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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]
Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE and Bond's archenemy, is parodied in all three Austin Powers films as Dr. Evil. Like Blofeld, Dr. Evil has a facial scar over his eye and wears either a white or a grey Nehru jacket (which is also worn by the first Bond villain, Dr. No). Both characters also possess white Persian cats. Dr.
Through the same route came Max von Sydow as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, [26] although he still retained his Eon-originated white cat in the film. [27] For the femme fatale, director Irvin Kershner selected former model and Playboy cover girl Barbara Carrera to play Fatima Blush – the name coming from one of the early scripts of Thunderball. [15]
SPECTRE is headed by the criminal mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld who usually appears accompanied by a Chinchilla Silver Persian cat in the films, but not in the books. In both the films and the novels, Emilio Largo is the second in command.
Charles Gray as Ernst Stavro Blofeld: The head of SPECTRE and Bond's archenemy. Gray had previously appeared in the series when he played Dikko Henderson in 1967's You Only Live Twice. Lana Wood as Plenty O'Toole: A woman Bond meets at a casino. Jimmy Dean as Willard Whyte: An entrepreneur, loosely based on Howard Hughes.
Walter Luxor: Is Bismaquer's partner and a high-ranking member of SPECTRE. At one point he is believed to be a revived Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Mike Mazzard: Is a member of SPECTRE tasked to bring Bond to Amarillo. After Bond objects this offer, Mazzard attempts to kill Bond in Washington D.C. Mazzard also aids Luxor in infiltrating NORAD HQ.
It is named after the character Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the leader of the fictional SPECTRE organisation from Ian Fleming's James Bond series; this lends its name to the sound management computer application SPECTRE, used to send audio and firmware data to the synthesizer. Two subsequent Waldorf synthesizers have been named after Bond villains ...
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