Louis Jourdan

. He was 85. Partial filmography:. He collided head-on with a car and died shortly after. He is retired and living in the south of France. Llewelyn was killed in a road accident on December 19, 1999 after returning home from a booksigning promoting his autobiography in East Sussex. Louis Jourdan has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6153 and 6445 Hollywood Blvd. Contrary to his gadget-expert character in the Bond films, Llewelyn always maintained that he was totally lost in the world of technology.

Louis Henry Jourdan was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. He acted on stage and appeared in an English television series called Follyfoot. Tragedy struck when his son died of a drug overdose in 1981. Llewelyn appeared in other films such as the 1981 PBS production of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde. In later years, Jourdan appeared in a number of films, playing the part of the villain, including 1977's Count Dracula and in the 1983 James Bond film, Octopussy, he was cast as "Kamal Khan," a Bond villain. In the 2002 film Die Another Day, John Cleese, who played the character R, the assistant to Q in The World is Not Enough, was promoted to the head of Q-branch, thus taking on the title of Q. The film earned nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Since 1963s From Russia With Love, Llewelyn appeared as Q in every Bond film, except Live and Let Die (1973), through The World Is Not Enough (1999).

However, he is best remembered as the romantic lead opposite Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier in the 1958 film version of the Colette novel, Gigi. In 1940, he was captured by the German army in France, and was held as a POW for five years. During the 1950s, Louis Jourdan made several international films including playing the male lead in La Mariée est trop belle opposite Brigitte Bardot. The outbreak of World War II in September 1939 halted his acting career, and Llewelyn was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the British army, serving with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. television debut as Inspector Beaumont in the series "Paris Precinct". In high school, he worked as a stagehand in the school's productions and then picked up sporadic small parts. He returned to Broadway for a short run in 1955 and that year made his U.S. He originally wanted to be a minister.

After a number of American films, his most notable work was in the 1954 light-hearted comedy-romance, Three Coins in the Fountain following which he made his Broadway debut in the lead role in the Billy Rose drama, The Immoralist. Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn was born in Newport, South Wales in 1914, the son of a coal mining engineer. There, he became friends with several stars who shared his love of the game of croquet. Q is the quartermaster of the MI6 gadget lab known as Q-branch. In 1947, Jourdan accepted an offer from a Hollywood studio to appear in The Paradine Case, an Alfred Hitchcock drama starring Gregory Peck. Desmond Llewelyn (September 12, 1914 - December 19, 1999) was a British actor who is famous for playing the fictional character of Q in the James Bond series of films. After the 1944 liberation of France by the Allies, Louis Jourdan married Berthe Frederique with whom he had a son.

Following the German occupation of France during World War II, he continued to make films but after refusing to participate in Nazi propaganda films, he joined the French Resistance. He made his film debut in 1939. Born Louis Gendre in Marseille, France, he was educated in France, Turkey and England and trained as an actor at the Ecole Dramatique. Louis Jourdan (born June 19, 1919) is a French actor, known chiefly for his suave manner and good looks.

Le Corsaire (1939). La Comédie du bonheur (1940). Premier rendez-vous (Her First Affair) (1941). Parade en sept nuits (1941).

La Belle aventure (Twilight) (1942). Les Petites du quai aux fleurs (1944). La Vie de bohème (1945). The Paradine Case (1947).

Letter From An Unknown Woman (1948). Madame Bovary (1949). Bird of Paradise (1951). Decameron Nights (1953).

Paris Precinct (1953) TV Series. Three Coins in the Fountain (1954). The Swan (1956). Julie (1956).

La Mariée est trop belle (Her Bridal Night) (1956). Escapade (1957). Dangerous Exile (1957). Gigi (1958).

The Best of Everything (1959). Can-Can (1960). Le Comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo) (1961). Le Vergini di Roma (1961) (Amazons of Rome) (1963).

Leviathan (1962). The V.I.P.s (1963). Made in Paris (1966). Les Sultans (1966).

Cervantes (1967). To Die in Paris (1968) (TV). Fear No Evil (1969) (TV). Ritual of Evil (1970) (TV).

The Great American Beauty Contest (1973) (TV). The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) (TV). Count Dracula (1977) (TV). Silver Bears (1978).

The French Atlantic Affair (1979) TV Mini-series. Double Deal (1981). Swamp Thing (1982). Escape to Love (1982).

Octopussy (1983). Cover Up (1984) (TV). Beverly Hills Madam (1986) (TV). Grand Larceny (1987).

Escuadrón (1987) (Counterforce) (1987). The Return of Swamp Thing (1989). Year of the Comet (1992).