Bond star Lois Maxwell dies at 80

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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Bond star Lois Maxwell dies at 80

Actress Lois Maxwell, who starred as Miss Moneypenny in a string of James Bond movies, has died aged 80.

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.

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[vader]

Lot of Bond fans in the Nation

I always thought Bond should have tapped it.

 

[MG1968]

Lot of Bond fans in the Nation

I always thought Bond should have tapped it.

nah, the obvious sexual tension was part of the appeal of her role in the movies. Once he taps it, she's just another Bond girl.

 

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She was offered the role of Sylvia Trench, but she refused because she thought the character was too sexual.

The producers liked her so much that they made the role the moneypenny for her.