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Llewelyn's nascent acting career was paused by the outbreak of war in 1939, when he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.In 1940 his unit was engaged in fighting an entire Panzer division for several days near the French city of Lille, but they were overrun in attempting to retreat to Dunkirk, and Llewelyn was captured.
Q is a character in the James Bond films and novelisations. Q is the head of Q Branch (later Q Division), the fictional research and development division of the British Secret Service charged with oversight of top secret field technologies. Q (standing for quartermaster), like M, is a job title rather than a name.
In all, Llewelyn appeared in 17 Bond films, more than any other actor, and worked with the first five James Bond actors. He also portrayed Q in a 1967 made-for-television special (produced by Eon Productions) entitled, Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond which was included in the 2006 special edition DVD release of You Only Live Twice .
Debuting in theaters on Nov. 19, 1999, The World Is Not Enough marked Pierce Brosnan's third turn as James Bond following the success of GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies.In the actor's 1999 film ...
Desmond Llewelyn as Q: MI6's "quartermaster" who supplies Bond with multi-purpose vehicles and gadgets useful for the latter's mission. The film would be Llewelyn's final performance as Q. Although the actor was not officially retiring from the role, the Q character was training his eventual replacement in this film.
Tomorrow Never Dies is a 1997 spy film, the eighteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Directed by Roger Spottiswoode from a screenplay by Bruce Feirstein , it follows Bond as he attempts to prevent Elliot Carver ( Jonathan Pryce ), a power-mad media ...
Bond regulars Lois Maxwell and Desmond Llewelyn appeared, playing respectively Miss Moneypenny and Q. Kate O'Mara appears as Miss Moneypenny's assistant. [40] The programme shows clips from You Only Live Twice and the then four existing Bond films, and contained a storyline of Moneypenny trying to establish the identity of Bond's bride.
James Bond 007: Roger Moore [3] M: Bernard Lee [5] Robert Brown R [5] Miss Moneypenny: Lois Maxwell [6] Sheriff J. W. Pepper: Clifton James [10] Q: Desmond Llewelyn R [7] Bill Tanner: Michael Goodliffe U [11] James Villiers [11] General Gogol: Walter Gotell [11] Sir Frederick Gray: Geoffrey Keen [11] Jaws: Richard Kiel [12] Rublevitch Eva ...