Richard Maibaum
The name is "Maibaum, Richard Maibaum".....the brilliant screenwriter who adapted the Ian Fleming 007 novels into the highly entertaining screenplays of nearly every James Bond film from Dr. No (1962) through to Licence to Kill (1989).
Maibaum attended New York University, then studied acting at the University of Iowa. By the time he was in his late twenties, Maibaum was a well established Broadway actor and playwright. He entered films as a screenwriter in 1937, spending the war years with the army's Combat Film Division. In 1946, he joined Paramount as both screenwriter and producer, contributing to such films as The Big Clock (1948) and The Great Gatsby (1949).
From advice that making films abroad was an excellent tax shelter, Maibaum formed a partnership in the 1950s with producers Irving Allen and Albert R. Broccoli This led to his involvement in the phenomenally successful James Bond series of the 1960s and 1970s and, after Ian Fleming, Maibaum has arguably been the person most responsible for shaping the image of the screen's most famous spy!
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Films (49)
La Rançon
1996 · Original Story
Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'
1995 · Self
Licence to Kill
1989 · Screenplay
The Living Daylights
1987 · Screenplay
A View to a Kill
1985 · Screenplay
Octopussy
1983 · Screenplay
For Your Eyes Only
1981 · Screenplay
S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
1980 · Writer
The Spy Who Loved Me
1977 · Screenplay
The Man with the Golden Gun
1974 · Screenplay
Jarrett
1973 · Writer, Producer
Diamonds Are Forever
1971 · Screenplay
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969 · Screenplay
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1968 · Additional Dialogue
Thunderball
1965 · Screenplay
Goldfinger
1964 · Screenplay
From Russia with Love
1963 · Screenplay
Dr. No
1962 · Screenplay
Battle at Bloody Beach
1961 · Screenplay, Story, Producer
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
1960 · Adaptation
Killers of Kilimanjaro
1959 · Story
The Bandit Of Zhobe
1959 · Story
Tank Force!
1958 · Writer
Zarak
1956 · Writer
Bigger Than Life
1956 · Screenplay, Story
Ransom!
1956 · Screenplay
The Cockleshell Heroes
1955 · Writer
The Red Beret
1953 · Screenplay
No Man of Her Own
1950 · Producer
Captain Carey, U.S.A.
1950 · Producer
Dear Wife
1949 · Producer
Song of Surrender
1949 · Screenplay
The Great Gatsby
1949 · Screenplay, Producer, Second Unit Director
The Sainted Sisters
1948 · Producer
The Big Clock
1948 · Producer
O.S.S.
1946 · Producer
See My Lawyer
1945 · Writer
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942 · Writer
I Wanted Wings
1941 · Screenplay
Foreign Correspondent
1940 · Screenplay
20 Mule Team
1940 · Screenplay
The Ghost Comes Home
1940 · Screenplay
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939 · Screenplay
Coast Guard
1939 · Screenplay
The Lady and the Mob
1939 · Screenplay
Stablemates
1938 · Writer
The Bad Man of Brimstone
1937 · Screenplay
Live, Love and Learn
1937 · Screenplay
They Gave Him a Gun
1937 · Screenplay
