Desmond Llewelyn

He was 85. Menjou has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6822 Hollywood Blvd. He collided head-on with a car and died shortly after. He ended his career with such roles as a French officer during World War I in 1957's Paths of Glory, and as the town curmudgeon in Pollyanna in 1960. Llewelyn was killed in a road accident on December 19, 1999 after returning home from a booksigning promoting his autobiography in East Sussex. He published his autobiography, It Took Nine Tailors in that year. Contrary to his gadget-expert character in the Bond films, Llewelyn always maintained that he was totally lost in the world of technology. In 1947, Menjou cooperated with the House Un-American Activities Committee in its hunt for Communists in Hollywood.

He acted on stage and appeared in an English television series called Follyfoot. He was nominated for an Academy Award for The Front Page in 1931. Llewelyn appeared in other films such as the 1981 PBS production of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde. His career stalled with the coming of talkies, but in 1930 he starred in Morocco. 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. When he starred in 1923's A Woman of Paris, he solidified the image of a well-dressed man-about-town. 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). Returning from the war, he became a star in such films as The Sheik and The Three Musketeers.

In 1940, he was captured by the German army in France, and was held as a POW for five years. During World War I, he served as a captain in the ambulance service. 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. Attracted to the vaudeville stage, he made his movie debut in 1916 in The Blue Envelope Mystery. In high school, he worked as a stagehand in the school's productions and then picked up sporadic small parts. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he attended the Culver Military Academy and graduated from Cornell University with a degree in engineering. He originally wanted to be a minister. Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 - October 29, 1963) was an American actor.

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.