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 the 1980s and early 1990s, Savalas appeared in commercials for the Players' Club Gold Card. In 1982 along with Bob Hope and Linda Evans, he participated in the "world premiere" television ad introducing Diet Coke to Americans. On October 28, 1987, Savalas hosted "Return to the Titanic Live", a two-hour television special broadcast from Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris. Savalas appeared on the Australian supernatural television show "The Extraordinary," in which he told a personal ghost story similar to the vanishing hitchhiker. In the late 1980s Savalas guest-starred on an episode of "The Equalizer," which was produced