Guy Hamilton (born 16 September 1922) is an English film director. He directed 22 films from the 1950s to the 1980s, including four James Bond films.
Early life
Hamilton was born in Paris on 16 September 1922, where his English parents were living. His first exposure to the film industry came in 1938 when he was the clapper board boy at the Victorine Studios in Nice.
At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, Hamilton returned to London and worked in the film library at Paramount News before joining the Royal Navy.
Early film career
Shortly after the war, Hamilton returned to the film industry as an assistant director on two Carol Reed films: 1948's The Fallen Idol and 1949's The Third Man (Hamilton acted as Orson Welles's double for a couple of the long shots). Hamilton held Reed in high esteem and it was Reed who was instrumental in getting Hamilton his first director position on the B-movieThe Ringer in 1952.
1950s
Hamilton spent the early part of the 1950s creating films focused on military stories such as 1953's film The Intruder (his second film as director) dealing with returning soldiers to civilian life and 1955's prisoner of war The Colditz Story (which was to be Hamilton's high grossing movie of the 1950s).
Hamilton was born into a family of doctors in the United Kingdom. He became a medical practitioner, and his youngest son was born deaf and with cerebral palsy. In 1956 he contracted polio after applying for a position at the Spastic Centre in Perth. He migrated to WA the following year and spent four years at the Centre. In 1961 he joined the government’s mental health services department and became a doctor at Claremont Mental Hospital. From 1964 to 1982 he was head of the former Mental Deficiency Division. He resolved to change the low priority mental health had in treatment and care, and was successful in transferring Claremont child patients into the community. He began a course for social trainers, was a founding member of the Australian Group for the Scientific Study of Mental Deficiency, and was involved in the purchase of Tresillian Hospital in Nedlands.
"My guess is that if they now choose to change of director for every other film, it's just because you can't really change the formula, you can merely try to film it your way."
"I couldn't really understand the basic plot of The World Is Not Enough. What does Bond have to do with that? And to have M in Azerbaijan? For what purpose would M travel there?.And what was exactly the goal of the Villain in that one? So complicated."
"Diamonds Are Forever was a really relaxed experience. I remember towards the end of the shooting, we were on that big thing in the sea, the oil rig, and I had to do a few last scenes before wrapping up. I told Sean, "You know, if I got them by the end of the morning, we could go golfing this afternoon." The scenes were in the can in time, so we took a helicopter directly to the Golf course!"
"For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are."
"I like Pierce Brosnan a lot. But he's playing James Bond - he isn't him. All the poses and stuff, it looks a bit bland. And the gadgets and set-pieces... it looks like the stories are now built around the gadgets, and not vice-versa."
"Roger is much closer to David Niven, Cary Grant - gentleman type of actors. So we built the script around that, more lightly. It would have been ridiculous to ask Roger to mimic Sean's style. He had to develop his own."
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FSU coach LeonardHamilton believes Daquan Davis has the it-factor ... As the game slowed, Davis started to pick up the pace the more he trusted FSU coach Leonard Hamilton's scheme ... Hamilton praised Davis for his natural ability and effort on the court.
ZEELAND - The Hamilton boys basketball team got an early lead behind a couple of 3-pointers from James Hoffman and kept building to a 52-31 win over ZeelandWest on Friday ... I am proud of the guys," Hamilton coach Nick Kronemeyer said.
“Maybe we took a little longer break than we needed to, guys were a little beat up with the short timeline before the first meet.” ... Sophomore NicoHamilton is coming back from a recent back infection.
Hamilton’s website, Facebook page, and X page ...And I see every day Hamilton sees, Sarah sees, you guys see in Amazon, when people start doing that shit themselves and they start working together, they see in fact the power that they always had.
"We've just chosen to double down on the guys that we have and try to get them better ... MU has two sophomores (Zaide Lowery and Tre Norman) and three freshmen (Royce Parham, Damarius Owens and Caedin Hamilton) playing as reserves.
“Who’s going to step up? How are we going to do it? Is it going to be one guy? Is it going to be by committee? Really what happened was I had a number of guys say, ‘I’ll do my part,'” Hamilton said.
Here's what LeonardHamilton said ... Here's what Leonard Hamilton said after the game ... It was not until earlier this week that six of his former players sued Hamilton for unpaid NIL compensation worth $1.5 million dollars.
“We went out there today and beat the best team in the country, so what does that make us?” defensive tackle Ty Hamilton said ... “We have the best team, the best guys to play as hard as we can, and we can make it there.”.
NEW ORLEANS — They didn’t care ... “(Wednesday) was a horrible, horrible event,” said sixth-year graduate student Jack Kiser. “Football wasn’t bigger than that.”. They didn’t flinch ... They didn’t know ... SafetyKyleHamilton never did it ... These guys did it ... Why?.
NEW ORLEANS — They didn’t care ... “(Wednesday) was a horrible, horrible event,” said sixth-year graduate student Jack Kiser. “Football wasn’t bigger than that.”. They didn’t flinch ... They didn’t know ... SafetyKyleHamilton never did it ... These guys did it ... Why?.
As DeclanHamilton swims through the balmy, crystal-blue waters of Australia'sCape York while spearfishing with friends, he is confronted by six sharks ... a reef off the coast there," Mr Hamilton said.
Hamilton, 67, has been in charge of player personnel with the Rockets since they were in Tacoma in the 1990s...Then again, if there’s one guy with both the experience and gumption to hold his ground and try something else later, it would be Hamilton.
He was just a great, silly, funny, smart guy to be around all through the years that I have known him.”. At Jewell’s SouthHamiltonHigh School, the Times reported, Thompson was valedictorian, a star athlete, homecoming king, and class president ... .
Chatanooga Times Free Press
31 Dec 2024
Chatanooga Times Free Press
31 Dec 2024