DR NO ACTOR DIES

Joseph Wiseman, who played the original James Bond villain Dr No, has died, aged 91.
Wiseman, who had been ill for several years, died at his home in Manhattan, his daughter Martha Graham Wiseman said.
Canadian-born Wiseman had made several Broadway appearances and featured in films including Viva Zapata! and The Silver Chalice before he was cast as the mysterious title character in the film which introduced Sean Connery as James Bond.
He had no idea he was to become an iconic figure in launching one of the most successful and longest-running film franchises in history.
“As far as I was concerned, I thought it might be just another grade-B Charlie Chan mystery,” he said in a 1992 interview.
His daughter said he regarded the role with “great disdain.”
“He was horrified in later life because that's what he was remembered for,” she said. “Stage acting was what he wanted to be remembered for.”
Wiseman, who made his Broadway debut in Abe Lincoln in Illinois in 1938, returned to the Great White Way in 2001, in a production of Judgment at Nuremberg, opposite Maximilian Schell.
His other films included The Night They Raided Minsky's, The Betsy and The Apprenticeship of Dudley Kravitz, and he made guest appearances in television shows including Wagon Train, The Streets of San Francisco, The A-Team, The Equalizer and LA Law.
His second wife, dancer and choreographer Pearl Lang, died last February.
As well as his daughter with first wife Nell Kinard, he is survived by a sister, Ruth Wiseman.