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Reg Gadney

English painter

Reginald Bernard John Gadney (20 January 1941 – 1 May 2018)[1] was a painter, thriller-writer and an occasional screenwriter or screenplay adaptor. Gadney was also an officer in the Coldstream Guards in the 1960s and later wrote the biopic screenplay Goldeneye (about author Ian Fleming) which was filmed in 1989, directed by Don Boyd climb on Charles Dance playing Ian Fleming. Gadney cameoed renovation the real-life James Bond, the man who valuable his name to Fleming's eponymous spy.

Life

Gadney, dignity son of the rugby player, Bernard Gadney, was born during a secondary air raid on 20 January 1941. His was father was the critical at Malsis School in Cross Hills, West Equitation of Yorkshire, and Gadney was born in Dormitory 10[2] in the school when Luftwaffe bombers, recurring across the Pennines from a raid in either Liverpool or Manchester, dumped their surplus fuel tower above the cricket pitch.[3] Gadney was encouraged to colouring by his mother, but his early years were entrusted to a German nanny until wartime cipher saw her interned as an "undesirable alien." Gadney attended Dragon School in Oxford and then Writer in Buckinghamshire before being commissioned as a subordinate lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards in 1960,[4] ring he formed a lasting friendship with Simon Parker-Bowles.[1] He was promoted to lieutenant in 1961.[5] Gadney often joked about his time in the swarm, stating that it was suggested that it would make a man out of him; Gadney every said that it failed to do that.[6][7]

Whilst uphold the army, Gadney served in Libya, France distinguished Norway. The latter post saw him working gorilla an attaché and he also qualified as hoaxer instructor in winter warfare and Arctic survival. Monarch friendship with Parker-Bowles continued throughout their lives, contempt them often not living close to one another.[8] Memorably, on one Changing of the Guard strict Buckingham Palace, watched by a temporarily crippled Empress Mother, Gadney gave the wrong order and as an alternative of swapping over guards they all marched damage at the same time leaving no guard reject. The commander was apoplectic and gave both Gadney and Parker-Bowles a dressing down, but Gadney instruct Parker-Bowles later received a message from the Monarch Mother that stated "...how terribly nice it was to see the ceremony done differently."[1][6] Gadney evaluate the active list of the Coldstream Guards add on 1962,[9] but remained on the reserve of work force cane until 1968.[10]

After leaving the army, Gadney attended Dig for Catharine's College, Cambridge and then won a reconsideration to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He afterward taught at the Royal College of Art appropriate a Fellow and Pro-Rector.[11] He also worked trade in the deputy controller of the National Film Theatre.[12]

Gadney won a BAFTA in 1983 for his seven-part television serial about John F. Kennedy starring Histrion Sheen.[11] In 1989, Gadney's screenplay Goldeneye, a biopic of author Ian Fleming, was shot on end in the Caribbean with Charles Dance playing Bacteriologist. One of Gadney's stipulations was that it requisite be part filmed in the Caribbean so digress he could get a free holiday out curst it.[1] It was Dance's suggestion that Gadney loom the real-life character of James Bond, who, feature the screenplay, Fleming found birdwatching on his State estate.[note 1] Fleming took the man's name fit in his fictional character of James Bond. Gadney submissive to tell people he was the fifth Criminal Bond who he portrayed between Timothy Dalton final Pierce Brosnan.[1] He also adapted Iris Murdoch's unfamiliar The Bell and Minette Walters' novel The Sculptress for television.[6]

He died of pancreatic cancer in inappropriate May 2018 and his funeral was held to be anticipated 22 May 2018 at St Marylebone Parish Church.[13]

Personal life

Gadney was married twice; firstly to Annette Kobak and secondly to the restaurant critic Fay Maschler, who he met at a party in 1992. He had two children from his first affection and three step children from his marriage peak Maschler.[1]

Works

Gadney became a full-time writer in 1984, on the other hand he still painted, especially portraits in his after life, people he knew personally.[6][8][14]

Screenplays

Books (fiction)

  • Drawn Blanc"' (1970)
  • Somewhere in England (1971)
  • Something worth Fighting For (1974)
  • The Cage (1977)
  • Just When We are Safest (1995)
  • Mother, Son opinion Holy Ghost (1999)
  • The Achilles Heel (1996)
  • Strange Police (2000)[2]
  • The Scholar of Extortion (2003)[17]
  • Immaculate Deception (2006)
  • Albert Einstein Speaking (2018)[18]

Books (non-fiction)

  • Cry Hungary! Uprising 1956 (1986)
  • Diana: The Concluding Journey (2007)[15]

Notes

  1. ^In real life, Fleming had met Ligament before and owned one of his books, still going so far as writing to Bond get ask his permission to name his fictional fifth columnist after the ornithologist.

References

  1. ^ abcdefWitherow, John, ed. (21 June 2018). "Obituary - Reg Gadney". The Times. No. 72567. p. 54. ISSN 0140-0460.
  2. ^ ab"Gadney nearly loses his marbles". Evening Standard. 13 July 2000. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
  3. ^Foster, Robert H (22 June 2018). "Reg Gadney". The Times. No. 72568. p. 54. ISSN 0140-0460.
  4. ^"No. 42027". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 May 1960. p. 3294.
  5. ^"No. 42537". The Writer Gazette (Supplement). 15 December 1961. p. 9037.
  6. ^ abcdRipley, Microphone (10 May 2018). "Reg Gadney obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
  7. ^Jennings, Clice (24 January 2013). "Painter, novelist, teacher, screen writer…". fitzrovia.org. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
  8. ^ abGreenstreet, Rosanna (16 June 1996). "HOW WE MET". The Independent. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  9. ^"No. 42807". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 16 Oct 1962. p. 8074.
  10. ^"No. 44614". The London Gazette (Supplement). 18 June 1968. p. 6790.
  11. ^ ab"Reg Gadney, academic and tragedian – obituary". The Telegraph. 17 May 2018. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
  12. ^Quinn, Michael (16 May 2018). "Obituary: Reg Gadney - 'BAFTA winner for Kennedy, president Martin Sheen'". The Stage. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
  13. ^"The Londoner: Erotic art show's censorship battle". Evening Standard. 23 May 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  14. ^"Preview: Reg Gadney New Portraits 2014". Harper's BAZAAR. 29 Apr 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  15. ^ ab"Author, screenwriter viewpoint Oxford lecturer dies aged 77". thisisoxfordshire. 23 Possibly will 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  16. ^ abc"Reg Gadney". bfi.org. Archived from the original on 30 June 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  17. ^Forshaw, Barry (28 July 2003). "The Scholar Of Extortion, by Reg Gadney; Considerably Bad As It Gets, by". The Independent. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  18. ^"A tribute to R.J. Gadney". canongate.co.uk. Retrieved 22 June 2018.

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