Terence Young

Terence Young, Director Three James Bond Movies, Dead at 79.

LONDON (AP) -- Terence Young, who directed the first, second and fourth of the hugely successful James Bond movies starring Sean Connery in the 1960's, died Wednesday, his daughter said. He was 79. Young died in a hospital in Cannes, in Southern France. His daughter, Juliet Nissen, said in London that she undertsood he had died of a heart attack.

Young directed the first of the Bond movies, "Dr. No", based on Ian Fleming's novels about British spy James Bond and starring Ursula Andress playing oppoiste Connery as Agent 007, in 1962. Mixing sex, violence and offbeat humor against expensive sets and exotic locations, "Dr. No" was a massive box office success and proved a winning formula for the other Bond movies. The second "From Russia With Love", again directed by Young and starring Connery, Robert Shaw and Daniela Bianchi, appeared in 1963. The third, "Goldfinger", firected by Guy Hamilton appeared in 11964 and the fourth "Thunderball", with Young back in the director's chair, in 1965.

Tall, uninhibited and effervescent, Young was born in Shanghai in China and directed many other movies. They included "Storm over the Nile" in 1955, "Triple Cross" in 1966, "Mayerling" in 1969, and "The Jigsaw Man" in 1984. But his Bond movies were the ones that proved most popular with audiences and they are still regularly shown on television.

Mrs. Nissen said her father was working on a documentary film in Cannes when he was taken ill. He is survived by two daughters and a son.

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