Richard Maibaum (
May 26,
1909 -
January 4,
1991) was an
American film producer,
playwright and
screenwriter best known for his adaptations of
Ian Fleming's James Bond novels.Maibaum was born in
New York City, and attended
New York University and the
University of Iowa before working as an actor and playwright on
Broadway. His first film as screenwriter was in
1937, and after military service in
World War II he joined
Paramount Pictures as a writer and producer on films such as
The Big Clock and
The Great Gatsby. Maibaum established a friendship with
Alan Ladd and in addition to writing several screenplays for Ladd, Maibaum acted as a script supervisor for Ladd. In the
1950s he became the favoured screenwriter for
Irwin Allen and
Albert R. Broccoli, who were making action films in
UK under their Warwick Films banner. When Broccoli signed Ladd on for a three picture deal for Warwick, Ladd insisted on Maibaum co-writing the screenplays. His working relationship with Broccoli would extend into the phenomenally successful James Bond series, with Maibaum contributing to the screenplays of all but three of the films from
Dr. No in
1962 until
Licence to Kill in
1989. However, his contributions to Licence to Kill were disrupted by a strike by the
Writers Guild of America.
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