There are 27 published Matt Helm novels that Hamilton wrote from 1960’s Death of a Citizen to 1993’s The Damagers; the author died in 2006.Four of the books were made into films in the 1960s ...

HOLLYWOOD — DreamWorks has optioned a series of 27 novels by Donald Hamilton about debonair spy Matt Helm. Robert Luketic, whose debut feature “Legally Blonde” became a sleeper hit last ...

Dean Martin - as Matt Helm, ace of the American counter-espionage agency, ICE - succeeds in a kind of lover-boy way in taking his place up there with such stalwarts as Sean Connery, James Coburn ...

Bradley Cooper Spy Movie ‘Matt Helm’ Enlists Writer Tom Shepherd. The title character, a counter-assassination agent, was once played by Dean Martin in a series of spoof films.

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Shepherd has been hired to pen Matt Helm , a film adapted from Don Hamilton’s prolific spy novel series that has been in the works at Paramount with Bradley Cooper attached to star.