Maurice Binder(1925-1991)
- Additional Crew
- Art Department
- Visual Effects
American visual designer, creator of the famed opening title sequences
of the James Bond movies. A native New Yorker, Binder's early work
included designing advertisements and catalogs for Macy's department
store. During the Second World War, he worked at Universal Studios,
then became West Coast art director for Columbia Pictures. Director
Stanley Donen hired Binder to create main
titles for Indiscreet (1958) and used
him thereafter in similar capacity on most of his films. One of them,
The Grass Is Greener (1960),
caught the attention of James Bond producers
Harry Saltzman and
Albert R. Broccoli, who hired Binder
for the first Bond picture, Dr. No (1962).
The distinctive style of the Bond main titles became a much-admired and
much-parodied tradition. Binder worked up until his final illness and
death in 1991 at 65.
