She is the only actor from Brosnan's era to remain in the rebooted franchise featuring Daniel Craig, starring in 2006's Casino Royale, 2008's Quantum of Solace, and 2012's Skyfall, followed by a cameo in 2015's Spectre.
In the 2002 film Die Another Day, John Cleese, who played the character R, the assistant to Q in The World Is Not Enough, was promoted to the head of Q-branch, thus taking on the title of Q.
Whishaw appears as Q in the following films: Lois Maxwell lobbied for the role in James Bond, as her husband had had a heart attack and they needed the money.
Director Terence Young, who once had turned her down on the grounds that she looked like she "smelled of soap", offered her either Moneypenny or the recurring Bond girlfriend, Sylvia Trench, but she was uncomfortable with a revealing scene the latter had in the screenplay.
[5] In 1971, Maxwell was nearly replaced for Diamonds Are Forever after demanding a pay raise; her policewoman's cap disguises hair she had already dyed for another role.
[5] In 1975, she plays Moneypenny weeping for the death of James Bond in a short scene with Bernard Lee as M in the French comedy Bons Baisers de Hong Kong.
For the filming of A View to a Kill, her final appearance, Bond producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli told her that the two of them were the only ones from Dr. No still working on the series.
[5] As Moneypenny, according to author Tom Lisanti, she was seen as an "anchor", with her flirtatious repartee with Bond lending the films realism and humanism.
Rory Kinnear appeared as Bill Tanner in the four latest Bond films: Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre and No Time to Die.
In 1995 and 1997 Baker returned to the series, this time playing a different character, CIA agent Jack Wade, in GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies with Pierce Brosnan as Bond.
[10] The character of Wade is similar to that of CIA agent Darius Jedburgh, played by Baker in the 1985 BBC Television serial Edge of Darkness.
Wilson specifically worked in Eon Productions's legal department until taking a more active role as an assistant to Cubby Broccoli for the film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).
[12] Gotell won the role of General Alexis Gogol in The Spy Who Loved Me for being a look-alike of the former head of Soviet secret police Lavrentiy Beria.
Starting in the late 1970s, he played the recurring role of General Gogol in the James Bond series, beginning with The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977.
In 2006's Casino Royale, she sits directly across from Bond when he plays poker against Dimitrios at the Ocean Club, founded by her ex-husband, again on Paradise Island.
Throughout his career Anthony Dawson could often be found in the films of director Terence Young, including the aforementioned Dr. No, They Were Not Divided (1950),Valley of Eagles (1951), The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965), Triple Cross (1966), Red Sun (1971), Inchon (1981), and The Jigsaw Man (1983).
Young also cast him as the physical presence of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in his Bond films From Russia with Love (1963), and Thunderball (1965), stroking the ubiquitous white cat.
[15] British actor George Baker, who originally appeared in an uncredited role as a NASA engineer in You Only Live Twice (1967), also portrays Sir Hilary Bray in On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Captain Benson in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).
[17] American actor Richard Kiel plays the steel-toothed Jaws in the James Bond movies The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979) as well as the video game Everything or Nothing, and Mr. Larson in Happy Gilmore.
As Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky, a Russian Mafia head Italian actor Giancarlo Giannini plays René Mathis in Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008).
Sri Lankan actor Albert Moses plays a Barman in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Saddrudin, an undercover British agent, in Octopussy (1983).
Jordanian actor Nadim Sawalha plays Aziz Fekkesh in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and a Tangier police chief in The Living Daylights (1987).
[21] She also made an appearance with Christopher Lee in the Fu Manchu films who played bond villain Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun.
[22] Richard Graydon appeared twice in uncredited roles, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) and Moonraker (1979), and twice more as a Russian Cosmonaut in You Only Live Twice (1967) and as Francisco the Fearless in Octopussy (1983).
British actor David de Keyser voice dubbed (uncredited) Marc Ange Draco in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), and played a doctor in Diamonds Are Forever (1971).