ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, June 29, 1996 TAG: 9607010067
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C2 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
Hollywood producer Albert R. ``Cubby'' Broccoli, whose 17 James Bond movies matched suave 007 with beautiful women, diabolical villains and gee-whiz gadgets for three thrilling decades, has died at 87.
Broccoli died Thursday at his Beverly Hills home. He had undergone heart bypass surgery a year ago.
The James Bond series, inspired by the Ian Fleming novels about the urbane British spy, is the most successful, longest-running film series of all time.
Broccoli and co-producer Harry Saltzman began the Bond series in 1962 with ``Dr. No.''
Broccoli and Saltzman parted ways in 1976, and Broccoli maintained the rights to produce the Bond series on his own. - Associated Press
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