List of James Bond Parodies and Spin-offs - Films

Films

• The 1964 film Carry On Spying was written as a parody of the Bond series. The character for Charles Hawtrey was originally scripted as James Bind, Agent 006½, but was later rewritten as Charlie Bind, Agent 000 (Double 0, oh!) due to copyright reasons.
• Agent 8¾ (1964), a British spy comedy with Dirk Bogarde.
• That Man from Rio (1964), French adventure spoof of Bond-type films.
• Agent 077: Mission Bloody Mary and Agent 077 From the Orient with Fury (both 1965), Italian Eurospy adventures starring Ken Clark.
• Two Mafiosi Against Goldfinger (1965). One of many Italian Eurospy films that spoof the James Bond formula. Also known as The Amazing Dr. G.
• Slå først, Frede! (1965) and its successor Slap af, Frede! (1966) were Danish parodies. Frede Hansen was played by Morten Grunwald.
• Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) and Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966) satirise the James Bond films, particularly Goldfinger.
• Licensed to Kill (1965) began a low budget series featuring Agent Charles Vine, later Charles Bind.
• James Coburn appeared in two films as the character Derek Flint, "an intentionally over-the-top parody of Bond". The first was the 1966 release Our Man Flint; the second, In Like Flint, was released the following year.
• Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (1966), Italian spoof of the Bond films with Mike Connors
• The Last of the Secret Agents (1966), Allen & Rossi comedy with Nancy Sinatra
• Modesty Blaise (1966), British spy-fi film starring Monica Vitti.
• Secret Agent Super Dragon (1966), Italian Eurospy film.
• Matt Helm movies, starring Dean Martin - The Silencers (1966), Murderers' Row (1966), The Ambushers (1967), The Wrecking Crew (1969). Although based upon a serious, ultra-violent series of novels by Donald Hamilton, it was decided to adapt Hamilton's novels as comedies rather than competing with the Bond series on its own turf.
• The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966), British parody of secret agent films.
• The End of Agent W4C (1967), Czech parody. Superagent W4C has all proprieties of 007 - artificial gadgets, nice girls, spies everywhere around them.
• Voitheia! O Vengos faneros praktor 000 which can be translated in English: Help! Vengos apparent agent 000 (Greek: Βοήθεια! Ο Βέγγος φανερός πράκτωρ 000) (1967) and a sequel "Thou-Vou falakros praktor, epiheirisis "Yis Mathiam"" which can be translated in English: Thou-Vou bald agent, operation "Havoc" (Greek: Θου-Βου φαλακρός πράκτωρ, επιχείρησις «Γης Μαδιάμ») (1969). Thanasis Veggos (Thou-Vou) stars in both of them. The first film is about Thanasis Vombas (Thou-Vou) who has just finished with his schoolmates theoretical courses of the faculty of agents and now he is prepared for the practical examinations. He undertakes three real missions, the result of which will determine also the final grades. Despite his desire to accomplish his dream and become the Greek 007, he fails to all of them and thus assuming the codename 000. The second film resumes after Thou-Vou has received his secret agent diploma (only because the teachers of the faculty didn't want to have him as a student again). A film company discovers him and pretends to employ his services in order to secretly make a comedy film without him knowing. As the title suggests, as he proceeds, every mission is a complete disaster.
• OK Connery, 1967, also known as Operation Kid Brother or Operation Double 007. Starring: Neil Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Adolfo Celi, Bernard Lee, Anthony Dawson, Lois Maxwell. When MI6's top agent becomes unavailable, his lookalike younger brother is hired to thwart an evil organisation. Sean Connery's younger brother Neil stars in this Italian film designed to profit from the spy craze.
• A Man Called Dagger (1967). Low budget American spy film. Future Bond villain Richard Kiel (Jaws) co-stars.
• Fathom (1967), Raquel Welch as female Bond-like agent in tongue-in-cheek spy caper.
• Come Spy with Me (1967), American spy film starring Troy Donahue.
• Caprice (1967), American comedy-thriller with Doris Day.
• Le Magnifique (1973), French comedy starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jacqueline Bisset.
• From Hong Kong with Love (1975). Starring: Lois Maxwell, Bernard Lee, Clifton James. James Bond dies in the opening, and Her Majesty's Secret Service must replace him. Despite being an obscure parody, the film features many legitimate Bond film actors. Originally released as Bons baisers de Hong Kong.
• The Dragon Lives Again (1978). Starring: Alexander Grand. A Hong Kong movie featuring an undead Bruce Lee alongside characters such as Popeye, Dracula, and James Bond. Original title: La Resurrection du Dragon
• Agent 00-7-11 is a parody of James Bond in the film Ninja Academy (1990). In the film 00711 gets his Licence to Kill temporarily revoked.
• If Looks Could Kill (a.k.a. Teen Agent), directed by William Dear, starring Richard Grieco, Linda Hunt, Roger Rees, and Gabrielle Anwar. A high school student called Michael Corben (Grieco) travels to Paris with his French teacher and classmates, being he is mistaken for a killed spy also called Michael Corben. Armed with high-tech gadgets, Michael must stop the domination plans of the villain Augustus Steranko (Roger Rees).
• From Beijing with Love (1994), with and by Stephen Chow, stars a Chinese 007 wanna-be to search for a stolen dinosaur skull
• Pub Royale (1996), a parody based on the novel of Casino Royale starring Alan Carr
• Spy Hard (1996), starring Leslie Nielsen and Nicollette Sheridan
• Never Say Never Mind: The Swedish Bikini Team (2001) British straight-to-video spoof, featuring a team of beautiful women as the Bondian heroines.
• Undercover Brother (2002)
• Rod Steele 0014: You Only Live Until You Die (2002) Starring Robert Donavan. Lightly pornographic Bond parody based loosely on Milo Manara's comics.
• The Tuxedo (2002). A taxi driver called Jimmy Tong (Jackie Chan) accidentally becomes a spy when he wears a special tuxedo which gives him special skills (martial arts, strength, dancing, singing, sniper skills, etc.).
• Johnny English (2003), a James Bond spoof starring Rowan Atkinson, and its 2011 sequel, Johnny English Reborn.
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action widely parodies James Bond, with a film poster for Licence to Spy, a parody of Licence to Kill, the Mother character simultaneously satiring M and Q, a car highly similar to an Aston Martin DBS loaded with gadgets (which serves Bugs Bunny a carrot martini Shaken Not Stirred), a penultimate scene that parodies Moonraker, and the film's Damian Drake movies parodying the success of the James Bond films. Drake is even played by former James Bond actor Timothy Dalton. The character Dusty Tails could also be a simultaneous reference to the Bond girl and Shirley Bassey, who sang three of the themes to the James Bond film series.
• The 2006 movie of The Pink Panther, Clouseau met a British agent 006 (played by a tuxedo-clad, uncredited Clive Owen), which Inspector Clouseau replies as "one short of the big time". At the time the film was made, Owen was considered a popular candidate to take over the role from Pierce Brosnan. The appearance of 006 in a casino is said to have been a tribute to Peter Sellers (who had played Clouseau in a number of earlier films) who once played a spoof version of James Bond in the 1967 version of Casino Royale. It is worth mentioning that Clouseau makes an 'appearance' in the EON James Bond Film For Your Eyes Only, as a characteristically hatted, gloved and trench-coated anonymous figure ain the entrance of a Cortina Ski-resort, obstructing Roger Moore's James Bond from entering the establishment.
• In the 2006 animated film Flushed Away, Roddy does the gunbarrel to put away a DVD entitled Die Again Tomorrow (a conflation of Die Another Day, Never Say Never Again, and Tomorrow Never Dies), whose cover includes a spy with a gold-painted girl (Goldfinger). Roddy's DVD collection also includes You Only Live 9 Times (You Only Live Twice).
• Allkopi Royale (2006), a short Bond Spoof starring Thomas Milligan and Quantum for Allkopi (2008), a Sequel to Allkopi Royale, featuring Norwegian celebrities such as Linni Meister, Helge Hammelow-Berg and Martin Garfalk.
• Epic Movie (2007) - Bond, from Casino Royale, makes two short appearances in Gnarnia.
• Meet the Spartans (2008), Le Chiffre appears, torturing Leonidas for the account number in a similar manner to the way he did in Casino Royale. The condition that causes Le Chiffre to weep blood is also parodied, with his tear duct gushing throughout the segment.
• OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006) and OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009), two French comedies that parody the original OSS 117 series by Jean Bruce. The first film is set in 1955 and the sequel in 1967. Both movies, which star Jean Dujardin as French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath a.k.a. OSS 117, parody and recreate the look and style of espionage films from the 1950s and 1960s.

In addition to the above, there have been literally hundreds of films made around the world parodying the spy film genre of the 1960s, if not directly parodying James Bond. One example is the 1966 film Modesty Blaise, which was a parody of the spy genre rather than a faithful adaptation of the (generally serious) comic strip.

The Columbia Pictures 1967 production, Casino Royale has the unique situation of being both a (very loose) adaptation of an actual James Bond novel, and a spoof of the Bond films. Not to be confused with the 2006 film of the same title.