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Shocking! Positively shocking!
To answer your question, I think Lazenby, Connery and Craig looked older than they actually are and Brosnan, Dalton and Moore (in the beginning at least) looked younger. Never would of guessed Brosnan was in his early 40s when he did Goldeneye!
Brosnan just turned 60 and he seems to have aged very gracefully.
He always looked younger in all his Bonds. Good genes like Connery.
Just like the load of Botox the current generations of maturing stars is fond of.
Roger Moore OP 54/55
Roger Moore FYEO 52/53
Roger Moore MR 50/51
Roger Moore TSWLM 48/49 =
Pierce Brosnan DAD 48/49
Daniel Craig SP 46/47
Roger Moore TMWTGG 46
Pierce Brosnan TWINE 45/46
Roger Moore LALD 44/45
Pierce Brosnan TND 43/44 =
Daniel Craig SF 43/44
Timothy Dalton LTK 42
Pierce Brosnan GE 41/42
Sean Connery DAF 40 =
Timothy Dalton TLD 40
Daniel Craig QOS 39/40
Daniel Craig CR 37/38
Sean Connery YOLT 35/36
Sean Connery TB 34
Sean Connery GF 33
Sean Connery FRWL 32
Sean Connery DN 31
George Lazenby OHMSS 29
(And, for the record, if he was born in March 1946, he would be 68 - not 70)
:D
I always assumed that Dalton was 41 in TLD so place his DOB at 1946...not so much his age but its his height that always got me with Dalts. He is 6-2 but he never looked that tall in his films. Maybe because his co- stars and ladies were pretty tall themselves.
Though 41 and with bushy eyebrows, overweight, and a bad fitting rug, Connery had clearly outgrown the part by DAF.
Brosnan always looked good.
I have read this thread with interest but the formula appears to be a youngish actor who has proven himself. Look at last time Daniel Craig who had been very successful in The Ice House and Our Friends in the North.
I think Damian Lewis will be too old especially if Daniel Craig decides to do another Bond so the only option for me is Tom Hardy in the 35 - 40 age range. Michael Fassbender is too established. They usually go for an actor who is less established. Tom Hardy fits that bill for me but it could be argued he has become too established with Mad Max.
In that case I think a better option would be Rupert Friend from the Boy in the Striped Pyjames, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont and currently Homeland.
I think Nicholas Hoult is a little too young at the current time.
And with respects to the discussion about why people don't like Bond being in his 60's etc, it's not just that he looks old, but that the love scenes starting getting more and more uncomfortable. Moore himself admitted that the love scenes in AVTAK began to get disgusting.
I think Roger Moore would disagree about him not doing stunts. For example, I know that in every single Bond movie he definitely raised his own eyebrows.
I think Moore said that he quit Bond after he learned that he was older than Tanya Roberts' mother.
These are some interesting figures. So, if Crag does one more he will be the oldest Bond besides Moore? :-?
BUT, one of the Bond Girls was 50 in the last movie and he's in much better shape (sorry Roger). So Craig might be the one who could play 'older Bond' right!
Not that 50 is old of course, but I mean Craig could be as old as Roger in AVTAK and be more believable.
Hell, by that logic, Adam West just played Batman again, aged 88! ;)
Consequently I realise I'm at the high point of my life now. After GE and TLD it can only go downwards as I long passed Lazenby's OHMSS age. Damn.
I remember the days of being younger than Lazenby's Bond! That was certainly awhile ago. How time flies.
Now I look forward to being Bogart's ages in Casablanca, and The Big Sleep. All my favorite actors as a kid were well into their 40s in my favorite films. Bogart, Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, etc, Even Superman George Reeves was in his 40's during most of the TV series.
Of course, if one were to calculate the average age of Bond in all the films, I think it comes out to something like 43/44.