[Vor Lady]

I might have to disagree here, although I liked Dalton in Living Daylights, Bond if I remember right was described as a man with black hair and a craggy, ugly face. Except that Connery had not much real hair when he was Bond, he didn't have that pretty boy face. That is why I couldn't do Moore, too pretty and silly for Bond. He did alright as the Saint though.

It's been decades since I have read Dr. No, but I think Bond was Scottish. His housekeeper, May, was also Scottish. Connery is the only Scot to be Bond. George Lazenby was Australian, Moore is English, I'm not sure about Dalton and Brosnan is Irish.

[SoCal Pubbie]

"James Bond is the son of a Scottish father, Andrew Bond, and a Swiss mother, Monique Delacroix, both of whom died in a mountain climbing accident, long before the time of the books and the movies...

Ian Fleming described James Bond's physical resemblance to singer Hoagy Carmichael; actor Timothy Dalton (who twice played the character in the late 1980s), is said to most closely resemble Fleming's description of James Bond. In the literature (notably From Russia, With Love), Bond's physical description has generally been consistent: a three-inch, vertical scar on his left cheek (absent from the cinematic version); blue-grey eyes; short-cut, dark hair, a comma of which falls on his forehead (greying at the temples in John Gardner's novels), and (after Casino Royale) the faint scar of the Russian Cyrillic letter "SH" on the back of one of his hands (carved by a SMERSH agent)."'

From http://www.localcolorart.com/search/encyclopedia/James_Bond/

None of the movie bonds hand the large facial scar mentioned in the novels. An an interesting note on this subject is the look of the James Bond character that appeared in a British comic strip before the movies came out. The resemblance to Sean Connery is uncanny.


In fact this site says it may have help push him into the role: Comic Bond