List of James Bond allies
The following is a list of allies found throughout the James Bond film and novel series.
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Main allies
M
- Bernard Lee (1962 – 1979)
- John Huston (1967) – Unofficial Casino Royale
- Robert Brown (1983 – 1989)
- Edward Fox (1983) – Unofficial Never Say Never Again
- Judi Dench (1995 – current)
Also, in the spoof Casino Royale, Sir James Bond (David Niven) is promoted to the position of M.
Miss Moneypenny
- Lois Maxwell (1962 – 1985)
- Barbara Bouchet (1967) – Unofficial Casino Royale
- Pamela Salem (1983) – Unofficial Never Say Never Again
- Caroline Bliss (1987 – 1989)
- Samantha Bond (1995 – current)
Q
- Peter Burton (1962) – Dr. No only (referred to as Major Boothroyd)
- Desmond Llewelyn (1963 – 1999)
- Geoffrey Bayldon (1967) – unofficial Casino Royale
- Alec McCowen (1983) – unofficial Never Say Never Again (also referred to as Algernon)
- John Cleese (1999 – current) – first appearance in The World Is Not Enough referred to as "R". Became Q in Die Another Day.
Felix Leiter
- Jack Lord (1962) – Dr. No
- Cec Linder (1964) – Goldfinger
- Rik Van Nutter (1965) – Thunderball
- Norman Burton (1971) – Diamonds Are Forever
- David Hedison (1973) – Live and Let Die
- Bernie Casey (1983) – Unofficial Never Say Never Again
- John Terry (1987) – The Living Daylights
- David Hedison (1989) – Licence to Kill
An altered version of the character appears in the 1954 television adaptation of Casino Royale. In that version, Leiter is a British agent named Clarence Leiter and is played by Michael Pate.
Recurring allies
Gogol, General
General Gogol is the head of the KGB in the films, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, and The Living Daylights. He is played by Walter Gotell. Although with the KGB, Gogol often allies himself with Bond to stave off the possibility of war with the West, an ideal that is not always shared with his comrades.
Goodnight, Mary
Mary Goodnight is Bond's second personal secretary. She first appears in On Her Majesty's Secret Service and You Only Live Twice. By the time of The Man with the Golden Gun she has been assigned to the Kingston station of the service, although she has a much greater role. She appears in the film, The Man with the Golden Gun as a Bond girl, played by Britt Ekland.
Gray, Sir Fredrick
Sir Frederick Gray is the Minister of Defence in the films The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, and The Living Daylights. He is played by Geoffrey Keen.
Mathis, Rene
Bond's French counterpart in Station F in the novels. He has, to date, never appeared in an official James Bond film, however, he was in the 1967 spoof Casino Royale played by Duncan Macrae. Mathis in the novels, was a main character in Casino Royale and played a supporting character in From Russia With Love. It was Mathis who captured the SMERSH villain, Rosa Klebb.
May
May is Bond's loyal housekeeper who is often mentioned in numerous novels by Ian Fleming. She has yet to make an appearance in any film.
Pepper, Sheriff J.W.
Sheriff J.W. Pepper is an officer of the Louisiana State Police. He appears in the films, Live and Let Die, and later The Man with the Golden Gun. The character, played by Clifton James is mostly used as comic-relief is most memorable for his somewhat bigoted attitudes and his tendency to speak loudly about whatever is on his mind.
Ponsonby, Loelia
Loelia Ponsonby is Bond's personal secretary in many James Bond novels. She retires and is replaced in On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Mary Goodnight after marrying a member of the Baltic Exchange. For the films, her relationship with James is transferred and replaced by Miss Moneypenny.
Robinson, Charles
Charles Robinson is a MI6 operative in the Pierce Brosnan era of films. He first appears in Tomorrow Never Dies and later The World Is Not Enough, and Die Another Day. He is played by Colin Salmon.
Smithers
Smithers is one of Q's assistants. He makes two appearances, the first in For Your Eyes Only and his last in Octopussy. He is played by: Jeremy Bulloch.
Strangways, John
Appears in both the novel and the film Dr. No, where in both he is assassinated for prying into Dr. Julius No's business. In the novel series, he had previously appeared in Live and Let Die. Strangways is an MI6 agent stationed in Jamaica. In the film he is portrayed by Tim Moxon and voiced by Robert Rietty.
Tanner, Bill
Bill Tanner is MI6's Chief of Staff. Tanner is a regular literary character from Fleming and Gardner's novels, but wasn't a regular cinematic character until Pierce Brosnan's era, although he appeared as a background character in some Roger Moore films.
- played by: Michael Goodliffe — The Man with the Golden Gun
- played by: James Villiers — For Your Eyes Only
- played by: Michael Kitchen — GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough
Wade, Jack
- Main article: Jack Wade
Jack Wade is an American CIA agent that appears in the films GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies. Played by Joe Don Baker, Wade is often considered a semi-replacement in the films for Felix Leiter after the events of Licence to Kill.
Zukovsky, Valentin Dmitrovich
Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky is an ex-KGB agent turned Russian mafia head who runs a bar, a casino, and a caviar factory. Played by Robbie Coltrane, Zukovsky makes two appearances in the films before being killed in The World Is Not Enough. His first appearance was in GoldenEye.
Minor allies per film
- Quarrel – played by: John Kitzmiller
- Kerim Bey – played by: Pedro Armendariz
- Colonel Smithers played by: Richard Vernon
- Hawker – played by: Gerry Duggan
- Paula Caplin – played by: Martine Beswick
- Tiger Tanaka – played by: Tetsuro Tamba
- Henderson – played by: Charles Gray
Casino Royale (unofficial film)
- Evelyn Tremble – played by: Peter Sellers
- Mata Bond – played by: Joanna Pettet
- "The Detainer" – played by: Daliah Lavi
- Cooper – played by: Terence Cooper
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
- Marc Ange Draco – played by: Gabriele Ferzetti
- Sir Hilary Bray – played by: George Baker
- Campbell – played by: Bernard Horsfall
- Willard Whyte – played by: Jimmy Dean
- Sir Donald Munger – played by: Laurence Naismith
- Quarrel Jr – played by: Roy Stewart
- Lt. Hip – played by: Soon Taik Oh
- Captain Carter – played by: Shane Rimmer
- Captain Benson – played by: George Baker
- Sheikh Hosein – played by: Edward de Souza
- Admiral Hargreaves – played by: Robert Brown
- Colonel Scott – played by: Mike Marshall
- Manuela – played by: Emily Bolton
- Dolly – played by: Blanche Ravalec
- Milos Columbo – played by: Chaim Topol
- Margaret Thatcher – played by: Janet Brown
- Vijay – played by: Vijay Amritraj
Never Say Never Again (unofficial film)
- Nigel Small-Fawcett – played by: Rowan Atkinson
- Sir Godfrey Tibbett – played by: Patrick Macnee
- Chuck Lee – played by: David Yip
- Achille Aubergine – played by: Jean Rougerie
- Kamran Shah – played by: Art Malik
- General Leonid Pushkin – played by: John Rhys-Davies
- Saunders – played by: Thomas Wheatley
- Sharkey – played by: Frank McRae
- Dimitri Mishkin – played by: Tcheky Karyo
- Admiral Roebuck – played by: Geoffrey Palmer
- Dr. Molly Warmflash – played by: Serena Scott Thomas
- Raoul – played by: Emilio Echevarria
- Damian Falco – played by: Michael Madsen
- Mr. Chang – played by: Ho Yi
- Verity – played by: Madonna
00-agents
| 00-agent | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Agent 002 | Bill Fairbanks | Assassinated by Francisco Scaramanga, a.k.a. The Man with the Golden Gun, in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1969. In The Living Daylights, another 002 was in the training exercise at Gibraltar, with 004 and 007. |
| Agent 003 | Unknown | Found dead, in Siberia, in A View to a Kill. Another (presumably unrelated) MI6 agent, referred to as 003, or "Jack", is killed by Diavolo, the villain, in the Everything or Nothing Bond video game (2004). |
| Agent 004 | Frederick Warder | Accompanied 002 and 007 to Gibraltar in The Living Daylights; murdered by a KGB agent who left a tag on the body that read "Death to Spies" in Russian. |
| Agent 005 | Stuart Thomas | Was 005 until an eye defect had begun to impair his ability to use a firearm. Was transfered and is the head of Station G (Greece) in Colonel Sun. |
| Agent 006 | Alec Trevelyan | One of Bond's best friends, he betrayed MI6 and Her Majesty's Government by faking his death in aiding the theft of the secret Soviet satellite, GoldenEye. His motive was avenging his parents, Lienz Cossacks, betrayed to the Communists by the British government after World War II. He also begrudged Bond's not allowing him time to escape unscathed from the Soviet chemical weapons factory they were to destroy in the mission shown in the teaser of GoldenEye; Sean Bean was Secret agent 006. |
| Agent 008 | Unknown | In the films, agent 008 is mentioned briefly when M threatens to replace Bond on an assignment, e.g. Goldfinger and The Living Daylights. The James Bond 007 role playing game released in the 1980s suggests 008 is a woman. In the novel Moonraker 008 (called "Bill" by Bond) is mentioned as being on vacation. |
| Agent 009 | Unknown | Assassinated by Mischka and Grischka in Octopussy. M sent another 009, in The World Is Not Enough, to assassinate Renard; despite 009's shooting him in the head, Renard lived. |
| Agent 0011 | Unknown | Mentioned briefly in the novel Moonraker as vanishing while on assignment in Singapore. |
| Agent 0012 | Unknown | Although unmentioned on screen, the novelization of The World is Not Enough indicates that Bond is investigating 0012's death at the film's start. |
Additional 00-agents are glimpsed in the briefing scenes of Thunderball and The World Is Not Enough, but no additional information about them is provided. The latter film establishes that at least one 00-agent is a woman. There is fan speculation that suggests that M, being the head of MI6, is also 001, but this is not supported by any novel or film. Likewise, speculation that only nine 00-agents exist (001–009) is contradicted by Fleming himself in Moonraker.
See also
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