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James Bond film director Lewis Gilbert dies aged 97

March 01, 2018 22:07·
Lewis Gilbert with Roger Moore and Barbara Bach at the 1977 premiere of The Spy who Loved Me

Lewis Gilbert with Roger Moore and Barbara Bach at the 1977 premiere of The Spy who Loved Me

Bond producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli tonight paid tribute to the movie legend. "It was a terrible film, and everything was wrong with it; principally him [Welles]!"

He also made action spectaculars such as Sink the Bismarck! "He was hard-working and we worked on many films together". It was for that movie that Gilbert received his only Best Director Oscar nomination.

In both those movies, said Heather Stewart, creative director of the British Film Institute, in a statement after the director's death, Gilbert "gave us amusing and real character studies of women we normally never get a chance to see on the big screen".

The next year he helmed You Only Live Twice, the first of three James Bond movies he directed.

He made his Bond debut the following year with You Only Live Twice, before returning to the franchise for 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker in 1979. "I've made entertainment films". "It therefore seemed to me much more sensible for Roger to play to the strength he had, rather than the one Sean had". Moonraker's climax was set on board a gargantuan space station, and The Spy Who Loved Me's goliath supertanker set was so huge that thee producers had to build an entire sound stage at Pinewood to accommodate it.

He said that in the same way that Caine was the quintessential Alfie, Julie Walters was a true-to-character Rita, and both had retained a street-wise charm. Gilbert started out as a child actor before stepping behind the camera to direct a series of war films and shorts in the 1940s. Before long, he, too, was performing, leading to small roles in a few films as a teenager.

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He married Hylda Tafler in 1951, and she died in 2005. Its wry tone and story, about a swaggering, coldhearted cockney Lothario who works as a chauffeur for the rich, appealed to Gilbert.

Both Ms. Walters and Mr. Caine were nominated for Oscars in 1983.

In all, Gilbert's career spanned nearly 60 years, including Oscar-nominated hits like Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine. The film is a portrait of a Liverpool housewife (Pauline Collins) who breaks out of her numbing routine when she travels to Greece.

It was another four years before he got another chance to get into films.

"There's nothing that can replace experience", he said. "I would know what to do, but I wouldn't know how to make it any different".

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