Guy Hamilton dead: Director of ‘Goldfinger,’ three more Bond films was 93

Goldfinger, Guy Hamilton

Guy Hamilton, right, directed four James Bond films, including Sean Connery’s “Goldfinger” in 1964.

James Bond film director Guy Hamilton is dead at the age of 93, according to former 007 actor Sir Roger Moore.

“Incredibly, incredibly saddened to hear the wonderful director Guy Hamilton has gone to the great cutting room in the sky. 2016 is horrid,” Moore wrote on Twitter Thursday.

Hamilton directed Moore in “Live and Let Die” and “The Man with the Golden Gun.” Hamilton also helmed “Goldfinger and “Diamonds are Forever,” both starring Sean Connery as the British secret agent.

According to the BBC, Hamilton was British but started his career in French cinema in the 1930s because of family living in France. He worked his way up to assistant for director Carol Reed for five years before getting to sit in the director’s chair himself in the ’50s.

Besides the four Bond movies, Hamilton also directed “Force 10 From Navarone,” “Evil Under the Sun,” “The Battle of Britain” and “The Devil’s Disciple.”

“I work very hard, I drive people very hard,” he told the BBC. “In the making of Bond films we are some of the meanest toughest film makers. If we spend a million dollars it had better be up there on the screen.”

According to The Guardian, Hamilton was also a double for Orson Welles in “The Third Man” and nearly directed two superhero movies. He was originally hired to film 1978’s “Superman” (1978) in Italy, but actor Marlon Brando reportedly insisted the production be moved to England, where Hamilton was only allowed to work for 30 days a year due to a “tax exile.”