James Bond Actors in Order: All Six 007s Across 25 Films
James Bond actors in order comes to six men across 25 EON Productions films released between 1962 and 2021, and that casting history is the spine of this map. Every major character in the franchise is drawn as a named tube line, and every actor who played that character is named at the point they take the role over. I researched and designed it myself at mikebellmaps.com.
If you want the films listed chronologically rather than the casting, I have a separate piece on James Bond movies in order. This one is about who played what, and for how long.
The James Bond Movie Plot Map Art Print is part of the movie map collection.
How the map works
Each character is a named 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 picture of who is in which film, how the characters connect across the franchise, and where the cast turns over from one era to the next.
The map uses a red header, the convention across all my film maps, which separates them from the blue headed music discography maps in the range.
The Six Bond Actors, and How Many Films Each
The Bond line itself runs red across the full width of the map. Six actors carry it.
| Actor | Films | Span |
|---|---|---|
| Sean Connery | 6 | Dr No (1962) to Diamonds Are Forever (1971) |
| George Lazenby | 1 | On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) |
| Roger Moore | 7 | Live and Let Die (1973) to A View to a Kill (1985) |
| Timothy Dalton | 2 | The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989) |
| Pierce Brosnan | 4 | GoldenEye (1995) to Die Another Day (2002) |
| Daniel Craig | 5 | Casino Royale (2006) to No Time to Die (2021) |
Lazenby's single film is the shortest segment on the whole map, one station wide, sitting between Connery's two runs. On the artwork it reads as a hairline break in a line that otherwise carries straight through the 1960s.
The Longest Line Belongs to Q, Not Bond
Desmond Llewelyn played Q across seventeen films, from From Russia With Love in 1963 to The World Is Not Enough in 1999. No actor in the franchise appears in more of them, including any of the six Bonds. John Cleese appeared alongside him in The World Is Not Enough and took the role alone in Die Another Day. Ben Whishaw brought Q back for Skyfall and carries the line to No Time to Die.
M runs dark blue and is the clearest example of a character outliving its actors. Bernard Lee played M across eleven films from Dr No to Moonraker. Robert Brown took over from Octopussy through to Licence to Kill. Judi Dench carried M across seven films from GoldenEye to Skyfall, and Ralph Fiennes has held it from Skyfall onwards. Four actors, one continuous line, six decades.
Miss Moneypenny runs purple. Lois Maxwell originated the role across fourteen films from Dr No to A View to a Kill. Caroline Bliss took the two Dalton films, Samantha Bond played the role through the Brosnan era, and Naomie Harris joined at Skyfall.
Felix Leiter Is the Most Recast Role in the Franchise
Leiter runs orange, and his line carries more actor changeovers than any other on the map. Jack Lord, Cec Linder, Rik Van Nutter, Norman Burton, David Hedison, John Terry and Jeffrey Wright have all played the CIA ally, each named at the point they take over.
David Hedison is the only one of them to return after a gap, playing Leiter in Live and Let Die in 1973 and again in Licence to Kill in 1989. On the map that is a line that stops, jumps sixteen years, and restarts under the same name.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld runs yellow, tracking the franchise's most persistent villain across multiple films and actors, among them Anthony Dawson, Donald Pleasence, Telly Savalas, Charles Grey and Christoph Waltz.
The Villains and the Leading Women
The villain line runs black and carries some of the most recognisable names in post war cinema. Joseph Wiseman as Dr Julius No. Gert Frobe as Auric Goldfinger. Yaphet Kotto as Dr Kananga. Christopher Lee as Francisco Scaramanga. Curd Jurgens as Karl Stromberg. Michael Lonsdale as Hugo Drax. Robert Carlyle as Renard. Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre. Javier Bardem as Raoul Silva.
The primary female lead runs teal, with the actress and the character named at each film station, from Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder in Dr No through to Lea Seydoux as Madeleine Swann, whose line is the only one in that group to run across three consecutive films.
Reading those two lines side by side is the closest thing the map has to an argument. The villain line changes every film. The lead female line mostly does too, until Craig, and then it does not.
Sizes, Paper and Framing
The print is a Giclée on 230gsm premium acid free matte fine art paper, made in A2 (420 x 594mm) and A1 (594 x 841mm), plus 24 x 18 inch and 36 x 24 inch for buyers in the United States. Prices start at £42.
It comes unframed, or ready to hang in a black wood frame. A1 is the size to take if you want the actor names readable while standing in front of it, which for this map is most of the point.
Related Film Plot Maps
If the Bond map appeals, the closest companions in the range are the other film plot maps, which apply the same line and station logic to single films rather than a franchise. The full catalogue of music and film maps is at mikebellmaps.com.
Questions About the James Bond Map
How many James Bond films are on the map?
Twenty five, the EON Productions series from Dr No in 1962 to No Time to Die in 2021. Each film is a station and the sequence runs left to right in release order.
Which films are not on the map?
Never Say Never Again (1983) and the 1967 Casino Royale spoof, because neither was made by EON Productions. Anything released after No Time to Die is also absent, because the artwork was drawn before it existed. That cutoff is deliberate rather than an oversight.
Who played James Bond the most times?
Roger Moore, with seven films. Sean Connery made six for EON, and Daniel Craig five.
Are the actors named on the print itself?
Yes. Every character line carries the actor names at the point of each changeover, so the casting history is readable from the artwork without a separate key.
Is it designed by hand?
Every line was plotted from the credited cast of each film in sequence, and the layout decisions were mine. No AI was used to research or draw it.
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