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- Desmond Llewelyn was born in South Wales in 1914, the son of a coal mining engineer. In high school, he worked as a stagehand in the school's productions and then picked up sporadic small parts. His family would not give up their effort to prevent him from a life on stage, so an uncle who was a high-ranking police officer arranged for Llewelyn to take the department's physical exam.
"Thank God, I flunked the eye test, and they wouldn't take me. I suspect the inspector had a hangover because he also failed this other chap I knew, who went out the same day and passed the physical for the Royal Navy, which had a lot tougher test."
After failing the police exam, Llewelyn thought about becoming a minister, realizing after a week-long retreat of quiet and meditation that the ministry "was definitely not for me." Llewelyn persevered in his acting quest, and was accepted to the Royal Academy for the Dramatic Arts in the mid 1930s.
The outbreak of World War II in September 1939, halted his acting career, and Llewelyn was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the British army. He was assigned to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and was sent to France in early 1940.
In a short time, his regiment was fighting the Germans, and Llewelyn's company was holding off a division of German tanks. Llewelyn explained that "eventually, the tanks broke through and many of us jumped into this canal and started swimming down it to the other side, figuring that our chaps were still over there. But the Germans were the only ones there," and Llewelyn was captured, and held as a prisoner of war for five years.
At one prison camp, the prisoners had dug a tunnel and were planning to escape the next morning. Llewelyn was down in the tunnel doing some maintenance work in preparation of the escape when the Germans found out about the tunnel and caught him down in it, a crime that earned Llewelyn 10 days in solitary, which Llewelyn called "a blessing of sorts. After spending every day of several years sleeping in a room with 50 other people, the quiet and privacy was rather nice."
After the war, Llewelyn returned to London and revived his career, eventually being cast as his trademark Q in From Russia with Love (1963). Since 1963, Llewelyn has appeared as Q in every Eon Productions Bond film, except Live and Let Die (1973).
Llewelyn was omitted from Live and Let Die (1973) because producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli felt that too much was being made of the gadgets and they would play it down. Llewelyn said he "was quite disappointed" at being left out of Live and Let Die (1973).
Fans, however, missed Q, and Llewelyn got a call shortly after the release of Live and Let Die (1973) telling him that he would be in the next Bond film, The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).
Llewelyn, who admits that his mechanical abilities in real life are virtually nil, is geared up for the next Bond movie. "I'd love to be in the next one," Llewelyn said. "Of course, if you consider my age, they should have put me out to grass a long time ago." - John Maynard Keynes grew up in Cambridge. He attended Eaton College. He then began studying mathematics at King's College in Cambridge in 1902. In 1905 he switched to economics. After completing his studies, he found a job in the so-called "India Ministry" in London. From 1909 he took on a teaching position at King's College. Two years later he began editing the "Economic Journal", which he held until 1945. From 1913 to 1945 Keynes served as secretary of the Royal Economic Society. A job at the Ministry of Finance meant that he was exempt from military service.
In his capacity as advisor to the British Treasury, John Maynard Keynes led the relevant delegation at the Peace Conference at Versailles in 1919. In his paper entitled "The economic consequences of the peace" from 1919, he justified the unreasonableness of the demands for reparations. In addition to his professional activities in economics and finance, he became the head of an insurance company and founded a theater. The art lover also saved two ballet companies from ruin. His great love, the ballerina Lydia Lopokowa, also came from the art sector. In the period that followed, from 1921 to 1926, some theoretical specialist writings by John Maynard Keynes appeared.
In 1921 the title "Treatise on probability" was published. In the pamphlet entitled "A revision of the treaty" published in 1922, he justified his demand for a revision of the Treaty of Versailles. The following year his work "Tract on monetary reform" was published. And in 1926 he published the title "The end of laissez-faire". In 1925, John Maynard Keynes married Lydia Lopokova. On October 25, 1929, the great stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange occurred, which went down in history as "Black Friday". In response to this economic collapse, the majority of financial and economic experts called for strict austerity measures. Keynes, on the other hand, advocated new government debt in order to use the money to create more jobs.
In 1920 his work "A treatise on money" was published and a year later the title "Essays in persuasion". In order to combat the unemployment rate, the then US President Franklin D. Roosevelt took on new debt. In doing so, he followed the theory of John Maynard Keynes, who also gave lectures at the White House in Washington. In 1936 his main work was published with the original title "The general theory of employment, interest and money". The following year he suffered a heart attack, from which he recovered. In 1940 his work entitled "How to pay for the war" was published, in which he made his proposal for financing the war. From 1939 to 1945 he became an advisor to the British government on the subject of the Second World War.
Keynes also became head of the Bank of England. As an art lover, he was elected chairman of the "Committee for the Promotion of Music and Art". By King George VI the economist was awarded the title of nobility. He received the title John Maynard Lord Keynes of Tilton in 1942. He laid down his ideas on the international monetary order in the work "Proposals for an international clearing union" in 1943. The following year, Keynes took part on behalf of his country at the monetary conference in the US Bretton Woods, where post-war financial policy was planned internationally. - Costume and Wardrobe Department
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Quentin Bell was born on 19 August 1910 in London, England, UK. He is known for Mr. Brooks (2007), Emu's All Live Pink Windmill Show (1984) and Call My Bluff (1965). He was married to Olivier Bell. He died on 16 December 1996 in Firle, East Sussex, England, UK.- Olivier Bell was born on 20 June 1916 in London, England, UK. She was married to Quentin Bell. She died on 18 July 2018 in Firle, Sussex, England, UK.