Before he was James Bond, Sean Connery featured in film drama Another Time, Another Place opposite Hollywood star Lana Turner, who died 29 years ago this week. The actress, whose career wasn’t as hot as it used to be, played an American journalist who had an affair with a war correspondent 10 years her junior, … Read more
In total there have been 25 official James Bond movies to date including No Time To Die. During the promotion of his final and final 007 movie, Daniel Craig shared his favourite of the lot from the last 60 years. And the 56-year-old’s top Bond movie turns out to be a Sean Connery classic. During … Read more
James Bond icon Sean Connery and Miss Moneypenny actress Lois Maxwell (Image: GETTY) There have been 25 official EON James Bond films so far, from Dr No to No Time To Die. Plus, of course, the non-canon Peter Sellers spoof Casino Royal and Sean Connery’s rogue Never Say Never Again. Everyone has their favourite 007 … Read more
Dr. No: Sean Connery stars as James Bond in 1962 David Niven, Patrick McGoohan, James Mason, Rex Harrison, Stewart Granger and Richard Burton. All were approved by James Bond creator Ian Fleming to play the role of his secret agent. All fell through. Producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, meanwhile, actually lined up Cary Grant … Read more
Following Dr No, From Russia with Love and Goldfinger, 1965’s Thunderball was set to be even bigger for Sean Connery’s James Bond. On a budget that was more than the last three 007 movies combined, the Hollywood star even performed the gun-barrel sequence for the first time himself. Thunderball, which is on ITV4 today, famously features several underwater scuba … Read more
Speaking previously with Variety, Semple said: “Frankly, we thought he was kind of unbelievable and as I recall, even kind of stupid. So Gregory thought the solution was to make Bond a woman, ‘Jane Bond’ if you will, and he even had a plan to cast Susan Hayward in the role.” The screenwriter also shared … Read more
The James Bond legend’s co-star was Pedro Armendáriz, who played Ali Kerim Bey, the head of MI6 Station T in Istanbul. The Mexican actor, who has a substantial role in From Russia With Love with Sean Connery, had sadly been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Back in 1956, he had had a part in John Wayne’s … Read more
Dr No is back on TV screens this weekend. In one of her final interviews before she passed away in 2018, Eunice Gayson, who starred alongside Connery in the 1962 Bond debut, said the movie didn’t just change Connery’s life, it transformed the entire British film industry. But things got off to a bumpy start, … Read more
Back in the 1970s, Steven Spielberg told George Lucas that he wanted to make a James Bond movie. Instead, the two teamed up with their own action hero in Indiana Jones. But when it came to casting the father of Harrison Ford’s lead in the third movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the director … Read more
