20 Facts About Cubby Broccoli

Co-founder of Danjaq, LLC and Eon Productions, Cubby Broccoli is most notable as the producer of many of the James Bond films.

Cubby Broccoli was born in the borough of Queens, New York City, the younger of two children of immigrants from the Calabria region of Italy, Giovanni Cubby Broccoli and Kristina Vence.

Cubby Broccoli acquired his nickname after his cousin, mobster Pat DiCicco, began calling him "Kabibble", after a similarly named cartoon character.

Family moved to Florida, and on the death of his father Giovanni, Cubby Broccoli moved to live with his grandmother in Astoria, Queens, in New York City.

Cubby Broccoli started at the bottom, working as a gofer on Howard Hughes' The Outlaw, which starred Jane Russell.

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Cubby Broccoli is alleged to have been involved in an altercation with comedian and Three Stooges creator Ted Healy outside the Trocadero nightclub, just before the latter's death in 1937.

Cubby Broccoli admitted that he was indeed involved in a fist fight with Healy at the Trocadero.

At the beginning of the 1950s, Cubby Broccoli moved once more, this time to London, where the British government provided subsidies to film productions made in the UK with British casts and crews.

Together with Irving Allen, Cubby Broccoli formed Warwick Films, which made a prolific and successful series of films for Columbia Pictures.

When Cubby Broccoli became interested in bringing Ian Fleming's James Bond character into features, he discovered that the rights already belonged to the Canadian producer Harry Saltzman, who had long wanted to break into film, and who had produced several stage plays and films with only modest success.

Cubby Broccoli made one notable attempt at a non-Bond film, an adaptation of Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1968, and due to legal wrangling over the rights to story elements, ceded producer credit on Thunderball to Kevin McClory.

Nonetheless, by the mid-1960s, Cubby Broccoli had put nearly all of his energies into the Bond series.

Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli had differences over Saltzman's outside commitments; however, in the end, it was Saltzman who withdrew from Danjaq and EON after a series of financial mishaps.

In 1966, Cubby Broccoli was in Japan with other producers scouting locations to film the next James Bond film You Only Live Twice.

Cubby Broccoli had a ticket booked on BOAC Flight 911 and cancelled his ticket on that day so he could see a ninja demonstration.

Cubby Broccoli's died in 1958, soon after giving birth to their daughter, Tina.

Albert Broccoli became a mentor to Dana's teenage son, Michael G Wilson.

Cubby Broccoli died at his home in Beverly Hills in 1996 at the age of 87 of heart failure.

Cubby Broccoli had undergone a triple heart bypass earlier that year.

Cubby Broccoli was interred in an ornate sarcophagus in the outdoor Courts of Remembrance section, at Forest Lawn – Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles following a funeral mass at The Church of the Good Shepherd, Beverly Hills.