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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]
Bond realises that Shatterhand is Ernst Stavro Blofeld—the man responsible for Tracy's death—and sets out on a revenge mission to kill him and his wife, Irma Bunt. The novel is the concluding chapter of the "Blofeld Trilogy", which had begun in 1961 with Thunderball.
Charles Gray (born Donald Marshall Gray; 29 August 1928 – 7 March 2000) was an English actor and voice artist. [1] Appearing in around 140 films and TV series, he was best known as the arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever; [2] Dikko Henderson in a previous Bond film, You Only Live Twice; [3] Sherlock Holmes's brother Mycroft Holmes in The Adventures ...
The story has Bond impersonating a diamond smuggler to infiltrate a smuggling ring and uncovering a plot by his old enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld to use the diamonds to build a space-based laser weapon. Bond has to stop the smuggling and Blofeld destroying Washington D.C. and blackmailing the world with nuclear supremacy.
Donald Pleasence soars as the ultimate Ernst Stavro Blofeld (a villainous role that many actors would try on for size, none of whom would fill it out with such bespoke perfection); his slow-tease ...
Ernst Stavro Blofeld: Donald Pleasence: Trigger a war between the United States and Soviet Union, on the behalf of China, by capturing their space capsules midflight. Bond uses a self-destruct button in Blofeld's lair to destroy the Bird One spacecraft. Survives, although wounded. On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Ernst Stavro Blofeld: Telly Savalas
Young also cast him as the physical presence of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in his Bond films From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965), stroking the ubiquitous white cat. [9] His face was never seen, however, and Blofeld's voice was provided by Eric Pohlmann . [ 10 ]
Oberhauser himself greets them and explains that, after killing his father, Hannes, and faking his own death, he reinvented himself as terrorist mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and that he has been working with Denbigh to gain unfettered access to the world's surveillance data. He also reveals that he has spent years waging a vendetta against ...