"The name is Bond, James Bond." Those clipped words have identified the legendary hero of 15 films, beginning with Sean Connery in 1963's Dr. No. Connery played the suave Agent 007 seven times, as did Roger Moore; George Lazenby played him once. For Bond's next appearance, in The Living Daylights, which begins filming in London next month, Producer Albert Broccoli had selected the debonair, Irish-born Pierce Brosnan, star of TV's Remington Steele, after the NBC series was canceled. When Steele was renewed two months later, however, Brosnan had to bow out. So Welshman Timothy Dalton, 38, who has played Shakespeare as...
People: Aug. 18, 1986
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