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MisterCairo said:fftopic:
Wikipedia says his half-Scottish half-Swiss background is set out in the novel "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", and that Fleming did this in appreciation for Connery's film portrayal, but no citation is given for either point, and I haven't read the book so can't independently confirm.
Connery - fantastic Bond.
Grant - fantastic sartorial style.
"the fact that James Bond, the greatest fictional hero of postwar England, had not a drop of English blood in him. Like his creator, Fleming, and like Connery, Bond was a Scotsman. (The Times obit says his mother was Swiss, but Fleming revealed in an interview that in a later book, never written, she would be discovered to also be a Scot.)"
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2006/11/25/fleming/
http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~tmf20/bond.shtml