25 Movie Talents We Lost In 2016

British film director Guy Hamilton kick-started his career back in the 1950s, directing the big screen adaptation of J.B. Priestley’s murder mystery An Inspector Calls, wartime drama The Colditz Story and the BAFTA nominated comedy A Touch of Larceny.

He stirred up quite a bit of controversy with The Party’s Over – a beatnik film with wild parties, sex, drugs and implied necrophilia that was so heavily censored that Hamilton demanded his name be removed from the film – but is best known for directing four James Bond movies.

After directing one of the franchise’s most critically acclaimed additions, Goldfinger, in 1964 Hamilton took a break from Bond but returned in the 1970s to direct Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun.