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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Bond is too weak to take on Blofeld's henchmen alone and she helps him escape to the airport.

is also a play upon Blofeld's SPECTRE.

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.

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.

* 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.

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.

This was a principal filming location for the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service, released in 1969, in which Bond ( George Lazenby ) made his escape from the headquarters of Ernst Stavro Blofeld ( Telly Savalas ) and fled four of Blofeld's henchmen in a car driven by his girlfriend Tracy ( Diana Rigg ).

His face was never seen, however, and Blofeld's voice was provided by Eric Pohlmann.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Blofeld's SPECTRE volcano base complete with spacecraft-swallowing rocket shuttle, helipad and attack helicopter, and command center in the 1967 film You Only Live Twice ( film ) | You Only Live Twice.

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.

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.

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

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.

After retiring from playing in 1964, Benaud turned to full-time cricket journalism and commentary, dividing his time between Britain ( where he worked for the BBC for many years before joining Channel 4 in 1999 ), and Australia ( for the Nine Network ).

He chose to end his British commentary career, which spanned more than 42 years, when the rights to broadcast live Test match cricket were lost by Channel 4 to the subscription broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting.

Benaud said: " I ’ ll be doing Australian cricket next year – 2010 – but I don ’ t do any television at all anywhere else now and when I finish next year, then I ’ ll be doing other things ... But that ’ ll be no more television commentary ".

It was announced on 15 November 2009, that Benaud had signed a three-year agreement with the Nine Network to continue being part of their cricket coverage until 2013, although his role would change from that of ball-by-ball commentary.

* Test Match Special, a United Kingdom radio programme providing live commentary on cricket matches

His commentary for Channel Nine, with his trademark relaxed calls of play and generous attitude to the players and fellow commentators, proved extremely popular with Australian cricket viewing audiences.

Between 2002 and 2005, he was a member of the Channel 4 commentary team for the coverage of Test cricket in England.

Atherton joined the Sky Sports commentary team in 2005, after they won the rights to live Test cricket in England.

" The Erya dictionary ( 15 ) defines jili 蒺蔾 " thorns ; puncture vine ; bramble " as jieju 蝍蛆 " centipede ; cricket "; which Guo Pu's commentary says resembles a huang 蝗 " locust " with a large abdomen, long horns, and which eats snake brains.

Since retiring from cricket, Akram has worked and taken up commentary for television networks and can currently be seen as a sports commentator for ESPN Star Sports and ARY Digital among others.

During the cricket season, BBC London 94. 9 also supports Internet-only streamed commentary of all games featuring Surrey County Cricket Club ( with Mark Church as main commentator ) and Middlesex County Cricket Club ( with Kevin Hand as main commentator ).

BBC Somerset sometimes uses its AM frequency for cricket commentary while regular programming continues on FM.

After retirement from cricket Navjot Singh Sidhu took up television commentary, and politics.

He also regularly appears as a " cricket analyst " on various Indian news channels and is noted for being possibly the most hated and ridiculed figure in international commentary today.

He became a regular member of the TV commentary team and, in addition, became BBC cricket correspondent in 1963.

Arlott's commentary " went down very well in India " and he was invited to continue to commentate on further matches, including the Test matches, thereby initiating a 34-year career as a cricket commentator for the BBC.

Arlott undertook some BBC television cricket commentary, primarily on the Sunday League in the 1970s.

He would relish the phrases he used to describe what he saw and leave his colleagues wishing they could have thought of them ," while Wisden wrote: " it is his unique gift for cricket commentary which will bring him lasting fame ... His commentary technique was strongly influenced by his poetic sense.

" In 1980, Trevor Bailey and the writer were largely responsible for a fresh cricket commentary noise, the popping of champagne corks.

Live cricket had been broadcast since 1927, but originally it was thought that Test match cricket was too slow for ball-by-ball commentary to work.

While the levity in the commentary box has reduced somewhat since Johnners ' death there is still a recognition that no matter how seriously fans may take their cricket it is, after all, only a game.

The parodies, released periodically on CD, are designed as a comical look " behind the scenes " of the Nine Network's cricket commentary.