Tanner — For Your Eyes Only Character Profile

About Tanner

MI6 Chief of Staff coordinating field operations.

Tanner — Character Profile

Affiliations

• MI6

Quick Facts about Tanner

Full Name

William Tanner

Occupation

Chief of Staff

Nationality

[[British people

Tanner's Known Relations

• MI6 — Employer

Tanner appears in 8 titles

• The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) — character page
• For Your Eyes Only (1981)
• GoldenEye (1995) — character page
• The World Is Not Enough (1999) — character page
• Quantum of Solace (2008) — character page
• Skyfall (2012) — character page
• Spectre (2015) — character page
• No Time to Die (2021) — character page

Character Facts

Played by

James Villiers

Appears in

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Role

Minor

Relationships (2)

• Tanner — Professional Operational Superior — James Bond (Roger Moore)

  Tanner helps direct Bond's mission from MI6.

  Tanner coordinates field operations with Sir Frederick Gray when Bond is ordered to recover the ATAC.

• Tanner — Professional Mission Coordinators — Sir Frederick Gray (Geoffrey Keen)

  They jointly coordinate the British response.

  The plot states that Sir Frederick Gray and Tanner order James Bond to retrieve the ATAC.

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