Desmond Llewelyn

Desmond Llewelyn was a Welsh actor, born in Newport in 1914 and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, who is remembered above all as Q, the quartermaster who equips James Bond in the Eon-produced films. He made his first feature film in 1939, was captured during the fighting in France in 1940 and spent the rest of the Second World War in prisoner of war camps, including Colditz. After the war he worked in stage, film and television, including a Hamlet film directed by Laurence Olivier. He first played Q in From Russia with Love in 1963 and returned in seventeen Bond films, more than any other actor, opposite the first five screen Bonds. He also appeared in Bond related promotions for video games. He died in a road collision in East Sussex in December 1999, shortly after his last Bond film, The World Is Not Enough.