Michael G. Wilson

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Age

Movies

Born: January 21, 1942
From: New York City, New York, USA

Biography

Michael Gregg Wilson, OBE (born January 21, 1943) is the producer and screenwriter of many of the James Bond films. Wilson was born in New York City, the son of Dana (née Natol) and actor Lewis Wilson. His father was the first actor to play the DC Comics character Batman in live action, which he did in the 1943 film serial Batman. He is the stepson of the late James Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli and step brother to Bond co-producer, Barbara Broccoli. Wilson graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1963 as an electrical engineer. He later studied law at Stanford. After graduating, Wilson worked for the United States government and later a firm located in Washington D.C. that specialized in international law.\n He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours, alongside Barbara Broccoli.\n In 2010 Wilson was given The Royal Photographic Society's award for Outstanding Service to Photography, which carries with it an Honorary Fellowship of The Society.\n In 1972, Wilson joined Eon Productions, the production company responsible for the James Bond film series dating back to 1962 that began with his stepfather Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. Wilson specifically worked in Eon Productions' legal department until taking a more active role as an assistant to Cubby Broccoli for the film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). In 1979 Wilson became executive producer of the film Moonraker and since has been an executive producer or producer in every James Bond film, currently co-producing with his half-sister Barbara.\n Wilson collaborated five times with veteran Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum starting in 1981 with For Your Eyes Only. In 1989 Michael G. Wilson was forced to finish the screenplay to Licence to Kill alone due to a strike by the Writers Guild of America, west which prevented Maibaum from having any further involvement. For both, this was their final James Bond script, as Maibaum died in 1991 and Wilson ceased writing, although he outlined a never-produced film in the series with Alfonse Ruggiero, scrapped due to internal legal wranglings between Eon Productions and MGM (the following film, GoldenEye being a completely different story written by Michael France). In addition to his production duties, Wilson has also made many cameo appearances (speaking and non-speaking) in the Bond films. His first appearance, long before becoming a producer, was in Goldfinger in which he appeared as a soldier. Wilson has made cameo appearances in every Eon-produced Bond film since 1977.

Works

70 films

Casino Royale

20067.6

No Time to Die

20217.3

Die Another Day

20026.0

The World Is Not Enough

19996.3

A View to a Kill

19856.3

The Living Daylights

19876.5

The Spy Who Loved Me

19776.8

Octopussy

19836.4

Moonraker

19796.2

Being James Bond

20217.8

The Program

20156.4

The Sound of 007

20227.3

Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

19957.7

Goldeneye: The Secret Files

19956.0

Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars

20126.2

From Roger Moore with Love

20248.0

James Bond Down River

20005.0

Inside 'Moonraker'

20006.8

On Location

20094.0

James Bond: For Real

20067.7

Best Ever Bond

20025.7

Highly Classified: The World of 007

19987.0

GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast

19956.0

The Bond Sound: The Music of 007

20006.8

Die Another Day: From Script to Screen

20026.5

Pinewood: 80 Years of Movie Magic

2015

Bond on Location

20126.0

Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'

20007.3

Director Marc Forster

20094.5

Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me'

20007.3

Terence Young: Bond Vivant

20006.8

Inside 'Licence to Kill'

20007.4

Shaken and Stirred on Ice

20025.5

Death in Venice: The Sinking Palazzo

20086.0

Inside The Living Daylights

20008.0

Inside 'Dr. No'

20007.1

Becoming Bond

20066.0

Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles

20005.1

Inside 'The Living Daylights'

20006.7

Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles

20066.0

Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn

20005.9

Inside 'For Your Eyes Only'

20006.6

Escape from Atlantis: Storyboard Sequence

20067.3

The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge

2010

Inside 'A View to a Kill'

20006.7

Harry Saltzman: Showman

20006.6

Ian Fleming's Incredible Creation

2008

007 Stage Dedication

19774.7

Inside 'Octopussy'

20006.2

Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond

20006.5

James Bond in India

19834.0

Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'

20006.4

Bond in Greece

20066.0

Building a Better Bond

20065.0

James Bond in the Bahamas

2008

Ken Adam: Designing Bond

20006.8

Start of Shooting

20094.5

Neptune's Journey

20066.0

The Road to Casino Royale

2008

007 in Egypt

20067.5

Bond in Cortina

20066.0

Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style

2012

Girls Fighting

20066.0

On Location with 'The Man with the Golden Gun'

20064.0

Bond '79

20066.0

Roger Moore: My Word Is My Bond

20067.0

Satellite Test Reel

20064.0

Oil Rig Attack

20064.0

Explosion Tests

20065.0

Casting on 'Her Majesty's Secret Service'

20065.0