Timothy Moxon

Timothy Napier Moxon (2 June 1924 – 5 December 2006) was an English-born actor, pilot and restaurateur who is probably best known for playing John Strangways, the character who uttered the first dialogue in the first James Bond film Dr. No, and was the first character to die in the film series. Timothy Moxon is mentioned and quoted in British historian Matthew Parker's Random House 2014 book: Goldeneye: Where James Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica. Timothy Moxon was interviewed in 2005 in Jamaica by Lee Pfeiffer, editor-in-chief of Cinema Retro magazine for the Movie Classics special edition of The First James Bond Film – Dr. No. (pages 28 – 29). Early life and career Moxon was born in Kent, England and served in the Royal Air Force in the Second World War, training as a pilot in Canada, and flying aircraft that towed troop-carrying gliders across occupied Europe. After the war he acted in repertory theatre and, with his brother Oliver Moxon, founded the New Torch Theatre, London. He was also a pilot with BEA, and for an agricultural crop spraying company in Sudan and Jamaica, where he remained for the rest of his life, settling in Oracabessa. Tim also was a pilot for Reynolds Metals Co. in British Guiana (now Guyana) during the early 1960s, flying in and out of Kwakwani, while also living there.