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Fiona Volpe (Thunderball) – accidentally shot dead by her henchmen as they try to kill Bond. Number 9 (Thunderball) – electrocuted by Blofeld for embezzling from Spectre. Number 11 (Thunderball) – at large. Count Lippe (Thunderball) – killed by Volpe on Blofeld's orders. Angelo Palazzi (Thunderball) – killed by Largo on Blofeld's orders.
Thunderball is a 1965 spy film and the fourth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.It is an adaptation of the 1961 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham devised from a story conceived by Kevin McClory, Whittingham, and Fleming.
Ian Fleming includes information about Blofeld's background in his novel Thunderball.According to the novel, Blofeld was born on 28 May 1908 (which is also Fleming's birthdate) in Gdingen, Imperial Germany (now Gdynia, Poland); his father Ernst George Blofeld was Polish of German descent, and his mother Maria Stavro Michelopoulos was Greek, hence his Greek middle name Stavro. [1]
Thunderball (1965) Once again, Spectre gets its hands on a nuclear warhead. ... The second Bond film and the first appearance of Spectre (The Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism ...
He is based on the character Emilio Largo in Thunderball; Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE. Barbara Carrera as Fatima Blush; SPECTRE Number 12, assigned to hunt down and kill Bond. She is based on Fiona Volpe in Thunderball. Kim Basinger as Domino Petachi, sister of Jack Petachi and girlfriend/mistress of Maximillian ...
Thunderball: Ian Fleming [nb 1] Jonathan Cape: 27 March 1961: 253 pp: An international, non-aligned terrorist organisation, SPECTRE, has hijacked a NATO plane and seized its two nuclear bombs, which it uses to blackmail the western world. Bond is sent to the Bahamas, where he joins forces with Felix Leiter.
Spectre is a 2015 spy film and the twenty-fourth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions.Directed by Sam Mendes and written by John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Jez Butterworth from a story conceived by Logan, Purvis, and Wade, it stars Daniel Craig as Bond, alongside Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Dave Bautista, Monica Bellucci, and Ralph Fiennes.
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 .