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Q is a fictional character in the James Bond novels and movies. Q, like M, is a job title rather than a name. He is the head of Q branch, the fictional research and development division of the British Secret Service. The Q character actually appears only fleetingly in Ian Fleming's novels, but comes into his own in the successful Bond movie series. 1 Desmond Llewelyn as Q ( a.k.a. Major Boothroyd)
| Desmond Llewelyn as Q in Tomorrow Never Dies
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| Q
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| Actor | Desmond Llewelyn
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| Gender | Male
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| Age | 50s - 80s
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| Affiliation | MI6
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| Status | Retired
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In the James Bond movies, the relationship between Bond and Q is one of seeming antipathy. The gadgets supplied by Q are almost invariably destroyed as a result of Bond's use of them, and Q is constantly exhorting Bond to take better care of them and to occasionally read the instruction manual. Bond usually responds by displaying an instant mastery of whatever device Q hands to him. In Licence to Kill Q sides with Bond, supplying him with gadgetry and even helping him operationally despite his resignation from MI6.
The ancestry of the Q character is rather complicated. In the Fleming novels there are frequent references to 'Q branch' and in Dr. No, the service armourer Major Quentin Boothroyd (played by Peter Burton only in Dr. No) replaces Bond's Beretta pistol with a Walther PPK. In the second movie, From Russia With Love, it is Desmond Llewelyn who plays the role of Boothroyd. From then on Llewelyn's character is most oftenly referred to as Q, but, nevertheless, he is credited as 'Boothroyd' in From Russia With Love and also referred to as Major Boothroyd in dialogue in The Spy Who Loved Me.
1.1 Featured in:
- From Russia With Love
- Goldfinger
- Thunderball
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- Octopussy
- A View To A Kill
- The Living Daylights
- Licence to Kill
- GoldenEye
- Tomorrow Never Dies
- The World is Not Enough
