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McGoohan was one of several actors considered for the role of James Bond in Dr. No. While McGoohan, a Catholic, refused the role on moral grounds, [22] the success of the Bond films is generally cited as the reason for Danger Man being revived. (He was later considered for the same role in Live and Let Die, but refused again.) [23]
Father of comedian Des Bishop, who later wrote his biography, titled My Dad Was Nearly James Bond. [8] [9] [10] Patrick Mower: Reason unknown. [11] Daniel Pilon: Harry Saltzman felt he was too young; aged 27 at the time. [12] John Richardson: George Lazenby won the role based on a screen-test fight scene. [7] Anthony Rogers: Terence Stamp
John Drake, unlike Bond, never romanced any of the series' female characters, as McGoohan was determined to create a family-friendly show. [10] McGoohan denounced the sexual promiscuity of James Bond and The Saint, roles he had rejected, although he had played romantic roles before Danger Man. Drake uses his immense charm in his undercover work ...
Dr. No is a 1962 spy film directed by Terence Young.It is the first film in the James Bond series.Starring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman and Jack Lord, it was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather from the 1958 novel by Ian Fleming.
This was a requirement put in place by McGoohan who did not want Drake to become a clone of James Bond in that respect. McGoohan allowed a couple of exceptions (particularly in two episodes guest starring Susan Hampshire, both of which imply Drake and the two different characters played by Hampshire continue a relationship "off camera") and ...
Patrick McGoohan is indelibly menacing as the crooked, sadistic warden while Eastwood dials back his performance to let the suspenseful, slow-boiling, nearly-silent escape be the star. I may have ...
The lyric "they've given you a number and taken away your name" refers to the numerical code names given to secret agents, as in "007" for James Bond, although it also unintentionally foreshadows Danger Man star Patrick McGoohan's subsequent series The Prisoner, in which the main character is known only as "Number Six". [11]
A View to a Kill is a 1985 spy film, the fourteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the seventh and final appearance of Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Although the title is adapted from Ian Fleming 's 1960 short story " From a View to a Kill ", the film has an entirely original screenplay.