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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]
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 ...
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
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, ...
The mysterious spaceship lands in a base hidden inside the volcano, operated by Ernst Stavro Blofeld of SPECTRE, who has been hired by a great power to start a Soviet-American war. Blofeld summons Osato and Brandt to his quarters for not having killed Bond; Osato blames Brandt, and Blofeld drops her into a pool filled with piranhas.
Myers disagreed, insisting the character was based on Donald Pleasence's portrayal of Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice. [2] In the first film, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Dr. Evil is an internationally known criminal genius, cryogenically frozen in 1967 and reawakened in 1997. According to his own ...
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.