Empire UK

3

Crocodiles

stepped on by

James Bond in

Live And Let Die.

It was Roger

Moore’s idea

for croc-keeper

and stuntman

Ross Kananga

to wear crocodile-

skin shoes for

the stunt.

378

Characters killed by

Bond in all the offi cial

fi lms so far.

In order of

murderousness:

Pierce Brosnan 135

Roger Moore 90

Sean Connery 72

Daniel Craig 53

Timothy Dalton 23

George Lazenby 5

19

Times “Skyfall”

appears in the

song Skyfall.

This is the most

appearances of

the song title per

minute of any

Bond theme song.

23.5M

People who

watched Live

And Let Die

on its fi rst

TV broadcast

in 1980.

It remains the

most watched

broadcast of

any fi lm in UK

TV history.

47

Height in inches of

Hervé Villechaize

The Man With The

Golden Gun’s

Nick Nack.

When Sesame Street’s

Oscar The Grouch

sprouted legs from the

bottom of his trash

can it was Villechaize

inside the suit.

4750
Pounds paid for
Roger Moore’s
sage-green safari
shirt from The
Man With The
Golden Gun at
auction in 2014.

The driver who
performed the fi lm’s
famous corkscrew
jump had never
done it before.
He nailed it on
the fi rst take. 8 M

Copies sold

of GoldenEye

007 for the

Nintendo 64.

The fi rst Bond

video game was

1983’s James

Bond 007. There

have been 22

Bond video

games in total.

15

BMW 750iLs

destroyed during

the making

of Tomorrow

Never Dies.

At a cost of

$73000 each

that’s over a

million dollars’

worth of car-nage.

YOU KNOW THE NAME. NOW YOU

KNOW THE NUMBERS

ILLUSTRATION PETER STRAIN

WORDS NEIL ALCOCK

9

Longest time period

covered in a single

Bond fi lm in years.

GoldenEye’s pre-title

sequence occurs nine

years before the rest

of the fi lm placing it

in 1986 — awkwardly

smack in-between

Roger Moore’s and

Timothy Dalton’s

shifts as Bond.