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HE HAS WORK FOR THE BRITISH SECRET SERVICE
AND NOW HOLDS THE SECRET NUMBER "007"
SIGNIFY AN AGENT HO HAS KILLED
HEIGHT: 183 CENTIMETRES
ALL ROUND ATHLETE
VICES: DRINK, AND WOMEN
Mr. Fleming, how does an author tackle the problem
of selecting a name for the hero of his stories?
When I started to write these books in 1952,
I wanted a really flat, quiet name.
And one of my bibles out here is James Bond’s Birds of the West Indies,
and I thought well now, James Bond,
now that’s a pretty quiet name
and so I simply stole it and used it.
60 YEARS LATER
NEW YORK CITY
Day one at an intro to theatre class,
the professor asks everyone to go around the room and say
where they saw themselves in 10 years,
after which every single actor chose to say
“And I'm gonna see my name in lights all over the country”
and somewhere in the back corner it got to me and I just said
THEATRE DIRECTOR “Yeah? Well my name’s James Bond
and it’s already in lights all over the country.”
Britain’s number one secret agent is back on the big screen this weekend...
In the new James Bond movie “Skyfall.”
Six different actors have portrayed James Bond in 23 films.
Daniel Craig is already signed up for two more movies.
Half of the world’s population has seen a Bond film.
The six months while the companies do their promotional prep, it starts.
It gets bigger and bigger as they go along to opening night.
It is a little bit like a plague of locusts almost,
LAWYER
it’s just crazy with the noise that’s created by it.
LONDON
A Bond film is still as big an event as ever,
the hype has been building for months,
expectations are higher than ever.
My God it’s enormous, I mean everybody knows James Bond,
everyone’s seen the films.
FORMER JAMES BOND
I’ve worked in a few different countries
and currently working in Iraq,
BRITISH ARMY and everyone knows who James Bond is.
Some of these people don’t even have a TV.
GUYANA
As I grew older
I went and watched every single one of them that came out.
“The Spy Who Loved Me” “From Russia with Love”
POLITICIAN They never stopped.
AUSTIN USA
My name is James Lee Bond.
I’ll be 87 the fifth day of September.
RETIRED OILMAN
I just never did care for James Bond, or his movies.
It wasn’t my prototype.
When the first James Bond movie hit our city, I was in the seventh grade.
If you were in the Assemblies of God Church
PREACHER you didn’t go to movies, it was forbidden.
But suddenly I picked up a new nickname,
I became ‘Double O’,
but to be honest with you, I was such a dork
the girls didn’t flock to me anyway.
Beginning to date women having the name James Bond
COMPUTER PROGRAMMER
when you cannot come up with a line on your own is outstanding.
It came in handy no doubt, no doubt.
INMATE 280938
It came in handy many a times, many a nights.
Most of the time it’s pretty good, occasionally it’s a curse.
It has been both a blessing and curse.
“The blessing and the curse” I call it, James Bond.
There’s a lot of James Bonds right so I can never get that email address,
no matter what.
So my email address is the.other.james.bond
I’m the other one!
Of course the number of people
don’t actually believe that you’re named James Bond
when you introduce yourself.
“What’s your name?” “James.”
“What’s your last name?” “Bond.”
HELICOPTER PILOT And she was like looking…
There’s sort of a pause
as if they’re waiting for you to correct what you’ve just told them.
You know, is that my real name?
“You think you’re the real James Bond, no?”
“Stop lying your name ain’t James Bond.”
And then it’s a whole series of “I loved this movie”
”Did you see the latest Daniel Craig movie?’
and all I really wanted was to have my credit card problem fixed.
Imagine being told the same joke
by a different person every day for a couple of decades.
About four or five times a day.
“Shaken not stirred.” I was like what the fuck is that?
Whoever got the first jamesbond@gmail.com
must feel very special…
Yeah and his name is probably fucking Tom.
One of the questions is always
“Did your parents know what they were doing?”
There must have been a conversation.
About the fact that they were calling me James Bond?
Well, I think the conversation literally was…
“So there’s been one movie, big deal.
For the first three years people will think he’s James Bond and we'll call him that,
and by the time he’s five or six people will have forgotten about it.”
Sequel was a pretty new concept,
so who knew they’d make the same damn film
for like every other year of my life.
You know I tend to excuse my parents and think
how could they possibly imagine where we would be in
20, 30, 40 years time with this
snowballing eternal franchise?
When's it going to stop? And I’ve accepted the fact now that it never ever is
and that there is not a corner of the globe...
that I am safe.
THE OTHER FELLOW
NYBRO SWEDEN
Is James Bond very popular in Nybro?
You mean James Bond from the films?
Men are in love with James Bond.
They are all more or less sexy.
What about Nybro’s James Bond?
He’s a local legend. Yes!
People think he’s a little bit crazy.
The rumours tell us that his father was a spy.
But you don’t know if it’s true or not.
Hello, this is Mr. Q speaking.
Mr. Bond is not available right now.
Please leave your name and telephone number
and Mr. Bond will call you up as soon as possible.
Alright let’s start, can you please tell me your name?
My name is Schäfer...
Oh, I’m sorry.
Cut. Let's cut.
My name is Bond. James Bond.
Now let's go to Nybro
there actually exists a James Bond here in real life.
My name is Bond, James Bond.
Quick question, what does your phone number end with?
Er…007.
When you come into my entrance
there’s a 007 sign across it.
So that’s 007,
but then the house number there is 10?
That's correct.
Does the postman get confused?
No.
I try to dress a bit like James Bond.
Omega watch, I must have of course.
I try to have the same hair as Pierce Brosnan does.
Bollinger champagne is the only thing I drink.
I like to drink them and I like to save them.
So every bottle I drink, I save them and put them here.
I will never marry.
James Bond never married.
Well actually he did and look what happened
in “On Her Majesty's Secret Service”.
She was killed.
LAKE COMO ITALY
Always when I go on a holiday I try to find a goal
so that I can go and do something that Bond has done.
My name is Bond, James Bond.
FILMING OF SPECTRE LONDON
I go all over the world
to see the places where the films are being recorded
and fantasise and think this is actually something I can take in.
Hello Daniel!
Ok, that's good, we got it.
Can I order one '007' pizza?
One '007' yes?
A family pizza.
It's my life.
Everything has to do with James Bond.
Can I just ask why… you've became James Bond?
I went through a lot of crisis as a child not having a dad.
About how to make the best for yourself
when you don't have the chance to find a role model
that you can look up to.
My Dad, Johannes Schäfer, was 28 years old
when he was called into the war...
and he was there until the end of the war in 1945.
NAZI-OCCUPIED DENMARK
Soldiers of the German Armed Forces:
The military struggle continues
to save the German people from annihilation
by the advancing Bolshevist enemy.
He was of a high ranking...
in the German fleet.
A lot of Germans, after Germany lost the war, tried to flee.
And if you did you would be automatically executed.
So he took the chance and took the boat out into the water.
He floated away in the ocean...
for 30 hours before they found him.
The Swedish fleet found him in the water...
and he was accepted to become
a Swedish citizen.
He met my mother five years later in 1950
and had three children.
I am the youngest one of them.
Then Dad went away on a holiday in 1959...
and he never came back.
But then I found a book by Ian Fleming
about another agent
from the other side.
And somehow I thought that
this could be my Dad's story
that Ian Fleming is writing about.
That’s where it started, where the first shot was fired.
The dream to try and become James Bond.
I used Fleming’s books and the films as my guide.
How to dress, how to behave, how to speak to women.
Everything my missing father would have taught me.
Today one might believe that we are in London
but the truth is that we are in Nybro.
In Sweden there is the world’s only exhibit for James Bond items.
The only one in the whole world.
He lives in his own James Bond Museum.
Here we have Pierce Bros...
This is ‘funny bunny’ machine. It's a rabbit with a gun.
The children like that.
Do you like your Martini ‘shaken not stirred’?
JAMES BOND MUSEUM
I try to get things like the Snow Scooter
from “Die Another Day”.
Ah, thank you! Thank you very much.
I can get a gondola that’s the same one from “Moonraker” the Bond film.
Finally after many years of waiting
I have a gondola to share with the people of Sweden.
I am getting the chills because this is so unreal.
One could almost cry from happiness.
A lot of people dream to try and be James Bond.
You get to do so many things that other people
don't get the opportunity to do.
I don't think you could actually be a James Bond
if you're not cool, you're not easily likeable,
you’re not a people person...
You can't be an introvert and be a James Bond, it's impossible.
I remember at school there were really cool kids
who wanted me to be around them because I was James Bond.
The name James Bond carries with it a lot of sense of hypermasculinity.
You know, martinis and womanising.
And while I love martinis, the womanising I'm not in for.
I pronounce you married.
There's a lot of stereotype associated with the character.
I never got into guns because of James Bond.
There's really nothing in my life
that I have ever done because James Bond does it.
“What car do you have?”
“Do you have Aston Martin?”
Like no, I just fly helicopters.
But I don't think that they believe me.
I've been a daredevil all my life.
Every since he got popular, they'd say
“he's the James Bond before there ever was a James Bond.”
PHILADELPHIA
Most of us know James Bond as the dashing British agent 007
JAMES BOND DEAD
but the real James Bond was a man from Philadelphia
who was famous in his own right studying birds.
DAVID CONTOSTA Biographer of James Bond
The obituary of the real James Bond
is a little different from the typical obituary.
The headline of it is “Bye, Bye Bond”
and the caption reads
“Will the real James Bond sign in, please?
Clockwise, from the bottom left:
Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and yes,
James Bond.
And so, even in death, he is being noticed in a sensational kind of way.
This morning I'm with Mr. James Bond in his home
at 1110 Hill House in Chestnut Hill.
Good morning Mr. Bond.
ORNITHOLOGIST
Could I begin by asking you
how you became interested in natural history and ornithology?
I'm particularly a specialist in zoogeography,
that's my main interest.
My particular area is the Caribbean
and how they got there and when they got there.
Mrs. Bond just how did Ian Fleming's 007 get his name?
Well I think my husband never thought the two worlds would cross
WIFE OF JAMES BOND
of the spy thrillers and natural history.
HOME OF JAMES AND MARY BOND 1960
BIRDS OF THE WEST INDIES
Tonight, in place of the programme originally scheduled,
a timely repeat of an interview of special interest.
Ian Fleming's name first appeared on the bookstands in 1953.
During each annual two-month period at Goldeneye,
his house in Jamaica, Ian Fleming wrote a new book.
Earning him a fortune of close to three million dollars.
Mr. Fleming, how does an author tackle the problem
of selecting a name for the hero of his stories?
When I started to write these books in 1952,
I wanted a really flat, quiet name.
And one of my bibles out here is James Bond’s “Birds of the West Indies”
which is a very famous ornithological book indeed
and I thought: “well now James Bond, now that’s a pretty quiet name”
and so I simply stole it and used it.
You say the book was one of your bibles
did you know the author or...
No, I've never met the author in my life
I knew nothing about him at all except that I used the book
to identify the birds of Jamaica.
He just admitted that he took it, just lifted it, stole it!
I know that no Englishman would take another Englishman's name like that,
but he thought he could get away with it with an American.
THE REAL JAMES BOND
Ornithologist Bond Has Literary Twin
Meet James Bond- who loves birds, not spy thrillers
What has all the publicity meant to your husband's peace of mind?
Well I think it disturbed his peace of mind
when things began to accumulate a little.
People... these youngsters call up late at night
and ask for my husband “is James there?”
This conspiratorial voice.
I think Jim was a shy man who was very focused in his scientific interest.
COLLEAGUE OF JAMES BOND
He didn't like any kind of recognition and he certainly didn't like 0 0 7.
He used to express that to me over and over again.
FIRST 007 FILM DR. NO TO HIS CINEMA SCREENS NEXT SUMMER
SEAN CONNERY CAST AS JAMES BOND
The wait is almost over for James Bond fans, 007 is back.
The new Bond film “Spectre” opening the 6th.
Dear, EVERYBODY.
I hope you enjoy your movie going experience this holiday weekend
but please don’t feel the need to
message me that you are in line for the movie,
or after to tell me it is the “Best Bond Film Ever!”
It may surprise you, but New York is a town with lots of media stimulation.
You don’t need to remind me that I share a common name
with a fictional character, created by Ian Fleming,
whose ensuing franchise has broken all records.
Nor do you have to inform me that one of his films opens this weekend.
Believe me, I AM AWARE.
Sincerely, James
When a film comes out there's like a gap of time
when everyone who has seen it has...
this cultural connection they want to share with me,
and they come up and they make comments
and I have no clue what they're talking about.
'Cause I don't know where James Bond went in that film,
I don't know what car he was driving.
I do know that Daniel Craig is blonde
because everyone wants to tell me that.
See, he fits the current Bond, isn't the current Bond blonde?
Yep -Yeah.
Do you think we've got the Daniel Craig look going?
No, he has a six pack and I have a keg.
You're about the same age...
Wow, really?
Yeah we are actually.
Well...
It’s nothing that a little workout can't fix.
I don't own that watch, I can't afford that car.
I don't want to date those women.
I find that I make horrible, horrible first impressions
because when I meet someone, I know that the stupid joke is coming,
whatever it is, there's gonna be one.
No one catches me off guard, I like, see this glint in their eye
and I'm aware that they're not seeing me for who I am
they're seeing me for this stupid iconic thing
that has nothing to do with me.
I've had reviews of my shows in The New York Times
and when I go to Google to get a copy of the review,
I'm nine pages down on Google
because all this other James Bond crap
that has nothing to do with me comes up way before me.
The category, now we're talking about the James Bond movies.
Top 10 Good Things about being named James Bond.
And now here to present tonight's Top 10 list
please welcome James Bond.
Every time that a film comes out,
someone has an idea for a gimmick using a real James Bond.
There are nine of us in New York that I know of.
Not only was I the first James Bond in the phone book,
I was the one who could be there in seven minutes.
Top 10 Good Things about being named James Bond. Number 10:
When my brother says, "Bond, Fred Bond,"
he just sounds like a jerk.
The Daily News did this thing for the ‘real James Bond of New York.’
So this is the first page of the article.
Then...
Is it a bit insulting that they put
the ‘fake James Bond’ on page one and you get put at the back?
I'm just the idiot who has the same name.
Some local New York paper wanted to do a story
on the ‘New York James Bond’
and he was looking around my apartment to find anything he could latch onto
so that I could be...
the ‘hip, urban, New York, womanising James Bond.’
After about 45 minutes of frustrating him
I finally said “Look, guy...
I'm gay, you're not gonna be able to find what you’re looking for.”
When the article came out…
you would have thought that I gave this interview
in red pumps and a boa
because all he could latch on to was
The ‘Gay New York James Bond, proud and free.'
But it was absolutely not who I was either.
And the number one good thing about being named James Bond:
Halle Berry once accidentally slept with me.
Wow…man…
I got a phone call and the woman sounded
like she expected me to hang up
and asked if my name was James Bond and then was very
quick to say she wasn't making a joke
and I said “yes” it was and she asked if I would mind
being in a commercial for an online casino.
No I don't get it 'cause you're like
'I hate this, I hate this, I hate this'
and you're doing something that's gonna make it worse.
There's like a chasm there between what you say and what you do.
There's not because this was my choice.
Because they're using me as a ‘real James Bond’
it adds an element of me to the crap.
I don't mind taking crap for stuff that I did
and stuff that I am.
The problem with the James Bond stuff is that it has nothing to do with me.
ATLANTIC CITY NEW JERSEY
Sir could I help you over here?
Sure.
- Sorry to keep you waiting. - No worries.
- How can I help you? - Checking in.
- Wonderful, last name? - Bond, B O N D.
B O N D, first name James?
- Actually yes. - Is it really!?
Yes.
Our client pala.com
wants to run a direct response commercial in New Jersey.
So, because it's gambling and it's casinos,
we thought it'd be quite a nice idea if we used James Bond
and obviously we can't use him because of... Legality problems.
It’s basically you saying “The name's Bond, James Bond.”
I'm sorry about this but...
- It's alright. - You must have done it so many times.
People constantly try and get me to say the infamous phrase
“The name is Bond...” etcetera and so forth
which I don't do.
Do you wanna just read aloud, we'll go through the script,
say all the lines and just, get the cadence right and
COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR get familiar with it?
The name's Bond, James Bond.
You can speak like Bond, I think that's...
Because you're clearly not him you can actually speak like
try and speak like Bond like cool, calm and sexy.
See that's exactly... so yeah, ok.
The name's Bond, James Bond.
And at the end you say, you know, you too can be like me James Bond
and the wife goes “Oh my God” you know, she...
Can you do that? Do the rolling of the eyes, yeah.
James hates to say “Bond, James Bond.”
Is there something happening today
that means he's got to say it like a hundred times?
Yeah, he's getting paid.
Alright, and action.
The name is Bond, James Bond.
When I'm in New Jersey and can't get to the casino,
I go to palacasino.com
That was great, you had the right tone and everything.
So think of this as
you just sped off in your getaway car, you're done, you're...
This is your one-liner, you're about to blow up the enemy.
Yep.
Little bit more sly, you're James Bond.
The name is Bond, James Bond.
Tone down the British for the “Bond, James Bond.”
The name is Bond, James Bond.
There's also a little bit of...
Too much of a pause between 'Bond' and then 'James Bon...
Yeah, it's gotta be 3 seconds...
The name is Bond, James Bond.
Yeah, yeah that was nice, just three more of those.
You're about to end the movie with an Aston Martin
flying through the casino.
You got the girl, you're about to blow up the evil compound.
Boom.
Bond, James Bond.
Pretend you have a martini glass in your hand...
When I'm in New Jersey and can't get to the casino,
I go to palacasino.com
And cut.
Are we gonna do the other states now?
Alright, second position.
The name is Bond, James Bond.
When I'm in Pennsylvania and can't get to the casino
I go to palacasino.com
- Great. - Nice.
So now it's California.
Oh my God, I'm gonna die.
They made me say 'Bond' etcetera and so forth
47,000 times.
They have also created a character for me that is absolutely not me,
complete with wife and gambling issues.
Sign up now and you too can be like me
Bond, James Bond.
The team is led by surgeon James Bond,
this MD's mission is to reduce...
Gunnar...
They have written '007' across it in béarnaise sauce.
They might as well have written 'cock' across it.
Mr. Bond was arrested earlier this week.
The Guyana Police Force might file charges against him.
Bond has denied all of the allegations.
When did you first get in trouble with the police?
You said when did I first get in trouble with the police?
Yeah, yeah.
I was 18 years old.
Obviously, I was still a young man.
It was kind of late, it was around like 9:30ish.
There's police lights behind me and I'm like oh great…
He turned the corner and we got pulled over
and they're like flashing the light all in our faces.
He said license and registration.
I didn't have a driving license, I didn't have a bank card.
“Where your ID at?”
“I don't have an ID.”
“I don't have one.”
And I reach into my back pocket and realise there's nothing there
and I'm like ah crap, here we go again.
I mean this has happened numerous times before so I already
kinda knew it was going to be a problem.
When your name is James Bond and you have encounters with the police
it's a good idea to have your ID with you.
So he's flashing the light on my face and he goes...
“You” and I'm like “Yes, sir?” he's like...
- ”What's your name?” - ”Tell me your name.”
When it got to me I’m like shit...
Oh shit, I'm about to die.
So I tell him “James” and he says
“You got a last name there, James?” and I said
“Bond”...
“James Bond” -“James Bond”
“My name James Bond.”
Then they all just think I'm a cocky little teenager
giving them some flack.
And so he reached through the window of the car
and grabbed me by my shirt
and said “You fucked with the wrong guy on the wrong day”
and proceeded to pull me through the window of the car.
He looked at me like I'm gonna give you one more chance to tell me the truth.
I'm telling the guy “Please, please, please,
my name really is James Bond.”
“My name is James Bond.”
“Man, my name James Bond.”
That right there was enough to get the guy to draw down on me.
Up from the holster and right in my face
and he’s like “Yeah right, and I'm Donald fucking Duck.
Get on the ground, get on the ground.”
He sort of calmed back down, had me stand at the back of the car,
went back to his car, ran my driver's licence,
came back and said “That's a cool name, son.”
And he went ahead and let me go.
I did get convicted of that.
Do you believe that? I did get convicted of that.
Because the judge said that I was obstructing the police officer
from doing his job
by me saying my name in a jokingly manner.
I looked at the judge like are you serious?
How can I say you know, James Bond in a jokingly manner
you know I just said my name and… yeah I had to do like…
60 days in county jail for that.
60 days!?
60 days.
That right there at that instant made me
look at them at a different way because I knew that I had a
long way to go with them, you know what I mean
by my name being James Bond and I'm Black.
INDIANA STATE PRISON
Oh hi Pam, this is Matt.
Hi Matt, you are on speakerphone.
Mr. James Bond is here and ready for the interview.
Hey, tell em, we smokin' in here
they don't like it, tell 'em oh well.
Tell 'em it's the real James Bond the Dark Knight.
I got this nickname the Dark Knight, I always called myself the Dark Knight.
See me being dark-skinned in the flesh, I'm the Dark Knight.
To me it would seem like a great way to stop the other kids calling you 007.
“I'm the Dark Knight!”
They'd never stop calling me 007, I still get that to this day
but I correct them because I don't like that.
I don't like to be called 007. Oh man that...
Them two names pisses me off the most being called 007 and calling me Jim.
You never want to be Jimmy Bond?
No because Jim is a white person name man
I already got another white person name.
James Bond and then Jim.
No I can't be all these white people. I can't... I can't do that.
SOUTH BEND INDIANA
How's he gone being named after 007?
Oh you just don't know, he played that part all his life.
JAMES' COUSIN
Yes he has.
He just thought he could do James Bond moves
all up and down the street, oh my God.
You know James Bond, the real James Bond he's handsome and...
So he takes pride in his...
His look, as he says 'The Dark Knight', so he...
“Oh James Bond don't have nothin' on me.”
So he'd do stuff like that, oh yeah he really gets into it.
I don't think anybody thought that Barack Obama
was going to be our President
so why not have a Black James Bond?
Do you think our James would make a good James Bond?
I think he'd make a good ‘South Bend James Bond.’
Everybody call him the Dark Knight.
He make sure you know to call him the Dark Knight.
I'm the only one who call him 007, I'm the only one that get away with it.
I call him ‘Double O-Dookie.’
JAMES' SISTER
You know why? Because Dookie is mess
and when he get messy that's what I call him.
I say “Where’s Dookie? Where's Double O-Dookie?”
ONE YEAR EARLIER
Tell me what happens on April 11th?
Well that night, it was a bad night in a bad situation…
It's kinda... I kinda like, you know
try to you know, block this out because it's...
It's an unfortunate situation but uh…
we was kickin' it that night…
Who is Ramon Hamilton?
I didn't... I didn't... I don't know him.
They tried to make him seem like
he was just ridin' around having a drink and smokin' weed
but he wasn't like no innocent bystander I'm not gonna sit here and say
that he was innocent or nothing but he was the aggressor.
But I didn't really know what was going on
until, you know…
pistols was drawn.
He was shooting, he was shooting.
He was shooting, I mean he was like
going crazy, I mean I don't know what...
I don't know what kind of demon he had caught that night.
You know, I struck out running.
I mean it was scary because I could have...
I could have got killed, you know?
What do the police believe happened?
They believe I killed him.
Elsewhere in SOUTH BEND, INDIANA
Where were you when you first heard about this?
So I come home for a nice dinner with the family…
In your name we pray Jesus, Amen.
All of a sudden my phone starts going off…
Between Facebook messages and text messages
about James Bond and “you're wanted for murder”
or “your murder license has expired” and…
Yeah I get crap all the time about people making fun of my name
but it was just one after another, after another.
I had to figure out what in the world was going on
so I jump on the computer,
I'm searching the internet
and sure enough it states clear as day on there that
“James Bond is wanted for murder from South Bend, Indiana.”
And I was like What? You gotta be kidding?
I didn't know there was any more James Bonds in South Bend?
Right now Police are investigating
a possible murder and searching for a suspect.
I'm part of an organisation called Turkey Tracks.
We take adults and children out with disabilities.
We have land that people let us hunt on, we get guns for them to use.
We started having customers calling our office.
There was a few parents out there not so sure they wanted
James Bond with a gun out in the woods with their son…
That's when it wasn't so funny anymore,
and I contacted the news centre as quickly as possible.
I asked “Is there any way you can get a picture
or something on there to clarify this?”
They responded so quickly on it
and they finally had a picture of him.
And all I was thinking to myself was
Please don't look anything like me.
James Bond Jr. of South Bend is charged with murder.
South Bend Police say Bond shot and killed
22 year old Ramon Hamilton... While robbing him.
Hamilton's body was found on the sidewalk.
Officers found Hamilton dead on Lindsay Avenue...
With a gun in his hand.
Police think the two men got into a shootout.
Bond faces a list of charges including robbery and felony murder.
…and yes, James Bond, that's really his name.
My nephew had called and told me…
He kept calling, kept calling, kept calling.
I picked up the phone being like “what you want?”
“Oh, man, you all on TV.”
I said “man stop lyin.”
“Oh, I'm not playin' man you all on the news.”
And I looked it up and there I was.
I said “Damn.”
I mean that's when the panic really started to sink in.
How'd that make you feel?
Shit I was cryin'.
I couldn't eat, I was sick, I was scared.
I mean, I was facing 130 years for murder.
Yeah that's a long time,
that’s a real long time.
Officers found Hamilton
dead on Lindsay Avenue with a gun in his hand.
Bond faces a list of charges including robbery and felony murder.
This is something that spreads pretty quickly especially with the name itself.
If there was a ‘Tom Johnson’ wanted for murder
I don't even know if they would have announced it on the news.
It became a big deal because they went on and on and on about it.
His name, in this case, is gonna haunt him.
All units, this is dispatch.
We have a location on a homicide suspect.
Name Bond, James.
I was out there smoking a cigarette and I could hear the sirens.
I didn't know what was going on
until I saw them pulling in the driveway…
…and all of them got out and drew their weapons on me and…
they told me to get on the ground.
I was like “What's this for?”
I was like “I didn't do nothin” you know what I mean?
He said “What's your name?” I was like “My name's David.”
He's like “David what?”
I said “Man, my name David Smith.”
He said “your name ain't David, your name is James Bond.”
A South Bend man has been arrested for murder,
his name: James Bond Jr.
Bond Jr. was taken into custody and is now being held in jail.
That trial is set to start in September.
Ah man, it was crucial man, I mean, it was terrible.
They had me on there for every day.
I mean they made the name James Bond stick out more.
I mean, double James Bond right there
I mean it made it stick out more, man, I mean…
You should have seen all the comments it got on Facebook and stuff.
“I object on the grounds that he had a Licence to Kill.
Gonna be a lot of jokes…”
Yeah there is.
“thought James Bond was a good guy”
See that right there, that would have pissed me off right there
like that's a stereotype.
“This never happened to the other fellow…”
“He would have never got caught.
Pretty funny.”
Yeah.
If I was the real James Bond I would never have got caught
because James Bond killed plenty of people
and he's still out there, you know what I mean?
So if he killed somebody hey…
OK well that's James Bo... That's the white James Bond!
You know, but the Black James Bond? Oh, he's doomed.
Why Daniel Craig is so over playing James Bond.
I don't want to think about it.
I want to think about other things, I want to go home.
Idris Elba rumoured to be on the shortlist to play 007.
But Anthony Horowitz told the Daily Mail
Idris is quote “too street.”
Saying it's not a colour issue, it's a question of being suave.
We have 50 years of white Bonds because Bond is white.
You know, to all my family I love y'all.
I'll be there soon,
hold tight, everything's gonna be alright.
The Dark Knight will return soon.
PHILADELPHIA 1964
JAMES BOND CURATOR OF ORNITHOLOGY
Did you ever feel like changing your name?
From James Bond? No!
WIFE OF JAMES BOND
One of his friends wrote to him and said
“Now don't go put an initial in there,
you're James Bond and we all know who you are.”
Fleming can just…
It made me mad because Jimmy... my Jimmy
is not the kind of person that would stand up to a thing like that
he'd just put his collar up and shrink away.
I didn't like that and I wanted Fleming to know
what kind of person this man was.
I finally wrote a letter to Fleming
and said it was inevitable that we should sooner or later catch up with you.
It came as a surprise when
that you had brazenly taken the name
of a real human being for your rascal.
I tell my JB that he could sue you for defamation of character.
Sincerely yours, Mary Wickham Bond
James, it does raise the obvious question.
If having this name is as bad as you say it is
why not just change it?
When I got to college, I tried to change my name and use my middle name
and as soon as my classmates
heard the name "James Bond" there was no choice.
I simply had to live with it.
People constantly think that this is something that I have chosen to do to myself
and, really, who would choose to do this to themself?
And actually the answer is someone who didn't grow up with it.
Stupid question, what's a name?
Sorry?
What's a name?
What do you mean, what's a name?
What's a name?
A name is something that identifies you.
Can you tell me what your original name is?
I can't tell you what my original name is.
What was your husband's name?
I can't tell you that either.
Was his name James Bond?
No.
LONDON 2002
I was 21 when I met him in London.
He came into the barbers where I was working
and he was quite charming and not bad looking I guess.
Obviously he appealed to me
and we got married two weeks later.
I don't think you ever know anybody prior to marrying them
because the real change that I saw
wasn't in the first six months of marriage.
It was after, when I found out that I was pregnant.
I couldn't understand why I was pregnant because I'd been very careful
but the contraception had been compromised somehow.
It had little holes in it.
So, yes…
Do you think your husband did this?
Well apart from myself and him in the home,
there was no one else and I knew I hadn't done it.
I was actually shopping and my waters broke,
so we went home and I cooked chilli con carne for my husband
before he took me into the hospital.
He was so tiny, he was like six pounds, six ounces and…
I never felt anything like that before that overwhelming joy.
I just wanted to do whatever I could to protect him.
So just talk me through how then he starts
getting suspicious and paranoid and starts locking...
I found his briefcase and I went to pick it up
and the lock was broken, it opened.
That's when I found that he had two identities.
Similar names, different dates of births.
I realised that this person that I was married to
wasn't the person that I thought he was at all.
Mostly it was mental abuse that he used to give to me.
Telling me that I was no good and that I was ugly
and that I was fat and I was useless.
We begin the programme tonight with Pierce Brosnan
at the premiere of the new James Bond Film.
The 20th in 40 years and Brosnan...
I think the important thing about this is at least it's happened
I mean they've separated and they've said so...
Claire Rayner was an ‘agony aunt’ on the morning programme.
I had written a letter to Claire Rayner asking her for advice
because he had isolated me from my friends and family
and I didn't feel there was anyone I could talk to and I…
I wanted... somebody else to tell me that I wasn't crazy,
I wanted confirmation that this behaviour was...
it wasn't right.
And your husband found the letter you wrote to her?
Yes.
When he started hitting me
I was scared shitless.
I went to go in the back garden and couldn't get out.
Then was looking for the keys and couldn't find them.
I tried the front door and it was locked
and that's when I realised that I was locked in the house.
What did you think he was going to try and do?
Well he told me that if ever I left him
he would steal my child and he would kill me.
I was very scared.
I didn't know what he was gonna do.
He used the Chubb key to lock the back door and the front door
so we were physically locked in the house.
SIX MONTHS LATER
It got worse and worse.
Sometimes he got angry if I cooked for him because he'd already eaten
and sometimes he'd be angry because I hadn't cooked because he hadn't eaten.
You know, there are people out there that are psychopaths.
I wouldn't say that I was willing to take it.
He made me feel that I deserved it.
I had to get to the point where I was more scared
to stay than I was scared to leave.
I woke up because my son was crying
and I couldn't see any reason why he was crying.
My husband had got his nails and stuck them in the cuticle of the nail bed
and I could see that it was very painful.
It's... it's…
That's what made me make the decision.
I actually had to get the police to break me out of my own home
and take me to the station.
He'd emptied my bank account
so I had five pounds left in my purse and that was all.
I left him with the clothes on my back.
I think in that first year we moved four times.
I couldn't go to my family’s-
I had to go to a family friend because he knew where my family lived
and I couldn't, basically, see my family for a long time after that.
I go to see a solicitor and file for divorce
of which part of is a ‘Prohibitive Steps Order’
preventing him from coming into the area.
But unfortunately...
all it does is serve to pinpoint where you are.
That's when I realised that my ex-husband didn't care about following the law.
All he cared about was trying to get what he wanted.
SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND Five Years Later
My son was the age to go to school.
We were told that my husband had died.
I was told that he was in a car accident.
I don't know how factual that is or not.
So I had informed the school
and shown them what my husband looked like.
I was a little relieved when I got told that he was dead,
I have to be honest about that.
I didn't want him to steal my child like he had threatened.
I was unfortunately very naive.
I get a phone call from school
telling me not to go to school to pick my son up,
that they think that his father's outside.
There's a guy hanging around and that they've phoned the police.
I was so scared.
He'd gone by the time the police had got there.
He didn't get arrested or anything.
And this is when the police advised you guys to change your names?
Yes.
He said that because they hadn't been able to catch him
that we would probably be better off trying to make ourselves invisible.
You know, not to go back to my maiden name
because obviously he knew what that was.
But to choose a completely different name...
something which was very popular in the UK...
something like ‘Smith’ or ‘Jones’…
Mr. Fleming, how does an author tackle the problem of
selecting a name for the hero of his stories?
I wanted a really flat, quiet name.
The best place to hide something is in plain sight.
They are predictable like the seasons,
they come out pretty much every two years like clockwork.
It is a little bit like a plague of locusts,
it's crazy with the noise that's created by it.
My god it's enormous I mean everybody knows
James Bond, everyone's seen the films.
I can never get that email address.
I'm nine pages down on Google
because all this other James Bond crap
that has nothing to do with me comes up way before me.
And I thought, well now James Bond, now that’s a pretty quiet name.
I'm actually not a huge James Bond fan
but I wanted a name that, if somebody searched for that name,
they would have to spend hours looking through so much stuff
to be able to find…
their son.
Courts of England and Wales MINORS CHANGE OF NAME
When you are looking for something
if it’s often right under your nose, you don't see it.
I mean, what person in their right mind would call their son James Bond?
It seemed like the craziest, sanest idea I had.
And so I simply stole it and used it.
Name Change Complete
The name James Bond to me means my identity.
My personality.
In 2006, I applied at the tax agency for the name James Bond.
The Tax Agency in Sweden are not very easy to work with
when it comes to name changes.
So I wrote “Bond” first
and “James” afterward.
So that I could say:
“My name is Bond James, Bond.”
It went through in 2007...
and 2007 is
0-0-7
and that only happens
one time in every 1000 years.
My name is Bond, James Bond. Good morning.
Good morning Mr. Bond.
Gunnar James Bond Schäfer!
By doing it this way it underlines this is serious.
I really wanted to show that I am this kind of person.
This is who I really try to be.
Should we call you Gunnar or James?
James, or 007 even.
All the papers wrote about it.
It was in every magazine, every news program.
I had a lot of expectations on this as I love Bond
but this just lowered them.
How do you say, the whole 'imitating' thing of Bond
I don't think was very good.
I used it in a way to...
search for my missing father
and through that try to find myself.
I will keep on chasing and finding clues
and try to get a network and get more information.
The journey has just begun.
I've been looking forward to meeting you and now...
this feels so unreal to finally come here
to meet you in this way.
This is something I've dreamt of my whole life.
I really feel you are my second father,
you are my stepfather, you are my guardian, you are the dad I never had.
You are the person that has given me hope in life.
That has made me whole again.
You say the book was one of your bibles.
Did you know the author or...?
No, I've never met the author in my life.
I knew nothing about him at all except that I used the book
to identify the birds of Jamaica.
Dear Mrs. James Bond,
I don’t know where to being to ask your forgiveness.
I can only offer my limitless apologies
I will confess at once that your husband
has every reason to sue me.
In return, I can only offer your James Bond
unlimited use of the name Ian Fleming.
Perhaps he will discover some particularly horrible
species of bird which he can name after me.
Sincerely, Ian Fleming
In this folder we have this photograph of the day
that the real James Bond met Ian Fleming at Goldeneye.
Fleming had invited them to stop by
if they were ever in Jamaica, and they caught him by surprise.
GOLDENEYE ORACABESSA BAY, JAMAICA
What was the reaction of Ian Fleming
when he first met you for the first time...
ORIGINAL ARCHIVE. FEBRUARY 5TH 1964 Oh it was wonderful,
because when we drove into Oracabessa,
we didn't announce ourselves, and a lovely woman came out.
We learned her name was Violet.
We said “Is Mr. Fleming here?”
“Oh yes” she said. “Who is calling?”
And Jimmy said very strongly
“Mr. and Mrs. James Bond!”
and Violet practically blanched.
She thought she was seeing a zombie, you know.
So when we had lunch with him there at Oracabessa,
he was still very much worried that we had come to sue him
and I had a little fun with him in that respect
but he really was worried.
When the Bonds left, Fleming gave to Jim
a copy of his forthcoming book “You Only Live Twice”
and signed it...
“To the real James Bond, from the thief of his identity.”
Ian Fleming book with message to ‘real James Bond’ auctioned for $84,000
INDIANA STATE PRISON
How long have you been with her for?
I've been with her six years. She's like the love of my life.
I mean like she…
without her, man…
I probably wouldn't even be alive right now.
Somebody's coming out the door!
Oh my god… I know it's him.
Oh really?
- I see people... - Is it him?
I see people moving but I don't know.
JAMES' GIRLFRIEND
- Is it him!? - I don't know… I hope so.
Yes, yes, yes!
Hey everybody, how y'all doin'.
I got found not guilty of felony murder and robbery
and with the murder they uh... I got a hung jury,
so they can bring this back up any time they want to.
So I think they're tryin' to gather more evidence of what's goin' on.
I didn't shoot nobody so, I don't know…
You know, I don't know what else they want me to do?
It felt damn good, I was goin' home man,
I was goin' home.
They're able to associate a shooting with James Bond,
who obviously is well known for things of that nature.
They kind of imply a lot more in the media
then what really was happening.
They believe he was in a shootout,
well they never saw him shooting a gun,
they never came up and found him with a gun in his hand.
They wanna bring up the big deal about “Oh look everybody, listen,
James Bond's wanted for murder!”
But now we found that he's not wanted for murder.
Why wasn't that on the you know, the five o'clock news?
Why wasn't that on at six AM in the morning?
I know when I had caught that little case.
I mean I know you was catching it too, weren't you?
Oh yeah, 'cause I go to people's homes
and so we had people calling, saying
“Is that the James Bond that was just at my house?”
And so they would call and say, you know,
“OK well James Bond will be coming out to do your evaluation.”
They're like, “The one that's wanted for murder?!”
It was a scary situation.
I mean real scary.
That's where your name was not an advantage.
Right!
Everyone remembers meeting James Bond.
It sticks to 'em.
NO TIME TO DIE IN CINEMAS SEPTEMBER 30
My Dad's name is James Hart
and he used to be called James Bond.
Did you always want to change your name?
I'd never given it a thought through 32 years.
If we hadn't had you then I would still have it today.
And James Hart sounds good.
- Yeah, I like it... - Maybe not as good as James Bond but…
Well James Bond comes with a lot of baggage which I'm very happy to...
If James Bond wasn't famous, it's quite a good name anyway...
Yes, it's a strong name, it's good.
Do you think you'd get teased at school if your name was Esme Bond?
I don't think so, because I've told my friends about Daddy being called James Bond
and saying I could have been called Esme Bond
and they'd be like “Oh my God, that would be so cool.”
So they all think it's cool.
Also I don't really have any people that don't like me, which is good.
Are you saying all the people teasing me didn't like me?
- Yeah. - Really? I'd never thought of that.
Oh my God. You think that's why!?
Is James Hart happier than James Bond was?
James Hart is definitely much happier.
What I have is a lightness of being now.
There is nothing I miss.
CANCELLED
I mean nothing I miss, at all.
There may have been the odd moment when it felt cool to be James Bond
but they are so outweighed by...
you know the rest of the mire that I didn't ask for.
No I'm very happy, very very happy without it.
Final question: What would you say to parents
who are thinking of calling their child James Bond?
Don't.
My name is James Bond and my age is eight.
I go to every single James Bond movie
and I never have to pay for myself.
Which is another reason why I named my son James Bond
because I'm a cheap bastard
and the more of us there are, the less tickets I have to buy.
All of us have different middle names.
My Dad's middle name is Lee,
my middle name is Neal,
James' middle name is Andrew
and his son's middle name is Cesar.
None of us are juniors.
Even though you have this family tradition
of handing down the James Bond name
I'm sure Marissa had a conversation about whether or not
this was something to continue with?
When I told her, you know,
I'd like to go ahead and pass the name down,
we actually had a few different conversations.
The first one was
“Are you crazy?”
Do you know why we're making this film?
'Cause you wanna know what it's like to be a James Bond.
Have you had any experiences where people realise
that you share a name with the world's most famous secret agent?
When I started football
they made me number 7 and my nickname's 007 on the team.
They always go “It's James Bond.”
They always do that.
By you doing this film,
this in a way has become a therapy for me.
I am much less annoyed by it now than I was in the beginning,
partially because I'm friendly with another half dozen James Bonds
that I would not have known were it not for you.
It's a pain in the ass.
My father was a James Bond fan.
The house that I grew up in, the phone numbers were 007.
So it's not like I'm the only person I know who deals with it
and there is kind of a quality...
of a support group if you will.
SOMEHWHERE IN ENGLAND
I had to change my name too, because we were a family
and we got on a train and we left as the Bonds
and we never returned.
I remember the night we left quite well.
I just remember my mum saying “Come on...
we're going now. It's gonna be OK.”
It's a big day for James Bond fans because the new 007 film
“No Time to Die” is launched in London later.
At the time, I had no idea what I'd let myself into
for the rest of my life.
It definitely built my character and made it stronger.
Made me who I am today.
I really don't care what anyone thinks about me.
It's not just a name that defines somebody.
It is the way that they're brought up.
I think James is a really nice person.
He's very caring. He's very protective.
James suits being James Bond.
I still think that I've done the right thing, actually.
What matters is the fact that he's never found us since.
My mother's a very clever person.
She thinks of a good idea she'll be like boom, do it.
What was your original name?
My original name?
No matter how many times I'm asked this,
no one will never know the answer to it.
That's not me. My father gave me that name
and he is no part of me whatsoever.
If he ever come near me or my family ever again
I would hurt him.
I absolutely hate the thought of him finding us.
So the fact that picking that as my name
had something to with him
not being able to get in contact with us is just brilliant.
I suppose that one day James will look after me and protect me
when I'm an old lady.
If someone's giving me grief
I'd probably just chase them with my walking stick and hit them myself.
Don't forget I'm a Bond as well.
Bond is finally back...
Because the new 007 film “No Time to Die”
is finally being launched...
The world premiere takes place at the Royal Albert Hall in London...
With the red carpet rolled out...
For the World Premiere of the latest James Bond film...
Daniel Craig’s last performance as Bond, James Bond…
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IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE IDENTITY AND WHEREABOUTS OF ITS
PARTICIPANTS CERTAIN SEQUENCES OF THIS DOCUMENTARY HAVE
HAVE BEEN RESTAGED WITH ACTORS AND/OR IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS
If you have any knowledge of the whereabouts of Johannes Schäfer
please contact Gunnar Bond James Schäfer at the James Bond Museum, Nybro, Sweden
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BUT JAMES BOND WILL RETURN