Albert R. Broccoli

Albert R. Broccoli, known as Cubby Broccoli, was the film producer who established the James Bond film series with Harry Saltzman. They founded EON Productions and Danjaq in 1961 and brought Ian Fleming’s character to the screen in Dr. No (1962).

Broccoli continued to guide the series across changes of lead actor and production partnerships. He received the Academy’s Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1982. For GoldenEye (1995), producing responsibilities passed to his daughter Barbara Broccoli and stepson Michael G. Wilson. He died in 1996, leaving a production framework that had sustained the Bond films for more than three decades.