Maurice Binder
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Maurice Binder (August 25, 1925 - April 4, 1991) was a famous title designer best known for his work on 14 James Bond films including the first, Dr. No in 1962. He was born in New York City, USA, but worked mostly in Britain from the 1950s onwards. The Bond producers first approached him after being impressed by his title designs for the 1960 Stanley Donen comedy film The Grass Is Greener.
[edit] James Bond
Binder created the James Bond gun barrel sequence. He is also best known for creating the opening title credits, showing an artistic display of scantily clad and often discreetly naked females doing a variety of activities such as dancing, jumping on a trampoline, or shooting weapons. Both sequences are trademarks and staples of the James Bond films. Maurice Binder was succeeded by Daniel Kleinman as the title designer for 1995's GoldenEye and all subsequent James Bond films to date.
Previous to GoldenEye, the only James Bond movies for which he did not create the opening title credits were Goldfinger (1964) and From Russia with Love (1963), both of which were designed by Robert Brownjohn.
- Dr. No (1962)
- From Russia with Love - Gunbarrel Sequence Only (Reused from Dr.No) (1963)
- Goldfinger - Gunbarrel Sequence Only (Reused from Dr. No) (1964)
- Thunderball (1965)
- You Only Live Twice (1967)
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
- Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
- Live and Let Die (1973)
- The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
- The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
- Moonraker (1979)
- For Your Eyes Only (1981)
- Octopussy (1983)
- A View to a Kill (1985)
- The Living Daylights (1987)
- Licence to Kill (1989)
[edit] Selected other films
- Indiscreet (1958)
- The Mouse That Roared (1959)
- The Grass Is Greener (1960)
- Charade (1963)
- The Long Ships (1963)
- The Chase (1966)
- Arabesque (1966)
- Barbarella (1967)
- Fathom (1967)
- Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
- Two for the Road (1967)
- Battle of Britain (1969)
- The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
- Young Winston (1972)
- Gold (1974)
- Tamarind Seed (1974)
- Shout at the Devil (1976)
- The Wild Geese (1978)
- Dracula (1979)
- The Sea Wolves (1980)
- The Last Emperor (1987)
- The Sheltering Sky (1990)
