From exploding tinned food to covert assaults and code-breaking schemes, Ian Fleming’s real-life wartime exploits were just ...

When the Bonds went to leave several hours later, Fleming gave them a newly minted first edition of You Only Live Twice and inscribed it boldly on the fly page: “To the real James Bond from the ...

While the James Bond we've seen in the movies is a figment of Hollywood imagination, the character as he was originally imagined by author Ian Fleming is much more grounded in reality. Here's the ...

Despite his confessions of lifting Bond's name outright, this did not mean that Ian Fleming slighted the real James Bond. The author maintained a connection with the ornithologist and his wife.

With the advent of latest James Bond movie (“Skyfall’’) this week, and with 007 celebrating his silver-screen silver anniversary, the British spy with nerves of steel and box-office loads of ...

Editor's note: October 5 marks the 50th anniversary of the first James Bond movie, "Dr. No." When I was an MI6 officer, I operated deep cover in hostile territories and had numerous aliases. Each ...

In “The Other Fellow,” real people named James Bond reveal the blessing and curse of the 007 moniker Filmmaker Matthew Bauer says sharing the name of the famous spy comes with "this idea of a ...

In his film "Our Man Is Bond", director Matthew Bauer explores how being called James Bond in real life can be both a curse and a blessing. Jamie Touché/The Other Fellow Ltd/Journeyman Pictures/dpa.

Bond, we are told in the scene, is an orphan from middle-class parents whose education was paid for by the kindness of others. He has "a chip on his shoulder" due to his lack of means. Oh, and he ...

James Bond found the man who stole his identity at his island lair. On February 5, 1964 he went in for the kill. “I don’t read your books,” Bond told Ian Fleming.