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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]
Blofeld's name comes from Tom Blofeld, a Norfolk farmer and a fellow member of Fleming's gentlemen's club Boodle's, who was a contemporary of Fleming's at Eton. [24] [d] For Blofeld's pseudonym in the novel, Dr. Guntram Shatterhand, Fleming uses the name of an old café he had seen in Hamburg in 1959, "Old Shatterhand". [22]
Ernst Stavro Blofeld Uncredited 1986 Valhalla: Hymer English version, Voice 1987 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace: Russian General Television. Year
This episode centres on Bond's ongoing search to find Ernst Stavro Blofeld after the Thunderball incident. Bond finds Blofeld in Switzerland and attacks the centre where he is based, although Blofeld escapes in the confusion. Bond meets and falls in love with Contessa Teresa "Tracy" di Vicenzo during the story. The pair marry at the end of the ...
Thunderball also introduces SPECTRE's leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in the first of three appearances in Bond novels, with On Her Majesty's Secret Service and You Only Live Twice being the others. Thunderball has been adapted four times, once in a comic strip format for the Daily Express newspaper, twice for the cinema and once for the radio.
Pohlmann (uncredited) also provided the voice of the unseen head of SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in the James Bond films From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965). In the 1960s and 1970s, Pohlmann relaunched his German-speaking career in German and Austrian film and television productions.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a villain in the James Bond series of novels and films. The name may also refer to: Henry Blofeld (born 1939), British sports journalist; John Blofeld (1913–1987), British writer on Asian thought and religion; John Blofeld (judge) (born 1932), English barrister and former High Court judge
Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd are fictional characters in the James Bond novel and film Diamonds Are Forever. [1] In the novel, Wint and Kidd are members of The Spangled Mob.In the film, it is assumed that they are main villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld's henchmen, though the characters share no scenes with and are not seen taking instructions from Blofeld (or anyone else, except for Bert Saxby).