====== Professor Dent - Anthony Dawson ====== [[http://imdb.com/name/nm0206060/|IMDb Biography]] **__Film__**: [[films:dr-no|Dr. No]] {{ films:characters:professor-dent.jpg|Professor Dent played by Anthony Dawson}} The nervous professor was a secretive spy/informer who worked for [[films:characters:dr-no|Dr. No]]. He is a geologist who knows many around the island and is regarded well by the locals. He helped to arrange the death of Strangways, as he hints to Bond in one of their conversations. He also is sent by the evil [[films:characters:dr-no|doctor]] to place a tarantula in Bond’s room, which he does, but the plan fails. Dent is finally killed at the end of Bond’s handgun, due to his poor judgment of bullets. > **Professor Dent**: He was killed, but never-mind how.