 Author Ian Fleming (I) (qv) wanted his cousin  Christopher Lee (I) (qv) to play Dr. No. (Lee would later appear  as Scaramanga in the 007 flick  _Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974)_ (qv), and would play the  character that inspired Fleming to create Dr. No, Dr. Fu Manchu, in  several films.) Fleming originally asked Noel Coward (qv) to play  the part of Dr. No. Coward turned down the part by replying with a  telegram that read, "Dr. No? No! No! No!"