the man with the golden gun

Master of the witty retort and owner of the sharpest tongue in the service. Bond bites back

21 things you didn’t know about the world’s greatest superspy

Age when cleared for duty: 45

32 facts, gaffes, double agents and almost bonds!

Tied at the top with Connery as a seven-time Bond – from 1973’s Live And Let Die to 1985’s A View To A Kill – Roger Moore used arched eyebrows and quippy double entendres to put his own indelible stamp on the 007 franchise.

Described as ‘Star Wars underwater’, Warhead is one of the great unfilmed scripts – so good it tempted a retired Sean Connery to return as 007. Total Film steals the file on the Bond film that got away…

Brace, please, for a burst of pub quiz-owning 007 stats-facts...

We couldn’t be bothered to re-review all the Bond films again. So, we’ve applied a bit of science – well, rudimentary maths – to work out which is best...

"They said I was too tall to be an actor. I thought 'Right, I'll show you...'". Six decades and 224 films later, consider them shown. Bloodsucker, dark lord, bad wizard, close personal friend of Muhammad Ali… It’s Christopher ‘The Count