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Donald Henry Pleasence (/ ˈ p l ɛ z ə n s /; [2] 5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) [3] was an English actor. He began his career on stage in the West End before having a screen career, which included starring in a 1954 BBC adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, before playing numerous supporting and character roles in films including RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The ...
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]
After several days, both Gilbert and Broccoli determined that Werich was not menacing enough, and recast Blofeld with Donald Pleasence in the role. [7] Pleasence's ideas for Blofeld's appearance included a hump, a limp, a beard, and a lame hand, before he settled on the scar. [19]
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 ...
Donald Pleasence (Dr. Sam Loomis) ... He was the first actor to portray the iconic villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in a James Bond film — his intimidating, cat-petting, ...
Hunt and Maibaum admired Donald Pleasence's performance as Blofeld in You Only Live Twice but wanted to recast the character. Maibaum originally wrote the role of Blofeld with Max von Sydow in mind; [31] coincidentally, von Sydow later played Blofeld in the non-Eon Bond film Never Say Never Again.
Christoph Waltz is set to return as uber-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in “Bond 25,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.Waltz first portrayed the iconic Bond archenemy in ...
Dr. Evil is a parody of Donald Pleasence's Blofeld. Basil Exposition, the head of Powers' organisation is meant to be a combined parody of both M and Q. Alotta Fagina is a parody, in name, of the Bond girl Pussy Galore.