20 Things You Didn't Know About Dr. No

1. Before Sean Connery...

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Terence Young and Sean Connery contributed greatly to the style and characterisation of James Bond.

Nevertheless, Connery is not actually the first onscreen James Bond; that was Barry Nelson in 1954’s Casino Royale. Sir Sean also cannot lay claim to being the first onscreen Double-0 Seven in the Eon Productions Bond franchise.

As has become customary in the Bond films that have followed, there is a gun barrel sequence in the film in which the gentleman British agent walks onscreen and shoots an unseen assailant. Stuntman, Bob Simmons performed the role of James Bond in this highly stylised motif created by film title designer, Maurice Binder.

Simmons repeated this function in both From Russia With Love and Goldfinger before Connery took up the famous walk-on himself in Thunderball.

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