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  • HardyboyHardyboy Posts: 5,882Chief of Staff
    I've long ranked M. Lonsdale's Drax as the best villain of the Moore era--sinister but with a great deadpan delivery. RIP.
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  • Colonel ShatnerColonel Shatner Chavtastic Bristol, BritainPosts: 574MI6 Agent
    Lonsdale's Drax was always trolling his enemies with his dry comments and he bought the Eifel Tower. Moonraker is my 3rd favourite Moore movie and is entertaining if you treat it as a live action comic book or anime (like The Castle Of Cagliostro).
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  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,238MI6 Agent
    A full-page obit to Lonsdale in today's Times.

    Superb in Moonraker, which is always in my Top 5. Gymkata's comment is quite correct and the same could be said of John Barry's often gloomy score - it helps ground the film.
    As is often the case, the villain is relatively young but seems older than Bond due to a difference in attitudes and delivery.
    Oddly, the writer Christopher Wood disliked Lonsdale's approach, viewing it as too downbeat - I think he'd have preferred James Mason in the role.
    Who would Drax have copped off with in space? Or, being the cult leader, would he have had the pick of the beauties? It is a tribute to Lonsdale's restrained performance than in all these decades the thought has only just occurred to me.
    Also v good in The Day of the Jackal - lensed by the same French cinematographer as did Moonraker. He went after 'M' in that - you can't keep a bad man down! :D
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • GrindelwaldGrindelwald Posts: 1,294MI6 Agent
    edited October 2020
    As ive said before i think Drax the character might be gay
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,414Chief of Staff
    Today would have been the 80th birthday of John Lennon


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  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,341MI6 Agent
    Amazing and sad to think he’s been dead as long as he was alive...RIP.
    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • MikeG77MikeG77 Posts: 1,770MI6 Agent
    Margaret Nolan passed away on October 5th at the age of 76.
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  • Golrush007Golrush007 South AfricaPosts: 3,418Quartermasters
    Margaret Nolan's screentime in the Bond films was very little, but nonetheless very iconic - especially as the golden girl in the title sequence and poster. Another sad loss to the Bond alumni.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    R.I.P Margaret Nolan.
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  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,341MI6 Agent
    Really saddened to hear of Margaret’s passing, she was a lovely lady with loads of time for her fans, RIP.
    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • PPK 7.65mmPPK 7.65mm Saratoga Springs NY USAPosts: 1,227MI6 Agent
    RIP to Margaret Nolan, gone but not forgotten.
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,238MI6 Agent
    A fine obit to Nolan in today's Times. She had a more interesting life than you'd imagine.

    She had a blink and miss it role in A Hard Day's Night - so like Colonel Smithers that's another Goldfinger star who popped up in the Beatles' film. (Smithers was the old gent on the train so rudely abused by the young sods - you know you're getting old when you sympathise with him and not the Fabs...) Of course, the Beatles are unfavorably namechecked by Bond in the film, so that tells you whose side he'd be on, I guess.
    "This is where we leave you Mr Bond."

    Roger Moore 1927-2017
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    Conchata Ferrell who played Bertha the housemaid in "Two and a half men" has passed away. She made me laugh more times than I can say. RIP.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    RIP Bobby Ball another great
    Comedian passes. I was laughing
    at him only a couple of nights ago
    Watching several episodes of
    Not going out .
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  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,341MI6 Agent
    RIP Bobby -strange to think he died of Covid, as did another of his contemporaries recently, Eddie Large - both at the height of their fame in the early 80’s.
    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,414Chief of Staff
    So sad to hear of the death of Bobby Ball, a genuinely funny man...he will be missed :(
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  • The Red KindThe Red Kind EnglandPosts: 3,118MI6 Agent
    RIP Bobby Ball. Loved Canon and Ball as a kid, especially Bobby Ball. Classic British comedy act.
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  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,341MI6 Agent
    Yesterday Bobby and today Nobby - RIP Nobby Stiles
    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 26,414Chief of Staff
    RIP the original James Bond...Sir Sean Connery -{
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    RIP, Sir Sean Connery

    Very sad news- 2020 has been a horrible year and it just goes on!
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    Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
  • PredatorPredator Posts: 790Chief of Staff
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  • ppw3o6rppw3o6r Great BritainPosts: 2,270MI6 Agent
    edited October 2020
    RIP Sir Thomas Sean Connery .... you will be missed!

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  • Smithers500Smithers500 Spectre IslandPosts: 1,341MI6 Agent
    RIP Sir Sean, a sad day.
    Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree".
  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    RIP Sir Sean Connery - the original and best 007, never to be surpassed. Could this year get any worse?
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  • DrNoPlaquesDrNoPlaques SwabyPosts: 239MI6 Agent
    Such a shame but 90's not bad. He will be remembered fondly.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    RIP Sean, a true Icon of the cinema.
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  • TonyDPTonyDP Inside the MonolithPosts: 4,279MI6 Agent
    So sad to be reading about Sean Connery's passing; he remains the best James Bond ever and truly was one of the last great movie stars. RIP.
  • SpectreOfDefeatSpectreOfDefeat Posts: 404MI6 Agent
    RIP Sean Connery- the best James Bond of all. A sad day indeed.

    "The spectre of defeat..."

  • drum007drum007 New York, NYPosts: 684MI6 Agent
    RIP Sir Sean.... And how fitting that he passed in his home in the Bahamas.
  • hehadlotsofgutshehadlotsofguts Durham England Posts: 2,107MI6 Agent
    It's been reported that he died in his sleep after a short illness. RIP,Sean Connery.
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