James Bond

James Bond (also known as 007) is a fictional British MI6 agent, created in 1952, by writer Ian Fleming. Despite Fleming's death in 1964, publication and reprinting of James Bond stories continued. Various other authors have written Bond stories.

Although the books were a world wide phenomenon, James Bond is best known from the EON Productions film series, twenty-two of which have been made as of 2007. Bond has been portrayed in these films by actors Sir Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Sir Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. The films are:

Sir Sean Connery:

• Dr No (1962)
• From Russia With Love (1963)
• Goldfinger (1964)
• Thunderball (1965)
• You Only Live Twice (1967)

George Lazenby:

• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

Sir Sean Connery:

• Diamonds are Forever (1971)

Sir Roger Moore:

• Live and Let Die (1973)
• The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
• The Spy who Loved Me (1977)
• Moonraker (1979)
• For Your Eyes Only (1981)
• Octopussy (1983)

Sir Sean Connery:

• Never Say Never Again (Non-Eon production) (1983)

Sir Roger Moore:

• A View to a Kill (1985)

Timothy Dalton:

• The Living Daylights (1987)
• Licence to Kill (1989)

Pierce Brosnan:

• GoldenEye (1995)
• Tommorrow Never Dies (1997)
• The World is Not Enough (1999)
• Die Another Day (2002)

Daniel Craig:

• Casino Royale (2006)

See also

• Catalog of prominent mystery writers