This thread is for you to list your favoite Bond actors 1-6 and to leave your reasons why.  It pertains to how you rank them as Bond and not their entire body of acting work ( that would be an entirely different thread).  The choices are Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig.  Barry Nelson from the original television version of Casino Royale and David Niven from the Bond parody also named Casino Royale are not choices because they are not in the official Bond series.  One last point;  if you've never seen, for example George Lazenby as Bond, don't include him in your rankings.  Only rank who you know.   

Okay...  Let's go.  I'm first and will start with number 6 and end with number 1.

6)  Pierce Brosnan.  I know that I will probably catch some heat for this because he is pretty popular, but I have my reasons.  He was a good Remington Steele but I just never bought him as Bond.  He seemed to be a guy acting like Bond and not Bond to me.  He portrayed the character like a mixture of Connery and Moore and never really brought his own touch to the part in my opinion.  A major problem is that his Bond appeared to care about all of the women in the movies.  Bad move.  Bond is supposed to be a pig.  Also, besides for GoldenEye, his movies were wretched and he didn't do anything to help the situation with his acting that was similar to that of a male model.  Also he looked as though he was afraid to break a nail when he threw a punch.  Just an observation.  He looked good in a tux though.  :p

5)  George Lazenby.  I have to rank him higher than Brosnan because his one movie, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, is more entertaining than all four of Brosnan's movies combined.  He was trained by Bruce Lee in martial arts so his fight choreography was tremendous and believeable.  Unfortunately, his acting wasn't that good.  Not that bad, but not that good either.  He had a few other problems.  He tried to follow Connery and this was a nearly impossible task for anyone.  His movie was a love story and had a unhappy ending.  Also, he turned down a deal to be Bond in the next seven movies because his agent told him that he would be type cast.  Worst agent ever!!!  Poor George.

4)  Roger Moore.  Moore is usually a love him or hate him type of guy for Bond fans, but for me he is somewhere in the middle.  Let me explain why.  He was more of a joke telling machine than Bond should be to me.  Don't get me wrong, I like when Bond has a clever one liner as much as the next guy, but Mr. Moore over did it.  His movies almost were almost a parody of the earlier Bond films.  This didn't bother me as much as it did some people though because I look at his character as a different person than say Connery's Bond.  This made his films entertaining to me on that level.  For example, I liked how he brought the English gentlemen feel to the character.  My one major problem is that he was too old and stiff looking when he got the part.  He started playing the character when he should have been ending.  This is why he is 127 years old in A View To A Kill.

3)  Timothy Dalton.  He followed Moore and was a shock to the system for anyone used to Roger.  He was James Bond and had no time for jokes.  His portrayal was probably the closest the James Bond in Ian Fleming's novels and this is why I liked it.  He was good in the action scenes and his acting was very solid.  The more serious and edgy direction was intriguing to me.  Unfortunately most people did not agree with me and this is why they went with the guy that I ranked number 6. 

2)  Daniel Craig.  Despite a horrible Bond reboot idea, the dropping of Q and Moneypenny, and the fact that Judi Dench is M when he is promoted to 00 status even though she was introduced to Pierce Brosnan's Bond as the new M (WTF???) he makes the movies that he's in very enjoyable.  He does the most with the material that he is given and runs with it.  What I like the most about his portrayal of Bond is that he plays it his own way as though he's never seen Connery or any of the previous actors  ( I mean this in a good way).  He comes across very realistically as a man that trusts no one (no spy should) and when he hits someone, you don't question the fact that it hurts.  So far, an excellent job by Mr. Craig and I can't wait to see the rest of his movies.  My only complaints are that he isn't suave enough or enough of a smart ass.

1)  Sean Connery.  This man performed the perfect balancing act in nailing all of characteristics that make Bond.  He's athletic, intelligent,  and charasmatic.  He also definitely has a bit of arrogance to him and definitely is a womanizer.  He isn't a nice guy and doesn't want to be.  The greatest thing about him to me is when he's in a scene with a woman, you don't know if he's going to make love to her or stick a knife in her.  Also,  he is the best at delivering the one liners and comes across as being to cool to care if you feel this way.  His disregard for authority is also better conveyed by any of the other actors.  He can raise an eyebrow and say more than any of the other actors say in an entire movie.  Now that's acting!!!

Okay so that's how I feel about it.  Now rank them if you want to.

tough one, I like quite a few of the Bond films, but im more of a fan of the newer films (largely as there what I watched growing up), my favourite film is Goldeneye, Casino Royale is great too, so my top 2 would probably be Brosnan and Craig

Oh man, here it comes:

1. Sean Connery. I can't name a Connery Bond film that I didn't like. He was slick and clever, but he could still be tough when he needed to be. He also had the Bond voice down perfectly. No actor has managed to emulate his voice, the sense of control he had over any situation even when things weren't going his way.

2. Daniel Craig practically revived the Bond series when it came to quality. It always made tons of money, so it didn't really need a box office revival, but the whole series definitely needed a boot up the ass, and Daniel Craig gave it brilliantly. I thought that both Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace were brilliant, and even though he seemed a bit too angry at times in QoS, his performance was fantastic.

3. George Lazenby. He wasn't the best actor ever, but he portrayed the ass-kicking side of Bond very well. And if he had continued his career, he probably could have been one of the best actors to play Bond.

4. Timothy Dalton often seemed to take the silly fun out of Bond films. Action is good, but I want to have a nice laugh. No time for that with Dalton. Add that to the fact that neither of his films REALLY impressed me, and I was left wanting more.

5. Pierce Brosnan was a mixed bag. As I see it, there are three pillars of Bond's personality: The tough guy, the witty guy, and the ladies man. Brosnan was terrible at being tough, alright at being witty, and great at being a ladies man. Altogether, he rounded out to be fairly average.

6. Roger Moore. My God he was bad. I don't even need to go into much depth, he was just the reason that the movies were so bad for so long. I mean, cmon. Octopussy? Most of his movies were a joke, and he had one decent performance out of eight whole films. Not to mention that I couldn't take him seriously as Bond. The "creepy uncle" moniker is timeless with him.

I haven't watched enough of the Bond movies to rank them, but I know Sean Connery has to be first, everyone agrees on that.

6) Timothy Dalton: it's just I've always looked at him like the leading actor of a cheesy comedy film.

5) George Lazenby: when I think of the Bond movies as a whole, I see him a little out of context.

4) Roger Moore: he's a good actor, but too old and bland for the role, in my opinion.

3) Daniel Craig: I think that he succeeded in his attempt to put himself into the role in a believable way, in such difficult circumstances (he wasn't the Bond-type actor we all awaited). The one thing that I don't like of him is how he pulls a face like "Hmmmmm, I'm Bond and I'm a tough guy" (duck lips...).

2) Pierce Brosnan: despite partially agreeing with amp316, I like what he did.

1) Sean Connery: he's a classic. He's Bond.

Phew! That was tough!

Can't say that I have seen enough Bond movies to rank them, but I thought Craig was awful. He looks like a fucking psychopath. The action was great, sure, but it takes more than that to be James Bond. Pierce Brosnan looked cooler than him.
Sean Connery is too awsome. Although I've only seen one of his Bond movies, I think it was the best one.

Sean Connery. obviously

I'll only say best and worst.

Best: Sean Connery. I don't need to justify this, it's pretty much a FACT.

Worst: Daniel Craig. He just completely ruined the series. Perhaps I am just associating two of the worst Bond movies ever with their actor. But he just...isn't Bond. He looks half drunk. His voice is weak. He's BLONDE. He overacts massively.

i just want to quote this to rub it in your face later.

i think Ewan McGregor would have made a good Bond, too ^_____^

1. Daniel Craig
2. Pierce Brosnan
3. Sean Connery

I don't know the others...