006
British Secret Service code name for Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean) in GoldenEye. He’s now Janus, head of a Russian crime syndicate.
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UNITED ARTISTS
Motion-picture production and distribution company founded in 1919 by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, and D. W. Griffith. Since 1962, it has released every James Bond film except Casino Royale (Columbia Pictures) and Never Say Never Again (Warner Brothers).
UNITED NATIONS
Site of a British agent's assassination in Live and Let Die. It's the first of three killings performed by the agents of island diplomat and drug smuggler Dr. Kananga (YAPHET KOTTO). At the UN, Dawes, the agent, is killed
UNITED STATES
Fourth target selected in the Domination video-game battle between Largo (KLAUS MARIA BRANDAUER) and James Bond (SEAN CONNERY) in Never Say Never Again. It's worth $42,000, and Largo wins, sending a powerful shock to Bond, which topples
UNIVERSAL STUDIOS BACKLOT
Shooting site of the madcap parking-lot car chase in Diamonds Are Forever. It simulated the parking lot of downtown Las Vegas’s Mint Hotel.
UNIVEX
The abbreviation for Universal Exports, used by Bond (SEAN CONNERY) when he calls Miss Moneypenny (LOIS MAXWELL) from the car phone in his Bentley, in From Russia with Love.
VA-402
Identification number of the St. Georges, a British surveillance and communications ship disguised as a Greek fishing trawler in For Your Eyes Only. Carrying the registry of Valletta, a Greek city
VAN NUTTER, RIK
Handsome, silver-haired American actor, briefly in feature films, who portrayed Felix Leiter in Thunderball. Van Nutter (pronounced “Van NOOT-er”) was married to actress Anita Ekberg in the early 1960s, and it was through the couple’s friendship with Bond producer Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli and his wife, Dana, that Van Nutter was first considered for the role of Leiter.
VANDENBERG
U.S. Air Force base in California that is the launch site for Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s (CHARLES GRAY) laser satellite in Diamonds Are Forever. The same base is also the launch site for a shuttle carrying U.S. space forces in
VANNER, SUE
Stunning British blonde, briefly in films and television, who played the Log Cabin Girl who betrays 007 (Roger Moore) to the KGB in the pre-credits teaser of The Spy Who Loved Me.
VARGAS
Lean, sullen SPECTRE henchman portrayed by Philip Locke in Thunderball. According to his boss, Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi), Vargas is a passionless man who doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, and doesn’t make love. What does Vargas do? He’s a killer, pure and simple
VARIG FLIGHT 128
Jaws's (RICHARD KIEL) airline flight to Rio de Janeiro in Moonraker. In a humorous moment, his cobalt-steel teeth trigger the flight's security device. Jaws smiles at the attendant and moves on.
VASSAR
In Moonraker, it's where Dr. Holly Goodhead (LOIS CHILES) tells James Bond (ROGER MOORE) she went to college. It's also where she learned to fight.
VAVRA
Fiery gypsy leader portrayed by Francis De Wolff in From Russia with Love. Bond (Sean Connery) saves his life when Bulgarian assassins attack the gypsy camp. For that effort, Vavra honors 007 by letting him know he now considers Bond to be his “son.”
UNIT 25
Code name of the San Monique motorcycle and automobile units in Kananga's (YAPHET KOTTO) employ in Live and Let Die. They eventually chase Bond (ROGER MOORE) and Solitaire (JANE SEYMOUR), who have commandeered an old British double-decker bus.
UNDERWATER INFRARED CAMERA
One of the gadgets supplied to 007 (SEAN CONNERY) by Q (DESMOND LLEWELYN) in Thunderball. Bond uses it to take pictures of the Disco Volante's underwater hatch. It takes eight pictures in rapid succession.
UNDERWATER HATCH
An important feature of the Disco Volante yacht in Thunderball. Employing an army of frogmen in Nassau, Largo (ADOLFO CELI) uses the hatch to move the hijacked A-bombs from the wrecked NATO bomber to their underwater storage cave. Later,
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‘–>DO NOT GO INTO VISUAL – KEEP AS TEXT A deadly rogues’ gallery has always been a 007 series hallmark. Bond’s enemies include the following: Film Name Manner of Death Casino Royale (TV) Le Chiffre Shot Dr. No Dr. No Drowned Professor Dent Shot Mr. Jones Goldfinger Goldfinger Blown out a window …
TWO TONS
The amount of free heroin Dr. Kananga (YAPHET KOTTO) plans to distribute through his chain of American Fillet of Soul nightclubs in Live and Let Die. The shipment has a U.S. street value of $1 billion. The impact should put his competitors
TWO WEEKS
The amount of time 007 (SEAN CONNERY) has devoted to the unusual war games conducted by M (EDWARD FOX) in Never Say Never Again. M claims that Bond's record is suspect. After all, he was killed once. On another occasion
TYLER, KELL
Shapely actress who portrayed Linda, the bored jet-setter whose "drop-in" yacht guest turns out to be the new 007 (TIMOTHY DALTON), in The Living Daylights teaser.
TYNAN, DR.
Plastic surgeon who designs the Blofeld clones in the Diamonds Are Forever teaser, portrayed by DAVID DE KEYSER, who dubbed the voices of actors GERT FROBE and GABRIELE FERZETTI for previous Bond films.
US NAVY AQUA-PARAS
Adversaries of SPECTRE spymaster Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi) in the final underwater battle of Thunderball.
UDAIPUR, INDIA
Beautiful city on the subcontinent that became a principal filming location in Octopussy. Founded in 1559 by Maharana Udai Singh II, it is known as the City of Sunrise. Shooting began there on September 21, 1982, and continued for three weeks.
UDELL, RONALD
Pinewood Studios construction manager, and production designer Ken Adam’s right-hand man on many of the early James Bond films. Udell’s motto, which Adam took literally, was “If you can draw it, we can build it.”
UK 40401
The number on James Bond's (SEAN CONNERY) Playboy Club membership card in Diamonds Are Forever. Tiffany Case (JILL ST. JOHN) finds the card on the body of Peter Franks (JOE ROBINSON) after Bond switches their billfolds
UNCLE
Q's (DESMOND LLEWELYN) cover in Isthmus City in Licence to Kill. While supplying Bond (TIMOTHY DALTON) with illegal weaponry—007 is a rogue agent—Q also plays 007's chauffeur.
UNDER THE PRESIDENT’S FEET
The site in Washington, D.C., where SPECTRE plants one of the hijacked nuclear warheads in Never Say Never Again. It's recovered in time, thanks to James Bond (SEAN CONNERY), who also helps recover the second bomb in the Tears of Allah archaeological dig.
UNDERDOWN, EDWARD
British actor who portrayed Sir John, the Air Vice Marshall in Thunderball.
UNDERWATER BATTLE
The huge action-filled concluding sequence in Thunderball. It was filmed in segments over a period of six days in the waters off Nassau, with sixty divers from Miami-based Ivan Tors Studios. One important sequence was filmed around a sunken U.S. Navy landing craft where, where Bond (Sean Connery) lures two SPECTRE frogmen to their deaths.
