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The Guns of James Bond

The story of how Glasgow chemist Geoffrey Boothroyd rearmed Britian's most famous secret agent. (1964)

When 007 nearly lost his life in Ian Fleming's story From Russia With Love, an industrial chemist in Glasgow wrote to Fleming and suggested that if Bond continued to use his favourite gun, a Beretta, he would not last very long.This is the story of how Geoffrey Boothroyd rearmed Britian's most famous secret agent. (1964)

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Thu 17 Sep 1964 19:30
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Geoffrey Boothroyd's influence on the James Bond series extends further than the make and model of Bond's gun. The character of 'Major Boothroyd', an armourer from 'Q' branch, first appears in the novel Dr No. Later identified simply as 'Q', he was played in the film adaptations first by Peter Burton, then from the second film onwards, by Desmond Llewelyn. After Desmond Llewelyn's death in 1999, John Cleese took on the mantle of 'Q' for Pierce Brosnan's final Bond appearance, Die Another Day.

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