Richard Maibaum episode "The Medal" for "Combat!" (1963) then wrote "From Russia with Love" (1963), sharing credit with Harwood. Maibaum worked on "Goldfinger" (1964), on which Paul Dehn also did work. He was one of several writers on "Thunderball" (1965). "You Only Live Twice" (1967) was the first Bond film on which Maibaum was not credited as a writer, the producers using Roald Dahl. Albert Broccoli wanted to produce a non-Bond movie, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968) and Maibaum did some work on the script. Maibum received sole script credit for "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969), starring George Lazenby. He did
Desmond Llewelyn the musical "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968), which was itself based on a children's book by Bond author Ian Fleming. In 1961 he made an uncredited cameo appearance early on as one of the Marques's servants in the Hammer Film Productions of "The Curse of the Werewolf." He also acted on stage with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (appearing as an extra in Olivier's 1948 film "Hamlet") and appeared as Geoffrey Maddocks ('The Colonel') in the British television series "Follyfoot" from 1971 to 1973. The Bond film "Live and Let Die" was filmed during the third series of "Follyfoot" and