Lois Maxwell, the screen's first "Miss Moneypenny", who tried but never got James Bond, died yesterday of cancer at 80 in Australia. Born Lois Hooker in Canada, she started her screen career with an uncredited role in "A Matter of Life and Death" in 1946. The year she began in the Bond series she also played a nurse in Stanley Kubrick's "Lolita". She is second only to the late Desmond Llewellyn ("Q") in the Bond movies she played in. And she also voiced Atlanta, Troy Tempest's girl, in the Gerry Anderson series "Stingray".

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Still, 80's not a bad innings. I thought she was great - and she and I were the only people in the whole world you liked George Lazenby best - guess it's just me now...