Lois Maxwell, 80, an Actress Who Played in 14 ‘Bond’ Films, Dies - The New York Times The New York Times Movies |Lois Maxwell, 80, an Actress Who Played in 14 ‘Bond’ Films, Dies Search Lois Maxwell, 80, an Actress Who Played in 14 ‘Bond’ Films, Dies By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Continue reading the main story Lois Maxwell, the actress who played Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond movies, died on Sept. 29, the British Broadcasting Corporation reported. She was 80. She died near her home in Perth, Australia, the BBC said, citing a hospital official. Roger Moore, one of the Bond stars, told BBC Radio that Ms. Maxwell had been suffering from cancer. Photo Lois Maxwell in 2000 with a James Bond gun. Credit Odd Andersen/Getty Images Born Lois Hooker in Kitchener, Ontario, in 1927, Ms. Maxwell began acting on the radio before moving to Britain with the Entertainment Corps of the Canadian Army at the age of 15, the BBC said.

She attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where Mr. Moore was a fellow student. In the late 1940s, she moved to Hollywood and won a Golden Globe for her part in a Shirley Temple comedy, “That Hagen Girl.” After returning to Britain in the mid-1950s, she acted opposite Sean Connery in the first James Bond movie, “Dr. No,” in 1962 as the secretary to M, the head of the secret service. She was 58 when she appeared in her final Bond film, “A View to a Kill” (1985). In addition to her appearances as Miss Moneypenny, she also acted in Stanley Kubrick’s “Lolita” and in “The Saint” and other shows on television. In her last film, the 2001 thriller “The Fourth Angel,” she played alongside Jeremy Irons. A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A23 of the New York edition with the headline: Lois Maxwell, 80, an Actress Who Played in 14 ‘Bond’ Films.

Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe Lois Maxwell - Telegraph Lois Maxwell Lois Maxwell: she played Miss Moneypenny for 23 years 12:01AM BST 01 Oct 2007 Lois Maxwell, the Canadian actress who died on Saturday aged 80, played Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond films; although other younger women later took over the part, she was widely regarded as the definitive Moneypenny, M's spinsterly secretary secretly in love with 007. She was 33 when she screen-tested for Dr No (1962), the first Bond film, and was originally offered the part eventually played by Eunice Grayson, one of Bond's conquests, seen putting golf balls down the hall of his flat dressed only in his pyjama top. But Lois Maxwell did not regard her legs as her strongest point, and while Bond's creator Ian Fleming told her she had the most kissable lips in the world, one film director took a different view: "Lois, you don't smell of sin.

You look as though you smell of soap." Accordingly - in crisp blouse and skirt - she landed the Moneypenny role, cast originally against Sean Connery in Dr No. Lois Maxwell later mused on the on-screen chemistry between the chaste Miss Moneypenny and the swashbuckling agent, licensed to kill: "Say there'd been an affair a long time before, only she knew he would have broken her heart, just as he knew it would have ruined his career in the Secret Service. So they were doomed to appreciate each other's qualities." Related Articles Geoffrey Holder 10 Oct 2014 Although she played the part for 23 years, she was on screen for less for an hour and spoke fewer than 200 words in all 14 films, her lines running an emotional gamut from "James, you're late" to "When are we going to have that dinner?" Her last Moneypenny appearance was opposite Roger Moore as Bond in A View To A Kill (1985).

Never paid more than £100 a day, her first appearance in Dr No took only two days to shoot, and those in her 13 subsequent Bond films were just as modest in scale. For her first five films, Lois Maxwell wore her own clothes. "Always the same role, the smallest," she remarked ruefully in an interview for the Telegraph Magazine in 1997. The camera would find her sitting at a desk in the corner of a nondescript office, on the telephone or riffling papers. But when Bond enters, she greets him with a grin of pure joy. "It is not a beautiful face," observed Byron Rogers, who interviewed her for the Telegraph 10 years ago, "it is a wonderful face, long and funny and older than all the others… The other women in Bond films are two-dimensional, who only ever want to go to bed with him or stab him, but there is one who loves him, though she knows nothing will ever come of this. "That is the way Lois Maxwell played Moneypenny, making her the one grown-up among sexpots and psychopaths." Not everyone realised that she was Canadian. "Moneypenny," exclaimed the Prince of Wales on meeting her.

"I would never have believed you're not English. I must tell the family." Born Lois Ruth Hooker on February 14 1927 at Kitchener, Ontario, one of four children, her early career as a child radio performer was disrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War when her father, a teacher, enlisted and sailed for England. At the age of 16 she ran away from home to join the Canadian Army Show, but failed to tell the authorities about her age, and after touring England in the back of a truck was eventually dishonourably dismissed. Just before she was due to be shipped home, she went AWOL in London. While living in a garret in Paddington, Lois won a Lady Louis Mountbatten scholarship to Rada, where she first met Roger Moore, then 17 and later to star in seven Bond films, and - crowned in a red wig - played his uncle in a student production of Henry V. At 20 she was working in the professional theatre when a talent scout spotted her and took her to Hollywood. At Warner Brothers, Lois found herself in the same intake as another promising actress named Norma Jeane Baker, with whom she was photographed for Life magazine.

Both changed their name, Norma Jeane becoming Marilyn Monroe and Lois Hooker, advised that this was an infelicitous name for an starlet, changing to Lois Maxwell, a name borrowed from a gay ballet dancer friend and which was adopted by the rest of her family too. She won a Golden Globe award as best newcomer for her role in the Shirley Temple comedy That Hagen Girl (1947). Playing opposite Ronald Reagan in Bedtime For Bonzo (1951) she found the future president handsome and attractive, but became less enamoured of the studio system, and moved to Rome for five years, becoming an amateur racing driver. After a broken love affair with the brother of an Italian prince, she married a British television executive called Peter Marriott, a former commander of the Viceroy of India's household troops who, by coincidence, was screen-tested as a possible James Bond by the producer Cubby Broccoli. In addition to her career in the Bond films Lois Maxwell was a successful television actress, appearing in episodes of UFO, The Persuaders, The Baron, The Saint and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).

She also provided the voice for Troy Tempest's love interest, Atlanta Shore, in Gerry Anderson's puppet series Stingray. In the late 1960s she starred in Adventures In Rainbow Country, a popular Canadian television series, and in 1967 appeared as Moneypenny in a television special Welcome To Japan, Mr Bond. More recently, she became a regular fixture at Bond film festivals. Her last feature film was The Fourth Angel (2001) starring Jeremy Irons and Forest Whitaker. Widowed at 46 when her husband died of a heart attack in 1973, Lois Maxwell returned to her native Canada, bought a farm and worked for a business importing crowd-control barriers. She later wrote a column for the Toronto Sun which she signed "Moneypenny" and in which, for 14 years, she expounded trenchant Right-wing opinions. Always an adventurous woman, she held a pilot's licence, regularly went on safari and in the 1980s sailed the South China Sea from Hong Kong to Singapore, armed with M16 machine guns and incendiary rockets to ward off pirates.

In the 1980s she settled at Frome in Somerset, and after a successful cancer operation went to recuperate at her son's home at Freemantle, near Perth, western Australia. At the time of her death, she was working on her autobiography, to be called Born A Hooker. Lois Maxwell is survived by her daughter and son. Lois Maxwell | James Bond Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Lois Maxwell was a Canadian actress. She played M 's secretary, Miss Moneypenny , in the first fourteen official films. Contents Biography Early life She was born Lois Ruth Hooker in Kitchener, Ontario. At age fifteen she ran away from home to join the Canadian Army during World War II. She became part of the Army Entertainment Corps, travelling Europe during the war performing music and dance numbers to entertain the troops. The truth about her age was discovered when the group reached London. In order to avoid court martial and deportation back to Canada, she enrolled at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts where she met fellow student Roger Moore .

Career Soon after travelling to Hollywood at the age of twenty, she won the Golden Globe Award, New Star Of The Year - Actress, for her role in the Shirley Temple comedy That Hagen Girl, as well as participating in a 1949 Life Magazine photo layout where she posed with Marilyn Monroe. During the 1960s, she appeared in many television series and movies both in Britain and Canada, and was the star of Adventures in Rainbow Country later that decade. She guest starred in episodes of The Saint and The Persuaders! which both starred Roger Moore. Maxell also portrayed Miss Moneypenny in a 1967 made-for-television special (produced by EON Productions) titled, Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond . Miss Moneypenny Director Terence Young , who once had turned Maxwell down, offered her the role of either Moneypenny or the recurring Bond girlfriend, Sylvia Trench . Maxwell was uncomfortable with a revealing scene the latter had in the screenplay, so she took the role as M's secretary. The Trench character was eliminated after From Russia with Love .

Lois Maxwell - 必应 Sign in Lois Maxwell Lois Maxwell (14 February 1927 – 29 September 2007) was a Canadian actress, best known for her portrayal of Miss Moneypenny in the first fourteen James Bond films, (1962-85). She was the first actress to play the part. The films in which she played Miss Moneypenny were Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Live and Let Die (1973), The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), The Spy ... (展开) Who Loved Me (1977), Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), and A View to a Kill (1985).

She began her film career in the late 1940s and won the actress Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her performance in That Hagen Girl (1947). Following a number of small film roles, Maxwell became dissatisfied and travelled to Italy, where she worked in film from 1951 to 1955. After her marriage, she moved to the United Kingdom, where she appeared in several television productions. As Maxwell's career declined, she lived in Canada, Switzerland, and the UK. In 2001, she was diagnosed with bowel cancer and moved to Western Australia, where she lived with her son until her death at age 80 in 2007 . 最近狂看007，对这个秘书很好奇，希望得到她的演艺生涯以及个人资料 答 Everyone knows (or should know) Lois Maxwell as the one and only 'Miss Moneypenny' - but there's much more to her acting career than that. She started out against her parents will - and with...

Early life Born Lois Ruth Hooker in Kitchener, Ontario, to a nurse mother and a teacher father, Maxwell was raised in Toronto and attended Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute. Dissatisfied with the yields of babysitting jobs, she set her sights on something more lucrative and landed her first job working as a waitress at Canada's largest and most luxurious summer resort, Bigwin Inn, on Bigwin Island in Lake of Bays, Ontario. During World War II, she ran away from home, aged 15, to join the Canadian Women's Army Corps, a unit formed to release men for combat duties. CWAC personnel were secretaries, vehicle drivers and mechanics, who performed every conceivable non-combat duty. Maxwell quickly became part of the Army Show in Canada. Later, as part of the Canadian Auxiliary Services Entertainment Unit, she was posted to the United Kingdom, where she performed music and dance numbers to entertain the troops, often appearing alongside Canadian comedians Wayne and Shuster. Her true age was discovered when the group reached London. To avoid repatriation to Canada, she was discharged and subsequently enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), where she became friends with fellow student Roger Moore.

Career Moving to Hollywood at the age of 20, Maxwell won the actress Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her role in the Shirley Temple comedy That Hagen Girl (1947). In 1949, she participated in a Life magazine photo layout, in which she posed with another up-and-coming actress, Marilyn Monroe. It was at this time that she changed her surname from Hooker to Maxwell, a name borrowed from a ballet dancer friend. The rest of her family also took this name. Most of Maxwell's work consisted of minor roles in B films. Tiring of Hollywood, she moved back to Europe, living in Rome for five years (1950–55). There she made a series of films, and at one point became an amateur racing driver. One of her Italian films was an adaptation of the opera Aida (1953), in which Maxwell played a leading role, lip-synching to another woman's vocals and appearing in several scenes with a pre-stardom Sophia Loren.

While visiting Paris, she met her future husband, the TV executive Peter Marriott; they married in 1957 and moved to London, where both their daughter Melinda and son Christian were born (in 1958 and 1959). She appeared with Patrick McGoohan in the British TV series Danger Man, as his accomplice in the 1959 episode "Position of Trust". During the 1960s, Maxwell appeared in many TV series and in films outside the Bond series in both the UK and Canada, and was the star of Adventures in Rainbow Country in the 1970s. She also guest-starred in episodes of The Saint and The Persuaders!, both of which starred Roger Moore, and provided the voice of Atlanta for the Supermarionation science-fiction children's series Stingray. She had a minor role as a nurse in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962). In 1963, she played a machine gun-firing nurse in the series The Avengers (episode "The Little Wonders", which was first aired on 11 January 1964).

In 1965, Maxwell had a guest appearance in "Something for a Rainy Day", an episode of the ITC series The Baron, as an insurance investigator. Role as Miss Moneypenny[edit] Maxwell lobbied for a role in the James Bond film Dr. No (1962), since her husband had suffered a heart attack and they needed the money. Director Terence Young, who had once turned her down on the grounds that she "looked like she smelled of soap", offered her either Miss Moneypenny or Bond's girlfriend, Sylvia Trench, but she was uncomfortable with the idea of a revealing scene outlined in the screenplay. The role as M's secretary guaranteed just two days' work at a rate of £100 per day; Maxwell supplied her own clothes for the filming. In 1967, Maxwell angered Sean Connery by appearing in the Italian spy spoof Operation Kid Brother with his brother, Neil, and Bernard Lee (who played M). The same year, she portrayed Moneypenny in a made-for-TV special, Welcome to Japan, Mr.

Bond, in which she co-starred with Abbe Lane, where the two performed a memorable dance number wearing purple fez and white feathered boas, as well as silver and purple evening gowns created by designer Oleg Cassini. In 1971, the role of Moneypenny was nearly re-cast after Maxwell demanded a pay raise for Diamonds Are Forever; Moneypenny's undercover policewoman's cap disguises the hair Maxwell had already dyed in preparation for another part. However, she stayed on as Moneypenny when her former classmate, Roger Moore, assumed the role of 007 in Live and Let Die (1973). She reprised her character, weeping for the death of Bond, in a short scene with Lee in the French comedy Bons baisers de Hong Kong (1975). During the filming of A View to a Kill (1985), her final appearance as Moneypenny, producer Cubby Broccoli pointed out to her that they were the only cast or crew members from Dr. No who had not yet left the series. Maxwell asked that Moneypenny be killed off, but Broccoli re-cast the role instead.

Maxwell's final Bond film was also Moore's last outing; they were succeeded by Caroline Bliss and Timothy Dalton for the final two Bond films of the 1980s, The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989). According to author Tom Lisanti, Maxwell's Moneypenny was seen as an "anchor", and her flirtatious relationship with Bond provided the films with dramatic realism and humanism; for Moneypenny, Bond was "unobtainable", freeing the characters to make outrageous sexual double entendres. At the same time, however, her character did little to imbue the series with changing feminist notions. Later life In 1973, Maxwell's husband died, having never fully recovered from his heart attack in the 1960s. Maxwell subsequently returned to Canada, settling in Fort Erie, Ontario, where she lived on Oakes Drive. She spent her summers at a cottage outside of Espanola, Ontario, where she wrote a column for the Toronto Sun under the pseudonym "Miss Moneypenny" and became a businesswoman working in the textile industry.

In 1994, she returned to the UK once again to be nearer to her daughter Daphne, retiring to a cottage in Frome, Somerset. Death[edit] Following surgery for bowel cancer in 2001, Maxwell moved to Perth, Australia, to live with her son Christian's family. She remained there, working on her autobiography, until her death at Fremantle Hospital on 29 September 2007. Of his friend's death, Sir Roger Moore said to BBC Radio 5 Live, "It's rather a shock. She was always fun and she was wonderful to be with and was absolutely perfect casting [...] It was a great pity that, after I moved out of Bond, they didn't take her on to continue in the Timothy Dalton films. I think it was a great disappointment to her that she had not been promoted to play M. She would have been a wonderful M." Lois Maxwell References ^ a b c "Bond star Lois Maxwell dies at 80". BBC News. 30 September 2007. Retrieved 30 September 2007. ^ a b c "Lois Maxwell As Secretary To James Bond". The Gettysburg Times. Associated Press.

1 June 1967 – via Newspapers.com. ^ a b c Tom Lisanti (2002). Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962–1973. Louis Paul. McFarland & Company. ISBN0-7864-1194-5. ^ Obituary, Telegraph, re-printed in The Age, 3 October 2007, Businessday, p.13. ^ ^ ^ ^ a b c d Alan Barnes (2000). Kiss Kiss Bang! Bang!: The Unofficial James Bond 007 Film Companion. Marcus Hearne. Sterling Publishing Company. ISBN0-7134-8645-7. ^ James Bond 007 Lois Maxwell Lois Maxwell Original Miss Moneypenny dies at 80. Canadian-born actress was lovelorn secretary Miss Moneypenny appeared in first 14 James Bond films; spoke few lines.

The Times, London Published: Monday, October 01, 2007 In the early 1960s, her career bogged down in British second features, Lois Maxwell suffered a personal blow when her husband, Peter Marriott, had a serious heart attack. They had two small children and she needed work to support the family. After badgering producers, she was offered a part in the first film adaptation of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. In Dr. No, Ms. Maxwell's Miss Moneypenny was the attractive, lovelorn secretary of Bond's secret service boss, M, and usually the recipient of flowers when Bond called in at M's office. Almost inevitably, she would tick Bond off for being late, while harbouring romantic designs on him that were never reciprocated. Ms. Maxwell played Miss Moneypenny in the first 14 Bond films and was the only cast member to be in all 14, the Bond role having passed from Sean Connery to George Lazenby and Roger Moore. Although the commercial success of the cycle gave Ms.

Maxwell celebrity, it was estimated that in the films she spoke fewer than 200 words and was on screen a total of one hour. Nor did Miss Moneypenny make her rich. Ms. Maxwell started on about $200 a day, modest by film standards, and the fee did not substantially increase. Her final outing as Miss Moneypenny came in 1985 in A View to a Kill. By now, producer Cubby Broccoli had decided that at the age of 59 it was time for Ms. Maxwell to give way to a younger actress. She accepted this ageism with good grace. Ms. Maxwell was born Lois Hooker in Kitchener, Ont., and grew up in Toronto. Her father was a school teacher and her mother a nurse. She danced from the age of 10, and in 1942 joined the wartime Army Show. She was 15 and had to lie about her age to join the Canadian Women's Army Corps to get the part. The show toured Canada before going to Britain in 1943.

While in London, she got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where a fellow student, Roger Moore, was a future James Bond. She made her film debut in the Michael Powell-Emeric Pressburger film A Matter of Life and Death in 1946, only for her part to end up on the cutting-room floor. She subsequently appeared on the London stage in a Noel Coward play, Our Betters. On this scanty evidence, she was offered a contract by Warner Brothers and went to Hollywood in 1947 when she was 19. She was featured by Life magazine in a spread on two of Hollywood's most promising starlets. The other was Marilyn Monroe. Ms. Maxwell began at Warners with That Hagen Girl (1947), in which she played Shirley Temple's school teacher. Ms. Maxwell's time in Hollywood proved to be short and unfruitful. After landing only small parts in B-pictures, she quickly secured release from her Warners contract, but did no better at Columbia, and in 1948, frustrated by the standard of work she was being offered, she sailed for Europe.

In Britain, she had a small part in Corridor of Mirrors (1948), a melodrama that introduced Ms. Maxwell to Terence Young, who was to direct the first three Bond films. She then spent the early 1950s in Rome, where she made a couple of films with Sophia Loren, before returning to the British cinema and marrying Peter Marriott, a studio production executive, in 1957. On screen, she was busy, but never a star. A rare leading part came in the low-budget sci-fi picture Satellite in the Sky (1956), and Terence Young directed her again in Kill Me Tomorrow (1957). In the early 1960s, she appeared in two more notable films, Stanley Kubrick's version of Lolita and Robert Wise's horror picture, The Haunting. By now she was well into her long stint as Miss Moneypenny, but she occasionally took time out for other films, such as the Agatha Christie thriller Endless Night (1971). In 1979, she returned to Hollywood for the romantic comedy Lost and Found, but after A View to a Kill, she virtually retired from the screen.

When her husband died in 1973, she moved to Canada, settling in Toronto, where she became a businesswoman, running her own publishing company. For 14 years, she wrote a column for the Toronto Sun, which she signed Moneypenny. In 1994, she moved back to Britain and appeared regularly at James Bond conventions and dinners. Later that decade, she emigrated to Perth, and then Fremantle, in Western Australia, where her son lives. She died Saturday at age 80 in Australia. She is survived by her daughter and son. � The Ottawa Citizen 2007 Obituary: Lois Maxwell | Film | The Guardian Lois Maxwell Share on Messenger Close Lois Maxwell, who has died in Australia from cancer aged 80, was a screen player of long-term range and experience who will nevertheless be remembered for a single role, albeit one that she performed no fewer than 14 times.

In the celluloid annals of James Bond, agent 007, from their inauguration in Dr No with Sean Connery in 1962, until A View to a Kill, Roger Moore's final outing in the role in 1985, an essential component, even if brief in terms of screen time, was that of Maxwell's Miss Moneypenny, personal assistant to Bond's spymaster M, and an unfailing provider of ambiguous verbal jousting with Bond himself. Maxwell, born Lois Hooker, a surname which could hardly go unchanged for a career in the performing arts, grew up in Ontario, Canada, and moved while still in her teens to Hollywood, where she achieved early if modest success. She appeared in The Decision of Christopher Blake (1947) and the following year a supporting role in That Hagen Girl won her recognition as most promising newcomer in the Golden Globe awards. Her capacity to make an impression in the film was enhanced by the fact that the starring roles were essayed by an adult Shirley Temple and a callow Ronald Reagan.

She enlisted as a soldier in the Canadian army, and became part of the Army Entertainment Corps, travelling through Europe during the second world war, performing music and dance numbers to entertain the troops. She enrolled at Rada and during the 1950s became a familiar face in British cinema. With one or two exceptions, however, the films in which she was featured belonged to that category of formulaic B feature crime stories that have now largely disappeared even from the schedules of night-time television. Often these films featured fading Hollywood stars, so that in Kill Me Tomorrow (1957) she was sidekick to Pat O'Brien, as a drunken American reporter caught up in chicanery, while in Lady in the Fog (1951), she had been back-up to Cesar Romero as another such reporter, albeit relatively sober. Shortly before the Bond producers beckoned, she had played, if only in the modestly functional role of a nurse, in one of the major movies of its time, Stanley Kubrick's 1961 Lolita. When Dr No appeared in 1962, it may have been comparatively modest in production values when set beside its successors, but it immediately established a brand image.

It had been undertaken with the clear intention of inaugurating a series, and, to this end, the introduction of supplementary characters with sustaining roles in addition to Bond himself was part of the formula. Thus the figures of Bond's chief M and the latter's secretary, Miss Moneypenny, represented a significant part of the package. M was played for the first 11 films, up to his death in 1981, by the character actor Bernard Lee, and Maxwell was cast as "Moneypenny", as she was always known, though aficionados will know that her first name was Jane. Maxwell was then 35, neither girlish nor matronly, and projected in the role what one critic has aptly termed a "coolly appraising" personality which seemed ideally to embody the notion of a worldly-wise elder sister to Bond, with her coquettishness not quite concealed beneath a veneer of Whitehall propriety.

Richard Maibaum, who contributed to the screenplays of many Bond movies, once recalled that Ian Fleming had told him in a "bemused" way: "The pictures are so much funnier than my books." Maibaum added: "He really didn't understand that we were trying to make them funnier." Thus, anyway, the string of one-liners and double entendres for which the series eventually became all but notorious; thus, too, the ritual badinage between Bond and Moneypenny, hinting, in dialogue that by the standard of the time was mildly salacious, at an unrequited mutual fondness. With the huge box office success of Bond, Maxwell seldom strayed away from the franchise, though in 1967 she perhaps ill-advisedly made an appearance in an Italian spy spoof, Operation Kid Brother, starring none other than Sean Connery's brother Neil. With Roger Moore's discarding of the Bond mantle in 1985 and the subsequent revamping of the series, Maxwell's services were dispensed with. However, she continued to work in film and television, her final movie being The Fourth Angel (2001), with Jeremy Irons and Forest Whitaker.

Moore, who became a friend of Maxwell in private life, and paid tribute to her sense of humour, suggested that she would have loved to take on the role of M - which did acquire feminine form in the guise of Judi Dench. Maxwell's husband, TV executive Peter Marriott predeceased her. She is survived by a son and daughter. · Lois Maxwell, actor, born February 14 1927; died September 29 2007 1000+ images about Lois Maxwell on Pinterest | Search Pinterest • The world’s catalog of ideas Lois Maxwell Lois Maxwell was a Canadian actress, best known for her portrayal of Miss Moneypenny in the first fourteen James Bond films,. 19 Pins4.59k Followers 'Miss Moneypenny' Actress Lois Maxwell Dies at 80 | Fox News 'Miss Moneypenny' Actress Lois Maxwell Dies at 80 Published September 30, 2007 Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond films, has died. The Canadian actress, who was living in Australia, passed away at the age of 80.

She starred alongside Sean Connery in the first Bond film, "Dr No," in 1962. Maxwell continued in the role until 1985, when she played M's secretary for the last time in "A View To A Kill" with Roger Moore. Moore paid tribute to the star, calling her his 'lucky token." He told Sky News she would be remembered with "great affection", adding: "She will certainly be missed by me, and I'm sure by millions of fans around the world." She was succeeded by Caroline Bliss and later Samantha Bond. But many fans credit Maxwell as being the definitive Miss Moneypenny. Maxwell's final movie role was in the 2001 thriller "The Fourth Angel." A spokesperson for Fremantle Hospital in Western Australia said she died there on Saturday evening. In the late 1940s, she tried to make a name for herself as a starlet in Hollywood. Maxwell won the Golden Globe Award as Best Newcomer for her role in the 1947 Shirley Temple comedy "That Hagen Girl." She also posed for a photoshoot with another up-and-coming actress named Marilyn Monroe.

Maxwell appeared in "Bedtime For Bonzo" with Ronald Reagan, who she said was "very handsome and attractive." She also featured in many other TV series, and made guest appearances in episodes of "The Saint" and "The Persuaders!," both of which starred Moore. Advertisement OBITUARIES FOR YOUR EYES ONLY Lois Maxwell d. September 29, 2007 Lois Maxwell, the Canadian-born actress who gained international fame for her long-running portrayal of Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond films, died Sept. 29 in a hospital in Fremantle, Australia. She was 80. Moneypenny’s screen time was extremely limited in the films, sometimes amounting to just one scene, but Maxwell as Moneypenny became part of the familiar and beloved Bond family, along with Bernard Lee as M and Desmond Llewelyn as Q. Maxwell quipped and flirted with James Bonds played by Sean Connery, George Lazenby and Roger Moore in the first 14 Bond movies. She was born in Ontario and seemingly born to perform, appearing on Canadian radio programs as a youngster. In her teens she joined a wartime Canadian military unit sent to Britain to entertain troops.

There she obtained a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1944, where Roger Moore was a fellow student. After early stage and film work in England, she decided to try Hollywood and landed a role in 1947’s “That Hagen Girl,” starring Ronald Reagan and former child star Shirley Temple. Maxwell received a Golden Globe award as most promising newcomer for her performance. She and Marilyn Monroe were in a group labeled Hollywood’s most promising starlets in a Life magazine photo. But Hollywood stardom did not materialize and Maxwell returned to Europe, appearing in British and Italian movies throughout the 1950s. By 1962, as she explained in many interviews, she was in desperate straits: “I had a husband who was desperately ill, with two small children and no money, so I called producers I had worked with before and said, ‘Help me.’” Terence Young, who directed her in 1948’s “Corridor of Mirrors,” was preparing the first Bond film, “Dr.

No.” Maxwell often told the story of how Young offered her a choice of two roles, Miss Moneypenny or Sylvia Trench, the vamp Bond meets in his first scene in a London casino, and who Young envisioned as another running character in the films. But Sylvia’s second appearance in “From Russia With Love” was also her last. Maxwell chose Moneypenny because she said she “didn’t fancy myself in James Bond’s pajama top, hitting golf balls down the hallway,” as Sylvia did in “Dr. No.” Maxwell recalled that Bond creator Ian Fleming, when introduced to her, said, “When I wrote Miss Moneypenny, I envisaged a tall, elegant woman with the most kissable lips in the world, and you, my dear, are the epitome of that dream of mine.” But then, said Maxwell, "He puckered up his lips and I puckered up mine. At that moment, a female voice behind him screeched, 'Ian! Bedford wants you.' It was his wife. I never did get to kiss him." In 1962, Maxwell appeared in Stanley Kubrick’s “Lolita” as well as in “Dr.

No.” Her other film roles in the 1960s included “Come Fly With Me,” “The Haunting” and “Operation Kid Brother,” a dreadful spy spoof starring Maxwell, Bernard Lee and Sean Connery’s non-actor brother Neil. She also had guest shots in British TV series such as O.S.S., Danger Man, The Avengers, The Saint, The Baron, Department S, UFO and The Persuaders. She even had a recurring role in Stingray, the 1964 “Supermarionation” series, providing the voice of Lt. Atlanta Shore, a part she reprised in the 1981 movie version, “Invaders from the Deep.” Maxwell was the steady presence through three decades of Bond, surviving the departure of Connery, the single appearance of George Lazenby as Bond in “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (a film that actually gave Moneypenny some of her best scenes), and the arrival of Roger Moore, who beat every other Bond for longevity, starring in seven pictures. Maxwell was there all the way, beating out Llewelyn, who did not appear in “Dr.

No” or “Live and Let Die,” and Bernard Lee, who died after shooting his scenes for 1979’s “Moonraker.” But when Moore announced he was finally leaving after 1985’s “A View to a Kill,” Bond producer Cubby Broccoli broke the news to Maxwell that it also was time to recast Moneypenny with a younger actress. She took the inevitable decision in stride, half-joking that Moneypenny should become the new M in Timothy Dalton’s Bond films. Broccoli didn’t bite, but the role of Moneypenny has not fared well since Maxwell’s departure. Caroline Bliss made little impression as Moneypenny in Dalton’s two Bond films. Legal problems then kept Bond off the screen for seven years. Pert Samantha Bond played Moneypenny in Pierce Brosnan’s four Bond films. But the recent “reboot” of the Bond “franchise” with Daniel Craig as Bond has eliminated the role of Moneypenny, along with many other familiar trappings of the series.

Maxwell was born Lois Hooker and often threatened to write an autobiography titled “I Was Born a Hooker.” She returned to Canada in 1986 and started writing a thrice-weekly column titled “Moneypenny” for the Toronto Sun that ran until 1994. She still took occasional acting roles, the last in 2001’s “The Fourth Angel” with Jeremy Irons. Maxwell had battled cancer for several years and moved to Australia in 2002 to be closer to her son Christian. Top to bottom: Lois Maxwell and Sean Connery in “From Russia With Love”; on the “Goldfinger” set; in Playboy’s 1965 “James Bond’s Girls” feature; at James Bond’s wedding in “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.”

Question: Lois Maxwell played which part in the first 14 James Bond films?
Answer: Miss Moneypenny