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James Bond is a fictional character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1952. The literary character appeared in a series of twelve novels and two short story collections written by Fleming and a number of continuation novels and spin-off works after Fleming's death in 1964. There have been twenty-seven films in total, produced and released between 1962 and 2021. Fleming portrayed Bond as a tall, athletic, handsome secret agent in his thirties or forties; he has several vices, including drinking, smoking, gambling, automobiles and womanising. He is an exceptional marksman, and he is skilled in unarmed combat, skiing, swimming and golf. While Bond kills without hesitation or regret, he usually kills only when carrying out orders, while acting in self-defence, and occasionally as revenge. American actor Barry Nelson was the first to portray Bond on screen, in a 1954 television adaptation, " Casino Royale ". In 1961, Eon Productions began wor...

Miss Moneypenny , later assigned the first names of Eve or Jane, is a fictional character in the James Bond novels and films. She is secretary to M , who is Bond's superior officer and head of the British Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 ). Although she has a small part in most of the films, it is always highlighted by the underscored romantic tension between her and Bond (something that is virtually non-existent in Ian Fleming 's novels, although it is somewhat more apparent in the Bond novels by John Gardner and Raymond Benson ). On that note, she is not always considered to be a Bond girl , having never had anything more than a professional relationship with Bond. Although not given a first name by Fleming, the character was given the name Jane in the spin-off book series, The Moneypenny Diaries ; in the films, she received the first name of Eve in Skyfall (2012), which is set in the new continuity opened by 2006's Casino Royale , where the character spent time as ...

M is a fictional character in Ian Fleming 's James Bond book and film series; the character is the Head of the Secret Intelligence Service —also known as MI6. Fleming based the character on a number of people he knew who commanded sections of British intelligence. M has appeared in the novels by Fleming and seven continuation authors, as well as appearing in twenty-four films. In the Eon Productions series of films , M has been portrayed by four actors: Bernard Lee , Robert Brown , Judi Dench and Ralph Fiennes , the incumbent; in the two independent productions, M was played by John Huston , David Niven and Edward Fox . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_(James_Bond) ------------------------------ GoldenEye is a 1995 spy film , the seventeenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions , and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond . It was directed by Martin Campbell and is the first in the series not to utilize any story elements fr...