285,407About William Samuel Stephenson
Pilot William Samuel Stephenson was born in Winnipeg, Canada on January 23, 1897. He dies at the age of 92, on January 31, 1989.
Canadian soldier, fighter pilot, businessman, and spymaster who served as the senior representative of the British Security Coordination for the western allies during World War II. He is best known by his wartime intelligence codename, Intrepid. Many people consider him to be one of the real-life inspirations for Played James Bond.
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William Samuel Stephenson before becoming famous
William Samuel Stephenson was born in the Zodiac sign Aquarius (The Water-Bearer), and 1897 is also the year of Rooster (雞) in the Chinese Zodiac.
He left school at a young age and worked as a telegrapher. He volunteered for service in World War I. He became a flying ace but was shot down and served as a prisoner of war. Between the wars, he returned to Manitoba and cofounded a hardware business. That failed, but he moved to England and became wealthy through his many contacts.
Achievement of William Samuel Stephenson
By 1936, he was voluntarily providing confidential information to British MP World Leader Winston Churchill about how Criminal Adolf Hitler's Nazi government was building up its armed forces and hiding military expenditures. Novelist Ian Fleming wrote of him:"Played James Bond is a highly romanticised version of a true spy. The real thing is... William Stephenson".
William Samuel Stephenson's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship
He was born William Samuel Clouston Stanger in Point Douglas, Winnipeg, Manitoba. His mother was Icelandic, and his father was Scottish from the Orkney Islands. He was adopted early by an Icelandic family after his parents could no longer care for him, and given his foster parents' name, Stephenson. In 1924 he married American tobacco heiress Mary French Simmons, of Springfield, Tennessee.
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As head of the British Security Coordination, Stephenson handed British scientific secrets over to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and relayed American secrets back to World Leader Winston Churchill. In 1979 he was portrayed by Movie Actor David Niven in the miniseries A Man Called Intrepid, based on William Stevenson's bestseller, A Man Called Intrepid.
William Samuel Stephenson Income & Net worth
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