Ken Adam
出生 : 1921-02-05, Berlin, Germany
死亡 : 2016-03-10
略歴
Sir Kenneth Hugo Adam, OBE was a British movie production designer, best known for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for Dr. Strangelove. He won two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction.
The legendary production designer Ken Adam, aged 93, cigar in hand, brandishes his Flo-Master one last time to conjure up the year 1962 and the iconic War Room he created alongside Stanley Kubrick in Dr Strangelove.
Self
One of the most controversial, original and loved figures of Italian cinema. The most censored director of all time. An anarchist of the film, a gifted experimenter, an inventor of dreams. A truly great artist.
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The story of three men with a shared dream: James Bond franchise producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and Bond creator and author Ian Fleming. It’s the thrilling and inspiring narrative behind the longest running film franchise in cinema history, which began in 1962.
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A look at a museum exhibition that celebrates the Bond franchise from a design perspective: costumes, sets, concept art, props, etc. We get a multi-sensory experience, immersing audiences in the creation and development of Bond style over its auspicious 50 year history.
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Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
Production Design
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing.
Documentary exploring the famous title sequences used in the Bond movies. Narrated by Patrick Macnee. Included on the 'You Only Live Twice' Bluray disc
Documentary on the career of director Terence Young.
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A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film Dr. No.
Self - Production Designer
A documentary on the making of Stanley Kubrick's classic 1964 film.
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A documentary about the making of Stanley Kubricks 1964 film Dr Strangelove Or: How I Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and his career leading up to this film.
A documentary about the work of Peter Lamont.
Documentary looking at the production of the James Bond movie 'Moonraker'. Narated by Patrick Macnee.
A look at the Oscar-winning production designer.
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me"
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Diamonds are Forever"
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice"
The story of Harry Saltzman, producer of the first James Bond movies.
Himself
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "From Russia with Love".
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Three hapless directors arrive in England from Italy to make a documentary on their idol. The funny thing is, they have no interviews lined up! Not to worry, these guys have a miracle or two that they call in.
Production Design
The adventures of married couple Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for Henry's job interview.
Behind-the-scenes look at more than three decades of the James Bond feature film series.
Production Design
インディアナ州の小さな町に暮らすハワード・ブラケットは、誰からも好かれる高校教師。恋人であるエミリーとの結婚も決まっていた。かつての教え子キャメロンは俳優となり、ついに今日、アカデミー賞の栄冠に輝いたのだった。そして迎えた受賞スピーチ。町中の人々がテレビに見入っていた。しかし、彼の言葉に誰もが耳を疑った——。“ブラケット先生はゲイです”かくして、町中を揺るがす大騒動の幕明けとなるのであった。
Production Design
Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.
Himself
Exploring the reputation of Stanley Kubrick by means of extracts from his work and contributions of people with whom he worked.
Self
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Thunderball".
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Goldfinger".
Production Design
1788年の英国。国王ジョージ3世が突然錯乱して王室は大混乱。この英国王室史上最大のスキャンダルをどう収めるのか? 国王をめぐる王室の人々のそれぞれの思惑が巡って……。その行方は?
Production Design
アダムス家の当主ゴメスと妻のモーティシアとの間に３人目となる男の赤ちゃんが誕生。ピューバートと名付けられ、その乳母としてデビーという女性が雇われる。子供の面倒をよく見るデビーをゴメスとモーティシアは信頼するが、長女ウェンズデーだけは彼女の正体を知っていた。実はデビーは金持ちの独身男と結婚して財産をせしめては殺す連続殺人鬼。ゴメスの兄フェスターに近付くため、乳母としてアダムス家にやってきたのだった。
Himself
An examination of why the James Bond films have proved so popular including a discussion between the four actors who have played Bond, an interview with Cubby Broccoli and contributions from the directors, production designers, special effects and stuntmen.
Production Design
An aging agent is called back by "the Company" to run a hostage trade of a Soviet spy for an American agent.
Production Design
After a film student gets his belongings stolen, he meets a mobster bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. Soon, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.
Production Design
Los Angeles homicide detective Jerry Beck searches for the murderer who killed a police officer on Christmas Eve. The investigation takes Beck inside the violent world of hate groups and white supremacists, who are hatching a deadly plot to attack even more innocent people. Beck must also confront his own personal demons, including his growing problem with alcohol, if he wants to track down and stop the violent neo-Nazis before it is too late.
Production Design
India, 1825: the country lives in mortal fear of cult members known as the “Deceivers." They commit robbery and ritualistic murder. Appalled by their activities, an English military man, Captain William Savage, conceives a hazardous plot to stop them. In disguise, he plans to himself become a “Deceiver” and infiltrate their numbers. Ever present in Savage’s adventures is a sense of dread; he is in constant fear of betrayal and vengeance and also undergoes a disturbing psychological transformation as he experiences the cult’s blood lust firsthand.
Production Design
ピューリッツァー賞の戯曲をもとに描かれた物語。ミシシッピーの小さな町で祖父の面倒を看る長女のもとに帰ってきた二人の妹。久々の対面を果たす三姉妹だったが、それぞれに傷つき悩みを抱えていて……。
Production Design
When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.
Production Design
This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.
Production Design
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.
Associate Producer
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.
Production Design
イギリスへ輸送中の、アメリカのスペース・シャトル、ムーンレイカーが何者かによって奪われた。事件の調査に乗り出したボンドは、背後に、人類抹殺を計画する組織があることを突き止める……。前作でも登場した、鋼鉄の歯を持つ殺し屋ジョーズが不死身の大活躍をみせる。主題歌シャーリー・バッシー。
Ken Adam
Behind the scenes of 'The Spy Who Loved Me', produced by The Open University.
Production Design
核ミサイルを搭載した英潜水艦「レンジャー」とソ連潜水艦「ポチョムキン」が突如消息を絶った。調査を命ぜられたボンドはエジプト・カイロへ飛び、そこで同じ目的でソ連が派遣したKGBの女スパイ、アニヤと出会う。 共同で任務に当たるが、事件の直前、オーストリアでボンドに差し向けられ、返り討ちにあったソ連の殺し屋が彼女の恋人だった。「この任務が終わったら、あなたを殺すわ」そう言われたボンドは彼女と共にアメリカ海軍の潜水艦に乗り込み、怪しいとにらんだストロンバーグ海運のタンカーに接近する。 ストロンバーグは米ソを核攻撃し、世界を壊滅させ、海の世界を作ろうとしていた…。
Production Design
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attemts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.
Production Design
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl named Margherita discovers the little ploy and with Kitty's help plans to take on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.
Production Design
18世紀ヨーロッパ貴族社会の風俗や世界観を鮮やかに再現し、日和見主義で英国貴族に成り上がっていくアイルランド青年の栄華と没落の半生を描いたヒューマン・ドラマ。
Production Design
A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game — but the game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
Production Design
A mystery novelist devises an insurance scam with his wife's lover – but things aren't exactly as they seem.
Production Design
イギリス秘密情報部員007ことジェームズ・ボンドは、上司Mよりダイヤモンド密輸ルートの解明を命ぜられる。ボンドは運び屋のピーター・フランクスにすり替わって、監視役の女ティファニー・ケイスの手引きでニューヨークへダイヤを運び、そこで中央情報局（CIA）を退職してピンカートン探偵社に勤める旧友のフェリックス・ライターと再会する。密輸ルートを仕切っていたのは、アメリカのギャング団スパングルド組で、ボンドはライターの協力を得ながらラスベガスまで調査を進め、組織の謎の首魁ABCの正体を突き止める。ボンドは寝返ったティファニーとクイーン・エリザベス号でアメリカから脱出し、船上で組織の殺し屋ウィントとキッドを返り討ちにすると、フランス領ギニアでABCを葬り密輸ルートを壊滅させる。
Middle-Aged Man (uncredited)
Meek, owlish Felix and strident, catty Doris live in the same apartment building. His incessant typing bothers her; her gentlemen callers bother him. Felix informs the landlord of her activities, so Doris moves in on Felix. When they both get thrown out, they move in with Barney... until they drive him out! That's when Felix and Doris finally decide to put theory into practice. But do opposites attract?
Production Design
Meek, owlish Felix and strident, catty Doris live in the same apartment building. His incessant typing bothers her; her gentlemen callers bother him. Felix informs the landlord of her activities, so Doris moves in on Felix. When they both get thrown out, they move in with Barney... until they drive him out! That's when Felix and Doris finally decide to put theory into practice. But do opposites attract?
Production Design
ジェームズ・ヒルトンの名作文学に基づくミュージカルを、ピーター・オトゥール主演で映画化。教育熱心だが人気のない“チップス先生”ことアーサー・チッピングの、恋あり騒動ありの人生をみずみずしく描く。
Production Design
「007」シリーズのI・フレミングの原作童話をシャーマン兄妹のスコアでミュージカル化した、ファミリー・ピクチュアの大作。男やもめで二人の子連れの発明家（D・ヴァン・ダイク）は生活力はないが夢多き好人物。その改造オンボロ車が突然意思を持ち空を飛んだり楽しい限りの冒険に彼ら一家と、冒頭、車の事故で知りあった大手製菓会社（この工場を舞台にしたプロダクション・ナンバーが派手でケッサク）の令嬢を誘う。豊富なディテールの遊び心を堪能したい。
Production Design
米ソの宇宙ロケットが、次々と行方不明になるという事件が発生した。事件の背後にスペクターの影を見いだした英国情報部は、真相究明のため、ジェームズ・ボンドを日本に派遣する。日本の情報部局長、タナカの助けを得て、ボンドはスペクターの秘密基地に潜入するが……。ボンドの宿敵、ブロフェルドをD・プレザンスが演じたシリーズ第5作。
Production Design
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.
Production Design
MOS型核弾頭2基を搭載したイギリス空軍機が、NATOの訓練飛行中に消息を絶ち、謎の組織スペクターが1億ポンド相当の金塊を要求してきた。イギリス秘密情報部員ジェームズ・ボンドは、上司Mが空軍機の消えた先と睨んだバハマに派遣される。そこでは、スペクターの幹部エミリオ・ラルゴが、宝探しのふりをして海底に沈めた空軍機から原爆を回収しようとしていた。ボンドはCIAやアメリカ海軍原子力潜水艦メンタ号の支援を受け、ラルゴに立ち向かう。
Production Design
Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.
Production Design
メキシコでの任務の帰路、マイアミに立ち寄ったイギリス秘密情報部員ジェームズ・ボンドは、かつてのカジノ・ロワイヤルでの勝負の際同席したデュポンと再会し、彼の頼みでオーリック・ゴールドフィンガーのカードのいかさまを暴いた。ロンドンへ戻ったボンドは、ゴールドフィンガーがスメルシュの手先となって金の密輸を行っているらしいことを聞かされ、その調査を命じられた。調査中、ボンドはゴールドフィンガーに捕らわれ、彼がアメリカ合衆国のフォート・ノックスを襲撃して合衆国金塊保管所に貯蔵された金塊を奪取し、ソ連の巡洋艦に積み込んで海外に運び去ろうとしていることを知る。
Production Design
Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
Production Design
アメリカ軍基地の司令官が、ソ連の核基地の爆撃指令を発した。司令官の狂気を知った副官は、司令官を止めようとするが逆に監禁されてしまう。大統領は、ソ連と連絡を取って事態の収拾を図る。しかし、迎撃機によって無線を破壊された1機が、ついに目標に到達してしまう……。
Production Designer
After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who is married to a long-suffering and emotionally and physically scarred woman. The couple soon runs off to Greece together to pursue the romance.
Production Design
映画史に刻まれるスパイ・アクション映画の金字塔、007シリーズの記念すべき第1作！宇宙ロケットを妨害する怪電波の調査に当たっていたイギリス諜報部員がジャマイカで殺された。早速現地に派遣されたのは、コードネーム＝007ことジェームズ・ボンド。そこで彼はドクター・ノオと名乗る中国人博士が所有する謎の島に秘密が隠されていることを知る......！
Production Design
Sex, torture and betrayal in Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot, leader of the Hebrews, believes his people can co-exist with the Sodomites, a disastrous decision.
Assistant Art Director
ユダヤの豪族の息子、ベン・ハーの数奇な運命を通してローマの圧政とキリストの最期を6年半の製作期間と54億円の巨費を投じて描いた一大スペクタクル。些細な出来事から旧友メッサラの裏切りにあい、奴隷船送りとなったベン・ハーはそこで命を救ったローマの将軍の養子となる。束の間の安住の後再び故郷へ戻った彼は、別れた家族が獄中死したと聞かされ戦車競技に出場する事を決意する。そこではメッサラとの宿命の対決が待っていた。
Art Direction
Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.
Production Design
Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.
Production Design
Nazis chase a U.S. newsman (Robert Mitchum) paid to smuggle names of Greek resistance leaders to London.
Art Direction
Two rivals from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.
Art Direction
A World War II evacuee (Van Johnson) returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
Art Direction
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
Production Design
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.
Production Design
時は1872年、まだ飛行機も出現していない時代。イギリスはロンドンの社交クラブで、英国紳士フォッグ氏はひょんなことから“８０日間あれば世界一周できる”という賭けにのり、なんと２万ポンドという大金を賭け、自ら大冒険に出ることになる。さっそくフォッグ氏はパスパルトゥーを従者に従えロンドンを出発する。マルセイユへ向かう途中、汽車が止まってしまい気球を調達して先を急ぐ。ところが気球は風に流されてスペインへ。そして、パスパルトゥーはそこで、闘牛をするハメになってしまう。
Art Direction
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to never reveal his location to the police.
Assistant Art Director
Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his estate confiscated by governor Narbonne, for back taxes, and resold to Katrina, a Dutch Countess. Katrina offers to return Pierre's property if he will help her get possession of the 'Star of India,' a fabulous sapphire, held at the moment by Narbonne.
Assistant Art Director
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball Scientist, sailing ships, naval fights, and tons of swordplay.
Assistant Art Director
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.
Assistant Art Director
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
