Television
‘Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond’ follows the WWII adventures of Ian Fleming, the future creator of James Bond. But the truth is less glamorous than the writer’s fiction.
Jan. 29, 2014
Movies
Guy Ritchie’s latest follows a group of British special forces who took on German U-boats during World War II — and helped inspire James Bond. Here’s what’s fact and what’s fiction.
April 19, 2024
Entertainment & Arts
James Bond, a leading ornithologist whose name was adopted by Ian Fleming for the fictional British agent 007, has died at the age of 89.
Feb. 16, 1989
Books
John Gardner, a British novelist who had been a magician, a clergyman and a Royal Marine before giving new literary life to one of fiction’s most famous secret agents, the legendary James Bond, has died.
Aug. 13, 2007
Anyone who had a red, plastic decoder ring, read Ian Fleming novels after lights out and was chagrined when Mom threw out the lot including the James Bond attache case they got for Christmas in 1965 -- original retail price: $9.99 -- will be more than a little miffed to find that the toy spy kits now fetch as much as $2,500.
Aug. 7, 2003
World & Nation
A world-famous ornithologist, whose name became synonymous with secret agentry because of a chance literary encounter with Ian Fleming, has died.
Feb. 17, 1989
Review: ‘Fleming’ portrays author as a preview of his Bond character
The love life of the world’s most glamorous, fictional martini-sipping spy is up for debate after the London launch of the upcoming James Bond novel, “Solo,” an official 007 book penned by William Boyd.
Sept. 26, 2013
Sir Peter Smithers, a British politician, diplomat and award-winning gardener who worked as a British spy during World War II and was said to have inspired the fictional character of James Bond, the suave Agent 007 in Ian Fleming’s novels, died June 8.
June 29, 2006
James Bond shaken (not stirred) by love, not sex