I wasn’t sure if this should be a GQ or CS question. What accent would Bond actually have based on his background in the books? And what accent have the various actors who played him brought to the role? I know Connery had something of a Scottish one, and I think Craig used what’s called a Received Pronunciation. Is that his normal accent?
Well, he went briefly to Eton, later attended Fettes College in Scotland, was fluent in French and German, so… I dunno. I gathered he soundly like a down-to-Earth member of minor Scottish nobility to the various British lovelies in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
That’s a very good question because someone is going to have to piece all the following together into an putative accent (emphasis mine):
It was not until the penultimate novel, You Only Live Twice, that Fleming gave Bond a sense of family background, using a fictional obituary, purportedly from The Times. The book was the first to be written after the release of Dr. No in cinemas and Sean Connery’s depiction of Bond affected Fleming’s interpretation of the character. The novel reveals Bond is the son of a Scottish father, Andrew Bond, of Glencoe, and a Swiss mother, Monique Delacroix, of the Canton de Vaud. The young James Bond spends much of his early life abroad, becoming multilingual in German and French because of his father’s work as a Vickers armaments company representative. Bond is orphaned at the age of 11 when his parents are killed in a mountain climbing accident in the Aiguilles Rouges near Chamonix.
After the death of his parents, Bond goes to live with his aunt, Miss Charmian Bond, in the village of Pett Bottom, where he completes his early education. Later, he briefly attends Eton College at “12 or thereabouts”, but is removed after two halves because of girl trouble with a maid. After being sent down from Eton, Bond was sent to Fettes College in Scotland, his father’s school. On his first visit to Paris at the age of 16, Bond loses his virginity, later reminiscing about the event in “From a View to a Kill”. Fleming used his own upbringing for his creation, with Bond alluding to briefly attending the University of Geneva, (as did Fleming) before being taught to ski in Kitzbühel (as was Fleming) by Hannes Oberhauser, who is later killed in “Octopussy”.
So… he sounds like Christopher Lambert in Highlander 
I suspect someone with his background could sound however he wanted, switching from a posh Eton accent to something more common and Scottish, according to his company and circumstances.
Yes, but he was deliberately imitating Sir Hilary’s voice and accent (Lazenby was dubbed by the real actor that played Sir Hilary).
George Baker, aka Tiberius on I, Claudius? :eek:
Yeah, in the movie. The OP asked about the novels. Notably, in the novel the women were from the UK and Ireland (I think) while the movie depicts them as diversely international. The narrative of the novel describes the women as viewing Bond (as Bray) as down to Earth Scottish nobility, or something along those lines; a rough baronet. Classy but not snobbish. I kind of assume if he was faking to a similar degree as Lazenby’s portrayal, they would have spotted it, working class though they were.
Actually I was asking about the accents of Bond in both the films and movies.