Open Channel D: The Man From UNCLE Affair

James Bond may be the quintessential blockbuster espionage expert, but these TV & movie spies might just be able to put him out of work. BY STEPHANIE HOLLAND MAR 07, 2020 As the most famous spy in movies and television, James Bond is usually also called the best. However, when we really look at the breakdown of his missions, and the tactics he uses, we have to admit we’ve seen much better secret agents in entertainment. From the days of  Get Smart  and  Mission: Impossible  to Chuck and Burn Notice, espionage has been a TV staple. In movies, we’ve seen a lot of Bond ripoffs, with some of them actually being better than the original. As we prepare for the next 007 to start the franchise’s new chapter, these are 10 TV and movie spies better than James Bond. 9 / 10 NAPOLEON SOLO - THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. It takes a truly special character to be more interesting than James Bond in both a movie and TV series. As an American agent worki...

Roger Charles Carmel (September 27, 1932 – November 11, 1986) was an American actor. He originated several roles on Broadway, played scores of guest roles in television series, was a lead in the sitcom The Mothers-in-Law and appeared in a number of motion pictures. Carmel worked in various roles on Broadway from the late 1950s into the mid 1960s.   H e played multiple parts in The Power and the Glory (1958). He originated the roles of the 3rd Poet in Caligula (1960), Pasha in Once There Was a Russian (1961), The Deputy in Purlie Victorious (1961), and Mr. Andrikos in The Irregular Verb to Love (1963). He replaced Jack Creley in the role of Cardinal Wolsey in A Man for All Seasons (in 1962) and also replaced James Grout in Half a Sixpence (in 1966). Carmel's television guest roles included the accountant Doug Wesley on CBS's The Dick Van Dyke Show and Colonel Gumm on ABC's Batman . He played the flamboyant and hapless galactic criminal Harcourt Fenton "...