 Pedro Armendáriz (qv) playing the role of Kerim Bey, was  terminally ill during filming with the cancer he had likely  contracted while filming the notorious film  _Conqueror, The (1956)_ (qv) near the site of the US nuclear test  site in the Utah desert. Armendariz had accepted the role in From  Russia With Love partially as a means of providing financial  security for his widow, and the films schedule was altered in order  to film the scenes in which he appeared while he was still  physically able. Towards the end of the filming of those scenes,  however, director Terence Young (qv) had to double for the actor  in some of his long shots. One month after his scenes were  completed, Armendariz, in emulation of his friend  Ernest Hemingway (qv), committed suicide.