Talk:Inspirations for James Bond
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Isn't the James Bond character inspired from the German Nazi Spy Ciccero a.k.a. Elyesa Bazna??? yy
The main James Bond page says that most researchers agree that James Bond was based on Ian Fleming himself. In addition, the assertion on this page that the name "James Bond" came from a church in Toronto, stated in the "Character Inspirations" section is countered in the first paragraph, where the more widely accepted belief that the name is based on the author of a book on birds is given.
- Yes, and since the Ian Fleming article itself debunks the story of Fleming training in Canada, I'm going to change the reference accordingly. Binabik80 19:52, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
17:07, 14 June 2007 (UTC)Andrewproctor
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[edit] Old Fettesian Bond
Does anyone have any more information on the real-life James Bond whose Who's Who entry allegedly hangs on a wall in a corridor at Fettes? The only person in Who Was Who called James Bond is Colonel James Henry Robinson Bond, and he doesn't seem to fit the description of an SBS frogman given in the article. Opera hat 18:35, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] 007 Inspirations
The article states that "The international dialing code for the Soviet Union is 007". This is not true; the international dialling code for Russia is "7" - the "00" is the prefix used by most countries to tell the exchange that you are making an international call. At the time that Bond was being created, the prefix in Britain was "010". It didn't become "00" until 16 April 1995. Therefore, I move that this item be removed.--wintermute 14:00, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Ivor Bryce
One name that never seems to be cited on Wikipedia's assorted James Bond/Flemming pages is the name of Ivar Bryce (John F. C. Bryce) who has been cited by more then one source as being yet another Bond inspiration.
Ivar went to Eton with Flemming, they were colleagues in intelligence roles, and Flemming stayed at (and penned portions of at least one book at) Ivor's estate [or rather wife Josephine's] on the Vermont-New York boarder north of Saratoga Springs, known as Black Hollow Farm. Heiress to the A&P fortune (maiden name Hartford) Josephine lived a jet setting life with yachts, race horses, airplanes, et al.
It was at Moyns Park (once owned by Bryce, located in Essex eastern England) that Fleming stayed the summer of 1956 and made final changes to 'From Russia, With Love'. A Telegraph article from 1997 goes so far as to suggest Ivar help co-create the name "James Bond".
Anyhow its curious there wasn't another citation of him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kellsboro Jack (talk • contribs) 20:58, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
