Let’s see how well you know your actors.  Everyone can identify Sean Connery, of course. (If you are under 30, he’s the man right and was the best known James Bond.) The man on the left is Ian Flemming, the man who wrote the James Bond novels.  But I would be very surprised if one person in a thousand could identify the photo of Dušan “Duško” Popov – and Popov was the real-life model for James Bond. He was a double agent for the British during the Second World War, had a “promiscuous lifestyle” which include a lot of women and money and died in 1981, a lot longer than Fleming or many of his spy handlers.  If you want to read an intriguing biography, pull up Popov on Wikipedia.  His life was truly stranger than the fiction Fleming wrote.  [See my books at https://authormasterminds.com/master-of-the-impossible-crime.]