Dr Kananga

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• Barbel ScotlandPosts: 37,866Chief of Staff

  November 2008

  He's named after Ross Kananga, the crocodile/alligator expert involved in the "Trespassers Will Be Eaten" sequence- and who doubled for Roger Moore during the jumping over the crocs. The screenwriter, Tom Mankiewicz, liked his name and used it.
• Strangeways London, UKPosts: 1,469MI6 Agent

  November 2008

  Thanks Barbel.
  Now you mention it I had heard this before!
• Mister Biswas TokyoPosts: 78MI6 Agent

  December 2008

  This story is recounted so wonderfully in the Live and Let Die Making of documentary included on the DVD.
  I just love Julius Harris (Tee Hee) in that. The look on his face when he talks of this is just wonderful: "He had a lion. AND THEY GOT TO THE LION." )
• heartbroken_mr_drax New Zealand Posts: 2,073MI6 Agent

  December 2008

  Beautiiiiiiiiiful day, yes sir a beautiiiiiful day.

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• mrbond Posts: 296MI6 Agent

  June 2009

  The should have used the name for the book
• Silhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent

  March 2013

  I do wonder what his first name was though? Ross, after Ross Kananga? Or Buonaparte after Mr Big in the original 1954 Fleming novel. I find it a bit odd that they never gave him a first name - just like Investigator Brimmer in the Columbo episode 'Death Lends A Hand', where no first name is given either.

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• AlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent

  March 2013

  Whatever became of Ross Kananga? Is he still kicking around or did his Alligators eat him?

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• Barbel ScotlandPosts: 37,866Chief of Staff

  March 2013

  AlphaOmegaSin wrote:

  Whatever became of Ross Kananga? Is he still kicking around or did his Alligators eat him?

  
  Sadly, he died of a heart attack at a young age a few years after LALD.
• Thunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent

  March 2013

  Just in case anyone hasn't seen it. Here Is Ross Kananga
  doing the Croc Stunt from LALD.
  
  http://youtu.be/EikxJDFQD78
  
  IMHO, One of the greatest stunts ever in a Bond Film. -{

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• Silhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent

  March 2013

  Barbel wrote:

  AlphaOmegaSin wrote:

  Whatever became of Ross Kananga? Is he still kicking around or did his Alligators eat him?

  
  Sadly, he died of a heart attack at a young age a few years after LALD.

  
  That's very sad indeed. I didn't know that.

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• ChromeJob Durham, NC USAPosts: 149MI6 Agent

  March 2013

  Mister Biswas wrote:

  This story is recounted so wonderfully in the Live and Let Die Making of documentary included on the DVD.
  I just love Julius Harris (Tee Hee) in that. The look on his face when he talks of this is just wonderful: "He had a lion. AND THEY GOT TO THE LION." )

  
  Yeah, Kananga's stunt outtakes are scarier than the take they used. Brave effing guy.
  
  Julius Harris came to a rare screening of the US TV "Casino Royale" kinescope at USC (1982 or 1983), along with Barry Nelson. Harris was such a big, warm, nice fellow. A lot of career actors are....

  
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