Q (James Bond) offers some words of advice: Q: "I've always tried to teach you two things: First, never let them see you bleed." Bond: "And the second?"Q: "Always have an escape plan." – before he is lowered out of view. This was the final film appearance of Desmond Llewelyn as Q in the James Bond series, although he would revive the role once again as Q in a Heineken commercial, a TV cross-promotion for "The World Is Not Enough". Llewelyn died in a car crash just weeks after the film's release. Between films he also starred as Q in various commercials for
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