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Jack Whittingham (2 August 1910 – 3 July 1972) was a British playwright and screenwriter. Early life [ edit] Whittingham was born in Heaton, West Yorkshire, England, and educated at Charterhouse between 1924 and 1929. He then went up Lincoln College, Oxford to read law.
Thunderball is a 1965 spy film and the fourth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the 1961 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham devised from a story conceived by Kevin ...
The first novelisation of an unfilmed James Bond screenplay, it was born from a collaboration by five people: Ian Fleming, Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, Ivar Bryce and Ernest Cuneo, although the controversial shared credit of Fleming, McClory and Whittingham was the result of a courtroom decision.
- Jack Whittingham, Kevin McClory, Ian Fleming
- 1961
Jack Whittingham was born on August 2, 1910 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for Thunderball (1965), Never Say Never Again (1983) and The Birthday Present (1957). He was married to Margot Isobel Gough. He died on July 3, 1972 in Valletta, Malta.
- August 2, 1910
- July 3, 1972
Jul 6, 1972 · VALETTA, Malta, July 5 (UPI) — Jack Whittingham, a screen and TV writer whose works included the popular “Thunderball,” died here yes terday. Mr. Whittingham's TV scripts included the...
Jack Whittingham was born on 2 August 1910 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for Thunderball (1965), Never Say Never Again (1983) and The Birthday Present (1957). He was married to Margot Isobel Gough. He died on 3 July 1972 in Valletta, Malta.
Followed by. The Spy Who Loved Me. Thunderball is the eighth novel, and ninth book, in Ian Fleming 's James Bond series. It was created with the intention of being turned into a film, and is officially credited as being " based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and Ian Fleming ", a shared credit which has been the subject ...
