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George MacDonald Fraser OBE FRSL (2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was a Scottish author and screenwriter. He is best known for a series of works that featured the character Flashman .
The success of his first novel, Flashman: From the Flashman Papers, 1839–1842 (1969), which was set in Afghanistan, led him to become a full-time writer. It and 11 subsequent novels take the form of an extended memoir written by Flashman, the bully of Thomas Hughes ’s Tom Brown’s School Days (1857).
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George MacDonald Fraser was more than a novelist—he was also a journalist, soldier, scholar, historian, and writer of screenplays. He is best remembered for his series of satirical Flashman novels, centered on a cowardly and mischievous British soldier in the nineteenth century who stumbles his way through history.
MacDonald Fraser was, after all, an experienced screenwriter whose credits included The Three Musketeers, the James Bond film Octopussy and the aforementioned Royal Flash, starring Malcolm McDowell. But that expertise, it turned out, was part of the problem.
Fraser's wit and craftsmanship as a writer have nonetheless made Flashman into a believable, even compelling central character. The son of a doctor, Fraser had no direct qualifications as a historian.
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Jan 1, 2015 · Fraser wrote the original screenplay and then Bond regulars Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum revised it. Exactly who wrote what we’ll never know, but we do know from Fraser’s memoir that he made several choices and won a few arguments that had a profound effect on the film.
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