Line #15 Creator/AlbertRBroccoli


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3	->''"I love looking at the old Bond films. Maybe it's purely out of reminiscence, the nostalgic things you think about. But there were some very good films made, and I think that the public has enjoyed them, too."''
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5	Albert Romolo Broccoli (April 5, 1909 – June 27, 1996), nicknamed "Cubby" Broccoli, was a New York City born American film producer of Italian descent.
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7	Broccoli's early film career saw him do nothing spectacularly famous, although ''The Trials of Oscar Wilde'' was a spectacular flop that bankrupted him and then partner Irving Allen. However, [[Literature/JamesBond a certain series of British spy novels]] by one Creator/IanFleming was becoming very popular, and Broccoli saw an opportunity. He found the rights had already been sold, so he decided to team up with a man named Harry Saltzman. When the studio execs at Creator/UnitedArtists objected to their casting of Creator/SeanConnery as the lead character for ''Film/DrNo'', they insisted on it. And it paid off.
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9	Thus the ''Film/JamesBond'' film franchise was born.
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11	After ''Dr. No'', Broccoli only produced two non-Bond films with Creator/EonProductions (''Film/CallMeBwana'' and ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'', the latter also from a Ian Fleming novel), the company would be entirely dedicated to produce Bond films from then on. He narrowly avoided death during the making of ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' after cancelling a flight at the last minute.
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13	Saltzman, who had made some bad investments, sold his 50% stake in Bond to United Artists in 1975, then was widowed and pretty much retired as a result. Broccoli ran the show alone starting with ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. He never received an Oscar, but was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for lifetime achievement at the 1982 Academy Awards. He also got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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15	Broccoli's first marriage ended in an amicable divorce, and his second wife died of cancer. He had a daughter, Creator/BarbaraBroccoli, with his third wife, Dana Natol (formerly Wilson, as she was previously married to actor Creator/LewisWilson). He died in 1996 of heart failure, having had a triple bypass only a year before. ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' had a dedication to him. By the time of his death, Cubby had passed the torch to Barbara and her half-brother, Michael G. Wilson, and together they run the James Bond franchise since ''Film/GoldenEye'', and up to this day.
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17	And if you're wondering -- YES, his surname refers to the vegetable. Broccoli is Italian for "flowering crests of a cabbage". There's an UrbanLegend that an ancestor of his ''did'' breed, discover, and/or was somehow involved with the vegetable, enough so to have it named after him or her, but more likely it's the other way around, that his ancestors were named after the vegetable. Broccoli himself only claimed that a relative brought broccoli to the US in the 19th century, and broccoli was around long before that, and he did work in his immediate family's vegetable business in his youth.
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19	He also received an [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever honorary CBE]].
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21	!!Credits:
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23	[[foldercontrol]]
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25	[[folder:James Bond:]]
26	* ''Film/JamesBond'':
27	** ''Film/DrNo'' (1962, with Harry Saltzman)
28	** ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' (1963, with Harry Saltzman)
29	** ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' (1964, with Harry Saltzman)
30	** ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' (1965, executive producer with Harry Saltzman[[note]]Kevin [=McClory=] got full producer credits on this one, as a temporary settlement amidst the very long legal feud between [=McClory=] and Ian Fleming then between [=McClory=] and Eon Productions[[/note]])
31	** ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' (1967, with Harry Saltzman)
32	** ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'' (1969, with Harry Saltzman)
33	** ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' (1971, with Harry Saltzman)
34	** ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'' (1973, with Harry Saltzman)
35	** ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' (1974, with Harry Saltzman)
36	** ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' (1977)
37	** ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' (1979)
38	** ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' (1981)
39	** ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' (1983)
40	** ''Film/AViewToAKill'' (1985, with Michael G. Wilson)
41	** ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' (1987, with Michael G. Wilson)
42	** ''Film/LicenceToKill'' (1989, with Michael G. Wilson)
43	** ''Film/GoldenEye'' (1995, consulting producer)
44	[[/folder]]
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46	[[folder:Other Films:]]
47	* ''The Red Beret'' (1953)
48	* ''Fire Down Below'' (1957)
49	* ''The Trials of Oscar Wilde'' (1960)
50	* ''Jazz Boat'' (1960)
51	* ''Call Me Bwana'' (1963)
52	* ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'' (1968)
53	[[/folder]]
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55	!!Tropes & Trivia in his works:
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57	* TheCameo:
58	** He played a drug smuggler in ''Fire Down Below'', which he produced in 1957.
59	** He appeared in ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' as a tourist in UsefulNotes/{{Venice}} along with his wife Dana.
60	* [[invoked]]ProductionPosse: He kept working with several directors within the Bond series (Creator/TerenceYoung, Creator/GuyHamilton, Creator/LewisGilbert, Creator/JohnGlen), the same set designer from 1962 to 1979 (Creator/KenAdam), the same stunt crews (including fight stuntman/choregrapher Bob Simmons from the 1960s to the 1980s and car stuntman/coordinator Creator/RemyJulienne in the 1980s), and the same supporting character actors (Creator/BernardLee, Creator/LoisMaxwell, Creator/DesmondLlewelyn) whenever TheOtherDarrin was not needed. His longest collaboration in the franchise were with screenwriter Richard Maibaum and BondGunBarrel and title designer Maurice Binder (both from 1962 to 1989). Several Bond alumni also featured in ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang''.

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