Desmond Llewelyn 1999. On 19 December 1999, Llewelyn was driving home alone from a book signing event when his blue Renault Megane had a head-on collision with a bronze Fiat Bravo driven by a 35-year-old man on the A27 near the village of Berwick, East Sussex. Despite attention from a doctor called to the scene and being taken by helicopter to Eastbourne District General Hospital, he died shortly thereafter at the age of 85. The other driver was seriously injured. An inquest recorded a verdict of accidental death. Llewelyn's death occurred three weeks after the premiere of "The World Is Not Enough".
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