List of James Bond allies in Live and Let Die
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This is a list of James Bond allies in the novel and film Live and Let Die
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in the James Bond
film Live and Let Die
, played by actress Madeline Smith
. She does not play a very large role in the story, appearing mostly in the opening almost as a sort of comic relief character. Miss Caruso was an Italian agent whom Bond apparently romanced on a previous mission, and she is found sleeping with him in the post-credits opening; when M and Moneypenny come to inform Bond of his mission, Miss Caruso, who is almost completely naked, snatches up her clothes and hides in the closet, but not before an embarrassing but quiet encounter with Moneypenny. After M and Moneypenny leave, Bond lets a relieved and grateful Miss Caruso out of the closet and tests his magnetic watch by unzipping her dress. It works.
film Live and Let Die
, Quarrel Junior is a fisherman in the Caribbean
. He is an ally to Bond, and is portrayed by Roy Stewart
. He also has a late father, Quarrel, who appeared in Dr. No
, and after his death, Junior continues his father's legacy by helping his father's former partner Bond on missions.
At the end of the film Quarrel is the one who plants the explosives in the poppy fields that explode, and meets back with Felix Leiter
.
. Since the later novel Dr. No preceded the earlier book Live and Let Die to the screen, Quarrel Jr. was the writers' way of getting around the fact of Quarrel's death.
film Live and Let Die
, Harold Strutter is a CIA Agent. He is an ally to Bond, and is portrayed by Lon Satton
.
recurring character in the James Bond
films Live and Let Die
and The Man with the Golden Gun
. He is portrayed by Clifton James
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in the USA.
In Live and Let Die, the Sheriff follows the boat chase between Bond and several other people connected with Mr. Big. The Sheriff attempts to arrest Bond but finds out that he is a secret agent from England. He doesn't have much success catching any of Mr. Big's henchmen or Bond. Unfortunately, James Bond unknowingly causes trouble for himself when his boat flew out of the water and across the road where Pepper has stopped one of the henchmen. A following boat landed in Pepper's squad car, allowing the henchman to escape, giving him an opportunity to pursue and attack Bond. Sheriff Pepper accidentally shoots the gas tank on Bond's boat, requiring him to swap boats in the next scene. When Pepper finally catches up to Bond, he was ready to arrest him, but Felix Leiter
has a Louisiana State Police
captain explain the situation to Pepper, resulting in Pepper's flabbergasted response, "A secret agent!? On whose side?"
, the Sheriff is on holiday with his wife in Thailand
where he recognizes Bond on a boat. He claims that he and his wife are United States
Democrats
. The Sheriff is then caught in a car chase with Bond chasing Scaramanga. Pepper is in a car dealership looking at an AMC Hornet
, when Bond in pursuit of Scaramanga, hops in the car and drives through a display window, with Pepper seated beside him. He might have been arrested by the Thai police and later released thanks to his wife or MI6.
After being told that Goodnight (on the radio) is headquarters:
and Buford T. Justice
.
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Charlie is an employee of the CIA who is under the direct instruction of CIA agent Felix Leiter. He is ordered to drive Bond to Leiter's safehouse after Bond arrives in New York City to investigate the death of one of MI6's agents.
Charlie was driving Bond to Leiter when suddenly one of Mr. Big's assassins, Whisper, drove up alongside Bond's car and fired a poison dart at Charlie's head. Charlie was initially unresponsive, but quickly slumped dead, leaving Bond trapped in the speeding car. Bond crashes but survives. He identifies the car whose driver killed Charlie and uses this evidence to track down Mr. Big.
Live and Let Die
Live and Let Die may refer to:*Live and Let Die , a James Bond novel by Ian Fleming**Live and Let Die , a 1973 film starring Roger Moore loosely based upon the novel...
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Recurring Allies
- MM (James Bond)M is a fictional character in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, as well as the films in the Bond franchise. The head of MI6 and Bond's superior, M has been portrayed by three actors in the official Bond film series: Bernard Lee, Robert Brown and since 1995 by Judi Dench. Background =Ian Fleming...
- Bernard LeeBernard LeeJohn Bernard Lee was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven James Bond films.-Life and career:... - Miss MoneypennyMiss MoneypennyJane Moneypenny, better known as Miss Moneypenny, is a fictional character in the James Bond novels and films. She is secretary to M, who is Bond's boss and head of the British Secret Service...
- Lois MaxwellLois MaxwellLois Maxwell was a Canadian actress.Maxwell began her film career in the late 1940s, and won a Golden Globe Award for the New Actress of the Year for her performance in That Hagen Girl... - Felix LeiterFelix LeiterFelix Leiter is a fictional CIA agent created by Ian Fleming in the James Bond series of novels and films. In both, Leiter works for the CIA and assists Bond in his various adventures as well as being his best friend. In further novels Leiter joins the Pinkerton Detective Agency and in the film...
- David HedisonDavid HedisonAlbert David Hedison, Jr. is an Armenian-American film, television, and stage actor. He was billed as Al Hedison in his early film work. In 1959, when he was cast in the role of Victor Sebastian in the short-lived espionage television series Five Fingers, NBC insisted that he change his name...
Miss Caruso
Miss Caruso is a fictional characterFictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
in the James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film Live and Let Die
Live and Let Die (film)
Live and Let Die is the eighth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman...
, played by actress Madeline Smith
Madeline Smith
Madeline Smith is an English actress and comedienne. She was a model in the 1960s, and appeared in many comedy films Madeline Smith (born 2 August 1949 in Hartfield, Sussex) is an English actress and comedienne. She was a model in the 1960s, and appeared in many comedy films Madeline Smith (born 2...
. She does not play a very large role in the story, appearing mostly in the opening almost as a sort of comic relief character. Miss Caruso was an Italian agent whom Bond apparently romanced on a previous mission, and she is found sleeping with him in the post-credits opening; when M and Moneypenny come to inform Bond of his mission, Miss Caruso, who is almost completely naked, snatches up her clothes and hides in the closet, but not before an embarrassing but quiet encounter with Moneypenny. After M and Moneypenny leave, Bond lets a relieved and grateful Miss Caruso out of the closet and tests his magnetic watch by unzipping her dress. It works.
Quarrel Junior
In the James BondJames Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film Live and Let Die
Live and Let Die (film)
Live and Let Die is the eighth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman...
, Quarrel Junior is a fisherman in the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
. He is an ally to Bond, and is portrayed by Roy Stewart
Roy Stewart
Roy Stewart , originally from Jamaica, began his career as a stuntman and went on to work in film and television, at a time when there were few working black actors....
. He also has a late father, Quarrel, who appeared in Dr. No
Dr. No (film)
Dr. No is a 1962 spy film, starring Sean Connery; it is the first James Bond film. Based on the 1958 Ian Fleming novel of the same name, it was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather and was directed by Terence Young. The film was produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R...
, and after his death, Junior continues his father's legacy by helping his father's former partner Bond on missions.
Film Biography
When Bond and Rosie Carver need a boat to get closer to Dr. Kananga, Bond picks Quarrel Junior's. When Rosie finds a secret place with radio transmitters and weapons, she thinks Quarrel is a villain. Even more when she finds him behind Bond with some rope. She holds Quarrel at gunpoint until Bond clears the mess up. Quarrel helps Bond get to the island on several occasions.At the end of the film Quarrel is the one who plants the explosives in the poppy fields that explode, and meets back with Felix Leiter
Felix Leiter
Felix Leiter is a fictional CIA agent created by Ian Fleming in the James Bond series of novels and films. In both, Leiter works for the CIA and assists Bond in his various adventures as well as being his best friend. In further novels Leiter joins the Pinkerton Detective Agency and in the film...
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Novel Biography
Quarrel Jr. does not appear in any novel but is based on Quarrel in the novel Live and Let DieLive and Let Die (novel)
Live and Let Die is the second novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1954, where the initial print run of 7,500 copies quickly sold out. As with Fleming's first novel, Casino Royale, Live and Let Die was broadly well received by the critics...
. Since the later novel Dr. No preceded the earlier book Live and Let Die to the screen, Quarrel Jr. was the writers' way of getting around the fact of Quarrel's death.
Harold Strutter
In the James BondJames Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film Live and Let Die
Live and Let Die (film)
Live and Let Die is the eighth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman...
, Harold Strutter is a CIA Agent. He is an ally to Bond, and is portrayed by Lon Satton
Lon Satton
Lon Satton Born: 1929, Philadelphia. U.S.A., is an actor and composer mostly known in Britain.- Stage works : He acted in Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, and Ian McDiarmid's musical, "The Three Penny Opera," at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London, England with Vanessa Redgrave, Joe Melia, Ronald...
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Film Biography
Was initially seen as a Dr. Kananga's henchman after following Bond to Harlem but is identified with him after of neutralize two Mr. Big's thugs and later communicates with Leiter. He later appears in front of the Fillet of Soul restaurant in the same place where they killed Hamilton in his casual meeting with the murderer. It is believed that Strutter was killed by Dr. Katanga's henchman "Casual Assassin". Strutter is missing and his official fate is unknown. They later go into the restaurant and order drinks. Leiter leaves to take a phone call allegedly from Strutter. Felix then says, "For a moment, I thought Harry was lying down on the job."Sheriff J.W. Pepper
Sheriff J.W. Pepper is a comic reliefComic relief
Comic relief is the inclusion of a humorous character, scene or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension.-Definition:...
recurring character in the James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
films Live and Let Die
Live and Let Die (film)
Live and Let Die is the eighth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman...
and The Man with the Golden Gun
The Man with the Golden Gun (film)
The Man with the Golden Gun is the ninth spy film in the James Bond series and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond...
. He is portrayed by Clifton James
Clifton James
George Clifton James is an American actor. He is probably best known for his role as the bumbling Sheriff J.W. Pepper alongside Roger Moore in the James Bond films Live and Let Die and The Man With The Golden Gun and his role alongside Sean Connery in The Untouchables .-Personal life:James was...
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Live and Let Die
Sheriff J.W. Pepper is a sheriff from LouisianaLouisiana
Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...
in the USA.
In Live and Let Die, the Sheriff follows the boat chase between Bond and several other people connected with Mr. Big. The Sheriff attempts to arrest Bond but finds out that he is a secret agent from England. He doesn't have much success catching any of Mr. Big's henchmen or Bond. Unfortunately, James Bond unknowingly causes trouble for himself when his boat flew out of the water and across the road where Pepper has stopped one of the henchmen. A following boat landed in Pepper's squad car, allowing the henchman to escape, giving him an opportunity to pursue and attack Bond. Sheriff Pepper accidentally shoots the gas tank on Bond's boat, requiring him to swap boats in the next scene. When Pepper finally catches up to Bond, he was ready to arrest him, but Felix Leiter
Felix Leiter
Felix Leiter is a fictional CIA agent created by Ian Fleming in the James Bond series of novels and films. In both, Leiter works for the CIA and assists Bond in his various adventures as well as being his best friend. In further novels Leiter joins the Pinkerton Detective Agency and in the film...
has a Louisiana State Police
Louisiana State Police
The Louisiana State Police is the state police department of Louisiana, which has jurisdiction anywhere in the state, headquartered in Baton Rouge. It was created to protect the lives, property and constitutional rights of people in Louisiana. It falls under the authority of the Louisiana...
captain explain the situation to Pepper, resulting in Pepper's flabbergasted response, "A secret agent!? On whose side?"
The Man with the Golden Gun
Later in The Man with the Golden GunThe Man with the Golden Gun (film)
The Man with the Golden Gun is the ninth spy film in the James Bond series and the second to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond...
, the Sheriff is on holiday with his wife in Thailand
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
where he recognizes Bond on a boat. He claims that he and his wife are United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
Democrats
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
. The Sheriff is then caught in a car chase with Bond chasing Scaramanga. Pepper is in a car dealership looking at an AMC Hornet
AMC Hornet
The AMC Hornet was a compact automobile made by the American Motors Corporation in one generation beginning with the 1970 model year and continuing through the 1977 model year. The Hornet replaced the compact Rambler American marking the end of the Rambler marque in the American and Canadian markets...
, when Bond in pursuit of Scaramanga, hops in the car and drives through a display window, with Pepper seated beside him. He might have been arrested by the Thai police and later released thanks to his wife or MI6.
- (Pepper) "Now I know you!"
- (Bond) "Oh, no..."
- (Pepper) "You're that secret agent! That English secret agent from England!"
After being told that Goodnight (on the radio) is headquarters:
- (Pepper) "Hello, this is Sheriff J.W. Pepper, Louisiana State PoliceLouisiana State PoliceThe Louisiana State Police is the state police department of Louisiana, which has jurisdiction anywhere in the state, headquartered in Baton Rouge. It was created to protect the lives, property and constitutional rights of people in Louisiana. It falls under the authority of the Louisiana...
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Character
Sheriff J.W. Pepper is mainly used as a comic relief and is known to spit out tobacco and yell out loudly anything he has on his mind. He makes crude comments on people he sees, and things that they do. His character is a progenitor of such later "Southern Hick Police" characters such as Rosco P. ColtraneSheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
On the American TV series The Dukes of Hazzard, Rosco Purvis Coltrane is the bumbling sheriff of Hazzard County and right-hand man of its corrupt county commissioner, Jefferson Davis "J.D." Hogg ....
and Buford T. Justice
Buford T. Justice
Sheriff Buford T. Justice is the fictional character played by Jackie Gleason in the movies Smokey and the Bandit , Smokey and the Bandit II and Smokey and the Bandit Part 3...
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Charlie
Charlie is a minor character in the James Bond film Live and Let DieLive and Let Die (film)
Live and Let Die is the eighth spy film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman...
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Charlie is an employee of the CIA who is under the direct instruction of CIA agent Felix Leiter. He is ordered to drive Bond to Leiter's safehouse after Bond arrives in New York City to investigate the death of one of MI6's agents.
Charlie was driving Bond to Leiter when suddenly one of Mr. Big's assassins, Whisper, drove up alongside Bond's car and fired a poison dart at Charlie's head. Charlie was initially unresponsive, but quickly slumped dead, leaving Bond trapped in the speeding car. Bond crashes but survives. He identifies the car whose driver killed Charlie and uses this evidence to track down Mr. Big.