ABOVE: AN ECLECTIC INTERNATIONAL CAST – (clockwise) Scottish-born actor Sean Connery returns as James Bond Secret Agent 007 in From Russia With Love; Italian actress and first runner-up in the 1960 Miss Universe contest, Daniela Bianchi as Soviet Consulate cipher clerk Tatiana Romanova; Mexican actor Pedro Armendariz as Kerim Bey, Head of MI6 Station T - Turkey, with Serbian actress Nadja Regin, credited only as ‘Kerim's Girl’; Austrian-born actress/singer Lotte Lenya as Rosa Klebb – a former SMERSH Colonel turned SPECTRE operative; Renowned British character actor Bernard Lee and Canadian-born actress Lois Maxwell reprise their roles as M and his secretary Miss Moneypenny; making his debut as Boothroyd, Welsh-born actor Desmond Llewelyn would go on to play gadget-master Q in a further 16 films in the series until his untimely death in 1999; Israeli actress Aliza Gur [left] and Jamaican-born British actress Martine Beswick [right] play Gypsy fighting girls Vida and Zora; and English actor, novelist, playwright and screenwriter Robert Shaw as SPECTRE assassin Donald ‘Red’ Grant.

ABOVE: SUPPORTING PLAYERS - In addition to the main cast, other small roles were played by prolific British-based performers. [L-R] Polish character actor and director Vladek Sheybal as Kronsteen – a Czech chess grandmaster and SPECTRE agent; British actor Francis de Wolff plays Turkish Gypsy chief Vavra; and Cypriot actor George Pastell plays the train conductor who assists Bond on board the Orient Express.
BELOW: [L-R] Reprising her role as James Bond's occasional girlfriend Sylvia Trench, was British actress Eunice Gayson (although she was once again re-voiced by Monica ‘Nikki’ van der Zyl); German actor Walter Gotell who played SPECTRE agent Morzeny would return to the series in 1977 to play KGB Chief General Gogol in The Spy Who Loved Me – a role he would reprise in the next five James Bond films; Hungarian-born British Stuntman Fred Haggerty played Bulgarian assassin Krilencu.

ABOVE: BEHIND-THE-SCENES – In addition to its diverse international cast, From Russia With Love (1963) was produced by an equally talented crew – most of whom had also worked on the first James Bond film Dr. No. (1) Director Terence Young with James Bond star Sean Connery on location in Istanbul, and (2) back at Pinewood Studios with editor Peter Hunt. (3) Co-producer Albert R. Broccoli chats with Sean Connery on the set of From Russia With Love. (4) James Bond author Ian Fleming visited the crew during location filming in Turkey and chats with Sean Connery and co-producer Harry Saltzman. (5) BAFTA Award-winning cinematographer Ted Moore, pictured on the Venice bridal suite set at Pinewood Studios, cleans a mark off the mirror before Terence Young directs Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi. (6) Joining the team with From Russia With Love (1963) was influential American-born British based graphic designer Robert Brownjohn, who created the main title sequence for the film (assisted by Trevor Bond), and returned to design the equally iconic main titles for Goldfinger in 1964.