Authors + Contributors
Adam Bollard
Adam is a writing and editing professional working in the UK. He has a passion for all things retro, and blogs regularly about music, TV, sport celebrities and movies from ’60s, ’70s and ’80s over at georgesjournal.org.
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Aman Puni
Aman is a 24 year-old professional living in London with a passion for cinema, travel and design. Head over to the thelektordevice.blogspot.co.uk for more Bond and film related discussion. Full Profile
Ben Williams
Ben is a freelance writer living in Los Angeles, with a passion for architecture, design, fashion, food & drink, and travel. Ben has contributed to a number of event reports as well as historical content relating to James Bond lifestyle. He maintains the weblog: doubleonothing.com. Full Profile
Benjamin Welton
Benjamin Welton is a freelance writer based in Boston. His work has appeared in The Weekly Standard, The Atlantic, Listverse, Metal Injection, and others. He currently blogs at literarytrebuchetblogspot.com. Full Profile
Brady Major
Brady Major is an avid James Bond commenter and proud member of the MI6 Community fan forums that celebrates his favorite spy. He fell in love with the character of Bond as a pubescent youth watching Sean Connery in “Goldfinger” for the first time, a fateful moment that sparked a summer full of trips to movie stores where he bought up all the 007 films he could sniff out. A little older now but thankfully still possessive of the child-like wonder that first attracted him to the Bond franchise in the first place, Brady is an aspiring writer and artist from the state of Pennsylvania in the United States. Now more than ever, the man with a licence to kill remains his greatest creative muse. Full Profile
Briggon Snow
Briggon Snow is a co-creator and founder of the MI6 forums, and a life-long James Bond fan. He is an actor living in Los Angeles California. Visit www.BriggonSnow.com. Full Profile
David Leigh
David Leigh has been a fan of James Bond ever since he borrowed a paperback copy of Casino Royale from his dad’s bookshelf at the age of 8. Although he never returned it, he may do one day. You can also find David at The James Bond Dossier, which he has run since 2002, as well as authoring a book of James Bond’s drinks. Full Profile
Dimitri Peeters
Dimitri is a science teacher and long-time James Bond aficionado living in Belgium. He has a passion for cinema, comic books and all things horror. Dimitri has been a member of the MI6 forums since 2005 and has for many years been a forum moderator. Full Profile
Edward Biddulph
Edward Biddulph is the author of “Licence to Cook: Recipes Inspired by Ian Fleming’s James Bond“, and writes ‘James Bond memes‘, a blog exploring the ideas and influences behind James Bond. Full Profile
Greg Bechtloff
Greg Bechtloff hails from Huntington Beach, California. Introduced to the world of 007 by his parents through the cinema, he’s been infatuated with Ian Fleming’s creation for over 35 years. With wide ranging interests, he has drilled down to the very foundations of the character of James Bond. Greg has worked in many positions in varied industries. He has travelled extensively and has visited many James Bond locations all over the world.
He has recently become certified as a professional bartender, another aspect of the Bondian world that he has always been interested in.
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Julian Parrott
Julian is a US based college administrator. Although living in the US, Julian grew up in the Welsh Marches almost equidistant between Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig. He’s never met them though. Although a lifelong Bond fan, Julian’s research and writing interest in all things Bond and Fleming only kicked in about 5 years ago. He’s particularly interested how Bond reflects and influences the socio-cultural milieu and has recently begun to teach a class on Bond for college freshmen. He can be reached at . Full Profile
Larry Loftis
Larry Loftis is an attorney and the author of the international bestseller, INTO THE LION’S MOUTH: The True Story of Dusko Popov—World War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life Inspiration for James Bond (Berkley-Caliber, 2016).
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Lee Pfeiffer
Lee is the author/co-author of numerous books about the cinema including “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Classic Movies 1915-1969”, “The Great Fox War Movies”, “The Essential James Bond”, “The Films of Clint Eastwood”, “True Grits”, “Cinema Sex Sirens”, and “The Incredible World of OO7”. He is co-publisher of Cinema Retro, along with Dave Worrall, a full-colour print magazine celebrating the films of the 1960s & ’70s. Full Profile
Mark Gayton
Mark Gayton is a Creative Writing student at the University of Essex, thriller enthusiast and aspiring novelist. You can email him. Full Profile
Mark Mawston
Mark Mawston has met many of the stars of the Bond films- both those in front of the camera and those, like him, behind. Just seeing how much work goes into the films has made him an even greater fan of 007. Full Profile
Matthew Field
Matthew Field is the co-author of Some Kind of Hero: The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films. He is a regular contributor to both MI6 Confidential and Cinema Retro. He currently serves on the board of directors of The Ian Fleming Foundation. Full Profile
Matthew Field and Ajay Chowdhury
Matthew Field is a film journalist with Cinema Retro magazine and an author, whose books include ‘The Making of The Italian Job’ and ‘Michael Caine: You’re a Big Man’. He was a consultant on the acclaimed James Bond documentary ‘Everything or Nothing’. Ajay Chowdhury is an attorney and has given legal consultation on motion picture, music, publishing, television, and theatrical projects. He was the associate producer on two feature films and has contributed to numerous books on James Bond including ‘Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born—Ian Fleming and Jamaica’. Together they are the author of Some Kind of Hero: The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films. Full Profile
Matthew Harnett
Matt Harnett lives in Melbourne, works in communications and studies digital literature. You can read more of his work at pantograph-punch.com. Full Profile
Matthew Kresal
Matthew Kresal has been a James Bond fan since seeing Thunderball as part of ABC’s Bond Picture Show in 2002 and, under the username timdalton007, was a frequent poster and reviewer on the Keeping The British End Up forums. His blog ‘Life, The Universe & Everything’ can read at: timdalton007.livejournal.com Full Profile
Morten Steingrimsen
Morten Steingrimsen have traveled the world attending different James Bond events, and is the author of articles on the subject for several film trade magazines and websites. He is also the organiser of several Bond events, including the 50th Anniversary of Goldfinger in Oslo 2014 and the Bond girls celebration in Oslo 2015. Full Profile
Neil McNally
Neil McNally is a writer and Bond aficionado living in Los Angeles. To read more please visit www.neilmcnallywriter.com Full Profile
Nicolas Suszczyk
Nicolás Suszczyk runs The GoldenEye Dossier, a blog dedicated to the 17th James Bond film and its videogame versions. He became a Bond fan at the age of 8, shortly after watching GoldenEye on TV and Tomorrow Never Dies on the big screen. He studies Journalism and Communications in Argentina, where he was born and currently lives. Full Profile
Peter Allen
Peter has a background in web development. When he is not busy with the technical details that keep MI6 running smoothly or liaising with readers and contributors, he indulges in history, classic cinema and politics. Full Profile
Philip Poggiali
Philip Nathaniel Poggiali is an academic librarian who lives and works just north of New York City. He loves movies and vintage crime fiction. You can read Phil’s film and book reviews at Paperback Film Projector and Temple of Schlock. Full Profile
Sean Longmore
Sean Longmore is a digital artist, he has a powerful pencil but doesn’t charge a million a shot. You can find him on Twitter: @ThatTallGinger or Instagram: @Seanlongmore. Full Profile
Simon Firth
Simon has been interested in the world of Bond since 1981 whereupon a halfhearted attempt to collect something formed the basis for a collection. Working for a living financed further forays into the more expensive side of collecting but, as life would have it, this coincided roughly with the explosion of Bond sales through auction houses such as Sotherby’s and Christies with the unfortunate result that, he never really caught up. Full Profile
Steve Oxenrider
Steve Oxenrider is a retired educator, life-long James Bond film fan and freelance writer who has contributed to many Bond books and publications, as well as being credited on the supplementary features for several of the DVDs. Full Profile
Stuart Kortekaas
Stuart is an Australian industrial designer & photographer. A life-long James Bond fan, his passion for design was inspired by watching ‘Goldfinger’ as a child. Since completing a masters degree in Sweden he has travelled the world, photographing glamorous locations, exotic wildlife, and some of the world’s most beautiful models. For more information, please visit www.stuartkortekaas.com. Full Profile
Tom Cull
Tom Cull runs Artistic Licence Renewed, the Literary 007 James Bond Online Magazine and Tribute to Richard Chopping. Tom knew Chopping very well as a child and Tom’s great grandfather also hired a young Ian Fleming to work or the family bank Cull & Co. between 1933 and 1935. Full Profile
Tony Piazza
Tony Piazza is a mystery writer, film historian, and veteran storyteller renowned for his passion for writing and movies. He is the author of three mystery novels and a non-fiction work. Actor and stand-in for movies and television, Piazza has appeared in such notable films as Magnum Force and The Streets of San Francisco. From Clint Eastwood to Steve McQueen, Piazza’s stories read like a who’s who of Hollywood. He is also a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America and SLO Nightwriters. Full Profile
