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[lazenbyland]

Not counting multiple appearances by stuntmen, which actors have appeared most as a single character in the Bond films?

 

17 Desmond Llewellyn as Q

14 Lois Maxwell as Moneypenny

10 Bernard Lee as M

7   Judi Dench as M

7   Sean Connery as Bond (including NSNA)

7   Roger Moore as Bond

6   Walter Gotell as Gogol (not counting FRWL)

6   Geoffrey Keen as Frederik Gray

4   Robert Brown as M (not including TSWLM where it's not clear if it is the same character before joining MI6)

4   Pierce Brosnan as Bond

Edited by lazenbyland, 25 June 2013 - 10:58 PM.

[Hockey Mask]

Michael Wilson?

[MooseWithFleas]

You can add Samantha Bond as Moneypenny to the list with 4

[Hansen]

And Viktor Tourjansky for 3

[Professor Pi]

Michael Wilson?

 

According to Bondmovies.com, Michael G. Wilson has 15 cameos (in GF, and TSWLM through QoS), though two of those are voice only but I don't know if anyone's spotted him in Skyfall.

[freemo]

Eva Reuber-Staier played Gogol's secretary in a few films. And didn't Q have some recurring background lackey in the '80s? Smithers? Smingers? Something like that.

[mrevans]

Maud Adams had 3.  MWTGG, OP and the cameo in AVTAK

Joe Don Baker had 3.  TLD, GE, TND

 

Does the Aston Martin DB5 count?  GF, TB, GE, TND (I think I recall seeing it briefly pulling into the MI6 parking lot), CR, SF.  That's 6...

 

Of course it counts!  It's too cool not to!  

[Simon]

I think the words, As A Single Character' may have been lost on some poor souls...

[lazenbyland]

Interesting suggestions. Definitely the Aston Martin counts though I think there is the DB5 in GF and TB,

the one in GE and TND and

the one in CR and SF.

 

Colin Salmon as Charles Robinson has three appearances.

That bloke with the bottle in SPY, MR and FYEO!

[S K Y F A L L]

Well she does not appear in a Bond film voice actress Nikki van der Zyl has done 9 (10 counting CR67) according to IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0886424/

Edited by S K Y F A L L, 27 June 2013 - 09:21 PM.

[Bill]

Jeremy Bulloch, best known as Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy, appeared as Smithers in For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy.  He was also aboard the British Naval sub in The Spy Who Loved Me as, per IMDB, HMS Ranger Crewman.  I do not recall if we actually see him get killed when Stromberg grabs the sub, and as they rescue the RN personnel later on, it is theoretically possible his character went on to work for Q Branch!

[mrevans]

Maud Adams had 3.  MWTGG, OP and the cameo in AVTAK

Joe Don Baker had 3.  TLD, GE, TND

 

Does the Aston Martin DB5 count?  GF, TB, GE, TND (I think I recall seeing it briefly pulling into the MI6 parking lot), CR, SF.  That's 6...

 

Of course it counts!  It's too cool not to!  

 

 

I think the words, As A Single Character' may have been lost on some poor souls...

... ahhh... you got me there.

 

Unless... Ms. Anders has the same back story Octopussy tells in OP.  The bullet misses her heart slightly and despite her shock she coolly plays dead seeing her way out as Scaramanga would clearly assume she was dead (given his confidence in his shooting abilities).  She moves on.  Having no legitimate way of life, she starts up the old Octopus cult.  Bond doesn't recognize her later for the same unknown reason Blofeld doesn't recognize him in OHMSS.  Perhaps the new glow of self-confidence threw him off.  After the events of OP she takes a vacation to San Francisco, hence her appearance in AVTAK...

 

And Joe Don Baker sure seems like a REAL character to me (insert comedy punchline drum roll)

 

Half a creativity point?   No... Maybe... please?  

 

But I did my best

Edited by mrevans, 29 June 2013 - 04:39 AM.

[Hockey Mask]

I think the words, As A Single Character' may have been lost on some poor souls...

I think it could be argued that Judi Dench plays two different M characters.

[Call Me Hilly]

I always thought Judi Dench's M changed from film to film anyway. In GE she basically detests him, but by the start of TND he's doing "his job". By the time of Skyfall, its almost a mother and son relationship right down to Bond crying at the end, something he never did in OHMSS. Remember Peter Hunt, Bond doesnt cry!

[mrevans]

I always thought Judi Dench's M changed from film to film anyway. In GE she basically detests him, but by the start of TND he's doing "his job". By the time of Skyfall, its almost a mother and son relationship right down to Bond crying at the end, something he never did in OHMSS. Remember Peter Hunt, Bond doesnt cry!

 

I think one could argue that if they wanted to.  I've always noticed the difference in M's opinion of Bond from GE to TND.  Given the history of using the same actor to play different characters and the lack of concrete connection in films, at least as far as I can remember.  I would definitely argue that M is the same character from CR to SF.  I think SF has a deep amount of emotional depth added by the fact that Bond and M have had a growing relationship through three films.  From disdain at the beginning of CR to respect at the end of QOS.  The relationship only progresses more by SF coming to that mother/son relationship.  

[Simon]

 

I think the words, As A Single Character' may have been lost on some poor souls...

I think it could be argued that Judi Dench plays two different M characters.

 

 

It wouldn't be a very convincing one...

[Hansen]

I think the words, As A Single Character' may have been lost on some poor souls...

I think it could be argued that Judi Dench plays two different M characters.

 
It wouldn't be a very convincing one...

Well, it is quite obvious that the M in GE simply can't be the same as in CR unless we are talking parallel universe, which would be acceptable :-)

[jaguar007]

 

Michael Wilson?

 

According to Bondmovies.com, Michael G. Wilson has 15 cameos (in GF, and TSWLM through QoS), though two of those are voice only but I don't know if anyone's spotted him in Skyfall.

 

He was standing behind Dench when she was looking at the caskets. He can only be spotted on a rather large screen.

[S K Y F A L L]

I guess Barbara wont be making any cameos or else she would have started by now but I think she may have had one in TSWLM though. 

[Call Me Hilly]

The rest of Michael Wilson's cameo in Skyfall was cut. This came at the funeral of the MI6 employees which wasnt in the final film. (There's a picture in the current 007 magazine).

[Simon]

 

 

 

I think the words, As A Single Character' may have been lost on some poor souls...

I think it could be argued that Judi Dench plays two different M characters.

 

 
It wouldn't be a very convincing one...

 

Well, it is quite obvious that the M in GE simply can't be the same as in CR unless we are talking parallel universe, which would be acceptable :-)

 

Oh FFS...!