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Syd Cain

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In 2002 Cain wrote his autobiography "Not Forgetting James Bond" in which he lay down memories of working with hundreds of film directors, actors and crew, and also his interesting sporting family history. His father Tom Cain was an all-round athlete who played professional football for Queens Park
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Cain was married three times and had eight children, three have excelled in the design industry; Maurice Cain as production designer in film and TV, Anthony Cain in illustration, and Leigh Cain in exhibition design.
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Rangers and Tottenham Hotspur, and encouraged Fred Perry to switch from playing football to tennis and actually coached him for a while.
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instead gave him a solid gold pen as it would have cost too much to re-create the titles. For
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where he was assistant art director his name features on the blueprints of a vacuum cleaner.
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Not Forgetting James Bond: The Autobiography of Production Designer Syd Cain
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Cain's name appears in documents in several films on which he worked. In
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Cain, Syd with Worrall, Dave & Pfeiffer, Lee (Editors)
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features an in-joke of a racing form featuring the horse
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who worked on more than 30 films, including four in the
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Cain's name was accidentally missed off the titles for
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Grantham
Lincolnshire
United Kingdom
London
England
United Kingdom
British
Production designer
production designer
James Bond
Grantham
Lincolnshire
Royal Air Force
Rhodesia
World War II
draughtsman
art director
Albert R. Broccoli
Irving Allen
Warwick Films
Cockleshell Heroes
Fire Down Below
Stanley Kubrick
Lolita
Road to Hong Kong
Eon Productions
Dr No
Cubby Broccoli
From Russia with Love
Our Man in Havana

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