Top Five James Bonds

1. Sean Connery
Pussy Galore: "My name is Pussy Galore."
Bond: "I must be dreaming."

2. Pierce Brosnan
Christmas Jones: "I've got to get [the six kilos of weapons-grade plutonium] back or someone's gonna have my ass."
Bond: "First things first..."

3. Bob Simmons
Stunt co-ordinator on many of the films and the guy in the "gun barrel opening" for the first three, before they re-shot it with Sean Connery. Ah, the lengths to which I'll go to keep douchebags like Roger Moore off the list!



4. Bob Holness
"I'll have a 'P' please, Bob."
The presenter of the British version of Blockbusters was an actor in his younger days and played 007 on South African radio in 1956.

5. Timothy Dalton
It was good for Bond to get serious again but, like Brosnan, his first movie was utter tosh and protracted legal wrangling over the rights to the franchise pre-empted his third.

I will give Roger Moore his props for Cannonball Run, in which he plays a deluded character who thinks he's both James Bond and the actor Roger Moore at the same time. Did you know that - if you treat the member countries of the United Kingdom as separate - the five actors to play Bond in the official movie series have all been a different nationality? I was surprised. Were you surprised? I was surprised.