NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/alt/fan/jamesbo/151

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From: [e-mail] (Wm. Douglas Withers -- math  FACULTY <[e-mail]>)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.james-bond
Subject: Re: Multi-film sub characters
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Date: 19 Nov 92 20:47:18 GMT
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In article <psmith.722195571@cunews> [e-mail] (Peter Smith) writes:
>Were there other such return appearences by actors?  One that rings a
>bell although I can't put my finger on it is Felix from the last
>Dalton film:  I only remember seeing him once before (and I can't
>remember which film) but they played him up to be a real mainstay in
>the last film.  Did he appear in many?

Felix Leiter is Bond's CIA contact and appeared in several of the books.
Let's see...he was in the movies `Dr. No', `Goldfinger',  `Thunderball',
`Diamonds Are Forever', `Live and Let Die', `Never Say Never Again',
`The Living Daylights', and `Licence to Kill,' although almost always
played by different actors.  David Heddison played him in both `Live and
Let Die' and `Licence to Kill.'  Felix Leiter could usually be relied upon
to show up whenever the locale was in or near the USA (exceptions:
`Moonraker' and `A View to a Kill').

One character that has recurred many times in the movies (but never in the
books, I think) is General Gogol, first of the KGB and then later of
the Soviet Foreign Service.  It is interesting that he is sometimes an
ally, sometimes an adversary, and sometimes merely a bystander.  Starting
with `The Spy Who Loved Me,' he appeared in every film up until `License to
Kill.'  The same actor, Walter Gotell, appeared in `From Russia with Love',
but I don't think one can argue well that the character is connected with
General Gogol.

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