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Barry Nelson (born Robert Haakon Nielsen; April 16, 1917 – April 7, 2007) was an American actor, noted as the first actor to portray Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond.
Barry Nelson plays the first ever James Bond on TV in this adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel. He faces Peter Lorre as the villain Le Chiffre in a game of Baccarat.
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An episode of the American dramatic anthology series Climax!, the show was the first screen adaptation of a James Bond novel, and stars Barry Nelson, Peter Lorre, and Linda Christian. Though this marks the first onscreen appearance of the secret agent, Nelson's Bond is played as an American spy working for the "Combined Intelligence Agency".
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Jul 29, 2020 · Barry Nelson was a prolific performer in both film and TV, but he's best remembered for playing Overlook manager Ullman in The Shining. He was cast as the character in Climax's take on Casino Royale, which reimagined the spy as Jimmy Bond, an American agent. Screen legend Peter Lorre (M) also played Le Chiffre in the Climax!
Barry Nelson (April 16, 1917 – April 7, 2007) was an American, noted as the first actor to portray Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond. Nelson was born Robert Haakon Nielsen in San Francisco, California, of Norwegian ancestry, the son of Betsy (nee Christophsen) and Trygve Nielsen.
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He was the first person to play "James Bond" in a visual sense (others have played him on radio); he appeared as "Card Sense Jimmy Bond" in an American TV adaptation of "Casino Royale" on the TV series Climax! (1954).
Contrary to popular belief, the honour of being the first actor to play James Bond fell not on Sean Connery, but on American Barry Nelson, who starred in a live one-hour production of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale.
