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ABOVE: AN ECLECTIC
INTERNATIONAL CAST – (clockwise) Scottish-born actor Sean Connery
debuts as James Bond Secret Agent 007 in Dr. No;
Swiss actress Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder who was re-voiced by
Nikki van der Zyl; American actor Joseph Wiseman as Doctor Julius
No; Scottish-born character actor Anthony Dawson as Professor Dent;
American actor John Kitzmiller played Bond's Jamaican ally
Quarrel; Kenyan-born film and television actress Zena Marshall
played Miss Taro; American actor Jack Lord as Bond's CIA ally
Felix Leiter; and English actress Eunice Gayson who played Bond's
love interest Sylvia Trench - a role she reprised in From
Russia With Love (1963), although she was re-voiced by Nikki
van der Zyl in both films.
BELOW: LOCALLY CAST SUPPORTING PLAYERS - (L-R) English-born actor,
pilot and restaurateur Timothy Moxon was cast as John Strangways, the character who uttered the first dialogue in the
first James Bond film Dr. No (re-voiced by Robert Rietty
although neither were credited in the film), and also the first
character to die in the film series. Marguerite LeWars was a
Jamaican actress and beauty pageant titleholder - crowned Miss
Jamaica 1961 and represented her country at Miss Universe contest
in 1961. The character of the girl photographer appeared in the
Ian Fleming novel DR. NO as Annabel Chung, but was not named in
the film. Marguerite's brother-in-law Reginald Carter played the
chauffeur Mr. Jones in Dr. No (1962). His lines were
re-voiced back in London by Trinidad-born actor Frank Singuineau,
who also played Bond's Jamaican hotel waiter and mixes the first
vodka martini of the series - Shaken Not Stirred! Jamaican actor
Lester Prendergast played nightclub owner Puss-Feller and was also
re-voiced by Frank Singuineau. Prendergast is pictured with
Jamaican musician Byron Lee, who played lead guitar with his band
‘Byron Lee and the Dragonaires’, who appear in the film and on the
soundtrack album performing their hit ‘Jump Up’. |
