In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the second chapter of what is known as the " Blofeld Trilogy ", Blofeld has revived SPECTRE, and Blofeld's final appearance, sans SPECTRE, is in the final novel of the trilogy, You Only Live Twice.

Later, the John Gardner Bond novel, For Special Services introduces a revived SPECTRE led by Blofeld's daughter, Nena Bismaquer.

is also a play upon Blofeld's SPECTRE.

In the film, Kronsteen ( Vladek Sheybal ), works for SPECTRE, and is tasked with planning Bond's killing and disgrace for killing Dr. Julius No. Ultimately, he fails and is murdered at Ernst Stavro Blofeld's behest.

Evil's lair modelling interior of Blofeld's volcano lair ; face and suit of Dr.

* Kronsteen ( No. 5, From Russia with Love ) – killed on Blofeld's orders by Morzeny.

Her acting career began in 1969 with a small role in the film Some Girls Do and as a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service ; she played the English girl among Blofeld's ' Angels of Death ' and had two lines.

In many versions, even the stroking of his white cat has been retained as a parodic allusion to Blofeld's character, as seen in the Austin Powers film series with the character of Dr.

It is commonly believed that the name Blofeld was inspired by the English cricket commentator Henry Blofeld's father, with whom Fleming went to school.

Blofeld's lifestyle is described in one chapter in Thunderball: " For the rest, he didn't smoke or drink and he had never been known to sleep with a member of either sex.

In common with Fleming's other Bond stories, he used the names and places of people he knew or had heard of and Blofeld's research station on Piz Gloria was based on Schloss Mittersill, which the Nazis had turned into a research establishment examining the Asiatic races.

Henry Blofeld's father ( Tom Blofeld, b. 1903, d. 1986 ) went to Eton with Ian Fleming and his name may have been the inspiration for the name of James Bond supervillain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

Not every listener is happy with Henry Blofeld's continuous references to buses, pigeons and aeroplanes, but most feel that the programme would be the poorer without him for all his eccentricities.

Frindall's perfectionism clashed occasionally with Henry Blofeld's more effusive-but error-prone-delivery.

Hector, Dr. Ghastly and his military leader, General Skarr, then created a secret laboratory on an island with a bunny-shaped mountain known as " Bunny Island " ( a parody of Blofeld's lair in the James Bond movies, or a spoof of Easter Island ).

* Diamonds Are Forever ( 1971 ): Nevada and Las Vegas locations ; Austin climbing through the window into Alotta Fagina's apartment modelled on how Bond enters Blofeld's apartment ; double entendres by Austin and Vanessa modelled after those made by the two homosexual hitmen ( i. e. " moving ", " heartwarming " in the original film ); No. 2 using a model of the US for explaining the enterprise ; final attack on Austin at the hotel modelled on similar final sequence on the Queen Elisabeth.

The next Bond novelist, Raymond Benson, reintroduces Irma Bunt, Blofeld's assistant, in his short story " Blast From the Past ", which is a sequel to You Only Live Twice.

* Count Lippe ( Thunderball ) – killed by Volpe on Blofeld's orders.

* Angelo Palazzi ( Thunderball ) – killed by Largo on Blofeld's orders.

It was initially a convention of the films not to show Blofeld's face, only a closeup of him stroking his white blue-eyed Turkish Angora.

Many of Blofeld's characteristics have become clichés of supervillains in popular fiction, representing the stock character of the evil genius.

Fleming details Blofeld's background in the novel Thunderball, though none of his past is ever revealed in the Bond films.

Blofeld's last onscreen appearance outside the Eon Productions series was in Never Say Never Again, the 1983 remake of Thunderball.

Evil's cat ) being a parody of Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld's white Persian, although it becomes hairless due to the cryostasis ; interior of Dr.

Evil's killing at the Pussycat Club modelled on Blofeld's own killing in OHMSS.

Ernst Stavro Blofeld's name partially comes from Tom Blofeld, a Norfolk farmer and a fellow member of Fleming's club Boodle's, who was a contemporary of Fleming's at Eton.

Tom Blofeld's son is Henry Blofeld, a sports journalist, best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio.

SPECTRE began in the novels as a small group of criminals but became a vast international organisation with its own SPECTRE Island training base in the films, to replace the Soviet SMERSH.

Although he has been set up to be killed in the ensuing attack by SPECTRE forces on the base, Bond regains his personality and his memory.

The film version contained some changes to the novel, with the leading villains switching from SMERSH to SPECTRE, a fictional terrorist organisation.

Blofeld, with a weakened SPECTRE would appear for the final time in You Only Live Twice.

SPECTRE thus works with both sides of the Cold War.

In the Eon Productions James Bond series, which began in 1962 with Dr. No, SPECTRE plays a more prominent role.

In the films, SPECTRE usually replaced SMERSH as the main villains, although there is a brief reference to SMERSH in the second Eon Bond film, From Russia with Love.

It is interesting to note that in the Bulgarian subtitles of Quantum of Solace, the name Quantum was translated as SPECTRE, with the title changed to " Spectre of Solace " (" Спектър на утехата ").

Dr. No and Auric Goldfinger appear as SPECTRE members, with Dr. No "...( Doctor Julius No ) having broken ranks with our organisation.

Although the From Russia with Love video game mirrors much of the plot of the eponymous film, it uses an organisation called OCTOPUS rather than SPECTRE to avoid copyright issues.

In 1963, Fleming settled out of court with McClory, which awarded McClory the film rights to Thunderball, although literary rights would stay with Fleming and thus allow continuation author John Gardner to use SPECTRE in a number of his novels.

* Giuseppe Petacchi – Domino Vitali's brother ; kills the crew aboard the NATO test flight carrying the bombs and flies it to rendezvous with SPECTRE, only to be killed upon delivery

While attending prep school at Warfield Academy, James Bond Jr. with the help of his friends IQ ( the hitherto unmentioned grandson of Q ), and Gordo Leiter ( the son of Felix Leiter, also not previously established ), fights against the evil terrorist organization SCUM ( Saboteurs and Criminals United in Mayhem, which is an offshoot of organizations like SPECTRE ).

Once there, Petacchi is killed and the plane, with bombs, are taken by Emilio Largo ( aka SPECTRE Number One ) on board the cruiser yacht Disco Volante.

Academic Christoph Linder sees Thunderball as part of the second wave of Bond villains: the first wave consisted of SMERSH, the second of Blofeld and SPECTRE, undertaken because of the thawing of relations between East and West, although the cold war heated up again shortly afterwards, with the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the construction of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis all occurring in an eighteen month period from April 1961 – November 1962.

Both McClory and Fleming claim to have come up with the concept of SPECTRE ; Fleming biographer Andrew Lycett and John Cork both note Fleming as the originator of the group, Lycett saying that " proposed that Bond should confront not the Russians but SPECTRE ..." whilst Cork produced a memorandum in which Fleming called for the change to SPECTRE:

Others, such as continuation Bond author Raymond Benson, disagree, saying that McClory came up with the SPECTRE concept.

In 1963, she was cast as the SPECTRE agent Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia with Love, starring Sean Connery and Robert Shaw.

While doing so, he replaces the dummy warheads in two cruise missiles with live nuclear warheads ; SPECTRE then obtains the warheads to extort billions of dollars from NATO governments.

The yacht is a hydrofoil craft purchased with SPECTRE funds for £ 200, 000.