Sean connery 007

Commander James Bond CMG is a Senior Operational Officer of the Double-O Section, an ultra-covert Black Ops unit within the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6). As an agent of MI6, Bond holds cryptonym "007". The '00' prefix indicates his discretionary licence to kill in the performance of his duties. He was created and developed by the British author and former naval intelligence officier Ian Fleming. Sean Connery was the first actor to perform the role on the cinematographic adaptations…

Don't do what you're told

From humble beginnings as a school dropout, Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930, Edinburgh, Scotland) became a major movie star at the age of...

James Bond isn’t an exotic name, but such a bland moniker was exactly what 007’s creator, former naval intelligence officer and keen twitcher, Ian Fleming, wanted – so he looked on his shelf and appropriated it from the author of a book on Caribbean ornithology. Identity theft is small fry compared with some of Bond’s exploits, whether he’s being portrayed by an Englishman, Scotsman, Irishman or Welshman. Or, for that matter, an Australian (George Lazenby, in On Her Majesty’s Secret…