It has been estimated that the total number of admissions to all the James Bond movies since 1962 is now drawing close to the two BILLION mark, almost one-half of the world's population...and the 007 adventures have not yet been shown behind the Iron Curtain or in China.
Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli produced the first nine Bonds in association with Harry Saltzman, with the exception of "Thunderball" in 1965, on which they were the executive producers. Starting with "The Spy Who Loved Me" nine years later, the subsequent movies were all produced by Broccoli, who has been joined by Michael G. Wilson on "A View To A Kill", "The Living Daylights", and "Licence To Kill".
Known to everybody as 'Cubby', Albert R. Boccoli was born in 1909 in Astoria, Long Island. He entered the family business when he was 16, driving trucks of vegetables to market. (His uncle was the man who introduced broccoli to America.) He worked at a funeral parlour (coffins were, for a time, a recurring joke in the Bond series) before obtaining a job as a mailboy at Twentieth Century Fox. His rise through the ranks of the film business was interrupted by the Second World War where he became an officer in the Coast Guard. After the war, he went into partnership with Irving Allen to form Warwick Films in London. In 1961 he joined forces with Harry Saltzman to obtain the rights to the James Bond novels and he has been the major driving force behind the films ever since.
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