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Roger Moore: Sean Connery
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Moore ... has the distincition of being one of only two English actors to actually play James Bond (Daniel Craig being the other). Sean Connery is Scottish, George Lazenby Australian, Timothy Dalton Welsh and Pierce Brosnan Irish.
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It has been said that Moore is closer to Ian Fleming's original concept of Bond, as a disenfranchised member of the British Establishment, than Connery's more rough-and-tumble Bond. Indeed, the tone of the series changed under Moore's aegis, with the scripts being tailored to his personality and acting ability. Moore made 7 Bond films [more than Connery's 6], retiring as 007 after
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Professional and amateur Bond historians usually draw a clear line between the Bond films of Sean Connery, deemed "serious," and those of Roger Moore, deemed "comedic." That's because historians like things cut and dried, so as to be safely categorized and shelved away in the proper dusty box.
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Many speculate that Moore's sudden leap from Templar to Bond was a result of his "nimochranophilia" (addiction to identity changes), rather than a genuine need to hide himself. He assumed the identity and responsibilities of the real 007, and created what is known as the "Sean Roger George Bond Paradox", in which people cannot decide who actually is James Bond. In 1973, he became
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