Fascinating Facts and Trivia

Ever more Bond facts.
For his time as James Bond, Daniel Craig has the privilege of taking any Aston Martin from the factory for the rest of his life.

A movie was made in 1967 as a spoof of James Bond. The movie was called OK Connery and starred Sean Connery’s brother Neil.

While under contract to play James Bond, Pierce Brosnan wasn’t allowed to wear a tuxedo in any non-Bond film.

Adam West, Clint Eastwood, and Burt Reynolds were all offered the role of James Bond, and all of them declined, believing that James Bond should always be played by a British Actor.

The producer of the James Bond movies is a woman. She casts Bond, his girls and decides on the stories. Barbara Broccoli has been in the business for 30 years, leading the most successful cinema franchise.

Sean Connery, during the filming of the James Bond film “Never Say Never Again,” was taking martial arts lessons and in the process pissed off his instructor, who in turn broke Connery’s wrist. The instructor was Steven Seagal.

When questioned about his terminal cancer and impending death, musician Warren Zevon stated “I just want to live long enough to see the next James Bond movie.” He achieved this goal and lived long enough to see the ironically named “Die Another Day”.

The existence of MI6, the agency with which James Bond works for in the movies, wasn’t officially acknowledged by the British government until 1994.

There are two James Bond movies with the same plot, Never Say Never Again and Thunderball. Sean Connery played James Bond in both films, 18 years apart.

Source: https://www.uselessdaily.com/movies/60-f...z5hhQ55Dfn

Yet more Bond facts, I know you love em!

In Daniel Craig’s James Bond films, M’s real name is Olivia Mansfield.

James Bond movie You Only Live Twice was written by Roald Dahl.

All the actors who played James Bond in the past have been 6’1″ to 6’2″ except Daniel Craig who is 5’10”.

James Bond is a heavy smoker, at one point smoking 70 cigarettes a day. Ian Fleming himself smoked up to 80 cigarettes a day.

Actually, it’s Sir Thomas, not Sir Sean. His full name is Thomas Sean Connery.

James Bond has been shot at 4.662 times during his career.

The only Bond films to win Oscars are Skyfall (sound editing and original song), Goldfinger (sound effects) and Thunderball (visual effects).

Bond was born in Germany, raised in Scotland and England, and considers himself Scottish.

The actress playing the Bond girl has only been older than the actor playing Bond twice. They also both starred in the BBC series The Avengers: Honor Blackman was 37 and Connery 34 in Goldfinger, and Diana Rigg was 31 and George Lazenby 30 in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

Agents 002, 003, 004, and 009 have been killed, while 006 was Sean Bean’s villain in GoldenEye. 008 is Bond’s replacement in the unfortunate event of his death, while neither 001 nor 005 have ever been mentioned.

51. In each and every appearance as Bond, Sean Connery wore a hairpiece.

In the Bond films up to Casino Royale, Bond is seen to consume 114 drinks – the equivalent of one every 24.3 minutes. He primarily drinks champagne (35 glasses) and only enjoys one beer. And is pissed a total of 0 times.

The only Bond film since From Russia With Love that doesn’t involve a helicopter at some point is The Man With The Golden Gun.

The world's largest manufacturer of tyres is........... Lego.

The Cadbury's Flake girl(the one who played the Gypsy girl) Janis Levy(Lee-Burns) was just 17 when she was picked to do the advert.

The word ‘meme’ was coined by Richard Dawkins in his book ‘The Selfish Gene’ in 1976.

(I didn't know where that came from and to be honest I don't have much of a clue what a meme is) I do know that Richard Dawkins was a friend of the late Douglas Adams who wrote 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' and I once asked Douglas, on a BBC live chat thing where he got the name for one of the characters, Slartibartfast. Sadly a few weeks later he had died, so I felt privileged that he had answered my question.

And finally the last of the Bond facts:

The 22 official Bond films have earned just shy of $12billion at the box office, if ticket prices are adjusted for inflation.

Bond is fluent in French, Italian, German and Russian, is handy with Greek, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese, and has a degree in Oriental languages. He also knows how to say ‘where is the library’ in English.

Actor Michael Collins ended up voicing all of Goldfinger’s lines, which were then dubbed over Gert Fröbe’s performance, because the German actor, unbeknownst to the film’s producers when they hired him, couldn’t speak English.

Quantum Of Solace is the only film in the series that’s considered to be a direct sequel.

Bond was 38 when he became a 00 agent.

Goldfinger was eventually banned in Israel – it was revealed that Fröbe had been a member of the Nazi party during World War II. The ban was lifted when a Jewish family publicly thanked the actor for protecting them from persecution during the conflict.

James Bond’s IMDB character page is 0000007.

(17-03-2019 22:17 )GreenMachine Wrote:  and I once asked Douglas, on a BBC live chat thing where he got the name for one of the characters, Slartibartfast. Sadly a few weeks later he had died, so I felt privileged that he had answered my question.

And what was the answer?

Oh yes sorry he said it was a mixture of things including the word fart.

Actor Patrick Allen who appeared in things like UFO and voiced the Barratt Homes adverts was the voice of the "incredibly useful and informative" Protect and Survive manual of the 1970's, which was supposed to tell us what to do in the event of a nuclear war -which turned out to be completely useless. You can hear snippets of it used in the Frankie Goes To Hollywood song 'Two Tribes'

Great BBC weatherman Michael Fish once had a few problems with his magnetic symbols particularly the word FOG. After getting things to basically stick he did his piece to camera but unfortunately the F came off the board but he continued and finally he finished with "well that's all for now, oh and sorry about the F in fog!" (read carefully)