Q is a character in the James Bond films and novelisations. Q is the head of Q Branch, the fictional research and development division of the British Secret Service charged with oversight of top secret field technologies.
Desmond Llewelyn portrayed Q in the Eon series between 1963 and 1999.
Ben Whishaw, the incumbent actor in the role, in Skyfall
The James Bond series focuses on the titular character, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have written authorised Bond novels or novelisations: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver, William Boyd, and Anthony Horowitz. The latest novel is With a Mind to Kill by Anthony Horowitz, published in May 2022. Additionally Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond, and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character, Moneypenny.
Ian Fleming's image of James Bond; commissioned to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists
Hoagy Carmichael—Fleming's view of James Bond
Goldeneye, in Jamaica, where Fleming wrote all the Bond novels
John McLusky's rendition of James Bond
