In Ian Fleming novels "Casino Royale" and Moonraker", Fleming wrote that James Bond looks like which actor?

In the novels "Casino Royale" (1953) and "Moonraker" (1955), the author Ian Fleming compared James Bond's appearance to the actor Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981). Hoagy was an American composer, singer, self-taught pianist, lawyer, and actor who was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s. Fleming unreservedly pointed out that "facially, Bond greatly resembles Hoagy Carmichael. In "Casino Royale", Vesper Lynd remarks, 'Bond reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless.' 'Likewise, in "Moonraker", Special Branch Officer Gala Brand thinks that Bond is "certainly good-looking ... Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way.'"

Carmichael was immensely popular in the 1930s when Fleming began working in naval intelligence at the start of WWII. Carmichael was born in Bloomington, Indiana and graduated with a law degree from Indiana University, before he began his career in music.

His song "Startdust" ("Star Dust") came to him while he was a student at Indiana. With additional lyrics added later by Mitchell Parish, the song became an American standard recorded by many top artists, including Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Willie Nelson, John Coltrane, Winton Marsalis, and Frank Sinatra.

When Carmichael was seated at a piano playing "Georgia on My Mind" that he co-wrote with Stuart Gorell, Fleming said, "I imagined him and Bond together. Bond was there to foil a booby trap concocted by a master villain."