Q (standing for Quartermaster), like M, is a job title rather than a name. He is the head of Q Branch, the research and development division of the British Secret Service.
In the unofficial James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983), Q Branch is headed by a man (portrayed by the late Alec McCowen) referred to by Bond as "Algernon" and "Algy", though his opening line is "Nice to know old Q can still surprise you 00s." In the closing credits, he is named as "Q Algy".
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Q Branch itself is depicted as underfunded (per dialogue) and ramshackle compared to the high-tech surroundings of the Eon films. He also has a very different attitude to other Q's, by commenting that it had been very dull without Bond, and now that he is back, hopes that there will be "plenty of gratuitous sex and violence".
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- Major Boothroyd (Literary)
- Major Boothroyd (Peter Burton)
- Q (Desmond Llewelyn)
- Q (John Cleese)
- Q (Ben Whishaw)
- Q (Geoffrey Bayldon)
- Q (Gregg Berger)
- Q (Peter Capaldi)
- Q (Julian Sands)
- Q (Dynamite)
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