Who is the tallest and shortest Bond?

ID · Post by ID » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:17 pm

Anyone know the height of each Bond actor?

Post by **Dr. No** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:56 pm

Connery was 6 feet 1 1/2inches
I think Lazenby was 6 ft 2 inches, (6ft 2 1/2 ?)

Post by **The Sweeney** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:30 am

I think Craig is 5,11-ish, or just under 6ft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Craig

http://www.celebritywonder.com/html/danielcraig.html

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/ ... _biog.html

BondFan007 · Post by **BondFan007** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:57 pm

Craig isn't, as stated on the main part of this site, short. He is taller than average. He's an inch of 6', not short by any standards.

Post by **James** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:35 pm

Pierce Brosnan and Roger Moore have both been listed at 6'1 although I think Moore might be a bit taller. Dalton is 6 foot. Don't know about Craig. The 5'11 looks a tad generous because he did look a bit of a shortarse in the crowd scenes in CR and he looked very small indeed acting with the 6'2 David Morrissey in a previous film.

Post by **Dr. No** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:40 pm

couple of places have Dc’s bare foot height as 5’10.

A lot of compromises were made to make DC Bond height is only part of it. I would have preferred an actor who looks like Bond short or not.

Harvey Wallbanger · Post by **Harvey Wallbanger** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:24 am

This should help

Post by **The Sweeney** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:48 am

Having seen Hot Fuzz the other night, I never realised how tall Dalton was until seeing him in this. For some reason I never thought him that tall in the Bond movies.

Looks like he and Lazenby werer the tallest, and Craig is the shortest, but all near the 6ft mark from either side, which was supposed to be the height of Bond from the novels.

If anything, this proves Brosnan and Craig were the closest in casting then.....

Harvey Wallbanger · Post by **Harvey Wallbanger** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:57 am

How tall did Fleming say Bond was?
I remember there was a difference from what the movies did and what he wrote.

Post by **The Sweeney** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:38 pm

Harvey Wallbanger wrote:How tall did Fleming say Bond was?
I remember there was a difference from what the movies did and what he wrote.

6ft, making Craig and Brosnan the closest to it in height.

Harvey Wallbanger · Post by **Harvey Wallbanger** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:59 am

The Sweeney wrote:
Harvey Wallbanger wrote:How tall did Fleming say Bond was?
I remember there was a difference from what the movies did and what he wrote.
6ft, making Craig and Brosnan the closest to it in height.

Thanks!

Post by **carl stromberg** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:49 am

I think Craig is the shortest to play Bond isn't he?

Captain Nash · Post by **Captain Nash** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:58 am

5'11"
So yes to date he is the shortest to play Bond.
But that's not something I would hold against him as being unsuitable to play Bond.

Post by **The Sweeney** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 8:46 pm

carl stromberg wrote:I think Craig is the shortest to play Bond isn't he?

Certainly is!

An inch short of the novel Bond, but closer in height than Dalton, Lazenby, Connery or Moore.....

Sun Apr 08, 2007 8:37 pm

I believe that Daniel Craig is the shortest man to play Bond. I think Cubby Broccoli would have rejected him because of his height.

Post by **The Sweeney** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 9:00 pm

Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry wrote:I believe that Daniel Craig is the shortest man to play Bond. I think Cubby Broccoli would have rejected him because of his height.

No believe about it. Daniel Craig IS the shortest man to play Bond.

Regarding your second comment, we will sadly never know......but Cubby's daughter may disagree with you on that, and I would take her word over yours any day on what her father liked/prefered.

Mon Apr 09, 2007 12:09 pm

Regarding your second comment, we will sadly never know......but Cubby's daughter may disagree with you on that, and I would take her word over yours any day on what her father liked/prefered.

Cubby Broccoli chose Timothy Dalton, George Lazenby, Pierce Brosnan, was obsessed with Michael Billington (Barbara's babysitter I beleive) - all tall handsome men with black hair. Barbara Broccoli on the other hand wanted Sean Bean (who I would have liked as Bond admittedly) then chose Daniel Craig, both quite short and rough looking. I thnk that their views on the ideal James Bond differed and Cubby would not have shared Barbara's ideas.

Post by **The Sweeney** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 1:58 pm

Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry wrote:
Regarding your second comment, we will sadly never know......but Cubby's daughter may disagree with you on that, and I would take her word over yours any day on what her father liked/prefered.
Cubby Broccoli chose Timothy Dalton, George Lazenby, Pierce Brosnan, was obsessed with Michael Billington (Barbara's babysitter I beleive) - all tall handsome men with black hair. Barbara Broccoli on the other hand wanted Sean Bean (who I would have liked as Bond admittedly) then chose Daniel Craig, both quite short and rough looking. I thnk that their views on the ideal James Bond differed and Cubby would not have shared Barbara's ideas.

Like I said before, sadly we'll never know.....

Captain Nash · Post by **Captain Nash** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 3:28 pm

Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry wrote:
Regarding your second comment, we will sadly never know......but Cubby's daughter may disagree with you on that, and I would take her word over yours any day on what her father liked/prefered.
Cubby Broccoli chose Timothy Dalton, George Lazenby, Pierce Brosnan, was obsessed with Michael Billington (Barbara's babysitter I beleive) - all tall handsome men with black hair. Barbara Broccoli on the other hand wanted Sean Bean (who I would have liked as Bond admittedly) then chose Daniel Craig, both quite short and rough looking. I thnk that their views on the ideal James Bond differed and Cubby would not have shared Barbara's ideas.

Of course Cubby reportedly offered Mel Gibson $10 million to appear in The Living Daylights.
Gibson is 5'10", 1 inch shorter than Daniel Craig.
And on the opposite scale back in the early seventies, John Gavin was signed to play Bond in Diamonds Are Forever.
Gavin measuring a massive 6'4". He would've looked rather tall next to co-star Jill St.John (5'6") nearly a foot shorter than he.
The fact of the matter is, that only fans that obsess over the height of the actor playing Bond care. The general audience couldn't care less.

adam · Post by **adam** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:56 am

The Sweeney wrote:
Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry wrote:I believe that Daniel Craig is the shortest man to play Bond. I think Cubby Broccoli would have rejected him because of his height.
No believe about it. Daniel Craig IS the shortest man to play Bond.

Regarding your second comment, we will sadly never know......but Cubby's daughter may disagree with you on that, and I would take her word over yours any day on what her father liked/prefered.

Officially Craig is 5.11. However i've seen him in other films and he looks shorter, 5.10 or even 5.9. The other problem is he has a naturally small body frame. His natural body weight is probably only about 11 stone. He bulked up to the max in CR. Any bigger & he would be too rigid to throw a punch, let alone run around building sites. However unlike the taller, naturally bigger Bonds, he does'nt fill the screen or have a presence. This was illustrated when he shoke hands with Le Chiffe who towered over him. This together with his ugly looks & lack of charm makes it hard to see what a Bond babe would see in him. Any women on the site care to tell me !