Hi.

Who was your favorite James Bond actor to play the character?

Mine has always been the late great Roger Moore.

Sean Connery will always be "The" James Bond, IMHO.

Second would be Pierce Brosnan, followed by Roger Moore and then George Lazenby.
A far, far, far last place would go to Daniel Craig. The worst casting in the
history in the cinema, imho.

John Wayne as Genghis Khan?


I liked Roger Moore best, then Brosnan. Connery somewhere in the middle and least of all Timothy Dalton.

I'm getting old, but that might be even before my time.

I think Connery was the best. The Fleming stories, especially the earlier ones, were quite dark, and Connery captured that.

I really liked Roger Moore, but I always felt that he was playing Bond as Bond would have been if Simon Templar had decided to become a spy, instead of becoming the Robin Hood of Modern Crime. (I also remember seeing the Ivanhoe series, which was on US TV early Sunday afternoons after we got home from church.)

By the by, I am a big Saint fan. I have read all of Leslie Charteris's Saint stories and really enjoyed Roger Moore's ITV Saint TV series, which resides on my HDD even as I type this..

Brief results thus far, but it seems to indicate to me two things (1) I need not bother seeing any of the newer Bond movies, and (2) they probably shouldn't be making any new Bond movies.

Seems like if they tried to remake all the Eastwood westerns it would be a galactic fail too.

Sean Connery as a Russian nuclear sub captain ... with that accent ?

Bond maybe.

Yeah ... but BEST LINE:

Also Peter Sellers and all the other bonds in JOIN THE CASINO ROYALE FUN MOVEMENT.

OK

Connery was the best, followed by Daniel Craig, then Moore. I agree that Bond was supposed to have a dark side, and Connery and Craig, to me, captured that. Brosnan was smarmy and flip. Bond might smile, but he never smirked, and Brosnan was all smirk. The rest didn't play in enough Bond films to make an impression.

I think it depends a lot on whether you've read the books: Connery was not only great in the films, but closest to the character in the books. For me, Moore was Simon Templar, The Saint.

Timothy Dalton, he doesnt get the love he deserves.
Connery second, Craig and Brosnan tie for third, Roger Moore is fourth and Lazenby is dead last.

craig, connery, moore in that order, 'nuff said, close the thread

I second the "no more Bond movies."

They've become as boring as I Love Lucy reruns.

Just realized this Roger Moore died recently.

Was this how the thread got started?