U.S.A.

1950

Producer

Dear Wife

1949

Producer

The Great Gatsby

1949

Producer

The Sainted Sisters

1948

Producer

The Big Clock

1948

Producer

O.S.S.

1946

Producer

Writing

Licence to Kill

1989

Screenplay

The Living Daylights

1987

Screenplay

A View to a Kill

1985

Screenplay

Octopussy

1983

Screenplay

For Your Eyes Only

1981

Screenplay

S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert

1980

Writer

The Spy Who Loved Me

1977

Screenplay

The Man with the Golden Gun

1974

Screenplay

Jarrett

1973

Writer

Diamonds Are Forever

1971

Screenplay

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1969

Screenplay

Thunderball

1965

Screenplay

Goldfinger

1964

Screenplay

From Russia with Love

1963

Screenplay

Dr. No

1962

Screenplay

Battle at Bloody Beach

1961

Screenplay

Battle at Bloody Beach

1961

Story

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England

1960

Adaptation

Killers of Kilimanjaro

1959

Story

The Bandit Of Zhobe

1959

Story

Tank Force!

1958

Writer

Zarak

1956

Writer

Bigger Than Life

1956

Screenplay

Bigger Than Life

1956

Story

Ransom!

1956

Screenplay

The Cockleshell Heroes

1955

Writer

The Red Beret

1953

Screenplay

Song of Surrender

1949

Screenplay

The Great Gatsby

1949

Screenplay

See My Lawyer

1945

Writer

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

1942

Writer

I Wanted Wings

1941

Screenplay

Foreign Correspondent

1940

Screenplay

20 Mule Team

1940

Screenplay

The Ghost Comes Home

1940

Screenplay

The Amazing Mr. Williams

1939

Screenplay

Coast Guard

1939

Screenplay

The Lady and the Mob

1939

Screenplay

Stablemates

1938

Writer

The Bad Man of Brimstone

1937

Screenplay

Live, Love and Learn

1937

Screenplay

They Gave Him a Gun

1937

Screenplay