The Independent (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
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.
Ivy Chat (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Joseph Wiseman (1918 - 2009) The first Bond Bad Guy was nearly the best.
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
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...
Medindia Health News (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Joseph Wiseman, the Canadian-born actor widely known for his evil portrayal of the James Bond villain, Dr. No, has died
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Joseph Wiseman, 91, an actor who played the sinister scientist and title character of Dr. No in the first James Bond feature film, died Monday.
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
“Stage acting was what he wanted to be remembered for,” Wiseman’s daughter said....
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
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.
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Actor Joseph Wiseman, who famously portrayed the titular villain in the James Bond film "Dr. No," has passed away at the age of 91.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
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...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
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...
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
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.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
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
MovingPictureBlog (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Diehard fans of Michael Mann 's classic Crime Story TV series will always remember actor Joseph Wiseman as Manny Wisebord, the cold-hearted mob boss who received an experimental heart transplant. But everybody else -- well, OK, everybody, period -- will remember him best as Dr. No , the eponymous archvillain of the very first big-screen 007 adventure. Sometimes, all it really takes is a single role...
The Daily What (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
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