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Donald Henry Pleasence OBE (/ 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 ...
You Only Live Twice is a 1967 spy film and the fifth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.It is the first Bond film to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, who later directed the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me and the 1979 film Moonraker, both starring Roger Moore.
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 ...
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]
Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE (5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English film, television, and stage actor. His most notable film roles include psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis in the Halloween series, the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, and RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape
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, ...
James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me: Sigmund 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
James Bond parodies generally contain several elements, adopted from the James Bond novels and films, which are featured in these parody works. These usually include the following: The protagonist(s) is a near invincible, secret service agent, who works for a secret government national or international intelligence agency.