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muriel_volestrangler

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Thu Mar 10, 2016, 03:25 PM Mar 2016

Sir Ken Adam, Strangelove and James Bond production designer, dies aged 95

Production designer Sir Ken Adam, famous for his work on Dr Strangelove and several James Bond films, has died at the age of 95.
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Sir Ken's famous sets include the triangular Pentagon war room in Dr Strangelove and the villain's headquarters in the 1962 James Bond film Dr No.

He also designed the car in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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He won two Oscars, one in 1976 for his work on Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and one in 1995 for The Madness of King George.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35780260

A German Jewish refugee, he was one of the few Germans to serve in the RAF in World War Two.

Steven Spielberg told production designer Sir Ken Adam his work for Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove included the best movie-set ever built. Kubrick's dark comedy is now regarded as a Cold War classic. Fifty years on, Sir Ken remembers his time working for Kubrick as a magnificent adventure - if you could take the stress.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23698181
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Sir Ken Adam, Strangelove and James Bond production designer, dies aged 95 (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Mar 2016 OP
The war room set was great! progressoid Mar 2016 #1
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