British film director Guy Hamilton, who worked on
four James Bond movies, has died at the age of 93 in Majorca.
Hamilton directed Sean Connery in "Goldfinger"
and "Diamonds are Forever" and Roger Moore in "Live and Let
Die" and "The Man with the Golden Gun".
He also worked with Michael Caine in the Harry
Palmer spy thriller "Funeral in Berlin".
He directed two Agatha Christie adaptations:
"The Mirror Crack’d" with Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple and
"Evil Under the Sun" with Peter Ustinov as Poirot.
He was British Director Carol Reed's assistant for
five years, but moved to become a director after World War II.
Hamilton went to school in England but his family
lived in France and he started his career in French cinema in the 1930s.
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