Thomas Pevsner (2 October 1926 – 18 August 2014) was a British assistant film director and producer whose career spanned more than four decades. He was the second of three children born to Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, an architectural historian of Russian-Jewish origin. The family emigrated from Germany in 1933 to escape the Nazi regime. He served in the

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from 1944 to 1948 before studying modern languages at the

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, where he was a member of the St John's College Film Society. He was editor of ''The Cambridge Review''; after graduating he went to work at the

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. Tom Pevsner's notable credits include assistant director on '' The Ladykillers'' (1955) '' The Longest Day'' (1962) and ''

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'' (1970) and as producer for ''

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''. He worked as associate, then executive producer on every

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from '' For Your Eyes Only'' to '' GoldenEye''. His contribution to the Bond series is acknowledged in the later Bond film ''

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'', when Q states that he is staying at a hotel named Pevsner. He died in 2014 aged 87. He was included in the ''In Memoriam'' tribute during the broadcast of the

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on 22 February 2015.

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* 1926 births 2014 deaths Film people from Dresden British film producers Alumni of the University of Cambridge Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom English people of German-Jewish descent English people of Russian-Jewish descent German people of Russian-Jewish descent British Army personnel of World War II German emigrants to England {{UK-film-producer-stub