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".
Q (James Bond) Geoffrey Boothroyd, a firearms expert who lived in Glasgow who had written to the novelist suggesting that Bond was not using the best firearms available. Boothroyd is also referenced occasionally in the Bond novels of John Gardner, but the author preferred instead to focus on a new character, Ann Reilly, who is introduced in the first Gardner novel, "Licence Renewed" and promptly dubbed "Q'ute" by Bond. In the films, Major Boothroyd first appears in "Dr. No" and later in "From Russia with Love", although played by different actors. Desmond Llewelyn stated that, although he was credited as playing "Major Boothroyd",