It is believed that James Bond (Sean Connery) wears Cool-Ray Polaroid N135 sunglasses in the 1965 movie Thunderball.
James Bond wears the black Cool-Ray Polaroid N13 "styled by Cari Michell" sunglasses when he is at the beach in the Bahamas with Domino (Claudine Auger).
A new biography of actor Sean Connery was released by BearManor Media in September 2023.
Connery, Sean Connery – Before, During, and After His Most Famous Role is written by Herbie J. Pilato. The biography features a foreword by Barbara Carrera (Bond girl in Never Say Never Again) and an introduction by Richard Demarco (Connery’s lifelong friend).
Sean Connery as James Bond wears a blue striped camp collar shirt in the movie Thunderball (1965).
Bond wears the shirt in the Bahamas: when he flies for the first time in the helicopter with Felix Leiter in search for the Vulcan and in the next scene when he meets Emilio Largo at his Palmyra villa he wears the same shirt.
The office desk by Danish architect, furniture designer, professor and researcher Bodil Kjær for E. Pedersen & Søn was featured in several James Bond films.
Sean Connery as James Bond wears a grey three-piece Anthony Sinclair suit in the third James Bond film Goldfinger (1964).
The mid-grey, Glen Plaid, three-piece suit is one of the most famous suits in movie history and has continued to be Anthony Sinclair’s most requested design.
James Bond (Sean Connery) wears an Anthony Sinclair Barleycorn tweed hacking jacket with Cavalry Twill Trousers in Goldfinger (1964) during the famous car chase in the Swiss mountains.
On November 5th, 1962, James Bond made his first appearance on the silver screen in Dr. No wearing a midnight blue dinner suit by Anthony Sinclair. It was an image that came to define the character, and the suit looks as good today as it did 60 years ago.
007 The Armoury is a comprehensive compilation of firearms and other weapons used in the James Bond movies over the last 60 years, containing over 300 images, including many never before seen photographs.
This unofficial guide gives a high level of detail and information on each of the firearms seen in the Bond films.
Anthony Sinclair has recreated the cream suit suit worn by Sean Connery as James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever. Bond wears the suit in the Las Vegas scenes, together with a white shirt and pink neck tie.
In the 1967 movie You Only Live Twice, James Bond (Sean Connery) gets the book Instant Japanese by Masahiro Watanabe and Kei Nagashima from Moneypenny to brush up on his Japanese.
In the film, MI6 decides to fake Bond's death. On the British HMS Tenby war ship M tells James Bond about his new mission in Japan and Moneypenny gives him the final instructions.
Anthony Sinclair has recreated the grey mohair suit worn by Sean Connery as James Bond in the first 007 film Dr No (1962).
When Bond wears the suit, his friend and CIA agent Felix Leiter ask, "Where did you get measured for this, bud?", to which Bond replies, "My tailor, Savile Row".
James Bond (Sean Connery) plays the patience, or solitaire, card game with a deck of red Waddingtons Thomas De La Rue zodiac playing cards in the first James Bond movie Dr. No (1962).
Les Ambassadeurs Club was the fictional location of the first time we see James Bond in the film Dr. No (1962), and it was also the real location of the first meetings between Ian Fleming and Albert R. Broccoli in (summer 1959) and later with Harry Saltzman (December 1960). The club also features in The Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night (1964).
To celebrate the first iconic scene where we see James Bond (Sean Connery) in a Bond film, Factory Entertainment has released a limited edition prop replica Dr. No Casino Plaque Set.
In Thunderball (1965), James Bond (Sean Connery) wears a blue gingham shirt when he and Felix Leiter fly in a Bell 47J Ranger helicopter, looking for the Vulcan airplane.
James Bond wears the blue gingham shirt with the famous blue belted Jantzen shorts.
In Thunderball (1967), James Bond (Sean Connery) wears several great shirts, but the blue striped shirt is probably the most iconic.
James Bond wears the stripe shirt when he flies for the first time in the helicopter with Felix Leiter in search for the Vulcan. In the next scene when he meets Emilio Largo at his Palmyra villa he wears the same shirt.
As part of the 2020 007 Heritage Collection, Orlebar Brown has created this ivory polo shirt, but this one is based on a color adjusted promotional image from the beach scene in Dr No (1962).
One of the most stunning villas seen in a James Bond film is Elrod House in Palm Springs, which doubles as Willard Whyte's summer house in Diamonds Are Forever (1971).
A black leather G Plan 6250 armchair was used by villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, played by Donald Pleasence, in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967). Similar or the same model chairs can be seen in Goldfinger (1963).
When we think of martini, we usually think of the (vodka) martini cocktail that Bond consumes regularly. But the brand Martini, a vermouth, is also often seen in Bond films and mentioned in Bond novels, as part of the martini cocktail.
