Biography
The name is "Maibaum, Richard Maibaum".....the brilliant screenwriter who adapted the Ian Fleming 007 novels into the highly entertaining screenplays of nearly every James Bond film from Dr. No (1962) through to Licence to Kill (1989). Maibaum attended New York University, then studied acting at the University of Iowa. By the time he was in his late twenties, Maibaum was a well established Broadway actor and playwright. He entered films as a screenwriter in 1937, spending the war years with the...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'
1995
as Self
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Thunderball".

Licence to Kill
1989
Screenplay
After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered...

The Living Daylights
1987
Screenplay
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the...

A View to a Kill
1985
Screenplay
A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear...

Octopussy
1983
Screenplay
James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a...

For Your Eyes Only
1981
Screenplay
A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructi...

S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert
1980
Writer
Lavinia Kean, a brilliant American espionage agent, combats the wiles of international criminal and blackmailer Cesare Magnasco.

The Spy Who Loved Me
1977
Screenplay
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as Jame...

The Man with the Golden Gun
1974
Screenplay
Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths wit...

Jarrett
1973
Writer, Producer
A private investigator specializing in fine arts tries to track down some missing rare Biblical scrolls.

Diamonds Are Forever
1971
Screenplay
Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The missio...

On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969
Screenplay
James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. ...

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1968
Additional Dialogue
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.

Thunderball
1965
Screenplay
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they wil...

Goldfinger
1964
Screenplay
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to pre...

From Russia with Love
1963
Screenplay
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa K...

Dr. No
1962
Screenplay
Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go ...

Battle at Bloody Beach
1961
Screenplay, Story, Producer
This is only the second Audie Murphy movie set in WWII after his autobiographical "To Hell and Back." Here Murphy steps out of his usual kid-Western r...

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
1960
Adaptation
London at the turn of the century. Three men are on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Norgate, their ...

Killers of Kilimanjaro
1959
Story
An American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared. While t...

The Bandit Of Zhobe
1959
Story
British soldiers in India must contend with an outlaw bandit.

Tank Force!
1958
Writer
During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.

Zarak
1956
Writer
A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.

Bigger Than Life
1956
Screenplay, Story
A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.

Ransom!
1956
Screenplay
A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son's kidnappers.

The Cockleshell Heroes
1955
Writer
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.

The Red Beret
1953
Screenplay
Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian...

No Man of Her Own
1950
Producer
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.

Captain Carey, U.S.A.
1950
Producer
Near the end of World War II, a secret American raid on an enemy transportation hub goes very wrong when a turncoat warns the enemy. Led by Capt. Webs...

Dear Wife
1949
Producer
In this sequel to Dear Ruth, teenaged Miriam starts a political campaign to nominate Bill Seacroft, her brother-in-law, for state senator in oppositio...

Song of Surrender
1949
Screenplay
In 1906 in Connecticut, Elisha Hunt, the 55-year-old curator of a small government museum, marries Abigail, the 19-year-old daughter of a local farmer...

The Great Gatsby
1949
Screenplay, Producer
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifetyle of his landlord, th...

The Sainted Sisters
1948
Producer
Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with money from their latest scam, hide out in a small town in Maine, near the Canadian bor...

The Big Clock
1948
Producer
Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned b...

O.S.S.
1946
Producer
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII...

See My Lawyer
1945
Writer
Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub own...

Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1942
Writer
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress...

I Wanted Wings
1941
Screenplay
Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and ...

Foreign Correspondent
1940
Screenplay
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an a...

20 Mule Team
1940
Screenplay
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will s...

The Ghost Comes Home
1940
Screenplay
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939
Screenplay
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For ...

Coast Guard
1939
Screenplay
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the l...

The Lady and the Mob
1939
Screenplay
Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.

Stablemates
1938
Writer
A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.

The Bad Man of Brimstone
1937
Screenplay
A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.

Live, Love and Learn
1937
Screenplay
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his stra...

They Gave Him a Gun
1937
Screenplay
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.