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It was a chance glimpse of the The Caine Mutiny starring his idol Humphrey Bogart that gave the young Maurice Micklewight his screen name - one that would legendary.

In the past, the honour has been bestowed upon other actors including Dame Judi Dench , and figures such as Winston Churchill , Diana, Princess of Wales and Nelson Mandela have also been recipients.

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While James Bond's cinematic stamina, newly re-asserted by the box office boffo Skyfall , qualifies the film franchise as the main pop cultural argument for the endurance of the British Empire, there was a time when 007 had a run for his money.

James Bond has for 50 years been the most appealing of abstractions to most people.