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SALTZMAN JAMES BOND producer 1962-1974 9 movies HARRY SALTZMAN
(1915-1994)
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| Harry Saltzman Född 27 oktober 1915 Död: 28 september 1994 St. JohnNew Brunswick, Kanada. Hans mor hette Dory och dog ung. Harry rymde hemifrån vid 15 års ålder och reste runt i Kanada. Han
jobbade bland annat för en varieté och på en resande cirkus. I slutet
av 1930-talet flyttade han till Frankrike, där han jobbade som entreprenör
för teatern. Efter andra världskriget och en kort period i franska armén
gick han med i det franska Ministeriet för Återuppbyggnad, som då
arbetade med UNESCO och var specialiserat på kommunikationer. |
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Biography HARRY SALTZMAN JAMES BOND producer 1962-1974 9 movies 1. Dr No 2. Form Russia With Love 3. Goldfinger 4. Thunderball 5. You Only Live Twice 6. On Her Majesty`s Secret Service 7. Diamonds Are Forever 8 Live And Let Die 9. The Man With The Golden Gun Name: Harry Saltzman Date of Birth: 27th October 1915 Date of Death: 28th September 1994 Bond Films: 9 ("Dr No" to "The Man With The Golden Gun") |
Åter till Amerika och filmens värld Efter tre och ett halvt år i ministeriet slutade han och reste till USA, där han framgångsrikt återvände till showbusiness - denna gång inom TV-världen. Men det var en teaterpjäs, 'Look Back In Anger' ('Se Dig Om I Vrede') som förde honom till filmindustrin. När pjäsen gick i New York 1957fick han idén att föra den ut till fler folk (och tjäna mer pengar), så han lovade pjäsens författare, John Osborne, att han skulle ordna finansiering till en filmversion. Saltzman, Osborne och pjäsens regissör, Tony Richardson bildande det då oberoende produktionsbolaget Woodfal Films. Filmen 'Look Back In Anger' kom ut 1958, men blev ett ekonomiskt fiasko. Det blev även bolagets andra produktion, 'The Entertainer', som kom 1960. Men i deras tredje film, 'Saturday Night And Sunday Morning' (kom också ut 1960) blev en publiksuccé. Nästa film som Woodfal Films skulle producera var 'A Taste Of Honey' och den ansåg och Saltzman vara både för lantlig och för brittisk för att kunna bli någon ekonomisk framgång, så han lämnade Woodfal för att återgå till den stora underhållningen. |
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HARRY SALTZMAN Born in Quebec, Canada in 1915, the young Saltzman had little education before extraneous circumstances saw Harry abandon home and join the circus. Since then, Saltzman would never talk of his mother and his children would never know their grandmother. In his teens, Harry's entrepreneurial spirit and passion for the stage led him to be a talent manager in Long Island's Vaudeville strip and by age 17, Harry had arranged his own circus troupe back in Canada again. During the 1940s, Saltzman joined the army, serving in World War II. He was posted to Paris, France where he liaised with the RAF and later was recruited to the OSS - the Office of Strategic Services, an early effort at an Allied unified intelligence force. After the war Harry stayed on in Paris and here he met his bride-to-be, Jacqueline: a Romanian who had escaped from the troubles of her homeland. |
Det var under denna tid, vintern 1960, då han letade efter någonting lukrativt att producera, som han blev introducerad till Ian Fleming av deras gemensamma advokat, Brian Lewis. Redan vid deras första möte blev Saltzman mycket intresserad av Flemings böcker och lovade att han skulle försöka få ihop 50 000 dollar för en sex månaders option till alla böckerna och om projektet blev av skulle han försöka se till att Fleming skulle få ytterligare 100 000 dollar per film plus fem procent på producenternas andel. Fleming gick med på det och Saltzman gick till Flemings filmagent, Bob Fenn från MCA för att skriva kontrakt.
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HARRY SALTZMAN In Paris he found work as a casting agent in show business and became a reliable name in the Paris cabaret scene. Despite his familiarity within the industry he failed to make any real money and family and friends recall Saltzman moving from one free house to the next, never having enough to afford his own lodgings. In 1956 he was heavily involved in the production of "The Iron Petticoat", contributing to the writing staff as well as producing the picture. This film was a Bob Hope comedy that co-starred Katharine Hepburn and Robert Helpmann. |
Bondprojektet börjar Denne hade under de senaste två åren försökt att ordna Flemings affärer. Han hade köpt tillbaka Ranks option på "Moonraker" och försökt köpa tillbaka Charles Feldmans rättigheter på "Casino Royale". Fenn erbjöd Saltzman optionen på Flemings sju tillgängliga böcker samt framtida optioner på alla kommande. |
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Next, together with Tony Richardson and John
Osborne, Saltzman formed a production company with the hopes of being able
to find finance for more features. They called the collaboration Woodfall
Productions and Harry finally found his real passion.
The trio collaborated on Saltzman's next credit, the successful "Look Back In Anger" (1968). Woodfall took their production to the UK and cast famed Welsh star Richard Burton as the lead, whilst Richardson was in the director's chair and Osborne (having written the stage play) collaborated with the film's screenwriter Nigel Kneale. "Look Back in Anger" earned the producers a Golden Globe nomination. Family recalled that his enthusiasm for the theatre lead Saltzman to seek out various stage plays he thought fitting to put on screen. He was passionate about plays and wanted more people to see them. However, as the new medium was very much motion pictures, he compromised, bringing some excellent stage plays to the screen. Woodfall would follow their success on "Look Back In Anger" with "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" (1960), a Karel Reisz helmed picture. Set in Nottingham and starring a young Albert Finney, the film scooped three BAFTA awards, including Best British Film in at the 1981 awards ceremony. |
| I fem månader försökte sedan Saltzman att intressera
filmbolagen om en serie Bondfilmer, utan resultat. Då han endast hade 28
dagar kvar på optionerna fick han ett samtal från sin vän Wolf
Mankovitz som sa att producenten Albert
"Cubby"Broccoli var intresserad av projektet. Saltzman kontaktade mannen och de två kom fram till ett 50/50-avtal. De bildade bolagen EON Productions och Danjaq (från förnamnen på sina fruar, Dana (Broccoli) och Jacqueline (Saltzman)). Danjaq S.A. (som är registrerat i Schweiz) har filmrättigheterna till Bondfilmerna och EON producerar filmerna. |
 Albert "Cubby"Broccoli HARRY SALTZMAN |
The same year, the trio of aspiring filmmakers produced "The Entertainer" - sometimes regarded as Laurance Olivier's greatest performance, the film saw Finney and Olivier play leads, together with Joan Plowright and Alan Bates. "The Entertainer" was nominated for an Academy Award - best actor - as well as a series of BAFTAs. Despite the critical acclaim the productions Saltzman had worked on eared very little at the box office and in the early years of starting a family with wife Jacqueline, the Saltzmans were finically challenged. When the Woodfall productions team
parted ways, Saltzman looked for a solid investment, turning this time to
the successful series of novels by |
| Tillsammans försökte de få filmbolagen
intresserade av James Bond och med inte många dagar kvar på optionerna,
lyckades de få filmbolaget United Artist att gå med på projektet
och de två gick därifrån med ett avtal på sex filmer i bagaget och
resten är historia...
Förutom Bondfilmerna har EON även producerat 'Call
Me Bwana' ('Djungelagenten') - affischen för denna film finns med
i 'Agent 007 Ser Rött' ( Han var, till skillnad från Cubby, en person hade svårt att
koncentrera sig på en sak samtidigt. Han hade alltid en massa järn i
elden (förutom Bondfilmerna producerade han bland annat flera andra
filmer under samma period) och blev snabbt uttråkad (vilket kanske gav
honom en fördel då han gjorde film, eftersom han inte tillät publiken
att bli det).
"Cubby" ansåg dock att Bondfilmerna var så pass
stora att man inte skulle ha tid med något annat samtidigt. De två hade
väldigt skilda personligheter och denna dynamik var en av framgångarna
till Bondfilmernas framgång, men det gav också ett upphov till problem i
deras samarbete. Harry Saltzman har tre barn; en dotter, Hilary, samt två söner
(varav den ena heter Steven). Han har även haft två schäfrar som
döpte till James och Bond. Harry Saltzman har bland annat producerat följande filmer: |
 Above: Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli with Harry Saltzman and Roger Moore on location in America for "Live And Let Die"... 1973.
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At the same time, Albert
"Cubby"Broccoli was looking for a new,
long-term project and had already approached Ian Fleming for the rights to
produce his spy adventures. Time and time again Broccoli was told they
were unavailable but the producer persisted, to the point of approaching
Saltzman with a generous offer. It was Wolf Mankowitz - the screenwriter
that would earn the job of penning an early draft of " Dr. No" - that ultimately put the two producers in contact. In the end, Mankowitz bowed out of the project shortly after preproduction began and his early treatment was replaced by the work of Richard Maibaum.
The pair formed Danjaq S.A., the company responsible for the rights to the James Bond pictures - named after Dana (Cubby's wife) and Jacqueline Saltzman. The more famous EON Productions was created shortly after the confirmation of their partnership and to date is a subsidiary of Danjaq, responsible for making the pictures themselves. With the legalities finalised, Broccoli and Saltzman set about finding a reputable studio to finance their first James Bond picture. Artists (a subsidiary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) who had approached Fleming to find the screen rights to Bond unavailable. It is not surprising that when the newly formed Danjaq approached UA (United Artists), they were able to come to an arrangement to produce "Dr. No" as the first James Bond adventure. UA fronted the $1 million budget for the debut 007 production and Harry and Cubby set to work, looking for a man to play James Bond. After "Dr. No" was in the can, Saltzman and Brocolli worked together on their one and only non-Bond collaboration, "Call Me Bwana'" (1963). The pair's initial deal with UA had stipulated the production of one non-Bond film for every 007 flick the duo produced. "Bwana" was an African set comedy starring Bob Hope and cementing Saltzman's relationship with various filmmakers who would go on to work with him on multiple James Bond productions, notably Ted Moore, Peter Hunt, Syd Caine and John Stears. Between 1960 and 1965 Saltzman became a financially successful producer, as well as a critically acclaimed one. He was one of the big ideas-men behind many of the classic James Bond sequences loved by fans today. Family and colleagues reported that he was always on the go - when he wasn't on the set, supervising the Bond pictures, he was at the drawing board, planning the next big project. With his new found wealth he was able to treat his family to a few luxuries and himself to fine food and outrageous, if expensive, clothing. Saltzman and family invested in a family home, to be known as Woodlands Park, and he would host potential Bond cast members in order to get to know the people he would have to work with. At the family home Saltzman even had two German Sheppard dogs, one he named James and the other Bond. For nine successful James Bond productions, the two extremes of Cubby and Harry worked together to create mind-blowing, successful adventure films. The pair saw the departure of their first 007 actor, Sean Connery, and Harry worked closely with George Lazenby to prepare him for his starring role in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". According to some reports Harry came close to slashing three soon-to-be successful James Bond title themes. Both "Goldfinger" and "Diamonds Are Forever" met with the producer's disapproval but were never replaced as he was out of time and money to commission backups. In the case of latter, veteran 007 composter, John Barry convinced the producers to go with Shirley Bassey's belter. Beyond Bond Harry continued to produce a variety of pictures, including the Harry Palmer series, starring Michael Caine. The string of cold-war spy thrillers began with "The IPCRESS File" in 1965 (between "Goldfinge" and "Thunderball"), followed by "Funeral In Berlin" (1966) and "Billion Dollar Brain" (1967). Saltzman also had a hand in the quirky Orson Wells War drama, "Campanadas a Medianoche" (1965) and Guy Hamiton's "Battle of Britain", which was packed with stars of the day, including Michael Caine, Ian McShane, Laurance Olivier, Chistopher Plummer, as well as Bond alumni Curt Jurgens and Robert Shaw. |
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