The Canadian actor Joseph Wiseman had a long career in which he gave distinguished performances on stage, screen and television, with particular success in roles of deception or villainy. With his gaunt demeanour, narrow eyes and thin lips, he conveyed an air of menace with an unsettling instability, and was rarely to be trusted.
Congratulations on making it to the end of another week! Unfortunately, these people didn’t. Light a candle for Funeral Friday. In his many years of service, James Bond matched wits and witticisms with villains ranging from the truly menacing (Oddjob, Blofeld) to the patently ridiculous (Herve Villaicheze, that one movie where James Bond gets exposed to kryptonite created by Richard Pryor and...
London, Oct. 21: Joseph Wiseman, the actor who played the sinister scientist and title character of Dr No in the first James Bond film, has died in New York aged 91.
Born: 15 May, 1918, in Montreal, Canada. Died: 19 October, 2009, in New York, aged 91.JOSEPH Wiseman was a longtime stage and screen actor but was most widely known for playing the villainous title character in Dr No, the first feature film about James Bond.Released in 1962, Dr No was the first in what proved to be a decades-long string of Bond films. Starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress, it featured...
Born: 15 May, 1918, in Montreal, Canada. Died: 19 October, 2009, in New York, aged 91.JOSEPH Wiseman was a longtime stage and screen actor but was most widely known for playing the villainous title character in Dr No, the first feature film about James Bond.Released in 1962, Dr No was the first in what proved to be a decades-long string of Bond films. Starring Sean Connery and Ursula Andress, it featured...
Film-makers had been sniffing round the James Bond novels from the day the first, Casino Royale, was published in 1953. But, apart from one US TV adaptation, it was to be nearly a decade before Bond hit the big screen in the shape of Sean Connery, in Dr No.
NEW YORK: Joseph Wiseman, the actor who played the sinister scientist and title character of Dr. No in the first James Bond feature film, has died. He was 91. Wiseman, who had been in declining health, died at his home in Manhattan on ...
Canadian actor Joseph Wiseman,who best known for starring as the titular antagonist of the first James Bond film and his title character of Dr. No, has died. He was 91. Read Full
Canadian actor Joseph Wiseman,who best known for starring as the titular antagonist of the first James Bond film and his title character of Dr. No, has died. He was 91. Wiseman, who had been in declining health, died Monday at his home in Manhattan, his daughter, Martha Graham Wiseman, told The New York Times and Los Angeles Times.A screen and stage actor, Wiseman's film credits include "Detective...
Joseph Wiseman, the Canadian-born actor best known for his deliciously evil portrayal of the James Bond villain, Dr. No, passed away yesterday at age 91. Wiseman appeared in a slew of Broadway productions, television shows, and movies such as Viva Zapata! with Marlon Brando and The Unforgiven with Burt Lancaster. But he will always be
Canadian actor Joseph Wiseman,who best known for starring as the titular antagonist of the first James Bond film and his title character of Dr. No, has died. He was 91. Read Full