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Anthony Waye is a film production executive. He worked on a number of James Bond films, including For Your Eyes Only , Octopussy , A View to a Kill , The Living Daylights , GoldenEye , Tomorrow Never Dies and the 2006 version of Casino Royale . [1] He is married to Patricia, the daughter of a fellow Pinewood crew-member.

<i>James Bond</i> Media franchise about a British spy

The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have written authorised Bond novels or novelizations: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd and Anthony Horowitz. The latest novel is Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz, published in May 2018. Additionally Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond, and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character, Moneypenny.

<i>For Your Eyes Only</i> (film) 1981 British spy film in the James Bond series by John Glen

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<i>Octopussy</i> 1983 film by John Glen

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Waye is best known for his involvement in the Bond franchise since Octopussy, until his recent retirement.

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