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By Grainne McLoughlin

As criticism for the casting of Daniel Craig as the new 007 agent James Bond continues to grow, Christopher Lee — who played Bond villain Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun — has lauded Irishman Pierce Brosnan as the best Bond to date.

Despite defending the appointment of Craig as Brosnan’s successor as the British spy agent the actor said: “In my opinion — and I think I know as much, if not more about Bond than anyone particularly about the characters on whom Ian Fleming told me Bond was based — Pierce Brosnan was by far the best and closest to the character.”