18-467: Monty Norman ( né Noserovitch ; 4 April 1928 – 11 July 2022) was a British film score composer and singer. A contributor to West End musicals in the 1950s and 1960s, he is best known for composing the " James Bond Theme ", first heard in the 1962 film Dr. No . He was an Ivor Novello Award and Olivier Award winner, and a Tony Award nominee. Monty Norman was born on 4 April 1928 in Stepney in
36-630: A birth certificate or birth register may by that fact alone become the person's legal name . The assumption in the Western world is often that the name from birth (or perhaps from baptism or brit milah ) will persist to adulthood in the normal course of affairs—either throughout life or until marriage. Some reasons for changes of a person's name include middle names , diminutive forms, changes relating to parental status (due to one's parents' divorce or adoption by different parents), and gender transition . The French and English-adopted née
54-577: A man's surname at birth that has subsequently been replaced or changed. The diacritic mark (the acute accent ) over the e is considered significant to its spelling, and ultimately its meaning, but is sometimes omitted. According to Oxford University 's Dictionary of Modern English Usage , the terms are typically placed after the current surname (e.g., " Margaret Thatcher , née Roberts" or " Bill Clinton , né Blythe"). Since they are terms adopted into English (from French), they do not have to be italicized , but they often are. In Polish tradition ,
72-467: A hospital in Slough . He was 94, and suffered from an unspecified short illness prior to his death. Specific General Bibliography Birth name#Maiden and married names A birth name is the name given to a person upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname , the given name , or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto
90-423: Is revealed as a genius who is becoming aware of his powers and trying to find his way in the world. Mary Hogarth ( Lois Baxter ) is the middle one of the three Hogarth daughters and is portrayed as the one person with whom Dickens seems to have been able to share his work. She dies suddenly aged seventeen and Dickens wears her ring on his little finger for the rest of his life. Georgina Hogarth ( Christine McKenna ),
108-416: Is the feminine past participle of naître , which means "to be born". Né is the masculine form. The term née , having feminine grammatical gender , can be used to denote a woman's surname at birth that has been replaced or changed. In most English-speaking cultures, it is specifically applied to a woman's maiden name after her surname has changed due to marriage. The term né can be used to denote
126-567: The East End of London . His father, Abraham Noserovitch (anglicised to Norman), was a Jewish cabinet maker who immigrated to the United Kingdom from Latvia when he was a child; his mother, Ann (Berlyn), who was also Jewish, worked as a seamstress. He lived with his Jewish immigrant grandparents for the first few years of his life. As a child during World War II , Norman was evacuated to St Albans from London but later returned during
144-809: The Blitz . His mother gave him his first guitar (a Gibson ) when he was sixteen. As a young man he did national service in the Royal Air Force , where he became interested in pursuing a career in singing. He also worked as a barber during this time. During the 1950s and early 1960s, Norman was a singer for big bands such as those of Cyril Stapleton , Stanley Black , Ted Heath , and Nat Temple . He also sang in various variety shows, sharing top billing with other singers and comedy stars such as Benny Hill , Harry Secombe , Peter Sellers , Spike Milligan , Harry Worth , Tommy Cooper , Jimmy James , and Tony Hancock . One of his songs, "False-Hearted Lover",
162-519: The English version was nominated for a Broadway Tony Award in 1961), and Expresso Bongo (which Time Out called the first rock and roll musical). Expresso Bongo , written by Wolf Mankowitz , was a West End hit and was later made into a 1960 film starring a young Cliff Richard . Norman's later musicals include Songbook (also known as The Moony Shapiro Songbook in New York ), which
180-510: The TV miniseries Dickens of London (1976). Norman worked for several years on his unpublished autobiography, titled A Walking Stick Full of Bagels. Norman is best known for writing the " James Bond Theme ", the signature theme of the James Bond franchise, and the score to the first James Bond film, Dr. No . Norman received royalty payments for the theme from 1962 on. However, as
198-464: The detailed research he made while writing the screenplay. Each of the 13 episodes of Dickens of London is a flashback, with Charles Dickens (Roy Dotrice), by now an internationally famous novelist , in America during a reading tour of 1869, looking back over his life. Dickens the boy (Simon Bell) is shown unhappily pasting labels onto pots of shoe blacking , while Dickens as a young man (Gene Foad)
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#1732793007872216-539: The melody of the "James Bond Theme" in several places. Norman collected around £485,000 or £600,000 in royalties between 1976 and 1999 for the use of the theme since Dr. No . Norman married actress Diana Coupland in 1956. Together, they had a daughter before divorcing in 1975. He later married Rina Caesari in 2000 or 2001. They remained married until his death. He was a worshipper at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue . Norman died on 11 July 2022 at
234-536: The producers were dissatisfied with Norman's arrangement, John Barry re-arranged the theme. Barry later claimed that it was actually he who wrote the theme, but Norman won two different libel actions against Barry's claim he was the composer, the last against The Sunday Times in 2001. In the made-for-DVD documentary Inside Dr. No , Norman performed a music piece that he wrote for an unproduced stage musical based on A House for Mr Biswas several years earlier, entitled "Bad Sign, Good Sign", that he claimed resembles
252-463: The term z domu (literally meaning "of the house", de domo in Latin ) may be used, with rare exceptions, meaning the same as née . Dickens of London Dickens of London is a 1976 television miniseries from Yorkshire Television based on the life of English novelist Charles Dickens . Both Dickens and his father John were played by British actor Roy Dotrice . The series
270-450: The youngest of the three Hogarth daughters, comes to live with the couple to help run the household, at the request of her oldest sister Catherine Dickens . The relationship Dickens developed with the young actress Ellen Ternan is not mentioned in the series, nor is Dickens' separation from his wife, Catherine, in 1858. The series is mainly concerned with the influence upon Dickens of his improvident father, John Dickens (Roy Dotrice), who
288-843: Was also nominated for a Broadway Tony and won an Ivor Novello Award ; and Poppy (1982), which was also nominated for the Ivor Novello Award, and won the SWET award (renamed "the Laurence Olivier Awards " in 1984) for "Best Musical". His further film work included music for the Hammer movie The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960), The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), the Bob Hope Eon Productions movie Call Me Bwana (1963), and
306-523: Was successful internationally. From the late 1950s, he moved from singing to composing, including songs for performers such as Cliff Richard , Tommy Steele , Count Basie , and Bob Hope , and lyrics for musicals and (subsequently) films. In 1957 and 1958, he wrote lyrics for the musicals Make Me an Offer , the English-language version of Irma la Douce (based on a 1956 French musical written by Alexandre Breffort and Marguerite Monnot ;
324-470: Was written by Wolf Mankowitz and Marc Miller. In the United States, the series was shown in 1977. The series of 13 episodes of 60 minutes was directed by Michael Ferguson (6 episodes) and Marc Miller (7 episodes), who was also the series' producer , with David Cunliffe as executive producer . Mankowitz's book, Dickens of London , published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1976, was based on
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