The long search for the different actors to play Ian Fleming’s  James Bond over the decades is rife with stories, runours and conspiracies and has kept more than a few PR pundits spinning.  Last summer it even manifested The Search for Bond a book by film columnist  Robert Sellers, which discusses some of actors that had been considered and rejected over the years for some reason or another and had fallen at the last hurdle.  They included Patrick McGoohan, Burt Reynolds, and Lewis Collins etc.