Trivia (211) As of 2021, George Lazenby is the youngest actor to portray 007, at age twenty-nine during filming.
Daniel Craig was 38 years old when his first James Bond movie, Casino Royale, was made.
Sean Connery was the first actor to portray Bond in film in Dr. No (1962). A Scottish amateur bodybuilder, he had come to the attention of the Bond film producers after several appearances in British films from the late 1950s.
He was 38 when he became 007, about the same age Bond was when the commander got his '00' status in the Ian Fleming novels. What exactly does 00 status mean, however?
Why is James Bond known as agent 007 and not any other number (like 008 or something else? Fictional MI6 agent James Bond possesses the Licence to Kill which is why he is a '00' agent. The '7' means Bond is the seventh agent to receive this title.
He could have dodged a few missiles and been back in Blighty in time for supper. But no: James Bond is definitely dead. Director Cary Joji Fukunaga confirmed to Empire that the ending of No Time To Die was constructed to be as definite and conclusive as possible on that score. Video Player is loading.
This is a problem,'” Jackman said. Of course, instead of Jackman, the role of James Bond went to Daniel Craig, who went on to star in the role for more than 10 years. Craig appeared in five total films, the final of which was 2021's No Time to Die.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been identified as one of the leading candidates to replace Daniel Craig as the next James Bond. After it was revealed that the 32-year-old actor had participated in a screen test, he unexpectedly became the frontrunner to play the leading role in the self-titled film franchise.
Roger Moore
Despite his advancing age, the actor would reprise the role three more times at 53 in 1981's For Your Eyes Only, 55 in 1983's Octopussy, and finally 57 (the oldest Bond so far) in 1985's A View To A Kill.
Ursula Andress
Key Data: The Bond girl that tops most lists is by far the hottest. From the very first Bond adventure, the template was set. Ursula Andress was the standard by which all followers had to be measured, and, in terms of pure beauty and sexiness, her Honey Ryder is still the sweetest Bond girl ever.
Madeleine is the daughter of SPECTRE agent, Mr. White and his wife. In 1998, Lyutsifer Safin came to the White house in Nittedal, Norway to kill Mr. White; who had murdered his entire family on orders from SPECTRE leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Daniel Craig's salary for portraying James Bond in Spectre (USA/UK, 2015) is estimated to have totalled around $39 million (£25.4 million), making him by far the highest-paid actor to have appeared in the Bond series to date, even allowing for inflation.
Sean Connery played the big screen's first James Bond in Dr. No (1962), a role he played an additional five times in the official series, while other actors inheriting the role have included George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and, most recently, Daniel Craig.
Roger Moore - 7 Movies
Roger Moore still holds the record for playing James Bond the most in the official Eon series. Moore first played 007 in 1973's Live and Let Die, and stayed in the role until 1985's A View to a Kill.
The lowest-rated Bond movie is 1967's "Casino Royale," starring David Niven as the titular spy. This version of "Casino Royale" is a parody of spy films, rather than a straightforward Bond caper. It's also one of two films about James Bond that wasn't produced by Eon Productions.
But what exactly is the Bond psyche? Dr. Jonason and his colleagues have referred to the Dark Triad- the combination of Machiavellianism, sublinical narcissism, and subclinical psychopathy- as a "James Bond psychology".
Then, during a fight with Safin, Safin uses a specific poison on Bond that makes him a carrier that would kill anyone he came in physical contact with. So Bond is both bleeding out and even if he managed to get off the island, he'd still be stuck with poisonous nanobots for the rest of his natural life.
It is expected that Bond 26, like Casino Royale, will serve as a reboot for the entire franchise once more. Barbara Broccoli, one of the long-running producers on the franchise, said she doesn't expect the next movie to start filming until 2024 “at least”, so we shouldn't expect Bond 26 until 2025, if not 2026.
Bond and Madeleine Swann bring us on an emotional rollercoaster. "You have all the time in the world," he says. "She does have your eyes," she responds, confirming that Mathilde is his daughter.
But Bond is immortal. He returns to save another day. When it finally reaches cinemas, No Time to Die will be the last hurrah for Craig, but gods do not die. Bond will live on.
In Fleming's books, there are only five double 0 agents: 006, 007, 008, 009, and 0011. Two of them are named: 007 is Bond, of course, and, in Moonraker, there's mention of agent 008 as a guy named Bill.