Archived from the original on 12 October 2021. Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. 'License to Copyright – The Ongoing Dispute Over the Ownership of James Bond'. No (1962) to Desmond Llewelyn in From Russia with Love (1963). There is only one clear case of a single M, Q, or Moneypenny character switching actor: when Q, Major Boothroyd, switches from Peter Burton in Dr. Such change was explicit for M in GoldenEye (1995), with Judi Dench's character referred to as a newcomer, and in Skyfall (2012), as Ralph Fiennes' character Gareth Mallory replaces Dench's character as M it was explicit for Q in Die Another Day (2002), as John Cleese's character replaces Desmond Llewelyn's Q after being his apprentice in The World Is Not Enough (1999). As these are MI6 posts, not character names, some of the actor changes reflect an in-universe replacement. Several supporting characters that have appeared many times in the series, such as M, Q, and Miss Moneypenny, played by different actors across the twenty-seven films. Bond has been portrayed in these films by six actors: Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig. There have been twenty-five films in total released between 19 and produced by Eon Productions, which now holds the adaptation rights to all of Fleming's Bond novels. The James Bond film series is a British series of spy films based on the fictional character of MI6 agent James Bond, '007', who originally appeared in a series of books by Ian Fleming.

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