Terence Young Overview:

Director, Terence Young, was born on Jun 20, 1915 in Shanghai, China. Young died at the age of 79 on Sep 7, 1994 in Cannes, France .

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Terence Young started his film career as a screenwriter in 1939, moving on to make his directorial debut in 1948 with Corridor of Mirrors starring Eric Portman. Over the course of 40 years (1948-1988) he directed 40 films, most notably three James Bond films -- Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), and Thunderball (1965) -- as well as The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) starring Kim Novak, and Wait Until Dark (1967) starring Audrey Hepburn.

(Source: article by Annmarie Gatti for Classic Movie Hub).

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In his late years, he directed a six-hour documentary on, and for, Libyan dictator Muammar Gadaffi in Libya, titled "The Long Journeys" or "The Long Days". The Portuguese given title was "Os Longos Dias" (no release year), but the film has never been screened outside Libya.

Directed his wife Dorothea Bennett's novel The Jigsaw Man (1984).

He was in a helicopter which crashed over water whilst filming From Russia with Love (1963). It trapped the director below the surface for a considerable time in an air bubble inside the copter's canopy. He was rescued and then immediately went back behind the camera with his arm in a sling.

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