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Richard Maibaum
Highest Rated: 100% The Big Clock (1948)
Lowest Rated: 33% The Great Gatsby (1949)
Birthday: May 26, 1909
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
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 the "James Bond" screenplays beginning with the first, "Dr. No" (1963) and concluding with "Licence to Kill" (1989).
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74% | 63% | Ransom | Writer | $136.5M | 1996 |
| 80% | 61% | Licence to Kill | Writer | $34.7M | 1989 |
| 73% | 66% | The Living Daylights | Writer | $51.2M | 1987 |
| 37% | 40% | A View to a Kill | Writer | - | 1985 |
| 42% | 47% | Octopussy | Writer | - | 1983 |
| 69% | 64% | For Your Eyes Only | Writer | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | S.H.E. | Screenwriter | - | 1980 |
| 82% | 77% | The Spy Who Loved Me | Writer | - | 1977 |
| 42% | 55% | The Man With the Golden Gun | Screenwriter | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jarrett | Producer | - | 1973 |
| 64% | 57% | Diamonds Are Forever | Writer | - | 1971 |
| 81% | 64% | 007 On Her Majesty's Secret Service | Writer | - | 1969 |
| 85% | 73% | Thunderball | Writer | - | 1965 |
| 99% | 89% | 007: Goldfinger | Writer | - | 1964 |
| 97% | 84% | From Russia With Love | Writer | - | 1963 |
| 95% | 82% | Dr. No | Writer | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Battle at Bloody Beach | Producer | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tank Force | Writer | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | Ransom | Screenwriter | - | 1956 |
| 91% | 84% | Bigger Than Life | Writer | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | The Paratrooper | Screenwriter | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | Captain Carey, U.S.A. | Producer | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | No Man of Her Own | Producer | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dear Wife | Producer | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Song of Surrender |
Producer, Screenwriter |
- | 1949 |
| 33% | 41% | The Great Gatsby |
Producer, Screenwriter |
- | 1949 |
| 100% | 83% | The Big Clock | Producer | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | O.S.S. | Producer | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ghost Comes Home | Screenwriter | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stablemates | Screenwriter | - | 1938 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Thin Man | Executive Producer | 1958-1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Writer | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The United States Steel Hour | Writer | 1954-1955 |