John Glen Biography
Born: May 15, 1932
A film editor since the early 1960s, Briton John Glen wielded the scissors on his first James Bond film, On_Her_Majesty's_Secret_Service, in 1969. He went on to edit such subsequent Bonds as The_Spy_Who_Loved_Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979), also functioning from time to time as second-unit director. Glen was finally promoted to full director for the 1981 007opus For_Your_Eyes_Only, startling longtime followers of the series by eschewing the gags and gimmickry indigenous to the Roger Moore Bond films and harking back to the minimalism of the Dr._No and From_Russia_With_Love days. Evidently the experiment was not warmly received; in his later Bond films Octopussy (1983) A View to a Kill (1985) The_Living_Daylights (1987) and License to Kill (1989), Glen returned to the popular larger-than-life elements that the fans demanded. John Glen hasn't been heard from much since drawing the unfortunate assignment of directing the 1992 megaturkey Christopher_Columbus:_The_Discovery. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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