A man was arrested in London last week for imitating James Bond. He wasn’t going around and ordering vodka martinis though, he had numerous fake IDs, replica guns, and even a personalized wallet styled after From Russia With Love. That’s dedication right there. We’ve had James Bond imitators in the movies for more than 40 years, but sadly none of them have ever been arrested. Although thankfully, a few of them have been entertaining. Check out the James Bond knockoffs in the list below, as we ramp up towards Quantum of Solace.

Our Man Flint

The United States didn’t have a dashing and cool super-spy hero like Britain’s James Bond, so in 1964 James Coburn stepped into the role of Derek Flint. Flint was an ex-spy for Z.O.W.I.E. (Zonal Organization World Intelligence Espionage… I kid you not) who was lured out of retirement and forced to battle three mad scientists who wanted to control the world’s weather. At one point, he meets up with an agent 0008, who looks and dresses like Sean Connery. The movie spawned a sequel, In Like Flint, and later helped inspire Austin Powers.

The Matt Helm Movies

Between 1966 and 1969 Dean Martin starred as Matt Helm in The Silencers, Murderers’ Row, The Ambushers, and The Wrecking Crew. He was a wisecracking super-spy who often found himself in comedic situations. Although the books these movies were based on were fairly serious, the producers decided not to try and compete with James Bond and made these a lot lighter. These movies were also cited as direct inspirations for Austin Powers, and later for the 1970s James Bond films, which often copied the set pieces from the Helm films. Dreamworks currently holds the rights to the Matt Helm series, and is apparently working on a new adaptation.

Casino Royale

Long before Daniel Craig stepped into the tuxedo as James Bond, there was an original James Bond spoof of Casino Royale in 1967. Produced as a comedy by Columbia Pictures, this movie features six different James Bonds in an effort to throw off his enemies, and is most famous because Peter Sellers (as Jimmy Bond) walked off the set and didn’t return to finish his role. Although most of this was blamed on uneasy feelings between Orson Welles and Sellers, the movie The Life and Death of Peter Sellers portrays it as Sellers trying to play the role seriously, and walking off when people wanted him to play it slapstick.

OK Connery

This actually happened. Italian producers hoping to cash in on the spy craze of the 1960s wrote this James Bond parody where James Bond isn’t available, so they use his kid brother. What’s even more bizarre is that they used Sean Connery’s actual brother Neil in this film, and his character is named Connery, although his lines were all dubbed by an American actor. Lois Maxwell and Bernard Lee reprise their roles as Moneypenny and M in this movie, it was released in the U.S. as Operation Kid Brother, and was later razzed on Mystery Science Theater 3000 as Operation Double 007. Truly bizarre.

Spy Hard

This Leslie Nielsen movie tried to ride in on the Naked Gun coattails, but just showed us a fairly tired and overused character. Nielsen played Agent Dick Steele (ouch), and would go on to play the same bumbling character with different names in other movies, but this one is especially bad. You know it’s a bad sign when Mr. T, Hulk Hogan and Pat Morita are your “guest stars.” The best thing about this movie is the James Bond-esque opening title sequence from Weird Al Yankovic. Which also belabors the point about guest stars.

Johnny English

Most people know Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean, and they either love him or loathe him. I fall in the former camp, which is probably why I enjoyed this parody of the Bond films so much. The character was actually based on another Atkinson role, Richard Latham from the Barclaycard ads in the UK. He works for MI6 and is actually a bumbling spy wannabe who constantly makes mistakes. Many of the gags from the commercials made it into the movie, and last year Atkinson said on British TV that a sequel is in the works.

Austin Powers

Easily the most famous parodies of James Bond, the Austin Powers franchise is three films long, and during junkets for The Love Guru earlier this year Mike Myers said that he has an idea for a new Powers movie, so chances are you’ll see the crushed velvet suit and bad teeth once again. Myers has said that his inspirations included Our Man Flint, the Matt Helm movies, Vincent Price’s movie Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, Michael Caine in The Ipcress FIle, and plenty of others. While it’s obviosuly an amalgam of many roles, the James Bond influence is the strongest throughout all of these films, as evidenced by the subsequent titles The Spy Who Shagged Me, and Goldmember.