The Independent - London, December 7th, 2006
To devotees of James Bond history, the name Kevin McClory will be forever associated with Thunderbal - the Ian Fleming novel, the court case surrounding it, and the film - and his myriad abortive attempts, countered by litigation, to launch an alternative James Bond film franchise.
Born in Dublin in 1926, Kevin O'Donovan McClory was a descendant of the literary Bronte family through his grandmother Alice McClory. His parents were both actors on the Irish stage, which fired Kevin's early desire to become an actor, but this ambition was hampered by severe dyslexia at school, and was finally blo...
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