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Queen Elizabeth II met the first six actors to play James Bond on the screen. She met Connery at the world premiere of You Only Live Twice in 1967, and, according to the royal biographer Gyles Brandreth: "She really did love all the early James Bond films", preferring the earlier films, "before they got so loud". [250]
James Bond is a fictional character created by British novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. A British secret agent working for MI6 under the codename 007, Bond has been portrayed on film in twenty-seven productions by actors Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig.
The James Bond films have featured an array of exotic equipment and vehicles, which often prove to be critically useful to Bond. However, the gadgets took on a more spectacular profile starting with the film version of Goldfinger , and its tremendous success encouraged the following films to have Bond supplied with still more equipment.
Bond's name may have been appropriated from the American ornithologist of the same name, although it is possible that Fleming took the name from a Welsh agent with whom he served, James C. Bond. Bond has a number of consistent character traits which run throughout the books, including an enjoyment of cars, a love of food, drink and sex, and an ...
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A fictional biography. Pearson begins the story with his discovery that James Bond exists; MI6 had assigned Ian Fleming to write novels based on the real agent. MI6 instructs Pearson to write 007's biography; he is introduced to a retired James Bond—who is in his fifties, yet healthy, sun-tanned, and with Honeychile Ryder, the heroine of Dr. No
Dr. No is a 1962 British spy film directed by Terence Young.It is the first film in the James Bond series.Starring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman and Jack Lord, it was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather from the 1958 novel by Ian Fleming.
Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was an English writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels.Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917.