Daniel Craig is 'the least good-looking Bond' in 007 history
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You may find this hard to believe but Hollywood star Danel Craig is the worst looking James Bond in 007 history.
The 49-year old’s bulbous nose, thin lips and wide face put him bottom of a list of the actors to play the debonair but deadly spy in a series of facial mapping tests pioneered by the ancient Greeks.
Top of the poll for the best looking Bonds was Sir Sean Connery whose face was found to be 89.2 accurate to the Golden Ratio of Beauty Phi - which measures “physical perfection.”
The technique showed the 87-year old actor’s eyes, eyebrows, nose, lips, chin, jaw and facial shape - which were measured from 1964 when he played 007 in Goldfinger - came closest to the ancient Greeks’ idea of perfection.
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The late Sir Roger Moore was second with 88.8%, Timothy Dalton was third with 86.5%, and Pierce Brosnan was fourth with 85.3%, just beating George Lazenby in fifth on 85.2%.
Craig was last on the list with 84.2%.
A perfect score would be 100% but it is physically impossible to achieve perfection.
All the Bonds were tested with the latest facial mapping techniques by Harley Street surgeon Dr Julian De Silva who uses the technology in his work. The actors were judged on their faces in the years playing 007 when they were at the peak of their careers.
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Dr De Silva, who runs the Centre For Advanced Facial Cosmetic And Plastic Surgery in London, said: “Daniel Craig scored poorly because he has very thin lips, a bulbous nose and his face is very wide.
“Craig has rugged good looks but they don’t accord with the Greeks’ idea of beauty.
“Meanwhile Sean Connery has been feted as the most handsome Bond for years - and it is great this has now been proved by science.
“He has beautiful facial symmetry and gets closer than any other Bond to having what the Greeks considered the perfect face.
“Connery has an almost geometrically perfect chin of 99.8%, his eye spacing was almost perfect and his lips are beautifully shaped. Across the 12 key markers he had the highest combined score.
“Computer mapping techniques allow us to solve some of the mysteries of what it is that makes someone physically beautiful and the technology is useful when planning patients’ surgery.
“The Phi ratio of 1.618 has long been thought to hold the secret of beauty, and now with the computer mapping we can calculate exactly how it applies to men.”
According to the research the most handsome male celebrity in the world is George Clooney whose face is 91.86% accurate to the Greek Golden Ratio. The Golden Ratio was a mathematical equation devised by the Greeks in an attempt to measure beauty.
While the ratio can be applied to anything and was used by Leonardo Da Vinci for the perfect human male body in his famous work, the Vitruvian Man.
The premise behind this is that the closer the ratios of a face or body are to the number 1.618, the more beautiful they become.
Daniel Craig will be 51 when returns as Bond next year in the untitled new movie, scheduled for release next November. That is still some way behind Roger Moore who, at 57, was the oldest Bond when he starred in A View To Kill in 1985.
Author Ian Fleming said in the books that Bond was in his mid-to-late thirties but it is only in Moonraker that his specific aged is revealed.
The book was published on April 5 1955 and in it Bond admits to being eight years shy of the mandatory retirement age from the 00 section - 45 - which would mean he was 37 at the time.
If he was 37 in 1955 that means he was born in 1918 - meaning that this is the year of Bond’s centenary.
James Bond Golden Ratio beauty rankings
1. Sean Connery - 89.2%
Dr Julian De Silva said: “He has beautiful facial symmetry and gets closer than any other Bond to having what the Greeks considered the perfect face.
“Connery has an almost geometrically perfect chin of 99.8%, his eye spacing was almost perfect and his lips are beautifully shaped. Across the 12 key markers he had the highest combined score.”
2. Roger Moore - 88.8%
Dr Julian De Silva said: “Roger Moore was a really beautiful man who ran Sean Connery a very close second. He has the best eye positioning of all the Bonds, a gorgeously symmetrical face and a great chin.”
3. Timothy Dalton - 86.5%
Dr Julian De Silva said: “Timothy Dalton has an almost perfectly shaped nose with a score of 98.5%. His dimple is not a factor in Golden Ratio rankings but he is marked down for his jowly jawline and chin.”
4. Pierce Brosnan - 85.3%
Dr Julian De Silva said: “Pierce Brosnan has the best nose of all the Bonds with a 98.8% score and the distance from lip to nose is very good but, like Dalton, his chin lets him down and he scored poorly for eye spacing.”
5. George Lazenby - 85.2%
Dr Julian De Silva said: “George Lazenby has the best lips of all the Bonds but he is marked down for his nose which is not symmetrical and looks like it may have been broken if you look at the curve at the top.”
6. Daniel Craig - 84.2%
Dr Julian De Silva said: “”Daniel Craig scored poorly because he has very thin lips, a bulbous nose and his face is very wide. Craig has rugged good looks but they don’t accord with the Greeks’ idea of beauty.”