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English painter

Reginald Bernard John Gadney (20 January 1941 – 1 May 2018)^[1] was a painter, thriller-writer and an occasional screenwriter or screenplay adaptor.

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Reg Gadney was a creative artist.

Reg Gadney was born in Cross Hills, Yorkshire in and educated at the Dragon School, Oxford and at Stowe.

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Reg Gadney, who has died aged 77, was an inspirational teacher; to television producers he was a reliable, award-winning scriptwriter.

Gadney was also an officer in the Coldstream Guards in the 1960s and later wrote the biopic screenplay Goldeneye (about author Ian Fleming) which was filmed in 1989, directed by Don Boyd with Charles Dance playing Ian Fleming.

Gadney cameoed as the real-life James Bond, the man who lent his name to Fleming's eponymous spy.

Life

Gadney, the son of the rugby player, Bernard Gadney, was born during a secondary air raid on 20 January 1941.

His was father was the headmaster at Malsis School in Cross Hills, West Riding of Yorkshire, and Gadney was born in Dorm 10^[2] in the school when Luftwaffe bombers, returning across the Pennines from a raid in either Liverpool or Manchester, dumped their surplus fuel on the cricket pitch.^[3] Gadney was encouraged to paint by his mo