personal information
Michael Kitchen playing Bill Tanner
Born in Leicester, England on 31st October 1948
Starred In Goldeneye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999)
film information
Bill Tanner played by Michael Kitchen appears in two James Bond films – Goldeneye and The World Is Not Enough. In Goldeneye Tanner gives Bond a short informal briefing about the state of play with the mission and the missing Tiger Helicopter.
After MI6 relocates to its headquarters in Scotland in The World Is Not Enough, Tanner gives a briefing to all the 00 agents about Elektra's Lapel Transmitter. It is also left to Tanner to tell Bond the bad news about him being excluded from assignment because of his injury.
character information
The character of Bill Tanner is played by the third actor, and is again a completely different character than before. This incarnation is closer to that described by Ian Fleming; M's most trusted memer of staff, and close friend of James Bond. He slips up with M in Goldeneye when he gives Bond the briefing about the Tiger, he tells him it's a shame the 'evil queen of numbers' doesn't let him investigate. Obviously this doesn't go down well with M, and Tanner gets put in his place quite quickly. §
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