9:43AM, Jan 28, 2009
Pierce Brosnan returned James Bond to basics with the well-received Goldeneye.
The Irish actor went on to star in another three Bonds before hanging up his holster and joining the ranks of Mamma Mia.
During his seven-year tenure as 007 he numbered Sean Bean, Jonathan Pryce, Sophie Marceau and Toby Stephens among his adversaries.
Pierce Brosnan's debut as 007 was a rip roaring success. Grittier than most Bonds before it, the plot kicks off in the mountains, where Bond leaves Sean Bean's double agent for dead, only to have the world held to ransom by his return, replete with a device that can destroy anything with a circuit board inside.
Jonathan Pryce plays a power-crazy media mogul who's ready to start a global conflict in his bid to control the world. Pierce Brosnan's Bond is back suave and sardonic while Lucy Liu provides the action girl in an thriller that travels from Germany to China.
Pierce Brosnan dons the tuxedo for the third time as Sophie Marceau and Robert Carlyle team up as the baddie contingent in the nineteenth outing for the suave superspy. This time out 007 investigates threats made against Marceau's oil heiress Elektra King only to discover she's not quite who she claims to be...
The fourth and final film of the Brosnan era saw James Bond pitted against billionaire industrialist Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens). The face-changing fiend has hatched nefarious plans to rule the world from his ice palace in the frozen north and it’s up to 007 to put the heat on him.
