Known for Acting
Lois Maxwell was a Canadian actress who is best known for playing Miss Moneypenny in the early James Bond movies.
Born
February 14, 1927
Died
September 29, 2007 (age 80)
Birthplace
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Filmography
69 films, 15 shows


Stingray: The Reunion Party
2008 · 30m
country: United Kingdom
While waiting for Atlanta and Marina, Commander Sam Shore shows Admiral Denver films depicting the previous missions that Troy Tempest and Phones had with the submarine Stingray.


The Fourth Angel
2001 · 1h 36m
country: United Kingdom
Workaholic reporter, Jack Elgin takes his family on a working trip to India, but their aircraft is hijacked in Cyprus by a previously-unknown terrorist movement, and his wife and daughter are among the slaughtered. With western governments suppressing key facts and unwilling to go after the terrorists, Jack uses his contacts and snooping skill to seek the truth himself.


Inside 'Dr. No'
2000 · 42m
country: United States
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film Dr. No.


Terence Young: Bond Vivant
2000 · 17m
country: United States
Documentary on the career of director Terence Young.


Inside 'Octopussy'
2000 · 33m
country: Unknown
Documentary looking at the production of the James Bond movie 'Octopussy'. Narrated by Patrick Macnee.


Hard to Forget
1998 · 1h 35m
country: Canada
Private Dick Max Warner investigates the disappearance of a young heiress Sandra Applewhite. He is convinced that she was murdered by her fiancé - but without her body, he can not prove anything. So he sees a poster with a model who is an identical copy of Sandra. One by one the pieces are falling into place and Max realizes that much more than a legacy is at stake.


In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross
1995 · 1h
country: United Kingdom
Jonathan Ross delves into the world of James Bond and meets with new and former cast members who reveal humorous stories and anecdotes in a series of interviews. All the 5 Bonds at the time are featured, though only Lazenby (reflecting in the usual frank, self criticizing manner), Moore and Brosnan granted an interview. Connery and Dalton are featured through some unused footage from LWT's 30 years of James Bond program. The ever faithful Desmond Llewelyn turns up in character as well as some other less related peeps like Christopher Lee, Paul McCartney and the ultimate playboy: Hugh Hefner -- who all give an interesting perspective on the worlds most famous spy.


Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
1995 · 50m
country: United States
The story of actor Roger Moore, including clips from his movies, television shows and interviews with the actor, his family and acquaintances.


Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball'
1995 · 28m
country: United Kingdom
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Thunderball".


Lady in a Corner
1989 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Grace Guthrie tries to stave off the hostile take over of her publishing empire. While fighting off a ruthless British business-mogul, she must also deal with a mole.
Martha, Ruth & Edie
Martha, Ruth & Edie
1988 · 1h 32m
country: Canada
Two women attending a women's seminar on personal development walk out in acute embarrassment during the introduction. They meet up with a woman who arrived too late to be admitted. Thrown together by chance, they discuss their emotional lives in intimate detail.


A View to a Kill
1985 · 2h 11m
country: United Kingdom
A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin who forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Francisco Bay.


Eternal Evil
1985 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A dissatisfied Montreal director of TV commercials is taught to astrally project himself by a mysterious woman. But soon he finds that he does it against his will when he sleeps, and while he does it, he commits savage acts against those in his life.


Octopussy
1983 · 2h 11m
country: United Kingdom
James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.


For Your Eyes Only
1981 · 2h 8m
country: United Kingdom
A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.


Mr. Patman
1981 · 1h 37m
country: Canada
Women, patients and paranoia surround an Irish night-shift orderly in a Canadian mental ward.


Invaders from the Deep
1981 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
A compilation of four episodes from the Supermarionation series Stingray. When aquatic aliens plot to take over the planet, the world aquanaut security patrol are called in to battle the aliens.


The Incredible Voyage of Stingray
1980 · 1h 30m
country: United Kingdom
Adventures of the super-sub Stingray and the World Aquanaut Security Patrol and their battles against Titan, leader of the underwater city of Titanica.


Lost and Found
1979 · 1h 46m
country: United Kingdom
While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced British secretary, Patricia, wherever they go. First their cars collide. Then they smash into one another on a ski slope, each breaking a leg. In between numerous quarrels, the two develop lust and love. They hastily marry, but the disagreements continue. Patricia decides to leave, so Adam decides to fake a suicide. They lose and find each other, again and again.


Moonraker
1979 · 2h 6m
country: France
After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.


The Spy Who Loved Me
1977 · 2h 5m
country: United Kingdom
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.


Age of Innocence
1977 · 1h 41m
country: Canada
A British schoolteacher finds trouble in a conservative Canadian town.


From Hong Kong with Love
1975 · 1h 37m
country: France
Bons baisers de Hong Kong (From Hong Kong with Love) is a 1975 French film directed by Yvan Chiffre. It is a parody of James Bond movies featuring Les Charlots with scenes shot in Hong Kong. Mickey Rooney featured in the film as well as Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell, stars of the James Bond films who appeared as M and Moneypenny respectively.


Sporting Chance
1975 · 1h 42m
country: United Kingdom
Life in the fast lane becomes deadly for Wilde and Sinclair when the mob tries to "fix" the sport of high-speed racing. Wilde then finds himself mixed up with lady luck and a network of communist killers.


The Man with the Golden Gun
1974 · 2h 5m
country: United Kingdom
Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths with the menacing Francisco Scaramanga, a hitman so skilled he has a seven-figure working fee. Bond then joins forces with the swimsuit-clad Mary Goodnight, and together they track Scaramanga to a Thai tropical isle hideout where the killer-for-hire lures the slick spy into a deadly maze for a final duel.


Live and Let Die
1973 · 2h 1m
country: United Kingdom
James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
Peep
Peep
1973 · 1h 18m
country: Unknown
A brittle marriage unravels when a professor’s affair with a male student comes to light. In response, his wife—played by Lois Maxwell—spirals into quiet retaliation, attempting her own transgressive connection while documenting everything in a diary she plans to expose. Peep (1984) is a tense, intimate portrait of revenge, repression, and the dangerous urge to turn private lives into public spectacle.


Endless Night
1972 · 1h 39m
country: United Kingdom
Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a famous architect to build their dream home amidst a series of suspicious incidents. The spouse has dark intentions toward his naive, inexperienced bride. Secrets from his past and sinister ties to their house guest Greta lead to a terrible turn of unexpected events.


Diamonds Are Forever
1971 · 2h
country: United Kingdom
Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.


On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969 · 2h 22m
country: United Kingdom
With the help of Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Unione Corse crime syndicate, and Draco's troubled daughter Tracy, James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Stravro Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss Alps, where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women.


You Only Live Twice
1967 · 1h 57m
country: United Kingdom
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.


Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond
1967 · 52m
country: United Kingdom
Moneypenny and Q discuss the rumors that James Bond is getting married. Promotional clip show to coincide with the release of the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice (1967) featuring clips from the earlier 007 movies.


Operation Kid Brother
1967 · 1h 44m
country: Italy
The evil crime syndicate Thanatos is bent on taking over the world, using a magnetic wave generator that will cause all metal-based machinery to grind to a halt. However, the well-known British secret agent normally assigned to such tasks isn't available, so they engage his civilian brother, Neil, to help. Neil, played by Neil Connery, is a world-class plastic surgeon, hypnotist, and lip-reader, which turn out to be precisely the skills required for thwarting Thanatos.
Rome, Sweet Home
Rome, Sweet Home
1966 · 25m
country: Unknown
Anachronism-laden historic sitcom in which a Roman businessman is conned into putting up a muscle-bound poet against a top gladiator in order to get one over his arch rival at the mens club, Braggius. Things look bleak when his champ proves to have a glass jaw. But his son and slave have an idea which may just save the day!


Thunderball
1965 · 2h 10m
country: United Kingdom
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.


The Incredible World of James Bond
1965 · 51m
country: United States
This promotional film was aired on American television on 26 November 1965, one month before the release of Thunderball (1965). Narrated by Alexander Scourby, the 48 minute documentary aired as a one hour special. It included footage of the filming at Silverstone Racetrack, Northamptonshire and of the fight aboard the Disco Volante at Pinewood Studios; media coverage of Martine Beswick, Luciana Paluzzi and Claudine Auger; and archive footage of Ian Fleming at 'Goldeneye', Jamaica.
The Ambassadors
The Ambassadors
1965 · 45m
country: Unknown
Lambert Strether goes to France to rescue a young American from a European adventuress - only to fall under the spell of Europe himself. 1965 BBC adaptation of the Henry James novel.


Goldfinger
1964 · 1h 50m
country: United Kingdom
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.


From Russia with Love
1963 · 1h 55m
country: United Kingdom
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.


The Haunting
1963 · 1h 52m
country: United Kingdom
Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…


Come Fly with Me
1963 · 1h 49m
country: United Kingdom
Three airline hostesses combine their work crossing the Atlantic with searching for a rich handsome man to marry.


Dr. No
1962 · 1h 50m
country: United Kingdom
Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.


Lolita
1962 · 2h 34m
country: United Kingdom
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.


The Unstoppable Man
1961 · 1h 8m
country: United Kingdom
Mitchell is a rich American businessman whose son is kidnapped in England. Naturally, there's a huge ransom demand, but Scotland Yard tells Mitchell to butt out.


Face of Fire
1959 · 1h 19m
country: United States
A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him.


Kill Me Tomorrow
1957 · 1h 20m
country: United Kingdom
A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap.


Time Without Pity
1957 · 1h 28m
country: United Kingdom
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”


The High Terrace
1956 · 1h 9m
country: United Kingdom
A British theater actress unable to get out of her contract is assisted by an American playwright when a pair of her scissors is discovered lodged in her producer's back.


Satellite in the Sky
1956 · 1h 25m
country: United Kingdom
A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).


Passport to Treason
1956 · 1h 20m
country: United Kingdom
After being consulted by a friend concerning a murder case, a private eye learns the friend has become the next victim. Passport to Treason was put together by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman, the same team who’d later collaborate on the UK TV series The Saint. Rod Cameron stars as an American private eye, stationed in London. For the sake of a murdered friend, the detective takes over the dead man’s case, which turns out to have international ramifications. The villains are members of a phony pacifistic society, all of whom harbor plans for taking over the world.


Submarine Attack
1954 · 1h 27m
country: Italy
During WWII, handsome young Italian sub commander and his crew torpedo Allied freighters and transport ships for the Axis then rescue the occasional survivor and treat them humanely while seeking a safe place to put them ashore.


Aida
1953 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
This Italian film version of Verdi's opera stars Sophia Loren on the screen, with Renata Tebaldi providing the vocals.


Mantrap
1953 · 1h 13m
country: United Kingdom
Branded as criminally insane and incarcerated for a murder he did not commit, Speight escapes from the asylum, determined to clear his name. He befriends private detective Hugo Bishop who, convinced that the wrong man has been convicted, agrees to help find the real killer. They begin their search for the murderer closest to home where both Thelma Speight and her employer Maurice Jerrard were visibly distressed by the news of her husband's jailbreak. More than Speight's 'insanity' fuels their worries.


Viva il cinema
1953 · 1h 25m
country: Italy
Tonino, a young, shy salesman, engaged to his neighbor Pallina, is a cinema enthusiast. He has written a film script and dreams of seeing it made on the big screen.


Women of Twilight
1953 · 1h 29m
country: United Kingdom
When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.


Lady in the Fog
1952 · 1h 17m
country: United Kingdom
In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freak accident, or so she believes. Fortunately for her, an American journalist is more suspicious and so begins roaming the London streets in search of the killer.


Ha da venì... don Calogero!
1952 · 1h 34m
country: Italy
A good-natured priest inherits a large sum of money from a former student at his elementary school and must decide wisely on how to use it best.


The Woman's Angle
1952 · 1h 22m
country: United Kingdom
The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable light.


Lebbra bianca
1951 · 1h 20m
country: Italy


Tomorrow Is Too Late
1950 · 1h 41m
country: Italy
Progressive schoolteachers Landi and Anna have a profound influence on two of their young students, Mirella and Franco. The two kids are enamored with one another and decide to experiment with some of the knowledge they've gleaned in the classroom.


Love and Poison
1950 · 1h 20m
country: Italy
Christina of Sweden, in exile in Rome, takes a handsome Italian officer as her lover. But he is in love with the very young wife of an elderly count. After many adventures, duels, settling of old scores, the officer and the countess get married. Former Queen Christina finds herself another captain of the guard.


Kazan
1949 · 1h 5m
country: United States
Based on the novel by James Oliver Curwood about Kazan, the wolfdog.


The Crime Doctor's Diary
1949 · 1h 1m
country: United States
A criminal psychologist tries to clear his patient of arson charges.


The Decision of Christopher Blake
1948 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A young boy begins to have fantasies when he learns his parents are planning to divorce. Director Peter Godfrey's 1948 drama stars Ted Donaldson, Alexis Smith, Robert Douglas, Cecil Kellaway, John Hoyt, Mary Wickes and Harry Davenport.


The Dark Past
1948 · 1h 14m
country: United States
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.


The Big Punch
1948 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Gangsters frame a boxer for murder when he refuses to throw a fight.


Corridor of Mirrors
1948 · 1h 45m
country: United Kingdom
A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.


That Hagen Girl
1947 · 1h 23m
country: United States
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her real parents. When Tom Bates returns to town, he takes over the house and practice that Judge Merrivale left him when he died. As Tom has been away a number of years, this leads to more gossip and Mary believes that he is her father. The popular and rich Ken loves Mary, but his family and friends constantly remind him that she is 'not one of us'. Julia, a teacher at school encourages Mary but Mary cannot get a break in anything she does, or is accused of doing. Tom knows the answer to her true identity, and he is silent.


A Matter of Life and Death
1946 · 1h 44m
country: United Kingdom
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.