Who is a Welsh film animator/director who was born in Rhondda in Wales who graduated from the University of Wales with an HNC in Electronics, and worked on projects like the eighteenth spy film in the "James Bond" series, and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond ?
Marco Marenghi Marco Marenghi is a Welsh film animator/director who was born in Rhondda in Wales. He graduated from the University of Wales with an HNC in Electronics, and he worked for a microelectronics firm in Rhondda. He was laid off due to redundancy, and he briefly worked as a TV repairman before becoming unemployed. His wife encouraged him to take an animation course at the University of Glamorgan. After graduating with an HND in Animation, he worked for Framestore for four years on projects including the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies" (1997) and the BBC television miniseries "Walking with Dinosaurs" (1999). DreamWorks hired Marenghi to work on films including "Minority Report" (2002). He moved to Sony Pictures Imageworks, where he worked as animation supervisor on films including "I Am Legend" (2007) and "Ghost Rider" (2007). He also worked as an animation director for Animal Logic for the film "Walking with Dinosaurs" (2013). The BBC featured Marenghi's dramatic career change and inspirational story in the documentary On Show: The Marco Marenghi Story (2004).
James Bond in film The James Bond film series is a British series of spy films based on the fictional character of MI6 agent James Bond, "007", who originally appeared in a series of books by Ian Fleming. It is one of the longest continually-running film series in history, having been in on-going production from 1962 to the present (with a six-year hiatus between 1989 and 1995). In that time Eon Productions has produced 24 films, most of them at Pinewood Studios. With a combined gross of over $7 billion to date, the films produced by Eon constitute the fourth-highest-grossing film series. Six actors have portrayed 007 in the Eon series, the latest being Daniel Craig.