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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).

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 84% The Big Clock
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99% 89% 007: Goldfinger
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97% 84% From Russia With Love
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95% 82% Dr. No
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91% 83% Bigger Than Life
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85% 73% Thunderball
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82% 77% The Spy Who Loved Me
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81% 64% On Her Majesty's Secret Service
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79% 61% Licence to Kill
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74% 63% Ransom
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Ransom 74% 63% 1996 Writer Licence to Kill 79% 61% 1989 Writer The Living Daylights 72% 66% 1987 Writer A View to a Kill 36% 40% 1985 Writer Octopussy 42% 47% 1983 Writer For Your Eyes Only 69% 64% 1981 Writer S.H.E. 1980 Screenwriter The Spy Who Loved Me 82% 77% 1977 Writer The Man With the Golden Gun 40% 55% 1974 Screenwriter Jarrett 1973 Producer Diamonds Are Forever 64% 57% 1971 Writer On Her Majesty's Secret Service 81% 64% 1969 Writer Thunderball 85% 73% 1965 Writer 007: Goldfinger 99% 89% 1964 Writer From Russia With Love 97% 84% 1963 Writer Dr. No 95% 82% 1962 Writer Battle at Bloody Beach 0% 1961 Screenwriter, Producer Tank Force 1958 Writer Ransom 63% 1956 Screenwriter Bigger Than Life 91% 83% 1956 Writer The Paratrooper 17% 1953 Screenwriter Captain Carey, U.S.A. 12% 1950 Producer No Man of Her Own 71% 1950 Producer The Great Gatsby 33% 41% 1949 Producer, Screenwriter Dear Wife 1949 Producer
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