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[George White]

As a kid, I genuinely thought that Peter Franks was played by William Roache, aka Coronation Street's Ken Barlow. Joe Robinson did appear in CS spinoff Pardon the Expression, though.

Some people think that Joss Ackland was in a Bond. 

[Krilencu]

Also as a kid, in the 80's I saw Linda Hunt in some movie, and thought it was Rosa Klebb. 

[Gobi-1]

I always thought Henry Silva was a bad guy from the Bond movies despite being in none. 

[DaveBond21]

Ricardo Montalban.

[hoagy]

Ricardo Montalban ?  Dude -- too funny !  (perhaps a car Bond drove at some point, or a chair upon which he sat, was upholstered with fine Corinthian leather)  At least, however, the character portrayed by Mr. Montalban's acting colleague from their Fantasy Island days, Herve Villechaize, did get to travel in the plane -- a car one might describe as "a convertible" -- owned and flown by his movie employer, Francisco Scaramanga..."Boss !  Boss !  The car -- it's the plane ! the plane !"

[Blofeld's Cat]

For quite a while I thought Brigitte Nielsen was one of the Octopussy girls.

[Double Naught spy]

Back when the ABC Movie of the Week was the only way to see the older films, I thought Cleavon Little was the cab driver in Live and Let Die.

[thecasinoroyale]

As a kid, I genuinely thought that Peter Franks was played by William Roache, aka Coronation Street's Ken Barlow.

Ken Barlow in a Bond film? Now that I'd like to have seen!

[Guy Haines]

Yes it would have been interesting to have someone go up to the bar in the Rovers Return and order a pint of Newton and Ridleys -shaken, not stirred!

 

I'm struggling about this one. It's easier the other way around - people you didn't think were in Bond but were. As I ploughed through the Bond films as a kid and teen I found loads including some I never expected to be in. Or people who were in one Bond film and you thought were in another but weren't (such as the voice of Joseph Wiseman in Thunderball - except it wasn't him.)

 

There was an American actor named Brian Keith who appeared in a lot of TV series and films in the 1950s, though to the 1980s, and someone by that name was listed as playing the Space Shuttle captain in Moonraker. But I don't think it was the same Brian Keith I was thinking of - unless someone out there can put me right about it. That's the nearest I can come up with at the moment.

[David_M]

 

There was an American actor named Brian Keith who appeared in a lot of TV series and films in the 1950s, though to the 1980s, and someone by that name was listed as playing the Space Shuttle captain in Moonraker. But I don't think it was the same Brian Keith I was thinking of - unless someone out there can put me right about it. That's the nearest I can come up with at the moment.

 

Nope, different guy.  But the Brian Keith you remember (from "Family Affair," etc) was connected to a space movie around the same time, and one starring a James Bond actor, no less: Meteor, with Sean Connery.

[hoagy]

The unfortunately now late, and great Alan Rickman would have been a superb addition, as villain or any other character, to a Bond film.  The unfortunately now late, and great David Bowie, of course, was the actor the producers wanted for the part of Zorin in VTAK, but that did not work out.  The toll of insidious cancer on British performers has been drastic and nasty these past few days...RIP to both...

[hoagy]

By the way, Bowie's song for The Hunger -- "Putting Out Fire With Gasoline" -- is one of those great "Wasn't a Bond song but would have served well as one" songs.  Perhaps with a tweak of the lyrics here and there , but largely as is.  A near-apt description of Bond's final moments with the drug-runner at the end of LTK.

[George White]

Yes it would have been interesting to have someone go up to the bar in the Rovers Return and order a pint of Newton and Ridleys -shaken, not stirred!

 

I'm struggling about this one. It's easier the other way around - people you didn't think were in Bond but were. As I ploughed through the Bond films as a kid and teen I found loads including some I never expected to be in. Or people who were in one Bond film and you thought were in another but weren't (such as the voice of Joseph Wiseman in Thunderball - except it wasn't him.)

 

There was an American actor named Brian Keith who appeared in a lot of TV series and films in the 1950s, though to the 1980s, and someone by that name was listed as playing the Space Shuttle captain in Moonraker. But I don't think it was the same Brian Keith I was thinking of - unless someone out there can put me right about it. That's the nearest I can come up with at the moment.

Yes, it was a French-American actor called Brian Keith, not the American tough-guy actor, and star of Krakatoa - East of Java, the Fall Guy, Meteor...

Actually, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic has such a scene you describe, where Bond visits the bar that Annie and Jack Walker ran in London before selling up and returning to Weatherfield. Being LXG, there's a huge hoarding outside for "Maplin's Holiday Camp". 

[glidrose]

By the way, Bowie's song for The Hunger -- "Putting Out Fire With Gasoline" --

"Cat People", not "The Hunger".

[Grard Bond]

Not in a James Bond film, but in a Roger Moore film:

 

Barbara Hershey.

 

I always thought she was in Shout at the devil or in The Seawolves,

 

but actualy it was Barbara Parkins in the first one and Barbara Kellerman in the other one.

 

I found out just two years ago.

[hoagy]

Glidrose, thank you for the correction.  The song was from "Cat People" not "The Hunger", of course !  As another popular culture figure would say at such a moment:  "Doh !"