The pistol used by the late Sir Sean Connery in the first ever James Bond movie - the 1962 classic Dr. No - has sold at auction for $256,000 (£190,000). The legendary actor, who starred in In the new 007 novel Carte Blanche, James Bond uses a Walther PPS gun.The Walther PPS (Polizeipistole Schmal or Police Pistol Short) is a semi-automatic pistol, first shown in 2007. A successor to the legendary Walther PPK, Bond's choice of weapon in most of the films. It's a slim polymer framed weapon of similar size to the Walther PPK. The PPS comes in 9mm and S&W 40. A vengeful James Bond goes rogue to infiltrate and take down the organization of a drug lord who has murdered his friend's new wife and left him near death. Director: John Glen | Stars: Timothy Dalton, Robert Davi, Carey Lowell, Talisa Soto. Votes: 110,580 | Gross: $34.67M. Back in 1962, Ian Fleming had already decided on David Niven for the role of James Bond in Dr. No (1962). He was cross when Sean Connery was chosen, but was apparently so impressed with the way Connery portrayed Bond that he gave the character Scottish ancestry. The first James Bond feature film, released in 1962 (though it didn't arrive in the United States until 1963), is one of the best James Bond movies, per critics. "Sean Connery excellently puts Sean, born Thomas Sean Connery, came into the world first, on August 25, 1930, and Neil was born eight years later, on December 16, 1938. While Neil (above) didn't have the storied and successful career similar to that of his brother, he did earn himself a few acting credits, per his IMDb , and even starred in a spoof film of James Bond, titled This new Bond may not have started out with the Walther PPK, but fortunately for fans it made its return. Bond 25, rumored to be Craig's final stint as 007, is due out in 2020. Be sure to check out the other three parts in our series: James Bond Guns, Part I: The Sean Connery, George Lazenby Era; Part II: The Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton Era The Beretta 418 was an Italian handgun and was, effectively, James Bond's first firearm. Although it was Bond's weapon of choice in the early Fleming novels, it was replaced in Dr. No by the Walther PPK. The reason for this change is found in the previous book, From Russia, With Love, where the silencer of Bond's Beretta gets caught in the waistband of his trousers which prevented him from James Bond is assassinated by Chinese agents in Hong Kong, but it is a ruse so that Bond can travel incognito to Japan and investigate the hijacking of American and Russian spacecraft. Gyrojet rocket guns; Fin jet dart - a rocket-powered projectile fired from a cigarette accurate up to 30 yards Sean Connery's wife, Diane Cilento KBiE.