Guy Hamilton
1922-09-16 (1922)Paris, Ile-de-France, FranceDirecting
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.
Known For
Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary
MOVIE • 1973
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
MOVIE • 2012
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
MOVIE • 2010
Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
MOVIE • 2000
Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger'
MOVIE • 1995
Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'
MOVIE • 1995
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
MOVIE • 1982
Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'
MOVIE • 2000
Double-O Stunts
MOVIE • 2000
The Goldfinger Phenomenon
MOVIE • 1995
Inside 'Live and Let Die'
MOVIE • 1999
Shadowing the Third Man
MOVIE • 2004
Guy Hamilton: The Director Speaks
MOVIE • 2006
Postwar Poetry: Carol Reed and 'Odd Man Out'
MOVIE • 2015