Classic Bond Forum

Some time ago, this website produced an article called The Men Who Could Have Been Bond, a self-explanatory piece all about the actors who were linked to the role of James Bond but, for some reason or other, never got to don the tuxedo and order a vodka martini in front of the camera. Such exercises, as fun as they are and as hard as they try, can never entirely be comprehensive because there are bound to be many meetings and conversations with or about actors that remained private. We all know that, for example, James Brolin was in the running to be James Bond because we've seen test footage of him as 007 but there are many actors who have been looked at or spoken to by Bond producers over the years in a more surreptitious way. I was recently lucky enough to discover a 'Bond that might have been' I wasn't previously aware of myself when I had the pleasure of speaking to Guy Peters. Guy was a stage actor with some television experience and in the early seventies came to the attention of a casting agent who knew the James Bond role was going to be up for grabs again after the departure of George Lazenby.