Rubbish, he’s tied with William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton for first.
Connery was good in the early Bond films and very attractive. As he aged I thought he became less likely.
Brosnan in the last one looked too old too.
I think Dalton was the best Bond.
So they have had a Scotsman, an Englishman, an Australian, a Welsh man and an Irish man. What next? A New Zealander?
I think Colin Salmon would be excellent as James Bond, but I don’t see them picking a black actor, which is a pity. But he already works for M, so maybe they could promote him!
Roger Moore does play Bond with such awesome badness, it appeals to everyone, like me, who finds the franchise fantastically stupid. Who could fail to laugh at his action heroics in A View To A Kill, which is surely one of the worst movies of the 1980s?
I guess it depends on whether you like your movies to be exciting, well-acted, believable, and well-made; or campy, unconvincing, risible, badly-decorated, and populated by beings with very strange hair-styles.
Ian Fleming had said his image of the perfect Bond was David Niven, though the later novels (written as the Connery movies were picking up speed) played up Bond’s Scottishness, probably because Fleming was tailoring the character a bit to match Connery.
At the end of the novel “The Man With the Golden Gun” (the last Fleming novel), for example, Bond actually turns down a knighthood because he thinks of himself as a “Scottish peasant” and is disinclined to get tangled up with overly-serious titles and whatnot.