Bond star held over murder

By Bo Wilson, Evening Standard

29 April 2005

A screen villain in James Bond films is being questioned by detectives after his wife's body was found in a lock-up garage in Notting Hill.

Irvin Allen, who played opposite Roger Moore and George Lazenby, was arrested shortly after the discovery.

His wife Chamlong Allen, 48, ran a stall called Mr Tasty with her husband in Portobello Market selling West Indian and Thai food.

Thai-born Mrs Allen was known to customers and fellow stallholders as Mrs Tasty. The couple have three children under 18.

Stallholders described 6ft 5in Allen as a "well known local character" who had worked on the market for at least 20 years before retiring following a hip operation.

The family's home half a mile away from the market in Ladbroke Grove was sealed off as a forensic science team searched it.

Mrs Allen's body was found at 10.30pm on Wednesday at a garage in Lonsdale Mews.

Officers from the Met's Serious Crime Directorate are heading the murder investigation.

Allen played Che Che in On Her Majesty's Secret Service and starred in The Spy Who Loved Me. He was also in Z Cars, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea and The Saint.

One stallholder, who asked not to be named, said: "We are all in deep shock.

"Everyone around here knew Mrs Tasty. She was a lovely woman and was always really friendly and cheerful. We thought that she had been having some problems because she suddenly lost the van she served her food out of a couple of months ago and no one knew what happened to it."

A family friend of the couple said: "Irvin is a big face around the market.

"He's a huge fellow and is very well known to everyone."-The friend's wife added: "We still can't believe she is dead. She was a lovely woman.

"She would never harm a fly. I can't understand why anyone would want to harm her."

Gerry Collins, who lives in the flat above the Allens, said: "They seemed like a perfectly normal family."

A screen villain in James Bond films is being questioned by detectives after his wife's body was found in a lock-up garage in Notting Hill.

Irvin Allen, who played opposite Roger Moore and George Lazenby, was arrested shortly after the discovery.

Was this the one who painted his victims with gold paint? ...and like, their skin suffocated .....or something.

Was this the one who painted his victims with gold paint? ...and like, their skin suffocated .....or something

No, hang on that was Gert Frobe - "Auric Goldfinger".....(he was also in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang).

This was the one with the metal teeth, 'Jaws'.

Was this the one who painted his victims with gold paint? ...and like, their skin suffocated .....or something

No, hang on that was Gert Frobe - "Auric Goldfinger".....(he was also in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang).

This was the one with the metal teeth, 'Jaws'.

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No - Jaws was Richard Kiel.

I think this is Irvin Allen

According to someone's homemade bond site anyway - http://home.no.net/teh007/diverse/flere/flere.htm

Edited April 29, 200521 yr by bkk_mike