John Stears

John Stears

Birth : 1934-08-25, Uxbridge - Hillingdon - Middlesex - England - UK

Death : 1999-06-28

Profile

John Stears

Movies

Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun"
Terence Young: Bond Vivant
Documentary on the career of director Terence Young.
The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond
Documentary looking at the special effects from the bond movies and the men who created them. Narrated by Marie Clairu.
Ken Adam: Designing Bond
A look at the Oscar-winning production designer.
Inside Q's Lab
Inside the lab of Q
Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
Harry Saltzman: Showman
The story of Harry Saltzman, producer of the first James Bond movies.
Inside 'From Russia with Love'
Himself
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "From Russia with Love".
Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'
Self
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Thunderball".
Babylon 5: The Gathering
Special Effects Coordinator
The first installment of this Emmy award-winning series. A movie based at Babylon 5: a new space station built by Humans. The Vorlon ambassador, Kosh, has been poisoned. It is the new commanding officer's, Jeffrey Sinclair, responsibility to find the culprit. Otherwise the space station will fail in its role to bring all the races together.
The Bounty
Special Effects Supervisor
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
Outland
Special Effects
An honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cost him his life. After his wife angrily deserts him, he waits alone for the arrival of killers hired by the company to eliminate him.
The Man with the Golden Gun
Special Effects
Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths with the menacing Francisco Scaramanga, a hitman so skilled he has a seven-figure working fee. Bond then joins forces with the swimsuit-clad Mary Goodnight, and together they track Scaramanga to a Thai tropical isle hideout where the killer-for-hire lures the slick spy into a deadly maze for a final duel.
O Lucky Man!
Special Effects
This sprawling, surrealist comedy serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in modern Britain.
Theatre of Blood
Special Effects
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
Sitting Target
Special Effects
Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beautiful wife Pat will be waiting for him, but a visit from Pat brings him his worst nightmare.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Special Effects
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.
Thunderball
Special Effects
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
Goldfinger
Special Effects
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.
From Russia with Love
Special Effects
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.
Call Me Bwana
Special Effects
A returning moon capsule goes off course and lands in Africa where a little-known tribe finds it. Washington sends Matthew Merriwether to recover it—thinking he's an expert on the region—when in fact he's no such thing. However, a foreign power sends Secret Agent Luba to try and acquire the capsule for itself and, when Matthew and Luba reach their destination, they find that the tribe believes the capsule to be sacred and won't give it up.