To celebrate the release of Skyfall, in cinemas now, we've picked out 100 pieces of James Bond trivia.
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1. It is actually stuntman Bob Simmons who appears in the opening gun barrel sequence for the first three James Bond movies.
2. SPECTRE stands for SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, Extortion.
3. Dr. No's budget was only $1 million, and when costs overran by $100,000 United Artists wanted to pull the plug, scared that it would never recoup its costs.
4. Bond author Ian Fleming wanted his cousin Christopher Lee to play Dr. No. Christopher Lee later starred as Scaramanga in 1974's The Man With The Golden Gun.
5. Bond doesn't appear until 17 minutes and 15 seconds into From Russia With Love.
6. From Russia With Love's six-minute fight scene with Red Grant on the Orient Express took two days to film.
7. Many actors have appeared in more than one role in the Bond series - Maud Adams (as Andrea Anders and Octopussy), Joe Don Baker (as Brad Whitaker and Jack Wade) - but the first was in fact Sean Connery, playing a SPECTRE agent wearing a James Bond mask in From Russia With Love's pre-credit sequence.
8. Q is only referred to by his real name, Major Boothroyd, in Dr. No, From Russia With Love and The Spy Who Loved Me.
9. The body count in Goldfinger is 62.
10. The five pilots flying the planes in Pussy Galore's Flying Circus in Goldfinger were actually men wearing blonde wigs.
11. Honor Blackman, Pussy Galore in Goldfinger, is the oldest ever Bond Girl, at 37 years of age at the time of filming.
12. The Bond producers originally wanted Orson Welles to play Auric Goldfinger, but he was too expensive.
13. The dialogue of both Claudine Auger (Domino) in Thunderball and Ursula Andress (Honey) in Dr. No was dubbed by Nikki Van der Zyl.
14. Thunderball stuntman Bill Cumming was paid a $450 bonus to jump into Largo's shark infested pool.
15. Sean Connery wears a toupee in all the Bond movies that he starred in.
16. Ken Adam's volcano set in You Only Live Twice used 700 tonnes of structural steel and 200 miles of tubular steel.
17. You Only Live Twice is the only official James Bond film in which James Bond does not drive a car.
18. Charles Gray, who plays Henderson in You Only Live Twice, returns as Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever.
19. Bond does not visit England at all in You Only Live Twice.
20. Aerial Unit Camera operator John Jordan lost his leg while filming the Little Nellie sequence.
21. John Barry's score for On Her Majesty's Secret Service was the first Bond movie score to use synthesizers and electric guitars.
22. Contrary to the common belief that he was fired, George Lazenby was actually offered a seven picture deal and had even signed a letter of intent to star in Diamonds Are Forever.
23. On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the first Bond film where 007 uses skis.
24. Absolutely Fabulous star Joanna Lumley appears in On Her Majesty's Secret Service as one of Blofeld's ten Piz Gloria girls.
25. At the age of 30, George Lazenby is the youngest actor to portray 007.
26. The death of Bond's wife Tracy (Diana Rigg) was originally intended to take place at the start of Diamonds Are Forever.
27. A planned plot for Diamonds Are Forever featured Gert Fröbe returning as Goldfinger's revenge-seeking twin brother.
28. While filming Diamonds Are Forever's fight scene in the elevator, actor Joe Robinson accidentally pulled off Sean Connery's hairpiece.
29. Sammy Davis Jr. filmed a cameo scene for Diamonds Are Forever at the casino playing roulette, but the scene later cut from the final movie.
30. Despite most of Diamonds Are Forever being set in Las Vegas, nobody in the movie ever actually says the words "Las Vegas" or "Vegas".
31. The scene in Diamonds Are Forever where Tiffany Case discovers Plenty O'Toole dead in the swimming pool was filmed at the house of Kirk Douglas.
32. Until Jeffrey Wright's appearences in Casino Royale and Quantum Of Solace, David Hedison was the only actor to play Felix Leiter more than once, in Live And Let Die and Licence To Kill.
33. Live And Let Die is the first Bond film to feature the word "shit", spoken by the woman whose flying lesson is hijacked by Bond.
34. Live And Let Die is the first Bond film to not feature Q (aka Major Boothroyd).
35. Live And Let Die is the first Bond film in which 007 has a liaison with an African American woman - Rosie Carver, played by Gloria Hendry.
36. Diana Ross was considered for the role of Solitaire in Live And Let Die.
37. In Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, The Man With The Golden Gun's Mary Goodnight is Bond's secretary and a regular character like Miss Moneypenny.
38. The Man With The Golden Gun's corkscrew car jump over a canal was performed in just one take and was captured by 8 cameras simultaneously. It was the first stunt ever to be calculated by computer modelling.
39. The Man With The Golden Gun was originally planned to be shot in Iran.
40. The Spy Who Loved Me is only Bond movie in which M's first name - Miles - is said.
41. $1 million of The Spy Who Loved Me's $13.5 million budget was spent by production designer Ken Adam on building the largest sound stage in the world for the interior shots of Stromberg's supertanker. The tank had a capacity of 1.2 million gallons.
42. Richard Kiel, who played Jaws, could only keep the metal teeth in his mouth for about half a minute at a time.
43. The novelisation of Moonraker reveals that the character of Jaws is Polish and his real name is Zbigniew Krycsiwiki.
44. The chain that Jaws bites through at the Pyramids in The Spy Who Loved Me was made of licorice, according to Richard Kiel.
45. Jaws only ever has one line of dialogue in his two Bond appearances, when he says "Well, here's to us" at the end of Moonraker.
46. Moonraker had the largest number of actors in weightlessness (on wires) ever filmed.
47. Kate Bush was considered to sing the Moonraker theme tune, but turned it down.
48. It was originally planned for Barbara Bach to briefly return in Moonraker, as Anya from The Spy Who Loved Me, as the woman seen in bed with General Gogol.
49. Roger Moore is believed to have conducted around 390 interviews for the promotion of Moonraker.
50. Maurice Binder's title sequence for Moonraker cost more than the entire budget of Doctor No.
51. For Your Eyes Only was the first Bond movie to be based on one of Ian Fleming's short stories, rather than one of his novels.
52. Sheena Easton, singer of the For Your Eyes Only theme song, is the only vocalist to appear during the titles sequence of a Bond movie.
53. For Your Eyes Only is the only Bond movie to not feature an appearence by M.
54. The Havelock's pet parrot in For Your Eyes Only later returned in The Living Daylights.
55. Roger Moore considers For Your Eyes Only to be his best Bond film.
56. Faye Dunaway was considered for the role of Octopussy.
57. Octopussy is the last Bond film to reveal the name of the next Bond film during the end credits.
58. Octopussy's theme song, 'All Time High' by Rita Coolidge, is the first Bond theme not to feature the movie's title in its lyrics.
59. Both released in 1983, Octopussy made $187 million worldwide and Sean Connery's unofficial Never Say Never Again made $160 million.
60. Never Say Never Again was Rowan Atkinson's first movie.
61. Steven Seagal was the martial arts instructor for Never Say Never Again. He broke Sean Connery's wrist while teaching him a martial arts move.
62. Roger Moore's least favorite Bond movie of the ones he starred in is A View To A Kill. He turned 57 years old during filming.
63. Roger Moore's hair had to be thickened each day during the filming of A View To A Kill.
64. A View To A Kill was the first Bond movie to have a tie-in video game produced.
65. David Bowie was the first choice to play Max Zorin in A View To A Kill, but turned the film down.
66. The Living Daylights was originally to feature an ending similar to the parody of Margaret Thatcher in For Your Eyes Only. The ending would have featured a parody of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer.
67. It was planned that The Living Daylights' character General Pushkin would return in Licence to Kill.
68. Sean Bean, who later played 006 in GoldenEye, tested for the role of Bond for The Living Daylights.
69. Before Pierce Brosnan was cast as Bond in GoldenEye, other actors rumoured to be in the running included Liam Neeson, Mel Gibson, Sam Neill and Hugh Grant.
70. In the GoldenEye script, M's real name is Barbara Mawdsley.
71. GoldenEye's tank chase took around four weeks to shoot.
72. Alan Rickman turned down the role of Alec Trevelyan in GoldenEye.
73. "Goldeneye" is the name of Ian Fleming's house in Jamaica where he wrote the Bond novels.
74. Famke Janssen (Xenia) performed her own driving stunts in GoldenEye's opening car chase.
75. During the making of Tomorrow Never Dies, fifteen BMW 750's were destroyed.
76. Anthony Hopkins was initially cast in the role of Tomorrow Never Dies bad guy Elliot Carver, but left after three days due to the incomplete script.
77. The Bond producers considered launching a film series based on the Tomorrow Never Dies character Wai Lin, played by Michelle Yeoh.
78. Much of the interior filming of Tomorrow Never Dies was shot in a converted Asda warehouse, as the producers couldn't find studio space.
79. "The World Is Not Enough", "Orbis non sufficit" in Latin, was revealed as the motto of the Bond family in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
80. The World Is Not Enough's opening boat chase sequence took seven weeks to shoot, using 35 boats.
81. In the Scottish MI6 Headquarters castle in The World Is Not Enough, a portrait of original M actor Bernard Lee can be seen hanging behind the current M's desk.
82. In Zukovsky's operations room in The World Is Not Enough, the girlie pictures seen on the walls are actually of former Bond girls.
83. The scene in The World Is Not Enough where Zukovsky falls into a pool of caviar was filmed on actor Robbie Coltrane's birthday.
84. The World Is Not Enough is the first Bond movie where the main villain is a woman.
85. Die Another Day is the first Bond movie in which Bond has a beard.
86. A sequel to Die Another Day was planned, featuring Halle Berry's character Jinx, but the film was never made.
87. Die Another Day set a new record for merchandising, with $120 million worth product placement and tie-ins deals.
88. Casino Royale is the third Bond movie in which James Bond resigns.
89. Daniel Craig is the first actor to play James Bond who is younger than the series itself.
90. The Casino Royale scene at the Body Worlds exhibit is the first time that actual corpses are shown on screen in a Bond movie.
91. Casino Royale's car barrel-roll stunt by the Aston Martin DBS broke the world record for the most barrel rolls assisted by a cannon, completing seven full rolls.
92. In the Casino Royale novel, Vesper commits suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills.
93. Casino Royale's Le Chiffre is the first major Bond villain to be killed by his own people.
94. A stuntman driving Bond's Aston Martin to the Quantum Of Solace set lost control of the car and ended up in Northern Italy's Lago di Garda, totaling the £120,000 car.
95. The theme song for Quantum Of Solace is the first Bond theme to be sung as a duet. 'Another Way To Die' is sung by Jack White and Alicia Keys.
96. M’s house in Skyfall is the former home of Bond composer John Barry.
97. 85 copies of Bond’s Tom Ford suit were made available to Daniel Craig for the opening sequence of Skyfall.
98. Skyfall's cast went through 200,000 rounds of ammunition while undergoing weapons training.
99. Ian Flemming got the name James Bond from the author of a book, 'Birds Of The West Indies'.
100. The first ever actor to play James Bond on screen was actually an American, Barry Nelson, in a 1954 TV version of Casino Royale.
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