Cameos in Bond Films - James Bond Easter Eggs

[@al_fletcher]

"Is something bothering you, James?" "Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm just beating up the same guy over and over again..."

[@harrihaffi2713]

Funny!

[@adamheywood113]

"You should go to the movies, tune out, relax, unwind for a bit. There's a new James Bond film out right now." "But doctor...."

[@gregrappa1797]

Charles Dance was the skiing hit man in For Your Eyes Only

[@kelleysauer1693]

The cameos by set staff and actors from previous films make the Bond movies more appealing. The continuity gives the movies a human element. Another example, though technically not a cameo, is that the daughter of Eunice Gayson (who in the first Bond movie is the woman in the casino to whom Connery said "Bond, James Bond", and who appears also in the second movie) is a casino player to whom Brosnan says "Bond, James Bond".

[@ov7235]

Gerard Butler also made an appearance in Tomorrow Never Dies as a sailor on board the Devonshire just before she was sunk

[@jonnybaynham1689]

As was Hugh Bonneville

[@andyrob3259]

In the weapon’s and radar room if my memory serves correct

[@CodeNameCheese_]

Same with the Nazi general from The Last Crusade

[@RJSRdg]

I always thought it a shame they didn't get Sean, George, Roger, Tim and Pierce to sit round one of the casino tables in Skyfall to mark the 50th anniversary, as it was always likley to be (and turned out to be) the last major anniversary when they would all be alive.

[@twrampage]

On the upside, it'd lend credence to the debunked 'Bond is a code name' theory. So a part of me is happy it didn't happen.

[@matthewguidera]

The originally wanted Sean Connery for the role of the caretaker of Skyfall. They dropped the idea as they thought it would be too distracting.

[@rus0004]

But not George Lazenby

[@flybeep1661]

I doubt very much by that time anyone would be able to have Sean Connery do anything, at that point he'd been in retirement for over a decade.

[@randr2141]

@@matthewguidera pretty sure Connery himself turned the offer down.

[@joshlawson5436]

Alfie Bass cameo's in Moonraker as the man coughing and throwing his cigarette away when he see's the coffin in the water xD

[@alanderson9711]

This has to be one of the most interesting vids on YT; its going to be a lot more fun rewatching these again-Thanks!

[@harrihaffi2713]

That’s some extremely high praise!? Big Bond fan I guess?

[@ohroonoko]

The car driver who has an extended fight scene with James Bond in You Only Live Twice was a famous pro wrestler, Peter Fanene Maivia. He is also Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s grandfather.

[@gmfam5424]

Yes I'm surprised he wasn't mentioned in this video.

[@The482075]

Ha, ha. I love it. Right at the end he says "Merry Christmas" then you see Bond with Nuclear Physicist Christmas Jones.

[@harrihaffi2713]

It did? Cleaver! Must have looked away andmissed it

[@Adarkane325xi]

Getting a line in a movie is a big deal for someone who isn’t an actor. The SAG rules are strict, if petty. A non-speaking part vs a speaking part is the difference of something like $50/day up to $2000/day. The more recent Star Trek shows are notorious for not giving speaking parts to extras. It’s why Riker or La Forge would ask Red Shirts questions and they’d just nod or shake their heads like mutes, lol.

[@ianhill4585]

Same with the "Soaps". Comical that the actors just nod ,or just walk off to do the" task".

[@1ChilledDude]

The late Shane Rimmer (RIP) who had also voiced Scott Tracy on the original Thunderbirds series, appeared on You Only Live Twice and The Spy Who Loved Me.

[@JuddKramer]

Vincent Wong appears three times throughout the films. First in Goldfinger as one of the Chinese soldiers at Fort Knox, then in Diamonds as the blackjack dealer, and finally in Spy Who Loved Me as one of Stromberg's soldiers on the Liparus.

[@JBond007]

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Turns out he pops up in Die Another Day too. A second cameos video is being worked on based on viewer comments, so will be sure to include this one.

[@TheKeesBoerMinistryChannel]

Wow, what a great video. I met both Peter Hunt and Martin Campbell, but had never noticed them!!! Cool. Great job!!!

[@davidjackson2524]

In the case of Dolph Lungren, it's more of a bit part in A View To A Kill. He was unknown then

[@GameMakerRob]

Yah from what I heard he was her bodyguard/boyfriend? She got him the part.

[@Horror1]

Charles Gray as Henderson in "You Only Live Twice" and then plays Blofeld in "Diamonds Are Forever". For even a more obscure one. Yaphet Koto who plays Mr. Big/Kanaga in "Live & Let Die". He also has a small cameo as a blackjack dealer who hands Tiffany Case the water balloon card.

[@Raybond007]

That's not Yaphet Kotto in Diamonds Are Forever.

[@dcthomas8959]

It's not him in Diamonds.

[@gmf121266]

Not him in Diamonds.....must admit there is a resemblance though.

[@svHannibal]

Charles Gray also gives the voice over at the pyramids in The Spy Who Loved Me.

[@scotia7326]

Sammy David Jr was in a deleted scene meant for Diamond Are Forever, where he’s seen playing poker and comments that Bond would look good on top of a wedding cake.

[@articleanteater]

Instead, we only see him in the magazine bond reads at his hotel

[@iainjames03]

Also Charles Dance (FYEO), David Harbour (QoS), Goldie (TWINE), Alfonso Cuaron (QoS), Gerard Butler (on the Devonshire in TND), Hugh Bonneville (also on the Devonshire in TND) and Joanna Lumley (OHMSS - especially notable since both her AND Diana Rigg played significant roles in British spy show The Avengers, as did Goldfinger's Honor Blackman). Ok some of these - like Minnie Driver - were early roles for people who have gone on to bigger things since. But if Minnie Driver can be included, surely they can too.

[@JBond007]

Working on a second cameo video, so I'll be sure to include these omissions. I was aware of them but my choices of who I included and who I didn't were a bit random in this video!

[@bobdehn42]

You missed Charles Dance, most recently seen as Tywin Lannister from Game of Thrones, as one of the henchmen who follow Bond up the ski jump in For Your Eyes Only.

[@JBond007]

Working on a follow up video which will have a focus on those who appeared before they were famous.

[@leonardoledesma6396]

In the party scene in Jamaica in the film "Dr. No", many of the crew members appear dancing, including location manager Chris Blackwell. And in the film "From Russia With Love", we see Jacqueline Saltzman (the wife of producer Harry Saltzman) as a lady looking out a window in the Orient Express when Bond and Tatiana Romanova are about to board. In the same movie, in the gypsy camp scene, director Terence Young stood in for Pedro Armendáriz, who was very ill at the time, in the shots from afar or when only Kerim Bey's back was shown. Finally, also in FRWL, there's a strong rumour that "the man with the cane" that stands beside the train when it does a sudden stop in the country was none other that Ian Fleming himself.

[@MrLidless]

The back of Ian Fleming at a train station in From Russia With Love is a pretty significant omission! And stuntmen appearing in more than one movie certainly redefines the word ‘cameo’.

[@JackArctic]

I love these videos, can you make more? They are keeping me sane during COVID.

[@PUARockstar]

Watching it exactly a year after. Merry Christmas!

[@TheHylianBatman]

It never occurred to me to look for repeating faces. I'll have to do that now, that's really neat.

[@ohroonoko]

One of the fighting gypsy girls in From Russia with Love (Zora, played by Martine Beswick), appears in Thunderball as Paula, Bond’s MI6 assistant who gets killed.

[@juanchotous1632]

John Glen himself delivers the prize at the end of the horse race in A View to a Kill.

[@jacobkilby]

I was told Hugh Bonneville was in TND, but haven't been able to spot him

[@Gg-zd8xz]

He's the aerial warfare officer in HMS Bedford (the british ship at the end shelling Carver's stealth ship). From 1:33 onwards /watch?v=zJ_-dIh6D3E

[@darthdmc]

There are a few familiar actors aboard that ship

[@alexhoughton5749]

Very interesting stuff, well done for your hard work.

[@mred5625]

Although not a cameo, I always thought it random how Joe Don Baker plays the bad guy in The Living Daylights (who is subsequently killed by Bond at the end of the film) and yet plays CIA agent Jack Wade in GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies, think that is often missed on recaps of Bond films.

[@Parknest]

Dame Judi Dench appears in No Time to Die in a painting. The china bulldog that survives the bombing of MI6 HQ intact in Skyfall (and is subsequently bequeathed to Bond in M's will) is also seen in NTTD.

[@cheekster777]

Another great video. 👍🏻 Thank you. 🙏

[@beru58]

At 0:54 Bond is performing a really stunning martial arts move: force your opponent to bend his knee. It's a killer move. If you can pull that through no follow up is needed.

[@scottneal6630]

As far as directors making cameos in their own pictures, there is a scene in Diamonds Are Forever where Bond and Tiffany Case are in a Las Vegas suite, and Felix Leiter opens a door to reveal "Hamilton" guarding the exit. I have always assumed it was the director of the film Guy Hamilton standing there.

[@NoosaHeads]

And a very Merry Christmas to you too.

[@holdenmcgroin9774]

Sammy Davis Jr made a cameo in Diamonds are Forever but his scene was cut. You can see him on the extra features in the dvd.

[@peterfranks6243]

The girl Connery dances with when chased in Thunderball turns up in Casino Royale at Paradise club

[@davidjackson2524]

Burt Kwouk (from the 60s Pink Panther films as Kato) appeared in You Only Live Twice as one of the bad guy's hq's technicians

[@MisterT50000]

David Jackson And Goldfinger

[@lenfoster1622]

He was also Mr Ling in Goldfinger

[@anthonylewis2080]

Gary Powell also doubled Brosnan in GoldenEye and T.W.I.N.E : in both movies, they both had scenes together. Along with Powell being the Stunt Co Ordinator in all 4 Craig Bond movies.

[@PaulVandersypen]

Late to the video, but for those in the comments saying that *Ian Fleming in **_From Russia With Love_* was missing a mention, that isn't Fleming. Sadly, Fleming never appeared in a 007 film. The man seen is a local shepherd, hired to keep the flock of animals safe from the train.

[@gatopreto-xq4dd]

Gerard Butler in Tomorrow Never Dies

[@IaMaPh1991]

Do what???

[@Micke12312]

Not a cameo. But its obvious ppl dont understand what a cameo means

[@HaveanOreshnik]

A soldier in goldeneye who gets shot in the runway scene was seen again in world is not enough

[@incredible1519]

The son of Richard Kiel (Jaws) Is seen on the beach when the lotus rides out of the water In the spy who loved me (he is pointing his finger to the car) Sorry for bad english I am Dutch.

[@incredible1519]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmO9k6yce7p1mpI

[@incredible1519]

At 0:16

[@RW__-oi8nr]

Incredible15 Your English is perfect

[@gatopreto-xq4dd]

Don`t be sorry, all that matters is the message

[@paulnolan4971]

Your English is perfect

[@KlausSgroi]

I don't consider some of these as cameos, but rather regular (and paid) casting. Anyway, a great video. Some of them I simply had no idea.

[@gmf121266]

Charles Dance as a heavy in For your eyes only.

[@Skraboing649]

I thought you might mention that stuntman Gary Powell is the son of Freddie "Nosher" Powell, himself a veteran of 14 bond films. Nonetheless, great work, thanks. Subbed on the basis of this video alone 😀

[@JBond007]

Thanks for the info! That's the trouble with Bond film cast and crew, it's such a family unit they created. Delving deeper, there always seem to be new links forming!

[@TheSmokingDen]

Ian Fleming in FRWL. You need that one.

[@KlausSgroi]

That is a fake one. Unfortunately, Fleming did not make any appearance in a Bond film.

[@matthewcoupeofficial]

He stands track side during the time bond escapes on the sleeper train

[@metalzonemt-2]

Richard Kiel's son was in The Spy Who Loved Me, on the beach when the Lotus came out of the ocean..

[@MrEab2010]

the most famous cameo of all - Sammy Davis Jr.'s appearance in the casino with Burt Saxby in Diamonds Are Forever - was cut from the final movie. You can still see the scene on KZbin if you do a search.

[@Taranau]

The actor who played Franz Hergescheimer, was also a naval officer in a different Bond movie. And Commander Straker on UFO.

[@andyford3179]

Glenn foster is one of gettlers henchmen killed by bond in casino royale

[@paulthomas3247]

Philip Kwok ("Lizard" from the Five Deadly Venoms, and Mad Dog in Hard Boiled) gets a short cameo in Tomorrow Never Dies. Surely they planned to do more with him but cut it.

[@nigelmurphy6761]

Maud Adams cameo in AWTAK was apparently in the resturant scene in the Effiel Tower.

[@Trek001]

She was also on Fisherman's Wharf - purely by a slight stroke of luck

[@rickleemusic1]

Up for debate. In the KZbin video “Interview with Roger Moore on the set of View to a Kill” you can clearly see Maud at 2:50 in a black pant suit and white blouse visiting the set in San Francisco. But in the “James Bond Cameos” video the woman who is supposed to be Maud is in a Tan jacket and black blouse and pants and is obviously NOT Maud. I submit that if there was footage of Maud in SF, it was cut from the film before theatrical release.

[@BenDover-qu9jn]

The submarine captain in The Spy Who Loved Me is seen in For Your Eye's Only as one of Locque's men in the warehouse raid scene.

[@markaaron9957]

Where can I find a list of the countless times an actor has played more than one role in the series? Excluding stunt men or technical crew. Two examples which are peculiarly prominent are Maud Adams and Joe Don Baker.

[@1ChilledDude]

The late Shane Rimmer who also voiced Scott Tracy on the original Thunderbirds series, appeared on You Only Live Twice and The Spy Who Loved Me.

[@Fifury161]

Charles Gray - he played arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever & Bond's ally in You Only Live Twice

[@Fifury161]

Walter Gotell as General Anatol Gogol (The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy and Living Daylights) & as Morzeny (From Russia With Love).

[@Omnishambles94]

One of the stuntmen in the opening beach fight in OHMSS is the same stuntman who Connery subdues in the mud bath in DAF.

[@theyellowlightsaber3193]

You forgot Charles Dance who plays one of Julian Glover's goons in For Your Eyes Only.

[@tiadaid]

The Branson cameo was hilariously cut out from the version shown onboard British Airways flights. There was a bit of bad blood between BA and Branson...

[@tracyyy99]

Ha Ha bet they never cut out Bransons Virgin 747 jumbo..hilarious right enough, i'm surprised they even showed the film.

[@shooterqqqq]

I don't know how to spell her name but it's something like Varushka. She was a super model from the 1960's. She's playing Texas Holdem in "Casino Royal". Her and her family were imprisoned in a concentration camp by the Nazis because of the assassination plot against Hitler.

[@colindorrans9495]

Enjoyed that.

[@robvegas9354]

Shane Rimmer as the submarine captain in TSWLM. Pretty sure he was Scott Tracey in Thunderbirds and many more

[@joesoul2472]

he also had appearances in You Only Live Twice and Diamonds are Forever

[@iainjames03]

Interesting not to mention Burt Kwouk - best known as Cato from the Pink Panther movies - who had small parts in a couple of Bond films. Also, while it's debatable whether stunt men in on-screen roles count as cameos, you missed out Glenn Foster's brief appearance as a henchman in Venice at the end of Casino Royale.

[@JBond007]

Thanks for the heads up on Glenn Foster appearing in CR. I'm working on a follow up to this video which will include the omissions from this one.

[@iainjames03]

@@JBond007 I actually met Glenn once. He was going out with a friend of my older sister and they were round visiting her and my parents the Christmas after QoS came out. So Mitchell was just randomly sitting there on my parent's sofa 🤷‍♂️

[@dogstar75]

George leech's daughter Wendy was the stuntwoman doubling for michelle yeoh for the motorcycle jump over the helicopter in TND and Wendys daughter Nina was in the fencing scene in Die Another Day

[@Rhubba]

...and an honourable mention for what people think is a cameo but isn't. For years some sharp eyed viewers thought that a man standing by the railway tracks in Turkey watching the Orient Express go by in From Russia With Love is Ian Fleming. Despite a photo of Fleming on the set wearing a similar outfit to the man in the film, it isn't him.

[@aaronamos4503]

Have you found Gerard Butler!??? He's somewhere in "Tomorrow Never Dies".

[@jbraxton3065]

Stana Katic at the end of Quantum of Solace. She has only one line, "Thank you." A year later she plays Kate Beckett on "Castle".

[@michaelirwin7250]

Haha right from the start Minnie Driver, is given the role of a bad singer, that seems to be a recurring theme with her casting which is pretty hilarious.

[@jerrykochjr]

You missed a couple out of "From Russia with Love": In the final scene, when a tourist woman is filming Bond and Tania with a home movie camera from a bridge over a Venice canal, it is supposed to be Cubby Broccoli's wife. In the scene where the Orient Express fails to stop at a railroad crossing where one of Kerim's sons is waiting with a car, there is an old man standing by the tracks - who is supposed to be Ian Flemming, himself! Also, this might not technically be a cameo - but one of Dr. No's guards (the bald guy in the dining room scene) is the same guy that Bond throws off an Egyptian roof in "The Spy Who Loved Me".

[@PaulVandersypen]

I'm not sure about the others, but the old man standing by the tracks has been disproven to be Ian Fleming. He is a local shepherd doing his job and keeping his flock off the tracks.

[@christiantava442]

The Japanese man who works for Goldfinger at the foundry is the same actor who will play Kato in the Pink Panther movie saga with Peter Sellers

[@MrEab2010]

Burt Kwok actually played the North Korean nuclear scientist Mr. Lyng. He was also the man who announced the missile launches in the volcano in YOLT.

[@Dremeli]

Alf Joint was also a stuntman for Richard Burton in "Where Eagles Dare" from 1968. He lost some teeth on that one.

[@MisterT50000]

The Richard Branson cameo reminds me of his cameo in Only Fools and Horses.

[@Raybond007]

Branson's son is in the same scene.

[@RJSRdg]

Also appeared in Friends.

[@luvhart]

Former Miss World Mary Stavin was one of Octopussy’s crew and returned for A View To A Kill in the pre title sequence. Also, Joanna Lumley had a tiny role in OHMSS

[@OlympicLeprechaun]

Got one that you missed. In For Your Eyes Only one of the hit men stalking Bond up the ski jump and then skiing down with him was an early role for Charles Dance.

[@harrihaffi2713]

Who is Charles Dance?

[@OlympicLeprechaun]

@@harrihaffi2713 Tywin Lannister from Game of Thrones.

[@harrihaffi2713]

@@OlympicLeprechaun oh! Never watched that show.

[@1ChilledDude]

@@harrihaffi2713 Also played the villain Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child.

[@harrihaffi2713]

@@1ChilledDude Never seen the golden child.

[@munichbier1167]

I think it’s Michael G Wilson sitting in the hotel lobby reading a paper in Quantum of Solace as Bind leaves after fighting and killing Slate

[@kelleysauer1693]

Perhaps Maude Adams is both the woman on the street car and the one walking down the street. I liked the idea that Roger Moore's daughter got to be in one of Brosnan's movies.

[@lanceash]

The scene in "For Your Eyes Only" where Bond goes to the ski chalet place and he's standing on the balcony or whatever it is in that crowd of people, Mick Jagger walks by in front of him. As far as I know, only one other person online besides me has noticed this. Can anyone else out there confirm that you've seen it?

[@igorflexus9493]

It is Ken Adam we can see in Venice, together with Cubby and Dana Broccoli (And one I don`t know who is) -Adam said this him self.

[@gmf121266]

Actor, Marc Lawrence, plays a hitman/gangster character in Diamonds are Forever and The Man with the Golden Gun.

[@willblack5419]

Awesome!

[@Desertduleler_88]

Very good, well spotted...

[@declangill5138]

It's rumoured Ian Fleming cameoed in From Russia with Love as a Man beside the train

[@gmf121266]

Actor Stanley Baker's son, Glyn Baker, plays one of the skydiving 00 agents in the opening sequence of The Living daylights.

[@rocistone6570]

Talk about cameos for any length of time and you've got to deal with what might be the greatest (and most sneaky) shot of them all. What do you think? Is *Ian Fleming* standing alongside some train tracks in "From Russia with Love."? (1:16:04)

[@AstonishingSodApe]

I came here just for Minnie Driver. God, she looks stunning. Those lips.

[@tomashize]

Charles Dance is a henchman in For Your Eyes Over and Gérard Butler is a Royal Navy sailor in Tomorrow Never Dies

[@leestacey970]

A good one from Casino Royale is the big black guy at the poker table .Hes the same guy that played Tyrone in Snatch.

[@andrewphillips9391]

"He's done a rally driving course"

[@FrancisMarcosGaming]

was that really him?

[@mackertheman]

Stuntman doing stunts in scene, really isn’t a cameo.

[@armandovalmont9762]

indeed the guy who made this video doesn't seem to know what a cameo actually is. Also the "drunk Italian guy" isn't a cameo, it's just a recurring role.

[@mackertheman]

@@armandovalmont9762 I agree, although I thought if I pulled up everything he mistook as a cameo I would’ve sounded over harsh. I also feel the same way when people mix up Easter eggs and world building. For example mentioning that Deadpool is set in the same universe as X-Men isn’t an Easter egg. But then I have to get off my high horse and just enjoy it for what it is. Despite his definition of cameo being anyone who appears in a film it was quite nice spot in the stuntman in different movies or scenes etc. he probably just should have called the video something else.

[@genisisarc]

Of course they are cameos. Stunt men usually do stunts for leading actors. But in these cases, they get a part in the films as their own characters

[@mackertheman]

@@genisisarc Stunt men often play henchman and similar because they get beaten up in films and they need someone Who knows how to fall on their arse, get thrown through windows and pushed off buildings etc. It’s still not a cameo.

[@harrihaffi2713]

True! Stunts are way harder and deserve greater credit

[@tracyyy99]

George Sweeney..uncredited in For Your Eyes Only (helicopter pilot in the opening sequence).

[@theliterary0078]

Great video!

[@treystephens4490]

I saw Goodwill throw a whole box of 007 VHS away with no remorse. Boxes.

[@davidjackson2524]

There was a few films where there's a brief/cameo appearance of an ex Miss World playing General Gogol's secretary.

[@Denis.-1]

What about vejay Singh the tennis player in octopussy

[@LeeBottomley]

I’ll m led to believe that Richard Kiel’s son appeared in TSWLM. He was playing on the beach when Roger Moore drove the lotus esprit out of the water onto the beach. .

[@scottl.1568]

Awesome...

[@aapo616]

James Bond is the greatest

[@BrettSirrell]

You missed the professional Dan Craig bond lookalike who appears as a guard in one of his films

[@JBond007]

Great spot! I always thought he looked a lot like Daniel Craig, I had no idea he was a lookalike. I'll include this in the follow up video.

[@BrettSirrell]

@@JBond007 here is the link. Steve is the guard on the right at the endkzbin.info/www/bejne/hYWwmYh9etKMmbc I think you should also mention Dan Craig cameo in star wars as a storm trooper .

[@Paul91-]

You forgot Gerard Butler in Tomorrow Never Dies and the actor who plays Edmure Tully in Game of Thrones as M's male secretary in Casino Royale. Other than that good work.

[@plissken2156]

Don't forget Jeremy Bulloch (aka Boba Fett from the Star Wars franchise). He played one of The Ranger's crewmen at the start of 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me and then played Q's test lab assistant, Smithers in 1981's For Your Eyes Only and 1983's Octopussy.

[@arthurs.9143]

For those who enjoyed Indiana Jones, the admiral in the HMS Bedford is the german colonel which ends up after falling from a cliff in a tank in The Last Crusade.

[@clonecommanderfoggy682]

Michael Byrne

[@cohenmd1]

Diane Hartford appeared in both Thunderball and Casino Royale.

[@countryboyblue21]

As Christmas Jones would have said "ohhh was that a Christmas joke???"

[@dinny1275]

Gerald Butler was in Tomorrow Never Dies