watching from russia with love. got curious about pedro armandaraz’s character and fuuuck, that’s a downer….he knew at the time he had terminal neck cancer, so they shot all his scenes first. the movie shot in april of 63 and he was dead several months later from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the hospital. they had to use a double for some late-shot scenes. I think it’s wikipedia that mentions he was one of the folks in the Howard Hughes fiasco where they were all rolling around in radioactive sand. the statistics were something like 93 out of 210 dead within 25 years from cancer, but that actually sounds like pretty normal statistics for an age when everybody in the cast was chain-smoking.