James Bond Ally Rankings
by aeternum007 | created - 19 Feb 2018 | updated - 06 Aug 2022 | PublicJames Bond Ally Rankings
1. Desmond Llewelyn
Actor | GoldenEye
Desmond Llewelyn was born in South Wales in 1914, the son of a coal mining engineer. In high school, he worked as a stagehand in the school's productions and then picked up sporadic small parts. His family would not give up their effort to prevent him from a life on stage, so an uncle who was a ...
(#1) Q #2
2. Bernard Lee
Actor | Diamonds Are Forever
Best remembered as 'M' in the James Bond films, Bernard Lee was a popular character player in British films throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Born into a theatrical family, he made his stage debut at age six and later attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He first appeared on the West End stage...
(#2) M
3. Clifton James
Actor | Live and Let Die
Blustery, stocky, loud although often genial character actor who has created a niche for himself playing often frustrated and fast talking Southern characters... most noticeably as Sheriff J.W. Pepper alongside Roger Moore in the James Bond adventures Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man with the ...
(#3) Sheriff J.W. Pepper
4. Pedro Armendáriz
Actor | From Russia with Love
Born in Mexican revolution times, Pedro Armendáriz was the first child of Mexican Pedro Armendáriz García-Conde and American Adele Hastings. He was raised in Churubusco, then a suburb of Mexico City, before the family traveled to Laredo, Texas. They lived there until 1921, the year Armendáriz' ...
(#4) Ali Kerim Bey
5. Soon-Tek Oh
Actor | Mulan
A 1960s pioneer of Asian-American theatre, Soon Tek Oh (aka Sun-Taek Oh, Soon-Tek Oh or Soon-Taik Oh) was born on June 29, 1932, in Mokpo, Korea at the time the country was under Imperial Japanese rule. He attended high school at Gwangju, South Korea, and went on to study at Yonsei University in ...
(#5) Lieutenant Hip
6. John Kitzmiller
Actor | Dr. No
John Kitzmiller was born on December 4, 1913 in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Dr. No (1962), Valley of Peace (1956) and Without Pity (1948). He was married to Dusia Bejic. He died on February 23, 1965 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
(#6) Quarrel
7. Gerry Duggan
Actor | Goldfinger
Gerry Duggan was born on July 19, 1910 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Goldfinger (1964), Four Desperate Men (1959) and McCloud (1970). He died on March 27, 1992 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
(#7) Hawker
8. Jack Lord
Actor | Dr. No
Jack Lord will probably be best remembered as Steve McGarrett in the long running television series Hawaii Five-O (1968), but he was much more than that however. He starred in several movies, directed several episodes of his show, was in several Broadway productions, and was an accomplished artist....
(#8) Felix Leiter #1
9. Michael Pate
Producer | Tim
The future movie bad man was born in Drummoyne, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, and got his career start as an interviewer on the government's radio station. Pate also worked on the Australian stage and in Down Under movies before relocating to the U.S. in the early 1950s to appear in Universal's "...
(#9) Clarence Leiter
10. Cec Linder
Actor | Goldfinger
Cec Linder was born on March 10, 1921 in Radziechów, Poland. He was an actor, known for Goldfinger (1964), Lolita (1962) and Quatermass and the Pit (1958). He was married to Joan Patricia Nuttall. He died on April 10, 1992 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
(#10) Felix Leiter #2
11. David Prowse
Actor | Star Wars
David "Dave" Prowse was born into a working class family on 1 July, 1935 in Bristol, England, UK. He was raised by his mother and never knew his father. As a child, David was disadvantaged and a poor student, he found a passion for bodybuilding and weight training in his early teens, as a young ...
(#11) Frankenstein's Creation
12. John Huston
Director | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
An eccentric rebel of epic proportions, this Hollywood titan reigned supreme as director, screenwriter and character actor in a career that endured over five decades. The ten-time Oscar-nominated legend was born John Marcellus Huston in Nevada, Missouri, on August 5, 1906. His ancestry was English,...
(#12) M #2/McTarry
13. Earl Cameron
Actor | Inception
Earl Cameron did not set out to be an actor. Bermudian by birth, Cameron joined the British Merchant Navy in the 1930s for the travel opportunities that it afforded. By the early 1940s, with World War II in full swing, Cameron found himself in London working menial jobs to survive. After seeing a ...
(#13) Pinder
14. Topol
Actor | Fiddler on the Roof
Topol was born on September 9, 1935 in Tel Aviv, Palestine [now Israel]. He was an actor and producer, known for Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Flash Gordon (1980) and For Your Eyes Only (1981). He was married to Galia Topol. He died on March 8, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
(#14) Milos Columbo
15. Joie Vejjajiva
Actress | Lady Ghost and the Cannibal Girl
Joie was born to a Thai father and an English mother. Grew up in Bangkok, Thailand. One brother Paul who also was in The Man with the Golden Gun. Married and settled down in Sydney, Australia and works as a Mortgage Broker there.
Joie acted in James Bond, The Man with the Golden Gun with Roger Moore ...
(#15) Cha - Hip's Niece #2
16. Qiu Yuen
Actress | Kung fu
Qiu Yuen apprenticed Chinese martial arts and Beijing-opera skills with Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung as well as Kam-Bo under the same master, Yu Jim-yuen, whilst at the Beijing Opera School (part of the Chinese Drama Academy).
Early in her career, Cheung Cheun Nam (aka Qiu Yuen) worked briefly as a ...
(#16) Nara - Hip's Niece #1
17. Vijay Amritraj
Actor | Octopussy
For almost two decades, Vijay Amritraj was one of the most famous tennis players in the world, and was the top tennis player in Asia for 14 straight years. In recent years, Vijay has become a leading tennis commentator for Fox Sports in the US and STAR-TV in Asia. His California-based company, ...
(#17) Vijay
18. Robert Brown
Actor | A View to a Kill
Robert Brown was born on July 23, 1921 in Swanage, Dorset, England, UK. He was an actor, known for A View to a Kill (1985), Licence to Kill (1989) and Octopussy (1983). He was married to Rita Becker. He died on November 11, 2003 in Swanage, Dorset, England, UK.
(#18) M #3
19. David Hedison
Actor | Live and Let Die
Albert David Hedison Jr. was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the elder son of Albert and Rose Hedison, naturalized United States citizens from Armenia. His father owned a jewelry enameling business and his son was expected to follow in his footsteps. Young Al had other ideas, having put his ...
(#19) Felix Leiter (#5)
20. Tetsurô Tanba
Actor | You Only Live Twice
Tetsurô Tanba was born on July 17, 1922 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor and producer, known for You Only Live Twice (1967), Three Outlaw Samurai (1964) and Harakiri (1962). He was married to Hoki. He died on September 24, 2006 in Tokyo, Japan.
(#20) Tiger Tanaka
21. Rik Van Nutter
Actor | Thunderball
Rick Van Nutter was born in Pomona, California and entered film work as a location manager/assistant director while living in the Hawaian Islands. Later he traveled to Africa as a production manager and stopped off in Rome on his way home and decided to stay for awhile. The following year while ...
(#21) Felix Leiter #3
22. Peter Burton
Actor | Dr. No
Peter Burton was born on April 4, 1921 in Bromley, Kent, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Dr. No (1962), A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Avengers (1961). He was married to Lillias Walker. He died on November 27, 1989 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.
(#22) Q #1
23. Norman Burton
Actor | Diamonds Are Forever
Norman Burton graduated from The Actor's Studio in New York. He appeared in NY onstage in professional stage productions of "Sound of Hunting", "Anna Christie", and José Quintero's production of Brendan Behan's "The Quare Fellow". He appeared in such notable films as Towering Inferno, Save the Tiger...
(#23) Felix Leiter #4
24. Geoffrey Bayldon
Actor | Casino Royale
Born Leeds, England and trained at Old Vic Theatre School, 1947-1949. First stage appearance in "Tough at the Top" (C.B. Cochran's last musical) in 1949, followed by seasons at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; Glasgow Citizen's and Birmingham Repertory Theatre. First in ...
(#24) Q #3
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