Scaramanga’s doomed mistress and courier Andrea Anders (Maud Adams) describes her boss as usually wearing “a white linen suit, black tie, and jewelry, all gold,” an outfit described in great detail by Matt Spaiser at Bond Suits, whose words and observations I cannot improve upon. Still, Lee was evidently fated for a role in the James Bond franchise and was finally cast as Scaramanga, of whom the actor described to Total Film: “In Fleming’s novel he’s just a West Indian thug, but in the film he’s charming, elegant, amusing, lethal… I played him like the dark side of Bond.” What’d He Wear? No before learning that the producers had cast Joseph Wiseman in the role. In addition to being Moore’s “old pal”, Lee was also a distant cousin to Ian Fleming, who had originally invited Lee to portray the first Bond villain in Dr. In his memoir Bond on Bond, Moore recalls that “I used to tease Christopher mercilessly about his role as Dracula and, just before the director called ‘Action,’ I would lean over and say, ‘Go on, Chris, make your eyes go red!'” Bond, we are the best.īond: There’s a useful four letter word… and you’re full of it.ĭespite playing foes, Moore and Lee were great friends in real life, and it’s fun to watch the two settle into an easy screen chemistry. You work for peanuts, a hearty well done from her Majesty the Queen and a pittance of a pension. Scaramanga: At a million dollars a contract I can afford to, Mr Bond. Loosely adapted from Ian Fleming’s unfinished final novel of the same name, The Man with the Golden Gun was arguably the first Bond movie to posit a “we’re not so different, you and I” antagonist that likens himself to a darker reflection of 007, a template that would later be followed by entries like GoldenEye and Spectre. Today would have been the 100th birthday of Sir Christopher Lee, the imposing yet debonair screen icon known to many for portraying Count Dracula a total of nine times while Bond fans may know him best as Francisco Scaramanga, the eponymous villain who faced off against Roger Moore’s James Bond in Moore’s sophomore 007 outing, The Man with the Golden Gun. Wardrobe Supervisor: Elsa Fennell Background
Christopher Lee as Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) VitalsĬhristopher Lee as Francisco Scaramanga, sophisticated freelance assassin
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