Name
Guy Hamilton
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1922-09-16
Deathday
2016-04-20 (94 years old)
Place of Birth
Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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.
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- 1982 The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun' as Self
- 2010 Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen as Self
- 2006 A Sense of Carol Reed as Self
- 2002 Best Ever Bond as Self
- 2004 Shadowing the Third Man as Himself
- 2015 Postwar Poetry: Carol Reed and 'Odd Man Out' as Self
- 1995 The Goldfinger Phenomenon
- 1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' as Self
- 2012 Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars as Self
- 1971 Lesson #007: Close Quarters Combat as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' as Self
- 1999 Inside 'Live and Let Die'
- 1973 Bond 1973: The Lost Documentary as Self
- 2000 Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
- 2000 Double-O Stunts
- 2006 Guy Hamilton: The Director Speaks
- 1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' as Self
