The James Bond films have been a major cinematic event ever since Sean Connery first appeared as 007 in the franchise’s cinematic origin Dr.
No way back in 1962.
Across the 60+ years since then, there have been 27 Bond films starring six different actors as the titular spy, spanning from Connery’s distinguished and dapper gentleman spy to George Lazenby’s striking one-off appearance in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Roger Moore’s more campy take on the MI6 operative through the 70s and 80s, Timothy Dalton’s decisively gritty iteration, and to Pierce Brosnan’s traditional and refined, yet enjoyably modern take on Bond in the 90s and early 2000s.
In 2006, the responsibility of playing James Bond fell to Daniel Craig, who played the spy with a license to kill on five occasions across 15 years.