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The James Bond film series from Eon Productions has had numerous signature tracks over the years, many of which are now considered classic pieces of film music. The best known of these pieces of music is the ubiquitous "James Bond Theme." Other instrumental pieces, such as the "007 Theme" or "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", and various songs, such as Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger", Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die" or Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better" have also become identified with the series.


Contents  [hide]
1 "James Bond Theme"
2 "James Bond Is Back"
3 "007 Theme"
4 "Suspense" motif
5 Composers (Eon Productions)
6 Music from Eon Productions 6.1 Title themes
6.2 Secondary songs
6.3 Foreign songs
6.4 Additional music
7 Non-Eon Productions songs 7.1 Main title themes
7.2 Secondary songs
8 Unused songs
9 Cover versions and spin-offs
10 Video games
11 See also
12 References
13 External links

"James Bond Theme"[edit]
Main article: James Bond Theme
"James Bond Is Back"[edit]
The briefest of "James Bond themes", this composition started off the "Opening Titles" music of From Russia with Love. It was heard in the On Her Majesty's Secret Service film trailer. WLS (AM) used the theme in the mid-1960s for their secret agent radio serial "The Wild Adventures of Peter Fugitive" that appeared on "The Art Roberts Show".[1]
"007 Theme"[edit]
"007 Theme", not to be confused with the "James Bond Theme", is an adventure theme composed by John Barry in 1963 for the Bond film, From Russia with Love.[2] "The John Barry Seven" had pop chart hit with a cover version of Elmer Bernstein's theme to The Magnificent Seven that featured seven beats repeated throughout the theme. Barry used seven beats throughout the "007 Theme".
It became a secondary theme for the Bond films, being used throughout the series, primarily during action scenes. Here are its most notable appearances:
From Russia with Love — Played during the gypsy camp gunfight and also during Bond's theft of the Lektor decoder from the Russian embassy in Istanbul.
Thunderball — Featured briefly in climactic underwater fight and featuring on the film soundtrack album; a similar but different theme of seven beats is played when Bond runs from SPECTRE during a parade and during the climax.
You Only Live Twice — Played during the flight of "Little Nellie" before Bond battles four helicopters that attack him.
Diamonds Are Forever — Played during Bond's destruction of Blofeld's Headquarters.
Moonraker — Played during the Amazon River chase.
The theme has not been featured in its entirety in a Bond film since its use in Moonraker.
This piece of music was also used by Al Primo, the news director at KYW-TV in Philadelphia for its long-time theme to Eyewitness News, and was adopted by other Group W stations in Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Boston and San Francisco as well as other non-Group W stations, most notably WLS-TV in Chicago. The theme was also sampled by Big Audio Dynamite for the 1986 song "Sightsee M.C!"
"Suspense" motif[edit]
Like John Barry, David Arnold has left his own mark in the music of James Bond. In this case, he has established what can be called the "suspense motif", which is a descending, repetitive four-note motif that can be heard in most of the Bond films he has scored, starting with Tomorrow Never Dies. It is usually an underlying motif playing under the main melody, and is usually orchestrated with piano trills, high strings, horns, blaring trumpets, and an underlying snare drum. This motif can be heard in:
Tomorrow Never Dies — "Station Break", "*-3-Send", "Underwater Discovery"
The World Is Not Enough — "Pipeline", "Submarine"
Die Another Day — "Death of Moon", "Antonov"
Casino Royale — "Miami International", "Dirty Martini", and very briefly in "African Rundown"
Composers (Eon Productions)[edit]
The biggest contributions to the Bond films, save for the "James Bond Theme", are works from John Barry. In addition to his uncredited contribution to Dr. No, Barry composed eleven Bond soundtracks and is credited with the creation of "007" (dominated by brass and percussion) and the popular orchestral theme from On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Next to Barry, David Arnold is the series' most regular composer. He has composed the scores for the Bond films since Tomorrow Never Dies, up to and including Quantum of Solace. His Barry-esque orchestrations combined with electronic rhythm elements gave the Brosnan era its musical identity.
Other major composers and record-producers include George Martin, Bill Conti, Michael Kamen, Marvin Hamlisch, Éric Serra and Thomas Newman.

Film
Year
Score composer
Dr. No 1962 Monty Norman
From Russia with Love 1963 John Barry
Goldfinger 1964
Thunderball 1965
You Only Live Twice 1967
On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969
Diamonds Are Forever 1971
Live and Let Die 1973 George Martin
The Man with the Golden Gun 1974 John Barry
The Spy Who Loved Me 1977 Marvin Hamlisch
Moonraker 1979 John Barry
For Your Eyes Only 1981 Bill Conti
Octopussy 1983 John Barry
A View to a Kill 1985
The Living Daylights 1987
Licence to Kill 1989 Michael Kamen
GoldenEye 1995 Éric Serra
Tomorrow Never Dies 1997 David Arnold
The World Is Not Enough 1999
Die Another Day 2002
Casino Royale 2006
Quantum of Solace 2008
Skyfall 2012 Thomas Newman
Music from Eon Productions[edit]
Title themes[edit]
The "James Bond Theme" is the main theme for Dr. No, and has featured in all the Eon Productions Bond films in different versions. The theme has also featured on the gun barrel sequences at the beginning of the films. The original theme is credited to Monty Norman, and was performed by John Barry and his orchestra in 1962. In the opening credits of Dr. No, two other pieces were played: an untitled bongo interlude and a Calypso-flavored rendition of "Three Blind Mice", titled "Kingston Calypso". Due to this, Dr. No is the only film to have more than one opening theme. The "James Bond Theme" reached No. 13 in the UK Singles Chart, and remained in the charts for 13 weeks.[3]
The opening credits of From Russia with Love were accompanied by an instrumental version of the main theme, arranged by John Barry and written by Lionel Bart. A single by The John Barry Orchestra reached No. 39 in the U.K. At the film's end, a vocal version by English singer Matt Monro is heard. This song spent 13 weeks in the U.K. charts, peaking at No. 20.[3]
Goldfinger was the third soundtrack composed by John Barry, and this time the theme song had lyrics written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse. The soundtrack reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and spent 70 weeks on the charts.[4] It also peaked at No. 14 on the UK Albums Chart,[3] and received the Bond series first Grammy Award nomination, Best Original Score from a Motion Picture or Television Show.[5]
Welsh singer Shirley Bassey has performed the most Bond themes – she recorded the themes to Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, and Moonraker. Bassey also recorded her own versions of "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" for Thunderball and "No Good About Goodbye" for Quantum of Solace (see "Unused songs").[citation needed]
Paul McCartney's performance of "Live and Let Die" was the first Bond theme song to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song; it reached No. 2 as a U.S. single, and No. 7 on the U.K. charts.[3][4] George Martin's work in the song won the Grammy for Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists.[6]
Marvin Hamlisch's (music) and Carole Bayer Sager's (lyrics) "Nobody Does It Better" (performed by Carly Simon) received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, as did Bill Conti's "For Your Eyes Only", which was performed by Sheena Easton. Duran Duran and John Barry's "A View To A Kill" topped the singles charts in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 (the only Bond theme to hit No. 1).[4] It was not until the 2013 Oscars that a Bond theme song finally won the Best Song Academy Award, the theme from Skyfall by Adele. Thomas Newman's score also got the first nomination for Academy Award for Best Original Score in the series since Hamlisch's own for The Spy Who Loved Me, while winning the Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. Adele's song also won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media.[7]
Several of the later films have alternative theme songs, often during the closing credits. The Living Daylights featured The Pretenders performing "If There Was a Man," composed by John Barry with Chrissie Hynde. Licence to Kill has "If You Asked Me To" sung by Patti Labelle. Tomorrow Never Dies included k.d. lang's "Surrender" during the closing credits, a song which was originally proposed by composer David Arnold to be the title sequence theme instead of the Sheryl Crow title song. The "Surrender" theme is heard throughout the score while the melody of Sheryl Crow's song is not used again during the film. This hearkens back to the Thunderball soundtrack, where Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang was originally proposed as the opening credits music, only to be replaced by the eponymous title track as sung by Tom Jones.[8]
On Her Majesty's Secret Service featured an instrumental theme tune, something which remains unique amongst the post-From Russia with Love films, and included a vocal theme in the form of Louis Armstrong's performance of "We Have All the Time in the World", written by John Barry and Hal David.[citation needed]

Film
Year
Score composer
Title song
Composed by
Performed by
U.K. peak
 position
U.S. peak
 position
Dr. No
 (soundtrack) 1962 Monty Norman "James Bond Theme"
 "Kingston Calypso" Monty Norman John Barry & Orchestra; Monty Norman
 Byron Lee and the Dragonaires — —
From Russia with Love
 (soundtrack) 1963 John Barry "Opening Titles: James Bond Is Back/From Russia with Love/James Bond Theme" John Barry, Lionel Bart, Monty Norman John Barry (title sequence)
Matt Monro (vocal version heard in film proper and during closing credits)
 — —
Goldfinger
 (soundtrack) 1964 "Goldfinger" Leslie Bricusse
Anthony Newley
John Barry Shirley Bassey 21 8
Thunderball
 (soundtrack) 1965 "Thunderball" John Barry
Don Black Tom Jones 35 25
You Only Live Twice
 (soundtrack) 1967 "You Only Live Twice" Leslie Bricusse
John Barry Nancy Sinatra 11 44
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
 (soundtrack) 1969 "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
 "We Have All the Time in the World" - Secondary Theme John Barry
Hal David The John Barry Orchestra
Louis Armstrong — —
Diamonds Are Forever
 (soundtrack) 1971 "Diamonds Are Forever" John Barry
Don Black Shirley Bassey 38 57
Live and Let Die
 (soundtrack) 1973 George Martin "Live and Let Die" Paul McCartney
Linda McCartney Paul McCartney & Wings 7 2
The Man with the Golden Gun
 (soundtrack) 1974 John Barry "The Man with the Golden Gun" John Barry
Don Black Lulu — —
The Spy Who Loved Me
 (soundtrack) 1977 Marvin Hamlisch, who scored The Sting "Nobody Does It Better" Marvin Hamlisch
Carole Bayer Sager Carly Simon 7 2
Moonraker
 (soundtrack) 1979 John Barry "Moonraker" John Barry
Hal David Shirley Bassey — —
For Your Eyes Only
 (soundtrack) 1981 Bill Conti, who scored Rocky and The Right Stuff "For Your Eyes Only" Bill Conti
Michael Leeson Sheena Easton 8 4
Octopussy
 (soundtrack) 1983 John Barry "All Time High" John Barry
Tim Rice
Stephen Short Rita Coolidge 75 36
A View to a Kill
 (soundtrack) 1985 "A View to a Kill" John Barry
Duran Duran Duran Duran 2 1
The Living Daylights
 (soundtrack) 1987 "The Living Daylights" John Barry
Pål Waaktaar A-ha 5 —
Licence to Kill
 (soundtrack) 1989 Michael Kamen "Licence to Kill" Narada Michael Walden
 Jeffrey Cohen
Walter Afanasieff Gladys Knight 6 —
GoldenEye
 (soundtrack) 1995 Éric Serra "GoldenEye" Bono
The Edge Tina Turner 10 —
Tomorrow Never Dies
 (soundtrack) 1997 David Arnold "Tomorrow Never Dies" Sheryl Crow
Mitchell Froom Sheryl Crow 12 —
The World Is Not Enough
 (soundtrack) 1999 "The World Is Not Enough" David Arnold
Don Black Garbage 11 —
Die Another Day
 (soundtrack) 2002 "Die Another Day" Madonna
Mirwais Ahmadzaï Madonna 3 8
Casino Royale
 (soundtrack) 2006 "You Know My Name" David Arnold
Chris Cornell Chris Cornell 7 79
Quantum of Solace
 (soundtrack) 2008 "Another Way to Die" Jack White Jack White
Alicia Keys 9 81
Skyfall
 (soundtrack) 2012 Thomas Newman "Skyfall" Adele
Paul Epworth Adele 2 8
Eon Productions intended to use a song titled "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" by Shirley Bassey as the theme song of Thunderball. It was re-recorded by Dionne Warwick until Albert Broccoli insisted the theme song must include the film's title and also decided that the lyrics should not start before the film's title Thunderball appears. A new song was composed and recorded in the eleventh hour titled "Thunderball", performed by Tom Jones. The melody of "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" remains a major component of the film score.[9]
Neither "All Time High" (Octopussy), "You Know My Name" (Casino Royale), nor "Another Way to Die" (Quantum of Solace) features the title of its film either in the song title or lyrics (although "Another Way to Die" features the word "solace" in the second stanza). While not named after the film, "Nobody Does It Better" does feature the line "the spy who loved me" in its lyrics.[10]
"You Know My Name" is the first main theme to a Bond film that did not appear on the film's official soundtrack album; "Skyfall" is the second.[11]
Secondary songs[edit]
A number of Bond films include one (or more) additional songs in the soundtrack. Some of these pieces of music, such as "We Have All the Time in the World" by Louis Armstrong, have gone on to become as well known as the main themes, while other songs remain exclusively linked to the film in which they appear.

Film
Title
Year
Performed by
Dr. No "Jump Up"
 "Underneath the Mango Tree" 1962 Byron Lee and the Dragonaires
Monty Norman
Diana Coupland
From Russia with Love "From Russia With Love" (End Credits) 1963 Matt Monro
Thunderball "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" 1965 Dionne Warwick
 and another version by Shirley Bassey
 (not on soundtrack, only instrumental version appears in film)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service "We Have All the Time in the World"
 "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?" 1969 Louis Armstrong
Nina
For Your Eyes Only "Make It Last All Night" 1981 Rage
A View to a Kill "California Girls" (not on soundtrack) 1985 Gidea Park
The Living Daylights "Where Has Everybody Gone?"
 "If There Was a Man" 1987 The Pretenders
Licence to Kill "If You Asked Me To"
 "Wedding Party"
 "Dirty Love" 1989 Patti Labelle
 Ivory
Tim Feehan
GoldenEye "The Experience of Love"
"Searching for the Golden Eye"
 "James Bond Theme" (GoldenEye trailer version)
 1995 Éric Serra
Motiv8 and Kym Mazelle
Starr Parodi and Jeff Fair (used in teasers, not in film)
Tomorrow Never Dies "Surrender"
 "James Bond Theme" 1997 k.d. lang
Moby (not in film)
The World Is Not Enough "Only Myself to Blame"
 "James Bond Theme" (End Title)
 "Sweetest Coma Again" (Japanese End Title) 1999 Scott Walker (not in film)
David Arnold (not on soundtrack)
Luna Sea (only on Japanese soundtrack)
Die Another Day "London Calling"
 "James Bond Theme (Bond vs. Oakenfold)" 2002 The Clash (not on soundtrack)
Paul Oakenfold (not in film)
Dionne Warwick's performance of "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" is never actually heard in Thunderball; it was originally to have been the opening credits theme, but this was changed when Albert Broccoli decreed the theme had to include the film's title. The melody of "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" is heard throughout the film; Warwick's version was finally released in the 1990s.
The original end title theme to The World Is Not Enough was "Only Myself to Blame", composed by David Arnold and Don Black, and sung by Scott Walker, but was left out of the final film and replaced by an Arnold arrangement of the "James Bond Theme". "Blame" was, however, left on the The World Is Not Enough soundtrack album, and its melody, representing the Elektra King character, appears throughout the score, most prominently in the tracks "Casino" and "Elektra's Theme."
Matt Monro's vocal rendition of "From Russia with Love" is often considered the official theme song for that film, even though the opening credits use an instrumental version that also incorporates the "James Bond Theme." Monro's version isn't heard until about 15 minutes into the film over a radio, and again over the closing titles.
Foreign songs[edit]
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Some songs have been dubbed for the foreign versions of the films.

Film
Original title
Translated title
Performer
Country
From Russia with Love "From Russia with Love" "Bons baisers de Russie"
 "Die Wolga ist weit" (not on DVD releases) Bob Asklof
Ruth Berlé France
 Germany
On Her Majesty's Secret Service "Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?" "Savez-vous ce qu'il faut au sapin de Noël?"
 "Wovon träumt ein Weihnachtsbaum im Mai?" (on German DVD releases) Isabelle Aubret
Katja Ebstein France
 Germany
Diamonds Are Forever "Diamonds Are Forever" "Vivo di diamanti" Shirley Bassey Italy
Additional music[edit]

Film
Title
Score composer
The Spy Who Loved Me "Lawrence of Arabia Theme"
 "Doctor Zhivago Theme" (Music box)
 "Concerto for Piano N°21" (Elvira Madigan) - Andante
 "Air on the G String" Maurice Jarre
Maurice Jarre
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johann Sebastian Bach
Moonraker "Close Encounters of the Third Kind Theme"
 "The Magnificent Seven Theme"
 "Prelude No. 15 (Raindrop prelude)" John Williams
Elmer Bernstein
Frédéric Chopin
A View to a Kill "The Four Seasons"
 "Swan Lake" Antonio Vivaldi
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Living Daylights "40th Symphony in G minor" (1st movement)
 "Finale-Act II-Le Nozze di Figaro"
 "String Quartet in D major"
 "Variations on a Rococo Theme" Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Alexander Borodin
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Goldeneye "Stand By Your Man" (Minnie Driver) Billy Sherrill / Tammy Wynette
Tomorrow Never Dies "It Had to Be You" (Instrumental) Gus Kahn / Isham Jones
Non-Eon Productions songs[edit]
Main title themes[edit]

Film
Year
Score composer
Title song
Performed by
Casino Royale 1967 Burt Bacharach "Casino Royale" Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
Never Say Never Again 1983 Michel Legrand "Never Say Never Again" Lani Hall
The closing credits of Casino Royale use a vocal version of "Casino Royale" sung by Mike Redway, who remains uncredited.
Secondary songs[edit]

Film
Title
Year
Performed by
Casino Royale "The Look of Love" 1967 Dusty Springfield
Never Say Never Again "Une Chanson d'Amour" 1983 Sophie Della
The soundtrack to the 1967 spoof Casino Royale also included two short comedic songs sung in a 1920s style. One led into an instrumental version of "The Look of Love" and began with the line "James Bond playing at Casino Royale..."; later, this tune was reprised as "Seven James Bonds at Casino Royale" which lead into a lyrical version of the theme sung by Mike Redway that played over the closing credits.
Unused songs[edit]
There are a number of songs which were originally written as potential Bond themes, but not used, which have then been released or otherwise made available elsewhere. These include:
"Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" by Dionne Warwick/Shirley Bassey – The originally intended theme song for Thunderball was titled "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" a reference to a nickname given to Bond by an Italian journalist in 1962. Warwick and Bassey both recorded versions, but halfway through the scoring process, Albert Broccoli decided that the film's title must appear in the lyrics, so "Thunderball" was commissioned. The song still plays a prominent role in the score and both singers' versions have appeared on compilations in the 1990s.
"Thunderball" by Johnny Cash
"You Only Live Twice" by Julie Rogers – Included on the 30th anniversary CD release.
"The Man with the Golden Gun" by Alice Cooper – Appears on their 1973 album Muscle of Love
"For Your Eyes Only" by Blondie – Appears on their 1982 album The Hunter.
"Never Say Never Again" by Phyllis Hyman - Intended for the 1983 film.
"All Time High" by Laura Branigan – The song was originally recorded by Branigan; however, Barbara Broccoli convinced her father, Albert Broccoli, to go with Rita Coolidge instead. To this day, Branigan's version remains unreleased.
"The Living Daylights" by Pet Shop Boys – adapted from a demo theme for The Living Daylights, later completely reworked as "This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave". It appears on their 1990 album Behaviour.[12]
"Tomorrow Never Lies" by Pulp (originally called "Tomorrow Never Dies") – released as a b-side on their 1997 single "Help the Aged", and on the vinyl version of their 1998 album This Is Hardcore
"Tomorrow Never Dies" by Saint Etienne – Appears on their Built on Sand album, with the liner notes revealing that Pierce Brosnan kept the master tape of the song. Other artists who submitted Tomorrow Never Dies themes included Marc Almond, Swan Lee, The Cardigans and Space.
"Forever - I Am All Yours" by Eva Almér - Written by Eva Almér and Christian Wolfe for Quantum of Solace[13]
Cover versions and spin-offs[edit]
Bond music has inspired a number of cover albums in a variety of genres, including the 2007 album Mister Bond – A Jazzy Cocktail of Ice Cold Themes (lounge), Shaken and Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project featuring David Arnold collaborating with several contemporary artists. The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra recorded several albums with Bond music and performs in premieres and special events of Bond films. Britain's Royal Philharmonic Orchestra released an album of several Bond songs performances called Best Of James Bond, some of which were used on the "Ultimate Edition" DVD releases menus. Billy Strange released "Secret Agent File" in 1965. Death metal cover band Ten Masked Men has included at least one Bond theme on each of their albums. In 2004, The Cavaliers play a show titled "007" using Bond music, such as "GoldenEye", "For Your Eyes Only", "Live and Let Die", "Hovercraft Chase", "Welcome to Cuba" and "Paris and Bond". Some of them are Italo disco-like rhythms and soundtrack albums promote hits that matches the film's theme.

Title
Performer(s)
"James Bond Theme" Billy Strange
Neil Norman
The Art of Noise
Naked City
The Skatalites
Bond
Count Basie
Moby
LTJ Bukem
City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Soft CellThe Ventures
Alizée (Sample in the song "J.B.G.")
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Leningrad Cowboys
Hank Marvin (as part of a medley)
"From Russia with Love" Natacha Atlas
Count Basie
Thomas Lang
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
 Hank Marvin (as part of a medley)
"Goldfinger" Count Basie
Billy Strange
 Bébé
Anthony Newley (original demo recording)
Ten Masked Men
 Blue Stingrays (Tom Petty band members' surf project)
Magazine
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Leningrad Cowboys
 Hank Marvin
"Thunderball" Martin Fry
Mr.Bungle
Shirley Bassey
The Kingpins
Guy Lombardo
Billy Strange
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
"You Only Live Twice" Soft Cell
Mark Burgess
Björk
Coldplay
Natacha Atlas
Robbie Williams (Sample in the song "Millennium")
Shirley Bassey
Trashcan Sinatras
Billy Strange
Eddie Peregrina
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Billy Mackenzie
 Hank Marvin (as part of a medley)
"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" Propellerheads
Vernian Process
 Hank Marvin (as part of a medley)
"We Have All The Time in the World" Fun Lovin' Criminals
The Pale Fountains
Iggy Pop
My Bloody Valentine
The Puppini Sisters
"Diamonds Are Forever" David McAlmont
Arctic Monkeys
Kanye West (Sample in the song "Diamonds of Sierra Leone")
Ten Masked Men
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
"Live and Let Die" Chrissie Hynde
Escala
Guns N' Roses
Geri Halliwell
Lizzy Borden
Butch Walker
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
 Hank Marvin
"The Man with the Golden Gun" Emilíana Torrini
Funkstar De Luxe
Thin White Rope
Ten Masked Men
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
"Nobody Does It Better" Radiohead
Aimee Mann
8mm
Alan Partridge
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
"Moonraker" Shara Nelson
Neil Norman
"For Your Eyes Only" Thomas Anders
Edenbridge
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
"All Time High" Pulp
"A View to a Kill" Diablo
Leningrad Cowboys
Lostprophets
Northern Kings
Shirley Bassey
Ten Masked Men
"The Living Daylights" Ten Masked Men
The Narrow
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
"Licence to Kill" Count Basic
"If You Asked Me To" Céline Dion
"GoldenEye" Wise Guys
Bono (original demo recording)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
"Tomorrow Never Dies" Uwe Kröger
"The World Is Not Enough" Jackie Moore
"You Know My Name" Poets of the Fall
"Skyfall" Within Temptation
Video games[edit]
With the increase in audio quality for video game consoles and personal computers, in addition to the continued popularity of computer and video games, publisher Electronic Arts as well as Activision (since 2008) has included opening themes and film-style credit sequences to some of its more recent Bond video game spin offs.

Video game
Year
Score composer
Title song
Performed by
GoldenEye 007 1997 Graeme Norgate and Grant Kirkhope  
Tomorrow Never Dies 1999 Tommy Tallarico "Tomorrow Never Dies" Sheryl Crow
The World Is Not Enough 2000 Don Veca  
Agent Under Fire 2001 Don Veca "The James Bond Theme" 
Nightfire 2002 Ed Lima, Jeff Tymoschuk "Nearly Civilized" Esthero
Everything or Nothing 2004 Sean Callery, Jeff Tymoschuk "Everything or Nothing" Mýa
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent 2004 Paul Oakenfold "If You're Gonna..." Natasha Bedingfield
From Russia with Love 2005 Christopher Lennertz "From Russia with Love" (instrumental remix) John Barry
Quantum of Solace 2008 Christopher Lennertz "When Nobody Loves You" Kerli
GoldenEye 007 2010 David Arnold, Kevin Kiner "GoldenEye" Nicole Scherzinger
Blood Stone 2010 Richard Jacques "I'll Take It All" Joss Stone
007 Legends 2012 David Arnold, Kevin Kiner "Goldfinger" (instrumental remix) David Arnold
See also[edit]

Portal icon James Bond portal
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Chicago's WLS Radio - Google Books
2.Jump up ^ MI6 :: From Russia With Love (1963) :: James Bond 007
3.^ Jump up to: a b c d Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums. London: Guinness World Records Limited
4.^ Jump up to: a b c Whitburn, Joel (2006). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits. Billboard Books
5.Jump up ^ http://commanderbond.net/4708/bond-and-the-grammy-awards.html
6.Jump up ^ Burlingame, Jon (2012). The Music of James Bond. Oxford University Press. p. 113. ISBN 0199986762.
7.Jump up ^ http://www.007.com/adele-wins-grammy-for-skyfall/
8.Jump up ^ "Thunderball - alternate title seq. - Shirley Bassey - HD STEREO". YouTube. 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2014-06-06.
9.Jump up ^ The Making of Thunderball (DVD). Thunderball Ultimate Edition, Region 2, Disc 2: MGM/UA Home Entertainment. 1995.
10.Jump up ^ [1]
11.Jump up ^ Caulfield, Keith (16 November 2012). "'Skyfall' Soundtrack: Highest-Charting Bond Album in 27 Years". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
12.Jump up ^ For your ears only | Music | The Guardian
13.Jump up ^ "Forever - I Am All Yours (Quantum Of Solace Rejected Theme)". Retrieved May 8, 2013.
External links[edit]
montynorman.com
Detailed account of a court proceeding between Monty Norman and John Barry re: The "James Bond Theme", including musicological breakdowns of the theme itself.


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The Union

Universe
James Bond series
Type
Criminal organization
Founded
Unknown
Location
Casablanca, Sartène
Key people
Taylor Michael Harris
 Olivier Cesari
Marc-Ange Draco
Purpose
Crime for profit
The Union is a fictional criminal organization, which is the main antagonist to James Bond in the Raymond Benson novels High Time to Kill, Doubleshot and Never Dream of Dying (collectively known as the "Union trilogy"). It is primarily a mercenary organization, working for any third party that asks for their help. Their actions include everything from petty theft and street crime to large scale acts of terrorism or industrial espionage. Much of their success rests on their uncanny ability to infiltrate law enforcement and intelligence agencies, which makes them a very difficult target when Bond and MI6 try to bring the Union down.


Contents  [hide]
1 Background
2 Appearances
3 Known members
4 Concept and creation
5 See also
6 References

Background[edit]
The Union was originally created by Taylor Michael Harris, an ex-Marine and former militia movement leader. Harris created the Union as a simple mercenary organization, recruiting people from North America, Western Europe, the former Eastern Bloc and the Middle-East.
However, Harris was soon murdered by Corsican criminal Olivier Cesari, who conspired with several financial backers and with Harris' lieutenants to take control of the organization. Known only by his title "Le Gérant" (the manager), Cesari quickly expanded the Union's affairs, turning it from an unremarkable band of thugs into a professional criminal organization, truly international in scope and run with the efficiency of a major corporation. By the time of James Bond's involvement with them, they were already known to MI6 as the most dangerous criminal organization in the world.
Appearances[edit]
Main articles: High Time to Kill, Doubleshot and Never Dream of Dying
In "High Time to Kill", Bond's relationship with the Union begins when the Governor of the Bahamas, an old friend of Bond, is killed after failing to pay a debt to a member of the Union. Upon returning to MI6 headquarters, Bond is coincidentally assigned to retrieve Skin 17, a new British aeronautical technology which the Union have stolen on behalf of the Chinese government.
Fortunately, the person carrying the Skin 17 technology dies in a plane crash on the Kangchengjunga. Bond is then assigned to an MI6 team attempting to recover Skin 17 from the top of the mountain. Unknown to him, the Union infiltrates several members into his team, but he succeeds in eliminating them. This marks the first failure by the Union to deliver as promised on one of its contracts.[1]
In "Doubleshot", the Union is now in league with Domingo Espada, a Spanish nationalist with ties to the mob, who dreams of taking Gibraltar back for Spain. The Union agrees to support him, by assassinating the Governor of Gibraltar and the British Prime Minister by using a James Bond lookalike, thus severely hurting the British government and damaging MI6's credibility, in retaliation for the events in the previous novel.
Bond spends most of the novel attempting to track down the Union's headquarters in Morocco, successfully identifying Le Gérant as Olivier Cesari. He is eventually captured by the Union, which was attempting to draw him in all along; however, he manages to escape and foils the Union's plans for Gibraltar by posing as his own double and foiling the assassination attempt.[2]
By the time of "Never Dream of Dying", Western law-enforcement agencies have declared an all-out war on the Union. Bond and several friends from previous adventures (including Rene Mathis and Marc-Ange Draco) follow the Union to Corsica in an attempt to track down Olivier Cesari before he can carry out his next attack.
It is revealed near the end that Marc-Ange is Cesari's uncle, and was working for him all along. Bond, however, suspects that Marc-Ange is not being entirely truthful, and feeds him false information in order to plan a surprise attack on the Union headquarters in Corsica; Cesari dies when his helicopter is destroyed, as does Marc-Ange, ending the scourge of the Union once and for all.[3]
Known members[edit]
Union leadership Taylor Michael Harris (deceased); a former Marine and leader of a white supremacist militia.
Olivier Cesari; a blind man with extrasensory perception, born to a French Corsican father and a Moroccan Berber mother, who uses his connections on both sides of the Mediterranean to support the Union's activities. Known as Le Gérant, the manager.
Other members Marc-Ange Draco; former head of the Unione Corse, and one of Cesari's silent partners.
Nadir Yassassin; the Union's master strategist.
Margareta Piel; chief assassin.
James "Jimmy" Powers; chief tracker.
Julius Wilcox; Cesari's second in command.
Paul Baak.
Steven Harding.
Roland Marquis.

Concept and creation[edit]
Raymond Benson, the writer who created the Union, describes then as "a blue-collar version of SPECTRE", adding that unlike Ian Fleming's creation, "they don't have any qualms about doing low-rent jobs. I guess they work more like a Mafia, with "cells" all over the world".[4]
See also[edit]
List of James Bond villains
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "High Time to Kill", Raymond Benson
2.Jump up ^ "Doubleshot", Raymond Benson
3.Jump up ^ "Never Dream of Dying", Raymond Benson
4.Jump up ^ Bond is back with Benson's The Union Trilogy Archives - The Big Thrill


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SMERSH (James Bond)
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For the USSR's military counterintelligence organization dedicated to fighting Nazis, see SMERSH.
SMERSH

Universe
James Bond series
Type
Intelligence agency
Founded
1940 or earlier
Location
Leningrad
 Moscow
 Numerous
Key people
General Grubozaboyschikov (leader)
Rosa Klebb (Director of Operations)
Donovan "Red" Grant (Chief Executioner
Mr. Big
Auric Goldfinger
Purpose
Counter-intelligence
Political subversion of the West
SMERSH is a fictional Soviet counterintelligence agency featured in Ian Fleming's early James Bond novels as agent 007's nemesis. SMERSH is the acronym of Spetsyalnye MEtody Razoblacheniya SHpyonov meaning Special Methods of Spy Detection, (in Russian Cyrillic СМЕРШ: Специальные Методы Разоблaчения Шпионов .[1] SMERSH is a portmanteau word from two Russian words: "SMERt' SHpionam" (СМЕРть Шпионам, Směrt Špionam) meaning "Death to Spies".
Though Fleming's version of SMERSH supposedly was modelled upon the real SMERSH organisation, which existed 1943-1946, the novels portray SMERSH as a massive Soviet counterintelligence organisation, much more resembling the real-life KGB, which aims its operatives abroad in subversion of the West, with the additional goal of killing Western spies, particularly James Bond of SIS. SMERSH's headquarters are variously stated to be in Leningrad or in Moscow, Soviet Union.
In the Bond film series, SMERSH is usually replaced with SPECTRE - a global terrorist organisation.


Contents  [hide]
1 Departmental overview
2 History 2.1 Novels
2.2 Films
2.3 Appearances
3 SMERSH agents
4 Parodies
5 References
6 See also

Departmental overview[edit]
The novel Casino Royale breaks SMERSH down into five departments or отделы (оtdyels):
Department I: In charge of counterintelligence among Soviet organisations at home and abroad
Department II: Operations, including executions
Department III: Administration and finance
Department IV: Investigations and legal work, personnel
Department V: Prosecutions – the section which passes final judgment on all victims
History[edit]
Novels[edit]
Within the world of James Bond, SMERSH is a Soviet counterintelligence agency that is a recurring threat to him and the British Secret Service. In Casino Royale, the first Bond novel, SMERSH is described as the most powerful and feared organization in the Soviet Union, with its main headquarters in Leningrad. It was believed to be under the personal direction of Lavrentiy Beria and was tasked with "the elimination of all forms of treachery and back-sliding within the various branches of the Soviet Secret Service and Secret Police at home and abroad" (a mission vaguely similar to that of the real-life SMERSH). The organization was suspected of having carried out Leon Trotsky's assassination in 1940. While it was hugely expanded during World War II to deal with treachery among Soviet forces, it was purged after the war and by the time of Casino Royale was believed "to consist of only a few hundred operatives of very high quality", only one of whom had ever been captured by British agents.[2] By the time of From Russia, with Love, however, Fleming describes SMERSH as having 40,000 agents and being based in Moscow rather than in Leningrad.[3]
SMERSH makes its first impact on Bond in Casino Royale: A SMERSH agent sent to kill the Communist agent Le Chiffre carves a Sha (ш), the initial Cyrillic letter of "Špion" (Russian for "spy") into the back of Bond's left hand. (Despite skin grafts, signs of the wound remain in later Bond books).[4] Then, at the end of the novel, Bond's lover and fellow agent Vesper Lynd—in fact a Soviet double agent—commits suicide when she learns that a SMERSH agent has her under surveillance and that the organization is planning to kill her. As a result of her death, Bond swears vengeance upon SMERSH, which he calls "the threat behind the spies, the threat that made them spy".[5] His revenge begins in the second novel, Live and Let Die, wherein he becomes highly interested in disrupting Mr. Big's financing of Soviet operations upon learning that he is a SMERSH agent.[6] SMERSH retaliates in From Russia, with Love, issuing a death warrant for the immediate execution of James Bond ("To be killed with ignominy").[7] Not only is his assassination arranged, but SMERSH goes to great lengths to ensure his death will be scandalously embarrassing throughout the entire intelligence community. The first part of From Russia With Love is given entirely from SMERSH's point of view, depicting the interplay between various agents and operatives and the meticulous preparations for killing Bond, and a large part of the book passes before Bond himself appears onstage. Later, Bond again squares off against SMERSH in Goldfinger after learning that Auric Goldfinger is the agency's treasurer.
After Goldfinger, SMERSH is mentioned only fleetingly, usually in reference to having been disbanded. In the continuation novels (and novelizations), however, SMERSH returns as an organisation essentially renamed and reorganised within Soviet intelligence. They are first mentioned again in the novelization of The Spy Who Loved Me, although replaced by KGB in the film. In John Gardner's series of Bond novels, SMERSH is renamed Department V (the letter) in Icebreaker. They return in a larger role in No Deals, Mr. Bond, renamed Department Eight, Directorate S, a KGB sub-section.
Films[edit]
In the film series, Bond's archenemy became SPECTRE, which first appeared in Fleming's novel Thunderball (1961). SPECTRE is introduced in the first film, Dr. No (1962), in which Julius No explains to Bond that it is the acronym for the SPecial Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion, the four great cornerstones of power. Film versions of novels where SMERSH appears substituted either SPECTRE or independent villains.
Although twice referred to, SMERSH never appears in the official film series; first, in From Russia with Love (1963), Bond initially thinks he is fighting SMERSH, only to learn that the villains are from SPECTRE, including Rosa Klebb, the former head of SMERSH who has secretly defected to SPECTRE. Bond's love interest Tatiana Romanova says she knows Klebb as SMERSH's head of operations, and obeys her orders, presuming them from SMERSH. Second, The Living Daylights (1987) features a faked SMERSH re-activation. Throughout, it is referred to with its full name, Smert Shpionam, rather than the better-known acronym; General Pushkin, then head of KGB, says it has been inoperative for 20 years. SMERSH is also an element in the 1967 spoofed film adaptation of Casino Royale that centres upon Le Chiffre's attempted recovery of SMERSH monies via baccarat at the Royale casino.
In the 2006 film adaptation of Casino Royale, SMERSH's role in the plot is filled by a terrorist organisation called Quantum.
Appearances[edit]
NovelsCasino Royale — Ian Fleming
Live and Let Die — Ian Fleming
From Russia, with Love — Ian Fleming
Goldfinger — Ian Fleming
James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me (novelization) — Christopher Wood
Icebreaker — John Gardner
No Deals, Mr. Bond — John Gardner
Devil May Care — Sebastian Faulks
FilmsFrom Russia with Love
The Living Daylights
Casino Royale (1967)
SMERSH agents[edit]
Notable villains in the Bond novels who were SMERSH agents or associates, included:
Le Chiffre: Le Chiffre is the villain in Casino Royale. He is paymaster of the "Syndicat des Ouvriers d'Alsace", a SMERSH-controlled trade union.
"Adolph Gettler": A SMERSH agent who shadowed Bond and Vesper while they are on French holiday in Casino Royale. He was identifiable by his eyepatch, screwed in like a monocle. His real name is unknown, but he posed as a Swiss wristwatch salesman named Adolph Gettler.
Mr. Big: Mr. Big is the villain in the novel Live and Let Die. He is head of the "Black Widow Voodoo Cult", and, according to M, is one of the most powerful living criminals in the world.
Auric Goldfinger: The villain in Goldfinger. He is SMERSH's treasurer, yet also a jeweller, metallurgist, and smuggler. In the film, though an international communist, he has no apparent SMERSH affiliation.
Colonel Rosa Klebb: Head of Otdyel II, the SMERSH torture and death department in the novel From Russia, with Love. She employs MGB Corporal Tatiana Romanova to entrap James Bond in Istanbul, where he would be killed and disgraced before the intelligence community. Ultimately, she fails and René Mathis captures her. In the film, Klebb (Lotte Lenya), defected from SMERSH to SPECTRE. Romanova shoots and kills her at the end of the film.
Donovan "Red" Grant: In the novel, he is Chief Executioner of SMERSH; originally a British soldier serving with the occupation forces in Berlin, he defected to the USSR. In the film From Russia with Love, he works under Rosa Klebb, making him a SPECTRE agent.
Colonel-General Grubozaboyshikov: He is selected head of SMERSH after Lavrenty Beria's death. In the novel, he chairs a committee of Soviet security organizations which meets to plan an intelligence coup against the West.
Colonel Tov Kronsteen: He is planning department head for SMERSH in the novel. He is a Chess expert and the champion of Moscow for two years running. During the championship game for his third year, SMERSH summons him to plan Bond's assassination. In the film, Kronsteen (Vladek Sheybal), works for SPECTRE, and is tasked with planning Bond's killing and disgrace as revenge for killing Dr. Julius No (depicted in the previous film, Dr. No). Ultimately, he fails and is murdered at Ernst Stavro Blofeld's behest.
Colonel Niktin: Heads the Soviet Secret Service (MGB, KGB post-1953) in From Russia with Love. Later in the novelization of The Spy Who Loved Me, he is promoted to Colonel-General and is head of SMERSH. He does not appear in the actual film, however, replaced by General Gogol as head of the KGB.
Lieutenant-General Slavin: Head of the intelligence department for the General Staff of the Army (GRU). He is a member of the committee of Soviet security organizations which meet under SMERSH chairmanship in From Russia, with Love to plan the disgrace and killing of James Bond.
Lieutenant-General Vozdvishensky: Vozdvishensky is head of RUMID, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs intelligence department. He represents this department on the committee of Soviet security organizations which meets under SMERSH leadership in From Russia, with Love, in order to plan the killing of James Bond "with ignominy". The novelization of The Spy Who Loved Me reveals that he has since defected and now conducts a language symposium for employees of the British Ministry of Defence.
Sergei Borzov: A member of Otdyel II, the operations and executions branch of SMERSH in the novelization of The Spy Who Loved Me; he is never mentioned as a member in the actual film, however. Borzov is the romantic love interest of Anya Asamova, agent XXX, before being killed by James Bond in the opening teaser.
Anya Amasova: Amasova, aka agent XXX, is a member of Otdyel IV in the novelization of The Spy Who Loved Me.
Kolya Mosolov: A KGB agent and a member of the Icebreaker team in the novel Icebreaker. He is discovered to have planned the entire Icebreaker team in coordination with von Glöda. The two have a deal in which Mosolov would betray his country and sell arms to von Glöda in exchange for Bond's capture. Mosolov being not only an agent of the KGB, but also an agent working within "Department V" (formerly SMERSH). Mosolov believes that von Glöda will not succeed and is merely going along with the deal for the time being in order to capture Bond for the Soviets.
General Konstantin Nikolaevich Chernov: Codenamed "Blackfriar", Chernov (also known as Koyla Chernov) is the Chief Investigating Officer of Department Eight, Directorate S (formerly SMERSH). He appears in John Gardner's No Deals, Mr. Bond as the villain who is systematically targeting former members of a secret operation in East Germany.
Parodies[edit]
A number of other fictional spy organisations appear to be loosely based on SMERSH, some of them parodies, e.g., THRUSH in The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Schlecht in The Intelligence Men, and Stench in Carry On Spying.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ The Soviet Army – SMERSH at SpetsNaz Psychologyhttp://www.systemaspetsnaz.com/the-soviet-army.htm.
2.Jump up ^ Fleming, Ian, Casino Royale (Jonathan Cape, 1953), ch. 2.
3.Jump up ^ Fleming, Ian, From Russia, with Love (Jonathan Cape, 1957), ch. 6.
4.Jump up ^ Fleming, Casino Royale, ch. 18.
5.Jump up ^ Fleming, Casino Royale, ch. 27.
6.Jump up ^ Fleming, Ian, Live and Let Die (Jonathan Cape, 1954), ch. 2.
7.Jump up ^ Fleming, From Russia, with Love, ch. 4.
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SPECTRE
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SPECTRE
SPECTRE Logo.png
SPECTRE logo

Universe
James Bond series
Type
Criminal organisation
Terrorist organisation
Founded
Circa mid 1950s
Location
Paris, 136 Boulevard Haussmann
 SPECTRE Island
 SPECTRE Yacht
 Numerous
Key people
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (leader)
Emilio Largo(second-in-command)
Rosa Klebb (highest-ranking female agent)
Irma Bunt
 Tamil Rahani
 Jay Autem Holy
 Nena Bisquamer (nee Blofeld)
Purpose
Counter-intelligence
Terrorism
Revenge
Extortion
 World domination
SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) is a fictional global terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games. Led by evil genius and supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the supranational organisation first formally appeared in the novel Thunderball (1961) and in the movie Dr. No (1962). SPECTRE is not aligned to any nation or political ideology, enabling the later Bond books and Bond films to be regarded as apolitical. SPECTRE began in the novels as a small group of criminals but became a vast international organisation with its own SPECTRE Island training base in the films, to replace the Soviet SMERSH.


Contents  [hide]
1 Philosophy and goals
2 Leadership
3 Appearances 3.1 Novels
3.2 Films 3.2.1 Non-Eon
3.3 Video games
4 Copyright issues
5 SPECTRE henchmen 5.1 Novels
5.2 Films 5.2.1 By Hierarchy
5.2.2 Non-Eon

6 Acronym in the rest of world
7 Parodies and clones
8 See also
9 References
10 External links

Philosophy and goals[edit]



 Blofeld's SPECTRE volcano base complete with spacecraft-swallowing rocket shuttle, helipad and attack helicopter, and command center in the 1967 film You Only Live Twice. The world map in the background is common to emphasise the aim of world domination.
In Ian Fleming's novels, SPECTRE is a commercial enterprise led by Blofeld. Their top-level members are 21 individuals, 18 of whom handle day-to-day affairs and are drawn in groups of three from six of the world's greatest criminal organisations—the Gestapo, SMERSH, Marshal Josip Broz Tito's secret police, the Mafia, the Unione Corse, and a massive heroin-smuggling operation based in Turkey.[1] Their debut is in Thunderball. At the time of writing the novel (1959) Fleming believed that the Cold War might end during the two years it would take to produce the film, which would leave it looking dated; he therefore thought it better to create a politically neutral enemy for Bond.[2] Fleming's SPECTRE has elements inspired by mafia syndicates and organised crime rings that were actively hunted by law enforcement in the 1950s. The strict codes of loyalty and silence, and the hard retributions that followed violations, were hallmarks of U.S. gangster rings, Mafia, the Unione Corse, the Chinese Tongs/Triads and the Japanese Yakuza/Black Dragon Society.
The organisation is next mentioned in The Spy Who Loved Me, when Bond describes investigating their activities in Toronto before the story begins. The organisation's third appearance is in On Her Majesty's Secret Service where Blofeld, hired by an unnamed country or party (though the Soviet Union is implied) is executing a plan to ruin British agriculture. Blofeld, with a weakened SPECTRE would appear for the final time in You Only Live Twice.
In the films, the organisation often acts as a third party in the ongoing Cold War. The goal of world domination was only ever stated in You Only Live Twice, and SPECTRE was working not for itself but for an unnamed Asian government whose two representatives Blofeld speaks to during the movie; perhaps Red China, who earlier backed Goldfinger. SPECTRE's goals in the other films it has appeared in have always been less lofty. Its long-term strategy, however, is illustrated by the analogy of the three Siamese fighting fish Blofeld keeps in an aquarium in the film version of From Russia with Love. Blofeld notes that one fish is refraining from fighting two others until their fight is concluded. Then, that cunning fish attacks the weakened victor and kills it easily. Thus SPECTRE's main strategy is to instigate conflict between two powerful enemies, namely the superpowers, hoping that they will exhaust themselves and be vulnerable when it seizes power. SPECTRE thus works with, and against, both sides of the Cold War. For example, in the film Thunderball it simultaneously distributes Red Chinese narcotics in the United States, kills a defector to the USSR on behalf of the French Foreign Ministry, and blackmails NATO with stolen nuclear weapons, while continuing ordinary criminal operations such as advising on the Great Train Robbery.
In both the film and the novel Thunderball, the physical headquarters of the organisation are laid in Paris, operating behind the terrorist front organisation aiding refugees (Firco in the novels; International Brotherhood for the Assistance of Stateless Persons in the films). Organizational discipline is notoriously draconian with the penalty for disobedience or failure being death. As quoted by Blofeld on several occasions: "This organisation does not tolerate failure". Furthermore, to heighten the impact of the executions, Blofeld often chooses to focus attention on an innocent member, making it appear his death is imminent, only to suddenly strike down the actual target when that person is off guard.
Leadership[edit]
SPECTRE is headed by the supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld who usually appears accompanied by a white Persian cat in the movies, but not in the books. In both the films and the novels, Emilio Largo is the second in command. It is stated in the novel that if something were to happen to Blofeld, Largo would assume command. Largo appears in the novel Thunderball, the film version and its remake, Never Say Never Again.
In the novels, the numbers of members were initially assigned at random and then rotated by two digits every month to prevent detection. For example, if one was Number 1 this month, he would be Number 3 next month. At the time of Thunderball, the leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, has been assigned "Number 2", while Emilio Largo is assigned "Number 1". In the films the number indicates rank: Blofeld is always referred to as "Number 1" and Emilio Largo, in Thunderball, is "Number 2".
The SPECTRE cabinet had a total of 21 members. Blofeld was the chairman and leader because he founded the organisation, and Largo was elected by the cabinet to be second in command. A physicist named Kotze (who later defected) and an electronics expert named Maslov were also included in the group for their expertise on scientific and technical matters.
This particular example of numbering is perhaps deliberately borrowed from revolutionary organisations, wherein members exist in cells, and are numerically defined to prevent identification and cross-betrayal of aims. By deliberately drawing attention away from the true leader of the organisation, he is protected by masquerading as a target of lower importance, and the structure of the organisation is also obscured from intelligence services.
Appearances[edit]
Novels[edit]
In the original Bond novel series, SPECTRE's first and last appearance as a worldwide power is in the novel Thunderball, published in 1961. In the novel, SPECTRE, headed by Blofeld, attempts to conduct nuclear blackmail against NATO. Apparently disbanded afterwards, SPECTRE is said to be active again in the next book, The Spy Who Loved Me, although the organisation is not involved in the plot. In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the second chapter of what is known as the "Blofeld Trilogy", Blofeld has revived SPECTRE, and Blofeld's final appearance, sans SPECTRE, is in the final novel of the trilogy, You Only Live Twice.
Later, the John Gardner Bond novel, For Special Services introduces a revived SPECTRE led by Blofeld's daughter, Nena Bismaquer. Although Bond ultimately prevents SPECTRE from reforming, it continued, under the leadership of Tamil Rahani, to play a part in Role of Honour and Nobody Lives For Ever. The next Bond novelist, Raymond Benson, reintroduces Irma Bunt, Blofeld's assistant, in his short story "Blast From the Past", which is a sequel to You Only Live Twice.
Films[edit]



Dr. No with his aquarium in the background.
In the Eon Productions James Bond series, which began in 1962 with Dr. No, SPECTRE plays a more prominent role. The organisation is first mentioned in Dr. No as the organisation for which Dr. Julius No works. This was changed from Fleming's novels, which had Dr. No working for the USSR. In the films, SPECTRE usually replaced SMERSH as the main villains, although there is a brief reference to SMERSH in the second Eon Bond film, From Russia with Love. The film adaptation of From Russia with Love also features the first on-screen appearance of Blofeld, although he is only identified by name in the closing credits of the film. After being absent from Goldfinger, SPECTRE returns in Thunderball and subsequently is featured in the following films You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Diamonds Are Forever. Following Diamonds Are Forever, SPECTRE and Blofeld were retired from the Eon Films series, except for a cameo by Blofeld (not identified by name, but accompanied by the character's trademark cat) in For Your Eyes Only.
Despite speculation that SPECTRE would return for the Daniel Craig era of Bond films, 007 has instead tackled an underground terrorist organisation similar to SPECTRE, known as Quantum. They first appeared unnamed in 2006's Casino Royale and reappeared in 2008's Quantum of Solace. In the Bulgarian subtitles of Quantum of Solace, the name Quantum was translated as SPECTRE, with the title changed to "Spectre of Solace" ("Спектър на утехата").
Non-Eon[edit]
In 1983, MGM released Never Say Never Again, based on the same original source material as Thunderball. The film retells the story of Thunderball and reintroduces both SPECTRE and Blofeld.
Video games[edit]
SPECTRE is shown, but never mentioned by name, in the game GoldenEye: Rogue Agent. Instead, it is referred to as a "powerful criminal organisation". It is depicted as being much more powerful than it was in any of the films or books, possessing a massive undersea black market known as The Octopus, resembling Karl Stromberg's lair from The Spy Who Loved Me, a large lair built into an extinct volcano akin to the films which is used as the main base of operations, and also the personal structures of its members such as Auric Goldfinger's Auric Enterprises and casino and Dr. No's Crab Key, also returning from the films. Spectre also seems to possess extremely advanced technology, such as virtual reality and strange energy generators in its volcano lair. Dr. No and Auric Goldfinger appear as SPECTRE members, with Dr. No "...(Doctor Julius No) having broken ranks with our organisation. He must be eliminated".
After Dr. No is killed, Goldfinger takes over the Volcano Lair using the OMEN [Organic Mass Energy Neutralizer] which causes Disintegration of Organic Matter. Goldfinger is eventually killed by the Omen when it explodes, releasing the energy and killing everyone (except the player, who is safe from the Omen in a cut off area. The irony being that the area was a trap set by Goldfinger, where the air would drain out and the player would die.)
Although the From Russia with Love video game mirrors much of the plot of the eponymous film, it uses an organisation called OCTOPUS rather than SPECTRE to avoid copyright issues.
As a side note, the game features a recurring symbol, which could be thought of as Spectre's logo: a simple, marine-blue octopus with semicircular eyes and blade-like tentacles. This logo is at least seen printed on the walls of The Octopus black market and on Goblin grenades.
Copyright issues[edit]
Main article: The controversy over Thunderball
SPECTRE and its characters have been at the centre of long-standing litigation starting in 1961 between Kevin McClory and Ian Fleming over the film rights to Thunderball and the ownership of the organisation and its characters. In 1963, Fleming settled out of court with McClory, which awarded McClory the film rights to Thunderball, although literary rights would stay with Fleming and thus allow continuation author John Gardner to use SPECTRE in a number of his novels.
In 1963, Eon Productions producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman made agreement with McClory to adapt the novel into the fourth James Bond film, stipulating also that McClory would not be allowed to make further adaptations of Thunderball for at least ten years since the release. Although SPECTRE and Blofeld are used in a number of films before and after Thunderball, the issue over the copyright of Thunderball did prevent SPECTRE and Blofeld from becoming the main villains in 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me. In 1983, McClory released a film based on his Bond rights entitled Never Say Never Again.
In 1998 MGM/UA took legal action against Sony and McClory in the United States to prevent Warhead 2000 AD from going into production. MGM/UA abandoned the claim after settling with Sony. McClory's Bond rights, including his rights in SPECTRE were unaffected.
On November 15, 2013, MGM and the McClory estate had formally settled the issue with Danjaq, LLC and MGM acquiring the full copyright rights to the characters and concepts of Blofeld and SPECTRE.[3]
SPECTRE henchmen[edit]
Henchmen working for SPECTRE, one of its members, or directly for Ernst Stavro Blofeld:
Novels[edit]
Emilio Largo – Second in command of SPECTRE and designated by Blofeld to oversee all field operations for Thunderball; killed by Domino Vitali
Giuseppe Petacchi – Domino Vitali's brother; kills the crew aboard the NATO test flight carrying the bombs and flies it to rendezvous with SPECTRE, only to be killed upon delivery
Vargas – The assassin who kills Petacchi
Fonda – "Number 4," an Italian who recruited Petacchi for the plot
Pierre Borraud – "Number 12," of the Unione Corse; had sex with a girl that he kidnapped for ransom. As a punishment, Blofeld electrocuted Borraud and returned half of the ransom money to the girl's father as compensation. While Blofeld considered the possibility that the sexual relationship was consensual, it was more important that SPECTRE was reputed to keep its word.[4]
Marius Domingue – "Number 7," another Unione Corse man; highly trustworthy, but singled out by Blofeld for a lecture in order to throw Borraud off guard
Maslov – "Number 18," formerly known as Kandinsky; a Polish electronics expert who resigned from Philips AG
Kotze – "Number 5," formerly known as Emil Traut; an East German physicist who defected to the West
Strelik – "Number 10," a former SMERSH member; shot dead by Largo for questioning the loyalty of the other SPECTRE members
"Number 11" – Another ex-SMERSH operative
Count Lippe – "Sub-operator G"; expected to send the Thunderball ransom letter, but his fight with Bond and subsequent injuries led to a delay in the plan
"Number 6" – Kills Lippe at the behest of Blofeld for being unreliable
"Number 14" – A former Gestapo officer
"Number 17" – Finds Domino scanning the Disco Volante with a Geiger counter in search of the stolen atomic bombs; reports her to Largo, who takes her prisoner and tortures her
Irma Bunt - henchwoman in the novel and film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Black Dragon Society
This is only a brief description of the numbers of each member. In the first book to include SPECTRE, "Thunderball", it is stated that the numbers of each member changes periodically (it "advances round a rota by two digits at midnight on the first of every month") to avoid detection and Blofeld is in fact number 2.
Films[edit]
By order of appearance and fateMr. Jones (Dr. No) – takes his own life.
Professor R. J. Dent (Dr. No) – killed by James Bond.
Miss Taro (Dr. No) – arrested by Jamaican police.
Dr. Julius No (Dr. No) – killed by James Bond.
Donald "Red" Grant (From Russia with Love) – killed by James Bond.
Morzeny (From Russia with Love) – killed by James Bond.
Kronsteen (No. 5, From Russia with Love) – killed on Blofeld's orders by Morzeny.
Rosa Klebb (No. 3, From Russia with Love) – killed by Tatiana Romanova.
Colonel Jaques Bouvar (No. 6, Thunderball) – killed by James Bond.
Emilio Largo (No. 2, Thunderball) – killed by Domino Derval.
Fiona Volpe (Thunderball) – killed by own henchmen by accident trying to kill James Bond.
Pierre Borraud (No. 9, Thunderball) – killed by Blofeld for embezzling from Spectre.
Marius Domingue (No. 11, Thunderball) – at large.
Count Lippe (Thunderball) – killed by Volpe on Blofeld's orders.
Angelo Palazzi (Thunderball) – killed by Largo on Blofeld's orders.
Vargas (Thunderball) – killed by James Bond.
Janni (Thunderball) – killed when Largo yacht explodes.
Professor Ladislav Kutze (Thunderball, defected) – last seen jumping into ocean with lifebuoy – fate unknown
Quist (Thunderball) – thrown by Largo into shark pool.
Helga Brandt (No.11, You Only Live Twice) – thrown by Blofeld into piranha pool
Hans (You Only Live Twice) – thrown by James Bond into piranha pool
Mr. Osato (Head Of Osato Chemicals, You Only Live Twice) – shot and killed by Blofeld
(No.3, You Only Live Twice) – killed by explosion (#3 played by Burt Kwouk)
(No.4, You Only Live Twice) – fate unknown (# 4 Played by Michael Chow)
Irma Bunt (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) – fate unknown, probably dead.
Grunther (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) – killed by Tracy Bond.
Mr. Wint & Mr. Kidd (Diamonds Are Forever) – Mr. Wint is killed by James Bond by tying his "bomb surprise" to his coat tails and tossing him overboard, exploding before he hits the water. Mr. Kidd is set on fire and last seen swimming afloat on the sea after he jumps overboard to put out the flames.
Bert Saxby (Diamonds Are Forever) – killed by CIA Agents.
Several other agents of SPECTRE remain nameless and unimportant
By Hierarchy[edit]
SPECTRE Command Structure
Name
Number
Position
Film
Status
Actor
Ernst Stavro Blofeld 1 Leader From Russia With Love
 Thunderball
 You Only Live Twice
 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
 Diamonds Are Forever
 For Your Eyes Only
 Never Say Never Again (non Eon) Deceased Anthony Dawson/Eric Pohlmann
 Anthony Dawson/Eric Pohlmann
Donald Pleasence
Telly Savalas
Charles Gray
John Hollis/Robert Rietti
Max von Sydow (Non Eon) (Active)
Emilio Largo 2 Second in command and head of extortion Thunderball Deceased Adolfo Celi/Robert Rietti
Rosa Klebb
 Unknown 3 Chief executioner
 Operative in Blofeld's volcano lair. From Russia with Love
 You Only Live Twice Deceased (both) Lotte Lenya
Burt Kwouk
Unknown 4 Operative in Blofeld's volcano lair. You Only Live Twice Unknown Michael Chow
Tov Kronsteen 5 Chief planner From Russia with Love Deceased Vladek Sheybal
Jacques Bouvar 6 Military Advisor Thunderball Deceased Bob Simmons (uncredited in film)
Unnamed 7 Member Thunderball Deceased Cecil Cheng (uncredited in film)
Unnamed 8 Member Thunderball Deceased Michael Smith (uncredited in film)
Unknown 9 Member Thunderball Deceased Clive Cazes
Unnamed 10 Member From Russia With Love Deceased Martin Fox (uncredited in film)
Unnamed
 Helga Brandt 11 Member Thunderball
 You Only Live Twice At-large
 Deceased Gábor Baraker
Karin Dor
Fatima Blush 12 Member Never Say Never Again Deceased Barbara Carrera
Non-Eon[edit]
Maximillian Largo (No.1, Never Say Never Again)
Fatima Blush (No.12, Never Say Never Again)
Eva Adara (From Russia with Love) (Video game)
Acronym in the rest of world[edit]
Italy: SPeciale Esecutivo per Controspionaggio, Terrorismo, Ritorsioni e Estorsioni (in English: SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Retaliation and Extortion, because "Revenge" in Italian language is translated Vendetta).[5]
Spain: Sociedad Permanente Ejecutiva para el Contraespionaje, Terrorismo, Rebeldía y Aniquilamiento (in English: Society Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Rebellion and Annihilation, the abbreviation changes the last letter in Spanish language)
Parodies and clones[edit]
SPECTRE is often parodied in films, video games, and novels. The most obvious is the Austin Powers series of movies. In this, a man named Dr. Evil (a parody of Ernst Stavro Blofeld) is the leader of a villainous organisation called Virtucon. Dr. Evil's second in command, known only as "Number Two", is a parody of Emilio Largo, Blofeld's second in command.
The Belgian comics series Spirou et Fantasio features an international criminal organisation called the Triangle whose members also address each other by numbers.
Prior to Dr. No, The Road to Hong Kong featured a "third force" organisation the Third Echelon.
In the video game series No One Lives Forever a man simply called "The director" leads a similar organisation called "H.A.R.M.". A running joke during the series is that no one actually knows what H.A.R.M. stands for. H.A.R.M may jokingly refer to Human Aetiological Relations Machine, the name of a fictional intelligence agency featured in the 1960s spy film Agent for H.A.R.M..
The TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. had, as its adversary, a shadowy organisation known as THRUSH.
The James Bond spinoff animated series, James Bond Jr., featured a clone of SPECTRE called "S.C.U.M." (Saboteurs and Criminals United in Mayhem).
The animated series Inspector Gadget featured a clone of SPECTRE called "M.A.D." (Mean And Dirty). Dr. Claw, the head of M.A.D. is also based on the villain Blofeld.
The Mexican movies Chabelo y Pepito vs los Monstruos (Chabelo and Pepito vs the Monsters) and Chabelo y Pepito Detectives feature a criminal organisation named S.P.E.C.T.R.U.M., which carries two plans to dominate the world. In "vs the Monsters", they extract uranium from a hill in the Mexican countryside, while in "Detectives" they sell toys that hypnotise children to make them work for them.
The TV series Get Smart featured a SPECTRE-like organisation called KAOS.
In 1983, a highly successful James Bond tabletop RPG was released. With the films as inspirations, the stories were adapted for players. Minor changes to plots and villains were made; for example, Wint and Kidd were freelance assassins working for SPECTRE. They in fact leased out services to other terrorist organisations and various crime syndicates. The most noted changes were to SPECTRE: Blofeld's name was changed to Karl Ferenc Skorpios, and he was given a greyhound instead of a white cat; the organisation itself was renamed TAROT (Technological Accession, Revenge, and Organized Terrorism), with the face cards representing various departments. This was due to the copyright issues referenced above. Victory Games (http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/jamesbond007/) worked with Eon productions (the film producers) for the rights to Bond, and were told they were not allowed to negotiate with McClory for the rights to SPECTRE, hence the hasty renaming.
The Disney animated series Darkwing Duck featured a masked crimefighter who often worked with an agency called S.H.U.S.H. against the forces of F.O.W.L. (the Fiendish Organization of World Larceny).
The THUNDER Agents comic featured an enemy called S.P.I.D.E.R. (Secret People's International Directorate for Extralegal Revenue).
The Galaxy organisation features in Our Man Flint where "Agent 0008" tells Flint that Galaxy is "bigger than SPECTRE".
Tom Clancy's novel Rainbow Six features a terrorist organisation that the characters compare to SPECTRE once they learn that the terrorists are using chemical warfare similar to that in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
The video game Evil Genius places the player in command of a SPECTRE-like organisation, complete with a rocket-launching base inside a volcano. Additionally, one of the player's choices of leader (Maximilian) is almost identical in appearance to SPECTRE's leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld (as he appeared in You Only Live Twice).
In the British television show "The Secret Show" the evil Organization T.H.E.M. (The Horrible Evil Menace) is similar to SPECTRE.
The Spanish comic book Mortadelo y Filemón features a parody of SPECTRE called ABUELA (Agentes Bélicos Ultramarinos Especialistas en Líos Aberrantes – warlike agents overseas specialists in aberrant messes).[6]
The Matt Helm films featured the Brotherhood of International Government and Order abbreviated as "BIG O".
Synthesizers company "Waldorf" has a model named "Blofeld". The editor for the samples used by this synth is called "Spectre", and one of his virtual synths is called "Largo".
In SpyDogs cartoon, the evil leader of cats, Katastrophe, always appears fondling a rubber mouse.
An evil organisation named STENCH features in the film "Carry On Spying".
An organisation known as SCORPIA (Sabotage, CORruPtion, Intelligence, and Assassination) appears in the Alex Rider series of novels.
James Earl Ray, the killer of Martin Luther King, used the alias Eric Starvo Galt, almost certainly a mixture of Ian Fleming and Ayn Rand. "Ernst" and "Stavro" are peculiar sounds and spellings to American ears and eyes, and he mentally transposed them into "Eric" and "Starvo." And "who is John Galt?--who is Eric Starvo Galt?"
In The Simpsons episode You Only Move Twice appears an organisation called Globex Corporation directed by supervillain Hank Scorpio who successfully takes control of the East Coast.
The Marvel Comics universe has the organizations HYDRA and AIM, which are both opposed by Nick Fury and SHIELD, and are sometimes also opposed by Captain America and the other Marvel heroes, while DC Comics came up with the organization H.I.V.E. for its universe.
The TV series Kim Possible has the organization WEE (Worldwide Evil Empire), which is opposed by GJ (Global Justice) and Kim Possible herself at times.
In Spy Fox 2: "Some Assembly Required", Spy Fox battles LeRoach - a member of the Society of Meaningless Evil, Larceny, Lying and Yelling (S.M.E.L.L.Y.).
See also[edit]
List of James Bond villains
Quantum
SMERSH
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Thunderball,Ian Fleming, Page 63, 1961, London: Johnathon Cape
2.Jump up ^ Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1995.
3.Jump up ^ Vejvoda, Jim. "MGM, Danjaq Settle James Bond Rights Dispute With McClory Estate". IGN. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
4.Jump up ^ CommanderBond.net – Bond At Its Best
5.Jump up ^ "" Spectre " , la Cupola che sfida James Bond" (in italian). corriere.it. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
6.Jump up ^ Blogspot.com
External links[edit]
Blofeld from Demon.net
spectreorganisation.com, information on Kevin McClory's fight for the rights to Thunderball and SPECTRE


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Le Chiffre
Character from the James Bond series
Le Chiffre by Mads Mikkelsen.jpg
Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre in Casino Royale (2006).
Occupation
Paymaster for the Syndicat des Ouvriers d'Alsace (novel)
 Terrorist banker (film)
Affiliation
SMERSH (novel)
Quantum[1] (2006 film)
Portrayed by
Peter Lorre (1954)
Orson Welles (1967)
Mads Mikkelsen (2006)
Role
Villain
Le Chiffre (French pronunciation: ​[lə ʃifʁ], The Cypher or The Number) is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale. On screen Le Chiffre has been portrayed by Peter Lorre in the 1954 television adaptation of the novel for CBS's Climax! television series, by Orson Welles in the 1967 spoof of the novel and Bond film series, and by Mads Mikkelsen in the 2006 film version of Fleming's novel.
Fleming based the character on occultist Aleister Crowley.[2]


Contents  [hide]
1 Novel biography 1.1 Henchmen
2 1967 film biography
3 2006 film biography
4 Appearances 4.1 Henchmen
5 See also
6 Notes

Novel biography[edit]
Le Chiffre, alias "Die Nummer", "Mr. Number", "Herr Ziffer" and other translations of "The Number" or "The Cipher" in various languages, is the paymaster of the "Syndicat des Ouvriers d'Alsace" (French for "Alsatian Workmen's Union"), a SMERSH-controlled trade union.
He is first encountered as an inmate of the Dachau displaced persons camp in the US zone of Germany in June 1945 and transferred to Alsace-Lorraine and Strasbourg three months later on a stateless passport. There he adopts the name Le Chiffre because as he claims, he is "only a number on a passport". Not much else is really known about Le Chiffre's background or where he comes from, except for educated guesses based on his description:

Height 5 ft 8 ins (173 cm). Weight 18 stones (114 kg, 252 lbs). Complexion very pale. Clean shaven. Hair red-brown, 'en brosse' (crew cut). Eyes very dark brown with whites showing all round iris. Small, rather feminine mouth. False teeth of expensive quality. Ears small, with large lobes. Hands small, well-tended, hirsute. Feet small. Racially, subject is probably a mixture of Mediterranean with Prussian or Polish strains. He dresses well and meticulously, generally in dark double-breasted suits.
He is also fluent in French, English, and German with traces of a Marseille accent.
In the novel, he makes a major investment in a string of brothels with money belonging to SMERSH. The investment fails after a bill is signed into law banning prostitution. Le Chiffre then goes to the casino Royale-les-Eaux in an attempt to recover all of his lost funds. There, however, Bond bankrupts him in a series of games in Chemin de Fer. Le Chiffre kidnaps Bond's love interest, Vesper Lynd, to lure him into a trap and get his money back. The trap works, and Le Chiffre tortures Bond to get him to give up the money. He is interrupted by a SMERSH agent, however, who shoots him between the eyes with a silenced TT pistol as punishment for losing the money.
Le Chiffre's death is seen by the Soviet government as an embarrassment, which in addition to the death and defeat of Mr. Big in Live and Let Die, leads to the events of From Russia With Love.
Henchmen[edit]
Tall, thin man named only Basil – bodyguard and an expert in martial arts who takes pleasure in roughing up Bond. He is later killed by a SMERSH agent.
Kratt, short, Corsican man – bodyguard of Le Chiffre and wielder of a walking-stick gun that he threatens to cripple Bond with at the gaming table. He is later killed by a SMERSH agent.
1967 film biography[edit]



Orson Welles as Le Chiffre in Casino Royale (1967)
Le Chiffre is a secondary villain in the 1967 satire and appears in the only segment of the film actually adapted from Fleming's book. As in the novel, Le Chiffre is charged with recovering a large sum of money for SMERSH after he loses it at the baccarat table. He first attempts to raise the funds by holding an auction of embarrassing photographs of military and political leaders from China, the US and the USSR, but this is foiled by Sir James Bond's daughter, Mata Bond. With no other option, he returns to the baccarat table to try to win back the money. Later, he encounters baccarat Master Evelyn Tremble, who has been recruited by Bond to stop Le Chiffre from raising the money. Le Chiffre attempts to distract Tremble by performing elaborate magic tricks, but fails to prevent Tremble from winning. Afterwards, he arranges for Tremble to be kidnapped and subjects the agent to psychedelic torture in order to get back the money. The torture session is interrupted when his SMERSH masters, led by the film's main villain, Dr. Noah, shoot him dead.
2006 film biography[edit]
Le Chiffre is the main villain of the official 2006 James Bond film, Casino Royale, portrayed by Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen. Believed by MI6 to be Albanian and officially stateless, according to his file, Le Chiffre is a financier of international terrorism. M implies that Le Chiffre was involved in the September 11 attacks, or at least deliberately profiteered from them. In the video game version of Quantum of Solace, it is said that his birth name is "Jean Duran", in the MI6 mission briefings. A mathematical genius and a chess prodigy, his abilities enable him to earn large sums of money on games of chance and probabilities, and he likes to show off by playing poker. He suffers from haemolacria, which causes him to weep blood out of a damaged left eye, and, as in Fleming's novel, dresses in immaculate black suits and uses a Salbutamol inhaler, here plated with platinum. To date he is the only main Bond villain to die before the film's final act.
Le Chiffre is contacted by Mr. White, a representative of an elite criminal organization later revealed to be Quantum. White introduces Steven Obanno, a formidable leader of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, to Le Chiffre, and arranges to bank several briefcases full of cash for Obanno. Le Chiffre invests the money along with his other creditors' money in the aircraft manufacturer SkyFleet. Though SkyFleet's shares have been skyrocketing, he plans to short the company by purchasing put options, and ordering the destruction of the company's new prototype airliner, set to make its first flight out of Miami International Airport. Bond intervenes and foils the plan, costing Le Chiffre his entire investment.
In order to win the money back, Le Chiffre sets up and enters a high stakes Texas hold 'em tournament in Montenegro at the Casino Royale in an attempt to recoup the loss before Obanno learns that his money has been misappropriated. Bond is sent to make sure that Le Chiffre does not win back the money; the reasoning is to force Le Chiffre to turn to MI6 for protection, in exchange for information on his creditors and employers.
During the tournament, an enraged Obanno and his lieutenant break into Le Chiffre's hotel room and threaten him and his girlfriend, Valenka. Le Chiffre does not object to the threatened amputation of Valenka's arm, and is granted one last chance to win their money back.
As Obanno leaves the room, his bodyguard spots Bond and hears Valenka's cries coming from Bond's earpiece. In the subsequent brawl, 007 kills both Obanno and his henchman, and Rene Mathis arranges the blame to be placed on Le Chiffre's bodyguard Leo.
During the tense tournament, Le Chiffre initially outwits and bankrupts Bond, who cannot get additional funding from MI6 accountant Vesper Lynd, who has accompanied Bond to make sure the money is used properly. However, Felix Leiter, a CIA agent also playing in the game, agrees to bankroll Bond, on the condition that CIA is allowed to take Le Chiffre in afterwards. Desperate, Le Chiffre has Valenka attempt to poison Bond's drink. Bond almost dies, but, thanks to an antitoxin kit in his car and Vesper's timely interference, he is revived at the last moment and returns to the game. During the final round, Le Chiffre's full house bests the hands of the two players preceding him, but loses to Bond's straight flush.
Enraged by his loss, Le Chiffre kidnaps Vesper, forcing Bond to give chase, and Bond is led straight into his trap. Le Chiffre leaves Vesper, bound at the feet and hands, in the middle of the road, and Bond is forced to swerve to avoid hitting her and crashes his car.
When Bond regains consciousness, he is stripped naked and bound to chair with the seat cut out. Le Chiffre proceeds to torture him by repeatedly whipping him in the testicles with the large knotted end of a roped carpet beater, trying to extort the password that will enable Le Chiffre to collect the tournament winnings. Bond refuses to give in and plays on Le Chiffre's fear that there will be retribution from the clients whose money he lost. Le Chiffre then states that if he is unable to retrieve the password then he will still kill both Bond and Vesper and opt for protection from MI6; Le Chiffre says that he wins either way. When Bond refuses to give in, Le Chiffre brandishes a knife and is about to castrate him.
Just then, Mr. White bursts into the room, holding Le Chiffre at gunpoint and informing him that he has just become a liability. Le Chiffre pleads for his life, promising that he'll get the money, but it is to no avail; Mr. White responds coldly, "Money isn't as valuable to our organization as knowing who to trust" and then shoots Le Chiffre in the forehead with a SIG Sauer P230 fitted with a suppressor.
Appearances[edit]
Casino Royale (2006)
Quantum Of Solace (2008) – mentioned/seen in a photograph only
Henchmen[edit]
Main article: List of James Bond henchmen in Casino Royale
Alex Dimitrios
Carlos
Mollaka
Leo
Bobbie
Jochum
Kratt
Valenka
General Grafin von Wallenstein
Madame Wu
Sheriff Tomelli
Lionel
Ison
See also[edit]
SMERSH
Casino Royale
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Anthony Breznican (4 April 2008). "James Bond series takes a 'Quantum' leap". USA Today. Retrieved 4 April 2008.
2.Jump up ^ Ben Macintyre (5 April 2008). "Was Ian Fleming the real 007?". The Times (UK). Retrieved 8 April 2008.


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Xenia Onatopp
Character from the James Bond series
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Affiliation
ex-Soviet Air Force
 Janus
Portrayed by
Famke Janssen
Kate Magowan (2010 video game)
Role
Bond girl / Henchwoman
Xenia Sergeyevna Onatopp is a supporting villain in the James Bond film GoldenEye, played by actress Famke Janssen.


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2 In video games
3 Reception
4 References

In the film[edit]
Xenia, born in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, is a former officer and fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, she joins the crime syndicate Janus, led by renegade MI6 agent Alec Trevelyan. Early in the movie, Bond gets into a car chase with her, meets her at a casino, and places her under surveillance.
A beautiful, seductive woman who derives sexual satisfaction from killing, she is a classic and quite literal femme fatale. In one scene, she lures a Canadian admiral, Chuck Farrell, onto a yacht moored off Monte Carlo and, engaging in violent sexual intercourse, crushes him to death; she moans in pleasure as he moans in pain, and reaches orgasm as he dies. Meanwhile, a fellow operative steals his NATO ID, granting them access to a Eurocopter Tiger aboard a French warship anchored off Monte Carlo.
Onatopp then hijacks the prototype Eurocopter Tiger by killing the two pilots. Later, she and turncoat Russian General Arkady Ourumov use the hijacked Tiger in an attack on the Severnaya satellite control center in central Siberia, where they steal the controller for the GoldenEye electromagnetic pulse (EMP) satellite weapon. During the attack, she fires an AKS-74U carbine around the control room, murdering all the military personnel and civilian technicians present, again getting sexually aroused in the process. She then appears as Bond's link to the Janus group. In a meeting arranged by Bond's dealings with Valentin Zukovsky, a Russian arms dealer, Onatopp arrives to meet Bond as he swims lengths in the Turkish Baths of his hotel - The St. Petersburg Grand. Initially sneaking around the pool, Bond discovers her presence and hurls her into the steam room. Onatopp attempts to seduce Bond, forcefully kissing him and coercing the agent to set down his weapon, before biting his lip, causing him to hurl her at the wall. Following a period of violent foreplay where Onatopp crushes Bond between her thighs, Bond finally draws his weapon on her and demands to be taken to Janus.
In her final encounter with Bond in Cuba, she ambushes him and Natalya Simonova by rappeling from a helicopter and begins torturing him between her legs. However, Bond is able to connect the rope she rappelled down to her safety harness, grabs her AK-74 rifle, and shoots down the helicopter with her rifle. The result pulls Onatopp off Bond and sends her flying, screaming, into the crotch of a tree, with her safety harness crushing her by the stomach to death. Bond quips, "She always did enjoy a good squeeze."
In video games[edit]
Onatopp has appeared in a number of James Bond video games as a playable multiplayer character.
Her first appearance was in the 1997 video game adaptation of GoldenEye, GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64. She is with Trevelyan on the train stage of the game. If the player quickly shoots her after eliminating Ourumov, she will yell to Trevelyan that she is wounded and to wait up for her; this buys the player more time to escape from the train. She later reappears in the jungle stage. Similar to the film, she is killed in the jungles of Cuba in a firefight with Bond. Killing Onatopp is the only way for the player to dual-wield two different guns in the game without a complex series of button presses; she uses an RC-P90 and a grenade launcher at the same time.
In the James Bond game Nightfire, Onatopp also appears as a multiplayer character. She can be unlocked by a cheat on the cheats menu as JANUS, the organization she works for in the movie.
She later appeared in the spinoff Bond game, GoldenEye: Rogue Agent where she works for Dr. Julius No and is Agent GoldenEye's alluring opponent. She is commander of Dr. No's army, which has taken over the Hoover Dam. She is killed after being thrown off of the Hoover Dam while fighting Goldeneye. In the game she was voiced by actress Jenya Lano.
She appears in the GoldenEye remake as a former Russian general who served under Ouromov during the Russian invasion of Georgia. Her plot arc is significantly changed for the remake. She now appears in the new Nightclub level (where Bond first meets her) disguised as a waitress, and assassinates Valentin Zukovsky after he gives vital information about Janus to Bond - the man is framed for the murder of Zukovsky. She also betrays and assassinates General Ouromov in the train level in which she now appears. During her final confrontation with Bond, she is lowered down to him from a helicopter and proceeds to engage in hand-to-hand combat with him; she is defeated when Bond launches a missile at her helicopter while she is strangling him, the helicopter crashing into a nearby gorge and dragging her down with it. She is voiced by and modeled after Kate Magowan.
Reception[edit]
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Xenia Onatopp has appeared in lists of the top ten Bond Girls, including by Entertainment Weekly[1] and Dose.[2] Yahoo! Movies had her name included in the list of the best Bond girl names, even while calling it a "slightly-too-obvious pun."[3] Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola said he has had a crush on Janssen since he saw her in GoldenEye as Xenia Onatopp, "an amazing villain".[4]
The character was parodied in the Austin Powers film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me with a character named Ivana Humpalot.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "The 10 Best Bond Girls". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
2.Jump up ^ "Top Ten Bond Girls". Dose. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
3.Jump up ^ James Bond at 50: the best Bond Girl names | Movie Editor's Blog - Yahoo! Movies UK
4.Jump up ^ Adam Pockross, ‘Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters’ Five Film Facts: Bond Girls Abound, Yahoo! Movies, Jan 23, 2013


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Necros (James Bond)
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Necros
Character from the James Bond series
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Affiliation
General Georgi Koskov,
Brad Whitaker
Portrayed by
Andreas Wisniewski
Role
Henchman
Necros is a fictional character and henchman in the James Bond film The Living Daylights. He was played by Andreas Wisniewski.[1] Tall, muscular, blond, blue-eyed and steel-jawed Necros is of the Red Grant model, common in the earlier James Bond films.[2] Over the course of the film, Necros impersonates a Cockney milkman, an American jogger, an Austrian balloon salesman, and a doctor in Morocco.
Biography[edit]
Necros, meaning 'death' or 'You Kill' in Greek,[3] was General Koskov's highly trained and disciplined Soviet assassin with KGB affiliations, but ultimately loyal to Koskov. His only vice seems to be an addiction to his personal stereo playing The Pretenders, which he is rarely seen without.[4] Necros uses a great number of disguises and many techniques of killing, although strangulation seems to be a preferred method.
His first priority is to see that Koskov is brought safely to Brad Whitaker's Tangier estate from the safe house in England, where Koskov is being held by British Intelligence. He completes this mission by disguising himself as a milkman, whereby he gains access to the intelligence compound.[4] Subsequently, he radios in a report of a major gas leak within the building. This causes security to order an immediate evacuation. In the confusion, he abducts Koskov and effects his escape with the help of explosive milk bottles that look like molotovs, killing several Secret Service agents who attempt to apprehend him.
Necros later kills Saunders, head of Station V in Vienna, disguised as a balloon salesman, by setting a bomb to explode at the doors to the cafe as he leaves his rendezvous with Bond. The killing becomes part of the operation to make the British Secret Service believe the Soviets have instituted a "Smiert Spionem" or "Death to Spies" operation.
Necros himself is killed after a midair struggle with Bond on the holding net of a Lockheed C-130 Hercules cargo plane 6,500 feet (2,000 m) above Afghanistan.[5][6] Necros pleads for his life, but Bond slips the boot off by cutting the laces and drops the henchman to his death.[5][7]
Reception[edit]
Perhaps due to his imposing stature and chiseled features, variety of false accents and love of pop music, Sally Hibbin considers Necros to be one of the most memorable Bond villains.[8] However, Steven Rubin stated that he was "not on-screen long enough to make any true impact", although he added that "even he has his sympathetic moments."[7] Lee Pfeiffer and Dave Worrall say of Necros, "Necros is the most intriguing of the film's trio of main villains. He is a silent, humourless, but extremely handsome assassin who tends to use a Walkman as a strangulation device. The role is well played by Andreas Wisniewski, who provides the film with a much-needed sense of menace."[9]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Dougall, Alastair; Stewart, Roger (1 October 2000). James Bond: the secret world of 007. Dorling Kindersley Pub. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-7894-6691-4. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
2.Jump up ^ Rubin, Steven Jay (2003). The complete James Bond movie encyclopedia. Contemporary Books. p. 297. ISBN 978-0-07-141246-9. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
3.Jump up ^ Simpson, Paul (2002). The Rough Guide to James Bond: The Films, the Novels, the Villains. Rough Guides. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-84353-142-5. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
4.^ Jump up to: a b Burlingame, Jon (1 October 2012). The Music of James Bond. Oxford University Press. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-19-998676-7. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
5.^ Jump up to: a b Yeffeth, Glenn (28 September 2006). James Bond in the 21st Century: Why We Still Need 007. BenBella Books. p. 109. ISBN 978-1-933771-02-1. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
6.Jump up ^ American Cinematographer. ASC Holding Corp. July 1987. p. iii. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
7.^ Jump up to: a b Rubin, Steven Jay (2003). The complete James Bond movie encyclopedia. Contemporary Books. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-07-141246-9. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
8.Jump up ^ Hibbin, Sally (1 August 1987). The official James Bond 007 movie book. Crown Publishers. p. 125. ISBN 978-0-517-56643-5. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
9.Jump up ^ Pfeiffer, Lee; Worrall, Dave (1 April 2003). The Essential Bond: The Authorized Guide to the World of 007. Channel Four Books. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-7522-1562-4. Retrieved 11 December 2012.


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Brad Whitaker is the true main antagonist in the fifteenth James Bond film epic The Living Daylights. He was portrayed by American actor Joe Don Baker.[1] Baker also played in his last two Bond films as Jack Wade, Bond's CIA contact in Pierce Brosnan's first two films, GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies.[2] Steven Rubin describes Whitaker as a "smarmy bad-guy arms trader."[3]


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2 In the film
3 Reception
4 References

Background[edit]
Brad Whitaker is an international black market arms dealer. He is fascinated by war, but his actual military career is a failure, so he turns to arms dealing to organize his own personal military force. Expelled from West Point for cheating, he spends a short stint as a mercenary in the Belgian Congo before starting to work with various other criminal organisations that would help organise his very first arms deals.[4] He loves military history and it is implied that he wargames various historical conflicts using automated miniature figures and effects, such as the battles of Agincourt, Waterloo, and Gettysburg. In a conversation with Bond during the confrontation, Whitaker believes that Pickett's Charge should have been made up Little Round Top and that if Ulysses S. Grant was in charge of the Union at Gettysburg, he would have crushed the Army of Northern Virginia, thus ending the battle.
Whitaker has a personal pantheon of "great military commanders" in his headquarters, which includes some of history's most famous and infamous figures, such as Adolf Hitler, Napoleon Bonaparte, Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Oliver Cromwell, and Attila the Hun. Whitaker holds these men in high regard and calls them "surgeons who removed society's dead flesh". All representations of these "surgeons" (or "butchers" as Bond's ally, Pushkin, describes them) are sculpted to resemble Whitaker himself, which is highly noticeable when Whitaker hides among the statues waiting for Pushkin to visit him.
In the film[edit]
Brad Whitaker joins forces with rogue Soviet General Georgi Koskov to secure a large shipment of opium from the Snow Leopard Brotherhood in Afghanistan for $500,000,000 worth of diamonds that he had obtained from an arms deal with the Soviets.[4] Once the opium is sold, Whitaker will have enough money to continue arms deals far into the future. At the same time, they attempt to use James Bond and MI6 to eliminate Gogol's replacement as the new Soviet head of secret operations, General Pushkin, on the basis that he has re-instituted an ongoing operation called "Smiert Spionom" (meaning "Death to Spies" in Russian). Actually, it is Koskov and Whitaker's men, especially their special henchman Necros, who are involved in killing the British agents. After thwarting Whitaker's plans in Afghanistan, Bond returns to Tangier to hunt him down at his Tangier headquarters and kills him after a game of cat-and-mouse in his gaming room, with him using high-tech weapons, such as an 80-round light machine gun rifle with an integral ballistic shield and a loaded battlefield cannon, while Bond has only his 8-round Walther PPK. After Bond hides behind a bust of the Duke of Wellington, he primes his key-ring finder behind it. Whitaker gets right in front of it and the key-ring finder explodes, triggered by Bond's wolf whistle. The explosion topples the bust and podium on top of Whitaker, crushing him through a glass display case containing one of his miniature diorama setups resembling Waterloo– he thus dies on the battlefield after all, Bond ironically quipping to Pushkin, "He met his Waterloo."
Reception[edit]
Steven Rubin describes Whitaker as a "smarmy bad-guy arms trader".[3] Jeremy Black says of him; a "mad American pseudo-general, Brad Whitaker, the arms dealer, yet another figure with a Napoleon complex."[5] Baker himself called his character "a nut" who "thought he was Napoleon."[6] Paul Simpson describes Whitaker as "paunchy", and says that it is fortunate that he doesn't get much screen time.[7] Lee Pfeiffer and Dave Worrall say of him, "this egotistical US arms dealer models himself on history's most notorious dictators. In between orchestrating international arms deals, Whitaker enjoys re-creating battles with his vast dioramas and toy soldiers."[8] They believe that Joe Don Baker, although amusing, was miscast in the role as Whitaker.[8] They also criticized his believability as a villain, describing him as an "oaf" from the American south who nobody would doubt could easily be defeated by James Bond.[8]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Lane, Andy; Simpson, Paul (2002). The Bond Files: An Unofficial Guide to the World's Greatest Secret Agent. Virgin. p. 253. ISBN 978-0-7535-0712-4. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
2.Jump up ^ Barnes, Alan; Hearn, Marcus (1 November 1997). Kiss kiss bang bang: the unofficial James Bond film companion. Batsford. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-7134-8182-2. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
3.^ Jump up to: a b Rubin, Steven Jay (2003). The complete James Bond movie encyclopedia. Contemporary Books. p. 476. ISBN 978-0-07-141246-9. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
4.^ Jump up to: a b "Brad Whitaker". Mi6-hq.com. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
5.Jump up ^ Black, Jeremy (2005). The Politics Of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels To The Big Screen. U of Nebraska Press. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-8032-6240-9. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
6.Jump up ^ Joe Don Baker. Inside The Living Daylights (DVD). MGM Home Entertainment.
7.Jump up ^ Simpson, Paul (2002). The Rough Guide to James Bond: The Films, the Novels, the Villains. Rough Guides. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-84353-142-5. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
8.^ Jump up to: a b c Pfeiffer, Lee; Worrall, Dave (1 April 2003). The Essential Bond: The Authorized Guide to the World of 007. Channel Four Books. p. 153. ISBN 978-0-7522-1562-4. Retrieved 11 December 2012.


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Max Zorin
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Max Zorin
Character from the James Bond series
Affiliation
ex-KGB, Zorin Industries (Self-employed)
Portrayed by
Christopher Walken
Role
Villain
Max Zorin is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill. He is portrayed by Christopher Walken.


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1 Biography
2 Behind the scenes
3 Popular Culture
4 Henchmen
5 Other appearances
6 References

Biography[edit]
Zorin was born in Dresden around the end of World War II, after which Dresden became part of East Germany. He later moved to France and became a leading businessman, operating on the microchip market. However, it is revealed later in the movie that he was the product of Nazi medical experimentation during the war, in which pregnant women were injected with massive quantities of steroids in an attempt to create "super-children." Most of the pregnancies failed. The few surviving babies grew to become extraordinarily intelligent—but also psychopathic.
After the war, Dr. Hans Glaub (alias Dr. Carl Mortner), the German scientist who conducted the experiments, was spirited away by the Soviet Union, where he continued his experiments with steroids. It is strongly implied that the young Zorin was raised by Mortner as his own father, who was one of Zorin's closest allies in the movie, and explicitly stated that Zorin was trained by and long-affiliated with the KGB. Among other activities, Mortner organizes a doping programme for Zorin's thoroughbred race horses, allowing Zorin to win horse races with ease by activating illegal horse steroids by means of implanted microchips; since the drugs are 'administered' during the race, they do not show up on blood tests taken beforehand, and the dose is so minute that they dissolve into the system before tests can be taken afterwards.
Despite Zorin's longtime KGB affiliation, his outside activities draw attention that the KGB sees as unwelcome, and at a meeting between Zorin and KGB head General Gogol, Gogol rebukes him. Zorin responds by telling Gogol that he no longer considers himself a KGB employee.
Zorin is completely ruthless and displays a near-total lack of loyalty to his own men, as shown when he oversaw the execution of a Soviet spy who attempted to sabotage his oil well operations and when he personally massacres hundreds of his own mine workers to ensure the success of his own plans. Despite his long-standing and intimate relationship with his right hand woman May Day, he willingly sacrifices her for the sake of his plans, although this betrayal would backfire on him later on.
Zorin forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Andreas Fault at high tide, causing the valley to flood. Such a disaster would effectively wipe out all computer companies competing against Zorin in the world microchip market and leave him as the leading supplier of microchips; it would also kill millions of people. He plans to use his vast resources to set off a super-earthquake in both the San Andreas Fault and Hayward Fault by flooding them both with water from San Andreas Lake and then breaking the geological lock that forbade both faults from moving simultaneously. To accomplish this, Zorin mines underneath the lakes and plans to blast through the lake beds in order to flood the fault, further exacerbating it by pumping water into them via a vast system of oil wells. Once the floodwaters came in, he would set off the explosives necessary to break the lock.
Zorin's plan is foiled by Bond and Zorin's former lover and henchman May Day, who joins Bond's side after Zorin attempts to kill her. She pushes a trailer full of explosives out of the valley and into open air, sacrificing her own life in the process.
Bond and Stacey Sutton both witness the explosion, which infuriates Zorin and made him even more determined to get revenge on Bond. When leaving the valley in his airship with Scarpine and Mortner, he captures Stacey and makes away with her, only for Bond to grab hold of a mooring rope as the airship heads for the Golden Gate Bridge. Zorin attempts to kill Bond by flying him into the framework of the bridge, but Bond manages to hold on and bring the airship to a halt by mooring it to the framework. Stacey attacks Zorin and in the scuffle both Scarpine and Mortner are knocked out. She escapes onto the bridge with Bond, and Zorin attempts to attack them both with an axe, but in the scuffle he loses grip of the framework and falls to his death into the San Francisco Bay.
Behind the scenes[edit]
The role was initially offered to David Bowie, who turned it down, saying, "I didn't want to spend five months watching my stunt double fall off cliffs."[1]
Legal problems arose before the film's release when producers became aware there was a pre-existing company named the Zoran Corporation which makes microchips. The Zoran Corporation threatened to sue for defamation. Pre-production crew had neglected to do a trademark search prior to filming. The parties came to an agreement and, because of this, A View to a Kill is the first 007 film with a legal disclaimer inserted.
Popular Culture[edit]
The Linux based operating system Zorin OS is named after the character.
Scam baiter Troy Hunt claimed to be named "Max Zorin" in one of his encounters with computer-assistance scammers known for cold calling unsuspecting victims. He made the one-hour twenty-two-minute video available on YouTube.[2]
Henchmen[edit]
May Day (formerly)
Scarpine
Jenny Flex (formerly)
Pan Ho (formerly)
Dr. Hans Glaub/Carl Mortner
Other appearances[edit]
Zorin is a playable multiplayer character in the 2002 video game Nightfire.
In the 2004 video game James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing, it is stated that Zorin had a lover named Nikolai Diavolo (voiced by Willem Dafoe), who plans to use nanobots to commence the rebirth of the Soviet Union. Diavolo also wishes to rape Bond in order to exact vengeance for Zorin's death.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Nicholas Pegg (2004). The Complete David Bowie. Reynolds & Hearn Ltd. p. 561.
2.Jump up ^ Hunt, Troy (21 February 2012). "Scamming the scammers – catching the virus call centre scammers red-handed". troyhunt.com. Troy Hunt. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
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Hugo Drax
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Sir Hugo Drax
Character from the James Bond series
Affiliation
Self-employed
Nazi Germany (formerly; referenced in novel)
Soviet Union (novel)
Portrayed by
Michael Lonsdale
Role
Villain
Sir Hugo Drax is a fictional character created by author Ian Fleming for the James Bond novel Moonraker.[1] Fleming named him after his friend, Sir Reginald Drax. For the later film and its novelization, Drax was largely transformed by screenwriter Christopher Wood. In the film, Drax is portrayed by French actor Michael Lonsdale.[1] In both versions of Moonraker, Drax is the main antagonist.


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2 Film biography 2.1 Henchmen
2.2 Novelization
3 See also
4 References
5 Bibliography

Novel biography[edit]
In the novel, Sir Hugo Drax is a famous English Second World War hero, believed to have been working in Liverpool harbour before the war, who became a post-war millionaire. He has red hair, and half of his face is badly scarred from a German attack during the War. The same incident left him with amnesia. He is 6 ft (183 cm) tall. After the war, Drax made a fortune from trading metals in Tangier and was able to start up his company, "Drax Metals Ltd", which specialises and has a monopoly in the production of a metal called columbite. Drax is also the backer of the 'Moonraker' missile project being built to defend the United Kingdom against its Cold War enemies. The metal columbite gives a missile's engine an extra layer of protection so that it can burn hotter fuels, thus greatly expanding its range of fire.
Scheme[edit]
As it turns out, Sir Hugo Drax is not who he seems; he was born in Germany and his real name was Graf Hugo von der Drache. His mother was English and Drache was educated in England until the age of twelve. Afterwards he moved to Berlin and later Leipzig, where he continued and finished his education. After graduating, he joined the Nazi Party and entered the Wehrmacht as a soldier in the Panzer Brigade 150. At the outset of the Second World War he took part in the Blitzkrieg campaigns in Belgium and France, before becoming a Skorzeny Werwolf commando. After the Ardennes offensive he stayed behind Allied lines when their forces crossed the Rhine and started operating in the Low Countries with his commando group. During a mission, he dressed as a British soldier so that he could sabotage and destroy a farmhouse holding a mixed liaison group of American and British servicemen, but he ended up at the same farm after being attacked by his own German fighter because he was wearing the British uniform which he used to get close to the British Despatch rider. While he was still conscious, he managed to destroy his motorbike and documents. Later he was found and brought to the farm, so he was caught in the explosion and nearly killed. He was then rescued by the British and nursed back to health, claiming to be a "missing soldier" by the name of Hugo Drax. After being discharged from nursing care, he killed a Jewish businessman in London and escaped to Tangier with £15,000 he stole from him.
Drax had an insurmountable hatred for Britain, he started the 'Moonraker' missile project under the pretence that he would test fire the missile into the North Sea (missiles were the cutting-edge of technology in the 1950s). Instead of doing so, however, he targeted his missile on London and armed it with an atomic bomb he received through support by the Soviets and later learned SMERSH. Drax uses his knowledge of the impending disaster to play the stock market, planning to make a huge profit from his own terrorist act. Bond, with the help of female Special Branch agent Gala Brand, sabotaged Drax's 'Moonraker' missile launch and changed the coordinates of the target back to the North Sea, where after the missile was launched Drax and his men had escaped so that they could watch as London was destroyed. In the event, the Soviet submarine carrying Drax was destroyed by the blast of the nuclear warhead.
The Moonraker novel involved the idea of the "traitor within" throughout the course of the book.[2] Drax, real name Graf Hugo von der Drache, is a "megalomaniac German Nazi who masquerades as an English gentleman";[3] his assistant, Krebbs, bears the same name as Hitler's last Chief of Staff.[4] In using a German as the novel's main enemy, "Fleming ... exploits another British cultural antipathy of the 1950s. Germans, in the wake of World War II, made another easy and obvious target for bad press."[3] Moonraker uses two of the foes feared by Fleming, the Nazis and the Soviets, with Drax being German and working for the Soviets;[5] in Moonraker the Soviets were hostile and provided not just the atomic bomb, but support and logistics to Drax.[6]
Fleming used aspects of his private life to create the character Drax: Hugo Drax was named after his acquaintance Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax.[7] Other elements of the plot came from Fleming's knowledge of wartime operations carried out by T-Force, a secret British Army unit formed to continue the work of 30 Assault Unit, itself created by Fleming.[8]
Film biography[edit]
In the film adaptation, Hugo Drax is a billionaire living in California in a château that was imported from France. He owns Drax Industries, which constructs space shuttles. In addition, Drax supposedly owns the Eiffel Tower, but apparently couldn't export it from France because they wouldn't issue him an export permit. Drax portrays himself as an accomplished pianist, as evidenced by his recital of Chopin's "Raindrop" Prelude in D flat major (op. 28) on his grand piano (which he plays in the key of D); in fact, he poses at a player piano in an attempt to impress his guests.
An example of the Drax character's ruthlessness as portrayed in the film is given by the manner in which he disposes of enemies. In one case, after discovering that his personal pilot Corinne Dufour had assisted Bond in discovering his plans, Drax fires her, but then proceeds to set his trained dogs on her, these dogs are not dobermanns as many believe, but Beaucerons; they chase her into a forest and finally kill her.
Bond follows a trail around the world to investigate the theft of a space shuttle on loan to the UK by Hugo Drax (its engines were fired while it was riding on a 747), starting in California at Drax Industries, and following it to Italy, then to Brazil, then into space.
In a scheme similar to that of Karl Stromberg's plan, Drax sought to destroy the entire human race except for a small group of carefully selected humans, both male and female, that would leave Earth on six shuttles (the one just stolen from NASA to replace one that had faults) and have sanctuary on a space station in orbit over Earth. Using chemical weapons created by Drax's scientists, derived from the toxin of a rare South American plant, the Black Orchid, at an installation in Italy, he would wipe out the remainder of humanity. The biological agents were to be dispersed around the earth from a series of 50 strategically placed globes, each containing enough toxin to kill 100 million people while the toxin itself would have no effect on animals. Only three globes had been launched when the station was destroyed, taking with it the threat from the other 47 globes.
After a period of time, when the chemical agents had become harmless, Drax and his master race would return to Earth to reinhabit the planet. These humans would supposedly live in harmony with one another under his command.
Bond obtained a sample of the chemical agent at the location in Italy, and analysis of it led him to a remote part of Brazil where he found Drax's shuttle-launch facility in an ancient civilization's shrine.
Bond and his companion, CIA agent Dr. Holly Goodhead, commandeer one of Drax's space shuttles and blast off to his orbiting space station. There with the help of Goodhead, Jaws- who defected to help Bond when Bond subtly tricked Drax into admitting that Jaws and his new girlfriend didn't fit Drax's 'standards'-, and a group of American space soldiers launched on a military-owned shuttle, Drax runs for the airlock and when he sees Bond run after him, he tries to barricade himself in but ends up running away. When Bond gets in, Drax faces Bond, drawing a laser gun as he walked backwards to the airlock door, grimly noting that he would at least "have the pleasure of putting [Bond] out of [his (Drax's)] misery".
Bond slowly puts his hand up with the poison dart wrist watch, fatally wounding Drax before 'escorting' him into an airlock so that he can be ejected to die in space.
Henchmen[edit]
Jaws
Chang
Tree Sniper
Innumerable footsoldiers in lemon yellow spacesuits with black stripes
Italian gangsters in Venice
Flight attendant
Novelization[edit]
In his novelization of the movie, screenwriter Christopher Wood describes Drax as red-haired and with a face scarred and botched by poor plastic surgery (from a time "before he could afford the best in the world"), much as originally envisioned by Fleming. Although Drax's nationality is not specified, Bond idly wonders to himself which side he fought on during World War II.
See also[edit]
List of James Bond villains
Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Canby, Vincent (June 29, 1979). "Moonraker (1979) MOONRAKER". The New York Times.
2.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 16.
3.^ Jump up to: a b Black 2005, p. 81.
4.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 20.
5.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 17.
6.Jump up ^ Black 2005, p. 22.
7.Jump up ^ Macintyre 2008, p. 88.
8.Jump up ^ Longden 2009, p. 312.
Bibliography[edit]
Black, Jeremy (2005). The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-6240-9.
Macintyre, Ben (2008). For Your Eyes Only. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7475-9527-4.
Longden, Sean (2009). T-Force: The Forgotten Heroes of 1945. London: Constable & Robinson. ISBN 978-1-84529-727-5.


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Jaws (James Bond)
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Jaws
Character from the James Bond series
Affiliation
Karl Stromberg (The Spy Who Loved Me)
Hugo Drax (Moonraker)
 SCUM (James Bond Jr)
 Nikolai Diavolo (007: Everything or Nothing)
Portrayed by
Richard Kiel
Jaws is a fictional character in the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, played in both films by Richard Kiel. Jaws is one of the most popular James Bond henchmen and a recurring character in the James Bond video games.


Contents  [hide]
1 Creation
2 Appearances 2.1 Films 2.1.1 Teeth
2.2 Other appearances
3 Reception
4 Cultural impact
5 References

Creation[edit]
The character was inspired by Ian Fleming's description of a hoodlum named Horror in his novel The Spy Who Loved Me. When Horror speaks, he reveals steel-capped teeth. Jaws' teeth were designed by Katharina Kubrick Hobbs using a cog-like design since she felt pointy teeth would injure the actor. Still, the dentures were uncomfortable, and Kiel could only wear them for about 35 seconds.[1] When Jaws was to bite through an object a normal human can not bite through (for example, the cable for a cable car), the film makers used licorice.[citation needed] The initial script of The Spy Who Loved Me concluded with Jaws being killed by the shark, but after a rough test screening (where director Lewis Gilbert's grandson was present), Jaws was so well-liked that the scene was changed to have him survive.
In the storyboard of the sequence from Moonraker, Jaws appears with an Emilio Largo-style eye patch, and a mustache, neither of which was seen in the actual films in which the character appeared.
Appearances[edit]
Films[edit]
Jaws first appeared in the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me as a henchman to the villain, Karl Stromberg. In the next film, Moonraker, both Bond's unspecified enemy in the pre-credits sequence, and the main villain Hugo Drax, employ Jaws; he evidently is well known among criminals, as Drax is pleased to learn that Jaws is available to hire.
In his second appearance Jaws changed from a ruthless and unstoppable killing machine to more of a comedic figure and he eventually turns against Drax and helps Bond to defeat him. In addition to having steel teeth, Jaws was also gigantic and extremely strong, which forced Bond to be especially inventive while fighting him. In combat during The Spy Who Loved Me, Bond found himself caught in an unbreakable death grip by Jaws, who was about to fatally bite him; Bond only escaped by using a broken electric lamp to send an electric shock through the assassin's teeth to stun him. In Moonraker he gains a girlfriend, Dolly, who like Jaws seems to almost never speak (she says nothing audible in the film) and who is the primary reason for his reformation.
Jaws also has an uncanny ability to survive any misfortune seemingly unscathed and come back to challenge Bond again. In The Spy Who Loved Me, Jaws survives an Egyptian structure's collapse on top of him, being hit by a van, being thrown from a rapidly moving train, sitting in the passenger seat of a car which veers off a cliff in Sardinia and lands in a hut below (to the owner's dismay), a battle underwater with a shark, and the destruction of Stromberg's lair. In Moonraker, he survives falling several thousand feet after accidentally disabling his own parachute (he falls through a circus tent and lands in the trapeze net), a crash through a building inside a runaway cable car (where he meets Dolly), and going over Iguazu Falls. After each of these incidents (except the last), he always picks himself up, dusts off his jacket, straightens his tie and nonchalantly walks away. At the end of the film, Jaws is left aboard Drax's disintegrating space station with his girlfriend; they open a bottle of champagne, and Jaws speaks his only line in the entire franchise: "Well, here's to us."
In 1979 there were plans to bring Jaws back for a third film. In For Your Eyes Only, Jaws would marry Dolly.[2] However due to a change in production personnel and a desire to make the films more down-to-earth, the producers chose not to bring Kiel or Jaws back.
Most of the background information on Jaws comes from Christopher Wood's novelisation of the film The Spy Who Loved Me; published as James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me to differentiate from Ian Fleming's novel. In Wood's version, Jaws' real name is Zbigniew Krycsiwiki. He was born in Poland, the product of a union between the strong man of a travelling circus and the Chief Wardress at the Women’s Prison in Cracow Kraków, Poland. The relationship and subsequent marriage had been a stormy one and, when it broke up, the young Zbigniew stayed with his mother and attended school and subsequently university in Cracow. He grew to a prodigious height but in temperament he followed his father and was surly and uncooperative, given to sudden outbreaks of violent temper. Because of his size he commanded a place in the university basketball team, but he was sluggish of reaction and his lack of speed was constantly exposed by more skilful but less physically endowed players. After a failed attempt at a basketball career, Krycsiwiki was arrested by the secret police for having taken part in the (fictitious) "1972 bread riots". While he was imprisoned, the police "beat him with hollow steel clubs encased in thick leather" until they thought he was dead, leaving his jaw broken beyond repair. Krycsiwiki later escaped and stowed aboard one of Stromberg's vessels. Eventually he was caught, but instead of turning him in, Stromberg hired a prestigious doctor to create an artificial jaw. After 14 operations Krycsiwiki's jaw was restored using steel components that created two rows of terrifying razor-sharp teeth, although Jaws was left mute. Since none of the above is actually mentioned in either movie, this is not necessarily considered canonical, and Wood contradicts his own continuity when one compares his scripts and his novelisations. In the novelisation of The Spy Who Loved Me, Wood specifically states that Jaws is a mute. However, though Jaws remains mute in Wood's James Bond and Moonraker novelisation, he actually does speak at the end of the film. In the book, Jaws remains attached to the magnet that Bond dips into the tank, as opposed to the film where Bond releases Jaws from the magnet into the water: "Now both hands were tearing at the magnet, and Jaws twisted furiously like a fish on the hook. As Bond watched in fascinated horror, a relentless triangle streaked up behind the stricken giant. A huge gray force launched itself through the wild water, and two rows of white teeth closed around the threshing flesh."[3]
Teeth[edit]
The character's teeth play a prominent role in the films The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker. Albert R. Broccoli is credited with adding steel teeth to the character for The Spy Who Loved Me. Katharina Kubrick Hobbs designed the teeth as cog-like in shape as she felt that pointed teeth could have injured Kiel.[4] Broccoli originally hired John Chambers to make the teeth; however, these were not used as they did not meet Broccoli's standards. Broccoli then sent Kiel to Peter Thomas, a dental technician who worked near Pinewood Studios,[5] to construct the appliances. Kiel stated the props were uncomfortable for him and he could only wear them for roughly one minute before gagging.[6] When Kiel was required to use the teeth to bite through something, liquorice was used.[7] After shooting a scene, the teeth were placed in a plastic container with cotton wool in the bottom of it and the teeth were rinsed with mouthwash before drying for use in the next scene.[6]
After the James Bond films, the teeth were taken to an unknown location.[6] However, in 2002, the teeth were displayed as part of an exhibition at The Science Museum, London[8] to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the release of Dr. No.[9]
Other appearances[edit]
Jaws appeared in the 1990s animated spin-off James Bond Jr. as a member of the SCUM organization and partner-in-crime of fellow henchman Nick Nack. In the show, Jaws underwent some change in his appearance; he was more muscular, his chin was also metal, and he spoke regularly.
Jaws' principal video game appearances are in the 1997 Nintendo 64 game GoldenEye 007 in a bonus mission in which he is a henchman to the deceased Hugo Drax whom Bond needs to defeat, and has a multiple appearances in and the multi-platform 2004 game 007: Everything or Nothing as a henchman to Nikolai Diavolo. Both games use Richard Kiel's likeness and voice (grunts and sound effects). Kiel's likeness can also be found as the character Chuck Ferdon in the 2006 game Rugby 06 by Electronic Arts.
In Everything or Nothing, Jaws is electrocuted and is inside a train that is knocked over the side of a bridge. Later he drives a tanker intending to destroy the New Orleans levees, but Bond destroys his tanker. In a fight on a large lift, in which Jaws is equipped with a flamethrower, Bond shoots the flamethrower backpack which ignites Jaws. Bond then climbs into the cockpit of a plane and ejects his seat as the lift plummets to the ground. When Bond subsequently lands on the remains of the lift, Jaws is nowhere to be found, leaving his fate unknown. He can not be hurt himself, and any players that try to hurt him will be killed almost immediately by him.
Jaws is an unlockable multiplayer character in GoldenEye 007 as well as in 007: Nightfire, where he is the tallest character in the game, his punches can kill almost instantly, and the character model's teeth are visible at close range. Jaws is also a playable multiplayer character in the 2010 remake GoldenEye 007 for the Wii, and in the 2011 re-release GoldenEye 007: Reloaded for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. He is also in the 2012 James Bond Game "Legends".
Jaws appears in the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis game James Bond 007: The Duel, where he wanders briefly around a section toward the end of the first stage and defeats the player with one hit. He also serves as the game's final boss. Jaws also appears in the Game Boy game James Bond 007 as a boss, where Bond must lead him to magnetized pads that will temporarily hold him in place, allowing time for Bond to attack him.
Reception[edit]
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Cultural impact[edit]
Jaws was spoofed in Mel Brooks' 1977 film High Anxiety, featuring a hired killer named Braces (played by Rudy De Luca) who is wearing large metal braces on his teeth. An unrelated character named Braces from the video games TimeSplitters 2 and TimeSplitters: Future Perfect is also referencing Jaws. The film 2008 Get Smart, which is both a parody and an homage to the James Bond film series, features a character named Dalip (played by The Great Khali), who looks like Jaws and does his Moonraker stunt of falling from the sky without a parachute and surviving; he also helps the film's protagonists in the end.
Jaws makes a cameo appearance in the animated series Jackie Chan Adventures (episode "Tough Luck"), where he auditions as a prospective henchman for Finn and gets his steel teeth (which are revealed to be dentures) stuck in a board he bites into. In the final credits sequence of the film adaptation of Inspector Gadget, Doctor Claw's assistant is shown attending a Henchman's Anonymous meeting; Richard Kiel, who is billed in the credits as "Famous Big Guy with Metal Teeth", is in attendance. Kiel also played Reace, a very similar character to Jaws (complete with metal teeth), in the 1976 film Silver Streak.
MythBusters tested the plausibility of Jaws biting through the steel cable car wire. The model based on the dentures used in the movie had little impact on the steel cable, even with a hydraulic press at ten times human bite strength. Jamie Hyneman then took huge metal pincers and became "Claws", who, as the announcer said, was "meaner than Oddjob, more ferocious than Jaws, taller than Nick Nack, and creepier than Tee Hee." With the metal pincers, he gets through the cord easily.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Inside The Spy Who Loved Me. The Spy Who Loved Me Ultimate Edition DVD, Disk 2
2.Jump up ^ Beck, Marilyn (30 June 1979). "Moore awaits word on James Bond future". The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan). p. 31.
3.Jump up ^ Wood, Christopher (1977). James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me. Warner Books. ISBN 0-446-84544-2.
4.Jump up ^ Inside The Spy Who Loved Me. The Spy Who Loved Me Ultimate Edition DVD, Disk 2
5.Jump up ^ "How teeth for Bond villain Jaws were designed in Denham". Buckinghamshire Advertiser. 2012-10-04. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
6.^ Jump up to: a b c MacNab, Geoffrey (2009-05-08). "Geoffrey Macnab talks to Richard "Jaws" Kiel". The Guardian. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
7.Jump up ^ Bochenski, Natalie (2012-10-04). "50 Classic James Bond Moments". Theage. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
8.Jump up ^ "In pictures: Bond, James Bond". BBC News. 2002-10-15. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
9.Jump up ^ "Inside Q's workshop". BBC News. 2002-08-01. Retrieved 2013-05-22.


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Francisco Scaramanga
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Francisco Scaramanga
Character from the James Bond series
Scaramanga.png
Occupation
Villain
Affiliation
KGB (novel)
 Self-employed (film)
Portrayed by
Christopher Lee
Francisco Scaramanga is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond novel and film versions of The Man with the Golden Gun. Scaramanga's primary possession is a golden gun,[1] and the film prop was exhibited at the Barbican Centre in London for public viewing.[2] In the novel, the character is nicknamed "Pistols" Scaramanga and is also called "Paco" (a Spanish diminutive of Francisco).[3] In the film, the character was played by British actor Christopher Lee (the real-life step-cousin of James Bond creator Ian Fleming[4]).


Contents  [hide]
1 Novel biography
2 Film biography 2.1 Henchmen
2.2 Hit list
3 In other media
4 The Golden Gun 4.1 Video games
5 Reception
6 In popular culture
7 References

Novel biography[edit]
Francisco Scaramanga, of Catalan origin, became a trick shot and performed in acts in a circus owned by his father Enrico while a youngster. He also cared for one of the circus elephants, which he stated was his only real friend. When the elephant went on a rampage during the circus visit to Trieste, Scaramanga witnessed a policeman kill him. The enraged boy retaliated by killing the policeman with a single shot through the eye, being 16 at the time. He then made his way to the United States from Naples, where he found employment as an enforcer for the Spangled Mob, an outfit that plays a role in two other Bond novels: Diamonds Are Forever (where they were the main foe of Agent 007) and Goldfinger as an accomplice to Auric Goldfinger's Operation Grandslam. He posed as a pitboy at the casino of Tiara Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, while in fact he was executioner of cheats and other transgressors within and outside the gang. In 1958 he was forced to emigrate from the U.S because of his gun duel with Ramon "The Rod" Rodriguez, his opposite from the Detroit Purple Gang, also featured in the novel Goldfinger, killing Ramon and earning $100,000 for it. He spent some time travelling the Caribbean as a representative of Las Vegas interests in real-estate and plantation dealing, later switching to Trujillo of the Dominican Republic and Batista of Cuba where he settled in 1959, in Havana. While remaining a Batista supporter, he started an undercover work for Fidel Castro's party, becoming an "enforcer" for DSS after the revolution.
By the time Bond finally encounters him in The Man with the Golden Gun, Scaramanga works as a freelance assassin, often working for Castro's secret police, in addition to being engaged in other criminal enterprises such as drug-running into the United States in partnership with the KGB. MI6 has evaluated Scaramanga as one of the finest shots in the world, and M authorizes Bond to assassinate the gunman - if he can.
Bond catches up with Scaramanga in Jamaica, where Bond pretends to be a freelance security officer, and Scaramanga hires him to guard an upcoming meeting of gangsters. During the meeting, a KGB officer blows Bond's cover, subsequently pitting Scaramanga and Bond in a shootout. Bond wounds Scaramanga, but before he can finish the gunman off, Scaramanga shoots Bond with a poisoned bullet from his backup weapon, a golden Derringer. Bond returns fire with his .32 Walther PPK pistol, killing Scaramanga instantly; soon thereafter, a policeman finds the nearly dead Bond in time to save him.
In the novel, British intelligence also has an in-depth psychological profile on Scaramanga, which is printed in the book before the mission begins. He is 6 ft 3 inches (190 cm) tall, slim and fit. He is about 35, and has light blue eyes. His hair is reddish in a crew-cut with long sideburns.
The profile (read by M) also delves into his background and psyche. Among other things, the profile claims that Scaramanga might be a latent homosexual, since he cannot whistle - based on the popular (but unfounded) theory that a man who cannot whistle has homosexual tendencies.
As with Blofeld, the name is believed to have come from a schoolmate of Fleming's, George Ambrosios (Ambrose) Scaramanga.
Film biography[edit]
In the film The Man with the Golden Gun, Francisco is a high-priced assassin, supposedly the best in the world, charging one million dollars per kill. He's best known for being "The man with the golden gun", because he only uses bullets made of gold in a (fictional) 4.2 mm cartridge. All of Scaramanga's dealings go through his henchman Nick Nack, which allows Scaramanga to be anonymous.
Francisco Scaramanga was a British national born in a travelling circus. His father was the ringmaster, a former Cuban national and his mother was the snake charmer. By age 10, he was part of the circus as a trick-shot pistol marksman. At age 15, he became an international assassin-for-hire. He was recruited some years later by the KGB while living in Ipanema, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and trained in Eastern Europe where for many years he was basically just another "overworked and underpaid assassin" for the KGB. He quit the KGB in the late 1950s, becoming an independent hitman-for hire. No photographs of him exist, but he has unusual anatomy: a third nipple. This information later comes in handy to Bond, who uses Scaramanga's anonymity and only known physical feature to get into contact with Scaramanga's current employer, the crime lord Hai-Fat — though Scaramanga is already at Hai-Fat's estate, and Hai-Fat quickly guesses who Bond really is.
Later in the film, Scaramanga reveals to Bond that as a boy living in the travelling circus, he shot and killed an abusive animal trainer for killing an elephant that he had befriended. Scaramanga also demonstrates his marksmanship to Bond by using a Colt Single Action Army to shoot the cork off a bottle of champagne from long range (Scaramanga's golden gun in the novel is a gold-plated Single Action Army), claiming later that it was a toy.
Scaramanga lives very well, drawing from the exorbitant sums of money he charges to carry out his assassinations, and has built his home on his own personal island somewhere off the coast of south-eastern China - paying for lease of the island and protection through assassinations ('favours') for the Chinese. Despite his assertion that "science was never [his] strong point," the island utilizes many aspects of modern technology, including its own self-sufficient solar power plant. In addition to the power plant, Scaramanga's home also includes a section which is something between a labyrinthine maze and a funhouse, where Scaramanga and his foes duel to the death. Nick Nack hires assassins to kill Scaramanga as a challenge to keep him on his toes. Scaramanga is well aware of and approves of Nick Nack's efforts, and wishes him better luck next time when his hired guns fail. In addition, Scaramanga also has a private junk, which Bond later steals to get off the exploding island.
Scaramanga also uses some of his wealth to finance research and development of technologies that rival those developed by MI6's Q Branch. Such technologies include a car that transforms into an aircraft and a solar-powered laser cannon.
Scaramanga was hired by Hai-Fat to assassinate a British scientist named Gibson, thought to be in possession of solar energy information and technology crucial to solving the energy crisis. Gibson is assassinated and his invention, the solex agitator, is stolen from the crime scene by Nick Nack. The solex agitator is a critical component of Gibson's solar energy device.
However, instead of turning the device over to Hai-Fat, Scaramanga instead kills Hai-Fat with his golden gun and takes the device for himself. With it in his possession, it allows for him to sell the device to the highest criminal bidder or use it to power his personal solar energy cannon.
Scaramanga also desires to test his skills against Bond, whom he regards as his only worthy rival. Besides the profit and/or power the solex agitator can give him, Scaramanga's scheme in acquiring the device is also intended to lure Bond to Scaramanga's private island so that the two of them can engage in one final, decisive duel (Although Bond is using his six-bullet .32 Walther PPK pistol while Scaramanga uses the golden gun, Scaramanga states that he 'only needs one', Bond's superior number of bullets being offset by Scaramanga's advantages of fighting on his own ground).
After taking Bond's fellow MI6 agent Mary Goodnight hostage, Scaramanga lures Bond to his private island, where he reveals his plan and challenges Bond to a duel in his funhouse. Once in the funhouse, Bond takes the place of a dummy "James Bond" and tricks Scaramanga into coming out in the open to look for Bond with his pistol drawn. Bond then shoots Scaramanga in the heart, killing him.
Henchmen[edit]
Nick Nack
Kra
Andrea Anders
Scaramanga apparently invests alone into Premium Brands Holdings on the TSE lavishly on his private island, accompanied only by Nick Nack, Miss Anders (his kept woman), and a mechanic named Kra who is in charge of maintenance and security.
Hit list[edit]
This is the death toll caused by Scaramanga in the film.
Rodney, arguably the same Slumber Inc. employee from Diamonds Are Forever.
Dan Gibson, inventor of the solex agitator
Hai-Fat
Andrea Anders
In addition, Scaramanga is revealed to have been behind the murder of Bill Fairbanks, MI6 Agent 002, in 1969.
In other media[edit]
The character has been featured as a villain in various James Bond video games.
Francisco Scaramanga returned for the game GoldenEye: Rogue Agent voiced by Christopher Lee.[5] In the game, he is an ally of Auric Goldfinger.[5] He is the manufacturer of the synthetic eye given to the player (GoldenEye) and makes a virus used against Goldfinger's O.M.E.N. device.[6] The game also features a Multiplayer "Funhouse" level, including the traps that caused Bond to lose most of his bullets such as Al Capone and Cowboy mannequins and an image of Scaramanga.[7] In addition, the level includes a Bond mannequin, whose gun the player can take and use.[8]
Francisco Scaramanga is a playable character in the multiplayer portions of the 2003 game 007: Nightfire and the 2010 game GoldenEye 007. In the original GoldenEye game, it is said in the briefing for the "Egyptian" mission that the Golden Gun was stolen from Scaramanga by Baron Samedi.
The Golden Gun[edit]
Main article: The Man with the Golden Gun (novel)
In Ian Fleming's novel, the Golden Gun was a long-barrelled, gold-plated, single-action Colt Peacemaker .45 calibre revolver that fired silver-jacketed bullets with a gold core. However, in the film, it was a single-shot weapon that fired a custom made 4.2-millimetre golden (23-carat gold with traces of nickel) dum-dum bullet. The movie gun could be disassembled and its components disguised as a fountain pen (the barrel), a cigarette lighter (breech), cuff-link (trigger), and a cigarette case (the grip), all gold-plated.
Scaramanga used the Golden Gun in numerous assassinations of officials, political enemies, gangsters, and a 00-agent, Bill Fairbanks (002). Scaramanga later used the Golden Gun to kill British scientist Gibson and Scaramanga's own employer, Hai-Fat. But, when Scaramanga was killed and his island destroyed, the Golden Gun was presumably also lost.
The Golden Gun ranked sixth in a 2008 20th Century Fox poll of the most popular film weapons, which surveyed approximately two thousand film fans.[9]
In October 2008, the Golden Gun was stolen[10] from the company Elstree Props which is based in Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire. At the time, the prop was estimated to be worth of £80,000.
Video games[edit]
Francisco Scaramanga's weapon, the golden gun, was initially added to the Egyptian level and multiplayer portion of the video game GoldenEye 007.
Due to its popularity it was also added into subsequent James Bond games 007: The World is Not Enough, 007: Agent Under Fire, 007: Nightfire, 007: Everything or Nothing, GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, 007: From Russia With Love, 007: Quantum of Solace, GoldenEye 007 and 007: Legends. In The World is Not Enough for the Nintendo 64, the gun must be assembled from the pen, lighter, and case before it could be used. In each of the games (except Everything or Nothing), the golden gun would count for an instant kill, which reflected that Scaramanga never missed, although in the games the player can and because of this, the golden gun is not available in single player mode (except Everything or Nothing) but golden versions of the game's standard weapon(s) are usually available (such as a golden Walther PPK, P99, and a golden rocket launcher). In GoldenEye, the Golden Gun appears in a special mission. In the mission, the Golden Gun is stolen by Baron Samedi, and Bond needs to defeat Samedi and recover the Golden Gun. Although Samedi isn't killed, Bond escapes with the Golden Gun. The Golden Gun also appears in the video game Quantum of Solace, created by Rare who also created GoldenEye 007). In Quantum of Solace the Golden Gun appears to be based on the design on the gun from the novel (a gold-plated revolver), rather than the design used in the film. It is likely to be based on a Smith & Wesson Model 686 in the game.[11] Perfect Dark, made by GoldeneEye developer Rareware, also featured a Golden Gun which would count for an instant kill, this time a customized Colt Python revolver belonging to NSA boss Trent Easton.[12]
Reception[edit]
Francisco Scaramanga was listed at number five in UGO's list of the Top 11 Classy Assassins.[13]
Chris Nashawaty argues that Scaramanga is the best villain of the Roger Moore James Bond films.[14]
In popular culture[edit]
Francisco Scaramanga was mentioned in the British television show Dead Ringers on a sketch parodying Die Another Day. In the sketch, a stereotypical Bond villain is advertising a supervillain's torture machine called "The Dr Diabolical's Super-Hero Slice-A-Matic Deluxe 4000". Scaramanga said of it, "I couldn't believe how much time it saved me".
In the Ed, Edd, n Eddy episode "Pop Goes the Ed", Eddy remarks to one of the other children that "Ed's got three nipples like that bad guy in James Bond".
In the film adaptation of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, in which many works of fiction coexist, Dorian Gray is seen using the Golden Gun to murder Ishmael.
A gene that gives mammals extra nipples is scaramanga based on the character's third nipple.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "007 Fact Files - The Villains". 007.info. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
2.Jump up ^ "Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style". retoxmagazine.com.
3.Jump up ^ Henry A. Zelger, Ian Fleming: The Spy Who Came in with the Gold (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1965)
4.Jump up ^ Charles Prepolec. "From Fleming to Film: The Search for Scaramanga". Bakerstreetdozen.com. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
5.^ Jump up to: a b "Goldeneye Rogue Agent". Electronic Arts Inc. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
6.Jump up ^ The Review Crew (January 2005). "GOLDENEYE: ROGUE AGENT". Electronic Gaming Monthly (187): 130–131.
7.Jump up ^ Speer, Justin (Holiday 2004). "GOLDENEYE: ROGUE AGENT - Killin' Like a Villain". Electronic Gaming Monthly (186): 34. 
8.Jump up ^ EA Los Angeles. GoldenEye: Rogue Agent. Electronic Arts. Level/area: Funhouse.
9.Jump up ^ Sophie Borland (2008-01-21). "Lightsabre wins the battle of movie weapons". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2012-11-13.
10.Jump up ^ "Bond assassin's golden gun stolen". BBC News. 2008-10-11.
11.Jump up ^ 007: Quantum of Solace (VG) - imfdb :. guns in movies :. movie guns :. the internet movie firearms database. imfdb. Retrieved on 17 September 2010.
12.Jump up ^ Rare. Perfect Dark. Nintendo 64.
13.Jump up ^ "UGO's Guide to Assassins". UGO.com. 2007-08-21. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
14.Jump up ^ Chris Nashawaty, "Moore...And Sometimes Less: A look at the most--and least--memorable bad guys, babes, and Bonds in Roger Moore's 007 oeuvre," Entertainment Weekly 1025 (December 12, 2008): 37.


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Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd
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Albert Wint
 Charles Kidd
Character from the James Bond series
Affiliation
The Spangled Mob (novel)
SPECTRE (film)
Portrayed by
Bruce Glover
Putter Smith
Role
Henchmen
Mr. Albert Wint and Mr. Charles Kidd are fictional characters in the James Bond novel and film, Diamonds Are Forever.[1]
In the novel, Wint and Kidd are members of The Spangled Mob. In the film, it is assumed that they are henchmen for the villain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, though the characters share no scenes with and are not seen taking instructions from Blofeld (or anyone else, except for Bert Saxby). Both the novel and film imply that they are lovers. One of their trademarks is trading quips after killing their targets; they also do so after a failed attempt to kill Bond.[2] In the film, Mr. Wint is played by the clean-shaven actor Bruce Glover and Mr. Kidd by bespectacled jazz musician Putter Smith in a rare acting role.


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1 Novel
2 Film
3 Cultural impact
4 References
5 External links

Novel[edit]
As killers and enforcers to the Spangled Mob, it is Wint and Kidd's mission, among other things, to make sure the smuggling of the diamonds and everything connected to it go off without a hitch. If something does go wrong, Wint and Kidd (they are never referred to as "Mr." in the novels) are sent to "persuade" the perpetrators never to make a mistake again. They take sadistic pleasure in killing; This is particularly evident in a scene in which they pour boiling mud over the face of a jockey who they believe has prevented a Mob-owned horse from winning a race.
From London to New York City it is their job to tail whoever is smuggling the diamonds internationally to ensure that the smuggler does not get any ideas about going into business for himself. For this, the duo pose as American businessmen who call themselves "W. Winter" and "B. Kitteridge". Although they are both hardened assassins, Wint is pathologically afraid of travel. When he must do so, he wears an identifying name tag and a sticker that says "My blood group is F." He also has to be paid a special bonus by his employers. Because of his phobia, Wint picked up the nickname "Windy", although no one would dare call him that to his face. Kidd is nicknamed "Boofy" due to his "pretty-boy" appearance. Felix Leiter suspects that they are both homosexual, a point emphasized in the film. Wint has a large red wart on one thumb, a detail that leads to his being positively identified.
In a ghost town outside Las Vegas, the leading gangster, Seraffimo Spang, penetrates Bond's cover and orders Wint and Kidd to torture Bond to learn his true identity. Wint and Kidd then perform a "Brooklyn stomping," kicking Bond into unconsciousness while wearing football cleats, after which Tiffany Case helps him escape. After they kidnap Tiffany on the Queen Elizabeth, Bond comes to her rescue by climbing down the side of the ship and diving into her cabin via the porthole. They have a fight, and Bond shoots them both. To avoid trouble, he then fakes evidence in the cabin to make it look like a murder-suicide. After the killings, Bond considers his relationship with Tiffany and wonders if it will last forever. But he notices the dead eyes of the assassins staring at him. Bond imagines they say "nothing lasts forever, except what you did to me!", a reference to the book's title.
Film[edit]
Mr. Wint and his partner Mr. Kidd are American assassins working for Blofeld. Their assignment is to kill off every link in a Slumber Brothers mobster diamond-smuggling pipeline running from South Africa to the United States via the Netherlands, and to steal the diamonds from the mobsters so as to divert them to Blofeld, who is using them for a laser satellite. The pair takes a sadistic pleasure in their work — for example, to Wint's amusement Kidd photographs the body of the old lady (Mrs. Whistler) they have drowned in the canals of Amsterdam, joking about sending the pictures to the primary-age children to whom she was a school teacher. This is typical of an overtly morbid sense of humour they share, completing each other's sentences as a game and delighting in competing over laboured, blackly humorous puns. Thus an attempt to incinerate James Bond alive in a crematorium is "a glowing tribute" and "heart-warming." They also amuse themselves with the twisted application of proverbs — for example, after blowing up a helicopter in flight Kidd begins the old quote, "If God had wanted man to fly ..." to which Wint concludes: "He would have given him wings, Mr. Kidd"; and Wint saying "If at first you don't succeed, Mr. Kidd", followed by Kidd's reply, "Try, try again, Mr. Wint."
It is strongly implied in the film that the two are lovers. They are seen holding hands in one scene; Mr. Wint also has a habit of putting on women's perfume; and at one point, Mr. Kidd remarks that Tiffany Case is attractive, "... for a lady".
The two use numerous and creative methods of killing their targets such as:
Placing a scorpion down the shirt of a South African dentist.
Using a time bomb to blow up the helicopter which was meant to pick up the doctor's merchandise.
Drowning Mrs. Whistler in the Amstel River, and then joking about sending photographs of the corpse being recovered back to her schoolchildren in South Africa.
Sealing Bond in a coffin and sending him into a crematorium furnace. Bond escapes when his mob contacts discover that the diamonds he had given them are fakes and retrieve the coffin from the crematorium just in time.
Burying Bond alive by putting him into a length of pipeline to be buried in the desert outside Las Vegas — the second time he has been unconscious at their mercy, yet again they opt for an overly elaborate kill. Bond escapes by short-circuiting a pipeline welding device, forcing some workers to inspect it.
Drowning Plenty O'Toole with her legs tied to a block of concrete, in a swimming pool just deep enough to submerge her only up to the tip of her nose, and by doing so killing her as slowly as possible.
In a deleted scene made available in DVD release, shooting the character Shady Tree with a joke prop gun that first produces a flag with "BANG!" written on it, before a real bullet.
Their final attempt to kill Bond and Case takes place on a cruise liner after Bond foils Blofeld's plot. They pose as stewards in the couple's suite, serving them a romantic dinner consisting of Oysters Andaluz, shashlik, tidbits, prime rib au jus and Salade Utopia. Dessert is La Bombe Surprise — in the most literal sense, since a bomb is really hidden in it. However, when Mr. Wint opens the wine bottle and gives Bond the cork to smell, Bond catches the smell of Wint's cologne, links it to his misadventure in the pipeline and quickly realizes that something is wrong. After tasting a glass of Mouton Rothschild '55, Bond casually remarks that he had expected a claret with such a grand dinner. When Mr. Wint replies that the cellars are unfortunately poorly stocked with clarets, Bond exposes the henchman's ignorance, replying that Mouton Rothschild in fact is a claret. He also recognizes Wint's cologne, saying "I've smelt that aftershave before, and both times I've smelt a rat". Realizing Bond has blown their cover, the pair attack Bond; Kidd ignites the shashlik skewers, aiming to impale him, while Wint strangles him with a chain. During the struggle, Bond first neutralizes Kidd by splashing Courvoisier on the flaming skewers, setting Kidd on fire. Within seconds, he is engulfed in flames, and in desperation jumps overboard to his death. Case throws the dessert at Wint, but she misses and this reveals the bomb hidden in the cake. Bond gains the upper hand against Wint, pulling the villain's coat-tails between his legs and tying his hands and the bomb together with them. Bond hoists Wint overboard and the bomb explodes and kills him before he hits the water.
Cultural impact[edit]
The Bond characters may be derived from the characters of the two hangmen, Trois-Eschelles and Petit-Andre, in the 1823 Scott novel 'Quentin Durward' who are also full of morbid quips as they execute their victims.
These two are parodied as the characters "Mr. Wink" and "Mr. Fibb" in the animated series Codename: Kids Next Door.[3]
The pair is parodied in Daniel Waters' Sex and Death 101, which features a lesbian couple named Bambi Wint and Thumper Kidd. The women not only have the surnames of the male assassins (and the first names of Willard Whyte's female bodyguards), but also converse in the same distinctive, polite speech patterns.[4]
A London diamond jewellery store, established 2002, is named Wint&Kidd after the characters.[5]
In the Fallout 3 add-on Broken Steel, a pair of ghouls the player may encounter on a mission are named "Wint" and "Kidd".[6]
In the second episode of the first series of The League of Gentlemen, two surveyors arrive in Royston Vasey called Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd. The characters use the same genteel speech patterns as Wint and Kidd in Diamonds Are Forever.[7]
The depiction of Professor Pyg and Mr. Toad in Beware the Batman was inspired by that of Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd.[8]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Canby, Vincent. "Diamonds Are Forever (1971) A Benign Bond:007 Stars in 'Diamonds Are Forever'". The New York Times.
2.Jump up ^ "James Bond multimedia | Putter Smith (Mr Kidd)". Jamesbondmm.co.uk. 1941-01-19. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
3.Jump up ^ Codename: Kids Next Door (2002) - Trivia - IMDb
4.Jump up ^ "Sex And Death 101 Script - Drew's Script-O-Rama". Script-o-rama.com. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
5.Jump up ^ Wint & Kidd Jewellers London ("Named after the baddies in Diamonds are Forever")
6.Jump up ^ "Fallout 3 @ GameBanshee". Gamebanshee.com. 2012-01-31. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
7.Jump up ^ "'The League of Gentlemen' (1999) — Trivia". Retrieved 2010-04-28.
8.Jump up ^ "'Beware The Batman' Producers On The Show's Villains, Themes And Environments [SDCC] - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews". ComicsAlliance. 2011-01-25. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
External links[edit]
Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd - James Bond Wiki
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Ernst Stavro Blofeld
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Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Character from the James Bond series
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Ernst Stavro Blofeld, as portrayed by Donald Pleasence in You Only Live Twice (1967).

Affiliation
SPECTRE (Self-employed)
Portrayed by
Anthony Dawson (uncredited)
Eric Pohlmann (voice, uncredited)
Donald Pleasence
Telly Savalas
Charles Gray
John Hollis (uncredited)
Robert Rietty (voice, uncredited)
Max von Sydow
Role
Villain
Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character and a supervillain from the James Bond series of novels and films, who was created by Ian Fleming. An evil genius with aspirations of world domination, he is the archenemy of the British Secret Service agent James Bond. Blofeld is head of the global criminal organisation SPECTRE and is commonly referred to as Number 1, an official numerical position given to members of SPECTRE. The character was originally written by Fleming as a physically massive man, standing around 6 foot 3 and weighing 21.6 stone (about 300 pounds), and very powerfully built.
Blofeld appears or is heard in three novels: Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and You Only Live Twice; and six James Bond films from Eon Productions: From Russia with Love (1963), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and For Your Eyes Only (1981) (the pre-title sequence of which marks his final appearance and apparent death). He also appears in Never Say Never Again, the 1983 remake of Thunderball.
He was played on screen by Donald Pleasence, Telly Savalas, Charles Gray and Max von Sydow, among others. It was initially a convention of the films not to show Blofeld's face, only a closeup of him stroking his white blue-eyed Turkish Angora.
Many of Blofeld's characteristics have become clichés of supervillains in popular fiction, representing the stock character of the evil genius. In many versions, even the stroking of his white cat has been retained as a parodic allusion to Blofeld's character, as seen in the Austin Powers film series with the character of Dr. Evil and his cat Mr. Bigglesworth.


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1 Character
2 In novels
3 In films 3.1 Eon films
3.2 Never Say Never Again
4 Table of film appearances
5 Video games
6 Cultural impact
7 See also
8 External Links
9 References
10 Bibliography

Character[edit]
Ian Fleming includes information about Blofeld's background in his novel Thunderball, though none of his past is ever revealed in the Bond films. According to the novel, Blofeld was born on 28 May 1908 (which is also Fleming's birthday) in the city of Gdingen, then part of Imperial Germany (now part of Poland and known under the name Gdynia); his father was Polish and his mother was Greek, hence the well-known Greek name Stavro. After World War I, Blofeld became a Polish national. As a young man, Blofeld was well-versed in the social science disciplines, but also in the natural science and technology disciplines. He first graduated from the University of Warsaw with a degree in Political History and Economics, and then from the Warsaw University of Technology with a degree in Engineering and "Radionics". He was then hired by the Polish Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs and appointed in a sensitive communication position, which he used for buying and selling stocks at the Warsaw Stock Exchange.[1]
Correctly foreseeing the coming of World War II, Blofeld made copies of top-secret wires and sold them for cash to Nazi Germany. Before the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he destroyed all records of his existence then moved first to Sweden, then to Turkey, where he worked for Turkish Radio and began to set up his own private intelligence organisation. During the war, he sold information to both sides. After the defeat of Erwin Rommel, he decided to back the Allied war effort, and was awarded numerous medals by the Allied powers after the war's end. Blofeld then temporarily moved to South America before founding SPECTRE.
In the John Gardner novel For Special Services, Blofeld is depicted as having had a daughter, Nena, with a French mistress.
It is commonly believed that the name Blofeld was inspired by the English cricket commentator Henry Blofeld's father, with whom Fleming went to school.[2] Henry Blofeld himself, offered on the BBC Radio 4 series Just a Minute that "Ian took my father's name as the name of the baddie."[3]
In novels[edit]
Blofeld makes three appearances in Ian Fleming's novels. He first appears in a minor role as the leader of SPECTRE in the 1961 novel Thunderball. The plot that he formulates is carried out by his second-in-command Emilio Largo. Blofeld is described physically as a massive man, weighing roughly 20 stone (280 lb; 130 kg), has black crew-cut hair, black eyes (similar to those of Benito Mussolini), heavy eyelashes, a thin mouth and long pointed hands and feet. He has violet-scented breath from chewing flavoured cachous (breath mints). A meticulous planner of formidable intellect, he seems to be without conscience but not necessarily insane, and is motivated solely by financial gain. Blofeld's lifestyle is described in one chapter in Thunderball: "For the rest, he didn't smoke or drink and he had never been known to sleep with a member of either sex. He didn't even eat very much."
Blofeld is absent from the next book, The Spy Who Loved Me, though its events take place while Bond is battling SPECTRE in North America. In On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) Bond learns that Blofeld has radically altered his appearance—he is now tall and thin; has reduced his weight to 12 stone (170 lb; 76 kg); sports long silver hair, a syphilitic infection on his nose and no earlobes; he wears dark green tinted contact lenses to hide his distinctive eyes. Perhaps less calculating than previously, he is notably saddled with the exploitable weakness of snobbery about his assumed nobility, indicating that he is losing his sanity. He is hiding in Switzerland in the guise of the Comte Balthazar de Bleuville and Bond defeats his vindictive plans to destroy Britain's agricultural economy. In the final sequence of the novel, Blofeld gets revenge by murdering Bond's new wife, Tracy.
In You Only Live Twice, published in 1964, Blofeld returns and is found by Bond to be in hiding in Japan under the alias Dr. Guntram Shatterhand. He has once again changed his appearance: He has put on some muscle, and has a gold-capped tooth, a fully healed nose, and a drooping grey mustache. Bond describes Blofeld on their confrontation as being "a big man, perhaps six foot three (190 cm), and powerfully built". It is indicated that Blofeld has by now become a madman, as he all but admits himself when Bond levels the accusation. Bond strangles him to death at the end of the novel. In both On Her Majesty's Secret Service and You Only Live Twice, Blofeld is aided in his schemes by Irma Bunt, who is clearly his lover in the latter and posing as Shatterhand's wife. Bond incapacitates her in their Japanese castle base before it blows up, killing Bunt. The final mention of Blofeld is in the beginning of the next book, The Man with the Golden Gun, published in 1965.
In films[edit]
Eon films[edit]



 Blofeld in (clockwise from upper-left) You Only Live Twice (Donald Pleasence), On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Telly Savalas), Never Say Never Again (Max Von Sydow), and Diamonds are Forever (Charles Gray).
In the film series Blofeld first appears in From Russia with Love, then in Thunderball. In these first two appearances, his face is not seen and only his lower body is visible as he strokes his trademark white cat.
Czech actor Jan Werich was originally cast by producer Harry Saltzman to play Blofeld in You Only Live Twice. Upon arriving at the Pinewood set, both producer Albert R. Broccoli and director Lewis Gilbert felt that he was a bad choice, resembling a "poor, benevolent Santa Claus". Nonetheless, in an attempt to make the casting work, Gilbert continued filming. After five days, both Gilbert and Broccoli determined that Werich was not menacing enough, and recast Donald Pleasence in the role – the official excuse being that Werich was ill.[4] Donald Pleasence appeared to use a Hungarian accent to portray Blofeld.
In the third, fourth, and fifth appearances – You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and Diamonds are Forever – he is the primary antagonist, meeting Bond face-to-face. During the opening sequence of Diamonds Are Forever, he reveals to Bond that some of his men have undergone plastic surgery to become decoy duplicates of him.
In the film version of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, he is not the actual killer of Tracy Bond. He drives the car from which Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat) fires the fatal shots at Tracy, minutes after she marries Bond.
In the sixth and final appearance – in the pre-credit sequence of For Your Eyes Only – he is an anonymous, bald villain trying to kill Bond once again. Blofeld remains unnamed and unlisted in this film’s end credits. The only clues to his identity are the trademark white cat,[5] similar clothes to his previous onscreen appearances, the dialogue indicating that he and Bond have met before, and the fact that the scene begins with Bond paying his respects to Tracy, often considered by the producers as a means of providing an "immediate continuity link" in the event of a new actor taking the part of Bond (although this was Roger Moore's fifth appearance as Bond).[6] The anonymity of the villain was due to the legal dispute between Kevin McClory and Eon Productions over the Thunderball copyrights.[citation needed]
Blofeld’s appearance and personality change according to the personifying actor:
He has a full head of black hair in From Russia With Love and Thunderball; a facial dueling scar in You Only Live Twice; no scar or earlobes in On Her Majesty's Secret Service; and silver-grey hair in Diamonds Are Forever. This metamorphosing matches Fleming’s literary portrayal of a master criminal who will go to great lengths to preserve his anonymity, including the use of radical plastic surgery. He often wears a jacket without lapels, based loosely either on the Nehru jacket or on the Mao suit, a feature which is used in spoofs like the Austin Powers series, though in his early two appearances on film he wore a black business suit.
On 15 November 2013, MGM and the McClory estate had formally settled the issue with Danjaq, LLC and MGM acquiring the full copyright rights to the characters and concepts of Blofeld and SPECTRE.[7] What the film studio intends to do with Bond's most noted recurring enemy in the James Bond media franchise is unannounced for now.
Never Say Never Again[edit]
Blofeld's last onscreen appearance was outside the Eon Productions series, in Never Say Never Again, the 1983 remake of Thunderball. Here, Blofeld is tall, thin, and bearded, with a European accent more in keeping with the character as presented in From Russia With Love and Thunderball.
Table of film appearances[edit]

Year
Film series
Actor and notes
Status
1963 From Russia with Love Anthony Dawson, person, Eric Pohlmann, voice; both uncredited as only hands and back of head are seen; the end credits list a question mark instead of an actor’s name. Active/Indirect involvement in the field.
1965 Thunderball Anthony Dawson, person, Eric Pohlmann, voice (though other sources mistakenly claim that it is Joseph Wiseman[8]); both uncredited as only hands and white hair are shown; end credits do not list Blofeld. Active/Indirect involvement in the field.
1967 You Only Live Twice Donald Pleasence; initially unseen as previously, before a dramatic revelation. Injured in the hand; Escaped.
1969 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Telly Savalas; appears with earlobes removed to back up claim to a noble title. Neck broken; Escaped; Was driver in the drive-by murder of Teresa Bond.
1971 Diamonds Are Forever Charles Gray; appears also as doubles, all created via plastic surgery. He attempts to escape in his mini-sub, but Bond gains control of it and crashes it into the Control Room.
1981 For Your Eyes Only John Hollis, person, Robert Rietty, voice;[9] Blofeld’s face is not seen close-up. Dropped into tall chimney stack from a helicopter and dies in the fall.
1983 Never Say Never Again (non-Eon) Max von Sydow Active/Indirect involvement in the field
Video games[edit]

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Blofeld appears in the 2004 video game GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, this time with the likeness of Donald Pleasence, voiced by Gideon Emery.
Blofeld is a playable multiplayer character in the 2010 video game GoldenEye 007 for the Wii, with the likeness of Charles Gray.
Blofeld is one of the main characters in the 2012 video game 007 Legends, featured in the mission based on On Her Majesty's Secret Service, in which the character was an amalgamation of the three actors appeared in the official film series. Throughout the game, he is voiced by Glenn Wrage.
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The antagonist in the 1980 Bollywood film Shaan played by Kulbhushan Kharbanda was inspired by Blofeld's character.
Pleasence's incarnation as Blofeld in You Only Live Twice served as inspiration for Dr. Evil, the chief villain of the Austin Powers films, portrayed by Mike Myers, complete with facial scar, grey collarless suit and (later hairless) cat.
One of the earliest parodies of Blofeld was in Monty Python's Flying Circus, where the "Secret Service Dentists" sketch featured a Blofeld-like villain character stroking a white rabbit instead of a cat.
The Inspector Gadget cartoon series features a character named Doctor Claw, who was a parody of Blofeld, including signature shots of just the chair, and arms, similar to shots of Blofeld. Like Blofeld, who was head of SPECTRE, Claw was the head of a large criminal organisation, called MAD and had a cat ("Mad-Cat").
The Disney villain Monsieur D'Arque's first appearance is similar to Blofeld having shots of the chair and arms
In the TimeSplitters: Future Perfect and TimeSplitters 2 computer games, the character of Khallos is based on Blofeld. Khallos in Future Perfect also appears with a robotic white pet cat named Strudel.
In the Bruce Lee movie Enter the Dragon, villain Mr. Han (Kien Shih) cradles a white Persian cat while showing Roper (John Saxon) around his museum of weaponry. The film has been referred to as "a low-rent James Bond thriller",[10] a "remake of Doctor No" with elements of Fu Manchu.[11]
In the Danger Mouse cartoon series, the main antagonist, Baron Greenback, is also based on Blofeld. In his scenes, he appears stroking a white-haired caterpillar instead of a white angora cat.
Writer/animator Bruce Timm has cited Blofeld as an influence on the way Lex Luthor was portrayed in Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League: "In my mind, I always saw Luthor as being like Telly Savalas in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, one of my favourite James Bond movies, where he, in essence, portrayed Blofeld as a cultured thug. He was basically like this bruiser who wanted to be taken seriously and wanted to be treated like a baron and I thought that was like a good way to treat Luthor."
On an episode of the improvisational comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway? performer Wayne Brady was made to perform a song entitled "Blofeld On My Mind" in the style of Broadway belter Ethel Merman. Brady, apparently slightly confused, sang a verse that went: "Well, I'm just chillin'/Blofeld, I'm assumin' he's a villain."
The video game Evil Genius allows the player to control a villain who is in command of a SPECTRE-like organisation. One of the player's choices of villain, Maximilian, is shorter but otherwise identical in appearance to Blofeld as he appeared in You Only Live Twice.
See also[edit]

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References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ The Bond Film Informant: Ernst Stavro Blofeld
2.Jump up ^ Desert Island Discs, 30 November 2003
3.Jump up ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b038xmf6/Just_a_Minute_Series_67_Episode_3/ Just a Minute - Series 67, Episode 3. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 26 Aug 2013
4.Jump up ^ Production Staff (2000). Inside You Only Live Twice: An Original Documentary (Television). MGM Home Entertainment Inc.
5.Jump up ^ MovieDeaths.com: Ernst Stavro Blofeld
6.Jump up ^ The Bond Files by Andy Lane and Paul Simpson, published by Virgin in 1999
7.Jump up ^ Vejvoda, Jim. "MGM, Danjaq Settle James Bond Rights Dispute With McClory Estate". IGN. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
8.Jump up ^ Andy Lane and Paul Simpson. The Bond Files.
9.Jump up ^ Cork & Stutz 2007, p. 40.
10.Jump up ^ Pallot, James; The editors of CineBooks (1995). The Fourth Virgin Film Guide. Virgin Books.
11.Jump up ^ Hong Kong Action Cinema by Bey Logan, published by Titan Books, 1995
Bibliography[edit]
Cork, John; Stutz, Collin (2007). James Bond Encyclopedia. London: Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 978-1-4053-3427-3.
Smith, Jim (2002). Bond Films. London: Virgin Books. ISBN 978-0-7535-0709-4.


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Emilio Largo
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Emilio Largo
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Character from the James Bond series
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Affiliation
SPECTRE
Portrayed by
Adolfo Celi
Robert Rietty (voice)
Henchmen
Vargas, Janni, Count Lippe, Fiona Volpe, Ladislav Kutze, Angelo Palazzi, Quist
Role
Villain
Emilio Largo is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the James Bond novel Thunderball. He appears in the film adaptation, again as the main antagonist, with Italian actor Adolfo Celi filling the role. Largo is also the main antagonist in the 1983 unofficial James Bond movie Never Say Never Again, a remake of Thunderball. In Never Say Never Again, the character's name, however, was changed to Maximillian Largo and he was portrayed by the Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer.


Contents  [hide]
1 Biography
2 Scheme
3 Appearance and personality
4 Legacy
5 See also
6 References

Biography[edit]
Fleming describes Largo as a ruthless Neapolitan black marketeer and fence who moved to riskier and more profitable ventures on the international crime scene after five years smuggling from Tangiers and five years of masterminding big jewel robberies on French Riviera.[1] He is supposedly the last survivor of a once famous Roman family whose legacy he inherited. Largo eventually became the second-in-command of the terrorist organization SPECTRE. In the film, Largo is "No. 2" and head of extortion operations. In the novel, Largo is "No. 1"; however the numbers are rotated every month as a security precaution, although Largo is the successor to Ernst Stavro Blofeld and the Supreme Commander of "Plan Omega".
Largo's two main headquarters are located in the Bahamas. The first is his estate, called Palmyra, which houses a giant swimming pool filled with sharks; Bond is later be thrown into this pool, but of course escapes.[2] The second is Largo's private yacht, the Disco Volante. The yacht is a hydrofoil craft purchased with SPECTRE funds for £200,000.[3] The craft plays a pivotal role in the seizure and transportation of the two nuclear weapons.
To Largo, failure is punishable by death. When Quist, one of Largo's henchmen, fails to kill Bond, Largo has him thrown into his pool of sharks. Largo also has little consideration even for those closest to him, going as far as to torture his own mistress, Domino, when he finds out she is betraying him.
One of Largo's henchmen helps Domino get free and Domino gets to do what she wanted Bond to do: kill Largo. When Largo gets the upper hand by nearly shooting Bond, Domino shoots him in the back with a spear gun. Largo collapses to his death on the controls and jams them. Bond, Domino, and the turncoat henchman who helped Domino all evacuate the Disco Volante just seconds before the ship collides with rocks and explodes.[4]
Scheme[edit]
Largo's scheme in Thunderball involves the theft of two nuclear weapons from NATO at sea to which he would then use to hold the world hostage by threatening to detonate the two devices in England or the United States unless they paid the ransom of £100 million British pounds.[5] This scheme has been used countless times since Thunderball and is even a joke in the Austin Powers series of movies.
The basic concept of Largo's scheme in Thunderball is held over in Never Say Never Again. As in Thunderball, the scheme involves obtaining two nuclear warheads, this time stealing them directly from a United States Air Force base in the UK and holding the world hostage.
Appearance and personality[edit]
In the novel he is depicted, according to the British stereotypes about Italians, as a large, muscular, olive-skinned, powerful man exuding animal charm, with the profile of a Roman emperor, hooked nose, long sideburns and hairy hands which are likened to crawling tarantulas. Indeed Emilio Largo's surname means "play slowly and broadly".[6] Although Adolfo Celi strongly resembles his literary counterpart in the film adaption, his white hair contrasts with the pomaded black hair that Fleming specified in the novel, and he wears a black eye patch over his left eye for reasons that are never explained in the movie. His powerful influence and command is exhibited at the beginning of the film when a traffic warden begins to protest against Largo's parking in Paris but quickly corrects himself when he sees Largo step out of the car on the way to a SPECTRE meeting.[7] Like Count Lippe, Umberto Eco describes Largo as handsome and personable, but also vulgar and cruel.[8] Christoph Lindner describes Largo as a " vicarious figure".[9]
Celi's voice was dubbed by Robert Rietty (who previously dubbed the voice of John Strangways in Dr. No and later a man resembling Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in For Your Eyes Only).[10]
Legacy[edit]
With his status as SPECTRE's second in command, Largo and his appearance inspired Robert Wagner's Number Two in the Austin Powers films.
See also[edit]
List of James Bond villains
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Black, Jeremy (2005). The Politics Of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels To The Big Screen. University of Nebraska Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-8032-6240-9. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
2.Jump up ^ Dougall, Alastair; Stewart, Roger (1 October 2000). James Bond: the secret world of 007. Dorling Kindersley Pub. ISBN 978-0-7894-6691-4. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
3.Jump up ^ Griswold, John (30 June 2006). Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations And Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories. AuthorHouse. p. 313. ISBN 978-1-4259-3100-1. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
4.Jump up ^ "Adolfo Celi (Emilio Largo)". Jamesbondmm.co.uk. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
5.Jump up ^ American Film Institute (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog: Feature Films, 1961-1970. University of California Press. p. 1107. ISBN 978-0-520-20970-1. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
6.Jump up ^ Simpson, Paul (2002). The Rough Guide to James Bond: The Films, the Novels, the Villains. Rough Guides. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-84353-142-5. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
7.Jump up ^ Tting, Kerstin J (November 2007). "Grow Up, 007!" - James Bond Over the Decades: Formula Vs. Innovation. GRIN Verlag. p. 71. ISBN 978-3-638-85372-9. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
8.Jump up ^ Eco, Umberto (1979). The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts. Indiana University Press. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-253-20318-2. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
9.Jump up ^ Lindner, Christoph (19 December 2003). The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader. Manchester University Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-7190-6541-5. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
10.Jump up ^ Fairclough, Robert (1 October 2002). The Prisoner: The Official Companion to the Classic TV Series. I Books. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-7434-5256-4. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
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Oddjob
Character from the James Bond series
Affiliation
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Portrayed by
Harold Sakata
Oddjob (often written as "Odd Job") is a henchman to the villain Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film and novel, Goldfinger. In the film he was played by the Japanese-American actor Harold Sakata. Oddjob, who also appears in the James Bond animated series and in several video games, is one of the most popular characters in the Bond series.


Contents  [hide]
1 Appearances 1.1 Novel
1.2 Film
1.3 Other appearances
2 Oddjob's hat
3 Homages and parodies
4 References

Appearances[edit]
Novel[edit]
Oddjob's real name is unknown. He is named by Goldfinger to describe his duties to his employer. Korean-born, like all of Goldfinger's staff, he is extremely strong, as shown in one sequence where he breaks the railing of a staircase with his hand and a mantel with his foot. Oddjob is described as being a squat man with arms like thighs and black teeth. In the contrast with the film where he is depicted as a man of short stature the novel hints his height in the scene where he breaks the mantelpiece described as being 7 feet off the ground and 6 inches higher than the top of his bowler hat. This would place his height at 6 ft 6 inches (198 cm). He is also described as having black belt at karate, although, since he was Korean, this may well have been taekwondo, often inaccurately referred to as 'Korean karate' at the time that the novel was published (1959). Oddjob is also an expert with a bow and arrow and can throw his razor-edged bowler hat with deadly accuracy. He has a cleft palate that renders his speech unintelligible to everyone except Goldfinger. In addition to killing people who might cause trouble for Goldfinger, Oddjob functions as his personal guard, chauffeur, and manservant (though not his golf caddy, as depicted in the film). He has a taste for cats as food, apparently acquired in Korea when food was in short supply. Bond frames Goldfinger's yellow cat for destruction of surveillance film, and as punishment, the cat is given to Oddjob for dinner.
He is killed when Bond uses a knife to shatter the window next to his seat on an aircraft, which depressurises the plane and blows Oddjob out of the window, a fate transferred to Auric Goldfinger in the film version.
Film[edit]
In the beginning of the film, Oddjob is first seen only via silhouette against a wall as he knocks Bond unconscious at the Fontainebleau Hotel, after which he or Goldfinger kills Jill Masterson (with whom Bond had spent the night) through "skin suffocation" by painting her entire body with gold paint; in reality, having one's entire body painted would not cause suffocation.[1]
When Bond meets Goldfinger for a game of golf, Oddjob is seen for the first time in full. He only has four lines of sparse dialogue throughout the film: in his first line, upon pretending to have found Goldfinger's missing golf ball, he exclaims "Aha!" The second time, after killing Tilly Masterson, he instructs his men to dispose of her body by merely pointing at them and saying "Ah! Ah!" The third time, he says "Ah!" to order Bond to put on a gas mask before entering Fort Knox. And the fourth time, as Bond electrocutes him in Fort Knox, he yells out a final long, loud "AH!"
Oddjob acts as Goldfinger's personal chauffeur, bodyguard and golf caddy. He wears what appears to be a bowler hat (though at times it looks like a top hat, but was confirmed to be bowler hat in the novel and as such, would have had a round top) lined with a sharpened steel rim, using it as a throwing weapon in the style of a chakram or a flying guillotine. A lethal weapon, it was shown to be very powerful, capable of cutting through steel and decapitating a stone statue.[2] He later uses it to kill Tilly Masterson by breaking her neck. Physically he is extremely strong and durable, demonstrating his strength in a number of scenes including one where he crushes a golf ball with one hand, as well as during the climactic fight scene with Bond in which he is struck in the chest by a gold bar thrown at him, and struck in the head with a wooden object used as a club. He barely flinches after both these attacks, and is otherwise practically invincible against Bond's futile hand-to-hand fight. However, he is never mentioned to be a karate expert. He is also shown to be fanatically loyal to Goldfinger and his plot, as he is apparently willing to die in the nuclear explosion in Fort Knox rather than allow the bomb's disarmament. (After being locked in the vault along with another one of Goldfinger's men, Oddjob kills the other henchman to prevent him from disarming the bomb, prior to engaging Bond).
His demeanour remains constant throughout the film. Most of the time he is seen to smile broadly whenever he encounters Bond—even during their fight scene. The only time he shows anything resembling fear or wariness is when Bond attempts to use his own hat against him. When thrown at him, however, Oddjob simply dodges the hat with ease, causing it to get stuck between a pair of metal bars. When he goes to retrieve his hat and tries to pull it free, Bond grabs a sparking wire severed by the hat earlier on and thrusts the open end onto the bars. The electric current transfers to the bars and then to the metal in the hat's rim, which electrocutes Oddjob.[3]
Other appearances[edit]
Oddjob appears in the animated series James Bond Jr. with a top hat, sunglasses and hip-hop style clothes, revealing that the electrocution did not kill him, but knocked him unconscious for the Americans to arrest him before he escapes again in the series.
In the video game James Bond 007, Oddjob appears multiple times as a henchman for the game's main villain, General Golgov. The first time is when Bond encounters Oddjob at his hotel room in Marrakesh. The two fight, and Bond is defeated and left stranded in a desert. Later on, Bond trails Oddjob to Tibet, only to be captured. Bond escapes confinement and obtains a shield to protect him from Oddjob's hats, which he uses to deflect back at him. Notably, in this game Oddjob actually speaks.
In the video game GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, Oddjob is a henchman of Goldfinger, and initially a companion of GoldenEye. He is killed when GoldenEye tosses him over a rail into a pit inside the Hoover Dam after he turns on his employer and attacks GoldenEye.
Oddjob has appeared in the James Bond video games GoldenEye 007 and 007: Nightfire as a playable character for use in multiplayer modes. In Nightfire, he can use his hat as a unique throwing weapon that returns after 30 seconds.[4] Oddjob is also a playable multiplayer character in the 2010 remake game GoldenEye 007 for the Wii.
Oddjob's hat[edit]
The prop used in Goldfinger by Oddjob was made by British hat makers, Lock & Co.[5] The bowler hat was then adapted by inserting a chakram into the brim.[6] Oscar winning special effects legend John Stears was responsible for making the hat fly.
After Goldfinger, the hat came into the possession of the James Bond Fan Club. In 1998, the hat was auctioned at Christie's in a sale of James Bond memorabilia. The hat sold for £62,000.[7] In 2002, the hat was loaned out for an exhibition at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford, commemorating the 40th anniversary of the release of Dr. No.[8] The hat was then auctioned again in 2006, when the final price was $36,000.[9]
Replicas of the hat are sought after by collectors and replicas have been used as centrepieces for some exhibitions.[10] In 2008, one replica joined Bond exhibition at the National Motor Museum.[11]
The television show MythBusters tested out the capabilities of Oddjob's weaponized thrown hat, testing whether or not it would have been able to decapitate a stone statue. It failed to do so, and the Mythbusters ultimately labeled it 'Busted'.
Oddjob's lethal hat was ranked tenth in a 2008 20th Century Fox poll for the most popular movie weapon, which surveyed approximately 2,000 films fans.[12]
Homages and parodies[edit]
In the Italian parody film Due Mafiosi Contro Goldginger, the equivalent of Oddjob is a huge black man called Moloch (played by ex-wrestler Alejandro Barrera) dressed in a black suit and bowler hat, who throws a deadly shoe to kill his opponents. In the film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Oddjob is parodied by a character called Random Task, who throws his shoe as a weapon. In the Norwegian parody film Kill Buljo, Buljo's bodyguard is named Blow Job (played by strongwoman and powerlifter Heidi Nilima Monsen) - a tough woman dressed in black suit and bowler hat. Her favorite activity is throwing cops around. Other parody characters appear in the video game Fur Fighters, in the form of a hat-throwing bear called Oddfelt, in the cartoon Darkwing Duck, in the form of a henchman Oddduck in the episode "Double O Duck", in the cartoon series Count Duckula, where the villain called The Egg has a manservant called Oddbeak (a parrot made to resemble Oddjob, complete with bowler and suit).
In the cartoon show Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode "Double 'O Dale", which parodies the Bond series, Dale is watching a spy movie featuring a sidekick called Oddshoe. In The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode "On Her Majesty's Sewer Service", a parody of the James Bond series, the character Mouser gains an appearance similar to Oddjob, even throwing his bowler derby hat as a weapon in one scene (instead of cutting people, though, the bowler derby was shown to simply bludgeon them). In the cartoon series Beavis and Butt-head, when the duo are watching a music video with people riding motorcycles, they say it is like a James Bond film, with Beavis adding "They need that short guy Handjob to come out."
In the Mortal Kombat video game series and franchise, recurring character Kung Lao has been said to be directly based on Oddjob, and as such has a similar blade-rimmed hat that can be thrown at opponents. Oddjob's trademark hat-throwing technique can also be seen in Toy Story 2 (in which Mr. Potato Head throws his own bowler hat to prevent two doors from closing), in the video game Alone in the Dark 2 (where an undead pirate nicknamed Black Hat has a blade-rimmed hat that he can throw at the protagonist Edward Carnby), in a one-page Hostess advertisement featuring Spider-Man (where Spider-Man fights a supervillai called "Demolition Derby" who throws his derby hat that bounces and cuts Spider-Man's webbing),[13] in the film Stormbreaker film (where the guard in Sayle Tower throws his hat away as he prepares to kill Alex), in the arcade game Sly Spy (itself a homage to the James Bond mythos, featuring a bowler-throwing character as a level boss), in the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (where Robert Speedwagon is shown to use his razor-rimmed bowler hat as a throwing weapon), in the film Rio (where Nico throws his bottlecap hat in a way similar to Oddjob to cut a line of evil monkeys), and in the anime Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu (where an antagonist's henchman resembles Oddjob, wearing a suit and bowler, being a martial arts expert, and using his hat and an umbrella as primary weapons). Daredevil once fought a supervillain called Torpedo, who threw a cutting hat just like Oddjob; Daredevil then remarked that he did not expect Torpedo to pull an "oddjob" on him). In The Beverly Hillbillies, Jethro Bodine sees some of the James Bond films, referring to them as 'Double-Naught Spy' movies, and becomes enamored of Oddjob's bowler hat: dunking his own hat into molten metal and letting it harden, Jethro has little or no luck throwing the heavy hat, and promptly knocks himself out cold every time he tries to put it on.
In the cartoon series Duck Dodgers, Daffy Duck throws a hat to save himself during a mission and later says that he had learned it from someone called "Odd Ball", in which they cut to a scene where Oddjob angrily says, "Odd Ball?!!"—suggesting that the character is actually Oddjob and not just a parody. In the movie Inspector Gadget, Oddjob is seen in the Minions Anonymous meeting, along with Jaws; he is credited as "Famous Villain With Deadly Hat".
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Metin Tolan - Geschüttelt, nicht gerührt, Piper Verlag
2.Jump up ^ "Oddjob's killer bowler at Beaulieu". This is Hampshire. 23 January 2008. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
3.Jump up ^ Guy Hamilton (Director) (18 September 1964). Goldfinger (Film). United Kingdom: Eon Productions.
4.Jump up ^ Eurocom (18 November 2002). 007: Nightfire (in English). PlayStation 2 (v1). Electronic Arts. Level/area: Multiplayer.
5.Jump up ^ "Bei Londons ältestem Hutmacher kaufen Madonna, Prinz Charles und 007-Bei Londons ältestem Hutmacher kaufen Madonna, Prinz Charles und 007". Glaubeaktuell (in German). Retrieved 22 July 2012.
6.Jump up ^ Hosted by Mike Loades and Chad Houseknecht (26 October 2008). "Chakram". Weapon Masters. Series 1.
7.Jump up ^ "Oddjob's hat bowls them over". BBC News. 17 September 1998. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
8.Jump up ^ "Bond show licensed to thrill". BBC News. 10 March 2002. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
9.Jump up ^ "James Bond News :: MI6 :: Oddjob's deadly hat auctioned for $36,000". Mi6-hq.com. Retrieved 2013-10-06.
10.Jump up ^ "Oddjob's killer bowler at Beaulieu". Daily Echo. 23 January 2008. Retrieved 22 July 2012.
11.Jump up ^ "James Bond News :: MI6 :: Oddjob`s killer bowler hat joins Bond exhibition at Beaulieu". Mi6-hq.com. Retrieved 2013-10-06.
12.Jump up ^ Sophie Borland (2008-01-21). "Lightsabre wins the battle of movie weapons". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2008-01-26.
13.Jump up ^ "Seanbaby's Hostess Page - Spider-Man And The Demolition Derby". Seanbaby.com. Retrieved 2013-10-06.


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Auric Goldfinger
Character from the James Bond series
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Affiliation
SMERSH (novel)
 Auric Industries (Self-employed/film)
 SCUM (James Bond Jr)
SPECTRE (GoldenEye: Rogue Agent)
Role
Villain
Auric Goldfinger is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film Goldfinger, based on Ian Fleming's novel of the same name. His first name, Auric, is an adjective meaning of gold. Fleming chose the name to commemorate the architect Ernő Goldfinger, who had built his home in Hampstead, near Fleming's; it is possible, though unlikely, that he disliked Goldfinger's style of architecture and destruction of Victorian terraces and decided to name a memorable villain after him.[1] According to a 1965 Forbes article and The New York Times, the Goldfinger persona was based on gold mining magnate Charles W. Engelhard, Jr.[2]
In 2003, the American Film Institute declared Auric Goldfinger the 49th greatest villain in the past 100 years of film. In a poll on IMDb, Auric Goldfinger was voted the most sinister James Bond villain, beating out in order Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Dr. No, Max Zorin, and Emilio Largo.[3]
Auric Goldfinger was played by German actor Gert Fröbe. Fröbe, who did not speak English well, was dubbed in the film by Michael Collins, an English actor. In the German version, Fröbe dubbed himself back again.
Goldfinger was banned in Israel after it was revealed that Fröbe had been a member of the Nazi party before World War II. The ban, however, was lifted later.


Contents  [hide]
1 Novel biography 1.1 Operation Grand Slam 1.1.1 Criticism of novel's plan and changes made in filmed version

2 Film biography
3 Appearances in other media
4 See also
5 References

Novel biography[edit]
In the novel, Auric Goldfinger is a 42-year-old expatriate from Riga, Latvia, who emigrated in 1937 at the age of 20. He is 5 feet (152 cm) tall, has blue eyes, red hair, and a passion for his tan.
Goldfinger's name was borrowed from Ian Fleming's neighbour in his Hampstead home, architect Ernő Goldfinger, and his character bears some resemblance.[4] Ernő Goldfinger consulted his lawyers when the book was published, prompting Fleming to suggest renaming the character "Goldprick", but Goldfinger eventually settled out of court in return for his legal costs, six copies of the novel, and an agreement that the character's first name 'Auric' would always be used. Goldfinger is typically a German-Jewish name, and the protagonists of the novel know this, but neither Bond nor Mr. Du Pont think Goldfinger is Jewish. Instead, Bond thinks the red-haired, blue-eyed man to be a Balt, being proved correct when Goldfinger is revealed to be an expatriate Latvian.[5]
Following becoming a UK Commonwealth citizen naturalised to Nassau, Goldfinger has become the richest man in England, although his wealth is not in English banks, nor does he pay taxes on it as it is spread as gold bullion in many countries. Goldfinger is the treasurer of SMERSH, a Soviet counterintelligence agency, which is Bond's nemesis. Goldfinger fancies himself an expert pistol shot who never misses, and always shoots his opponents through the right eye. He tells Bond he has done so with four Mafia heads at the end of the novel.
Goldfinger is obsessed with gold, going so far as to have yellow-bound erotic photographs, and have his lovers painted head to toe in gold so that he can make love to gold. (He leaves an area near the spine unpainted, but painting this area also is what kills Jill Masterton, as in the film). He is also a jeweller, a metallurgist, and a smuggler.
When Goldfinger first meets Bond in Miami, he claims that he is agoraphobic; a ploy to allow him to cheat a previous acquaintance of Bond's at a game of two-handed Canasta. Bond figures out how Goldfinger is managing this, and blackmails him by forcing him to admit his deception. This incident also establishes Goldfinger as boundlessly greedy - as whatever sums he can gain by this elaborate cheating are negligible compared with what he already has in his possession.
Goldfinger is also an avid golfer, but is known at his club for being a smooth cheater there, also. When Bond contrives to play a match with Goldfinger, he again cheats the cheater by switching Goldfinger's Slazenger 1 golf ball with a Slazenger 7 he had found while playing.
In both the novel and film, Goldfinger is aided in his crimes by his manservant, Oddjob, a mute, monstrously strong Korean who ruthlessly eliminates any threat to his employer's affairs.
Goldfinger is the owner of "Entreprises Auric A.G." in Switzerland, maker of metal furniture, which is purchased by many airlines including Air India. Twice a year, Goldfinger drives his vintage Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost car from England to Enterprises Auric. Bond learns that Goldfinger makes dead drops of gold bars for SMERSH along the way, and that his car's bodywork is 18 carat (75%), solid white gold under the ploy that the added weight is armour plating. Once at Enterprises Auric, the bodywork is stripped off, melted and made into airplane seats for an company that Enterprises Auric is heavily invested in. The plane(s) are then flown to India where the seats are melted down again into gold bars and sold for a much higher premium rate; 100 to 200 per cent profit.
Operation Grand Slam[edit]



 Goldfinger during "Operation Grand Slam".
In the novel, Goldfinger captures Bond and threatens to cut him in half with a circular saw as Oddjob tortures him using his pressure points. Bond offers to work for Goldfinger in exchange for his life, but Goldfinger refuses to spare him, and he blacks out.
Bond wakes to find that Goldfinger is going to take him up on his offer after all, and makes him his prisoner and secretary. While working at this job, Bond discovers that Goldfinger is plotting to rob the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky, in an action codenamed "Operation Grand Slam".
Goldfinger plans to contaminate the water supply at Fort Knox using the nerve agent GB (also known as Sarin), killing everyone at the base. Then, using an atomic bomb designed for an MGM-5 Corporal intermediate-range ballistic missile that he had purchased for $US1 million in Germany, Goldfinger would blow open Fort Knox's impregnable vault, before removing roughly $15 billion in gold bullion by truck and train with the help of American criminal organizations - including the Mafia; The Purple Gang, an organization that existed in real life; The Spangled Mob, a fictional gang that would later appear in other Bond novels; and The Cement Mixers, an all-female gang led by former trapeze artist Pussy Galore. They would then escape to the Soviet Union on a cargo boat. Goldfinger bribes the syndicate leaders with $15,000 in gold apiece to secure their attendance at the meeting and promises that each group will receive at least $1 billion, while he will keep $5 billion.
Bond foils Goldfinger's plan by writing a note to his American colleague Felix Leiter, containing the details of the impending operation, and taping it to the underside of an airplane toilet seat. Once the note reaches Leiter, he arranges for help from the FBI and the Pentagon, Leiter is able to foil the theft, but Goldfinger escapes.
Later, Goldfinger and his henchmen learn from SMERSH who Bond is, and determine to take him with them in defecting to the Soviet Union. They pose as doctors to incapacitate crew and passengers (including Bond) with drugged inoculations. Then they hijack the aircraft, carrying 1.5 tons of gold, Goldfinger's total savings. The hijacked airplane is piloted by three German ex-Luftwaffe pilots who work for Goldfinger. Oddjob meets his end when he is sucked through an airliner window after Bond pierces it with a knife. Bond and Goldfinger engage in a brief struggle, during which Bond is seized by a violent rage for the first time in his life, strangling Goldfinger to death. Bond then turns to the pilots and forces the airplane to turn back from its intended flight path, causing it to ditch in the ocean after running out of fuel. The weight of Goldfinger's gold causes the airplane to sink rapidly, taking his body and his pilots down with it. Only Bond and Pussy Galore, both wearing lifejackets, appear in the ocean and are soon picked up, as the only survivors.
Criticism of novel's plan and changes made in filmed version[edit]
After publication of the novel, the details of "Operation Grand Slam" were questioned, with critics noting it would have taken hours, if not days, to remove $15 billion from Fort Knox, during which the U.S. Army would have inevitably intervened. The issue of getting every soldier on the base to drink the poisoned water without an alarm was also raised. A final problem was the "clean" atomic bomb, tactical or not, which in all likelihood would have annihilated the vault instead of breaking it open.
Consequently, the filmed version of the novel altered the details of the plan. Although the audience is initially led to believe Goldfinger is going to steal the gold, the real plot is revealed to be to render the gold contained in the Depository radioactive and useless, crippling the gold standard-based economy and thereby dramatically driving up the price of the gold Goldfinger already owns.[6] A scene in the film even uses a confrontation between Goldfinger and Bond to point out logistical flaws in the plan as set out in the original novel.
Film biography[edit]
Main article: Goldfinger (film)
In the film, Goldfinger is a successful businessman, owning many properties throughout the world including "Auric Enterprises, AG" in Switzerland, and a stud-farm in Kentucky called "Auric Stud". However, Goldfinger's real business is that of internationally smuggling gold, using the method of having a car built with gold body castings and transporting it via airplane before having the body-work re-smelted once it arrives at its destination. After Goldfinger's business affairs come under suspicion from the Bank of England, Bond is sent to investigate.
In the film, Felix Leiter says that Goldfinger is British; however, this may simply mean he possesses British citizenship, as by his accent and red-blond hair he is probably German by birth. Fröbe was chosen to play the villain because producers Saltzman and Broccoli had seen his performance in a German thriller titled Es geschah am hellichten Tag (It happened in broad daylight, 1958), based on the story Das Versprechen (The Pledge) by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. In that film, Fröbe played a serial killer named Schrott, who kills children to vent his frustrations with his domineering wife. Broccoli and Saltzman had seen the movie and decided upon the "big bad German" for the role.
In the film, Goldfinger, an avid golfer, reveals a fascination with Nazi gold when Bond tempts him to betting high stakes against a lost, historical Nazi gold bar, an incident not in the novel (the golf game is merely for a large amount of cash). He is defeated, however, when he is tricked by Bond after attempting to cheat. Goldfinger is shown to take sadistic pleasure in killing his enemies which he accomplishes in elaborate ways. This is shown when he attempts to kill a captured Bond by slowly cutting him in half with a laser (but is talked out of it by Bond), and later when he uses nerve gas to execute a group of gangsters he invites to his ranch.
Goldfinger is later revealed to be planning to place an atomic device containing cobalt and iodine into Fort Knox, rendering the gold radioactive and useless for 58 years, increasing the value of his own gold and giving the Chinese an advantage resulting from the ensuing economic chaos. Bond, at this point held captive by Goldfinger, is able to smuggle the details of the operation out to his CIA associate Felix Leiter, and, taken along on the operation by Goldfinger, ultimately thwarts the operation by defusing the atomic device.
With Fort Knox safe, Bond is invited to the White House for a meeting with the President. However, with his pilot Pussy Galore, Goldfinger hijacks the plane carrying Bond. In a struggle for Goldfinger's revolver, Bond shoots out a window, creating an explosive decompression. Goldfinger is blown out of the cabin through the window. With the plane out of control Bond rescues Galore and they parachute safely from the aircraft.
Appearances in other media[edit]
Goldfinger is parodied in the comedy Austin Powers in Goldmember as the titular Dutch villain, whose trademark was to paint his enemies' genitalia gold, for he himself lost his genitalia in an "unfortunate smelting incident".
Hanna-Barbera would parody Goldfinger numerous times, particularly with the Secret Squirrel villain "Yellow Pinkie".
Los Angeles ska-punk band Goldfinger took its name from the character.
Goldfinger and Oddjob are referenced in The New Traveller's Almanac that appears in the back of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II comic book.
Auric Goldfinger and Oddjob are multiplayer characters in the video game Nightfire. They are brought back to life in the 2004 Electronic Arts video game GoldenEye: Rogue Agent. In the game, Goldfinger recruits the protagonist, GoldenEye, a former secret agent ousted by MI6. Goldfinger is also an ally of Francisco Scaramanga, the villain of The Man with the Golden Gun and the SPECTRE organization. In the game, Goldfinger's scientists develop what is considered to be the deadliest weapon known to mankind: the O.M.E.N. (Organic Mass Energy Neutralizer), and plan to use it against Dr. No's forces. He is killed when, after having betrayed GoldenEye and Scaramanga and taken over his volcano lair, GoldenEye and Scaramanga make use of a computer virus to overload the O.M.E.N. Goldfinger (along with Dr. No).
Goldfinger also makes a minor appearance as an unlockable character in the multiplayer mode of 2005 video game From Russia With Love.
Goldfinger also appears in the animated series James Bond Junior, in which he has a teenaged daughter, Goldie, who is as greedy and ruthless as her father.
Auric Goldfinger came 10th place in the 2002 Forbes Fictional 15.
Goldfinger also appears in the 2012 video game 007 Legends during the Goldfinger levels.
See also[edit]
Goldfinger (film)
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Ben Macintyre (2008-04-05). "Was Ian Fleming the real 007?". London: The Times. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
2.Jump up ^ "Milestones, Mar. 15, 1971". Time. 1971-03-15. Retrieved 2010-04-25.
3.Jump up ^ Daily Poll Results
4.Jump up ^ Ezard, John (3 June 2005). "How Goldfinger nearly became Goldprick". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 6 October 2009.
5.Jump up ^ Black, Jeremy (2005). The politics of James Bond: from Fleming's novel to the big screen. ISBN 978-0-8032-6240-9. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
6.Jump up ^ Goldfinger (1964) at the Internet Movie Database
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Rosa Klebb
Character from the James Bond series
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Affiliation
SMERSH (novel)
 Ex-SMERSH and defected to SPECTRE (film)
KGB/OCTOPUS (video games)
Portrayed by
Lotte Lenya
Role
Villain
Colonel Rosa Klebb is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the James Bond film and novel From Russia with Love. She was played by Lotte Lenya in the film version. Her name is a pun on the popular Soviet phrase for women's rights, khleb i rozy (Cyrillic: хлеб и розы), which in turn was a direct Russian translation of the internationally used labour union slogan "bread and roses".[1]


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2 Film biography
3 Legacy
4 References

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Colonel Klebb is a high-ranking member of the feared Russian counter-intelligence agency SMERSH, where she serves as the supervisor of Department II (operations and executions). It is strongly implied in the novel that she is a lesbian. She has a reputation for overseeing the interrogations of enemy agents in which, after torturing the target, she speaks to them in a warm and motherly tone to extract information. She started her career as O.G.P.U agent placed inside POUM during Spanish Civil War. Her chief was Andreu Nin i Perez, whose mistress she supposedly was. It was later rumoured that it was she who killed him. She is 5 ft 4 inches (163 cm) tall and unattractive. She is in her late forties.
Klebb is assigned by SMERSH leader, General Grubozaboyschikov, to spearhead an operation to get revenge on James Bond for his involvement in the deaths of three SMERSH operatives, Le Chiffre, Mr. Big and Hugo Drax. Teaming with Tov Kronsteen and Red Grant, Klebb sets a trap for Bond, enlisting a cipher clerk, Tatiana Romanova, to pretend to defect, claiming to fall in love with Bond. When Bond takes the bait, Grant will kill him. This plan backfires, however, when Bond foils Grant's attempt to kill him, and now with information given to him by the now deceased Grant, Bond heads to Paris to confront Klebb.
Bond tracks Klebb to the hotel in Paris, where she was to rendezvous with Grant at the conclusion of his mission. He finds her there dressed as a wealthy widow. After failing to kill him with a gun hidden in a telephone, she successfully poisons him by means of a fugu venom-laced blade hidden in her shoe; she is then captured by Bond's friend René Mathis, of the Deuxième Bureau. The novel ends when Bond collapses to the floor; Fleming had intended to end the series at that point with Bond's death. In the next novel, Dr. No, M reveals that Bond survived as a result of Mathis' timely intervention, and that Klebb had subsequently died.
Film biography[edit]



 Rosa Klebb's signature weapon
In the film, Klebb is depicted as a former SMERSH agent who has defected to become a member of SPECTRE (Blofeld refers to her as "No. 3"). She uses Kronsteen's plans to obtain the Lektor, a decoding device, and kill Bond. She deceives Tatiana Romanova into helping Bond steal the Lektor, and then sends Red Grant to kill Bond and recover it. After Bond kills Grant and escapes to Venice with the Lektor, Blofeld confronts both Klebb and Kronsteen over who is responsible for the failure of the mission; the latter is executed, whilst Klebb is given one last attempt to get Bond and the Lektor. Posing as a hotel maid, she attempts to take the Lektor; when she is caught, she points a gun at Bond. Tatiana then distracts her, causing her to drop the gun, and Bond and Klebb fight. As in the novel, Klebb attempts to kick Bond with the poison-tipped shoe, but Bond blocks the attack with a chair. Tatiana then picks up Klebb's gun and kills her.
Legacy[edit]
Rosa Klebb was one of two inspirations (the other being Irma Bunt) for the character of Frau Farbissina, of the Austin Powers series.
Rosa Klebb's shoe blade has been featured in other films. It is used by Jade Fox in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ichi in Ichi the Killer, James West in Wild Wild West, the Joker in The Dark Knight and Oleg Vasilyevich Orlov in Salt. It was also referenced in the Family Guy episode Mr. and Mrs. Stewie.
In the 2010 reimagining of the video game GoldenEye 007, the weapon that was named "Klobb" in the original game (originally named after designer Ken Lobb) has had its name changed to "Klebb". Klebb herself is also a playable character in the game's multiplayer component.
Klebb was also included on the list of top ten Bond villains by The Times in 2008.[1]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b Brendan Plant (1 April 2008). "Top 10 Bond villains". The Times (UK). Retrieved 3 April 2008.
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Dr. Julius No
Character from the James Bond series
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SPECTRE (film)
 SCUM (James Bond Jr.)
 The Raven Triad (James Bond Jr)
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Dr. Julius No is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond novel and film Dr. No. He was the first villain in the film series, in which he was portrayed by actor Joseph Wiseman.


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2 Film biography 2.1 Henchmen in the film
3 Other appearances 3.1 Non-official James Bond media
4 Cultural references 4.1 Parodies
5 References

Novel biography[edit]
The novel explains that Dr. No was born in Peking to a German Methodist missionary and a Chinese girl, but was raised by his aunt. As an adult, he went to Shanghai, where he was involved with the Tongs, a Chinese crime syndicate. Later he was smuggled to the United States and settled in New York City, where he became a clerk and eventually Treasurer for a Tong in America, called the "Hip-Sings".
In the late 1920s, a mob war broke out in New York, forcing the police to crack down on them. No stole a million dollars in gold from the Tongs and disappeared. But the Tongs tracked him down and tortured him to find the location of the gold. When No refused to tell them, the Tongs cut off his hands, shot him through the left side of the chest and left him for dead. No survived, due to a condition called dextrocardia, in which his heart is on the right side of the body.
No spent a long time in hospital, then enrolled in medical school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He adopted the title of Doctor and changed his name to Julius No, symbolic of his rejection of his father, whose given name was Julius. As in the film, No fits himself with metal manual prostheses, but the book describes them as simple pincers. In physical appearance Dr. No is tall and very thin. He is described as being at least 6 inches taller than Bond, who is six feet tall, meaning that he's probably around 6 ft 6 inches (198 cm) in height. His head is said to be shaped like a "reverse oil drop" due to his round head pointed chin and the yellowish tinge of his skin. In the novel he wears a gunmetal coloured kimono, due to his inability to hold a bell he uses a walkie-talkie which he carries around his neck. He also wears one of the first ever pair of contact lenses and has had a lip slice cosmetic surgery and wears stocked shoes in order to make himself taller, all of these factors were employed by No to conceal his identity from the Tongs.
With the million dollars from the Tong, he purchases rare stamps in order to preserve his money against inflation; he later purchases the island of Crab Key, off the coast of Jamaica, where he restarts a defunct guano business as a cover for his criminal operations. He employs Jamaican and Cuban labourers on good wages for the guano works, brutally supervised by Jamaican "Chigroes" (a portmanteau of 'Chinese' + 'Negroes', referring to their mixed ancestry). No one who comes to the island is allowed to leave.
No, with aid from the Soviets, sabotages the nearby tests of American missiles by jamming their signals and making them land and explode on a different target than that planned. This forces the Americans to spend time and money redesigning their missiles. He also recovers missiles from the ocean and turns them over to the Russians.
Bond does not actually learn of No's plot until he and Quarrel — with Honey Rider, who would trespass to find exclusive shells — had infiltrated Crab Key and been captured. Bond had gone there after Commander Strangways had disappeared, murdered by No's henchmen. Bond eventually kills No by suffocating him in a mound of guano.
Henchmen in the Novel[edit]
Miss Taro
Miss Chung
Sister Rose
May
Riker
Other various "Chigroes"
The Three Blind Mice
Film biography[edit]
Dr. No is a brilliant scientist with an implied Napoleon complex, and an example of the mad scientist trope. He is a self-described "unwanted child of a German missionary and a Chinese girl of a good family". He later "became treasurer of the most powerful criminal society in China"; in this case, the Tongs. He then "escaped to America with $10,000,000" of Tong gold bullion. He specialized in radiation, which cost him both of his hands; his hands were replaced with crude bionic metal ones. No's hands have great strength (he can crush a metal figurine with them), but are seriously lacking in manual dexterity. This property contributes to his demise.
He offered his skills and expertise to the Americans and Soviets, but was rejected. To get revenge, No joined the criminal organization SPECTRE and relocated to his island in Crab Key in Jamaica.
When Bond is sent to investigate the murder of two British agents and any possible connection with recent rocket disasters, No orders several attempts on 007's life. He is particularly displeased with henchman Professor Dent's failure. He gives Dent a venomous spider which is released in Bond's room. Bond kills it, and shoots Dent.
No fails in his own attempts to kill Bond; first by locking him in a ventilation shaft and then by beating him with his metal hands.[1]
No captures Bond and Honey Rider when they trespass on his island, and they are put through a decontamination shower since No's henchmen detected radiation on them. During dinner, he offers Bond a position in his organization, but Bond refuses. Bond escapes through a ventilation shaft, and disguises himself with a radiation suit. Bond enters the control centre where No and his assistants are preparing to disrupt the launch of an American rocket. Bond sabotages No's pool-type nuclear reactor, allowing the American missile to launch successfully while No and most of his henchmen do not notice. The two men fight while everyone else flees the imminent explosion. They both fall onto a small platform that slowly descends into the boiling coolant of the overheating reactor. Bond manages to climb out, but No cannot get a grip on the metal framework and is boiled to death. Bond frees Honey from where she has been chained in a room filling with water, and escapes before the reactor explodes.
Henchmen in the film[edit]
Miss Taro
Professor Dent
Freelance, the Photographer
Mr. Jones
The Three "Blind" Mice
Sister Rose
Sister Lily
Jamaican Guards
Many Chinese People who wear radiation suits
Other appearances[edit]



 Dr. No as seen in the James Bond Jr. animated series.
Dr. No made several appearances in the cartoon series James Bond Jr.. His skin, however, was rendered bright green similar to Ming the Merciless in Defenders of the Earth and the Mandarin in Iron Man.
Julius No also appeared in the video game GoldenEye: Rogue Agent voiced by Carlos Alazraqui. Despite his death in both the book and film, he appears alongside fellow enemies Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Auric Goldfinger, Francisco Scaramanga and Xenia Onatopp. In the game, Xenia Onatopp works for No and he seems to possess a considerable army of well-equipped henchmen as well as numerous tanks and helicopter gunships that resemble V-22 Ospreys. He also seems to have soldiers placed on countless rooftops and buildings in Hong Kong. He is electrocuted by his own reactor in a fight with the rogue 00 agent "Goldeneye".
Julius No is also a multiplayer character in the video game 007: From Russia with Love and is a playable multiplayer character in the 2010 video game GoldenEye 007 for the Wii.
The character of Dr. No makes a brief appearance in a 2012 Heineken beer commercial to promote the release of the twenty-third Bond film, Skyfall.[2]
Non-official James Bond media[edit]
In Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe (Win Scott Eckert, ed., MonkeyBrain Books, 2005), Win Scott Eckert contributes "Who's Going to Take Over the World When I'm Gone?" wherein he posits that No's mother was an agent of Fu Manchu named Madame de Medici, who was in turn the daughter of Fu Xi, from Sax Rohmer's novel The Golden Scorpion. Likewise in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, No is stated as being a distant relative of Fu Manchu. Later in the book, it is revealed that Bond's mission to stop Dr. No was a fraud, an alibi for Bond to kill a British leader for the Americans — "There was No Doctor."
In the alternate history novel Dracula Cha Cha Cha, Dr. No (along with Mr. Big) is mentioned as being vampire elders killed and drained by the Diogenes Club agent Hamish Bond.
Cultural references[edit]
During the 1981 Ontario general election Progressive Conservative Premier Bill Davis mocked the Liberal leader Dr. Stuart Smith and his critical attitude towards the government by calling him "Dr. No."
Parodies[edit]
In a nod to this character, the master villain of the 1967 Bond spoof Casino Royale is named "Dr. Noah".
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine features a parodic villain named "Dr. Noah" in the episode "Our Man Bashir".<
The television series Get Smart featured part Chinese villains named "Dr Yes"[3] (with unusually long, sharp fingernails, at least one of which is lethally envenomed) and "The Claw"[4] (with a magnetic claw in place of one hand).
Doctor Claw appears as the perennial villain in the Inspector Gadget series.
Dr. No also has made appearances in Auckland University Students' Association election campaigns, as a face for the 'no confidence' vote.
Lego Agents main villain "Dr. Inferno" is a parody of Dr. No.
Austin Powers series main antagonist Dr. Evil is a parody of several Bond villains, including Julius No.
The 1964 Flintstones episode "Dr. Sinister" features a character named "Madam Yes", a parody of Dr. No.
In an episode of the animated series The Fairly OddParents, Schnozmo must regain his brother Comso's trust by "saving" him from the evil Dr. Maybe.
The 1977 film Kentucky Fried Movie featured a sketch called "A Fistful of Yen", in which the villain is an evil Asian mastermind named Dr. Klahn with artificial metal hands. The latter are easily exchangeable with other appendages, such as a scimitar, an electric toothbrush and a vibrator.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "007 Fact Files - The Villains". 007.info. Retrieved 2012-07-06.
2.Jump up ^ "James Bond Has to 'Crack the Case' for Heineken Ad". nextmovie.com. 2012-09-21. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
3.Jump up ^ ""Get Smart" Dr. Yes (TV Episode 1967) - IMDb". imdb.com. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
4.Jump up ^ ""Get Smart" Diplomat's Daughter (TV Episode 1965) - IMDb". imdb.com. Retrieved 2014-02-16.


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The James Bond novels and film series feature a number of villainous characters who serve as primary antagonists. Each story normally features a main villain bent on world domination or destruction who seeks to defeat or kill Bond, often with the assistance of secondary characters. Bond typically confronts the villain during the story's climax and exposes the evil plot.


Contents  [hide]
1 Main villains 1.1 Novel villains by author 1.1.1 Ian Fleming
1.1.2 Kingsley Amis (writing as Robert Markham)
1.1.3 Christopher Wood
1.1.4 John Gardner
1.1.5 Raymond Benson
1.1.6 Sebastian Faulks
1.1.7 Jeffery Deaver
1.1.8 Young Bond series 1.1.8.1 Charlie Higson

1.2 Film villains by production 1.2.1 Eon Productions
1.2.2 Non-Eon works
1.3 Video game villains
2 Villainous organisations
3 Henchmen
4 See also
5 References

Main villains[edit]
Novel villains by author[edit]
Ian Fleming[edit]

Novel
Villain
Objective
Outcome
Fate
Casino Royale Le Chiffre Pay off his embarrassing debts to his SMERSH masters by winning the money at Casino Royale's baccarat table. Bond beats Le Chiffre at baccarat. Shot between the eyes by a SMERSH hitman.
Live and Let Die Mr. Big (Buonaparte Ignace Gallia) Smuggle and sell ancient gold coins to finance SMERSH operations. Bond kills Mr Big. Eaten by sharks and barracuda after he falls into the water when Bond blows up his boat.
Moonraker Sir Hugo Drax (Graf Hugo von der Drache) Destroy London with a nuclear missile, the eponymous Moonraker. Bond alters the rocket's target coordinates. Rocket crashes into the water directly in the path of Drax's submarine, the blast killing Drax and all of his men.
Diamonds Are Forever Jack Spang Smuggle a large cache of diamonds worth millions of dollars from Africa to America to fund organisation. Smuggling operation is dismantled when all operatives are assassinated. Killed when Bond shoots down his helicopter.
Seraffimo Spang Bond shoots him in the leg while he is driving the train, causing the train to derail and crash.
From Russia, with Love Rosa Klebb Kill Bond in a humiliating sex scandal, kill MI6 cryptanalysts with a boobytrapped cipher machine. KGB killer Grant fails to kill Bond, as does Klebb. Captured by the Deuxieme Bureau and later dies.
General Grubozaboyschikov Survives.
Dr. No Dr. Julius No Disrupt U.S.-guided missile tests. Dr. No is killed and the project is dismantled. Buried under a pile of guano by Bond.
Goldfinger Auric Goldfinger Steal the U.S. gold supply from Fort Knox to finance SMERSH. U.S. authorities are alerted by Bond. Strangled by Bond after hijacking an aeroplane.
"From a View to a Kill" (short story) GRU agents Kill dispatch-riders of SHAPE to steal information from the British Secret Service. The riders are killed but the information is recovered by Bond. Shot by Bond and Mary Ann Russell.
"For Your Eyes Only" (short story) Colonel von Hammerstein Acquire the Havelock Estate in Jamaica to use as a headquarters for a drug running operation. Obtains the estate, but both are later killed. Killed by Judy Havelock with an arrow.
Hector Gonzales Shot by Bond in firefight.
"Risico" (short story) Aristotle Kristatos Smuggle drugs, aid Soviet missile development, and trick Bond into killing rival. Bond discovers the truth. Shot by Bond while driving his car, and the car rolls off into the fog.
"The Hildebrand Rarity" (short story) Milton Krest Catch the Hildebrand Rarity by any means necessary. Succeeds, but dies. Chokes to death on the rare fish, possibly murdered by his battered wife. Bond throws the body overboard.
Thunderball Emilio Largo Blackmail the western world with two stolen atomic bombs. Bond discovers the location of the bombs. Shot in the neck with a speargun by his mistress, Domino.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld Survives.
The Spy Who Loved Me Mr. Sanguinetti Have his motel burnt down, and have Vivienne Michel assassinated to claim the property and life insurances. His assassins fail to kill Vivienne and set the place on fire. Arrested by the U.S. Border Patrol.
Sol "Horror" Horowitz and "Sluggsy" Morant Assassinate Vivienne Michel under orders of Mr. Sanguinetti and torch the motel owned by Sanguinetti. They fail to kill Vivienne and are killed themselves. Both are shot to death by Bond.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service Ernst Stavro Blofeld Develop a deadly virus to destroy British livestock and cereals. The virus and their headquarters are destroyed by Bond and MI6 agents. Survives.
You Only Live Twice Ernst Stavro Blofeld (a.k.a. Dr. Guntram Shatterhand) He creates a "garden of death" and entices depressed Japanese to suicide. He charges for the suicides to refinance the SPECTRE organisation. His lair is destroyed and his henchmen killed by Bond. Strangled by Bond.
The Man with the Golden Gun Francisco (Paco) "Pistols" Scaramanga Expand his international crime organisation into the Caribbean and organise smuggling operations to finance. His allies are killed in the explosion of his mansion and he is killed by Bond. Shot through the heart by Bond.
"Octopussy" (short story) Major Dexter Smythe Live off looted Nazi gold. Discovered by Bond, he is faced with the choice between prosecution and suicide. Accidentally stung by scorpionfish, then partially eaten by an octopus.
"The Property of a Lady" (short story) Maria Freudenstein and her Soviet contact Receive secret payment for double agent services. Succeeds. Survives, but her contact is deported.
"The Living Daylights" (short story) Trigger, KGB assassin. Assassinate defector. Her gun is shot out of her hand before she can kill the defector. Wounded by Bond, she survives and escapes.
"007 in New York" (short story) KGB double-agent Blackmail MI6 using a female employee. Employee is tipped off by Bond. Arrested by the CIA.
Kingsley Amis (writing as Robert Markham)[edit]

Novel
Villain
Objective
Outcome
Fate
Colonel Sun Colonel Sun Liang-tan Sabotage USSR summit conference, frame Great Britain. Operatives are killed, and summit conference members are alerted. Stabbed in the back and heart by Bond.
Christopher Wood[edit]

Novel
Villain
Objective
Outcome
Fate
James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me Karl Stromberg Use stolen submarines to provoke a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviets, then rebuild humanity under the ocean. Bond destroys his base and blows up the submarines. Shot twice in the groin and twice in the chest by Bond.
James Bond and Moonraker Hugo Drax Fire a nerve agent from space to kill the entire population of earth, then create a new civilisation in space. Bond destroys his space station and, with it, the globes containing the nerve agent. Shot with a poison dart by Bond before being pushed out of an airlock and blown into the vacuum of space.
John Gardner[edit]

Novel
Villain
Objective
Outcome
Fate
Licence Renewed Dr. Anton Murik Hold nuclear power plants hostage in exchange for $50 billion to build a safe reactor. Bond gives the abort order to the henchmen. Shot by Bond with Gyrojet pistol.
For Special Services SPECTRE — Nena Bismaquer (Blofeld) Use Bond to take control of NORAD. Nena's husband, Markus, breaks her hypnotic spell on Bond before the plan succeeds. Crushed by her own pythons.
Icebreaker Count Konrad von Glöda
 (also known as "Aarne Tudeer") Bring back Nazism by wiping out Communists. Bond defeats him with the aid of a Mossad agent and a member of the CIA. Shot by Bond.
Role of Honour Jay Autem Holy Disarm U.S. and Soviet nuclear weaponry through a computerised scheme to create world peace. Bond's "defection" to SPECTRE is actually a ruse, and he ruins them. Shot and killed by Rahani.
Tamil Rahani (SPECTRE) Disarm the U.S. nuclear weaponry to give the USSR an advantage in the Cold War. Escapes.
Nobody Lives for Ever Tamil Rahani (SPECTRE) Put a large bounty on Bond's head to have him assassinated. Bond kills him. Blown up by bed bomb, courtesy of Bond.
No Deals, Mr. Bond General Konstantin Nikolaevich Chernov
 (also known as "Blackfriar") Kill all participants in a defunct espionage operation. Bond saves them. Arrested.
Scorpius Vladimir Scorpius
 (also known as "Father Valentine") Carry out assassinations with a cult of suicide bombers, ultimately kill the U.S. president and British prime minister. The cult is raided and disbanded, and the president and prime minister are saved. Bitten by water moccasins.
Win, Lose or Die BAST–Bassam Baradj Capture aircraft carrier with U.S., U.K., and USSR leaders on board and hold them for ransom. Bond overtakes the ship. Shot by Bond's ally.
Licence to Kill (novelisation) Franz Sanchez Smuggle drugs. Bond destroys the factory. Set on fire by Bond.
Brokenclaw "Brokenclaw" Lee Fu-Chu Sell secret plans for underwater defence system to Red China, and crash the world stock market with a computerised scheme. Chinese agents captured and impersonated by Bond and ally, and their base is blown up. Shot by Bond with bow and arrow.
The Man from Barbarossa General Yevgeny Yuskovich Supply Iraq with nuclear weapons.  
Death is Forever Wolfgang Weisen Assassinate all members of British-American CABAL, and destabilise Western Europe by blowing up train containing several world leaders.  Electrocuted.
Never Send Flowers David Dragonpol Assassinate Princess Diana and her sons at Euro Disney. The Royal Family is prevented from arriving at Euro Disney. Blown up by his own bomb.
SeaFire Sir Maxwell Tarn Start oil spill fire during demonstration with U-boat. Bond destroys the submarine. Burns to death when Bond shoots him with a flare.
GoldenEye adaption Janus-Alec Trevelyan (006) Ruin London's economy. His base is destroyed. Crushed by falling debris.
COLD General Brutus Clay Replace government with Puritan society. Bond discovers his plan and notifies his superiors to bomb the base. Bond shoots him off a boat and he drowns in the water.
Raymond Benson[edit]

Novel
Villain
Objective
Outcome
Fate
"Blast from the Past" (short story) Irma Bunt Kill James Bond by shaving him with a razor soaked in Japanese fish poison and "accidentally" nicking him. Bond is rescued by his girlfriend. Shot by Bond.
Zero Minus Ten Guy Thackeray Destroy Hong Kong with a nuclear bomb. The location of the bomb is discovered, and the bomb is neutralised. Drowned by Bond.
Tomorrow Never Dies (Novelization) Elliot Carver Initiate a war between the United Kingdom and China by destroying Beijing to boost ratings. Bond and Wai-Lin destroy the bomb and Carver's base. Forced into the path of the Sea-Vac drill, controlled by Bond, and killed.
General Chang Stage a coup in China by gathering the government in Beijing before Carver destroys it, allowing him to take over. Bond destroys Carver's base and alerts the Chinese authorities. Arrested.
The Facts of Death Konstantine Romanos Instigate war between Greece and Turkey by firing nuclear missile into Turkey. Killed by fellow Decada member Hera Volopoulos. Killed by Hera.
Hera Volopoulos Release virus onto the world and profit from treatment. Stopped with assistance from Greek military. Blown up, then drowned by Bond.
"Midsummer Night's Doom" (short story) Anton Redenius (a likely reference to Doug Redenius of the Ian Fleming Foundation) Sell Ministry of Defence secrets to Russian mafia. After being identified as the culprit, the microfilm is retrieved by Bond. Arrested.
High Time to Kill Roland Marquis Retrieve Skin 17 microdot from corpse on Kangchenjunga mountain before Bond does and sell it to the Russian mafia. Marquis gives Bond the microdot in exchange for oxygen. Chased by Bond to the mountain's peak and dies of oxygen deprivation.
Le Gérant, The Union Retrieve the microdot and sell it to the Chinese government. Survives.
The World Is Not Enough (Novelization) Elektra King Kill her father to take over his oil business and then destroy Istanbul to monopolise the oil market. Renard's submarine is sunk by Bond. Shot in the chest by Bond.
Victor Zokas/Renard Assassinate Elektra's father and then use a nuclear submarine to blow up İstanbul so that Elektra can take over the oil industry. Bond kills him and sinks the submarine. Impaled by his own plutonium rod shot out of the reactor by Bond.
"Live at Five" (short story) KGB (Natalia's coach) Prevent Russian ice skater Natalia Lustokov's defection to the West. Bond helps the skater defect on live television. The KGB is embarrassed in public.
Doubleshot Domingo Espada Overthrow Gibraltar's government with a series of assassinations, then frame James Bond by using a lookalike as assassin and install Espada as the new governor. Bond kills his double and takes his place, foiling the coup. Shot through cheek by Bond and chokes to death on his own blood.
Le Gérant, The Union Survives.
Never Dream of Dying Le Gérant, The Union Make a political statement about Western decadence by blowing up the Cannes Film Festival with CL-20 explosives. Bond discovers the location of the bomb, prevents remote detonation by telephone call, and informs the authorities. Blown up in an escape helicopter by Bond's grenade launcher.
Goro Yoshida Survives.
The Man with the Red Tattoo Goro Yoshida Release a deadly mutant strain of the West Nile virus via mosquitoes on the Western world. The virus is destroyed. Commits seppuku before he can be captured by Bond.
Die Another Day (Novelization) Colonel Moon/Gustav Graves Smuggle diamonds and use the Icarus satellite to attack South Korea before invading it. Bond dismantles the diamond smuggling operation and the Icarus controls are destroyed. His escape vehicle is driven over a cliff, then his parachute is opened by Bond next to the torn fuselage, sucking him out into the plane engine.
Sebastian Faulks[edit]

Novel
Villain
Objective
Outcome
Fate
Devil May Care Dr. Julius Gorner Import opium into England, and force Bond to pilot an airliner into Soviet territory and bomb it, making it appear to be England's doing. Bond gains control of the airliner and crashes it into a mountainside. Shot by Bond, he jumps into a river to escape, where he is torn apart by a boat's paddles.
Jeffery Deaver[edit]

Novel
Villain
Objective
Outcome
Fate
Carte Blanche Severan Hydt Use a prototype Serbian weapon known as a "Cutter" to destroy a university in York, killing a cancer researcher who could ruin his employer, a pharmaceutical corporation. Bond is able to warn British authorities about the Cutter before it detonates. Shot by an associate, Niall Dunne.
Felicity Willing Uses her position as head of the International Organisation Against Hunger to strategically distribute food aid across northern Africa, giving the government of the Sudan a pretext to go to war with the south. She is tricked into confessing to the scheme by Bond and Bheka Jordaan. Extradited to a secret location after evidence is planted to suggest she was embezzling money from her Chinese backers.
Niall Dunne He assists Hydt in his operation, then betrays and kills him while working for Felicity Willing. Bond captures Felicity and kills Dunne. Shot by Bond and Bheka Jordaan.
Young Bond series[edit]
Charlie Higson[edit]

Novel
Villain
Objective
Outcome
Fate
SilverFin Lord Randolph Hellebore Create a new breed of superhuman soldiers, made from eels and humans, and conquer Europe with an army of his superhuman soldiers. Bond and Hellborne's son destroy his lab. Falls into a lake and is eaten alive by savage eels.
Blood Fever Count Ugo Carnifex Revive the secret society Millenaria and steal priceless works of art. His benefactor floods his palace for his failure. Hit by his seaplane after it is swept away by a wave of water.
Double or Die Irina Sedova "Babushka" Build Russia a new decoder device. Bond destroys the machine. Survives.
Hurricane Gold Mrs. Glass Sell important American documents to the Japanese. She succeeds. Imprisoned.
El Huracán Punish all guests on his island who break his rules. Bond beats his obstacle course and escapes. Spared by Bond.
By Royal Command Dr. Perseus Friend Help the Nazi cause by masterminding the assassination of King George, and get revenge on Bond for destroying his work in Silverfin. Bond saves the king, destroys Friend's operation and forces Sedova to kill Friend. Shot in the face by Colonel Sedova.
Irina Sedova "Babushka" Find and kill Friend after King George is dead. Shot by Bond, but survives because of her bulletproof jacket.
"A Hard Man to Kill" (Short story) Emil Lefebrve Help General Caiboche escape. Succeeds. 
Caiboche Escape from custody. Succeeds. Survives.
Film villains by production[edit]
Eon Productions[edit]

Film
Villain
Portrayed by
Objective
Outcome
Fate
Dr. No Dr. Julius No Joseph Wiseman Sabotage American missile tests by "toppling," using directed radio waves to interfere with a missile's guidance system and send it off course. Bond overloads the nuclear reactor in No's base, causing the toppling device used to sabotage the tests to overload and disable. Lowered into his own reactor coolant and boiled to death. He was unable to escape because of his metal hands.
From Russia With Love Rosa Klebb Lotte Lenya Humiliate MI6 for the death of Dr. Julius No by using Russian agent Tatiana Romanova and a Soviet decoding device as bait to lure Bond into a trap, killing him and leaking compromising photos of Bond and Tatiana to the press before capturing the decoder. Bond acquires the device for MI6 and England, kills their assassin Donald "Red" Grant, and survives Klebb's attempt to kill him. Shot in the chest by Tatiana Romanova.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld Anthony Dawson (body), Eric Pohlmann (voice) Survives (no contact between him and Bond).
Goldfinger Auric Goldfinger Gert Fröbe Detonate an atomic bomb in vault at Fort Knox, irradiating the bullion stored there to make it worthless, thereby increasing the value of his own gold. Goldfinger manages to place the bomb inside the Fort Knox vault, but it is disabled by CIA operatives led there by Bond after discovering Goldfinger's plot. Blown out of a depressurising plane through a shattered window.
Mr Ling Burt Kwouk Provide Goldfinger with the atomic device to gain economic chaos in the west. Shot by Goldfinger.
Thunderball Emilio Largo Adolfo Celi Use stolen nuclear warheads to extort money from NATO. Before the ransom is paid, Bond and the U.S. Coast Guard recover one of the warheads from Largo's men, while the other is sabotaged by Dr. Ladislav Kutze after he changes sides–it is presumed destroyed with the Disco Volante after it crashes into the rocks and explodes. Shot in the back with a harpoon from a speargun by his mistress, Domino.
Fiona Volpe Luciana Paluzzi Bond turns around at her and got shot by her own henchman.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld Anthony Dawson (body), Eric Pohlmann (voice) Survives (no contact between him and Bond).
You Only Live Twice Ernst Stavro Blofeld Donald Pleasence Capture Soviet and United States spacecraft from orbit to provoke war between the superpowers on behalf of an undisclosed Asian country. Bond uses a self-destruct button in Blofeld's lair to destroy the "Bird-1" spacecraft used to capture manned space capsules from orbit. Survives.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service Ernst Stavro Blofeld Telly Savalas Extort the world with viruses that render crops and livestock totally infertile. Bond, with the help of Marc-Ange Draco, destroys the laboratory where the viruses are being developed before they can be released. Survives.
Diamonds Are Forever Ernst Stavro Blofeld Charles Gray Create an industrial laser attached to satellite and magnified by diamonds, which is capable of destroying nuclear targets anywhere on Earth, use it to extort money from nuclear superpowers with supremacy going to the highest bidder. Bond smashes Blofeld's mini-sub against the control room of his lair several times like a wrecking ball, disabling the satellite before dropping the submarine into the ocean. Survives but severely injured as his oil rig blows up
Live and Let Die Dr. Kananga (also called Mr. Big) Yaphet Kotto Distribute world's largest cache of heroin into the United States, free of charge, to drive all the other drug cartels out of business, which will increase the number of addicts, and give Kananga a monopoly on the heroin market. Quarrel Jr. destroys his poppy fields with a series of explosives. Inflates and explodes after Bond forces a compressed-gas capsule down his throat.
The Man with the Golden Gun Francisco Scaramanga Christopher Lee Acquire the Solex Agitator, a vital component for solar power plants, and sell it to the highest bidder, then kill Bond, the one man he considers his equal. Bond retrieves the Agitator for MI6. Shot in the heart by Bond in the Hall of Mirrors when Bond pretends to be a statue of himself.
The Spy Who Loved Me Karl Stromberg Curt Jürgens Destroy the world by using hijacked British and Soviet submarines to fire nuclear missiles on New York and Moscow, provoking the superpowers into a nuclear war, then rebuild civilisation under the sea once the war is over. Bond redirects the missiles' coordinates so that the missile fired by each sub hits the other. Shot four times by Bond.
Moonraker Hugo Drax Michael Lonsdale Destroy all human life on Earth by releasing a nerve agent from a space station, before rebuilding humanity with carefully chosen breeding stock in accordance with his vision. The space station containing the poisonous globes is destroyed by U.S. Marines, and the three globes that are launched are destroyed by Bond and Holly Goodhead before they can release their payload. Shot with poison dart gun and ejected into outer space by Bond.
Jaws Richard Kiel Kill Bond presumably for the death of Karl Stromberg by becoming Hugo Drax's bodyguard. Changes sides Survives
For Your Eyes Only Aristotle Kristatos Julian Glover Acquire ATAC device, which would enable hijacking of British Polaris missiles, and sell it to the Soviet Union, and to misinform Bond into killing Milos Columbo, his former friend turned nemesis. Colombo reveals Kristatos true identity as a KGB spy and his intentions. Bond throws the ATAC device off a cliff and destroys it. Killed with a knife thrown by Milos Columbo.
Villain in a wheelchair (presumably Blofeld) John Hollis (body), Robert Rietty (voice) To kill Bond as revenge by remotely piloting helicopter and making it crash. Bond disconnects the remote control device used to control the helicopter. Dies after Bond regains control of the helicopter and drops him down an industrial chimney.
Octopussy General Orlov Steven Berkoff Detonate a nuclear bomb on a U.S. Army base in West Germany, forcing NATO to withdraw, and allowing the Soviet Union to invade Germany. Bond disarms the bomb. While attempting to jump on Octopussy's circus train, he is shot by three border guards who mistakenly believe him to be defecting.
Kamal Khan Louis Jourdan To aid General Orlov in his plan, for which Orlov pays Khan with jewels stolen from the Moscow Kremlin. The jewels are confiscated by the KGB. Dies when his plane crashes into a mountain.
A View to a Kill Max Zorin Christopher Walken Trigger a massive earthquake that will destroy Silicon Valley to monopolise the microchip market. His former henchwoman and lover, May Day, switches sides and removes a bomb necessary for Zorin's plan to succeed, after which she dies in the explosion, which causes no other damage. Plummets from the top of the Golden Gate Bridge.
The Living Daylights General Georgi Koskov Jeroen Krabbé Mislead MI6 into believing the KGB under General Pushkin has reactivated an assassination program targeting spies. Bond will be assigned to eliminate Pushkin, who is investigating Koskov for embezzlement. With Pushkin dead, Koskov will be free to continue supporting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Bond and Pushkin fake the latter's assassination, fooling Koskov into believing he is free to act. Arrested; presumed to be executed by Pushkin's government offscreen.
Brad Whitaker Joe Don Baker Use Koskov's embezzled KGB funds to buy opium from the Afghan mujahideen, then use the money to cover up the theft and the profits to continue funding the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Bond steals the C-130 Hercules cargo plane carrying the opium, then crashes it, ruining the deal. Bond activates a bomb disguised as a keyring finder from a wolf whistle, dropping a bust of Wellington onto Whitaker, crushing him.
Licence to Kill Franz Sanchez Robert Davi Create an international drug cartel from South America to Asia, smuggling cocaine dissolved in petrol. Bond destroys the drug processing factory, along with the first shipment of merchandise being transported in tanker lorries. Soaked in petrol after his tanker is rammed off the road, he is set on fire by Bond by Bond's cigarette lighter given by Felix and Della Leiter for being their best man at their wedding.
GoldenEye Alec Trevelyan/Janus/006 Sean Bean Take control of the "GoldenEye" satellite weapons, detonating a nuclear device over London as revenge for a perceived betrayal during World War II. The electromagnetic pulse from the weapon will devastate London, covering up the electronic theft of millions of pounds through the Bank of England's computer systems. Natalya Simonova destroys the GoldenEye by sabotaging the ground transmitter, sending the satellite off-course and causing it to burn up on re-entry. Dropped by Bond from radar dish, then crushed by the collapsing radar array.
Xenia Onatopp Famke Janssen Kill Bond so she can satisfy her erotophonophilia. Killed in a one-on-one fight with Bond Her chest is crushed between her harness and a tree when Bond shoots down the helicopter she is attached to.
Tomorrow Never Dies Elliot Carver Jonathan Pryce Provoke a war between the United Kingdom and China by leading a British warship into Chinese territorial waters before sinking it. This would then be followed by a plan to fire a nuclear missile on Beijing to bring about a regime change in China. As a result, Carver will be permitted to expand his media franchise into China for the next century. Bond compromises Carver's stealth boat technology, allowing the British Navy to target and destroy both the boat and the missile still in the cargo bay. Bond forces Carver into the path of a remote-controlled drill the size of a jet engine.
General Chang Philip Kwok Stage a coup in China by supplying Carver with the means to develop a stealth vessel.When China and the United Kingdom declare war on one another, Chang will convene a meeting of China's leadership in Beijing when the missile hits, after which he will take control of the country and broker a cease-fire with the United Kingdom, securing his position as the new leader of China. Bond and Chinese intelligence agent Wai Lin discover the theft of stealth materials and Chang's role in the scheme and alert Beijing. Arrested
The World Is Not Enough Elektra King Sophie Marceau Kill her father to seize his oil business, which she sees as rightfully hers and later monopolise the oil market with the help of Renard's attack. Succeeds in killing her father, but is killed by Bond before Renard's plan can be fulfilled. Shot by Bond.
Renard/Viktor Zokas Robert Carlyle Destroy İstanbul by detonating a nuclear submarine in the Bosphorus, allowing Elektra to monopolise the oil market. Bond prevents him from triggering a meltdown of the reactor core by flooding the submarine, then blowing it up before Renard can fulfil his plan. Impaled by a plutonium rod shot out of the sub's core at high speed by Bond.
Die Another Day Colonel Tan-Sun Moon (Disguised as Gustav Graves) Will Yun Lee (Toby Stephens) Invade South Korea with the help of "Icarus," an orbital weapons platform that fires a concentrated burst of the sun's energy. Icarus is rendered harmless when Bond destroys the control device. Bond pulls the cord on his parachute, sucking him (and the control device) into a plane engine.
Miranda Frost Rosamund Pike MI6 double-agent who also works for Graves. Betrays Bond during a mission by alerting Graves (as his alter ego Colonel Moon) when Bond arrives in North Korea. Lured Bond into having sex with her, after which she sabotaged his Walther P99's magazine. After Bond confronted Graves, she attempted to kill him, but he escaped by using his sonar impulse ring. Stabbed in the heart with a dagger by Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson during a sword fight in Graves' cargo plane.
Casino Royale Le Chiffre Mads Mikkelsen He plans to make his clients, a guerrilla group, wealthy by shorting airline stocks and then destroying a prototype jetliner. He later attempts to regain his clients' lost money by playing in, and winning, a Texas Hold 'em tournament. Bond prevents the terrorist plot from being carried out by killing the bomber before he can destroy the jetliner, after which he bankrupts Le Chiffre in an attempt to convince him to surrender to MI6 custody. Shot in the head by Mr. White.
Mr. White Jesper Christensen Regain money lost by Le Chiffre and protect the integrity of his organisation. Succeeds, but is captured by Bond. Shot in the left knee and captured by Bond, but survives.
Quantum of Solace Dominic Greene Mathieu Amalric Create a drought by damming aquifers in Bolivia, then staging a coup d'état and selling water supplies back to the new government at grossly-inflated prices. Bond intercepts Greene before he can carry out the coup. Abandoned by Bond in the middle of the Atacama Desert, and later found dead (offscreen) with two bullets in the back of his head.
General Medrano Joaquin Cosio Become president of Bolivia with the support of Dominic Greene and the Quantum organisation. Shot and killed by Camille Montes, thereby preventing Greene from being able to carry out his coup.
Mr. White Jesper Christensen Escape from MI6 custody. Succeeds. Remains at large.
Skyfall Raoul Silva
 (born Tiago Rodriguez) Javier Bardem Humiliate M in front of the government by causing a scandal that damages MI6 and forces her resignation, then kill her as revenge for betraying him when he worked for the Secret Service. He indirectly succeeds: M is mortally wounded when Silva's forces attack her, but Silva himself is killed before she dies. Bond throws a hunting knife into his back.
Patrice Ola Rapace Kill MI6 agents in Istanbul to retrieve a hard drive containing agents embedded in terrorist organizations, and assassinate a man in Shanghai. Succeeds, but kills himself in a fight with Bond. Commits suicide by letting go of Bond's hand over a skyscraper.
Non-Eon works[edit]

Film
Villain
Portrayed by
Objective
Outcome
Fate
Casino Royale (1954 TV episode) Le Chiffre Peter Lorre Escape bankruptcy with baccarat game. Loses to Bond. Shot by a SMERSH agent.
Casino Royale (1967 film) Dr. Noah/Jimmy Bond Woody Allen Use biological warfare to make all women beautiful, then wipe out all men bigger than him to make him get the girls. Poisoned by The Detainer with his own atomic pill. Blown up by pill.
Le Chiffre Orson Welles Recover embezzled SMERSH funds in baccarat game. Loses game to Evelyn Tremble. Shot by SMERSH agents.
Never Say Never Again Maximillian Largo Klaus Maria Brandauer Hold world powers for ransom with nuclear weapons. The weapons are retrieved by Bond. Shot in the back with harpoon by Domino.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld Max von Sydow Survives. No contact with Bond.
Video game villains[edit]
Following is a list of original main villains in James Bond computer and video games.

Game
Villain
Portrayed by
Objective
Outcome
Fate
GoldenEye 007 Alec Trevelyan Sean Bean Use Goldeneye to rob and destroy London. Bond destroys Goldeneye's controls. Falls to his death after Bond shoots him.
Tomorrow Never Dies Elliot Carver Andrew Burt Fire a nuclear missile at Beijing, eliminating the current Chinese government in favour of politicians who will grant him exclusive broadcasting rights in China. Bond aborts the missile launch. Shot and killed by Bond.
James Bond 007 General Golgov N/A Use a nuclear holocaust to emerge as the ruler of the world. Bond destroys Golgov's robot with a bazooka. Dies in the explosion.
The World is Not Enough Elektra King Sophie Marceau Kill her father to take over his oil business, and then destroy İstanbul in a nuclear explosion to monopolise the oil market. Succeeds in killing her father; however, Bond escapes captivity at Maiden's Tower and boards the nuclear submarine. Shot and killed by Bond.
Renard Robert Carlyle Overload the reactor of a nuclear submarine to generate a nuclear explosion, destroying İstanbul and increasing the value of Elektra's oil. Bond stops Renard from blowing up the nuclear submarine. Impaled by a plutonium rod shot out of the sub's core at high speed by Bond.
007 Racing Dr. Hammond Litte Tim Bentinck Smuggle stolen NATO warheads to terrorists via his automobile line, then later commit genocide using a deadly virus. His smuggling operation is dissolved by Bond, and the plane carrying the virus is destroyed. Presumably killed when Bond blows up his plane.
Agent Under Fire Adrian Malprave Eve Karpf Kidnap the World Trade Leaders, create clones, kill the G8, then force the clones to give her control of the world. Bond destroys her cloning lab and kills the clones. Dies when headquarters explodes.
Nightfire Rafael Drake Michael Ensign Destroy NATO forces in a massive air strike from space. Bond disables the missiles' targeting systems, sending them off course. Shot with a laser by Bond.
Everything or Nothing Nikolai Diavolo Willem Dafoe Take over Russia and the world by using a metal-eating nanobot army, then get revenge on Bond for the death of his mentor Max Zorin. Bond destroys the nanobots. Falls into a missile silo after Bond shoots Diavolo's control tower with a rocket launcher.
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent Auric Goldfinger Gert Fröbe (likeness) Enn Reitel (voice). Use the OMEN virus to take over the world. Goldeneye uses the virus against Goldfinger's forces. Destroyed by OMEN virus set off by Goldeneye.
Dr. Julius No Joseph Wiseman (likeness) Carlos Alazraqui (voice). Electrocuted in his own reactor.
Number 1 Donald Pleasence (likeness) Gideon Emery (voice). Manipulate Goldeneye into killing off his two liabilites, Dr. No and Goldfinger. Succeeds. Survives, no contact with Goldeneye.
From Russia with Love Rosa Klebb Lotte Lenya (likeness) Karly Rothenberg (voice) Kill Bond and obtain the Lektor. Bond survives and gets the Lektor to MI6. Shot in the chest by Tatiana Romanova.
Red Grant Robert Shaw (likeness) Brian McCole (voice) Bond shoots him with a Wright Magnum. OCTOPUS is believed to have fallen apart afterwards.
Quantum of Solace Dominic Greene Mathieu Amalric Stage a coup d'état in Bolivia, to gain control of a piece of land rich in resources. Camille kills General Medrano (Greene's associate who will execute the plan), and Bill Tanner, using hacking, bankrupts Greene, nullifying all of his efforts. Killed in the gunfight by Bond.
GoldenEye 007 (2010 Remake) Alec Trevelyan Elliot Cowan Use Goldeneye to rob and destroy London. Bond destroys Goldeneye's controls. Falls to his death after Bond shoots him.
Blood Stone Stefan Pomerov Laurentio Passa Weaponise an antidote for smallpox and anthrax then release it upon the world. Bond blows up his factory, then prevents his plane from releasing the toxin. Blown out of his plane after Bond shoots the door open.
Rak James Goode Aid in the kidnaping of scientists and sell their research. Killed by Bond. Shot by Bond, causing him to fire a rocket at the plane on which he is standing, causing it to explode with him on it.
Nicole Hunter Joss Stone Organise the kidnapping of scientists. Bond discovers her connection with the kidnapping plot. Shot by an unmanned drone controlled by her "boss".
007: Legends Auric Goldfinger Gert Fröbe (likeness) Timothy Watson (voice) Irradiate the gold supply of Fort Knox with a bomb. The bomb is disabled. Blown out of plane window.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld Glenn Wrage Blackmail the UN with the threat of a deadly virus that will wipe out all livestock and cereals. The base is destroyed by Bond. Thrown out of cable car by Bond and presumed dead.
Franz Sanchez Robert Davi (likeness) Rob David (voice) Smuggle drugs. The shipment is attacked by Bond. Set on fire by Bond and burns to death.
Gustav Graves Toby Stephens Invade South Korea using the Icarus. Icarus is disabled. Sucked into plane engine.
Hugo Drax Michael Lonsdale Kill the entire human race, then rebuild in outer space. The space station is destroyed by Bond. Blown out of airlock and suffocated.
Patrice Ola Rapace Kill MI6 agents in İstanbul, and assassinate a man in Shanghai. Succeeds, but is killed by Bond. Dropped off of a skyscraper by Bond.
Villainous organisations[edit]
##SMERSH — SMiERt SHpionam, "Death to Spies," Bond's original nemesis in the novels, though only briefly mentioned in the films (apparently disbanded 20 years before the events of The Living Daylights). The Soviet agency is in charge of assassination, loosely based on the real-life SMERSH.
##SPECTRE — Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, first appeared in the novel Thunderball and replaced SMERSH as Bond's nemesis in the films. The independent terrorist organisation is headed by Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
##The Spangled Mob – Bond's enemy in the novel Diamonds Are Forever, which also appears in Goldfinger and The Man with the Golden Gun. The mob is an American Mafia family based in Las Vegas.
##Drax Metals – Hugo Drax's company.
##Stromberg Shipping Line – Karl Stromberg's organisation.
##Entreprises Auric A.G. — Auric Goldfinger's organisation.
##KGB — Soviet intelligence agency.
##Janus Syndicate – Alec Trevelyan's vehemently anti-British terrorist organisation in the Bond film GoldenEye.
##CMGN - Carver Media Group Network, Elliot Carver's self-made media empire.
##The Scales of Justice – a movement in John Gardner's The Man from Barbarossa.
##Yakuza — Japanese crime gang in the novel The Man with the Red Tattoo.
##COLD – The Children of Last Days, a terrorist organisation that Bond faces in the novel COLD.
##The Union — a villainous organisation in Raymond Benson's novels High Time to Kill, Doubleshot, and Never Dream of Dying.
##OCTOPUS – Replaces SPECTRE in the video game From Russia with Love for copyright reasons.
##BAST – Brotherhood of Anarchy and Secret Terrorism, featured in the novel Win, Lose or Die.
##Quantum – a shadowy criminal organisation seen in Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace.[1] The organisation is strictly apolitical—but with considerable political influence of their own—and will deal with anyone whose interests converge with their own. Known members of the organisation include an extensive network of current and former politicians, business people and intelligence agents. One of their leading members, Dominic Greene, leads a cover organisation called Greene Planet.[2]
##SCUM – Stands for "Saboteurs and Criminals United in Mayhem," the main villainous organisation in the James Bond Jr. series.
Henchmen[edit]
Main article: List of James Bond henchmen
See also[edit]
##Outline of James Bond
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Seeking Solace on the Bond set". USA Today. 3 April 2008. Retrieved 4 April 2008.
2.Jump up ^ Olly Richards (24 January 2008). "Bond 22 Plot Details". Empire. Retrieved 26 January 2008.


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The James Bond novels and films are notable for their memorable villains and henchmen. Each Bond villain has numerous henchmen to do their bidding.
In particular, there is usually a privileged member who is a formidable physical threat to Bond and must be defeated by Bond to get the employer, from simply adept and tough fighters like Red Grant to ones whose physical characteristics are seemingly superhuman like Jaws.


Contents  [hide]
1 Eon Productions henchmen 1.1 Sean Connery era (1962–67, 1971) 1.1.1 Dr. No
1.1.2 From Russia with Love
1.1.3 Goldfinger
1.1.4 Thunderball
1.1.5 You Only Live Twice
1.1.6 Diamonds Are Forever
1.2 George Lazenby era (1969) 1.2.1 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1.3 Roger Moore era (1973–85) 1.3.1 Live and Let Die
1.3.2 The Man with the Golden Gun
1.3.3 The Spy Who Loved Me
1.3.4 Moonraker
1.3.5 For Your Eyes Only
1.3.6 Octopussy
1.3.7 A View to a Kill
1.4 Timothy Dalton era (1987–89) 1.4.1 The Living Daylights
1.4.2 Licence to Kill
1.5 Pierce Brosnan era (1995–2002) 1.5.1 GoldenEye
1.5.2 Tomorrow Never Dies
1.5.3 The World Is Not Enough
1.5.4 Die Another Day
1.6 Daniel Craig era (2006-present) 1.6.1 Casino Royale
1.6.2 Quantum of Solace
1.6.3 Skyfall

2 Non-Eon henchmen 2.1 Casino Royale (1953 TV special)
2.2 A Spy's Holiday (1964 short film)
2.3 Casino Royale (1967)
2.4 Never Say Never Again
3 Novel henchmen 3.1 Casino Royale
3.2 Live and Let Die
3.3 Moonraker
3.4 Diamonds Are Forever
4 Video game henchmen 4.1 007: Agent Under Fire
4.2 007: Nightfire
4.3 007: Everything or Nothing
4.4 GoldenEye: Rogue Agent
4.5 007: From Russia with Love
4.6 James Bond 007: Blood Stone
5 See also
6 References

Eon Productions henchmen[edit]
Sean Connery era (1962–67, 1971)[edit]
Dr. No[edit]
Miss Taro (Zena Marshall)—Arrested
Professor R. J. Dent (Anthony Dawson)—Shot by Bond
Annabel Chung (Marguerite LeWars)—Survives
Mr. Jones (Reginald Carter)—Poisons self with cyanide capsule
Three Blind Mice (Eric Coverly, Charles Edghill and Henry Lopez)—Die in car crash
Sister Lily (Yvonne Shima)—Dies When Headquarters Blows up
Sister Rose (Michel Mok)—Dies when Headquarters Blows up
From Russia with Love[edit]
Donald "Red" Grant (Robert Shaw)—Garroted by Bond
Kronsteen (Vladek Sheybal)—Stabbed by Morzeny
Morzeny (Walter Gotell)—Incinerated by Bond (Gotell played General Gogol in later Bond films.)
Krilencu (Fred Haggerty)—Shot by Kerim Bey
Red Grant's Masseuse (Jan Williams)—Unknown
Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi)—Changes sides; survives.
Goldfinger[edit]
Bonita (Nadja Regin)—Unknown
Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton)—Suffocated by gold paint
Capungo (Alf Joint)—Electrocuted by Bond
Jack Strap (Hal Galili)—Gassed by Goldfinger
Kisch (Michael Mellinger)—Thrown over rail by Oddjob
Martin Solo (Martin Benson)—Shot by Oddjob and his corpse disposed of in a scrap metal compactor
Mei-Lei (Mai Ling)—Unknown
Midnight (Bill Nagy)—Gassed by Goldfinger
Oddjob (Harold Sakata)—Electrocuted by Bond
Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman)—Changes sides; survives
Pussy Galore's Flying Circus Pilots (Caron Gardiner, Lesley Hill & Aleta Morrison)—Unknown
Thunderball[edit]
Fiona Volpe (Luciana Paluzzi)—Shot by her own henchman
Vargas (Philip Locke)—Harpooned by Bond
Count Lippe (Guy Doleman)—Blown up by Fiona
Colonel Jacques Bouvar (Rose Alba and Bob Simmons)—Strangled with fireplace poker by Bond
Dr. Ladislav Kutze (George Pravda)—Unknown; changes sides by helping Domino to escape and renders the atomic bomb on board the Disco Volante useless
Angelo Palazzi (Paul Stassino)—Drowns, courtesy of Largo
Quist (Bill Cummings)—Fed to sharks by Largo
SPECTRE Agent No. 9 (Clive Cazes)—Electrocuted by Blofeld after being found guilty of embezzlement
SPECTRE Agent No. 11 (Cecil Cheng)—Survives
Janni (Michael Brennan)—Dies when the Disco Volante crashes
You Only Live Twice[edit]
Mr. Osato (Teru Shimada)—Shot by Blofeld
Helga Brandt (Karin Dor)—Fed to piranhas by Blofeld
Hans (Ronald Rich)—Fed to piranhas by Bond
Bedroom Assassin (David Toguri)—Shot by Bond
SPECTRE Agent No. 3 (Burt Kwouk)—Killed through unknown means
SPECTRE Agent No. 4 (Michael Chow)—Unknown
Diamonds Are Forever[edit]
Mr. Wint (Bruce Glover)—Blown up
Mr. Kidd (Putter Smith)—Set ablaze
Shady Tree (Leonard Barr)—Shot by Wint and Kidd
Peter Franks (Joe Robinson)—Thrown over banister by Bond
Tiffany Case (Jill St. John)—Change sides, survives
Bert Saxby (Bruce Cabot)—Shot by CIA agents
Bambi (Lola Larson)—Arrested
Thumper (Trina Parks)—Arrested
Morton Slumber (David Bauer)—Unknown
Prof. Dr. Metz (Joseph Furst)—Unknown
Mrs. Whistler (Margaret Lacey)—Drowned by Wint and Kidd
Marie (Denise Perrier)—Survives
Blofeld Double #1—boiled alive in a pit of super-heated mud by Bond
Blofeld Double #2—shot in the head with a piton gun by Bond
Blofeld Double #3 (Max Latimer)—drowned in mud bath by Bond
Rodney "Fingers" McGraw-Boss of the Spangled Mob (Marc Lawrence)—Unknown, could possibly be the same character who gets shot in the forehead by Francisco Scaramanga in the pre-title sequence of The Man with the Golden Gun
Man in Fez (Frank Olegario)— Survives
Blofeld's Plastic Surgeons (David de Keyser, Gerald Paris, Charles Rayford and Anthony Snell)—Survive
Casino Croupier (Vincent Wong)—Survives
Slumber Inc. Attendants (Sid Haig and Michael Valente)—Survive
George Lazenby era (1969)[edit]
On Her Majesty's Secret Service[edit]
Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat)—Survives
Gumbold (James Bree)—Survives
Grunther (Yuri Borienko)—Impaled on spike bed by Tracy
Ruby Bartlett (Angela Scoular)—Survives
Nancy (Catherina von Schell)—Survives
Helen (Julie Ege)—Survives
Blofeld's Angels of Death—Survives
SPECTRE Skier (George Leech)—Strangled then thrown off cliff by Bond
Roger Moore era (1973–85)[edit]
Live and Let Die[edit]
Tee Hee (Julius W. Harris)—Thrown out train window by Bond
Whisper (Earl Jolly Brown)—Unknown, last seen trapped in an airtight container
Baron Samedi (Geoffrey Holder)—First shot, then thrown into a coffin full of venomous snakes by Bond; later revealed to have survived
Adam (Tommy Lane)—Blown up in boat crash by Bond
Cab Driver (Arnold Williams)—Unknown
Rosie Carver (Gloria Hendry)—Shot by gun hidden in mouth of Kananga's scarecrows
Sales Girl (Kubi Chaza)—Survives
Dambala (Michael Ebbin)—Shot by Bond
Casual Assassin (Alvin Alcorn)—Unknown
Solitaire (Jane Seymour)— Changes sides, survives
Singer (Brenda Arnau)—Survives
Grieving woman (Sylvia Kuumba Williams)—Unknown
The Man with the Golden Gun[edit]
Nick Nack (Hervé Villechaize)—Arrested
Hai Fat (Richard Loo)—Shot by Scaramanga
Andrea Anders (Maud Adams)—Changes sides; shot by Scaramanga
Kra (Sonny Caldinez)—Knocked into a liquid helium vat by Mary Goodnight
Chula (Chan Yiu Lam)—Survives
Lazar (Marne Maitland)—Survives
The Spy Who Loved Me[edit]
Jaws (Richard Kiel)—Survives
Naomi (Caroline Munro)—Dies when helicopter is shot down by Bond
Sandor (Milton Reid)—Thrown off roof by Bond
Log Cabin Girl (Sue Vanner)—Survives
Felicca (Olga Bisera)—Shot by Sandor
Sergei Barsov (Michael Billington)—Shot with ski-pole gun by Bond
Fekkesh (Nadim Sawalha)—Bitten by Jaws
Max Kalba (Vernon Dobtcheff)—Bitten by Jaws
Stromberg's Assistant (Marilyn Galsworthy)—Dies when Stromberg drops her into a shark tank and is eaten
Dr. Bechmann (Cyril Shaps)—Dies when Stromberg blows up helicopter with him in it
Prof. Markovitz (Milo Sperber)—Dies when Stromberg blows up helicopter with him in it
Liparus Captain (Sidney Tafler)—Killed in explosion
Moonraker[edit]
Apollo Jet Pilot (Jean-Pierre Castaldi) - Parachute removed by Bond, falls to his death
Apollo Jet Hostess (Leila Shenna)—Unknown, possibly dies when plane crashes
Jaws (Richard Kiel)—Changes sides and survives
Chang (Toshiro Suga)—Thrown through clock face into piano by Bond
Lady Victoria Devon (Francoise Gayat)—Deceased; Unknown
Countess Labinsky (Catherine Serre)—Lasered by Goodhead
La Signorina del Mateo (Chichinou Kaeppler)—Lasered by MI6 agents
Mademoiselle Deladier (Beatrice Libert)—Dies when Space Station blows up
Blonde Beauty (Irka Bonchenco)—dies when Space station blows up
Drax's Girl (Niciase Jean Louis)—Dies when Space Station blows up
Tree assassin (Guy Delorme)—Killed by Bond with a "missed" shot while pheasant hunting
Corinne Dufour (Corinne Clery)—Eaten by dogs
For Your Eyes Only[edit]
Erich Kriegler (John Wyman)—Thrown through window and off a cliff by Bond
Emile Leopold Locque (Michael Gothard)—Shot in shoulder and kicked off cliff in car by Bond
Hector Gonzales (Stefan Kalipha)—Shot with crossbow by Melina
Apostis (Jack Klaff)—Knocked off cliff by Bond
Claus (Charles Dance)—Harpooned by Columbo's men
Lisl von Schlaf (Cassandra Harris)—Ran over by Locque.
Octopussy[edit]
Magda (Kristina Wayborn)—Changes sides; Survives
Gobinda (Kabir Bedi)—Knocked off plane by Bond
Mischka (David Meyer)—Bludgeoned with cannon by Bond
Grischka (Anthony Meyer)—Stabbed by Bond
Lenkin (Peter Porteous)—Arrested by the KGB
Hired thugs (William Derrick, R.J. Bell, and Ravinder Singh Reyett)—One killed by octopus (either poisoned or suffocated); one shot in neck by (possibly poisoned) dart; one eaten by crocodile
Colonel Toro (Ken Norris)—Killed in explosion
A View to a Kill[edit]
May Day (Grace Jones)—Changes sides; dies when bomb explodes
Scarpine (Patrick Bauchau)—Dies when bomb explodes
Dr. Carl Mortner (Willoughby Gray)—Dies when bomb explodes
Jenny Flex (Alison Doody)—Drowns
Pan Ho (Papillon Soo Soo)—Drowns
Bob Conley (Manning Redwood)—Drowns
W.G. Howe (Daniel Benzali)—Shot by Zorin
Timothy Dalton era (1987–89)[edit]
The Living Daylights[edit]
Kara Milovy (Maryam D'Abo)—Changes sides; Survives
Colonel Feyador (John Bowe)—Killed by grenade
Imposter 00 (Carl Rigg)—Killed in exploding car
Necros (Andreas Wisniewski)—Falls from rear of a cargo plane whilst having a mid-air fight on a dangling cargo net with Bond
Sergeant Stagg (Derek Hoxby)—Shot by Pushkin
Licence to Kill[edit]
Dario (Benicio del Toro)—Shot in shoulder by Pam, thrown into pulveriser by Bond
Milton Krest (Anthony Zerbe)—Exploded in a hyperbaric chamber by Sanchez, after being framed by Bond
Ed Killifer (Everett McGill)—Fed to sharks by Bond
Colonel Heller (Don Stroud)—Impaled on forklift by Braun on Sanchez' orders
Truman-Lodge (Anthony Starke)—Shot by Sanchez
Prof. Joe Butcher (Wayne Newton)—Survives
Braun (Guy De Saint Cyr)—Falls off cliff in burning truck
Hector Lopez (Pedro Armendáriz Jr.)—Ends up with Lupe
Perez (Alejandro Bracho)—Falls off cliff in burning truck
Clive (Eddie Edenfield)—Harpooned by Bond
Lupe Lamora (Talisa Soto)—Changes sides; Survives
Pierce Brosnan era (1995–2002)[edit]
GoldenEye[edit]
Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen)—Crushed by safety harness
General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov (Gottfried John)—Shot by Bond
Boris Grishenko (Alan Cumming)—Frozen by liquid nitrogen
Tomorrow Never Dies[edit]
Mr. Stamper (Götz Otto)—Blown up
Henry Gupta (Ricky Jay)—Shot by Carver
Dr. Kaufman (Vincent Schiavelli)—Shot by Bond
General Chang (Philip Kwok)—Unknown
Captain Scott (Mark Spalding)—Shot by Bond
The World Is Not Enough[edit]
Gabor (John Seru)—Shot by Bond
Sasha Davidov (Ulrich Thomsen)—Shot by Bond
Mr. Bullion (Goldie)—Shot by Zukovsky
Dr. Mikhail Arkov (Jeff Nuttall)—Shot by Renard's henchman
Giulietta da Vinci (Cigar Girl) (Maria Grazia Cucinotta)—Blows self up
Lachaise (Patrick Malahide)—Knifed in the back of the neck by Cigar Girl
Die Another Day[edit]
Zao (Rick Yune)—Impaled by falling chandelier
Mr. Kil (Lawrence Makoare)—Lasered by Jinx
Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike)—Stabbed by Jinx
Vladimir Popov (Mikhail Gorevoy)—Sucked out of broken plane window
Dr. Alvarez (Simon Andreu)—Shot by Jinx
Daniel Craig era (2006-present)[edit]
Casino Royale[edit]
Alex Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian)—Stabbed by Bond
Kratt (Clemens Schick)—Killed offscreen by Mr. White
Valenka (Ivana Miličević)—Killed offscreen by Mr. White
Mollaka (Sébastien Foucan)—Shot by Bond
Carlos (Claudio Santamaria)—Blown up by Bond
Adolph Gettler (Richard Sammel)—Shot with nail gun by Bond
Steven Obanno (Isaach De Bankolé)—Strangled by Bond
Leo (Emmanuel Avena)—Arrested
Dryden (Malcolm Sinclair)—Shot by Bond
Fisher (Daud Shah)—Drowned, then shot by Bond
Tall Man (Leos Stransky)—Crushed by elevator
Obanno's Lieutenant (Michael Offei)—Thrown off stairwell by Bond
Vesper Lynd (Eva Green)—Drowned
Quantum of Solace[edit]
Elvis (Anatole Taubman[1])—Incinerated
General Medrano (Joaquin Cosío[2])—Shot by Camille
Edmund Slate (Neil Jackson)—Stabbed in neck with scissors by Bond
Gregory Beam (David Harbour)—Fired from CIA
Yusef Kabira (Simon Kassianides)—Arrested by MI6
Craig Mitchell (Glenn Foster)—Shot by Bond
Guy Haines (Paul Ritter)—Survives
Gregor Karakov (Gustavo Nanez)—Survives
Moishe Soref (Tsedor Gyalzur)—Survives
Gift Bag Man (Christian Heller)—Knocked unconscious by Bond
Greene's Driver (Carl Von Malaise)—Shot by Bond
Carlos (Fernando Guillen Cuervo)—Shot by Bond
Mr. White's girlfriend (Elizabeth Arciniega)—Unknown
Skyfall[edit]
Patrice (Ola Rapace)—Falls from a skyscraper in Shanghai
Sévérine (Bérénice Marlohe)—Shot by Silva
Sévérine's Bodyguard (Tank Dong)—Attacked and eaten by Komodo Dragons
Sévérine's Bodyguard (Roger Yuan)—Knocked unconscious by Eve
Sévérine's Bodyguard (Liang Yang)—Knocked unconscious by Bond
Silva's mercenary (Jens Hultén)—Drowned by Bond in a frozen lake
Silva's mercenary (Adebayo Bolaji)—Shot by Bond
Boat Captain (Milorad Kapor)—Shot by Bond
Non-Eon henchmen[edit]
Casino Royale (1953 TV special)[edit]
Basil (Gene Roth)—Shot by Bond
Zoltan (Kurt Katch)—Survives
Drive-by assassin (Unknown actor)—Survives
A Spy's Holiday (1964 short film)[edit]
Disguised assassin waiter (Leslie Crawford)— Punched off balcony by Bond
Casino Royale (1967)[edit]
Agent Mimi (Deborah Kerr)—Switched sides; became a nun who gives Bond information; survives
Vesper Lynd (Ursula Andress)—Presumed killed in ending atomic explosion
Miss Goodthighs (Jacqueline Bisset)—Killed by Vesper
Frau Hoffner (Anna Quayle)—Shot by deceased WWI soldier
Polo (Ronnie Corbett)—Short-circuited by Mata Bond
Le Chiffre's Representative (Vladek Sheybal)—Blown up in telephone booth by Le Chiffre
Casino Clerk (Actor Unknown)—Shot by Bond and Vesper
Never Say Never Again[edit]
Fatima Blush (Barbara Carrera)—Blown up by pen bomb gun used by Bond
Lippe (Pat Roach)—Killed by Bond in fight at health clinic, in which he is impaled on broken beakers
Kovacs (Milow Kirek)
Novel henchmen[edit]
Casino Royale[edit]
Vesper Lynd—Commits suicide
Basil
Kratt
Live and Let Die[edit]
The Whisper
Tee-Hee Johnson
Solitaire—Unknown
MoThing
Sam Miami
The Flannel
The Robber
Blabbermouth Foley
Moonraker[edit]
Krebs
Dr. Walter
Diamonds Are Forever[edit]
Tiffany Case
Video game henchmen[edit]
007: Agent Under Fire[edit]
Main article: 007: Agent Under Fire
Nigel Bloch (J. B. Blanc, voice)—Shot with rocket launcher by Bond
Carla the Jackal (Roxana Orteg, voice)—Knocked into fan by Bond
Reginald Griffin's clone (Michael Ensign, voice)—Unknown
007: Nightfire[edit]
Main article: James Bond 007: Nightfire
Armitage Rook (Richard Whiten, voice)—Knocked into fan by Bond (PC version)/shot by Bond (console version)
Makiko "Kiko" Hayashi (Tamlyn Tomita, voice)—Incinerated by Bond in missile silo
007: Everything or Nothing[edit]
Main article: James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
Katya Nadanova (Heidi Klum)—Blown up by Bond, dies in plane crash
Jean Le Rouge (Marc Graue)—Shot by Bond
Jaws—likeness (Richard Kiel)—Unknown
Arkady Yayakov—Crushed by sphere
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent[edit]
Main article: GoldenEye: Rogue Agent
Oddjob—Thrown over rail by GoldenEye
Pussy Galore—Survives
Xenia Onatopp—Thrown off Hoover Dam by GoldenEye
Francisco Scaramanga—Survives
007: From Russia with Love[edit]
Main article: 007: From Russia with Love
Eva (Maria Menounos)—Dies when plane crashes into door in OCTOPUS base
OCTOPUS Commando Team—Leader shot down from jet-pack by Bond; Assassin shot by Bond; Bearded Assassin crashed into Big Ben
James Bond 007: Blood Stone[edit]
Main article: James Bond 007: Blood Stone
Greco (Luis Soto, voice)—Unknown
Bernin (Ramon Tikaram, voice)—Falls to his death after Bond kicks him off a ledge
See also[edit]
List of James Bond villains
Outline of James Bond
Novel Villains and henchmen
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Anatole Taubman Is Bond 22 Henchman". MI6.co.uk. 2007-12-11. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
2.Jump up ^ "Mexican actor Joaquin Cosío joins the ranks of Bond 22 villains, Bolivia confirmed as location". MI6.co.uk. 2007-12-18. Retrieved 2007-12-20.


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