Sir Sean Connery  (born Thomas Connery;  25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor.

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He was the first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond on film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983.

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Originating the role in Dr. No, Connery played Bond in six of Eon Productions' entries and made his final appearance in Never Say Never Again.

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Following his third appearance as Bond in Goldfinger (1964), in June 1965 Time magazine observed "James Bond has developed into the biggest mass-cult hero of the decade".

George Robert Lazenby (born 5 September 1939) is an Australian actor.

He was the second actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, playing the character in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).

Having appeared in only one film, Lazenby's tenure as Bond is the shortest among the actors in the series.

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Sir Roger George Moore KBE (14 October 1927 – 23 May 2017) was an English actor.

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He was the third actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, playing the character in seven feature films between 1973 and 1985.

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Moore's seven appearances as Bond, from Live and Let Die to A View to a Kill, are the most of any actor in the Eon-produced entries.

Timothy Leonard Dalton Leggett (born 21 March 1946) is a British actor.

Beginning his career on stage, he made his film debut as Philip II of France in the 1968 historical drama The Lion in Winter.

He gained international prominence as the fourth actor to portray secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, starring in The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989).

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Pierce Brendan Brosnan OBE (born 16 May 1953) is an Irish actor and film producer.

He is best known as the fifth actor to play secret agent James Bond in the Bond film series.

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Starring in four films from 1995 to 2002 (GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, and Die Another Day) and in multiple video games.

Daniel Wroughton Craig CMG (born 2 March 1968) is an English actor who gained international fame playing the secret agent James Bond in the film series.

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Beginning with Casino Royale (2006) and in four further movies, up to No Time to Die (2021).

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