Desmond Llewelyn was born in South Wales in 1913, the son of a coal mining engineer. In high school, he worked as a stagehand in the school's productions and then picked up sporadic small parts. His family would not give up their effort to prevent him from a life on stage, so an uncle who was a high ranking police officer arranged for Llewelyn to take the department's physical exam. Thank God, I flunked the eye test, and they wouldn't take me. I suspect the inspector had a hangover because h ...[Read Story]