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Actress Lois Maxwell who
starred as Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond
films has died aged 80.
Lois Maxwell died in hospital in Freemantle,
Australia on Saturday. Maxwell was born Lois
Hooker in Ontario, Canada in 1927 and began
her career in Hollywood in the 1940s where
she won a Golden Globe award in 1948 as Best
Newcomer in the Shirley Temple film That
Hagen Girl. After moving to the UK in
the mid 1950s she attended RADA where she
was a student alongside future James Bond
star Roger Moore. After a number of small
roles in British films and Television
series, Lois Maxwell appeared in Stanley
Kubrick's Lolita (1962) before being
cast as Miss Moneypenny, the secretary to M,
in the first James Bond film Dr. No.
Director Terence Young offered Lois the role
of Miss Moneypenny or Bond's love interest
Sylvia Trench, Maxwell wisely chose the
former and played the part continuously for
the next 23 years, appearing alongside three
James Bond's - Sean Connery, George Lazenby
and Roger Moore. Both Roger Moore and Lois
Maxwell made their final appearance in the
series in A View To A Kill (1985).
Lois Maxwell also appeared in character as
Moneypenny in the 1967 TV special Welcome
To Japan Mr. Bond with co-star Desmond
Llewelyn as Q. |
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