James Bond is creation of Ian Fleming, a writer-spy who used his experiences in the intelligence services of the British navy to project them into a fictional character of 1.83 meters in height, 76 kilos of weight, a scar on the right shoulder and predilection for women beautiful and sophisticated weapons.

Fleming was born on May 28, 1908, and says he took as a model of the physical Hoagy Carmichael, an American composer. It also runs the rumor that the wanderings of agent 007 are based on the life of Fitzroy Maclean, a former special forces soldier British spy and patriot who was a friend of his.

Other sources claim that after Bond's personality hid Wilfred Dunderdale, a Scotsman who became a hero for Fleming, the Scottish operator Glen Alexander, who had worked with the writer in the Royal Navy and Michael Mason, who was British attribute in the spectacular feats against espionage.

Taking into account that the real James Bond was an ornithologist who knew Fleming in his mansion Jamaican Goldeneye 007 and that the figure could be inspired by the number of bus leading the writer to one of their favorite pubs, the letters are castings: like all myths, James Bond already belongs to the territory of the supposition, speculation and mystery.

The truth is that the agent 007, emerged from some drafts of stories leading up to what would be the first delivery of a saga of twelve novels, "Casino Royale," which curiously, was adapted to film in 1967 as a parody of films Officers this spy vaguely snob.

From 1953 until his death, 1964, Fleming built a macho character and lust, elementary and sophisticated, that would delight people like John F. Kennedy and Raymond Chandler, who also attract the eyes of film producers.

Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli, eager to acquire the rights from the Fleming books, joined forces and founded a production company, "Eon Productions" with which financed the first film of James Bond, Agent 007 against Dr. No, helped by the president of United Artists, Arthur Krim, who paid a million dollars for the project.