Personal Info
Birth date
1914-09-12 (110 Years)
Day of death
1999-12-19
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Newport, England, UK
Also known as
Десмонд Ллевелин
Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn
Десмонд Уилкинсон Ллевелин
Desmond Llewelyn
Biography
Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn was a Welsh actor. He was best known for his role as Q in 17 of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1999.
Filmography
Play for Today
6.333
Overview:
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.An Audience with...
5.3
Overview:
An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guests, interspersed with questions from the audience, in a light hearted revue/tribute style.Playhouse
7
Overview:
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.The Adventures of Robin Hood
6.1
Overview:
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.No Hiding Place
3.7
Overview:
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.GoldenEye
6.894
Overview:
When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond can save the world from a dangerous space weapon that -- in one short pulse -- could destroy the earth! As Bond squares off against his former compatriot, he also battles Xenia Onatopp, an assassin who uses pleasure as her ultimate weapon.Softly, Softly
5
Overview:
Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.Tomorrow Never Dies
6.369
Overview:
A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.Goldfinger
7.355
Overview:
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.Danger Man
7.175
Overview:
Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.From Russia with Love
7.075
Overview:
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.The World Is Not Enough
6.284
Overview:
Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.Licence to Kill
6.416
Overview:
After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez's organization from the inside.Octopussy
6.361
Overview:
James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.Thunderball
6.671
Overview:
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.For Your Eyes Only
6.539
Overview:
A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.Sunday Night Theatre
3.5
Overview:
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.The Spy Who Loved Me
6.821
Overview:
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.You Only Live Twice
6.585
Overview:
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.The Living Daylights
6.529
Overview:
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.The Man with the Golden Gun
6.452
Overview:
Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths with the menacing Francisco Scaramanga, a hitman so skilled he has a seven-figure working fee. Bond then joins forces with the swimsuit-clad Mary Goodnight, and together they track Scaramanga to a Thai tropical isle hideout where the killer-for-hire lures the slick spy into a deadly maze for a final duel.Moonraker
6.177
Overview:
After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.On Her Majesty's Secret Service
6.574
Overview:
James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.Diamonds Are Forever
6.406
Overview:
Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.A View to a Kill
6.239
Overview:
A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin who forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Francisco Bay.Softly Softly: Task Force
6
Overview:
Softly, Softly: Task Force is a police based drama series which ran on BBC 1 from 1969 to 1976. It was a revamp of Softly, Softly, itself a spin-off from Z-Cars. The change was made partly to coincide with the coming of colour broadcasting to the BBC's main channel BBC1. The programme was due to be called simply Task Force, but reluctant to sacrifice a much-loved brand the BBC compromised this so it became Softly, Softly: Task Force.Cleopatra
7.044
Overview:
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
6.813
Overview:
A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.Doomwatch
6
Overview:
Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers. The series was followed by a film adaptation produced by Tigon British Film Productions and released in 1972, and a revival TV film was broadcast on Channel 5 in 1999.Dixon of Dock Green
5.3
Overview:
Created by Ted Willis. Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were later remade as a BBC radio series in 2005 and 2006.Acting
2002Best Ever Bond as Q (archive footage) (uncredited)
2002Bond Girls Are Forever as Q (archive footage) (uncredited)
2000Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn as Q (archive footage)
2000Inside 'From Russia with Love' as Self
2000Terence Young: Bond Vivant as Self
2000Inside 'Moonraker' as Self
2000Inside Q's Lab as Unknown
1999The Millennium Disaster - Computer Crash 2000 as Peregrin Morley
1999The World Is Not Enough as Q
1999Geri as Self
1998Highly Classified: The World of 007 as Q
1997Tomorrow Never Dies as Q
1997The Secrets of 007 as Self
1995Goldeneye: The Secret Files as Self
1995In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross as Q
1995GoldenEye as Q
1995The World of James Bond as Unknown
1995MADtv (1 Episode) as Self
1995Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' as Self
1995Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' as Self / Q (archive footage)
1995The Goldfinger Phenomenon as Unknown
1995GoldenEye: The Secret Files - The Cast as Self
199230 Years of James Bond as Self
1992Merlin as Dr. Mycroft
1989Licence to Kill as Q
1988Prisoner of Rio as Commissioner Ingram
1987The Living Daylights as Q
1985A View to a Kill as Q
1983Octopussy as Q
1983James Bond: The First 21 Years as Q (archive footage)
1982Soft Targets as Official in Dream
1981For Your Eyes Only as Q
1981The Life and Times of David Lloyd George as Lord Lansdowne
1980The Happy Autumn Fields as Papa
1980Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as Sir Danvers Carew
1979Speed King as Major Bill Whittall
1979Moonraker as Q
1979The Golden Lady as Professor Dixon
1978Lillie (1 Episode) as Unknown
1978Wilde Alliance (1 Episode) as Colonel Thripp
1978Hazell (1 Episode) as Unknown
1978An Audience with... (1 Episode) as Self
1977The Spy Who Loved Me as Q
1975Nine Tailors (1 Episode) as Sir Charles Thorpe
1975The Love School (1 Episode) as Thomas Coombe
1974The Man with the Golden Gun as Q
1974Playhouse (1, 1 Episode) as Major Bill Whittall, Papa
1973Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1 Episode) as Unknown
1971Diamonds Are Forever as Q
1971Follyfoot (39 Episodes) as Colonel
1970Play for Today (1 Episode) as Official in Dream
1970Codename (1 Episode) as Barrett
1970Doomwatch (1 Episode) as Thompson
1969On Her Majesty's Secret Service as Q
1969Softly Softly: Task Force (1 Episode) as Somers
1968Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as George Coggins
1967You Only Live Twice as Q
1967Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond as Q
1966Softly, Softly (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965Thunderball as Q
1965The Incredible World of James Bond as Self (archive footage)
1964Goldfinger as Q
1963The Silent Playground as Dr. Green
1963From Russia with Love as Boothroyd - 'Q'
1963Cleopatra as Senator (uncredited)
1962The Pirates of Blood River as Tom Blackthorne (uncredited)
1962Suspense (1, 1, 1 Episode) as President of the Court, Ian MacDonald, Company Spokesman
1962Only Two Can Play as Clergyman on Bus
1961Stryker of the Yard (1 Episode) as Unknown
1961The Curse of the Werewolf as 1st Footman (uncredited)
1960Sword of Sherwood Forest as Wounded Fugitive (uncredited)
1960Danger Man (1 Episode) as Charles - Doorman
1959Sapphire as Police Constable
1959No Hiding Place (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1958Corridors of Blood as Operations Assistant (uncredited)
1958The Invisible Man (1 Episode) as Det. Sergeant
1958A Night to Remember as Seaman at Steerage Gate (uncredited)
1955The Adventures of Robin Hood (1 Episode) as Two Fingers
1955Dixon of Dock Green (1, 1, 1 Episode) as Det. Insp. Jones, Dr. Pearce, Bank Manager
1955Spider's Web as Constable Jones
1955Tim Driscoll's Donkey as Doctor
1954The Devil’s Jest as Policeman
1953Operation Diplomat as Police Constable at Barrier
1953Street Corner as Police Constable
1952My Wife Jacqueline (6 Episodes) as Keith
1950The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Mr. Hyde
1950They Were Not Divided as '77 Jones
1950Guilt Is My Shadow as Pub customer (uncredited)
1950Sunday Night Theatre (1 Episode) as Pandimiglio
1949The Chiltern Hundreds as First Guardsman (uncredited)
1949Adam and Evelyne as Barman in Restaurant (uncredited)
1948Hamlet as Extra (uncredited)
1947Captain Boycott as Gentleman on Train (uncredited)
1939Ask a Policeman as Headless Coachman