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Not bad at all.
So yes, I did picture Craig at the Baccarat table.
Moore in St. Petersburg Florda
In attitude maybe Craig
After reading a bunch of them, I picture Connery from 1962-1964 in all but OHMSS and YOLT where I picture a late 60s version of him.
However nowadays I imagine Hoagy Carmichael having seen clips from some movies he was in and heard him talk in interviews. Just take a listen to about the 0:20 mark in the clip below. He begins his answer with a very British upward "Yes" and I imagine that this is the actual voice of Bond. The rest is an American accent but is enjoyable nonetheless for a few little English RP turns of phrase.
I imagine the Hoagy Carmichael Bond to have a voice that's a cross between Ian Fleming and Cary Grant's voice in my head. Calm and suave with the ladies but brutal and tough with the bad guys.
The only time a Bond actor pops into my head when reading, is when the book is so close to the film I'm reminded of the film. OHMSS or FRWL for example. Some of the dialogue is verbatim, so that is sometimes hard to get past when you imagine an actor saying it.
But most of the time the book Bond is someone different to any of the screen Bonds without doubt. I can't imagine reading Fleming and thinking 'I'll picture Dalton in this one', or 'I think I'll keep Craig in my head for this one. . .'
Edit: The closest resemblance to the literary Bond that I can think of is none other than King George VI (Queen Elizabeth's father), from the way they stand, the physique, even to the way they're dressed, almost resembling Fleming's description of Bond in the books, except the scar.
For me, Masters' Bond is the definitive non-actor Bond:
Not too far off from Craig
I've always see it as a combination of Dalton and Lazenby.
Dalton when it comes to voice and personality/character, and Lazenby in Physique, as Fleming puts it "his skin is sun tanned and he's also slim" so Lazenby comes to my mind in terms of looks and that lips/mouth was also similar to his mouth.
Then Dalton in terms of attitude, personality and voice.
So, a combination of them.
Oh, nice choice! (I watched GF with my partner recently and he wouldn't believe me when I pointed out Slartibartfast is in it.)
But it's hard not to see Bernard Lee, he's also the guy that I see when it comes to M.
Wow. I always forget just how old Fleming's M is supposed to be. Bernard Lee was a comparatively robust looking man in his mid-50s when he took the role. He embodied many of the general qualities of M nonetheless, but it's a far cry from the Victorian born ex-Admiral that Fleming clearly envisioned.
Reminds me actually - an odd little quirk I have when reading the M scenes in the Bond novels is to imagine an older Ian Fleming as M. I think it's partially Fleming's love of wearing bow ties, but also the fact that I find it slightly more interesting to imagine M being a sort of version of Bond in a previous lifetime/having similar experiences, which explains Bond's love of the man. Again, it's not necessarily there in the text, but it's just something I find adds a lot to the reading experience.
Not quite--it's what artist George Almond thinks M looks like. And while the books portray M's face as "weatherbeaten," in this illustration he looks like a candidate for a retirement community. Nor can I apply a sentence like "the lined sailor's face above the stiff white collar and loosely tied spotted bow-tie was damnably brisk and cheerful" to this version of M.
I'm really not a fan of Almond's work but I think takes the cake. It's so excessively detailed, there's nowhere for my eyes to rest.
I find it hard not to imagine M as Bernard Lee although towards the end of series, Charles Dance did start to pop into my imagination.