Desmond Llewelyn branch), in every EON Bond film until his death, with the exception of "Live and Let Die" in 1973, in which the character Q did not appear. Llewelyn was the only actor in the original Bond series to have worked alongside five of the actors who played the spy, who were Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan. His last appearance as Q prior to his death was in "The World Is Not Enough" in 1999. During his briefing of 007 in the film, Q introduces John Cleese's character, , as his heir presumptive, and the
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen children's cancer charity CLIC Sargent and Shooting Star Children's Hospice. Llewelyn-Bowen is also a patron of the children's charity MERU, co-founded by his father Trefor Llewelyn-Bowen with Bill Bond in 1970. He has recently acquired a home in Port Isaac, Cornwall, which is well known as the filming location of the popular television series "Doc Martin". He is related to both Jim Bowen, the comedian and television presenter, and Emanuel Bowen, map maker to King George II. Llewelyn-Bowen has a cameo appearance within the best-selling British alternative science fiction comedy novel "Snuff Fiction" by Robert Rankin. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen Laurence Roderick