Richard Maibaum

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1909-05-26 (82 years old)

Deathday

1991-01-04

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Richard Maibaum

Biography

The name is "Maibaum, Richard Maibaum".....the brilliant screenwriter who adapted the Ian Fleming 007 novels into the highly entertaining screenplays of nearly every James Bond film from Dr. No (1962) through to Licence to Kill (1989). Maibaum attended New York University, then studied acting at the University of Iowa. By the time he was in his late twenties, Maibaum was a well established Broadway actor and playwright. He entered films as a screenwriter in 1937, spending the war years with the army's Combat Film Division. In 1946, he joined Paramount as both screenwriter and producer, contributing to such films as The Big Clock (1948) and T...

Production

1962

Dr. No

as Screenplay

1963

1964

Goldfinger

as Screenplay

1965

Thunderball

as Screenplay

1971

1977

1981

For Your Eyes Only

as Screenplay

1983

Octopussy

as Screenplay

1985

A View to a Kill

as Screenplay

1987

1989

Licence to Kill

as Screenplay

1956

Bigger Than Life

as Screenplay

1956

1950

1961

1940

20 Mule Team

as Screenplay

1948

1949

Song of Surrender

as Screenplay

1940

1937

1949

The Great Gatsby

as Screenplay

1956

Zarak

as Writer

1973

Jarrett

as Writer

1973

Jarrett

as Producer

1938

Stablemates

as Writer

1939

1939

Coast Guard

as Screenplay

1937

1939

1940

1953

The Red Beret

as Screenplay

1958

Tank Force!

as Writer

1956

Ransom!

as Screenplay

1949

Dear Wife

as Producer

1941

I Wanted Wings

as Screenplay

1968

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

as Additional Dialogue

1937

They Gave Him a Gun

as Screenplay

1948

The Big Clock

as Producer

1945

See My Lawyer

as Writer

1946

O.S.S.

as Producer

1961

1950

1949

The Great Gatsby

as Producer

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