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Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn born 12 September 1914 in Newport, Monmouthshire a Welsh actor who became famous as Q in 17 of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1999.
The outbreak of World War II in September 1939 halted his acting career Llewelyn was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the British army, serving with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. In 1940, he was captured by the German army in France, and was held as a POW in Colditz Castle for five years.
Aged 85, Llewelyn was in a fatal car accident on 19 December 1999, as he was returning home from a book signing event. Driving alone, his Renault Megane collided head-on with a Fiat Bravo driven by a 35-year-old man on the A27 near the village of Berwick, East Sussex. Despite attention from a doctor called to scene and transfer by helicopter to Eastbourne District General Hospital he died shortly thereafter.
Films
Ask a Policeman (1939)
Hamlet (1948)
Knights of the Round Table (1953)
A Night to Remember (1958)
Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
Gorgo and The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
Cleopatra Silent Playground and From Russia with Love (1963)
Goldfinger (1964)
Thunderball (1965)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
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