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Biography. Broadway stage actor and playwright who entered films in the mid-1930s as a writer. After serving as director of the Army's Combat Film Division during WWII, Maibaum became a producer, most notably of the film noir classic "The Big Clock" (1948). In the 1950s he moved to England where he wrote for Albert Broccoli, or co-wrote most of ...
Tweet. Richard M. Maibaum (1909-1991) was an American writer, film producer, and playwright arguably most well-known for writing and co-writing film scripts for the first 13 James Bond films. His son Matthew Maibaum (PhD, Government, 1980) recently collected and published his father’s many nonfiction essays in this newly published work.
Richard Maibaum (May 26, 1909 – January 4, 1991) was an American film producer, playwright, and long-term screenwriter best known for his screenplay adaptations of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. After Albert R. Broccoli secured the rights to James Bond with Harry Saltzman, Broccoli hired Maibaum and his friend Wolf Mankowitz to write the screenplay for Dr. No partly because of Mankowitz's help in brokering the deal between Broccoli and Saltzman. An initial draft of the screenplay was ...
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Richard Maibaum quickly found himself working on the scripting of several successful Broadway productions. The fast-working screenwriter soon earned film work; his debut script was with Maurice Rapf. The ultimately forgettable "We Went to College" hit cinemas in 1936, however, after serving in the War, Maibaum signed a contract with Paramount Pictures, and notably adapted "The Great Gatsby" (1949) for the studio.
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Jan 14, 1991 · Richard Maibaum, 81, who wrote or co-wrote screenplays for 12 James Bond films, died Jan. 1 in Santa Monica, Calif., after a short illness. Maibaum, who shared screenwriting credits on the first ...
