The first Casino Royale was an episode of the US TV series Climax! It starred Barry Nelson as CIA agent Jimmy Bond.
In the 1967 film Casino Royale, David Niven played James Bond.
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James Bond fell in love with Vesper Lynd who is played by Eve Green in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale.
The first actor to play James Bond was Leon Burton in a TV version of "Casino Royale" released in 1954. In that version Bond was an American CIA agent, not a British spy.Cos Leon Burton is hard
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In 1954, Barry Nelson was technically the first James Bond, playing him in a one hour television episode of Climax!. Fleming's story was changed to make Bond American, thus he was called 'Jimmy Bond'. Sean Connery was the first James Bond in the official film series (which are made by Bond license holders EoN productions and MGM Studios (more recently Columbia Pictures)). The first Bond film was Dr No.