August 2, 1965 –
Michael Caine’s first outing as the anti Bond spy, Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File, opened in the US on this date.
In the novels, the name of the lead character was never revealed. So Michael Caine and Producer Harry Saltzman tried to think of a boring name for the hero. Caine suggested “Harry“, which Saltzman found rather amusing. Caine then remembered a boring classmate named Tommy Palmer. So “Palmer” became the surname.
The Haus of Dcaligari 