"Plan de Escape" Desmond Llewelyn a.k.a Q

The World Is Not Enough [1999] , 

Q "Desmond Llewelyn" last goodbye quote.

Q:"Siempre quise enseñarte dos cosas Bond..Primero ,No permitas que  te vean sangrar" - JAMES BOND: "Y la segunda?" Q:"Siempre ten listo un plan de escape" 

[The World Is Not Enough 1999] 

Desmond Llewelyn a.k.a Q (1914-1999)

Desmond Llewelyn was born in South Wales in 1914, the son of a coal mining engineer.


 After failing the police exam, Llewelyn thought about becoming a minister, realizing after a week-long retreat of quiet and meditation that the ministry "was definitely not for me." 


Llewelyn persevered in his acting quest, and was accepted to the Royal Academy for the Dramatic Arts in the mid 1930s. 


The outbreak of World War II in September 1939, halted his acting career, and Llewelyn was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the British army. He was assigned to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and was sent to France in early 1940. In a short time, his regiment was fighting the Germans, and Llewelyn's company was holding off a division of German tanks. Llewelyn explained that "eventually, the tanks broke through and many of us jumped into this canal and started swimming down it to the other side, figuring that our chaps were still over there.


But the Germans were the only ones there," and Llewelyn was captured, and held as a prisoner of war for five years. 


At one prison camp, the prisoners had dug a tunnel and were planning to escape the next morning. Llewelyn was down in the tunnel doing some maintenance work in preparation of the escape when the Germans found out about the tunnel and caught him down in it, a crime that earned Llewelyn 10 days in solitary, which Llewelyn called "a blessing of sorts.


 After spending every day of several years sleeping in a room with 50 other people, the quiet and privacy was rather nice." 


After the war, Llewelyn returned to London and revived his career, eventually being cast as his trademark Q in Desde Rusia con amor (1963). Since 1963, Llewelyn has appeared as Q in every Eon Productions Bond film, except Vive y deja morir (1973). Llewelyn was omitted from Vive y deja morir (1973)