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Article: Ian Fleming's secret mission was to coax our Richard Burton into playing hero James Bond.(News)
- Article from:
- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- August 30, 2006
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Byline: By SAM BURSON AND KAREN PRICE Western Mail
The name's Burton - Richard Burton. He hardly needs a catchphrase, but one suspects the Welsh actor would have carried that one off rather well. And it seems James Bond author Ian Fleming - one of Burton's favourite authors - also thought so. It has been discovered the writer of 007's original adventures was keen for the Pontrhydyfen actor to play the iconic secret agent role. As everybody knows, the role eventually went to Sean Connery, right, who founded an illustrious career on the womanising spy character. But ...
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