This is a List of Recurring Actors as different characters. It does not include the likes of Lois Maxwell who appeared in multiple Bond films as a recurring character, but can include stuntmen etc in supporting roles if they are visible enough. It can also include people who appeared in both Eon and non-Eon films.
It is often stated in articles that very few actors have appeared in multiple Bond films; this may be true of major roles, but it certainly isn't true of some of the smaller ones, with dozens of actors having appeared in background or supporting roles. In the days before VCRs became popular, and a proliferation of TV channels started showing Bond films on heavy rotation, this practice was far more common, and much less noticed by the public. In some cases, the actors in question have a very different appearance in each of their roles.
Multiple onscreen appearances[]
Maud Adams[]
Swedish actress Maud Adams has the unusual honour of having been a Bond girl in three films, most notably Octopussy, the eponymous character in Octopussy (1983). She had previously played Andrea Anders in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).
She has a third uncredited appearance in A View to a Kill (1985) .
Ursula Andress[]
Swiss actress Ursula Andress appeared as the iconic Honey Ryder in Dr. No, and also as Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale, which are both major roles in the respective films.
In Dr. No, she is dubbed by Nikki van der Zyl.
George Baker[]
The noted British actor George Baker plays Sir Hilary Bray in OHMSS. In 1977, he played Captain Benson in The Spy Who Loved Me.
He also has a much smaller, and uncredited, role as a NASA engineer in 1967's You Only Live Twice..
Joe Don Baker[]
Joe Don Baker is one of only a few actors to have played both an ally and a villain, along with Gotell and Charles Gray. He has three appearances: once as the villain Brad Whitaker in The Living Daylights and twice as Jack Wade, a CIA agent, in both GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies. Jack Wade's role is somewhat similar to Felix Leiter in other films, but the Leiter character had been killed off under Brosnan's Bond.
Martine Beswick[]
Martine Beswick plays Zora the gypsy in From Russia With Love, and Paula Caplan in Thunderball.
Robert Brown[]
Robert Brown plays Admiral Hargreaves in The Spy Who Loved Me, and M from Octopussy to Licence to Kill.
Jeremy Bulloch[]
Jeremy Bulloch plays A. C. Andrews in The Spy Who Loved Me. He also plays Smithers, in For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy.
Martin Campbell[]
Director Martin Campbell has a small cameo in both of his films. Firstly, in GoldenEye as an unfortunate cyclist who happens to be on the same road as Bond and Onatopp and secondly as an airport worker in the remake of Casino Royale
Tsai Chin[]
Tsai Chin had an appearance as a Bond girl, with Sean Connery in 1967, and then many years later in 2006 as the gambler Madam Wu in Daniel Craig's version of Casino Royale.
In You Only Live Twice, she plays Ling.
Kim Fortune[]
Kim Fortune, an English actor plays two British military roles, a Naviation Offer on board HMS Ranger in The Spy Who Loved Me and Flight Lieutenant Richard of the RAF in Moonraker.
Walter Gotell[]
Best known as as the memorable General Gogol of the KGB in six Bond films, Walter Gotell also appeared much earlier as Morzeny, in From Russia with Love. Gogol is often portrayed as an ally of Bond, who has to hold back extreme and dangerous elements in the USSR, and has a begrudging mutual respect for Bond, whereas Morzeny is a pure villain.
Charles Gray[]
Charles Gray is best known for his camp portrayal of Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever, but also played Dikko Henderson in You Only Live Twice. Along with Gotell, and Joe Don Baker, he is one of three major performers to play a villain and an ally.
Jack Gwillim[]
Jack Gwillim, who has a tiny role as a British army officer, in Casino Royale (1967), also played a Royal Navy officer in Thunderball.
Fred Haggerty[]
Fred Haggerty, who played Krilencu, appeared as a background character in Casino Royale (1967).
Burt Kwouk[]
Burt Kwouk was a prolific British-Chinese actor who cornered the market in East Asian characters in British made films. He turns up as Mr. Ling, an associate of Goldfinger's, Number Three in You Only Live Twice and a PLA general in Casino Royale.
Valerie Leon[]
Much like Burt Kwouk, Valerie Leon was notable for a large number of appearances in British films and TV commercials by the time of her Bond roles. She appears as a receptionist in The Spy Who Loved Me also as the Lady in the Bahamas who fishes up a Bond in Never Say Never Again
Albert Moses[]
Sri Lankan actor based in Britain who appeared as an Egyptian barman in The Spy Who Loved Me and Sadruddin - an undercover British agent in India - in Octopussy.
Caroline Munro[]
Caroline Munro is a notable Bond girl from the Eon series, as Naomi in The Spy Who Loved Me and also had a minor appearance in Casino Royale, including in some of its promotional art.
Lenny Rabin[]
Rabin appears in several different roles.
Nadja Regin[]
Nadja Regin played Bonita in Goldfinger and Ali Kerim Bey's girlfriend in From Russia With Love.
Milton Reid[]
Anglo-Indian actor Milton Reid plays one of Mata Bond's servants in Casino Royale, also plays Sandor.
Shane Rimmer[]
Shane Rimmer was a British-based Canadian actor who was often in demand to play American characters in films made there. He plays Tom in You Only Live Twice and Commander Carter in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).
Rimmer also voiced Hamilton in Live and Let Die.
Jeanne Roland[]
Anglo-Burmese actor Jeanne Roland plays a masseuse in You Only Live Twice, and is Captain of the Guards in Casino Royale (1967).
Nadim Sawalha[]
Nadim Sawalha is a British Jordanian actor who played Aziz Fekkesh in the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me and the Tangier police chief in The Living Daylights.
Angela Scoular[]
Angela Scoular is one of several people to have been a Bond girl in Casino Royale, and an Eon film. She played Buttercup McTarry in the former and Ruby Bartlett in OHMSS.
Vladek Sheybal[]
Vladek Sheybal was yet another expat actor who appeared in many British films, this time in Eastern European roles. He played the Auctioneer/Le Chiffre's Assistant in Casino Royale, and Kronsteen.
John Wells[]
John Wells was an English satirist and writer, who has a speaking role as Fordyce in Casino Royale, and a silent one as Denis Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher's husband.
Michael G. Wilson[]
Michael G. Wilson holds the record for appearances in Bond films as minor characters and background performers. The pictures above represent just a small selection of his roles.
Voice work/dubbing[]
Shane Rimmer also voiced Hamilton and can be found above.
Robert Rietty[]
Voice actor Robert Rietty overdubs Adolfo Celi playing Emilio Largo in Thunderball, as well as Tiger Tanaka in You Only Live Twice, John Strangways in Live and Let Die and also provides Blofeld's voice in For Your Eyes Only.
Nikki van der Zyl[]
Van der Zyl provided the voice dubbing for a number of actresses in various films. These include Honey Ryder and most of the female characters in Dr. No. Other films that she re-voices actresses include From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) (Re-voiced Virginia North and various other characters.), Diamonds are Forever (1971), Live and Let Die (1973) (Partly re-voiced Jane Seymour in some very short sections), The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) and Moonraker (1979).
Others[]
Graham Crowden[]
Scottish actor who plays the First Sea Lord in For Your Eyes Only and a couple of villain roles in scenes from Omnibus: The British Hero including Auric Goldfinger
Goldeneye: The Secret Life Of Ian Fleming[]
Charles Dance plays Claus in For Your Eyes Only and Ian Fleming, the main character in the 1989 GoldenEye (not Brosnan's one), which is based on the life of the same writer.
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Austrian actor Christolph Waltz may be best known for his take on Blofeld in the Daniel Craig films, but also had an early appearance as a German spy in the same film.
OK Connery[]
Miss Maxwell, Commander Cunningham and Connery in OK Connery
This film is best classified as "Bondsploitation" and was made by an Italian studio. Unlike the three non-Eon films which were licenced and based on Ian Fleming works, O.K. Connery can be classed as an attempt at a truly unofficial Bond fim.
Its "overlapping" actors can be neatly divided into two groups:
- Those who are unofficially reprising their Bond roles such as Bernard Lee ("Commander Cunningham") and Lois Maxwell ("Miss Maxwell"). These tend to be as well hinted at as the film can get away with.
- Those who are playing different roles, but also appeared in Bond films, these would include Daniela Bianchi, Adolfo Celi, Anthony Dawson and others.