In a 2012 interview with the Scottish newspaper The Daily Record, Ms. Gayson said Mr. Connery had been so nervous before the scene that the director, Terence Young, advised her to go to lunch with him and have a few drinks to loosen him up. She addressed her experiences in the films in a 2012 autobiography, “The First Lady of Bond.”

Ms. Gayson was a reality television star before reality television became its own genre of entertainment.

In 1953, she married the producer and journalist Leigh Vance on the CBS television show “Bride and Groom,” sponsored by Betty Crocker. The couple were flown to New York for the wedding, and it was chronicled in London’s newspapers. Critics, though, panned the show. The wedding was described in Billboard magazine as an example of bad taste that could “end the British way of life.” The couple divorced in 1959.

Ms. Gayson was born on March 17, 1928, in Surrey, England, the daughter of Maria and John Sargaison, a civil servant.

She married the actor Brian Jackson in 1968. That marriage also ended in divorce, a decade later. They had a daughter, Kate, who appeared in “GoldenEye” (1995), a James Bond movie starring Pierce Brosnan.