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Lois Maxwell, best known for her role as Miss Moneypenny, has died aged 80 from cancer.
Maxwell starred alongside Sir Sean Connery in Bond’s first movie outing, Dr No, in 1962.
She played the role until 1985’s A View To A Kill with Sir Roger Moore, who told the BBC she had been a “great asset” to the early Bond movies.
A spokesperson for Fremantle Hospital, Western Australia, said she died there on Saturday evening.
Maxwell starred in 14 Bond films as the secretary to M, the secret agent’s boss and head of the secret service.
Lois Maxwell was the ultimate sexy secretary, until Maggie Gyllenhaal came along. She resisted Bond’s flirting and had a cheeky sexiness that Ian Fleming never quite gave his novel characters.
In 1948 Lois Maxwell won a golden globe for her role in That Hagen Girl for most promising newcomer. She played M’s secretary beside Bond’s Sean Connery and Roger Moore. Only Desmond Llewelyn who played gadget man Q has appeared in more Bond films than Miss Moneypenny.
She moved to Western Australia after being diagnosed with cancer to be closer to her son. Our sympathy to all her family, friends and fans.
Written by Helen
Posted in Deaths, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Movies
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