Bond, James Bond
Collecting James Bond autographs This blog is about collecting James Bond autographs. I have a collection of over 6000, that have been collected in person, through the mail, through agents and through reputable auction houses. I also act as an agent for a number of Bond stars at signing shows
Friday, April 06, 2007
Wolfgang Draeger
Another German voice-over artist - Wolfgang Draeger. Wolfgang did the German dubbing for George Pastell (the train conductor) in From Russia With Love - I KNOW.....I'M TAKING THINGS TOO FAR NOW - I JUST CAN'T STOP MYSELF! Signed 6x4 Colour
(PS...has anyone got a list of the Lithuanian voice over cast?)
The Spy Who Loved Me multi-signed photo
I've been adding to this photo for some time now....it features cats members who were involved in the Liparus scenes - mostly HMS Ranger and USS Wayne crewmen.
The photo now features:
Curt Jurgens (Stromberg)
Shane Rimmer (Captain Carter)
Jeremy Bulloch (Andrews)
Jerry Baker (HMS Ranger crewman)
Garrick Hagon (USS Wayne crewman)
Garrick signed this last weekend at Memorabilia
Oliver Skeete
Oliver Skeete was another of our guests at Memorabilia. Oliver played the Concierge at the fencing club in Die Another Day.
This was Oliver's first ever signing event. He - excuse my French - is cool as F@@k! The women just flocked around him! He is, of course, better known as the eccentric showjumper. He retired from Showjumping 6 years ago, although he still trains horses. He now owns a property management company and "does the odd film/TV appearance". Great guy!
I have quite a few spare photos if anyone is interested.
Liza Ross
2 new 8x10 BW shots of Liza Ross as Mary Golson in Tomorrow Never Dies. Liza was one of our guests at Memorabilia last weekend. She is married to Garrick Hagon, who was one of the USS Wayne crew members oin TSWLM (but is perhaps better know as Wedge in Star Wars).
Liza is only seen breifly in TND, although her part did have a minute or so long speaking part. This was cut from the final edit. She does have other connections, having done voice-overs for many Bond-gilrs in the past (including Mary Stavin in Octopussy).
Qui Yuen
Rare 8x10 signed by Yuen Qui.
She apprenticed Chinese martial arts and Beijing-opera skills with Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung Kam-Bo under the same master at China Drama Academy.
Cheung Cheun Nam (aka Yuen Qiu) worked briefly as female stunt and night club performer at late 60s to early 70s. Seeing the future for female stunt was not promising, she got married in 1974 at the age of 24 after finishing a small role in her so far one and only one international production - "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974), playing one of Col. Hips's neices.
Veruschka Von Lehndorff
Some new signed photos from Casino Royale - Veruschka Von Lendhorff - who played Gräfin von Wallenstein - one of the card players at the table.
She is a real Countess. Her father was a Prussian count (Count von Lehndorff-Steinort) who was involved in a plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944 and hanged that year, when Vera was three. Her mother was arrested, and Vera and her sisters spent the rest of the war in Gestapo camps. They were reunited with their mother after the war, but the family was destitute, and ostracised by other Germans for their father's treachery. She ended up studying textile design in Florence, where a fashion designer first asked her to model. She had first travelled to New York in 1961 as plain old Vera, but failed to secure a single booking. After retreating to Milan for a spell, she returned to take Manhattan under her new name.... Veruschka!
After returning to New York and changing her name to Veruschka she was quoted as saying ..."I dressed all in black and went to see all the top photographers, like Irving Penn, and said, 'I am Veruschka who comes from the border between Russia, Germany and Poland. I'd like to see what you can do with my face.'
soon after she was a top model and was more recently ranked #23 in Channel 5's "World's greatest supermodel".
She now ives the life of an artist in a rundown area of Brooklyn, with her lover Micha Waschke, a musician who doubles as her assistant.
