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  Q (James Bond) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Q is a fictional character in the James Bond novels and films.
Q (standing for Quartermaster), like M, is a job title rather than a name.
John Gardner, in his James Bond novels, introduced the character of Ann Reilly, a young female assistant to Q whose co-workers as well as Bond nicknamed Q'ute.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Q_(James_Bond)   (2152 words)

  
 James Bond Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name "James Bond Junior" was first used in 1967 for an unsuccessful spinoff novel entitled 003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior written under the pseudonym R. Mascott.
The idea of Bond having a nephew was used again in 1991 as an American animated series for television in which the title character defeats threats to the safety of the free world.
Being an animated series, it regularly surpasses the Bond movies in terms of implausible gadgets and mad scientists, and the violence of the adult Bond series is nowhere in evidence.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Bond_Jr.   (3724 words)

  
 Desmond Llewelyn -- James Bond's gadget man Q
Actor Desmond Llewelyn portrayed James Bond's gadget man, Q, from the 2nd film to the 19th, with 5 different James Bonds.
James Bond's tribute to Q (March 27 2000)
Desmond Llewelyn, as the ingenious Q, has fortified James Bond with the snazziest spy equipment in the Bond movies - everything from a BMW with a rocket launching sun roof to lethal umbrellas and toxic fountain pens.
www.klast.net /bond/q.html   (755 words)

  
 James Bond RPG: Q Vehicles
Q Evaluation: Although the Lotus was a fine vehicle in the field, we have decided to replace it with the BMW Z3.
Q Evaluation: It is an unspoken understanding that Mazda builds the superior roadster for the dollar, which is nice when you have field agents always destroying your equipment.
Q Evaluation: The Q Boat was one of my pet projects, and I was almost finished with the first prototype before 007 destroyed it chasing a young girl he later nicknamed The Cigar Girl.
home.comcast.net /~gamesofjamesbond/rpg-q-vehicles.html   (753 words)

  
 james bond multimedia | q branch
Assigned to produce gadgetry to assist 00 agents ‘in the field’, Q branch is headed by Q, or Quartermaster.
Consequently, Bond frequently makes quips to Q when most of his gadgets are destroyed or returned in battle worn condition.
james bond multimedia is an unofficial, educational, information resource and is no way linked to the official james bond production companies.
www.jamesbondmm.co.uk /q-branch.php   (307 words)

  
 CNN.com - Bond's Q: DVD will self-destruct in 36 hours - Nov. 22, 2002
New DVDs with disappearing content were used to promote the latest James Bond movie.
The resourceful Q, James Bond's chief engineer, has captured moviegoers' imaginations for decades by outfitting the secret agent with the snazziest of spy gadgets: fake fingerprints, an underwater breather, toxic pens and killer umbrellas.
The latest Bond flick, "Die Another Day," used Flexplay DVDs to show reporters scenes from the movie before it was released.
archives.cnn.com /2002/TECH/ptech/11/22/bond.dvd/index.html   (437 words)

  
 Q (James Bond)
Q is a character in the James Bond movies.
Q (like M) is a job title rather than a name.
In subsequent movies the John Cleese character took over the job of the former Q, and so from then on was known as Q. John Gardner, in his James Bond novels, introduced the character of Ann Reilly, a young female assistant to Q who Bond nicknamed Q'ute.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/q/q_/q__james_bond_.html   (515 words)

  
 BBC - Science & Nature - Hot Topics - James Bond - Bond's Gadgets
Q manages to craft a set of false fingerprints from those of Blofeld associate, Peter Franks.
Q's pet, the snooper, witnesses Bond girl, Stacy Sutton, exit the shower before having a towel thrown over its head.
Bond straps it on and escapes over a high wall to his waiting Aston Martin DB5 - it's small enough to fit in the boot.
www.bbc.co.uk /science/hottopics/jamesbond/bondgadgets.shtml   (873 words)

  
 Sideshow Collectibles.com - James Bond Collectible Figures - Q
Q, is the man responsible for the creation of all the spy gadgets used by James Bond.
Bond often frustrated Q by not paying attention during his briefings of gadget operation.
Q comes with a box full of his signature gadgets that he created throughout his career.
www.sideshowtoy.com /cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=archive&item=7723   (238 words)

  
 James Bond 20
James Bond cars, DNA and actresses A TOP secret operation worthy of England's most famous super spy was put into action when the makers of the new James Bond movie asked Warrington's Daresbury Laboratory for help.
Q will be souping up a new Bond Aston Martin, with the car brand -- immortalised by 1964's ``Goldfinger'' -- returning to the movies in the form of the new V12 Vanquish.
The official James Bond website (http://www.jamesbond.com) is featuring a diary regarding production going on the 20th installment of the James Bond series, with Pierce Brosnan, Judi Dench, and John Cleese returning to the franchise, as well as newcomers Halle Berry and Rick Yune gracing the screen.
www.ez-entertainment.net /prod/jamesbond20.htm   (4077 words)

  
 JAMES BOND AGENT DOUBLE A 7 Recovery Skits! Hilarious FREE skits!
BOND: Q, you are without a doubt a troublesome son of a …
BOND: True, if AA had been diluted with other things it may not have been here for me when I needed it most.
Q: When you needed it most: would that be when you accidentally ejected yourself from your car in a drunken stupor or when you were in a flout and showed up at the Queen’s birthday party naked?
www.recoveryskits.com /JAMESBONDAGENTDOUBLEA7.html   (1727 words)

  
 James Bond - Wikiquote
Bond: I tend to notice little things like that, whether a girl is a blonde or a brunette.
Bond: We are having a pleasant drive in the country and you got to bring psychology into it.
James Bond: Revenge is not hard to fathom for a man who believes in nothing.
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 0 0 7 NEWS: The lasting impact of 'Q'
James Bond is the star of the movies, but only Desmond Llewelyn has transcended the decades.
Bond fans and casual watchers alike could not miss the sense of continuity he added to the series.
Q introduces Cleese as the "young man I'm grooming to follow me." It's a touching scene given how long Q has been part of the films.
www.ianfleming.org /007news/articles2/desmond-impact.shtml   (1059 words)

  
 BBC News | WALES | James Bond's tribute to 'Q'
Former James Bond actor Roger Moore led a tribute to his long-time screen colleague Desmond Llewelyn telling a packed memorial service how 007 films would never be the same again.
Moore and a host of Bond stars joined family and friends of the 85-year-old actor to bid an emotional final farewell, three months after he died in a car crash.
Samantha Bond, who played Moneypenny in the last 007 movie, The World Is Not Enough gave a reading at the service - after the Lord's Prayer - of Peace by Henry Vaughan and Crossing The Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/692719.stm   (737 words)

  
 James Bond's Q Dies - Dec 20, 1999 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Dec 20, 1999, 7:35 AM PT Desmond Llewelyn, forever gadgetmeister Q in the James Bond movies, died in a head-on car crash in England Sunday.
For the record, the first of Q's trademark spy toys was a souped-up attaché case complete with poison gas and hidden knife.
Indeed, in The World Is Not Enough, Monty Python alum John Cleese came onboard as Q's bumbling assistant and heir-apparent, R. The son of a Welsh coalminer, Llewelyn began acting in local theater as a teen.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,5764,00.html   (466 words)

  
 CNN.com - Bond's Q: DVD will self-destruct in 36 hours - Nov. 22, 2002
New DVDs with disappearing content were used to promote the latest James Bond movie.
The resourceful Q, James Bond's chief engineer, has captured moviegoers' imaginations for decades by outfitting the secret agent with the snazziest of spy gadgets: fake fingerprints, an underwater breather, toxic pens and killer umbrellas.
The latest Bond flick, "Die Another Day," used Flexplay DVDs to show reporters scenes from the movie before it was released.
edition.cnn.com /2002/TECH/ptech/11/22/bond.dvd   (428 words)

  
 James Bond©
The James Bond expositie is tot 1 september in het National Museum of Photography, Film and Television van Bradford te zien.
Now the secrets of James Bond are to be laid bare at a new exhibition which will reveal the technological wizardry used in the 007 films.
The Bond, James Bond exhibition, which opens next month at the Science Museum in London, will be the biggest ever staged about the world's most famous fictional spy and will contain more than 100 different items from the 20 Bond films made so far.
groups.msn.com /19jbba5d72s9gjas139epf6k05/thejamesbondexpositie.msnw   (895 words)

  
 James Bond's Q department becomes reality - UK News Headlines
Boffins like Q in the James Bond films who came up with outlandish gadgets for the 007 agent have been recruited by the Ministry of Defence.
Q - played by the late Desmond Llewelyn and now John Cleese in the James Bond films - headed the Q department which invented spy equipment including a Lotus that could submerge under water and fire torpedoes to lethal umbrellas and X-ray glasses.
The Centre’s real life Q Ken Brigden said: "As threats against the UK Armed Forces are becoming increasingly sophisticated and diverse science and technology advice plays an even more crucial role in the planning and preparation of military operations.
www.lse.co.uk /ShowStory.asp?story=WT924174O&news_headline=james_bonds_q_department_becomes_reality   (628 words)

  
 JAMES BOND 007 : NIGHTFIRE   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bond fans will have the opportunity to receive more information on 007 NightFire prior to its ship as EA plans to release more information on an ongoing basis.
James Bond 007: NightFire for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox video game systems and PC promises to take players higher and deeper than ever before.
As Bond, players will operate in the Austrian Alps, a Japanese highrise and even in a zero-gravity space station to defeat the evil criminal mastermind Raphael Drake.
www.jamesbond.com /games/nightfire.html   (230 words)

  
 Q Branch by James McMahon
When James Bond is on a mission, time is never on his side.
Most recently it's been Omega that has been peppering magazines and newspapers around the world with images of James Bond wearing their "Seamaster Professional" model with the legend "Selected by James Bond." Note that this is not an endorsement by Pierce Brosnan, but rather by James Bond.
In chapter 16 of OHMSS Bond switches his watch to his right hand and loops the band around his fist so that the heavy metal and crystal watchcase sits atop his middle knuckles.
www.hmss.com /qbranch/0202.htm   (1682 words)

  
 The Ultimate James Bond Fan Site! - James Bond Wiki
It takes James Bond and Pussy Galore beyond Goldfinger and supposes that they continue a correspondence while she is in Sing Sing.
Not sure where it will go, as the author or authors seem to be developing the story as they go along, but it is SO more interesting than Daniel Craig, who hadn't even read a Fleming novel before he got the commission to write the new on.
bond girl...whoelse but kate beckinsale...casino royale was a mistake much along the lines of connery's self produced never say never again.
www.jamesbondwiki.com   (635 words)

  
 James Bond Q & A - MJ Forums
The human element was showed in him to when he gets married and then when she is shot...
ok ok I know Bond giving up his womanizing ways for one woman might be a bit too much for some people to swallow but I think it makes him more like a real person.
They used to say to writers, "write what you know." This does not apply anymore, apparently, so we are left with the stylized cartoons of fast-track pop culturalists who have never experienced life in its truest sense, with the winkety-wink culture-vulture syndrome epitomized by video store clerk Tarantino and his army of imitators.
www.moviejustice.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=1153   (380 words)

  
 Q (James Bond) - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In the series, Boothroyd was preparing to retire during the events of The World Is Not Enough (1999) and has clearly retired by the time of Die Another Day (2002), but is yet to be confirmed on screen whether the character is now deceased.
Helsing side kick Friar Carl makes gadgets in a lab like Q. The most recent example of a Q-like character is Marshall Flinkman on the series Alias.
Dr.Agasa, a character of Detective Conan is very similar to Q. He also invented some gadgets of the hero.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Q_(James_Bond)   (1612 words)

  
 E! Online News - James Bond's Q Quandary   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Is the end near for Q? And if so, does a new beginning start with R? Such are the questions James Bond fans are asking amid reports that the secret agent's longtime gadget guru is about to hang up his bullet-equipped cigarette lighter.
Thursday's London Daily Express reported that actor Desmond Llewelyn, the venerable Q through 16 films and five Bond stars, would be retired from the film series after the upcoming The World Is Not Enough.
On Friday, MGM confirmed that Q would be in the new movie, but a spokesperson said it was too early to determine whether this would be his swan song and called such speculation unfounded.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/Pf/0,1527,4070,00.html   (364 words)

  
 Q - James Bond Movies CORGI ICON [F04191] by Corgi
Q figure was one of the last 3 that had been released in this series back in 2001 just before the series was discontinued.
Corgi Says — Leave it to Corgi Classics to be the first to place James Bond in a predicament even 007TM couldn’t escape from — in three-inch-tall whit — metal ICON figure.
In truth, 007 and the whole cast of Bond Girls and villains share the same timeless fate, all at once exuding their on-screen personas as captured in had-painted detail.
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 Amazon.com: "Q", James Bond's Gadget Master: The Biography of Desmond Llewelyn: Books: Sandy Hernu,Roger Moore   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Between 1963 and 1999, Desmond appeared in eighteen James Bond films and became an indispensable part of the series' success.
Much of the book, of course, is relegated to his wonderful anecdotes about the Bond films and his candid opinions of the people he worked with.
No James Bond fan will want to be without this fascinating volume in their collection.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1857701879?v=glance   (651 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | James Bond writer 'reinvents' spy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
James Bond is to be given a new image as a younger character with no gadgets, a writer on the next film has told trade paper the Hollywood Reporter.
Ian Fleming's 1953 Casino Royale book, the first Bond novel, the spy was introduced as a more youthful, realistic and cold character than the films.
The book was also one of the most violent in the series, with the heroic secret agent taking a beating from his rival Le Chiffre, and gadget-master Q was not present.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/4256024.stm   (273 words)

  
 FulTech's James Bond Page   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Having been influenced by the James Bond series and Q, the scientist who created the phenominal gadgets that Bond uses
In Memory of Desmond Llewelwyn 1914-1999 (This is an exerpt from the official statement from CBS) (CBS) Desmond Llewelyn, who starred as the eccentric scientist Q in all but one of the James Bond films, was killed in a head-on car crash Sunday, police said.
The actor was best-known for his role of Q the gadget expert who equipped 007 with the latest spy tool - from toxic fountain pens to deadly umbrellas - in 17 Bond films dating back to From Russia with Love up to the recent The World Is Not Enough.
www.fultechsolutions.com /bond.htm   (280 words)

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