Following Sean Connery's announcement that he would not play James Bond again, Eastwood was offered the role but turned it down because he believed the character should be played by an English actor.

Curtis, a James Bond fan, based the appearance of Captain Grey on Sean Connery and Destiny Angel on Ursula Andress, Connery's co-star in the 1962 Bond film Dr No. Meanwhile, the character of Lieutenant Green was sculpted on its voice actor, Cy Grant ; Rhapsody Angel on model and actress Jean Shrimpton ; Melody Angel on singer and actress Eartha Kitt ; and Harmony Angel on actress Tsai Chin.

One of her later films was Operation Kid Brother ( also known as OK Connery and Operation Double 007 ), which was a James Bond spoof filmed in English ( though Bianchi was again dubbed ) and starring Sean Connery's brother, Neil Connery.

After Empire, Kershner directed Never Say Never Again ( Sean Connery's return to the role of James Bond ); the HBO film Traveling Man starring John Lithgow and Jonathan Silverman ; for which Kershner was nominated for an ACE Award ; and RoboCop 2.

When Albert R. Broccoli began to produce the James Bond films, Simmons tested as an actor for the Bond role but until his death in 1987, he became the stunt coordinator for every Bond film except From Russia With Love, ( that he joined later in the production ) On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( where he worked on Sean Connery's Shalako along with cinematographer Ted Moore ) and The Man with the Golden Gun.

When Sean Connery announced he was leaving the James Bond series, Sabatello offered Neil Connery's services to Eon Productions who furiously refused to consider the idea.

The book was the first to be written after the release of Dr. No in cinemas and Sean Connery's depiction of Bond affected Fleming's interpretation of the character, to give Bond both a sense of humour and Scottish antecedents that were not present in the previous stories.

Moore himself disliked the film, his dislike present in later books where Sean Connery's Bond character appears and is given a particularly negative portrayal.

Zardoz was Connery's second post-James Bond role ( after The Offence ).

Derek Malcolm in The Guardian showed himself to be a fan of Connery's Bond, saying the film contains " the best Bond in the business ", but nevertheless did not find Never Say Never Again any more enjoyable than the recently released Octopussy ( starring Roger Moore ), or " that either of them came very near to matching Dr. No or From Russia with Love.

He never played Bond, however, due to Sean Connery's expensive return to the " 007 " franchise, yet Gavin still had his contract honored in full.

A character modeled after Sean Connery's Bond is tackled by Homer and killed after a parody of the laser scene from Goldfinger.

The game featured both Connery's voice talent and likeness, as well as an updated plot penned by acclaimed Bond writer Bruce Feirstein, who wrote three Bond films and four video games.

For instance, whenever Star Movies ( a popular Asian movie channel ) plays the film, Connery's line in which he says to Cage " winners go home and fuck the prom queen " is replaced with " winners go home and date the prom queen ", while in another scene where Connery's character is described as a " son of a bitch " the line is replaced with " son of a Brit " in the censored cut.

* Overtones of the 1975 film show in the 1999 movie Three Kings, especially in the ending ( the once-greedy Americans become philanthropists at the end, similar to Sean Connery's Dravot )

In 1996, Forlani appeared in a supporting role as Sean Connery's daughter in the film The Rock.

The Basilica was used for a brief scene in the 1987 film The Untouchables in which Sean Connery's character explains " The Chicago Way " to Kevin Costner's character.

However, when the Targa was completed, Connery's head stuck out of the top to such an extent that it was decided it looked too ridiculous and that roofless versions would have to be made if the car was to be featured in the film.

Celi later spoofed his Thunderball role in the film OK Connery ( aka Operation Double 007 ) opposite Sean Connery's brother, Neil.

By the late fifties, he regularly appeared on television: as Sean Connery's trainer in boxing drama Requiem for a Heavyweight ( 1957 ), with Charlie Drake in the sitcom Drake's Progress ( BBC, 1957 ) and a title role in Three ' Tough ' Guys ( ITV, 1957 ), in which he played a bungling criminal.

Powell felt it necessary for Henry to wear glasses, but did not want to hide Connery's eyes, so chose rimless ones.

The flat for Connery's character was filmed at the listed Point Royal, and the bulk of the outdoor scenes were taken around Wild Ridings, specifically Arncliffe, Crossfell, Mill Pond and Mill Lane.

* The Hunt for Red October ( 1990 ), in which Alexandrov's national anthem is sung by Sean Connery's submarine crew, led by Danish actor Sven-Ole Thorsen.

Schickel ’ s highest praise was saved for the return of Connery, observing " it is good to see Connery's grave stylishness in this role again.

He described Connery's voice as " unique " and " instantly recognizable ", but said that it was " what stood for in life as an actor and as a man that most related to what I wanted for Draco.

Connery's wife, Micheline, suggested the title Never Say Never Again, referring to her husband's vow and the producers acknowledged her contribution by listing on the end credits " Title " Never Say Never Again " by: Micheline Connery ".

Costume designer Anthony Powell found it a challenge to create Connery's costume because the script required the character to wear the same clothes throughout.

Connery's first job was as a milkman in Edinburgh with St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Society.

A hat of this type was worn by Sean Connery's character Henry Jones Sr. in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Prior to the decision to make fully roofless cars, building the car as a targa was tried, allegedly due to Sean Connery's height not allowing him to fit into the ultra-low coupé version.

LA-based British screenwriting team Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais were brought in at Connery's request to rewrite his lines, but ended up altering much of the film's dialogue.

Boam's February 1988 rewrite utilized many of Connery's comic suggestions.

Additionally, Mike Myers has stated that Austin's thick chest hair is based on Sean Connery's.

Immediately after Amadeus, he appeared in The Name of the Rose ( 1986 ), in which he played Bernardo Gui, nemesis to Sean Connery's William of Baskerville.

In 1986, Gauntlett negotiated the return of fictional British secret agent James Bond to Aston Martin.

Blue Remembered Hills, a television play by Dennis Potter, takes its title from " Into My Heart an Air That Kills " from A Shropshire Lad, the cycle also providing the name for the James Bond film Die Another Day: " But since the man that runs away / Lives to die another day ".

The most famous movie monsters are King Kong and Godzilla, the archetypical detective is Sherlock Holmes and most people's idea of a spy is James Bond.

* Dr. Julius No in the James Bond film Dr. No.

He declined to play the villain Max Zorin in the James Bond film A View to a Kill ( 1985 ).

Argentine boxer Carlos Monzon, who didn't have a clear diction, had his voice dubbed by a professional actor when he played the lead in the drama La Mary, and Gert Frobe, who played Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film of that name ( Goldfinger ) was because of his heavy German accent dubbed by Michael Collins.

Edinburgh has been home to the actor Sir Sean Connery, famed as the first cinematic James Bond ; Ronnie Corbett, a comedian and actor, best known as one of The Two Ronnies ;, actor Brian Cox and Dylan Moran, the Irish comedian.

Critics have referred to Enter the Dragon as " a low-rent James Bond thriller ", a " remake of Doctor No " with elements of Fu Manchu.

Johnny Fedora achieved popularity as a fictional agent of early Cold War espionage, but James Bond is the most commercially successful of the many spy characters created by intelligence insiders during that struggle.

Due to the success of the James Bond film series the Italian film industry made large amounts of imitations and spoofs in the Eurospy genre from 1964-1967.

Some of the most commercially successful films of all time have been produced in the United Kingdom, including the two highest-grossing film franchises ( Harry Potter and James Bond ).

This reputation has continued through the 1990s and into the 21st century with films such as the James Bond series, Gladiator ( 2000 ) and the Harry Potter franchise.

* Gene therapy also plays a major role in the plot of the James Bond movie Die Another Day, where a scientist has developed a means of altering peoples ' entire appearances through the use of DNA samples acquired from others-generally homeless people that would not be missed-that are subsequently injected into the bone marrow, the resulting transformation apparently depriving the subjects of the ability to sleep.

James Bond specifies a recipe of how to make a gin and tonic whilst in Kingston, Jamaica in the book Dr. No. Unusually it involves the juice of a whole lime.

The Harry Potter series was filmed at the studios, whilst the 1996 James Bond film GoldenEye was also filmed there.

James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections.

Additionally, Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character, Moneypenny.

As the central figure for his works, Ian Fleming created the fictional character of James Bond, an intelligence officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6.

Fleming took the name for his character from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies ; Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's wife that " It struck me that this brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name was just what I needed, and so a second James Bond was born ".

On another occasion Fleming said: " I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, ' James Bond ' was much better than something more interesting, like ' Peregrine Carruthers '.

Hoagy Carmichael — Fleming's view of James Bond.

Fleming did not provide Bond's date of birth, but John Pearson's fictional biography of Bond, James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, gives Bond a birth date on 11 November 1920, while a study by John Griswold puts the date at 11 November 1921.