The James Bond 007 movies are the highest fiscally successful English language motion picture franchise to date. The English author Ian Fleming created James Bond 007 in 1953. Mr. Bond was featured in twelve novels and two short story collections. The movie franchise began with "Dr. No" in 1962.
The novelist, Ian Fleming, died in 1964 but the character James Bond lived on. Subsequent James Bond novels were written by up to five other writers, such as Kingsley Amis, under the pseudonym Robert Markham, John Pearson, Raymond Benson, John Gardner and Sebastian Faulks. Two screenplays were novelized by Christopher Woods and innumerable other writers' also contributed and authored unsanctioned versions of James Bond.
There have been 22 movies in the James Bond franchise to date, the latest being "Quantum of Solace" that was released October 31, 2008. The first motion picture was "Dr. No", from the time 1962.
Many actors have portrayed Bond. Sean Connery was the earliest James Bond in the movies. He played James Bond in 6 different movies, starting with "Dr. No" in 1962. In 1963, it was followed by "From Russia with Love", "Goldfinger" in 1964, "Thunderball" from 1965, "You Only Live Twice" in 1967 and from 1971, "Diamonds are Forever".
Sean Connery temporarily left the lead role in 1969, for "On Her Majesty's Secret Service' when an actor by the name of George Lazenby played Bond. George Lazenby was the only one of all of the Bond actors to have only acted in one movie.
After that Roger Moore became Bond. In 1973 for "Live and Let Die", 1974 in "The Man with the Golden Gun" and 1977, "The Spy who Loved Me", in 1979 it was "Moonraker" and 1981 brought "For Your Eyes Only", "Octopussy" in 1983 and the last movie starring Roger Moore was "A View to a Kill" in 1985.
Timothy Dalton followed for only the next two films "The Living Daylights" from 1987 and "License to Kill" in 1989. "Goldeneye" came out in 1995 with Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. He repeated for 3 other films, in 1997 "Tomorrow Never Dies" and 1999, "The World Is Not Enough" and 2002 "Die Another Day".
Daniel Craig, the only blonde James Bond to date, is the current lead role for the Bond franchise. He has starred in 2 films so far, with at least one more expected for the future. Daniel Craig was Bond in "Casino Royale" from 2006 and "Quantum of Solace" from 2008.
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