John Gavin as Bond

AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
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How do you think this would of worked out if Connery never came back and Gavin took the Role?
1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger

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  • DutchfingerDutchfinger Holland With LovePosts: 1,240MI6 Agent
    As much as I dream to become Bond myself one day, Bond is - and always should remain Brittish.

    History told us that a non Brittish Bond will go down as a terrible Bond :P
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  • MustonMuston Huncote, Leicestershire Posts: 228MI6 Agent
    Yes Bond should be played by a British actor, but I think Gavin looked great for the role and wouldn't have minded seeing him in it. As DAF and LALD are both films mainly based in the US, I don't think Gavin playing Bond would have hurt. And as far as Lazenby goes, he did a great job.
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  • Charmed & DangerousCharmed & Dangerous Posts: 7,358MI6 Agent
    As did Brosnan!
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    So long as he could do a passable British accent, then why not. :))
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  • Le SamouraiLe Samourai Honolulu, HIPosts: 573MI6 Agent
    He wouldn't be my first choice, but I think you could do worse than John Gavin.

    Incidentally, John Gavin was one of the actors who played OSS 117 in some of the Euro-Spy 007 knockoffs.
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  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    So long as he could do a passable British accent, then why not. :))

    My thoughs exactly. Cubby always maintained that you needed a Britisher as James Bond. I think that this still stands - it's part of the character's old-world appeal, I guess.
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Cubby also wanted his Bond actors to be over six foot tall. They've
    broken that dictum ( love that word :)) ) so why not an American.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    Cubby also wanted his Bond actors to be over six foot tall. They've
    broken that dictum ( love that word :)) ) so why not an American.

    Why not indeed. It comes from Latin and the law - obiter dictum. This being the part of the case that is not the ratio decidendi or the actual judgment of the law case. But I'm sure you knew that...
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Sorry, SM. I'm not that high minded :#
    It works so well in many "Carry On" type
    conversations, i.e is sounds like Dick. :))
    Schoolboy humor, I'll never out grow it. ;)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • zaphodzaphod Posts: 1,183MI6 Agent
    Silhouette Man wrote:
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    Cubby also wanted his Bond actors to be over six foot tall. They've
    broken that dictum ( love that word :)) ) so why not an American.

    Why not indeed. It comes from Latin and the law - obiter dictum. This being the part of the case that is not the ratio decidendi or the actual judgment of the law case. But I'm sure you knew that...

    doesn't everybody ? :007)
  • zaphodzaphod Posts: 1,183MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    Cubby also wanted his Bond actors to be over six foot tall. They've
    broken that dictum ( love that word :)) ) so why not an American.

    If we can have a blond Dwarf with a face like a bag of spanners then we can certainly have an American.
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,845MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    Sorry, SM. I'm not that high minded :#
    It works so well in many "Carry On" type
    conversations, i.e is sounds like Dick. :))
    Schoolboy humor, I'll never out grow it. ;)

    Oh, I thought perhaps you were a lawyer or some such...?
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    No I'm far to stupid for that, Although I soon will be
    Meeting plenty of the legal profession. As I've been
    called up for Jury Service.
    This is when all those years spent watching
    Poirot, Marple, Columbo and Midsomer Murders Pays off. :))
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
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