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The fictional character James Bond is a sophisticated British spy, invented by and appearing in books by Ian Fleming (and later Kingsley Amis, John Gardner, Raymond Benson and Charlie Higson).
Fleming named the character after the American ornithologist James Bond and would later write to the birder's wife that her husband's "brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon, and yet very masculine name was just what I needed." Bond has the code name of 007, pronounced "double-oh seven". The 'double-oh' prefix indicates a ' licence to kill'; that is, permission to use deadly force at his discretion in the course of his duty. There is a highly successful and durable series of films made by EON ProductionsEON Productions is a film production company best known for the James Bond movie franchise. EON stands for "Everything or Nothing". It was started by the famous James Bond producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman in 1961. In 1975 after nine movies,, the majority of which were produced by Albert R. BroccoliAlbert Romolo Broccoli ( April 5, 1909 June 27, 1996) known to millions of movie fans as Cubby" Broccoli (he was a chubby child), produced more than forty movies, but will be remembered by most for his contribution to one of the most successful film franc and Harry SaltzmanHarry Saltzman ( October 27 1915 September 28 1994) was a film producer best known for co-producing the James Bond film series with Albert R. Broccoli until selling his share of the franchise to United Artists in 1975. He retired from the business at that. Later Broccoli's daughter and stepson, Barbara BroccoliBarbara Broccoli (born June 18, 1960) is the daughter of the famous James Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli majored in motion picture and television communications at Loyola University prior to working in the casting and production departments at EON Produ and Michael G. WilsonMichael G. Wilson (born 1943) is the stepson of the late James Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli and stepbrother to current James Bond producer, Barbara Broccoli. Actor Lewis Wilson is Michael G. Wilson's father. Since Moonraker Wilson has been an exective would also produce. The films were mostly released by either United ArtistsThe United Artists Corporation (aka United Artists Pictures and United Artists Films was formed on February 5, 1919 by four Hollywood greats: Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford and D. Their motive was to challenge the power of the major stu or MGM. There are also many notable video gamescreenshot of Tetris for the Nintendo Game BoyA video game is a game played using an electronic device with a visual display. Overview Often "video game" is taken in a narrow sense to mean those games played on consoles for television and similar handhelds based on the films and some with original scripts with the character.
"James Bond" has entered popular culture and language, with people using the phrase to describe something stealthy and/or futuristic: "right out of James Bond", "James Bond style security", and so on.
The various James Bond novels and movies have, over the years, varied wildly from realistic spy dramas to outright science fiction.
The central character of all the James Bond fiction is the son of a Scottish father, Andrew Bond, and a Swiss mother, Monique Delacroix, both of whom are dead from a climbing accident by the time of the books and movies. He went to school briefly at Eton College. In cinematic versions of the character, Bond has a degree in Oriental Languages from Cambridge University, although this contradicts the information in the novels and the scene in Tomorrow Never Dies where Bond is unable to use a computer with a Chinese keyboard. Bond can also speak fluent Russian, which he claims to have studied at Oxford in The World is Not Enough, and can be seen communicating in any number of other languages in the various films. He served in the Royal Navy before joining the Secret Service and holds the rank of Commander. During his tenure writing Bond books, John Gardner promoted the literary Bond to Captain, but he was subsequently demoted without explanation. In both the book and movie versions of On Her Majesty's Secret Service Bond marries, but his wife is killed on their wedding day by his greatest enemy, Ernst Stavro Blofeld; this event has continued to resonate for both the film and literary version of the character.
In the novels, one of the only constants in Bond's life is his elderly, Scottish housekeeper, May, who not only appeared in numerous Fleming novels, but proved herself to be as ageless as Bond himself by also appearing in several of John Gardner's novels. May is one of a small number of recurring characters from the literary canon who has yet to appear in the movie series.
Fleming's Bond was born in 1924, lied about his age to enter the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in 1941, and had gained the rank of Commander by the end of the war.
The Bond family motto is Orbis non sufficit ( Latin for "The world is not enough").
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