Here are a few thousand words on James Bond. All of them are correct. If you want to skip to the correct-est part of the piece, though, here it is.

Two invaluable lists:

#1 – All actors who played James Bond, ranked.

1. Daniel Craig
2. Sean Connery (including Diamonds Are Forever but excluding Never Say Never)
3. Roger Moore (up until For Your Eyes Only)
4. Pierce Brosnan
5. George Lazenby
6. The guy who played James Bond on TV in 1954
7. Roger Moore (post For Your Eyes Only)
8. Actors who turned down the opportunity to play Bond (this supposedly includes Richard Burton, James Mason, Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Liam Neeson, and many others.)
9. Actors who auditioned to play James Bond that we’ve never heard of
10. Timothy Dalton

#2 – List of actors who should play James Bond, ranked:

1. Tom Hardy
2. Idris Elba
3. Tom Hiddleston
4. Michael Fasssbender
5. Dominic West
6. Unknown
7. Dougray Scott
8. Damian Lewis
9. David Oyelowo
10. Timothy Dalton
11. Henry Cavill