Ian Fleming
Director was Albert Broccoli
I believe and have told anyone who will listen my family Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was the first Bond film. The movie has all the Bond elements. The car, villain, Miss Scrumptious, ect...
Except the first Bond films date it by several years.
a) it was a musical
b) it had Benny Hill. (It took until the, shall we call it, alternative universe (at least different production rights, of Never Say Never Again, until we had comic relief of that sort: Rowan Atkinson)