"Which Lawn Tennis player of the 1970's later had a brief acting career, appearing in the 1983 James Bond film, ""Octopussy""?"
Octopussy another Swedish actress, Kristina Wayborn, who the producers first noticed playing Greta Garbo in the miniseries "The Silent Lovers". "Octopussy" is also the first film to feature Robert Brown as M, following the death of Bernard Lee in 1981. Brown came recommended by Moore, who had known him since both worked in the series "Ivanhoe". The first actor to be cast in the film was Vijay Amritraj, a popular professional tennis player who Broccoli met watching The Championships in Wimbledon. His character of Bond's ally in India was also named Vijay and used a tennis racket as a weapon. For
Octopussy names, commenting, "This Bond girl moniker was so good, they named the film after her!" Octopussy Octopussy is a 1983 British spy film, the thirteenth in the "James Bond" series produced by Eon Productions, and the sixth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film's title is taken from a short story in Ian Fleming's 1966 short story collection "Octopussy and The Living Daylights", although the film's plot is original. It does, however, include a scene inspired by the Fleming short story "The Property of a Lady" (included in 1967 and later editions of "Octopussy