"series character, Moneypenny. The character has also been adapted for television, radio, comic strip, video games and film. The films are the longest continually running film series of all time and have grossed over $7.040 billion in total, making it the fourth-highest-grossing film series to date, which started in 1962 with ""Dr. No"", starring Sean Connery as Bond. As of 2019, there have been twenty-four films in the Eon Productions series. The most recent Bond film, ""Spectre"" (2015), stars Daniel Craig in his fourth portrayal of Bond; he is the sixth actor to play Bond in the Eon series. There"
"Ursula Andress Ursula Andress (; born 19 March 1936) is a Swiss film and television actress, former model and sex symbol, who has appeared in American, British and Italian films. She is best known for her breakthrough role as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, ""Dr. No"". She later starred as Vesper Lynd in the James Bond film ""Casino Royale"". Her other films include ""The Southern Star, Fun in Acapulco"", ""She"", ""The 10th Victim"", ""The Blue Max"", ""Perfect Friday"", ""The Sensuous Nurse"", ""The Mountain of the Cannibal God"", ""The Fifth Musketeer"" and ""Clash of the Titans""."
"""Thriller"", ""La Strega"" (1962) with Alejandro Rey. She soon became internationally famous as Honey Ryder, a shell diver and James Bond's woman of desire in ""Dr. No"" (1962), the first Bond movie. In what became an iconic moment in cinematic and fashion history, she rose out of the Caribbean Sea in a white bikini sporting a large diving knife on her hip. Due to her heavy Swiss-German accent, the character's voice was provided by Nikki van der Zyl, while the calypso was sung by Diana Coupland. The scene made Andress a ""quintessential"" Bond girl. Andress later said that she owed"
"she married a doctor by the name of Wilder and had two children with him. As in the novel, Ryder is a very independent woman claiming to not need help from anyone. She is a beachcomber making a living selling seashells in Miami. Resourceful and courageous, she states that she can defend herself against any hostile when she first meets Bond. Although she is at first wary of Bond, he is allowed to get closer when he comments that his intentions are honourable. Like Pussy Galore in ""Goldfinger"", Honey does not appear until halfway through the film. She comes out"
"described as a ""beautiful movie star"". As such, Andress is the first of only two entertainers that have actually starred in a Bond film to be mentioned by Fleming in his James Bond novels. The other is David Niven who co-starred as James Bond in the 1967 film adaptation of ""Casino Royale"" which also starred Andress. Rider is a Jamaican shell diver, descended from an old-established colonial family. She was orphaned at the age of five when her parents' house was burned down. She then lived with her black nanny in a cellar until she was 15, when her nanny"
"Richard Kiel Richard Dawson Kiel (September 13, 1939 – September 10, 2014) was a tall American actor and voice artist, best known for his role as Jaws in the ""James Bond"" franchise, portraying the character in ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" (1977) and ""Moonraker"" (1979); he lampooned the role with a tongue-in-cheek cameo in ""Inspector Gadget"" (1999). His next-most recognized role is the tough, but eloquent Mr. Larson in ""Happy Gilmore"" (1996). Other notable films include ""The Longest Yard"" (1974), ""Silver Streak"" (1976), ""Force 10 from Navarone"" (1978), ""Pale Rider"" (1985) and ""Tangled"" (2010). Kiel was born in Detroit, Michigan."
"preparing to enter heaven, he worries about how to introduce Tilly Masterton, who he believes has died along with him, to Vesper. In the 1967 version of ""Casino Royale"", Lynd was portrayed by Ursula Andress, who had portrayed another Bond girl, Honey Ryder, in the 1962 film version of ""Dr. No"". In this version, which bore little resemblance to the novel, Vesper is depicted as a former secret agent who has since become a multi-millionaire with a penchant for wearing ridiculously extravagant outfits at her office (""because if I wore it in the street people might stare""). Bond (played by"
"Gloria Hendry Gloria Hendry (born March 3, 1949), also known inaccurately as Gloria Henry, is an American actress and former Playboy model. She is best known for her roles in films from the 1970s, most notably: portraying Rosie Carver in 1973's James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"", which was Roger Moore's first Bond film; and Helen Bradley in the blaxploitation film ""Black Caesar"", and the sequel, ""Hell Up in Harlem"". Hendry began her acting career in the 1968 Sidney Poitier film ""For Love of Ivy"", followed by a small role in the 1970 film ""The Landlord"". In 1973 she"
"not occur to him until it was filmed. White bikini of Ursula Andress The white bikini of Ursula Andress (also known as the Dr. No bikini) was a white bikini worn by Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder in the 1962 James Bond film, ""Dr. No"". It is cited as the most famous bikini of all time and an iconic moment in cinematic and fashion history. Andress's white bikini is regarded as monumental in the history of the bikini, and sales of the two-piece bikini rocketed after the appearance of Andress in ""Dr. No"". The lower part of the bikini features"
"her to secure her co-operation. She ends up actually falling in love with Bond, but dies, as Quantum is closing in on her, by drowning in a lift in a building under renovation in Venice. With the exception of these two doomed Bond girls, it is never explained why Bond's love interest in one film is gone by the next, and is never mentioned or even alluded to again. This is not always the case in the novels, which do sometimes make references to the Bond girls who have appeared in previous books. Tiffany Case and Honey Ryder are revealed"
"and her experiences as an African American woman during the 1960s. Gloria Hendry Gloria Hendry (born March 3, 1949), also known inaccurately as Gloria Henry, is an American actress and former Playboy model. She is best known for her roles in films from the 1970s, most notably: portraying Rosie Carver in 1973's James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"", which was Roger Moore's first Bond film; and Helen Bradley in the blaxploitation film ""Black Caesar"", and the sequel, ""Hell Up in Harlem"". Hendry began her acting career in the 1968 Sidney Poitier film ""For Love of Ivy"", followed by a"
"Jaws (James Bond) Jaws is a fictional character in the ""James Bond"" films ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" and ""Moonraker"", played in both films by Richard Kiel. Jaws is one of the most popular ""James Bond"" henchmen and a recurring character in the ""James Bond"" video games. He is a highly skilled killer relying on his brute strength and steel teeth to quickly dispatch his victims. The character was inspired by Ian Fleming's description of a hoodlum named Sol ""Horror"" Horowitz in his novel ""The Spy Who Loved Me"". When Horror speaks, he reveals steel-capped teeth. The initial script of"
"person or a cane). Later, Kiel used a scooter or wheelchair. On September 10, 2014, three days short of his 75th birthday, Kiel died at St. Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, California, of a heart attack, possibly caused by coronary artery disease. Richard Kiel Richard Dawson Kiel (September 13, 1939 – September 10, 2014) was a tall American actor and voice artist, best known for his role as Jaws in the ""James Bond"" franchise, portraying the character in ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" (1977) and ""Moonraker"" (1979); he lampooned the role with a tongue-in-cheek cameo in ""Inspector Gadget"" (1999). His"
"White bikini of Ursula Andress The white bikini of Ursula Andress (also known as the Dr. No bikini) was a white bikini worn by Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder in the 1962 James Bond film, ""Dr. No"". It is cited as the most famous bikini of all time and an iconic moment in cinematic and fashion history. Andress's white bikini is regarded as monumental in the history of the bikini, and sales of the two-piece bikini rocketed after the appearance of Andress in ""Dr. No"". The lower part of the bikini features a wide white British Army belt with brass"
"Moonraker (film) Moonraker is a 1979 British spy film, the eleventh in the ""James Bond"" series produced by Eon Productions, and the fourth to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The third and final film in the series to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, it co-stars Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Cléry, and Richard Kiel. Bond investigates the theft of a space shuttle, leading him to Hugo Drax, the owner of the shuttle's manufacturing firm. Along with space scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond follows the trail from California to Venice, Rio de Janeiro, and the Amazon"
"Ryder in ""Dr. No"", but the role went to the then-unknown Ursula Andress. However Broccoli then cast her in ""Call Me Bwana"" (1963) with Bob Hope. (""Call Me Bwana"" featured in the second Bond film, ""From Russia with Love"", during a sequence where Ali Kerim Bey assassinates the Russian agent Krilencu with a sniper rifle. Krilencu attempts to escape through a window, which is situated in Anita Ekberg's mouth, on the wall-sized poster: ""She should have kept her mouth shut,"" Bond says.) Ekberg co-starred with Andress, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin in the western-comedy ""4 for Texas"" (1963). She returned"
"and branded it a welcome addition to the series, while others complained of the repetitively monotonous aquatic action and prolonged length. In 1983, Warner Bros. released a second film adaptation of the novel under the title ""Never Say Never Again"", with McClory as executive producer. James Bond attends the funeral of Colonel Jacques Bouvar, a SPECTRE operative connected with the previous murders of two MI6 agents. Bouvar is alive and disguised as his own widow, but Bond identifies him. Pursuing Bouvar to his château, Bond fights and kills him, escaping with use of a jetpack and his Aston Martin DB5,"
"appeared in the film adaptation of Agatha Christie's ""Death on the Nile"" as the murder victim Linnet Ridgeway Doyle, and in 1979, she appeared in what is perhaps her most famous role, that of NASA astronaut, scientist and Bond girl Dr. Holly Goodhead opposite Roger Moore's James Bond in ""Moonraker"". It was Moore´s fourth performance as Bond, the final 1970's Bond film and the third (and final) Bond film which Lewis Gilbert directed, as he had previously directed ""You Only Live Twice"" (1967, Sean Connery) and ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" (1977, Roger Moore). Chiles had initially been approached to"
"Bond meets Dent, who claims he assayed the samples for Strangways and determined them to be ordinary rocks. Dent subsequently visits Dr. No, who expresses displeasure at Dent's failure to kill Bond, and orders him to try again with a tarantula. Bond survives and sets a trap for Dent, whom he interrogates and kills. Using a Geiger counter, Bond detects radioactive traces in Quarrel's boat where Strangways' mineral samples had been. Bond convinces a reluctant Quarrel to take him to Crab Key. There Bond meets the beautiful Honey Ryder, dressed only in a white bikini, who is collecting shells. Ryder"
"Award. In 1989, Judi Dench starred in David Tucker's Behaving Badly for Channel 4, based on Catherine Heath's novel of the same name. After the long period between James Bond films ""Licence to Kill"" (1989) and ""GoldenEye"" (1995), the producers brought in Dench to take over as the role of M, James Bond's boss. The character was reportedly modeled on Dame Stella Rimington, the real-life head of MI5 between 1992 and 1996; Dench became the first woman to portray M, succeeding Robert Brown. The seventeenth spy film in the series and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional"
"James Bond falls in love with the Bond girl. The first was ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"" (1969), in which Countess Tracy di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg) marries Bond but is shot dead by Irma Bunt and Ernst Stavro Blofeld at the story's end. The second was Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) in ""Casino Royale"" (2006). Bond confesses his love to her and resigns from MI6 so that they can have a normal life together. He later learns that she had been a double agent working for his enemies. The enemy organisation Quantum had kidnapped her former lover and had been blackmailing"
"James Bond movie ""Die Another Day"", ""The Quiller Memorandum"" (1966), ""The Man Who Haunted Himself"" (1970), Lindsay Anderson's ""O Lucky Man!"" (1973), ""The Avengers"" (1998), ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (2002), ""Quantum of Solace"" (2008) and ""Sherlock Holmes"" (2009). It has also been used as the lobby of the Dolphin Hotel in the film adaptation of Stephen King's short story ""1408."" In the 1982 BBC television adaptation of ""Smiley's People"", based on the Cold War spy thriller by John le Carré, the titular character visits the Reform Club at the start of the third episode, spending an extended period of time in the"
"for all of Fleming's Bond girls may be his onetime lover Muriel Wright, who according to ""The Times"" Wright was 26 and ""exceptionally beautiful"" when she and Fleming met in 1935. A talented rider, skier, and polo player, Wright was independently wealthy and a model. She was devoted to Fleming, despite his repeated unfaithfulness. She died in an air raid in 1944, devastating Fleming, who called Wright ""too good to be true"". Ursula Andress (as Honey Ryder) in ""Dr. No"" (1962) is widely regarded as the first Bond girl, although she was preceded by both Eunice Gayson as Sylvia Trench"
"Winona Ryder Winona Ryder (born Winona Laura Horowitz; October 29, 1971) is an American actress and film producer. One of the most successful and iconic actresses of the 1990s, she made her film debut in ""Lucas"" (1986). As Lydia Deetz, a goth teenager in Tim Burton's ""Beetlejuice"" (1988), she garnered critical acclaim and widespread recognition. After appearances in film and on television, Ryder continued her acting career with the cult film ""Heathers"" (1988), a controversial satire that has since become a landmark teen film. She later appeared in the coming of age drama ""Mermaids"" (1990), earning a Golden Globe Award"
"years later featured Babette March in a white bikini on the cover. Ursula Andress, appearing as Honey Rider in the 1962 British James Bond film, ""Dr. No"", wore a white bikini, which became known as the ""Dr. No bikini"". It became one of the most famous bikinis of all time and an iconic moment in cinematic and fashion history. Andress said that she owed her career to that white bikini, remarking, ""This bikini made me into a success. As a result of starring in ""Dr. No"" as the first Bond girl, I was given the freedom to take my pick"
"in his five ""James Bond"" films. Variations exist; in some cases, the animal is a cat (""A View to a Kill"") or a monkey (""The Living Daylights""). As editor of ""Moonraker"", Glen was responsible for creating the ""double-taking pigeon"", an editing trick that makes it appear as if a bird in St Mark's Square in Venice cannot believe its eyes when Bond's (Roger Moore) gondola transforms into a hovercraft. In addition, all of Glen's ""Bond"" feature a character who dies by falling from a height, in a sequence commonly accompanied by the same ""male scream"" sound effect. Glen often re-used"
"the title character in ""Octopussy"" (1983). If the ""unofficial"" James Bond films, ""Casino Royale"" and ""Never Say Never Again"", are included, several actresses have also been a Bond girl more than once: Ursula Andress in ""Dr. No"" (1962) and ""Casino Royale""; Angela Scoular in ""On Her Majesty's Secret Service"" (1969) and ""Casino Royale""; Valerie Leon in ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" (1977) and ""Never Say Never Again"". Mary Goodnight was a supporting character in several Bond novels before graduating to full Bond girl in ""The Man with the Golden Gun"". Several short stories, such as ""Quantum of Solace"", ""The Hildebrand"
"in the 1999 James Bond film ""The World Is Not Enough"". His other film appearances include ""Moonlighting"" (1982), ""Defence of the Realm"" (1986), ""American Friends"" (1991), ""Hollow Reed"" (1996), """" (1997), ""The King Is Alive"" (2000), """" (2006), """" (2008) and ""Rush"" (2013). In 1979, Calder appeared in a public information film as a crime prevention officer, asking people to consider how they would get into their own home, if they lost their keys. The PIF, which was used to encourage people to make their homes secure, and to contact their crime prevention officer for advice, ran until at least"
"season of the vampire drama ""Forever Knight"" in 1995–1996 and was cast on the syndicated science-fiction series ""Andromeda"" in 2000; the series ended in 2005 after 110 episodes. She also co-starred, as android Kay-Em 14, in the 2001 film ""Jason X"", starring Andromeda alumnus Lexa Doig (notable is the role reversal). Ryder guest-starred in Gene Roddenberry's "","" ""Total Recall 2070"", "","" ""Wind at My Back"" and """". She also had a recurring role on ""The Newsroom."" Her other movie roles include the critically acclaimed Canadian indie film ""Stolen Heart"", the thriller ""Blackheart"" and the short films ""Strands"" and ""Lemon"". She"
"Gayson appeared in Stephen Sondheim’s ""Into the Woods"" in the role of the grandmother. In the first two James Bond films, ""Dr. No"" and ""From Russia with Love"", Gayson played James Bond's love interest in London, Sylvia Trench. In early scenes, Bond attempts to set up a liaison with her, but gets called away on a mission before anything serious can develop. This was intended to be a running motif in multiple films, but the character was dropped after the second film. The character is responsible for Bond's iconic introductory catchphrase; when Trench introduces herself to Bond as ""Trench, Sylvia"
"as British author Enid Blyton in the TV film ""Enid"" (2009). Bonham Carter began her film career, playing the title character in ""Lady Jane"" (1986), and playing Lucy Honeychurch in ""A Room with a View"" (1985). Her other film roles include Ophelia in ""Hamlet"" (1990), ""Where Angels Fear to Tread"" (1991), ""Howards End"" (1992), Elizabeth Lavenza in ""Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"" (1994), Woody Allen's ""Mighty Aphrodite"" (1995), Marla Singer in ""Fight Club"" (1999), Bellatrix Lestrange in the ""Harry Potter"" series (2007–11), Skynet in ""Terminator Salvation"" (2009), Miss Havisham in ""Great Expectations"" (2012), Madame Thénardier in ""Les Misérables"" (2012), the Fairy Godmother"
"embody an obtuse, yet sympathetic personality, he was still apprehensive on modeling it after James Bond until viewing ""GoldenEye"" (1995); in the film, Reed was immediately captivated by Judi Dench's portrayal of M—the head of the Secret Intelligence Service. ""I was spinning my wheels on that,"" Reed remarked, ""and then it clicked when I was watching the James Bond reboot with Judi Dench as M, and then I thought what if M was James Bond’s mother, and what a weird dynamic that would be, and what if they were both horrible people."" FX initially disapproved of Archer's bumbling demeanor, as"
"ring was presented to Seymour in April 2016 in Singapore while she was there to star in ""The Vortex"". Jane Seymour (actress) Jane Seymour, OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg; 15 February 1951), is an English-American actress. Best known for her performances in the James Bond film ""Live and Let Die"" (1973); ""Somewhere In Time"" (1980); ""East of Eden"" (1981); ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"" (1982 film); ""Onassis: The Richest Man in the World"" (1988); ""War and Remembrance"" (1988); the French epic ""La Révolution française"" (1989) as the ill-fated queen Marie Antoinette; ""Wedding Crashers"" (2005); and the American television series ""Dr. Quinn,"