Maurice Binder

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Maurice Binder (August 25, 1925 - April 4, 1991) was a famous title designer best known for his work on 14 James Bond films beginning with the first, Dr. No in 1962 and ending with Licence to Kill in 1989. He was born in New York City, U.S.A, 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.

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Timothy Dalton performing the gunbarrel scene in The Living Daylights

Throughout the James Bond series of movies, Binder is known for creating the James Bond gun barrel sequence, which was achieved by using a pin hole camera shooting through a real gun barrel. 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.