Yesteryears actress Lois Maxwell, who played the flirtatious Miss Moneypenny in the Bond series, has died at the age of 80 in Australia.
London, Oct 1 : Yesteryears' actress Lois Maxwell, who played the flirtatious Miss Moneypenny in the Bond series, has died at the age of 80 in Australia.
The actress, who shot to fame as the secretary of Bond's spy chief M, became a part of the 007 series when she starred alongside Sir Sean Connery in the 1962 film 'Dr No'.
Since then she appeared in 14 films till she made her last appearance opposite Sir Roger Moore in 'A View To A Kill'.
Though Maxwell was no Bond babe, she won millions of fans through her unglamorous role, and as she admitted, the character was actually what made her career.
"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'," the Daily Mail quoted her, as having once said.
Calling Maxwell his 'lucky token', Sir Roger Moore said that she will be missed by all.
"She will certainly be missed by me, and I'm sure by millions of fans around the world. She was always fun and she was wonderful to be with. It was a great disappointment to her that she had not been promoted to play M. She would have been wonderful. Lois was wonderful, absolutely perfect casting," Sir Roger said.
"It was a great pity that after I moved out of Bond, that they didn't take her on to continue in the Timothy Dalton films.
"She had a tremendous sense of humour. She used to sing dirty songs from the Canadian women's army, in which she'd served.
"I'm afraid she got typecast as Miss Moneypenny - that's what producers do. We'd done a number of episodes of The Saint and The Persuaders together, so over the past 60 years I've seen a great deal of her," he added.
She played her last role as Miss Moneypenny when she was 58.
In the last days of her life she was working on her autobiography.
ANI