In 1967 Sherbrooke, Quebec native and James Bond film series co-creator Harry
Saltzman was here visiting Expo 67 when he came across this 26 year old working at the World's Fair. The Montreal-born Expo '67 worker dabbled in modelling and had little acting history but Saltzman hired him on the spot to play James Bond. The two signed a contract and the newbie went on to a longlasting TV and film career even snagging a role in last year's hottest action pic. The Bond role ultimately went to George Lazenby, however, who in turn quit the franchise upon the bad advice of his agent. Whoever can name the would-be Bond from Montreal wins our eternal admiration and a kiss on the lips from Chimples the Intelligent Chimp, who kisses pretty good for a monkey.
Winner time! Yes congrats to our skilled winner - it's Daniel Pilon, who has been a soap opera workhorse for eons and even starred as the Senator in last year's Shoot 'em Up. Here's the story. PS, should mentioned that he only made it in Hollywood about 15 years after meeting Salzman, as you can see in the imdb link above, so the contract they signed didn't do much for him.
#1 guess=John Richardson?
ReplyDeleteHans de Vries or Robert Campbell or Anthony Rogers or Jeremy Brett??
Wow. Good trying. Shooting with the ol' machine-gun. The answers are no, no, no, no. You're making some incorrect ethnic assumptions.
ReplyDeleteDaniel Pilon?
ReplyDeleteJoseph Wiseman
ReplyDeleteNope my last guess was wrong it has to be Christopher Plummer.
ReplyDeleteRight?
wooooo! where's my kiss?
ReplyDeleteWe'll contact you when that festering cold sore on Chimples top smacker goes down a bit.
ReplyDeletei didn't see it till today but i knew it was daniel pilon...
ReplyDeletehe was on Guiding Light years and years ago.
Shoot em up was last years hottest action movie? I can think of a few hotter, in fact, I can think of of one that probably was the hottest that starred a Montrealer.
ReplyDeleteChimples says that any movie where someone gets pointy organic vegetation shoved through their skull automatically ranks as the best of the year. What's better?
ReplyDeleteI am not debating whether or not it was a good movie, but calling it the years "hottest" was misleading, especially in a year that saw Transformers starring our Montrealer, or Spiderman, not to mention a few others that I don;t know if they qualify as action but there was 3:10 to Yuma, No Country for Old Men, I am Legend, also Pirates, Bourne, 300 and on and on, i can't even find Shoot Em Up on the top 100 list and there is alot of crap on that list.
ReplyDeleteI do admit though, I am a little pissed because I was on a streak with the trivia and these last few questions drew a blank and I have spent good sleeping time trying to figure them out.