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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.
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]
You Only Live Twice is the last book completed by Fleming before his death and the last that was published in his lifetime; [9] he died five months after the UK release of the novel. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The story is the third part of what is known as the "Blofeld trilogy", [ 12 ] coming after Thunderball , where SPECTRE is introduced, and On Her ...
You Only Live Twice (1967) ... It was really only a matter of time before the deliciously creepy Christopher Walken would be cast as a Bond villain. And he does a lot with only a little in Roger ...
You Only Live Twice: Ernst Stavro Blofeld (a.k.a. Dr. Guntram Shatterhand) He creates a "garden of death" and entices depressed Japanese to suicide. He charges for the suicides to refinance SPECTRE. His lair is destroyed and his henchmen are killed by Bond. Strangled by Bond with his bare hands in a fit of rage. The Man with the Golden Gun
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 ...
He was the first actor to portray the iconic villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in a James Bond film — his intimidating, cat-petting, bald-headed performance in You Only Live Twice (1967) became the ...
In the earlier You Only Live Twice (1967), he had played a British agent, Henderson, (though Australian in the novel) making him one of a small number of actors to have played a villain and a Bond ally in the series. [20] You Only Live Twice (1967) – Richard "Dikko" Henderson; Diamonds Are Forever (1971) – Ernst Stavro Blofeld (and his many ...