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Jan 7, 1991 · Richard Maibaum, a former stage actor who began writing scripts for Hollywood in the 1930s, ... Born in New York City and an honors graduate of the University of Iowa, Maibaum began in the ...
Jan 4, 1991 · Screenwriter. Born in New York City, he was best known for his adaptations of Ian Fleming's James Bond spy novels into films. He was a playwright on Broadway before he made his film debut as screenwriter with We Went to College (1936), followed by They Gave Him a Gun (1937). From 1962 to 1989, he was the screenwriter...
Just for the sake of the line, I was heartbroken when they rejected it." Broccoli called in Tom Mankiewicz to rewrite Maibaum's screenplay and, in the process, Goldfinger's brother was scratched, and Ernst Stavros Blofeld, the mastermind behind SPECTRE, returned. And, Maibaum says, his "smash ending" became "an interminable thing on an oil rig."
Nov 9, 2012 · Creatively, the key scripter for the entire Bond series was Richard Maibaum. Born in New York in 1909, Maibaum worked as an actor and playwright on Broadway before going to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he became a screenwriter and producer on films such as OSS (1946), The Big Clock (1948) and The Great Gatsby (1949).
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.
American writer, producer, and assistant director, born in New York City, USA. He studied at New York University and then joined the Department of Dramatic Arts at the University of Iowa. His most prominent works include Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, and Licence to Kill. He...Read more died on January 4, 1991, in Santa Monica, California, USA.
New York, United States. Edit page. Richard Maibaum Biography. Richard Maibaum (May 26, 1909 – January 4, 1991) was an American film producer, playwright, ...
