John Strangways is a fictional character created by Ian Fleming in the James Bond universe.

John Strangways makes his only appearance in ‘Dr No’.

Novel biography: In the James Bond novels he is a former Lieutenant-Commander in the special branch of the RNVR. He makes his first appearance in the novel Live and Let Die as the chief Secret Service agent in the Caribbean.

Strangways is roughly 35 years of age and wears a black patch over one eye. He later appears in the novel Dr No where he and his secretary, Mary Trueblood, are assassinated for prying into Dr Julius No’s business.

Film biography: In the James Bond films, Strangways makes his first and only appearance in Dr No where, as in the novel, he is killed for investigating Dr No by the Three Blind Mice after leaving a gentlemans club in Jamaica. Contrary to the novel, Strangways does not wear an eye patch in film.

He is portrayed in Dr No by Tim Moxon and voiced by Robert Rietty.

See also:

• Bond allies