Richard Maibaum

Writer · Born 26 May 1909 in New York City, New York, USA · Died 4 January 1991 · 13 credits in the Movie Owl catalogue

13 of Richard Maibaum’s films and series stream in Sweden right now — 13 on Prime Video and 1 on Cineasterna. Highest rated available: Goldfinger (1964) ★ 7.7.

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 The Great Gatsby (1949).

From advice that making films abroad was an excellent tax shelter, Maibaum formed a partnership in the 1950s with producers Irving Allen and Albert R. Broccoli This led to his involvement in the phenomenally successful James Bond series of the 1960s and 1970s and, after Ian Fleming, Maibaum has arguably been the person most responsible for shaping the image of the screen's most famous spy!

Writing

• Licence to Kill (1989)
• The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
• Dr. No (1962)
• From Russia with Love (1963)
• Thunderball (1965)
• Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
• Goldfinger (1964)
• For Your Eyes Only (1981)
• The Living Daylights (1987)
• Octopussy (1983)
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
• The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

Not streaming in Sweden right now

• A View to a Kill (1985)
• The Big Clock (1948)
• Bigger Than Life (1956)
• No Man of Her Own (1950)
• Ransom! (1956)
• The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
• Wagon Train (1957)
• The Great Gatsby (1949)
• Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950)
• The Red Beret (1953)
• O.S.S. (1946)
• Tank Force! (1958)