Ken Adam, James Bond and ‘Dr. Strangelove’ Production Designer, Dies at 95

Two-time Oscar winner passed away in his London home on Thursday

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Sir Ken Adam, the production designer best known for his work on the James Bond films of the ’60s and ’70s, died on Thursday at the age of 95.

Adam’s biographer, Sir Christopher Frayling, confirmed to the BBC that the production designer died in his London home. “As a person he was remarkable. Roger Moore once said about him that his life was a great deal more interesting than most of the films that he designed,” he said.

Among his many visual masterpieces on screen were the war room beneath the Pentagon in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 classic “Dr.

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