Monty Norman was born on 4 April 1928 in Stepney in the East End of London.
12 Facts About Monty Norman
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Monty Norman's father, Abraham Noserovitch, was a Jewish cabinet maker who immigrated to the United Kingdom from Latvia when he was a child; his mother, Ann, who was Jewish, worked as a seamstress.
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Monty Norman lived with his Jewish immigrant grandparents for the first few years of his life.
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Monty Norman's mother gave him his first guitar when he was sixteen.
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Monty Norman sang in various variety shows, sharing top billing with other singers and comedy stars such as Benny Hill, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Worth, Tommy Cooper, Jimmy James, and Tony Hancock.
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Monty Norman worked for several years on his unpublished autobiography, titled A Walking Stick Full of Bagels.
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Monty Norman is best known for writing the "James Bond Theme", the signature theme of the James Bond franchise, and the score to the first James Bond film, Dr No Monty Norman received royalty payments for the theme from 1962 on.
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Barry later claimed that it was actually he who wrote the theme, but Monty Norman won two different libel actions against Barry's claim he was the composer, the last against The Sunday Times in 2001.
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Monty Norman later married Rina Caesari in 2000 or 2001.
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Monty Norman was a worshipper at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue.
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Monty Norman died on 11 July 2022 at a hospital in Slough.
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Monty Norman was 94, and suffered from an unspecified short illness prior to his death.