Your most fave actor who have played James Bond?

Connery..., Sean Connery.

 

Great points. I always thought Connerys toned down Edinburgh accent suited the part brilliantly. Fleming was blown away by him and even wrote a scottish background into the character after seeing him. Then you have Moore, who was likable, but just too posh for my liking.

 

Sean Connery. He owns the role. His performance in Dr. No may be rough around the ages but is layered with detail and nuance. He is a fully realized James Bond his first time out. He had the benefit of a personal acquaintance with Ian Fleming. They talked about the character. Who knows what was said, but eventually Fleming got over his objection to Connery and saw in him the James Bond he had written. The character underwent subtle changes and growth as Fleming's novels progressed, but after getting to know Connery, Fleming began to sneak the actor's personality into the character. The last three novels -- On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice and The Man With the Golden Gun -- were in a sense Fleming's Connery Trilogy.

I think all the actors who played James Bond did a good job. Lazenby I liked very much and was sorry he did not go on playing spies in the 1970s. Roger Moore's presence is sometimes the only thing I enjoy about his films. Dalton was a Fleming's purist Bond. I love what Dalton did with the character, wish he had stayed with it and wish he had been given a better director. Brosnan carried himself well, took the character seriously and carried the films on his back, so to speak. He deserved better material. Daniel Craig is an imbecile's notion of Bond. He deconstructed the character until nothing is left. I have no respect and zero tolerance for Craig. I can't stand Craig's Bond films.

 

Roger Moore
His movies are my favorite
I grew up with him so.....

 

An interview with the poll's loser:
George Lazenby on Bond, sex and the 60s: 'They had the pill … I was a handsome guy'

 

This is the right answer.

 

Best James Bond =Sean Connery
Best Bond film =OHMSS

 

Sean Connery for me. Then Daniel Craig. Then Pierce Brosnan. Don't care about the others. Hate Roger Moore as Bond with a passion.

To be honest I place Daniel Craig second just because of Casino Royale, the best Bond film and one of the greatest action films ever made. So, I guess if they cast any other actor in that film, he would be second for me. lol

 

Sean Connery, followed by Pierce Brosnan.

 

Pierce Brosnan is my favourite Bond, followed by Dalton, then Connery...

Each to their own, I guess

 

He was... but his agent advised him very badly; after On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Eon offered Lazenby a seven-film contract that would have kept him as Bond into the late 1980's, but his agent, Ronan O'Rahilly, convinced him that Bond was obsolete in the 'liberated' 1970's and instead to do one more film and get as much money as possible before the franchise went the way of the dinosaurs. Eon by this time were getting a little edgy as work on Diamonds Are Forever was already in motion and they had a definite release date to meet so they offered Lazenby a cool $1m - "one meeeellion dollars!" - offer with no further obligations or strings attached to reprise Bond in the latter film, Lazenby desperately wanted to do it but his agent then demanded a frankly ludicrous $1.5m, at which point an incandescent Cubby Broccoli was ordered by an equally incensed United Artists to get Sean Connery back no matter the cost and that was that, as they say... Lazenby even had to pay Eon back on a very substantial advance that he got upfront, so sure were they he would be back in the role one last time.

Meanwhile, John Gavin - who was considered briefly but very seriously for the role whilst negotiations with Lazenby were dragging on and on - got a nice $500, 000 paycheck for doing sweet nothing, such was his contract with Eon... nice work if you can get it!

 

Laz missed out big(fry) time, pity.

 

Speaking of Lazenby, has anyone seen the documentary about his 007 experience, "Becoming Bond"? It made the film festival rounds earlier this year and it'll start streaming on Hulu this coming weekend.

Looks like fun:

 

Dude don't look like him.

 

Indeed...I've enjoyed all of Brosnan's work outside of Bond as well...

 

Moore is my vote. He is who I grew up with. He deserves credit for every future Bond as he showed it could be done different than Connery.

 

I've said before in past discussions that the guy who plays Bond has to have five things:

1) sex appeal
2) somebody who looks good in a tux, with class & style
3) a man with a sense of humor
4) a resourceful man with intelligence
5) somebody who can be a cold-blooded killer when necessary.

I think many past Bonds could do 3 or 4 out of these, but not all of them. I never believed Roger Moore could be a cold-blooded killer except for that great scene in For Your Eyes Only where he kicked the villain's car over the cliff; he was too much of a comic after for me, like he was starring in a Bond spoof. Timothy Dalton went the other way and was humorless. Daniel Craig is almost humorless. But I totally buy Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan on all five: they look the part, they can be charming, they can be deadly, and they can be extremely ingenious under pressure. And that to me is the ideal Bond for film, and very close to the Bond in the books.

Ian Fleming once said early on that he didn't like Connery because "he looked like a truck driver" (and Connery had done that years before). But Fleming changed his tune after the first couple of films, before he died in 1964.

 

There can only be one answer, and that is Sean Connery.

Never cared for the Roger Moore movies (beside Live and Let Die), as I thought the series took a serious dive in quality and ventured too far into the realm of camp for my tastes.

As for the post-Moore Bonds, never paid any attention to them, as by that time, everything had pretty much been done storywise, and the series had turned into little more than a money making franchising venture (to be fair, the Daniel Craig Bond's actually do aspire to be more than that, but I have just never been able to warm up to them).

 

I like Craig. Most of the others ham it up too much. At some point you'd rather just be watching Austin Powers.

 

Sean Connery. The rest are just pretending to be Bond.

 

Am in complete agreement with this. And being a bit of a Fleming purist, enjoy the films & actors that come closer to the books, Connery at times, Lazenby, & Dalton all touch on the character I love from the books best. I did love the 1st two Moore movies as I saw them when I was a kid 9 or 10.. but I think part of that was down to seeing Britt Ekland in a bikini for most of The Man With The Golden Gun, and being an impressionable 10 year old first noticing the joys of life in that way.

 

Who made best films post Bond?

The Irish actor and the Scottish actor.

 

Had to go with Craig, he seems like a natural for the part. Much as I like Connery he seemed a bit out of place in the role.

 

Patrick McGoohan