Maurice Binder

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.

Contents 1 James Bond 2 Selected other films 3 Other sequences 4 External links

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)

Selected other films

• Indiscreet (1958)
• The Mouse That Roared (1959)
• The Grass Is Greener (1960)
• Charade (1963)
• The Mouse on the Moon (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)

Other sequences

Binder shot opening and closing sequences involving a mouse for The Mouse That Roared (1959), a sequence of monks filmed as a mosaic explaining the history of the Golden Bell in The Long Ships (1963), and a sequence of Spanish dancers explaining why the then topical reference of nuclear weapons vanishing in a B-52 mishap shifted from Spain to Greece in The Day the Fish Came Out (1967).

Binder also was a producer of The Passage (1979), a visual consultant on Dracula (1979) and Oxford Blues (1984).

External links

• Maurice Binder at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e James Bond movies crew Official films (EON Productions) Directors Terence Young · Guy Hamilton · Lewis Gilbert · Peter R. Hunt · John Glen · Martin Campbell · Roger Spottiswoode · Michael Apted · Lee Tamahori · Marc Forster Producers Harry Saltzman · Albert R. Broccoli · Michael G. Wilson · Barbara Broccoli Title sequence designers Maurice Binder · Robert Brownjohn  · Daniel Kleinman Others Ken Adam · Bob Simmons · Syd Cain · John Stears · Peter Lamont · Vic Armstrong · Chris Corbould Non-EON films Directors William H. Brown, Jr. · Ken Hughes · John Huston · Joseph McGrath · Robert Parrish · Val Guest · Irvin Kershner Producers Bretaigne Windhurst · Charles K. Feldman · Jerry Bresler · John Dark · Kevin McClory · Michael Dryhurst · Jack Schwartzman

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