LAZENBY, GEORGE

Handsome Australian leading man who replaced Sean Connery as James Bond and appeared in one 007 movie, On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969. An Australian by birth

STEWART, ROY

Actor who portrayed Quarrel, Jr., the man who shares James Bond's hairbrush, in Live and Let Die.

DAHL, BIBI

Randy Olympic ice-skating hopeful portrayed by blonde Lynn-Holly Johnson in For Your Eyes Only. The teenage protégée of sinister millionaire Aris Kristatos (Julian Glover), Bibi meets. James Bond (Roger Moore) in Cortina d’Ampezzo, where she is training under Jacoba Brink (Jill Bennett).

SUMO WRESTLING MATCH

A Tokyo sporting event where James Bond (SEAN CONNERY) meets Japanese Secret Service agent Aki (AKIKO WAKABAYASHI) in You Only Live Twice. He gives her the appropriate password: "I love you."

GOGOL, GENERAL ALEXIS

Senior KGB officer who became a recurring character in the James Bond series. Portrayed by actor Walter Gotell, who first appeared in From Russia with Love as SPECTRE field commander Morzeny, General Gogol was introduced as M’s opposite number in The Spy Who Loved Me.

LEE, BERNARD

British character actor who portrayed M, the retired admiral turned Bond’s Secret Service superior in the first eleven James Bond movies. As with Desmond Llewelyn’s character Q, M’s serious demeanor was in direct contrast to 007’s cavalier attitude toward bureaucratic authority and the British stiff upper lip.

DALTON, TIMOTHY

Classically trained Welsh actor, known for his costume films and stage work, who became the fourth actor to portray James Bond in the Eon Productions series of 007 films. When he replaced Roger Moore starting with The Living Daylights in 1987, the series underwent a major about-face in focus and tone.

GOLDEN DRAGON COMPANY

Oriental coin and jewelry shop in Hong Kong, in front of which James Bond (ROGER MOORE) observes Scaramanga's (CHRISTOPHER LEE) assassination of Gibson, the British solar energy

LEE, CHRISTOPHER

Tall, sinister British character actor, a veteran of countless horror films, who joined the James Bond series as Francisco Scaramanga, the title character in The Man with the Golden Gun. The part was a change of pace for Lee, who was used to playing the dark and horrifying side of every possible villain

GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE

San Francisco Bay landmark that is the location for the final confrontation between James Bond (ROGER MOORE) and Max Zorin (CHRISTOPHER WALKEN) in A View to a Kill.

LEE, CHUCK

James Bond's (ROGER MOORE) likable San Francisco CIA contact, portrayed by David Yip, in A View to a Kill. Lee briefs Bond on Max Zorin's (CHRISTOPHER WALKEN) local activities,

WE’LL HEAD HIM OFF AT THE PRECIPICE!

Cornball dialogue line uttered straight-faced by Ernst Stavro Blofeld (TELLY SAVALAS) while chasing James Bond (GEORGE LAZENBY) and Tracy (DIANA RIGG) through Switzerland

LEECH, WENDY

British stuntwoman, the daughter of Bond stunt veteran George Leech, who portrayed the heiress kidnapped by fanatical revolutionaries in the teaser for Never Say Never Again. Brainwashed by her captors, the heiress stabs James Bond (Sean Connery) with a knife after he rescues her

PETTET, JOANNA

British-born American actress who portrayed Mata Bond, the illegitimate daughter of Sir James Bond (DAVID NIVEN) in Casino Royale.

DART-FIRING WRISTWATCH

A weapon supplied to James Bond (Roger Moore) by Q (Desmond Llewelyn) in Moonraker. The watch is equipped with ten darts. Five are blue-tipped and have armor-piercing heads. Five are red-tipped and coated with cyanide, which causes death in thirty seconds.

WALTZ, CHRISTOPH

Two-time Academy Award–winning Austrian character actor who was given the plum role of Franz Oberhauser, a.k.a. Ernst Stavro Blofeld, vengeful supervillain and foster brother of James Bond (Daniel Craig) in Spectre and No Time to Die.

GOLDFINGER (United Artists, 1964)

The third James Bond film produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. US release date: December 25, 1964. Budget: $3.5 million. Worldwide box office gross: $124.9 million

OBERHAUSER, FRANZ

Birth name of SPECTRE head Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Christoph Waltz) in Spectre, who in the course of the story is also revealed to be the foster brother of James Bond (Daniel Craig).

GOLDFINGER, AURIC

The title character in the third James Bond film produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and arguably the best villain in the entire series, portrayed by Geman actor Gert Fröbe, although his voice was entirely redubbed by British actor Michael Collins.

MONTE CARLO

Mediterranean resort and classic James Bond location that once again hosted Bond (PIERCE BROSNAN) in GoldenEye. It's where 007 meets his nemesis Xenia Onatopp

LEITER, CLARENCE

British agent portrayed by veteran character actor Michael Pate who joins James Bond (Barry Nelson) on a mission against Soviet master spy Le Chiffre (Peter Lorre) in the CBS TV adaptation of Casino Royale (1954).

PHONY HORSE-TRAILER

The hiding place for James Bond's (ROGER MOORE) mini-jet plane in the Octopussy teaser. It's the perfect cover for Bond, who, with his assistant Bianca (TINA HUDSON), is operating at an equestrian event outside the walls of a secret South

LEITER, FELIX

James Bond’s longtime friend and CIA compatriot. He’s been portrayed by many different actors who took a number of approaches to the character. The first on-screen take, in the 1954 TV adaptation of Casino Royale, was actually Australian actor Michael Pate

FAKE MANTA RAY

Giant underwater costume worn by James Bond (Timothy Dalton) in Licence to Kill. A throwback to the fake seagull on the diving mask in Goldfinger,

TANGO ZEBRA

British Secret Service emergency code used by James Bond (SEAN CONNERY) to contact his headquarters from the communications room of the Flying Saucer yacht in Never Say Never Again.

DEA

Acronym for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which attempts to nab South American drug lord Franz Sanchez (ROBERT DAVI) in the Licence to Kill teaser. After James Bond (TIMOTHY DALTON) helps

NINA

British pop singer whose tune "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?" is featured in the sixth James Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

TANUGI, SASKIA COHEN

Actress who portrayed Nicole, James Bond's (SEAN CONNERY) Secret Service contact in the South of France, in Never Say Never Again.

GOODNIGHT, MARY

Far Eastern liaison and in-between lover to James Bond (Roger Moore) portrayed by Swedish beauty Britt Ekland in The Man with the Golden Gun. Having been assigned to staff intelligence for two years, Mary feels qualified to give Bond an assist on his present assignment.

CONNERY VS. JAPAN

One of the major reasons why actor Sean Connery decided to leave the James Bond series after You Only Live Twice was his experience in Japan during that movie’s location filming in July and August 1966.

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