McClory was best known for producing the James Bond film Thunderball and for his legal battles with the character's creator, Ian Fleming (later United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Eon Productions).

Elinor McClory was the mother of Patrick Prunty who changed his name to Bronte when he emigrated from Ireland to England in 1802.

[3] As a teenaged radio officer in the British Merchant Navy, McClory endured attacks by German U-boats on two different occasions.

Although he and Taylor reportedly had plans to marry, she eventually left him for her future husband Mike Todd.

He filmed a documentary of the adventure, One Road, as well as a series of ads for his sponsor Ford Motor Company.

McClory and Whittingham engaged libel lawyer Peter Carter-Ruck and sued Fleming shortly after the 1961 publication of the Thunderball novel, claiming he based it upon the screenplay the trio had earlier written.

[14] In 1968 McClory announced plans to make a film about Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collins, to star Richard Harris.

][citation needed] In 1975, McClory and Richard Harris took out a full-page ad in The Nassau Tribune "demanding an end to internment without trial" in Northern Ireland.

Conservative opposition leader Edward Heath who was visiting Nassau at the time called a press conference and advised "Harris and McClory to 'ask their friends to stop murdering people.

S.P.E.C.T.R.E., but this never came to fruition, and James Bond Jr. was created as EON's counterattack to the aborted McClory animated attempt.

He approached Pierce Brosnan who had missed out on the role of James Bond to Timothy Dalton due to his contract with NBC's Remington Steele.

[20] McClory subsequently continued attempts to make other adaptations of Thunderball, including Warhead 2000 A.D. which was to be made by Sony.

[2][22] On 15 November 2013, MGM and Danjaq LLC announced they had acquired all rights and interests of McClory's estate.

MGM, Danjaq, and the McClory estate issued a statement saying that they had brought to an "amicable conclusion the legal and business disputes that have arisen periodically for over 50 years.

McClory died on 20 November 2006, aged 82, at St. Columcille's Hospital in the Dublin suburb of Loughlinstown, from a cerebral hemorrhage, four days after the British release of Casino Royale.