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3 | Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn (12 September 1914 – 19 December 1999) was a UsefulNotes/{{W|ales}}elsh actor. |
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5 | He spent a good part of his acting career between 1939 (with an interlude of five years as he was prisoner of war in Germany during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII) and 1963 as an uncredited extra. |
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7 | Then came Film/JamesBond. |
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9 | Llewelyn started playing Q, the [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] quartermaster who provides the best agent of Her Majesty with all the cool and lethal tech he needs for his missions, in ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', and it caught on. ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' cemented him in the role with his introduction of the legendary [[WeaponizedCar modified]] [[CoolCar Aston Martin DB5]] and ensured it would define his career from then on. He appeared in ''seventeen'' out of the eighteen ''James Bond'' films released between 1963 and 1999 [[labelnote:Complete List]]''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' | ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'' | ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' | ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'' | ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'' | ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' | ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' | ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'' | ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' | ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' | ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' | ''Film/AViewToAKill'' | ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' | ''Film/LicenceToKill'' | ''Film/{{GoldenEye}}'' | ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' | ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough''[[/labelnote]], the only exception being ''Film/LiveAndLetDie''. He is the actor who's appeared the most in the franchise in the same role by a very long shot. |
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11 | In a sad twist of fate, he died after being injured in a car accident at age 85 three weeks after the release of his last film, ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', in which [[HarsherInHindsight his Q discussed going into retirement]] and sort of [[PassingTheTorch passed the torch]] to Creator/JohnCleese. |
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13 | !!Tropes in his works: |
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15 | * CoolOldGuy: The older Q got, the snarkier he became with Bond and the cooler and more high-tech his gadget became. |
16 | * GadgeteerGenius: Q is perhaps the quintessential example of gadget designer and manufacturer on film, if not the TropeCodifier. Ironically, Llewelyn insisted he was "totally lost in the world of technology". |
17 | * ProductionPosse: He appeared as Mr. Coggins in ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'', which was adapted from [[HeAlsoDid the other famous work]] of Creator/IanFleming and produced by the same guy as the ''James Bond'' films, Creator/AlbertRBroccoli. The film also starred his ''Goldfinger'' colleague, Creator/GertFrobe, as Baron Bomburst. |
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