It's difficult to pick a fave JB, since all the actors seemed to get different aspects of him right. Timothy Dalton is probably the closest to the way Ian Fleming wrote him-I have had problems getting old copies of JB stories, but the film JB and the book JB are not exactly the same. Bond is a ladies man in the books, but Connery's JB was not above forcing the female characters into sexual situations, and Moore seemed to behave as though is was inevitable the female would fall into bed (and she did.) Dalton was playing Bond when AIDS was first running rampant, his character seemed to at least wait until the female character showed she was interested, and he was never shown actually in bed with a woman- on a bed, but not in bed-Brosnan is somewhere in between Connery's and Moore's portrayal of Bond when it comes to women, and Lazenby is more like Moore, but he did get to fall in love. Most people don't like Lazenby, but he did play the character like the book. He had. what I thought, was a really corny, unsophicated line in Her Majesty's Secret Service, where he told his love interest, "I'll never find another girl like you." I was shocked to find that the line was, verbatim, from the book.
Connery and Brosnan are the coldest Bonds- I actually think that Brosnan is, as there were a couple of Connery movies where he actually did show some sadness at some colleague's death. Obviously a spy would have to be capable of being cold blooded, and I think Moore and Dalton showed their Bonds were capable of that, but they weren't a cold fish all the time.
I guess Dalton's my favorite, then Moore. I always liked Pierce Brosnan, and I felt sorry for him when he lost part the first time. When Dalton got the part he did an interview in a mag where he indicated sympathy for Brosnan for having lost the part, but Brosnan was actually quite tacky when he took the role over from Dalton, saying how bad his movies were, etc, so I have been disappointed in him and have not been able to
really like him in the role. I like this last one of his the best, and his second one. I appreciate Connery more, but he's not my fave one 👀