This was the first actor to portray the character James Bond on screen.
- Barry Nelson
- David Niven
- Peter Sellers
- Sean Connery
This was the first actor to portray the character James Bond on screen.
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”.