Biografie

Cousin of Christopher Lee.

Fleming's health had never been strong, and it was not helped by his lifestyle. At 38, complaining of chest pains, he had informed a startled doctor that he consumed 70 cigarettes and a bottle of gin a day. In 1961 he had a massive heart attack, which was followed by a series of increasingly debilitating illnesses, including a severe chest infection and pleurisy. Finally, on 11 August 1964--the night before his son's 12th birthday--he collapsed. He died the next morning on his son's birthday.

His home in Jamaica was named "Goldeneye" and was the source of the name of the 1995 James Bond movie James Bond 007: GoldenEye (1995).

Is portrayed by Jason Connery in Spymaker (1990). Jason is the son of Sean Connery, who became famous for playing James Bond in the 1960s.

He initially objected to the casting of Sean Connery as James Bond in James Bond 007 jagt Dr. No (1962) because he felt that Connery was too "unrefined". He later changed his mind after seeing Connery's performance in the finished film.

I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.

[mid-1950s] My James Bond novels are really for a very specialized, limited market. I am not counting the great unwashed public and do not expect them to fancy anything I write.

I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, James Bond was much better than something more interesting like "Peregrine Maltravers". Exotic things would happen to and around him but he would be a neutral figure--an anonymous blunt instrument wielded by a government department.

[interview in The Daily Express, 1962] The target of my books lay somewhere between the solar plexus and the upper thigh.

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.