This was the first actor to portray the character James Bond on screen.
Barry Nelson
David Niven
Peter Sellers
Sean Connery
Barry Nelson. In 1954, CBS paid Ian Fleming $1000 USD to adopt his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, into a one-hour teleplay. Barry Nelson played the now iconic British MI6 super-spy as an American agent working for “Combined Intelligence”.
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