Maurice Binder

Maurice Binder

Maurice Binder (December 4, 1918 – April 9, 1991) was an American film title designer best known for his work on 16 James Bond films including the first, Dr. No (1962) and for Stanley Donen's films from 1958. He was born in New York City, but mostly worked in Britain from the 1950s onwards. In 1951, Binder directed two short films in the obscure Meet Mister Baby series; these films were preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015. He did his first film title design for Stanley Donen's Indiscreet (1958). The Bond producers first approached him after being impressed by his title designs for the Donen comedy film The Grass Is Greener (1960). Binder also provided sequences for Donen for Charade (1963) and Arabesque (1966), both accompanying music by Henry Mancini. Binder created the signature gun barrel sequence for the opening titles of the first Bond film, Dr. No (1962). Binder originally planned to employ a camera sighted down the barrel of a .38 calibre gun, but this caused some problems. Unable to stop down the lens of a standard camera enough to bring the entire gun barrel into focus, his assistant Trevor Bond created a pinhole camera to solve the problem and the barrel became crystal clear. Binder described the genesis of the gun barrel sequence in the last interview he recorded before he died in 1991: That was something I did in a hurry, because I had to get to a meeting with the producers in twenty minutes. I just happened to have little white, price tag stickers and I thought I'd use them as gun shots across the screen. We'd have James Bond walk through and fire, at which point blood comes down onscreen. That was about a twenty-minute storyboard I did, and they said, "This looks great!". At least one critic has also observed that the sequence recalls the gun fired at the audience at the end of The Great Train Robbery (1903). Binder is also known for featuring women performing a variety of activities such as dancing, jumping on a trampoline, or shooting weapons in his work. Both sequences are trademarks and staples of the James Bond films. Maurice Binder was succeeded by Daniel Kleinman as the title designer for GoldenEye (1995). Prior to GoldenEye, the only James Bond movies for which he did not create the opening title credits were From Russia with Love (1963) and Goldfinger (1964), both of which were designed by Robert Brownjohn. Binder shot opening and closing sequences involving a mouse (an animal that didn't appear in either the novel or the film) for The Mouse That Roared (1959), a sequence of monks filmed as a mosaic explaining the history of the Golden Bell in The Long Ships (1963), and a sequence of Spanish dancers explaining why the then topical reference of nuclear weapons vanishing in a B-52 mishap shifted from Spain to Greece in The Day the Fish Came Out (1967). He designed the title sequence for Sodom and Gomorrah (1963) that featured an orgy (the only one in the film). He took three days to direct the sequence that was originally supposed to take one day. Binder also was a producer of The Passage (1979), and a visual consultant on Dracula (1979) and Oxford Blues (1984). Binder died from lung cancer in London, aged 72. Source: Article "Maurice Binder" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Maurice Binder
  • Popularity: 0.567
  • Known For: Art
  • Birthday: 1925-08-25
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Maurice Binder Movies

  • 1976
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    Die Titelmacher

    Die Titelmacher

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1977
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    The Spy Who Loved Me

    The Spy Who Loved Me

    6.793 1977 HD

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  • 1969
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    Staircase

    Staircase

    5.7 1969 HD

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  • 1963
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    The Mouse on the Moon

    The Mouse on the Moon

    5.9 1963 HD

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  • 1966
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    Kaleidoscope

    Kaleidoscope

    4.8 1966 HD

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  • 1980
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    The Sea Wolves

    The Sea Wolves

    5.8 1980 HD

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  • 1974
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    The Little Prince

    The Little Prince

    6.8 1974 HD

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  • 1974
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    Gold

    Gold

    5.6 1974 HD

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  • 1972
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    Young Winston

    Young Winston

    6.2 1972 HD

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  • 1981
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    Green Ice

    Green Ice

    5.6 1981 HD

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  • 1967
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    You Only Live Twice

    You Only Live Twice

    6.565 1967 HD

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  • 1969
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    A Talent for Loving

    A Talent for Loving

    5 1969 HD

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  • 1978
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    The Wild Geese

    The Wild Geese

    6.809 1978 HD

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  • 1981
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    For Your Eyes Only

    For Your Eyes Only

    6.521 1981 HD

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  • 1986
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    Shanghai Surprise

    Shanghai Surprise

    4.3 1986 HD

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  • 1974
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    The Man with the Golden Gun

    The Man with the Golden Gun

    6.441 1974 HD

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  • 1983
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    Octopussy

    Octopussy

    6.329 1983 HD

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  • 1985
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    Rustlers' Rhapsody

    Rustlers' Rhapsody

    5.5 1985 HD

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  • 1987
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    The Last Emperor

    The Last Emperor

    7.6 1987 HD

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  • 1980
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    The Awakening

    The Awakening

    5.5 1980 HD

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  • 1979
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    Moonraker

    Moonraker

    6.159 1979 HD

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  • 1987
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    The Living Daylights

    The Living Daylights

    6.522 1987 HD

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  • 1971
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    Diamonds Are Forever

    Diamonds Are Forever

    6.389 1971 HD

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  • 1985
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    A View to a Kill

    A View to a Kill

    6.227 1985 HD

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  • 1989
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    Licence to Kill

    Licence to Kill

    6.399 1989 HD

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  • 1962
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    Dr. No

    Dr. No

    6.987 1962 HD

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  • 1965
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    Thunderball

    Thunderball

    6.648 1965 HD

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  • 1962
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    The Road to Hong Kong

    The Road to Hong Kong

    5.7 1962 HD

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  • 1963
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    Call Me Bwana

    Call Me Bwana

    5.7 1963 HD

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  • 1984
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    Oxford Blues

    Oxford Blues

    5.6 1984 HD

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  • 1966
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    Promise Her Anything

    Promise Her Anything

    3.3 1966 HD

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  • 1963
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    The Running Man

    The Running Man

    6.6 1963 HD

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  • 1960
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    Once More, with Feeling!

    Once More, with Feeling!

    6 1960 HD

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  • 1960
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    Purple Noon

    Purple Noon

    7.6 1960 HD

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  • 1957
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    The James Dean Story

    The James Dean Story

    6.7 1957 HD

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  • 1980
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    The Final Countdown

    The Final Countdown

    6.6 1980 HD

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  • 1979
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    The Passage

    The Passage

    6.2 1979 HD

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  • 1979
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    The Passage

    The Passage

    6.2 1979 HD

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  • 1982
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    Who Dares Wins

    Who Dares Wins

    5.9 1982 HD

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  • 1967
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    Two for the Road

    Two for the Road

    6.9 1967 HD

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  • 1960
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    Surprise Package

    Surprise Package

    5.8 1960 HD

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  • 1976
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    Shout at the Devil

    Shout at the Devil

    6 1976 HD

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  • 1965
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    The Wild Affair

    The Wild Affair

    5.4 1965 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

    The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

    6.8 1970 HD

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  • 1966
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    Arabesque

    Arabesque

    6.2 1966 HD

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  • 1963
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    Charade

    Charade

    7.7 1963 HD

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  • 1974
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    The Tamarind Seed

    The Tamarind Seed

    6.2 1974 HD

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  • 1959
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    The Young Philadelphians

    The Young Philadelphians

    7.5 1959 HD

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  • 1961
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    Goodbye Again

    Goodbye Again

    7.1 1961 HD

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  • 1967
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    Fathom

    Fathom

    6.1 1967 HD

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  • 1978
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    Brass Target

    Brass Target

    5.6 1978 HD

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  • 1959
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    The Mouse That Roared

    The Mouse That Roared

    6.3 1959 HD

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  • 1969
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    Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    6.8 1969 HD

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  • 1973
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    Live and Let Die

    Live and Let Die

    6.505 1973 HD

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  • 1985
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    King David

    King David

    5.478 1985 HD

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  • 1966
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    After the Fox

    After the Fox

    6 1966 HD

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  • 1970
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    7.2 1970 HD

    Tracy Whitney was in love, pregnant and engaged to marry into one of America's best family. And then, with one phone call, she lost everything. After...

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