Sean Connery. Roger Moore was good too but Sean IS Bond, James Bond!!
And I agree about the original Casino Royale although it was pretty funny!
Sean was the original Bond and probally the best. But I like Danel Craig's better than Roger, Pierce.
With the proviso that I haven't had the opportunity to watch the Craig films, I'd put Sean Connery as my favorite. Sir Sean got the right balance of suave and tough and was probably the first or second best actor of the bunch (Dalton is arguably as good or better as an actor but not as Bond).
I have rather mixed feelings about Roger. Too many of his movies were overblown and downright silly (*cough* Moonraker *cough*) and his Bond was a little too much of a white knight. He often just didn't feel dangerous enough to be "licensed to kill", unlike the early Connery who seemed more than believable as MI-6's top hitman. OTOH, that wasn't entirely his fault and when they stripped things down a bit, as in For Your Eyes Only (which could have worked as an early Connery film as its tone was more like Dr. No and From Russia With Love than Moonraker), he did play a pretty good Bond.
I am one of the people who likes Dalton and wishes we'd had more of him. I had high hopes for Pierce but in the end, didn't like him as much as I thought he would though he did have his moments (the opening sequence of Goldeneye where Bond and 006 infiltrate a Russian nerve gas storage site was vintage Bond). Again, the filmmakers failed him as often as he failed the part. Lazenby, for me, was forgettable as Bond but the movie (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) was actually pretty good and might have been in my top 3 or top 5 Bonds with Connery in the part.
Pierce had a lot of potential, he had the look, the size, but when it came down to it he was overly cheesy. Daniel I think portrays Bond the best since Sean.
Call me picky, Liz, but the pic you've used for Sean is from Never Say Never Again - a non-Eon film ;) #pedant
Sean was brilliant but Diamonds Are Forever was the worst film up until Die Another Day
George was hopeless, his only saving grace was he knew how to have a fight with the stuntmen and he happened to be in probably the best film of the lot
Roger was the first I saw at the cinema. Yes he wasn't exactly an action hero but who else could have delivered a line like "Courage is no match for an unfriendly shoe, Countess"
Tim was brilliant and should have made more, both of his films are very watchable
Pierce got to the franchise more than a decade after he should have done, Goldeneye was great but the rest got progressively worse.
Daniel, along with Tim, is the only other proper actor to play Bond. His Bond is far removed from Fleming's vision but then this is the 21st century
I'll have to go with the original - Bob Holness
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I know I'm supposed to say Sean because I'm, like, the most Scottish person ever, but...
For me, Roger Moore is James Bond. To be fair, I don't really like the James Bond movies; I only know that he's my favourite.
Sean Connery, hands down.
My next favourite would be Dalton, I wish he'd been in more Bond movies.
Sean Connery then Roger Moore
I like Daniel Craig as the character.
The best movies were the Roger Moore era though. Moonraker being the pinnacle.
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Daniel Craig now.....then it was Sean C