In Ian Fleming's novels, SPECTRE is a commercial enterprise led by Blofeld.

The organisation's third appearance is in On Her Majesty's Secret Service where Blofeld, hired by an unnamed country or party ( though the Soviet Union is implied ) is executing a plan to ruin British agriculture.

Its long-term strategy, however, is illustrated by the analogy of the three Siamese fighting fish Blofeld keeps in an aquarium in the film version of From Russia with Love.

Blofeld notes that one fish is refraining from fighting two others until their fight is concluded.

Furthermore, to heighten the impact of the executions, Blofeld often chooses to focus attention on an innocent member, making it appear his death is imminent, only to suddenly strike down the actual target when that person is off guard.

SPECTRE is headed by the supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld who usually appears accompanied by a white Persian cat in the movies, but not in the books.

It is stated in the novel that if something were to happen to Blofeld, Largo would assume command.

At the time of Thunderball, the leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, has been assigned " Number 2 ", while Emilio Largo is assigned " Number 1 ".

In the films the number indicates rank: Blofeld is always referred to as " Number 1 " and Emilio Largo, in Thunderball, is " Number 2 ".

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 film adaptation of From Russia with Love also features the first on-screen appearance of Blofeld, although he is only identified by name in the closing credits of the film.

In the first book to include SPECTRE, " Thunderball ", it is stated that the numbers of each member changes periodically ( it " advances round a rota by two digits at midnight on the first of every month ") to avoid detection and Blofeld is in fact number 2.

Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character and a supervillain from the James Bond series of novels and films, who was created by Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory.

Blofeld is head of the global criminal organisation SPECTRE and is commonly referred to as Number 1, an official numerical position given to members of SPECTRE.

Blofeld appears or is heard in three novels: Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and You Only Live Twice ; and six James Bond films from Eon Productions: From Russia with Love ( 1963 ), Thunderball ( 1965 ), You Only Live Twice ( 1967 ), On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ), Diamonds Are Forever ( 1971 ) and For Your Eyes Only ( 1981 ) ( the pre-title sequence of which marks his final appearance and apparent death ).

* Marius Domingue – " Number 7 ," another Unione Corse man ; highly trustworthy, but singled out by Blofeld for a lecture in order to throw Borraud off guard

Bond describes Blofeld on their confrontation as being " a big man, perhaps six foot three ( 190 cm ), and powerfully built ".

Celi's voice was dubbed by Robert Rietty ( who previously dubbed the voice of John Strangways in Dr. No and later a man resembling Ernst Stavro Blofeld, in For Your Eyes Only ).

Evil from the spy spoof " Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery " has a cat named Mr. Bigglesworth styled after the Persian cat affected by the James Bond villain Blofeld.

In On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1963 ) Bond learns that Blofeld has radically altered his appearance — he is now tall and thin ; has reduced his weight to ; sports long silver hair, an infection on his nose, and no earlobes ; and wears dark green tinted contact lenses.

Although Lippe was successful, Blofeld considered him unreliable, because of his childish clash with Bond and, as a consequence, Blofeld has Lippe killed.

For more than a year, James Bond, British Secret Service operative 007, has been involved in " Operation Bedlam ": trailing the private criminal organisation SPECTRE and its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

Bond returns to England to be given another lead: the College of Arms in London has discovered that Blofeld has assumed the title and name Comte Balthazar de Bleuville and wants formal confirmation of the title and has asked the College to declare him the reigning count.

Blofeld has undergone plastic surgery partly to remove his earlobes, but also to disguise himself from the police and security services who are tracking him down.

Bond learns Blofeld has been curing a group of young British and Irish women of their livestock and food allergies.

Blofeld has written a partly autobiographical book entitled My Dear Old Thing: Talking Cricket.

The Mercedes 600 has also featured in the James Bond films, most notably as transport of the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Diamonds are Forever.

In chapter six, Blofeld reports to the members of SMERSH that their German unit has successfully retrieved in secret Himmler's hoard of jewels from the Mondsee.

Nena, who has only one breast, quickly wins Bond's heart and his sympathy and Bond is convinced that Bismaquer is the one now being referred to as the new Blofeld.

In the film, Klebb is depicted as a former SMERSH agent who has defected to become a member of SPECTRE ( Blofeld refers to her as " No. 3 ").

While describing his creation, Reilly stated that he had always intended for Calderon to survive, and to return in future novels, similar to Professor Moriarty and Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

Some of his most memorable film roles include knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal ( the first of his eleven films with Bergman, and the film that includes the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death ), Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told, Oktober in The Quiller Memorandum, Father Merrin in The Exorcist, Karl Oskar in The Emigrants, Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor, Ming the Merciless in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon, the villain Blofeld in Never Say Never Again, Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters, and Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination.

Blofeld in You Only Live Twice ( Donald Pleasence ), On Her Majesty ’ s Secret Service ( Telly Savalas ), Diamonds are Forever ( Charles Gray ) and Never Say Never Again ( Max Von Sydow ).

Equipped with a shiny bald head and a quiet but intense voice to go with his trademark penetrating gaze, he specialised in portraying insane or evil characters, including the violent alcoholic Doc Tydon in Wake in Fright ( 1971 ), the mad Doctor in the Bud Spencer-Terence Hill film Watch Out, We're Mad ( 1974 ), Heinrich Himmler in The Eagle Has Landed ( 1976 ), and the Bond arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice ( 1967 ), the first film in which the villain's face is clearly seen.

Evil, the character played by Mike Myers in the Austin Powers comedy films ( 1997 – 2002 ), is a parody of Pleasence's performance as Blofeld in You Only Live Twice.

His other movie credits include The Young Savages ( 1961 ), The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ), Battle of the Bulge ( 1965 ), The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ), The Scalphunters ( 1968 ), supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 ), Kelly's Heroes ( 1970 ), Pretty Maids All in a Row ( 1971 ), Inside Out ( 1975 ), and Escape to Athena ( 1979 ).

* Blofeld, Henry, A Thirst for Life, Hodder & Stoughton, ( 2001 ), ( ISBN 0-340-77050-3 )

The name Piz Gloria originated in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1963 ), wherein the hideout of the villain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, is Piz Gloria, a mountain-top building containing an allergies investigation clinic.

Here, Blofeld is tall, thin, and bearded, with a European accent more in keeping with the character as presented in From Russia With Love and Thunderball.

Such a portrayal spoofs the cat-stroking James Bond villain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, whose forearms and hands were initially the only features that were revealed to the audience, while the rest of the body was obscured ( M. A. D.

Bond teams up with CIA agent Cedar Leiter, daughter of his old friend, Felix Leiter, to investigate one Markus Bismaquer, who is suspected of reviving the criminal organisation SPECTRE, which was believed to have been disbanded years earlier following the death of its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, at the hands of Bond ( in You Only Live Twice ).

; Anthony Dawson — Alpha: Anthony Dawson played two roles in the James Bond films, the first being Professor Dent in Dr. No. He later took on the role of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in both From Russia with Love and Thunderball, but only Dawson ’ s hands were seen in these films.