Career: Brosnan's first roles came on stage at York Theatre Royal. He was chosen by Tennessee Williams to star in the West End debut of his play The Red Devil Battery Sign. He followed by his movie debut in Resting Rough in 1979. He made appearances in The Professionals, Hammer House of Horror, The Long Good Friday and Manions of America before moving to Hollywood. He was in the TV show Remington Steele for five years, which prevented him taking over from Roger Moore as 007 in 1986. Low-budget movies followed until Bond came calling again in 1995. His last 007 movie, Die Another Day, was released in 2002. He runs his own production company, Irish DreamTime. Among his best non-Bond movies are The Thomas Crown Affair remake, The Matador, Seraphim Falls, The Ghost, Love is All You Need, The Love Punch, A Long Way Down and Mamma Mia!

Career: Idle's first TV appearance came in Jonathan Miller's 1966 adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. A year later he featured alongside Terry Jones and Michael Palin in Do Not Adjust Your Set. In 1969 the trio joined forces with John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Graham Chapman to make sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus. The programme ended in 1974, but the team went on to make several films, including The Holy Grail, on which hit musical Spamalot - written by Idle - is based. They also reteamed in 2014 for a final, sell-out series of gigs at London's O2. Other projects include Rutland Weekend Television, The Rutles, Nuns on the Run, Splitting Heirs and voicing Merlin in Shrek the Third. He also wrote and sang the theme for hit sitcom One Foot in the Grave.

Career: Klugman made his TV debut in an episode of Actors Studio in 1950, and in 1952, he made his bow on Broadway in Golden Boy. He appeared on the big screen in 1957 in the acclaimed 12 Angry Men. He returned to Broadway in 1959 and was nominated for a Tony Award for Gypsy: A Musical Fable. Klugman won his first Primetime Emmy Award for a guest role on The Defenders. In 1965, he replaced Walter Matthau in the lead role of Oscar Madison in the original Broadway production of The Odd Couple. He went on to reprise the role in the 1970s alongside Tony Randall in a TV version that ran for 114 editions. He won two Emmy Awards for this series. Following the end of The Odd Couple, Klugman struck gold again as a forensic pathologist in Quincy, ME. The show ran from 1976 until 1983, clocking up 148 episodes. Throat cancer sidelined his career for a number of years. He returned to acting in a 1993 Broadway revival of Three Men on a Horse. In the same year, he reunited with Randall in the TV movie The Odd Couple: Together Again. He also worked with Randall on Broadway in The Sunshine Boys. Klugman died from prostate cancer in California on December 24, 2012 at the age of 90.