MUMBAI: As the 23rd James Bond movie Skyfall is midway in terms of shooting, we take stock of how many actors reprised the role of the secret agent and number of times.

While Roger Moore holds the record with seven potrayals of Agent 007 in films like Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy and A View to Kill, Sean Connery was one short of Moore‘s achievement (Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice and Diamonds Are Forever).

Following is Pierce Brosnan with four portrayals (GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and Die Another Day) while the current Bond, Daniel Craig is doing his third Bond film (Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall).

But the franchise producer Michael G. Wilson wants Craig to take the record with eight Bond films.

At the bottom is Timothy Dalton who has played Bond twice (The Living Daylights, License to Kill) while George Lazenby played the action hero in just one movie On Her Majesty‘s Secret Service.