Harry Saltzman (October 27, 1915 - September 28, 1994) was a theatre and film producer best known for his mega-gamble that led to him co-produce the James Bond film series with Albert R. Broccoli. Events 312 - Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 48 BC - Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) A film producer is a person who creates the conditions for making movies. James Bond 007 is a Fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve Novels and two Short story The James Bond film series are Spy films inspired by Ian Fleming 's novels about the fictional MI6 agent Commander James Bond (codename Albert Romolo Broccoli, CBE (Hon ( April 5 1909 &ndash June 27 1996) nicknamed "Cubby" was an American He lived most of his life in Denham, Buckinghamshire

Biography

Saltzman was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada^[1] but ran away from home at the age of 15, according to daughter Hilary Saltzman in the Ian Fleming Foundation documentary Harry Saltzman: Showman. Denham is a Village and Civil parish within South Bucks district in Buckinghamshire, England north west of Uxbridge, to Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Harry Saltzman Showman, is a historical documentary retrospective and semi-biography about legendary producer Harry Saltzman done as extensive interleaved interviews on a common About the age of 17 he joined a circus and traveled with them for some years. By the beginning of World War II in 1939 he was serving in the Canadian Army in France. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The Canadian Forces (CF ( French: Forces canadiennes) are the unified Armed forces of Canada, governed by the National Defence This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. His career in the war may have included some intelligence work ^[2].

After the war, Saltzman ended up in Paris, where he met a refugee from Romania whom he married, Jaquie. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Romania ( dated: Rumania, Roumania He worked as a talent scout for European productions on stage, television and in film. "Talent scout" redirects here For talent scouting in the music industry see A&R Professional sports scouts are trained talent He accumulated a huge number of entertainment business contacts and became the person to turn to when someone had a talent or production problem. Despite his ambition, those were lean years for the Saltzman family, according to son Steven. Saltzman gradually got more successful at producing stage plays. He moved the family of four to Britain in the mid-fifties where he started Woodfall Productions, again produced theater, and then entered the film business, producing The Iron Petticoat (1956), the cinematic adaptation of a play. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The Iron Petticoat is a 1956 Cold War Comedy motion picture starring Bob Hope and Katharine Hepburn and directed by "The landmark film introduces a new genre, the kitchen sink movie"^[3], and thereafter other critically acclaimed social realism dramas such as 1959's Look Back in Anger and 1960's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Kitchen sink realism was an English cultural movement which developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Theatre, Art, Novels Film Social Realism, also known as Socio-Realism, is an Artistic movement, expressed in the visual and other realist arts, which depicts Working class Look Back in Anger is a 1958 British film starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Mary Ure and directed by Tony Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Alan Sillitoe. Saltzman began casting around for something which would be more profitable than these modestly successful but high quality films.

• "My father, I think, was an incredible visionary, and creative person. "

• "He always felt some of the best scripts were to be found in theatre, and that they were seen by only a few people, and that a way to let more people experience the medium that he felt was under viewed and under appreciated was to go into films. "

• "He always felt, the films he made during Woodfall were seminal, they gave him the direction [for the rest of his life] and they were films that brought him tremendous joy that he'd made them. "

In early 1961, excited by reading the James Bond novel Goldfinger, he made a bid to land film rights to the character. James Bond 007 is a Fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve Novels and two Short story Goldfinger is the seventh novel in Ian Fleming 's James Bond series Film rights are the rights under Copyright law to make a derivative work -- in this case a film -- derived from an item of Intellectual property. Saltzman co-founded Danjaq, LLC with Albert R. Broccoli in 1962. Danjaq LLC (formerly Danjaq SA) is the holding company responsible for the copyright and trademarks to the characters elements and other material related to James Bond Albert Romolo Broccoli, CBE (Hon ( April 5 1909 &ndash June 27 1996) nicknamed "Cubby" was an American It was a holding company responsible for the copyright and trademarks of James Bond on screen, and the parent company of EON Productions, which they also set up as a film production company for the Bond films. A holding company is a company that owns part all or a majority of other companies' outstanding Stock. A parent company is a Company that owns enough voting stock in another firm to control management and operations by influencing or electing its Board of directors EON Productions is a film production company known for producing the James Bond film series. Filmmaking is the process of making a Film, from an initial story idea or commission through scriptwriting shooting editing and finally distribution to an audience The moniker Danjaq is a combination of Broccoli's and Saltzman's wives' first names, Dana and Jaquie.

In 1975 after unrelated financial difficulties, Saltzman sold his 50% stake in Danjaq to United Artists Corporation. This article is about the film studio Previously it was affiliated with a cinema chain bearing its name now owned by Regal Entertainment Group. Concurrently, his beloved wife Jaquie was diagnosed with terminal cancer; his health also declined and he became depressed, sold the English country mansion where he loved to hold production meetings in the rooftop pool, and moved to Florida^[4]. The English country house is generally accepted as a large House or Mansion, once in the ownership of an individual who also usually owned another Great Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the As related by friend Roger Moore, Jaquie died while The Spy Who Loved Me was shooting, which places her passing in late 1976 or early 1977. Sir Roger George Moore KBE (born 14 October 1927) is an English Actor. The Spy Who Loved Me, released in 1977 is the 10th film in the James Bond series and the third to star Roger Moore as MI6 agent Saltzman all but retired from the movie business thereafter. He was persuaded back from retirement to produce Nijinsky^[5] in 1980 and the 1988 British-Italian-Yugoslavian co-production Time of the Gypsies. Nijinsky is a 1980 American Biographical film directed by Herbert Ross. Time of the Gypsies ( Serbian: Дом за вешање Dom za vešanje, literally "Home for Hanging" is a 1988 Yugoslav

The Bond property

Something of a gambler, Saltzman was at best only modestly successful as a businessman and producer, but had a talent for thinking both big and outside the box in very creative ways. After best selling writer Ian Fleming had been told his novels would never make good films in 1957 (ironically by the ex-partner of his soon to be future partner Oscar winner Irving Allen^[6]) Saltzman bet large in a moment of enthusiasm in early 1961 and paid $50,000. Ian Lancaster Fleming ( May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was a British author, Journalist and Second World War Irving Allen ( November 24 1905 - December 17 1987) was a theatrical and cinematic producer and director 00 (high for the times) for a mere six month option of the film rights to the Bond character. Always confident, Saltzman was certain he could put together a deal within the deadline. As spring became summer, he'd been unable to obtain financing, an agreement with production company, or a distributor for the proposed project as he was essentially an outsider mostly unknown in film circles despite his modest success as an independent producer.

Competition from the money side

Meanwhile, David Picker, then a vice-president (and eventual president) of United Artists also got interested in the film rights about the same time Salzman made the option deal with Fleming after he was (also) introduced to the novel Goldfinger by his cousin Nancy's husband, and soon began strategic studies on which novel might best be adapted first and other such preparatory work anticipating negotiations for the rights. This article is about the film studio Previously it was affiliated with a cinema chain bearing its name now owned by Regal Entertainment Group. Goldfinger is the seventh novel in Ian Fleming 's James Bond series At a luncheon soon after, he was told they weren't available by a credible source, but didn't know of Saltzman's pending deadline, and assumed the long term rights were the topic and so suspended United Artists work. That these studies and events occurred is documented in an internal memo dated 5/5/61 discussing Thunderball as a potential project and confirmed in interviews with Picker in the documentary The Making of Dr. No.

Competition from veteran film insider

Working from Great Britain in 1957, American producer Albert Broccoli, widely regarded as one of the most successful independent producers in the industry, had decided the novels would make an excellent film project series. Albert Romolo Broccoli, CBE (Hon ( April 5 1909 &ndash June 27 1996) nicknamed "Cubby" was an American From New York he soon arranged an early 1958 meeting between partner Allen and Ian Fleming in London while nursing his ailing second wife through a terminal illness. Only, Allen—who had the big Hollywood name and was controlling partner in Warwick films, in the event snubbed Fleming in their meeting at the prestigious Les Ambassadors Club in London when Allen proclaimed (according to interviews on various documentaries on Bond special edition DVDs) that Fleming's novels weren't "good enough for television,"^[6] all unbeknownst to Broccoli who knew only the partnership hadn't gotten the rights.

Random factors align

In 1960, Warwick Films undertook to produce and self-distribute the self-funded, high risk biographical drama Oscar Wilde which dealt with the topic of homosexuality, and hence was unable to advertise in the United States because of censorship which thereby doomed the partners to take a loss. Warwick Films was the name of a film company founded by Film producers Irving Allen and Albert R Oscar Wilde is a 1960 Biographical film about Oscar Wilde, made by Vantage Films and released by 20th Century Fox. This began a chain of events leading to dissolution of the company in bankruptcy in 1961 and the increased tensions between the two partners, already in disagreement over James Bond lead, to a sundering of their partnership as well and freed Broccoli to revisit his decision that the Bond novels would make a good film series, only now to be told by the publishers the rights were unavailable.

In an ironic twist worthy of fiction, screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz, while having a working dinner in New York on another script with Broccoli, had a discussion over his disappointment about Oscar Wilde, Warwick, et al. and his interest in the Bond rights. Mankowitz knew Saltzman casually from Broadway productions the two had been involved with and knew Saltzman held the rights to Bond, so he immediately offered to introduce the two men and arranged a meeting between the two the very next morning. In a double historic irony, Mankowitz put the two together and was hired to work on the script for what became film history— Doctor No, but alarmed by early rushes demanded to have his name withdrawn from the script. Dr No (1962 is the first Film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Sean Connery as British Secret Service agent In addition, his meeting with Broccoli had essentially been about scrapping the Arabian Nights project he'd been writing for Broccoli which is how what Broccoli wanted to do and Bond came into the discussion at all.

Saltzman, always an enthusiast, refused to sell any of the film rights but instead proposed the two form a partnership, joining the novice producer with the well connected and almost always successful industry insider. Broccoli wanting to do Bond very much, and now that Allen was out of the picture, accepted. In that manner, he joined forces with "Cubby" Broccoli in 1962 to create the holding company, Danjaq, LLC, and production company EON Productions and almost immediately began recruiting talent known to Broccoli from Warwick Productions such as production designer Ken Adams, teamed writers Richard Maibaum and Mankowitz, etc. Danjaq LLC (formerly Danjaq SA) is the holding company responsible for the copyright and trademarks to the characters elements and other material related to James Bond EON Productions is a film production company known for producing the James Bond film series. Joseph Francis "Joey" Tribbiani Jr (born January 9 1968 is a Fictional character on the popular US television sitcom Richard Maibaum ( May 26, 1909 - January 4, 1991) was an American Film producer, Playwright and Screenwriter The project was soon launched and the nascent production team was considering the best novel to adapt and introduce the character. With the rights to Casino Royale having gone to an early television adaptation they began tossing ideas around. Casino Royale by Ian Fleming is the first James Bond novel It would eventually pave the way for eleven other novels by Fleming himself in addition Within a week the two were asking for a meeting with United Artists and with a handshake and a short meeting, had received a million dollars in senior financing, as recounted by Saltzman. Around this time it was decided that for their first film in the James Bond series, Dr. No. Dr No (1962 is the first Film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Sean Connery as British Secret Service agent Saltzman would remain Broccoli's partner up to the ninth film in the series, 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun. The year 1974 in film involved some significant events Events February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released The Man with the Golden Gun ( 1974) is the ninth film in the James Bond series, and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional

Other notable productions include The IPCRESS File (1965), The Battle of Britain (1969), and Call Me Bwana (1963) starring Bob Hope. The Ipcress File is a 1965 film adaptation of Len Deighton 's 1962 novel The IPCRESS File. The year 1965 in film involved some significant events Events Top grossing films (U Call Me Bwana is a 1963 Farce film starring Bob Hope and Anita Ekberg, and directed by Gordon Douglas. The year 1963 in film involved some significant events Events January 28 - Filming begins on Dr Bob Hope, KBE KCSG ( May 29, 1903 &ndash July 27, 2003) was an American comedian and actor who appeared in Call Me Bwana is the only film to be produced by EON Productions outside of the James Bond franchise.

Saltzman hated both the theme songs for Diamonds Are Forever and Goldfinger. The former was used because John Barry managed to convince "Cubby" Broccoli to use it and the latter because, although Saltzman didn't want it, he didn't have time to find a replacement. Saltzman also came close to rejecting Paul McCartney's submission for Live and Let Die. Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942 is an English rock Singer, Bass guitarist songwriter Composer, Live and Let Die is the soundtrack of and was written for the 8th James Bond film of the same name. McCartney asked producer George Martin to approach the producers about the song. Sir George Henry Martin CBE (3 January 1926 is a British record producer arranger and Composer. Saltzman surprised Martin by asking who they could get to sing it, suggesting only black female vocalists. Martin pointed out that if he did not take McCartney as the singer he did not get the song. ^[7]. Saltzman compromised by having McCartney do the title version and B. J. Arnau do a "soul" version in the "Fillet of Soul" nightclub.

Harry Saltzman is survived by 2 children Hilary and Steven Saltzman and 4 grandchildren, Alexandre and Jacqueline de La Bouillerie and Hannah and Jacob Saltzman.

List of Saltzman's productions

Saltzman had eclectic tastes, and a love for the theatre and bringing stageplays to the big screen. Many of his non-Bond films received critical acclaim, but were financially less successful than many.

• The Iron Petticoat, 1956
• Look Back in Anger, 1958
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, 1960
• The Entertainer, 1960
• Dr. No, 1962
• From Russia with Love, 1963
• Call me Bwana, 1963
• Goldfinger, 1964
• Thunderball, 1965 (uncredited)
• And There Came a Man, 1965
• The Ipcress File, 1965
• Funeral in Berlin, 1966
• Billion Dollar Brain, 1967
• You Only Live Twice, 1967
• Play Dirty, 1968
• Battle of Britain, 1969
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1969
• Tomorrow, 1970
• Diamonds Are Forever, 1971
• Days of Fury, 1973
• Live and Let Die, 1973
• The Man with the Golden Gun, 1974
• Nijinsky, 1979
• Time of the Gypsies, 1989

References

External links

• Harry Saltzman at the Internet Movie Database