Guy Hamilton
Known For
Directing
Born
1922-09-16 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Died
2016-04-20
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.
Most Known For
Best Ever Bond
as Self
Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'
as Self
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
as Self
Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'
as Self
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
as Self
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
as Self
Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger'
as Self
Inside 'Live and Let Die'
Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary
as Self
The Goldfinger Phenomenon
Lesson #007: Close Quarters Combat
as Narrator (voice)
Double-O Stunts
A Sense of Carol Reed
as Self
Shadowing the Third Man
as Himself
Postwar Poetry: Carol Reed and 'Odd Man Out'
as Self
