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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.
Casino Royale: Directed by William H. Brown Jr.. With Barry Nelson, Peter Lorre, Linda Christian, William Lundigan. American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss Le Chiffre while monitoring his actions.
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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.
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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Barry Nelson, the first actor to play James Bond onscreen in the 1954 production of Casino Royale, has died aged 89.... Barry Nelson, an MGM contract player during the 1940s who later had a prolific theater career and was the first actor to play James Bond on screen, has died.
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).
