Sean Connery. Actor: Dr. No. The tall, handsome and muscular Scottish actor Sean Connery is best known as the original actor to portray James Bond in the hugely successful movie franchise, starring in seven films between 1962 and 1983. Some believed that such a career-defining role might leave him unable to escape it, but he proved the doubters wrong, becoming one of the most notable film James Bond and the Japanese Secret Service must find and stop the true culprit of a series of space hijackings, before war is provoked between Russia and the United States. Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsurô Tanba. Votes: 115,911 | Gross: $43.08M Agent 007 (Sean Connery) is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya) and Thunderball. (film) Thunderball is a 1965 spy film and the fourth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the 1961 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham devised from a story Sean Connery - James Bond Daniela Bianchi - Tatiana Romanova Robert Shaw - Donald 'Red' Grant Pedro Armendáriz - Ali Kerim Bey. Synopsis. Furious that 007 thwarted their agent, Dr. No, evil criminal organisation SPECTRE sets a trap to kill James Bond in Istanbul. Watching the four Pierce Brosnan James Bond movies, you can see why 007's paymasters had the actor in their sights for so long. His blend of Sean Connery's lethal edge and Roger Moore's The James Bond novels and films are notable for their memorably despicable villains and henchmen. From Le Chiffre's encounter with Bond in the original Casino Royale novel in 1953 to Lyutsifer Safin's scheme in the 2021 film, No Time To Die, Bond's foes have been one of the most important reasons for the book and film series' continued popularity. Listed here are the franchise's primary James Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Director: Terence Young | Stars: Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya, Daniela Bianchi. Votes: 143,182 | Gross: $24.80M James Bond Movies Ranked, From Sean Connery to Daniel Craig James Bond movies in chronological order. In the official Bond canon — the films made by Eon Productions, starting with Harry Start off strong with GoldenEye. MGM. If you want to watch through all of Pierce Brosnan's Bond films, you will want to start with 1995's "GoldenEye." Brosnan's first outing as 007 takes place cnEJ.