The James Bond film series is a British series of spy films based on the fictional character of MI6 agent James Bond, "007", who originally appeared in a series of books by Ian Fleming. There have been twenty-five films in total released between 1962 and 2021 and produced by Eon Productions, which now holds the adaptation rights to all of Fleming's Bond novels.[1] [2] Bond has been portrayed in these films by six actors: Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig.
Several of the series' supporting characters, such as M, Q, and Miss Moneypenny, are MI6 posts, not character names, and some of the actor changes in these positions reflect in-universe replacements. Such change was explicit for M in GoldenEye (1995), with Judi Dench's character referred to as a newcomer, and in Skyfall (2012), as Ralph Fiennes' character Gareth Mallory replaces Dench's character as M; it was explicit for Q in Die Another Day (2002), as John Cleese's character replaces Desmond Llewelyn's Q after being his apprentice in The World Is Not Enough (1999). There is only one clear case of a single M, Q, or Moneypenny character switching actor: when Q, Major Boothroyd, switches from Peter Burton in Dr. No (1962) to Desmond Llewelyn in From Russia with Love (1963).
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| James Bond | colspan="5" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Felix Leiter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| M | colspan="5" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Miss Moneypenny | colspan="3" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Q | colspan="3" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sylvia Trench | colspan="5" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ernst Stavro Blofeld | colspan="2" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sheriff J. W. Pepper | colspan="5" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bill Tanner | colspan="4" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| General Gogol | colspan="5" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sir Frederick Gray | colspan="5" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jaws | colspan="5" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rublevitch | colspan="5" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Smithers | colspan="5" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Jack Wade | colspan="5" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Valentin Zukovsky | colspan="5" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Charles Robinson | colspan="5" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| René Mathis | colspan="3" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mr White | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dr. Madeleine Swann | colspan="2" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dr. Vogel | colspan="2" | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Character | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | 1965 | 1967 | 1969 | 1971 | |
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| Dr. No | From Russia with Love | Goldfinger | Thunderball | You Only Live Twice | On Her Majesty's Secret Service | Diamonds Are Forever | ||
| James Bond | Sean Connery | George Lazenby | Sean Connery | |||||
| Felix Leiter | Jack Lord | Cec Linder | Rik Van Nutter | Norman Burton | ||||
| M | Bernard Lee | |||||||
| Miss Moneypenny | Lois Maxwell | |||||||
| Q | Peter Burton | Desmond Llewelyn | ||||||
| Sylvia Trench | Eunice Gayson | colspan="5" | ||||||
| Ernst Stavro Blofeld | Anthony Dawson Eric Pohlmann | Anthony Dawson Eric Pohlmann | Donald Pleasence | Telly Savalas | Charles Gray | |||
| Character | 1973 | 1974 | 1977 | 1979 | 1981 | 1983 | 1985 |
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| Live and Let Die | The Man with the Golden Gun | The Spy Who Loved Me | Moonraker | For Your Eyes Only | Octopussy | A View to a Kill | |
| James Bond | Roger Moore | ||||||
| M | Bernard Lee | Robert Brown | |||||
| Miss Moneypenny | Lois Maxwell | ||||||
| Sheriff J. W. Pepper | Clifton James | colspan="5" | |||||
| Q | Desmond Llewelyn | ||||||
| Bill Tanner | Michael Goodliffe | James Villiers | colspan="2" | ||||
| General Gogol | Walter Gotell | ||||||
| Sir Frederick Gray | Geoffrey Keen | ||||||
| Jaws | Richard Kiel | colspan="3" | |||||
| Rublevitch | Eva Rueber-Staier | Eva Rueber-Staier | |||||
| Smithers | Jeremy Bulloch | ||||||
| Character | 1987 | 1989 | |
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| The Living Daylights | Licence to Kill | ||
| James Bond | Timothy Dalton | ||
| Felix Leiter | John Terry | David Hedison | |
| M | Robert Brown | ||
| Miss Moneypenny | Caroline Bliss | ||
| Q | Desmond Llewelyn | ||
| Character | 1995 | 1997 | 1999 | 2002 | |
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| GoldenEye | Tomorrow Never Dies | The World Is Not Enough | Die Another Day | ||
| James Bond | Pierce Brosnan | ||||
| M | Judi Dench | ||||
| Miss Moneypenny | Samantha Bond | ||||
| Q | Desmond Llewelyn | Desmond Llewelyn John Cleese | John Cleese | ||
| Bill Tanner | Michael Kitchen | Michael Kitchen | |||
| Jack Wade | Joe Don Baker | colspan="2" | |||
| Valentin Zukovsky | Robbie Coltrane | Robbie Coltrane | |||
| Charles Robinson | Colin Salmon | ||||
| Character | 2006 | 2008 | 2012 | 2015 | 2021 |
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| Casino Royale | Quantum of Solace | Skyfall | Spectre | No Time to Die | |
| James Bond | Daniel Craig | ||||
| Felix Leiter | Jeffrey Wright | Jeffrey Wright | |||
| Olivia Mansfield | Judi Dench | Judi Dench | |||
| René Mathis | Giancarlo Giannini | colspan="3" | |||
| Mr White | Jesper Christensen | Jesper Christensen | |||
| Bill Tanner | Rory Kinnear | ||||
| Gareth Mallory | Ralph Fiennes | ||||
| Eve Moneypenny | Naomie Harris | ||||
| Q | Ben Whishaw | ||||
| Franz Oberhauser | Christoph Waltz | ||||
| Dr. Madeleine Swann | Léa Seydoux | ||||
| Dr. Vogel | Brigitte Millar | ||||