From Russia with Love
1963 James Bond film by Terence Young · Released 1963
From Russia with Love is a 1963 spy film directed by Terence Young and the second in the James Bond series. It was produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The picture was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and written by Richard Maibaum and Johanna Harwood, based on Ian Fleming's 1957 novel From Russia, with Love. In the film, Bond is sent to assist in the defection of Soviet consulate clerk Tatiana Romanova in Istanbul, where SPECTRE plans to avenge Bond's killing of Dr.
Cast ages at release (1963)
- Sean Connery, as James Bond: 32–33
- Pedro Armendáriz, as Ali Kerim Bey: 50–51
- Lotte Lenya, as Rosa Klebb: 64–65
- Robert Shaw, as Donald Grant: 35–36
- Bernard Lee, as M: 54–55
- Daniela Bianchi, as Tatiana Romanova: 20–21
- Desmond Llewelyn: 48–49
- Anthony Dawson: 46–47
- Lois Maxwell, as Miss Moneypenny: 35–36
- Eunice Gayson, as Sylvia Trench: 34–35
- Martine Beswick, as Gypsy girls Vida: 21–22
- Walter Gotell, as Morzeny: 38–39
- Fred Haggerty: 44–45
- Peter Bayliss: 40–41
- Francis de Wolff, as Vavra: 49–50
- Peter Madden: 58–59
- Michael Culver: 24–25
- George Pastell, as a train conductor on the Orient Express: 39–40
- Aliza Gur, as Gypsy girls Vida: 22–23
- Nadja Regin, as Kerim Bey's girl: 31–32
- Elizabeth Counsell: 20–21
- Terence Young: 47–48
- Bob Simmons: 39–40