Earl cameron biography

Earlston ‘Earl’ Jewitt Cameron, born in Bemuda in 1917, passed away aged 102 on 3^rd July 2020. He was best known by Bond fans for playing Pinder opposite Sean Connery in 'Thunderball' (1965).

He had more than 60 years’ worth of screen credits, appearing in films including ‘Inception’ (2010), ‘The Queen’ (2006), ‘The Interpreter’ (2005), and ‘A Warm December’ (1973); plus small-screen productions of the likes of ‘Danger Man’, ‘Dr Who’, ‘The Prisoner’, ‘Kavanagh QC’ and ‘Neverwhere’.

Cameron described his desire to travel driving him toward a career in the Merchant Navy, whereupon he served aboard voyages to New York and to South America.

World War II brought Cameron to the UK, arriving in London on 29 October 1939. “The degree of racism in England didn’t surprise me. I had grown up with it [in Bermuda],” Cameron told the Bermudian