James Bond Movie Plot Map Art Print: Every Character and Actor Across All 25 Films
This is a tube map of the entire James Bond film franchise, all 25 EON Productions films released between 1962 and 2021, with every major character and the actors who played them mapped as intersecting lines across the full timeline. It is the most detailed single image of the Bond franchise I know of, and I designed and researched it myself at mikebellmaps.com.
The James Bond Movie Plot Map Art Print is part of the Gifts for Movie Fans collection at mikebellmaps.com.
How the map works
Each character in the Bond franchise is represented as a named tube line. Where that character appears in a film, their line passes through that film's station. Where they do not appear, the line terminates or branches away. The result is a complete picture of who is in which film, how characters connect across the franchise, and where the cast changes significantly from one era to the next.
The map uses a red header, the standard design convention across all my film maps, which distinguishes them from the blue-headed music discography maps in the range.
James Bond: six actors, one continuous line
The Bond line itself runs red across the full width of the map, tracking all six actors who have played 007 in the official EON Productions series.
Sean Connery appears across six films from Dr No in 1962 through to Diamonds Are Forever in 1971.
George Lazenby takes the line for On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.
Roger Moore carries it across seven films from Live and Let Die in 1973 through to A View to a Kill in 1985.
Timothy Dalton holds it for The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill.
Pierce Brosnan runs from GoldenEye through to Die Another Day.
Daniel Craig closes the series across five films from Casino Royale in 2006 to No Time to Die in 2021.
Each actor is named on the line at the point where they take over the role, making the full casting history of the franchise readable at a glance.
The recurring character lines
What makes the map particularly rich is the way it traces the characters who appear across multiple films and multiple eras, often played by different actors.
M runs as a dark blue line across the full franchise. Bernard Lee played M across eleven films from Dr No to Moonraker. Robert Brown took the role from Octopussy through to Licence to Kill. Judi Dench carried M across seven films from GoldenEye to Skyfall, and Ralph Fiennes has held the line from Skyfall through to No Time to Die. Four actors, one continuous character line, spanning six decades.
Q runs green. Desmond Llewelyn played Q across seventeen films, one of the longest-running character appearances in the franchise, from From Russia With Love in 1963 to The World Is Not Enough in 1999. John Cleese appeared alongside Llewelyn in The World Is Not Enough and took the role solo in Die Another Day. Ben Whishaw brought Q back for Skyfall and continues the line through to No Time to Die.
Miss Moneypenny runs purple. Lois Maxwell originated the role across fourteen films from Dr No through to A View to a Kill. Caroline Bliss took the role for The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill. Samantha Bond played Moneypenny across the Brosnan era. Naomie Harris joined the line at Skyfall and continues it through to No Time to Die.
Felix Leiter runs orange, tracing the CIA ally's appearances across the franchise. The line is notable for the number of actors who have played the role, Jack Lord, Cec Linder, Rik Van Nutter, Norman Burton, David Hedison, John Terry, and Jeffrey Wright, each named at the point they take over.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld runs yellow, tracking the franchise's most persistent villain across multiple films and actors, including Anthony Dawson, Donald Pleasence, Telly Savalas, Charles Grey, and Christoph Waltz.
The Bond Girls: a teal line across six decades
The Primary Bond Girl line runs teal and is one of the most visually striking elements of the map, because it traces a character type that has evolved more visibly than almost any other across the franchise's history.
Every named Bond Girl is plotted with the actress and character name at their film station. Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder in Dr No. Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger. Claudine Auger as Domino in Thunderball. Mie Hama as Kissy Suzuki in You Only Live Twice. Diana Rigg as Tracy di Vicenzo in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jill St John as Tiffany Case in Diamonds Are Forever. Britt Ekland as Mary Goodnight in The Man with the Golden Gun. Barbara Bach as Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me. Carole Bouquet as Melina Havelock in For Your Eyes Only. Maud Adams as Octopussy. Grace Jones as May Day in A View to a Kill. Carey Lowell as Pam Bouvier in Licence to Kill. Izabella Scorupco as Natalya Simonova in GoldenEye. Teri Hatcher in Tomorrow Never Dies. Sophie Marceau as Elektra King in The World Is Not Enough. Halle Berry as Jinx in Die Another Day. Eva Green as Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale. Olga Kurylenko as Camille in Quantum of Solace. Bérénice Marlohe as Sévérine in Skyfall. Léa Seydoux as Madeleine Swann, continuing through Spectre and No Time to Die.
The villains: a black line of cultural indicators
The Villain R line runs black and carries some of the most recognisable names in cinema across its length. Joseph Wiseman as Dr Julius No. Gert Fröbe as Auric Goldfinger. Adolfo Celi as Emilio Largo. Yaphet Kotto as Dr Kananga in Live and Let Die. Christopher Lee as Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun. Curt Jurgens as Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me. Michael Lonsdale as Drax in Moonraker. Robert Carlyle as Victor Zokas in The World Is Not Enough. Toby Stephens as Gustav Graves in Die Another Day. Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre in Casino Royale. Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva in Skyfall. Christoph Waltz as Blofeld in Spectre and No Time to Die.
Each villain is named on the map with their character name and the actor who played them, making the full gallery of Bond antagonists readable in a single image.
What the map shows that no other format can
The Bond franchise is 25 films across 59 years. No synopsis, no cast list, and no timeline can show the full structure of that franchise, the characters that run through it, the actors that took them on, and the connections between eras, in a single readable image. The tube map format can be used because it is designed precisely to show how multiple routes connect through shared stations across a network.
When I was researching this map, I was working from the credited cast of every EON Productions film in sequence, tracking which characters appeared and which actors played them, and making layout decisions about how to show continuity and change across a six-decade timeline. The result is a print that rewards the kind of close attention a serious Bond fan will bring to it, there is always another actor to find, another character thread to trace, another connection between eras to notice.
The James Bond Movie Plot Map Art Print is available as a Giclée print in A2 and A1. It is produced using archival pigment inks on 230gsm premium fine art paper with a textured matte finish and is designed to be framed and studied rather than rolled up and forgotten.
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