Lauterbrunnen R. Tolkien hiked from Interlaken to the Lauterbrunnen Valley while on a trip to the Continent in 1911. The landscape of the valley later provided the concept and pictorial model for his sketches and watercolours of the fictitious valley of Rivendell, the dwelling place of Elrond Half-elven and his people. Lauterbrunnen featured in several scenes from the 1969 James Bond film" On Her Majesty's Secret Service", including a car chase in which Bond (played for the only time by George Lazenby) was driven away from henchmen of Ernst Stavro Blofeld by his girlfriend Tracy di Vicenzo in a dramatic pursuit
Telly Savalas and "Love Is a Ball" (1962) with Glenn Ford and was in the gangster film "Johnny Cool" (1963). Savalas guest starred on "77 Sunset Strip," "The Twilight Zone" (the episode "Living Doll" ), "Channing," "Arrest and Trial," "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour," "Breaking Point,""Kraft Suspense Theatre" (several times, once directed by Pollack), "The Rogues," and "Burke's Law." Savlas reprised his "Interns" role in "The New Interns" (1964) and made a TV movie "Fanfare for a Death Scene" (1964). Savalas shaved his head to play Pontius Pilate in "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965) and kept his head shaven for the rest