[SoCal Pubbie]

An American HAS played James Bond. The TV version of Casino Royale mentioned in post 114 starred Barry Nelson as CIA agent "Card Shark Jimmy Bond". His pal was British Secret Service Agent Clarence Leiter!

When Fleming sold the movie rights to Casino Royale, he was hard up for cash so maybe he wrote in the prohibition you talk about for later works, but I have to wonder about that since one of Fleming's choices for the role was Jimmy Stewart!

[timtoews5292004]

But they had to change the name and the country of origin of the character. So no american has played British secret agent James Bond. I know its minor semantics and splitting hairs, but its still a fact.