List Of All James Bond Actors

**don99** · 02-01-2013, 02:12 AM

List Of All James Bond Actors

It’s already been about 16 months since the List Of All James Bond Movies. So here’s an awesome follow-up with all the actors who played 007, along with some fun facts and basic information.

Let’s have a look, shall we?

These are all the actors who played 007 in the official EON Productions series of James Bond movies.

**don99** · 02-01-2013, 02:13 AM

1. Sean Connery

Date of birth: August 25, 1930
Place of birth: Fountainbridge, Scotland
Birth name: Thomas Sean Connery
Fun fact: Started losing his hair at 21, wears a toupee in all the James Bond movies.
Times he played 007: 7 times

**don99** · 02-01-2013, 02:13 AM

Sean Connery’s 007 movies:

1. James Bond: Dr. No

Release: 1962
His age at release: 32
Salary: $100,000
Fun fact: Fortunately this was the only movie in which James Bond sung.. (“Under The Mango Tree”)

2. James Bond: From Russia With Love

Release: 1963
His age at release: 33
Salary: $250,000
Fun fact: Sean Connery received eight specially tailored Saville Row suits for this movie, $2,000 each.

3. James Bond: Goldfinger

Release: 1964
His age at release: 34
Salary: $500,000
Fun fact: Sean Connery never traveled to the United States to film this movie. Every scene in which he appears to be in the USA was filmed in Pinewood Studios outside London. This explains why Bond flips a light switch down to discover the golden corpse of Jill, as English light switches are generally turned on by flicking them down instead of up

4. James Bond: Thunderball

Release: 1965
His age at release: 35
Salary: $600,000
Fun fact: Thunderball is Sean Connery’s personal favorite movie in his role as agent 007.

5. James Bond: You Only Live Twice

Release: 1967
His age at release: 37
Salary: $1,000,000
Fun fact: After the film wrapped, Connery was reportedly asked whether he found Japanese women attractive to which he allegedly replied, “No,” causing many Japanese to call him bad names.

6. James Bond: Diamonds Are Forever

Release: 1971
His age at release: 41
Salary: $1,250,000
Fun fact: This is the first and one of the few titles in which James Bond has sex with only one woman in the entire movie.

7. James Bond: Never Say Never Again

(unofficial 007 title, see info in List Of James Bond Movies post)

Release: 1983
His age at release: 53
Salary: $5,000,000
Fun fact: A young Steven Seagal was the martial arts instructor for this film. He broke Sean Connery’s wrist during training.

**don99** · 02-01-2013, 02:14 AM

2. George Lazenby

Date of birth: September 5th, 1939
Place of birth: Goulburn, Australia
Birth name: George Robert Lazenby
Fun fact: Having done only one James Bond movie, George became actually a metaphor for something forgettable: “It was a mistake, like casting George Lazenby as 007″
Times he played 007: 1 time

**don99** · 02-01-2013, 02:15 AM

George Lazenby’s 007 movies:

1. James Bond: On Her Majesty’s Service

Release: 1969
His age at release: 30
Salary: £50,000
Fun fact: In the original take of the final scene featuring Tracy’s death, George Lazenby came to tears. Director Peter R. Hunt then made them shoot the scene again because he said that, “Bond does not cry.”

**don99** · 02-01-2013, 02:16 AM

3. Roger Moore

Date of birth: October 14, 1927
Place of birth: Stockwell, UK
Birth name: Roger George Moore
Fun fact: In all of seven James Bond appearances, Roger Moore never ordered a vodka martini “shaken, not stirred”
Times he played 007: 7 times

Roger Moore’s 007 movies:

1. James Bond: Live and Let Die

Release: 1973
His age at release: 46
Salary: $1,000,000
Fun fact: Sean Connery turned down the then astronomical sum of $5.5 million to play James Bond. Connery gave Roger Moore his personal seal of approval for inheriting his role, calling him “an ideal Bond”.

2. James Bond: The Man with the Golden Gun

Release: 1974
His age at release: 47
Salary: $1,000,000
Fun fact: One of the lowest-grossing Bond films. That fact, combined with behind-the-scenes problems, nearly made this the final Bond film, and delayed production of The Spy Who Loved Me. -

3. James Bond: The Spy who Loved Me

Release: 1977
His age at release: 50
Salary: $1,000,000
Fun fact: The movie received Three Academy Award Nominations – the most ever received by a James Bond movie to date. These were for Best Art Direction – Set Decoration, Best Score, and Best Song – “Nobody Does It Better”.

4. James Bond: Moonraker

Release: 1979
His age at release: 52
Salary: $4,000,000
Fun fact: To build the gigantic three level Space Station set interiors at France’s Epinay Studios, the production utilized two tons of nails, one hundred tons of metal, two hundred and twenty technicians and ten thousand feet of set construction woodwork. -

5. James Bond: For Your Eyes Only

Release: 1981
His age at release: 54
Salary: $4,600,000
Fun fact: Director John Glen estimated that every foot of film shot during the attempted drowning of Melina and Bond by Kristatos cost about £ 2,700 UK pounds. -

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Release: 1983
His age at release: 56
Salary: $5,200,000
Fun fact: A hand with a pair of eights in the card game Texas Hold ‘Em Poker is called an “Octo*****”. This same hand is shown during one of the card games in Casino Royale (2006).

7. James Bond: A View to a Kill

Release: 1985
His age at release: 58
Salary: $7,500,000
Fun fact: When Grace Jones as May Day screams during the mine sequence when sparks fly around her, her screams are for real. She did not know that electric cables around her would go off as a special effect for the scene

**don99** · 02-01-2013, 02:16 AM

4. Timothy Dalton

Date of birth: March 21st, 1946
Place of birth: Colwyn Bay, Wales, UK
Birth name: Timothy Dalton
Fun fact: Timothy Dalton is said to have best portraid 007 the way Ian Fleming intended in the novels. This is because of his more serious and “darker” acting style.
Times he played 007: 2 times

Timothy Dalton’s 007 movies:

1. James Bond: The Living Daylights

Release: 1987
His age at release: 41
Salary: $3,000,000
Fun fact: The literal translations of some of The Living Daylights (1987)’s foreign language titles include “Spies Die At Dawn” (Denmark); “007: High Tension” (Spain); “Death Is Not A Game” (France); “Icecold Mission” (Sweden); “His Name Is Danger” (Chile); “Breeze Of Death” (West Germany) and “007 In The Dangerous Zone” (Hebrew).

2. James Bond: Licence To Kill

Release: 1989
His age at release: 43
Salary: $5,000,000
Fun fact: Despite being one of the least commercially successful Bond movies in the United States, it was considered by director John Glen his best “007″. This opinion is shared by some fans and critics who praise the realism

**don99** · 02-01-2013, 02:17 AM

5. Pierce Brosnan

Date of birth: May 16h, 1953
Place of birth: Drogheda, Ireland
Birth name: Pierce Brendan Brosnan
Fun fact: Brosnan was chose as most beautiful or sexy man alive multiple times.
Times he played 007: 4 times

Pierce Brosnan’s 007 movies:

1. James Bond: Goldeneye

Release: 1995
His age at release: 42
Salary: $1,200,000
Fun fact: The first of the James Bond films ever to be released on DVD.

2. James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies

Release: 1997
His age at release: 44
Salary: $8,200,000
Fun fact: 15 BMW 750′s were destroyed in the making of the film.

3. James Bond: The World Is Not Enough

Release: 1999
His age at release: 46
Salary: $12,400,000
Fun fact: The destruction of Valentin’s factory operations took approximately 5 months to complete.

4. James Bond: Die Another Day

Release: 2002
His age at release: 49
Salary: $16,500,000
Fun fact: Both the Aston Martin and the Jaguar were completely stripped of engine and running gear. These were replaced by the Ford V8, 4WD kit and 4spd Auto ‘box from Ford’s Explorer. This was to help them perform on ice

**don99** · 02-01-2013, 02:18 AM

6. Daniel Craig

Date of birth: March 2nd, 1968
Place of birth: Chester, England, UK
Birth name: Daniel Wroughton Craig
Fun fact: He is the first Bond actor to have been born after the Bond series began.
Times he played 007: twice up ’till now, signed for a total of 5 Bond movies

Daniel Craig’s 007 movies:

1. James Bond: Casino Royale

Release: 2006
His age at release: 38
Salary: $3,200,000
Fun fact: Most of the cars seen in the movie are made by Ford Motor Company. In the scene where Bond acts as a valet the cars in the parking lot are Land Rovers, Volvos, Jaguars and other Ford Motor Company’s cars.

2. James Bond: Quantum of Solace

Release: 2008
His age at release: 40
Salary: $7,300,000
Fun fact: The film shoot used 200,000 rounds of blank bullets which were used for training, testing and filming

**don99** · 02-01-2013, 02:18 AM

3. James Bond: Skyfall

Release: November 2012
His age at release: 44
Salary: $ 17,100,000
Fun fact: The remaining available Ian Fleming titles are ”The Property of a Lady”, “The Hildebrand Rarity”, “Risico” and “007 in New York” (aka “Agent 007 in New York”), but the rumored titles were “Red Shadow” and “Red Sky at Morning”. The actual title “Skyfall” was announced early November 2011.