Best Bond

[Davycc]

After hearing the sad news about Sean Connery I thought we might have a poll on who was the best bond.

[Selby White]

Roger Moore for me although favourite Bond movie is a Sean Connery one "from Russia with Love".

[johnh]

Sean Connery was best on the screen but reading the books, the man you had in your head was Roger Moore.

[Deleted User 728]

It IS Sean Connery for me, though being a fan of the books, Daniel Craig is the closest to Fleming's vision of a hardened, often quite cruel killer.

My favourite movie is You Only Live Twice - the setting, the music, the Asian women, that volcano - and yet he was also in many of the other standouts in the series : Goldfinger (most people's #1), Dr No, From Russia With Love (superb and underrated) and Diamonds Are Forever.

For what it's worth, I'd rank the actors like this :

1. Connery
2. Craig
3. Lazenby
4. Moore
5. Dalton
6. Brosnan

I don't count Niven in the role, and if you're going to include him you might as well stick Woody Allen in there too.

[Deleted User 728]

Sean Connery was best on the screen but reading the books, the man you had in your head was Roger Moore.

Really ?
I envisioned a rather bitter charmer, his heart wrapped in steel, who would win arguments with his fists .. like a thrice-divorced, twice-bankrupt car sales tycoon who'd jacked it all in to be a contract killer.

[Davycc]

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I don't count Niven in the role, and if you're going to include him you might as well stick Woody Allen in there too.

Believe it or not I worked with a fella who loved the Niven film.

[Davycc]

My ranking:


1. Connery
2. Craig
3. Moore
4. Brosnan
5.Lazenby
6. Dalton

[NottinghamWhite]

Connery for me by a distance.

[Deleted User 728]

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I don't count Niven in the role, and if you're going to include him you might as well stick Woody Allen in there too.

Believe it or not I worked with a fella who loved the Niven film.

I'm a big fan of both Niven and especially Woody Allen but it's not part of the canon, is it? You might as well put Rowan Atkinson in there for Johnny English...

[Davycc]

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I don't count Niven in the role, and if you're going to include him you might as well stick Woody Allen in there too.

Believe it or not I worked with a fella who loved the Niven film.

I'm a big fan of both Niven and especially Woody Allen but it's not part of the canon, is it? You might as well put Rowan Atkinson in there for Johnny English...

Nearly did there, then remembered it would reset the poll