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   Mig.Rhodes to All   
   Tony Strong, 102, scenic artist,worked w   
   24 Sep 24 10:46:42   
   
   From: mig73allenford2002@yahoo.co.uk   
      
   Tony Strong, who has died aged 102, was a scenic artist who created   
   convincing worlds for films, theatre and television; he was equally   
   adept at delicate foreground details such as the tarot cards in the   
   Roger Moore film Live and Let Die as he was at enormous backcloths, such   
   as the 1314ft-long, 40ft-high snowscape for Sidney Lumet’s Murder on the   
   Orient Express, or the eerie mountains behind the Overlook Hotel in The   
   Shining...   
      
   He created the tarot cards for the Bond film Live and Let Die – and had   
   a nasty moment when he spotted the shark tank had sprung a leak   
      
   https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/09/24/tony-strong-sc   
   nic-artist-monty-python-james-bond/   
      
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