Awards of Desmond Llewelyn, birthday, children and many other facts. Before his death, he had stated that he thought This book is the fascinating, officially authorized biography of actor Desmond Llewelyn, better known by movie fans around the world as "Q", James Bond's ill-tempered gadget master. Actor I can't even get a ticket to work in one of those confounded machines on the London Underground.

His widow Pamela Mary Llewelyn died in East Sussex in 2001 at the age of 88. Desmond Llewelyn was born in South Wales in 1914, the son of a coal mining engineer.
Despite his role as gadget expert Q in the Bond films, away from the film sets he was at a complete loss with gadgets. He died after he was driving home from a booksigning to promote his autobiography in East Sussex and his car collided head-on with another. He was also educated at Radley College from the age of 13-18 years old. In high school, he worked as a stagehand in the school's productions and then picked up sporadic small parts. On the out break of war he joined the Royal Welch Fusiliers but was captured before Dunkirk. Despite playing an inventor in the Bond films, Llewelyn always maintained that he was totally lost in the world of technology, a trait that also plagued his successors, John Cleese and Ben Whishaw. Afterwards he attended Trinity college in Cambridge (like one of Desmond's sons), before settling down in Gwent.

Accordingly, 'Q' was educated at Radley (as was Llewelyn), where he excelled in rugby, cricket and rowing. Is the only actor to have worked with the first 5 official James Bonds. Desmond Llewelyn was born in South Wales in 1914, the son of a coal mining engineer.
He made his film debut as a policeman in the Will Hay film 'Ask a Policeman'. Over the years, he created his own back story for the character of 'Q' by wearing different ties belonging to various clubs and institutions. Young Desmond was interested in acting since an early age. A biography entitled Q: The Biography of Desmond Llewelyn was written by Sandy Hernu, and subsequently released on 1 November 1999. Desmond Llewelyn, Actor: GoldenEye. The accident in which he died happened near Firle in East Sussex. His family would not give up their effort to prevent him from a life on stage, so an uncle who was a high ranking police officer arranged for Llewelyn to take the department's physical exam. Coincidentally, Q is also the 17th letter of the modern English alphabet. Attended almost every Bond premiere in Norway. Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn was born on September 12, 1914, in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, to Mia Wilkinson and Ivor Llewelyn. Llewelyn was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, the son of Mia (née Wilkinson) and Ivor Llewelyn,His last appearance as Q prior to his death was in Although one of British cinema's most recognisable characters and an important and long-standing element in the 'Bond' franchise, 'Q' did not make Llewelyn rich—the actor was merely paid 'by the day' for his few hours of work on-set and did not share in the money made by the films. You must keep fantasy with Bond, and not only fantasy, but pure relaxation, enjoyment.

When asked by People Magazine, shortly before his death, how long he intended to continue with the Bond series: "As long as the producers want me and the Almighty doesn't." When he told the soldier he'd been there for five years, the American replied, "Aw, cut it out. Upon telling his story to Between 1963 and 1999, Desmond appeared in eighteen James Bond films and became an indispensable part of …