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).

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