Place of Birth:
New York City, New York, USA
Date of Birth:
1/21/1942
Michael Gregg Wilson, OBE (born January 21, 1943) is the producer and screenwriter of many of the James Bond films. Wilson was born in New York City, the son of Dana (née Natol) and actor Lewis Wilson. His father was the first actor to play the DC Comics character Batman in live action, which he did in the 1943 film serial Batman. He is the stepson of the late James Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli and step brother to Bond co-producer, Barbara Broccoli. Wilson graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1963 as an electrical engineer. He later studied law at Stanford. After graduating, Wilson worked for the United States government and later a firm located in Washington D.C. that specialized in international law.\n He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours, alongside Barbara Broccoli.\n In 2010 Wilson was given The Royal Photographic Society's award for Outstanding Service to Photography, which carries with it an Honorary Fellowship of The Society.\n In 1972, Wilson joined Eon Productions, the production company responsible for the James Bond film series dating back to 1962 that began with his stepfather Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. Wilson specifically worked in Eon Productions' legal department until taking a more active role as an assistant to Cubby Broccoli for the film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). In 1979 Wilson became executive producer of the film Moonraker and since has been an executive producer or producer in every James Bond film, currently co-producing with his half-sister Barbara.\n Wilson collaborated five times with veteran Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum starting in 1981 with For Your Eyes Only. In 1989 Michael G. Wilson was forced to finish the screenplay to Licence to Kill alone due to a strike by the Writers Guild of America, west which prevented Maibaum from having any further involvement. For both, this was their final James Bond script, as Maibaum died in 1991 and Wilson ceased writing, although he outlined a never-produced film in the series with Alfonse Ruggiero, scrapped due to internal legal wranglings between Eon Productions and MGM (the following film, GoldenEye being a completely different story written by Michael France). In addition to his production duties, Wilson has also made many cameo appearances (speaking and non-speaking) in the Bond films. His first appearance, long before becoming a producer, was in Goldfinger in which he appeared as a soldier. Wilson has made cameo appearances in every Eon-produced Bond film since 1977.
No Time to Die
Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond
The Sound of 007
Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Best Ever Bond
Casino Royale
The Spy Who Loved Me
The Program
Inside The Living Daylights
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
Terence Young: Bond Vivant
Inside 'Dr. No'
Harry Saltzman: Showman
Pinewood: 80 Years of Movie Magic
Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'
Casting on 'Her Majesty's Secret Service'
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles
Explosion Tests
Satellite Test Reel
Oil Rig Attack
Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
On Location with 'The Man with the Golden Gun'
Girls Fighting
The Bond Sound: The Music of 007
Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
007 in Egypt
Ken Adam: Designing Bond
Escape from Atlantis: Storyboard Sequence
Roger Moore: My Word Is My Bond
007 Stage Dedication
Inside 'Moonraker'
Bond '79
Neptune's Journey
Moonraker
Bond in Greece
Inside 'For Your Eyes Only'
Bond in Cortina
Inside 'Octopussy'
James Bond in India
Die Another Day
Inside 'A View to a Kill'
A View to a Kill
The World Is Not Enough
Inside 'The Living Daylights'
Octopussy
The Living Daylights
Inside 'Licence to Kill'
Building a Better Bond
Goldeneye: The Secret Files
GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast
Highly Classified: The World of 007
James Bond Down River
Die Another Day: From Script to Screen
Shaken and Stirred on Ice
The Road to Casino Royale
Directing Bond: The Martin Chronicles
Death in Venice: The Sinking Palazzo
Becoming Bond
James Bond in the Bahamas
Ian Fleming's Incredible Creation
James Bond: For Real
Bond on Location
Start of Shooting
On Location
Director Marc Forster
Being James Bond
From Roger Moore with Love
Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn