Desmond Llewelyn

He was 85.
. He collided head-on with a car and died shortly after.
. Llewelyn was killed in a road accident on December 19, 1999 after returning home from a booksigning promoting his autobiography in East Sussex. They also formed the pop quartet "The McGanns", releasing the single "Everything But The Boy". Contrary to his gadget-expert character in the Bond films, Llewelyn always maintained that he was totally lost in the world of technology. His brothers Mark, Joe, and Stephen are also actors; the four of them starred together (as four brothers) in the 1995 television miniseries The Hanging Gale.

He acted on stage and appeared in an English television series called Follyfoot. When Christopher Eccleston makes his debut as the Ninth Doctor in early 2005, McGann will become the second-longest serving "current" Doctor after Sylvester McCoy. Llewelyn appeared in other films such as the 1981 PBS production of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde. McGann himself has reprised the role of the Eighth Doctor in a series of audio plays by Big Finish Productions. 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. Grant, also played the Doctor in the 2003 animated webcast Scream of the Shalka. 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). Coincidentally, his co-star in Withnail, actor Richard E.

In 1940, he was captured by the German army in France, and was held as a POW for five years. He has had small roles in a number of high-profile American films including Alien 3 and Queen of the Damned. 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. Since then his career has concentrated on television work including the Hornblower series and playing the eighth incarnation of the Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie. In high school, he worked as a stagehand in the school's productions and then picked up sporadic small parts. Following on from that part, he was cast as the eponymous "I" in Bruce Robinson's cult film comedy, Withnail and I (1987). He originally wanted to be a minister. Paul McGann (born November 14, 1959) is an actor who made his name on the BBC serial The Monocled Mutineer, in which he played the lead role.

Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn was born in Newport, South Wales in 1914, the son of a coal mining engineer. Q is the quartermaster of the MI6 gadget lab known as Q-branch. 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.