Bill Tanner

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Bill Tanner is MI6's Chief of Staff. Tanner is a regular literary character from Fleming and Gardner's novels, as well as Amis' Colonel Sun, but has never been considered a regular cinematic character. His biggest role in the films was in 1981's For Your Eyes Only in which after the death of Bernard Lee (M), Tanner was given a bigger role to substitute while M was "on leave."

In 1965, Kingsley Amis wrote the authorised spin-off The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007, a tongue-in-cheek guide to being a spy. The book is not credited to Amis, but rather to Lt.-Col. William "Bill" Tanner.

• played by: Michael Goodliffe — The Man with the Golden Gun (uncredited)
• played by: James Villiers — For Your Eyes Only
• played by: Michael Kitchen — GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough