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Terence Young (director)

January 01, 1970

For other uses, see Terence Young (disambiguation).

Stewart Terence Herbert Young[1] (20 June 1915 – 7 September 1994) was a British[2][1][3] film director and screenwriter who worked in the United Kingdom, Europe and Hollywood. He is best known for directing three James Bond films: the first two films in the series, Dr. No (1962) and From Russia with Love (1963), and Thunderball (1965). His other films include the Audrey Hepburn thrillers Wait Until Dark (1967) and Bloodline (1979), the historical drama Mayerling (1968), the infamous Korean War epic Inchon (1981), and the Charles Bronson films Cold Sweat (1970), Red Sun (1971), and The Valachi Papers (1972).

Terence Young
Born
Stewart Terence Herbert Young

(1915-06-20)20 June 1915
Shanghai International Settlement, China
Died7 September 1994(1994-09-07) (aged 79)
Cannes, France
NationalityBritish
Other namesShaun Terence Young
Alma materSt Catharine's College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter
Spouse
Dorothea Bennett
​
(m. 1942)​
Children3

Early life and education edit

Young was born in the International Settlement, of Shanghai, China to British parents,[3] His civil registration documents gives his name as Stewart Terence Herbert Young,[1] though he also used the name Shaun Terence Young,[4] and is listed as such by the British Film Institute's Screenonline database.

Young’s father was a deputy commissioner of the Shanghai Municipal Police. His family moved back to England when he was a child, and he was educated at Harrow School in London. He read history at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. During the Second World War Young rose to the rank of captain in the British Army, and as intelligence officer of the Guards Armoured Division, Young participated in Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands and was wounded.[1]

Career edit

Young began his career in the film industry as a screenwriter, earning a credit for Brian Desmond Hurst's On the Night of the Fire (1939), A Call for Arms (1940), Dangerous Moonlight (1941), and A Letter from Ulster (1942) and for other directors on Secret Mission (1942), On Approval (1944). In 1946, he returned to assist Hurst again with the script of Theirs Is the Glory, which told the story of the fighting around Arnhem Bridge. Arnhem, coincidentally, was home to an adolescent Audrey Hepburn. During the later filming of Young's film Wait Until Dark, Hepburn and Young joked that he had been shelling his favourite star without even knowing it. Young worked on the screenplays for Hurst's Hungry Hill (1947) and David McDonald's The Bad Lord Byron (1949).

Director edit

Young's first sole credit as director (and also Christopher Lee's film debut) was Corridor of Mirrors (1948), an acclaimed film made in France. He followed it with a musical One Night with You (1948); Woman Hater (1948), a comedy with Stewart Granger; and They Were Not Divided (1950). Young also directed Valley of Eagles (1951) and The Tall Headlines (1952).

Warwick Films edit

Young then made the first film for Irving Allen and Albert R. Broccoli's Warwick Films, The Red Beret with Alan Ladd. Young made That Lady (1955) in Spain with Olivia de Havilland and Storm Over the Nile (1955), an essentially shot-for-shot remake of the 1939 film The Four Feathers. Warwick asked Young back to do Safari (1956), a movie about the Mau Mau, with Victor Mature. For the same company, he did Zarak (1957), also with Mature. MGM hired him to make Action of the Tiger (1957) with Van Johnson; a young Sean Connery had a supporting role. No Time to Die (1958) was Young's fourth film for Warwick, and third with Mature. He made Serious Charge (1959), which was Cliff Richard's film debut; Too Hot to Handle (1960) with Jayne Mansfield; Black Tights (1961) in France; and Duel of Champions (1961) in Italy with Alan Ladd.

James Bond edit

Albert Broccoli and Irving Allen had split as a producing team, and Broccoli went into partnership with Harry Saltzman to make a series of films based on the James Bond novels. Broccoli used many of the crew he had worked with during his time at Warwick for the first Bond movies, including Young as director. Young made a crucial contribution to Dr. No (1962), including recruiting Sean Connery to portray Bond. Actress Lois Maxwell, who portrayed Miss Moneypenny, later said that "Terence took Sean under his wing. He took him to dinner, to his tailor, showed him how to walk, how to talk, even how to eat."[5]

The movie was a huge success and was quickly followed by From Russia with Love (1963), an even bigger hit. During the filming, Young and a photographer nearly drowned when their helicopter crashed into the sea while filming a key sequence. They were rescued by other members of the film crew. Young was back behind the camera 30 minutes after being rescued. Young was deluged with offers and elected not to direct Goldfinger. Instead he made The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965). Young returned for Thunderball (1965), the fourth Bond movie. According to Young, he was offered and turned down the direction of Bond films For Your Eyes Only and Never Say Never Again.

European films edit

Following Thunderball, most of Young's work was in continental Europe, mainly Italy and France. Young directed part of the 1965 espionage portmanteau film The Dirty Game. He provided the story for Atout cœur à Tokyo pour OSS 117 (1966) and directed the all-star The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966). He followed this with Triple Cross (1966), and The Rover (1967). Young had a hit with Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn.

In a 1967 interview he said his three best films were Black Tights, From Russia with Love and They Were Not Divided.[6] He then directed Mayerling (1968) with Omar Sharif, and The Christmas Tree (1969) with William Holden.

He made three films starring Charles Bronson: the thriller Cold Sweat (1970), the offbeat Western Red Sun (1972), and the biographical mob drama The Valachi Papers (1972).

Later films edit

Young's later films include War Goddess (1973), and The Klansman (1974, replacing Samuel Fuller). He worked on Jackpot but the film was never finished. Later credits include Bloodline (1979), Inchon (1981) about the Battle of Inchon with Laurence Olivier, The Jigsaw Man (1983) with Michael Caine and Olivier (replacing the original director), and Run for Your Life (1988). Olivier and Young had been friends since 1943 when Olivier had initially offered the direction of his film Henry V (1944) to Young, who declined.[7] At the 3rd Golden Raspberry Awards in 1983, he won the Razzie Award for Worst Director for Inchon.[8]

Young contributed to the screenplay for the Hong Kong film Foxbat (1977), which led to him being credited as co-director in some regions. Young was the editor of The Long Days (Al-ayyam al-tawila) (1980), a six-hour Iraqi telenovela about the life of Saddam Hussein, which also led to him being credited as co-director in some regions.[9]

Personal life edit

Young married the novelist Dorothea "Dosia" Bennett in 1942. Bennett had been married to a Norwegian man by the name of Nissen, with whom she had had a daughter, but had had her marriage to him dissolved by the Norwegian government-in-exile in London in June 1942 and married Young five days later. Nissen later sued for divorce from Bennett alleging that the dissolution by the Norwegian government-in-exile had been invalid, and citing Young as the respondent. Nissen's suit was upheld at first instance in March 1955 before being over-turned on appeal later the same year, with the original dissolution being found valid.[10][11][12][13]

He had a son and two daughters with Bennett, their son being born in March 1943. Juliet Nissen, Bennett's daughter by her previous marriage, was raised as Young's step-daughter.[14] Bennett and Young's youngest child was a three-week-old girl they adopted in 1966 when their first two children were already adults.[15][13][16]

Sexual misconduct allegation edit

In 2022, actress Marguerite LeWars claimed on that Young sexually assaulted her in 1962.[17] According to an interview with LeWars on the Reality 007, the incident occurred while the two were in a limousine on their way to a wrap party for Dr. No. Young repeatedly propositioned LeWars and, when she refused, groped her. After LeWars rejected his advances, Young threatened to cut her scenes out of Dr. No. Two months later, Young telephoned LeWars at her home in Kingston and propositioned her again, asking her to fly out to London to dub her lines. When she refused, he again threatened to cut her from the film. LeWars stated this was the real reason for her voice having been dubbed over by another actress.

Death edit

Young died of a heart attack in Cannes; he was 79.[18]

Filmography edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d Low, Rachel (23 September 2004). "Young, (Stewart) Terence Herbert". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55863. Retrieved 10 September 2023. He came home to be educated, and read history at St Catharine's College (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Law, Johnathan (1995). Brewer's Cinema. Cassell. p. 611. ISBN 0304342351. Retrieved 7 September 2023. British director
  3. ^ a b "Terence Young". The Times. 8 September 1994. p. 19. Retrieved 11 September 2023. "Terence Young, British film director ... Terence Young was born in China of British parents. He grew up partly there and partly in this country...
  4. ^ BFI ScreenOnline: "Young, Terence (1915–1994)". Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  5. ^ Macintyre, Ben (2009). For Your Eyes Only : Ian Fleming and James Bond. London, England: Bloomsbury. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-7475-9866-4.
  6. ^ Terence Young's Post-Bond Views. Los Angeles Times 21 February 1967: e9.
  7. ^ Spoto, Donald (1992). Laurence Olivier. New York City: HarperCollins. p. 214. ISBN 978-0060183158.
  8. ^ Wilson, John (2005). The Official Razzie Movie Guide. New York City: Warner Books. p. 344. ISBN 0-446-69334-0. OCLC 56033390.
  9. ^ Bowden, Mark (May 2002). "Tales of the Tyrant". The Atlantic Monthly.
  10. ^ Van Gelder, Lawrence (24 August 1984). "SCREEN: 'JIGSAW MAN,' BRITISH SPY THRILLER". New York Times. p. C4. Retrieved 11 September 2023. This time, Mr. Young is directing a film derived from a novel written by Dorothea Bennett, his wife.
  11. ^ "At Last She Knows Who Her Husband Is". Daily Mirror. 5 November 1955. p. 5. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  12. ^ "Decree Judgement Reserved". Bradford Observer. 24 March 1955. p. 5. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  13. ^ a b "Court Holds Woman's Second Marriage Lawful". Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 5 November 1955. p. 7. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  14. ^ "Hanging the Stars". Kensington News and West London Times. 21 May 1954. p. 7. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  15. ^ "Obituary: Terence Young | The Independent | The Independent". Independent.co.uk. 15 September 1994.
  16. ^ Graham, Sheilah (29 October 1966). "Her Kisses Reserved". The Daily Colonist. p. 39. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  17. ^ Binley, Alex (13 July 2022). "James Bond actor breaks 60-year silence to claim Dr No director sexually assaulted her". ITV News. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
  18. ^ "Terence Young; British Director Made 3 Early James Bond Films". LA Times. 9 September 1994. Retrieved 11 September 2023.

Further reading edit

External links edit

  • Terence Young at the BFI's Screenonline
  • Terence Young at IMDb
  • The Independent, 16 September 1994: Obituary: Terence Young
  • New York Times, 9 September 1994: Terence Young, 79; In 1960's, Directed 3 James Bond Films

January 01, 1970
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For other uses see Terence Young disambiguation Stewart Terence Herbert Young 1 20 June 1915 7 September 1994 was a British 2 1 3 film director and screenwriter who worked in the United Kingdom Europe and Hollywood He is best known for directing three James Bond films the first two films in the series Dr No 1962 and From Russia with Love 1963 and Thunderball 1965 His other films include the Audrey Hepburn thrillers Wait Until Dark 1967 and Bloodline 1979 the historical drama Mayerling 1968 the infamous Korean War epic Inchon 1981 and the Charles Bronson films Cold Sweat 1970 Red Sun 1971 and The Valachi Papers 1972 Terence YoungBornStewart Terence Herbert Young 1915 06 20 20 June 1915Shanghai International Settlement ChinaDied7 September 1994 1994 09 07 aged 79 Cannes FranceNationalityBritishOther namesShaun Terence YoungAlma materSt Catharine s College CambridgeOccupation s Film director screenwriterSpouseDorothea Bennett m 1942 wbr Children3 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 Director 2 2 Warwick Films 2 3 James Bond 2 4 European films 2 5 Later films 3 Personal life 3 1 Sexual misconduct allegation 4 Death 5 Filmography 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksEarly life and education editYoung was born in the International Settlement of Shanghai China to British parents 3 His civil registration documents gives his name as Stewart Terence Herbert Young 1 though he also used the name Shaun Terence Young 4 and is listed as such by the British Film Institute s Screenonline database Young s father was a deputy commissioner of the Shanghai Municipal Police His family moved back to England when he was a child and he was educated at Harrow School in London He read history at St Catharine s College Cambridge During the Second World War Young rose to the rank of captain in the British Army and as intelligence officer of the Guards Armoured Division Young participated in Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands and was wounded 1 Career editYoung began his career in the film industry as a screenwriter earning a credit for Brian Desmond Hurst s On the Night of the Fire 1939 A Call for Arms 1940 Dangerous Moonlight 1941 and A Letter from Ulster 1942 and for other directors on Secret Mission 1942 On Approval 1944 In 1946 he returned to assist Hurst again with the script of Theirs Is the Glory which told the story of the fighting around Arnhem Bridge Arnhem coincidentally was home to an adolescent Audrey Hepburn During the later filming of Young s film Wait Until Dark Hepburn and Young joked that he had been shelling his favourite star without even knowing it Young worked on the screenplays for Hurst s Hungry Hill 1947 and David McDonald s The Bad Lord Byron 1949 Director edit Young s first sole credit as director and also Christopher Lee s film debut was Corridor of Mirrors 1948 an acclaimed film made in France He followed it with a musical One Night with You 1948 Woman Hater 1948 a comedy with Stewart Granger and They Were Not Divided 1950 Young also directed Valley of Eagles 1951 and The Tall Headlines 1952 Warwick Films edit Young then made the first film for Irving Allen and Albert R Broccoli s Warwick Films The Red Beret with Alan Ladd Young made That Lady 1955 in Spain with Olivia de Havilland and Storm Over the Nile 1955 an essentially shot for shot remake of the 1939 film The Four Feathers Warwick asked Young back to do Safari 1956 a movie about the Mau Mau with Victor Mature For the same company he did Zarak 1957 also with Mature MGM hired him to make Action of the Tiger 1957 with Van Johnson a young Sean Connery had a supporting role No Time to Die 1958 was Young s fourth film for Warwick and third with Mature He made Serious Charge 1959 which was Cliff Richard s film debut Too Hot to Handle 1960 with Jayne Mansfield Black Tights 1961 in France and Duel of Champions 1961 in Italy with Alan Ladd James Bond edit Albert Broccoli and Irving Allen had split as a producing team and Broccoli went into partnership with Harry Saltzman to make a series of films based on the James Bond novels Broccoli used many of the crew he had worked with during his time at Warwick for the first Bond movies including Young as director Young made a crucial contribution to Dr No 1962 including recruiting Sean Connery to portray Bond Actress Lois Maxwell who portrayed Miss Moneypenny later said that Terence took Sean under his wing He took him to dinner to his tailor showed him how to walk how to talk even how to eat 5 The movie was a huge success and was quickly followed by From Russia with Love 1963 an even bigger hit During the filming Young and a photographer nearly drowned when their helicopter crashed into the sea while filming a key sequence They were rescued by other members of the film crew Young was back behind the camera 30 minutes after being rescued Young was deluged with offers and elected not to direct Goldfinger Instead he made The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders 1965 Young returned for Thunderball 1965 the fourth Bond movie According to Young he was offered and turned down the direction of Bond films For Your Eyes Only and Never Say Never Again European films edit Following Thunderball most of Young s work was in continental Europe mainly Italy and France Young directed part of the 1965 espionage portmanteau film The Dirty Game He provided the story for Atout cœur a Tokyo pour OSS 117 1966 and directed the all star The Poppy Is Also a Flower 1966 He followed this with Triple Cross 1966 and The Rover 1967 Young had a hit with Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn In a 1967 interview he said his three best films were Black Tights From Russia with Love and They Were Not Divided 6 He then directed Mayerling 1968 with Omar Sharif and The Christmas Tree 1969 with William Holden He made three films starring Charles Bronson the thriller Cold Sweat 1970 the offbeat Western Red Sun 1972 and the biographical mob drama The Valachi Papers 1972 Later films edit Young s later films include War Goddess 1973 and The Klansman 1974 replacing Samuel Fuller He worked on Jackpot but the film was never finished Later credits include Bloodline 1979 Inchon 1981 about the Battle of Inchon with Laurence Olivier The Jigsaw Man 1983 with Michael Caine and Olivier replacing the original director and Run for Your Life 1988 Olivier and Young had been friends since 1943 when Olivier had initially offered the direction of his film Henry V 1944 to Young who declined 7 At the 3rd Golden Raspberry Awards in 1983 he won the Razzie Award for Worst Director for Inchon 8 Young contributed to the screenplay for the Hong Kong film Foxbat 1977 which led to him being credited as co director in some regions Young was the editor of The Long Days Al ayyam al tawila 1980 a six hour Iraqi telenovela about the life of Saddam Hussein which also led to him being credited as co director in some regions 9 Personal life editYoung married the novelist Dorothea Dosia Bennett in 1942 Bennett had been married to a Norwegian man by the name of Nissen with whom she had had a daughter but had had her marriage to him dissolved by the Norwegian government in exile in London in June 1942 and married Young five days later Nissen later sued for divorce from Bennett alleging that the dissolution by the Norwegian government in exile had been invalid and citing Young as the respondent Nissen s suit was upheld at first instance in March 1955 before being over turned on appeal later the same year with the original dissolution being found valid 10 11 12 13 He had a son and two daughters with Bennett their son being born in March 1943 Juliet Nissen Bennett s daughter by her previous marriage was raised as Young s step daughter 14 Bennett and Young s youngest child was a three week old girl they adopted in 1966 when their first two children were already adults 15 13 16 Sexual misconduct allegation edit In 2022 actress Marguerite LeWars claimed on that Young sexually assaulted her in 1962 17 According to an interview with LeWars on the Reality 007 the incident occurred while the two were in a limousine on their way to a wrap party for Dr No Young repeatedly propositioned LeWars and when she refused groped her After LeWars rejected his advances Young threatened to cut her scenes out of Dr No Two months later Young telephoned LeWars at her home in Kingston and propositioned her again asking her to fly out to London to dub her lines When she refused he again threatened to cut her from the film LeWars stated this was the real reason for her voice having been dubbed over by another actress Death editYoung died of a heart attack in Cannes he was 79 18 Filmography edit1948 Corridor of Mirrors 1948 One Night with You 1948 Woman Hater 1950 They Were Not Divided 1951 Valley of Eagles 1952 The Tall Headlines 1953 The Red Beret 1955 That Lady 1955 Storm Over the Nile 1956 Safari 1956 Zarak 1957 Action of the Tiger 1958 No Time to Die 1959 Serious Charge 1960 Too Hot to Handle 1961 Black Tights 1961 Duel of Champions 1962 Dr No 1963 From Russia with Love 1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders 1965 The Dirty Game 1965 Thunderball 1966 The Poppy Is Also a Flower 1966 Triple Cross 1967 The Rover 1967 Wait Until Dark 1968 Mayerling 1969 The Christmas Tree 1970 Cold Sweat 1971 Red Sun 1972 The Valachi Papers 1973 War Goddess 1974 The Klansman 1977 Foxbat 1979 Bloodline 1981 Inchon 1984 The Jigsaw Man 1988 Run for Your LifeReferences edit a b c d Low Rachel 23 September 2004 Young Stewart Terence Herbert Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online ed Oxford University Press doi 10 1093 ref odnb 55863 Retrieved 10 September 2023 He came home to be educated and read history at St Catharine s College Subscription or UK public library membership required Law Johnathan 1995 Brewer s Cinema Cassell p 611 ISBN 0304342351 Retrieved 7 September 2023 British director a b Terence Young The Times 8 September 1994 p 19 Retrieved 11 September 2023 Terence Young British film director Terence Young was born in China of British parents He grew up partly there and partly in this country BFI ScreenOnline Young Terence 1915 1994 Retrieved 18 October 2012 Macintyre Ben 2009 For Your Eyes Only Ian Fleming and James Bond London England Bloomsbury p 187 ISBN 978 0 7475 9866 4 Terence Young s Post Bond Views Los Angeles Times 21 February 1967 e9 Spoto Donald 1992 Laurence Olivier New York City HarperCollins p 214 ISBN 978 0060183158 Wilson John 2005 The Official Razzie Movie Guide New York City Warner Books p 344 ISBN 0 446 69334 0 OCLC 56033390 Bowden Mark May 2002 Tales of the Tyrant The Atlantic Monthly Van Gelder Lawrence 24 August 1984 SCREEN JIGSAW MAN BRITISH SPY THRILLER New York Times p C4 Retrieved 11 September 2023 This time Mr Young is directing a film derived from a novel written by Dorothea Bennett his wife At Last She Knows Who Her Husband Is Daily Mirror 5 November 1955 p 5 Retrieved 11 September 2023 Decree Judgement Reserved Bradford Observer 24 March 1955 p 5 Retrieved 11 September 2023 a b Court Holds Woman s Second Marriage Lawful Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer 5 November 1955 p 7 Retrieved 11 September 2023 Hanging the Stars Kensington News and West London Times 21 May 1954 p 7 Retrieved 11 September 2023 Obituary Terence Young The Independent The Independent Independent co uk 15 September 1994 Graham Sheilah 29 October 1966 Her Kisses Reserved The Daily Colonist p 39 Retrieved 11 September 2023 Binley Alex 13 July 2022 James Bond actor breaks 60 year silence to claim Dr No director sexually assaulted her ITV News Retrieved 7 September 2023 Terence Young British Director Made 3 Early James Bond Films LA Times 9 September 1994 Retrieved 11 September 2023 Further reading editGerosa Mario 2009 Il cinema di Terence Young Piombino Il Foglio ISBN 978 88 7606 230 8 External links edit nbsp Biography portal Terence Young at the BFI s Screenonline Terence Young at IMDb The Independent 16 September 1994 Obituary Terence Young New York Times 9 September 1994 Terence Young 79 In 1960 s Directed 3 James Bond Films Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Terence Young director amp oldid 1216949668, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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