The First Actor To Play The Spy Was American
Barry Nelson played a role in a one-hour live television show of Fleming’s first Bond book, Casino Royale, in 1954, as US native Jimmy Bond. It would have been eight years before the first (and much more famous) film representation of the British secret agent was produced by Sean Connery.
The First Actor To Play The Spy Was American
It Was Once 57
The late Sir Roger Moore closed on his pension when he made his seventh and final appearance as Bond in 1985’s A View To A Kill, about 12 years since he played a part in 1973’s Live And Let Die. In reality, when he announced he rescinded his screen license to kill in December 1985, he turned 58. Younger Bond? On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Australian George Lazenby was 29. In his mid-20s, when he was first approached, Timothy Dalton turned the job down. His series appearance at 41.
It Was Once 57