Richard Maibaum

Richard Maibaum

1909-05-26 New York City, New York, USA 48 Credits

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...

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Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'

Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'

1995

as Self

6.8
Acting

A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Thunderball".

Licence to Kill

Licence to Kill

1989

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

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

The Living Daylights

1987

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

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

A View to a Kill

1985

Screenplay

6.2
Writing

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

Octopussy

Octopussy

1983

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

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

For Your Eyes Only

1981

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

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

S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert

1980

Writer

3.8
Writing

Lavinia Kean, a brilliant American espionage agent, combats the wiles of international criminal and blackmailer Cesare Magnasco.

The Spy Who Loved Me

The Spy Who Loved Me

1977

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

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

The Man with the Golden Gun

1974

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

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

Jarrett

1973

Writer, Producer

3.5
Writing Producing

A private investigator specializing in fine arts tries to track down some missing rare Biblical scrolls.

Diamonds Are Forever

Diamonds Are Forever

1971

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

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

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1969

Screenplay

6.6
Writing

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

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

1968

Additional Dialogue

6.8

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

Thunderball

Thunderball

1965

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

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

Goldfinger

1964

Screenplay

7.4
Writing

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

From Russia with Love

1963

Screenplay

7.1
Writing

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

Dr. No

1962

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

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

Battle at Bloody Beach

1961

Screenplay, Story, Producer

4.3
Writing Producing

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

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England

1960

Adaptation

6.1

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

Killers of Kilimanjaro

1959

Story

6.0
Writing

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

The Bandit Of Zhobe

1959

Story

Writing

British soldiers in India must contend with an outlaw bandit.

Tank Force!

Tank Force!

1958

Writer

6.2
Writing

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

Zarak

Zarak

1956

Writer

4.7
Writing

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

Bigger Than Life

Bigger Than Life

1956

Screenplay, Story

7.1
Writing

A friendly, successful suburban teacher and father grows dangerously addicted to cortisone, resulting in his transformation into a household despot.

Ransom!

Ransom!

1956

Screenplay

7.2
Writing

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

The Cockleshell Heroes

The Cockleshell Heroes

1955

Writer

6.0
Writing

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

The Red Beret

The Red Beret

1953

Screenplay

6.6
Writing

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

No Man of Her Own

1950

Producer

6.9
Producing

A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.

Captain Carey, U.S.A.

Captain Carey, U.S.A.

1950

Producer

5.5
Producing

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

Dear Wife

1949

Producer

6.0
Producing

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

Song of Surrender

1949

Screenplay

Writing

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

The Great Gatsby

1949

Screenplay, Producer

5.5
Writing Producing

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

The Sainted Sisters

1948

Producer

7.0
Producing

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

The Big Clock

1948

Producer

7.3
Producing

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.

O.S.S.

1946

Producer

6.4
Producing

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

See My Lawyer

1945

Writer

6.0
Writing

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

Ten Gentlemen from West Point

1942

Writer

5.8
Writing

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

I Wanted Wings

1941

Screenplay

5.4
Writing

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

Foreign Correspondent

1940

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

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

20 Mule Team

1940

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

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

The Ghost Comes Home

1940

Screenplay

5.0
Writing

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

The Amazing Mr. Williams

1939

Screenplay

5.8
Writing

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

Coast Guard

1939

Screenplay

5.0
Writing

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

The Lady and the Mob

1939

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.

Stablemates

Stablemates

1938

Writer

4.5
Writing

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

The Bad Man of Brimstone

1937

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.

Live, Love and Learn

Live, Love and Learn

1937

Screenplay

5.8
Writing

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

They Gave Him a Gun

1937

Screenplay

6.2
Writing

With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.