Present answer: James Bond is somewhere between 51 and 52 years old.
That was the age of the latest in a line of actors when he played the fictional Agent 007 on-screen, at the time of filming in 2019.*
Category: Elements
It can be difficult to separate history from myth in nailing down the particulars of the James Bond icon. There’s also an element of timing when considering first-hand research versus relying on the initiatives of others.
Playboy magazine is an invaluable resource when it comes to the James Bond legacy. At once, it captures snapshots in context, and provides that to researches for the most part, as said.
Citing research from the journal Sex Roles (May 28, 2009), PTI – The Press Trust of India Ltd. (June 8, 2009) provides the following rundown on Bond girls from the first 20 Eon Productions 007 films.
- 98 women were identified as having had “sexual contact” with James Bond
- 97 did not
- 27% were blond
- 40% had black hair
- 19% had brown hair
- 9% were readheads
- “The 18 per cent of women who had long hair were more likely to end up in a sexual situation with 007 than the 22 per cent who had short hair.”
- “Only a quarter of the women in the films had an American accent, but those that did were more likely to have a sexual relationship with the British spy than the 43 per cent who had a European accent.”
Continuing with the Kingsley Amis
Bond-girl has athletic and other abilities, can swim and dive, wields a rifle or a bow and arrow, sets about rescuing herself from danger without waiting for Bond’s help, a couple of times (in the persons of Tiffany Case
and Kissy Suzuki
) gets him away to safety when he’s in no state to move unaided. If this is a dream-girl, she deserves more respect than harem types or gossip-column international-set types, one or the other of which has supplied almost every secret agent … with his lady associates. Bond doesn’t happen to like girls who are ‘in any way public property.’ Good for him.
and Kissy Suzuki
) gets him away to safety when he’s in no state to move unaided. If this is a dream-girl, she deserves more respect than harem types or gossip-column international-set types, one or the other of which has supplied almost every secret agent … with his lady associates. Bond doesn’t happen to like girls who are ‘in any way public property.’ Good for him.Kingsley Amis
Blame this one (too) on Ian Fleming, advised Kingsley Amis
He evolved something approaching a formula for the presentation of Bond’s fair quarry. Its most noticeable feature is that, so to speak, the given girl appears in the first place … she is going to turn up. This is a convention, and as usual with conventions there’s not much use arguing with people who dislike it. Either you smile appreciatively and nudge your neighbor and lean forward when — say — the saloon goes quiet as new marshal and badman confront each other, or you groan and swear. If the second, you don’t like Westerns, and perhaps would be best advised to avoid them.
© 2009 Dell Deaton, All Rights Reserved. USA
The question of “shaken,” rather than “stirred,” is one commonly debated among James Bond fans.