According to the novel, Blofeld was born on 28 May 1908 ( which is also Ian Fleming's birthday ) to a Polish father and a Greek mother in Gdynia, Poland ( then Germany ).

Blofeld attended the University of Warsaw where he studied economics and political history, and then the Warsaw University of Technology to study engineering and radionics.

In the film series Blofeld first appears in From Russia with Love, then in Thunderball.

An example of this perception of piranhas in media appears in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice, where a piece of meat is shown being fed to pet piranhas owned by the film's main antagonist, Blofeld, then only a bone is raised from the water.

Bond then returns to England and works on the plan to capture Blofeld.

Blofeld worked for the United Nations ( ECAFE, later ESCAP-Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ) ( 1961-1974 ), and then retired.

Blofeld is absent from the next book, The Spy Who Loved Me, though its events take place while Bond is battling SPECTRE in North America.

Although SPECTRE and Blofeld are used in a number of films before and after Thunderball, the issue over the copyright of Thunderball did prevent SPECTRE and Blofeld from becoming the main villains in 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me.

GoldenEye and Galore leave the Lair aboard Galore's chopper, and Scaramanga and Number One ( Ernst Stavro Blofeld ) later discuss what to do with GoldenEye, and decide to simply see what he does next before proceeding.

When Bond returns to Bismaquer's ranch, he witnesses Bismaquer being killed by Nena, who is in fact the mind behind the operation and the daughter of Blofeld, a fact she confesses to Bond just before falling into the crushing grip of her pet pythons.

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

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

The goal of world domination was only ever stated in You Only Live Twice, and SPECTRE was working not for itself but for an unnamed Asian government whose two representatives Blofeld speaks to during the movie ; perhaps Red China, who earlier backed Goldfinger.

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.

In the novel, SPECTRE, headed by Blofeld, attempts to conduct nuclear blackmail against NATO.

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.

Following Diamonds Are Forever, SPECTRE and Blofeld were retired from the Eon Films series, except for a cameo by Blofeld ( not identified by name, but accompanied by the character's trademark cat ) in For Your Eyes Only.

The film retells the story of Thunderball and reintroduces both SPECTRE and Blofeld.

Henchmen working for SPECTRE, one of its members, or directly for Ernst Stavro Blofeld:

* Emilio Largo – " Number 2 ," second in command of SPECTRE and designated by Blofeld to oversee all field operations for Thunderball ; killed by Domino Vitali

While Blofeld considered the possibility that the sexual relationship was consensual, it was more important that SPECTRE was reputed to keep its word.

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.

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.

SPECTRE is headed by criminal mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

* John Blofeld: Bodhisattva of Compassion.

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.

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.

Led by evil genius and supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the organisation first formally appeared in the novel Thunderball ( 1961 ) and in the movie Dr. No ( 1962 ).

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.

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

Blofeld was the chairman and leader because he founded the organisation, and Largo was elected by the cabinet to be second in command.

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.

As a punishment, Blofeld electrocuted Borraud and returned half of the ransom money to the girl's father as compensation.

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