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The\u00a0James Bond legend\u2019s co-star was Pedro Armend\u00e1riz, who played Ali Kerim Bey, the head of MI6 Station T in Istanbul.<\/p>\n
The Mexican actor, who has a substantial role in From Russia With Love with Sean Connery, had sadly been diagnosed with terminal cancer.<\/p>\n
Back in 1956, he had had a part in John Wayne\u2019s Genghis Khan flop, The Conqueror, which was filming in Utah while the US government were conducting atmospheric nuclear testing one state over in Nevada.<\/p>\n
Within 25 years of the production, 91 out of the 220 working on the film developed cancer, 46 of whom died from it. A few years later, Armend\u00e1riz was diagnosed with inoperable neck cancer at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, despite his pain, the actor was determined to get as much of his role in From Russia with Love completed as soon as possible to provide financial security for his wife.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The film\u2019s Istanbul location was shut down and moved to Britain, with Armend\u00e1riz\u2019s scenes moved forward so he could complete as much as possible while physically still able to. When it reached the point where he could no longer work, the Bond actor had a stunt double and even director Terence Young would stand in for him in the last two months of production.<\/p>\n
Unable to carry on and with just weeks of his life remaining, Armend\u00e1riz headed to a hospital near his home. There, the Mexican actor smuggled a gun in and died by suicide on June 18, 1963, at the age of 51. Following his sudden loss, From Russia with Love had to have uncredited rewrites by Berkely Mather during filming. Peter Hunt began editing the movie despite the shoot being behind schedule and over budget in an effort to meet the premiere date. He helped restructure the Sean Connery Bond movie\u2019s opening scenes with a suggestion by Young.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
This led to a 007 film tradition to this day, when Red Grant\u2019s training sequence would be shifted to before the opening titles sequence. Interestingly, Pedro Armend\u00e1riz Jr ended up playing President Hector Lopez in Timothy Dalton\u2019s second Bond movie, 1989\u2019s Licence to Kill.<\/p>\n
Armend\u00e1riz Jr went on to feature in blockbusters like Amistad, The Mask of Zorro and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. He too was diagnosed with cancer in November 2011 and died a month later at the age of 71. He is buried by his father at Pante\u00f3n Jardin in Mexico City.<\/p>\n
For confidential support call the Samaritans in the UK on 116 123 or visit a local Samaritans branch.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] The\u00a0James Bond legend\u2019s co-star was Pedro Armend\u00e1riz, who played Ali Kerim Bey, the head of MI6 Station T in Istanbul. The Mexican actor, who has a substantial role in From Russia With Love with Sean Connery, had sadly been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Back in 1956, he had had a part in John Wayne\u2019s …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[765],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}