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".
Desmond Llewelyn the musical "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968), which was itself based on a children's book by Bond author Ian Fleming. In 1961 he made an uncredited cameo appearance early on as one of the Marques's servants in the Hammer Film Productions of "The Curse of the Werewolf." He also acted on stage with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (appearing as an extra in Olivier's 1948 film "Hamlet") and appeared as Geoffrey Maddocks ('The Colonel') in the British television series "Follyfoot" from 1971 to 1973. The Bond film "Live and Let Die" was filmed during the third series of "Follyfoot" and