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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.
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.
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.
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 ).
In the John Gardner novel For Special Services, Blofeld is depicted as having had a daughter, Nena, with a French mistress.
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.
The truth, however, is that he was named after Ernst Blofeld, the father of the author John Blofeld with whom Fleming was associated through club membership.
The final mention of Blofeld is in the beginning of the next book, The Man with the Golden Gun, published in 1965.
In the film series Blofeld first appears in From Russia with Love, then in Thunderball.
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.
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.
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.
Although Lippe was successful, Blofeld considered him unreliable, because of his childish clash with Bond and, as a consequence, Blofeld has Lippe killed.
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.
When Mickey Stewart was unable to play after the first day because of dysentery he seriously considered calling up the cricket journalist Henry Blofeld, but managed to survive with just 10 men.
In November 2009 the new chief executive, Nick Blofeld, stated the club is now seeking a mostly seated stadium for 20, 000 to suit modern professional rugby, with potential for future expansion, containing " restaurants and cafés, hospitality suites, conference facilities and good food and beverage outlets and other potential retail outlets.
A fluffy white caterpillar ( equivalent to the stereotypical white cat frequently associated with arch villains, particularly Ernst Stavro Blofeld ).
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the second book in what is known as the " Blofeld trilogy ", which begins with Thunderball and concluded with You Only Live Twice.

Blofeld and SPECTRE
In Ian Fleming's novels, SPECTRE is a commercial enterprise led by Blofeld.
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.
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.
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.
Blofeld then temporarily moved to South America before founding SPECTRE.
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.
SPECTRE is headed by criminal mastermind Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

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It is stated in the novel that if something were to happen to Blofeld, Largo would assume command.
When he was told by David Clark, the tour manager, that he may have to play, Blofeld replied " I would certainly play if needed, but if I scored 50 or upwards in either innings I was damned if I would stand down for the Calcutta Test ".
The third was that Homer's new boss, despite being friendly and personable, would be a supervillain in the mold of Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
Fifty years ago the only westerners that would have known about Ngöndro would have been Himalayan seekers such as John Blofeld, Heinrich Harrer, and Alexandra David-Neel.

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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.
They also appear as henchmen to the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond novel You Only Live Twice.

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* 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
* " Number 6 " – Kills Lippe at the behest of Blofeld for being unreliable
* Pierre Borraud ( No. 9, Thunderball ) – killed by Blofeld for stealing from Spectre.
Tom Blofeld's son is Henry Blofeld, a sports journalist, best known as a cricket commentator for Test Match Special on BBC Radio.
Mirrlees had Spanish antecedents, generally born without earlobes and Fleming used this physical attribute for Blofeld.
Even so, the character of Blofeld was present in the previous film, You Only Live Twice, had he and Bond had met: this previous meeting was ignored for the plot of On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
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.
His elder brother, Sir John Blofeld, also played in one Minor Counties Championship match for Norfolk against Kent 2nd X1 in July 1957.
In 1956 Blofeld was one of only three batsmen for Public Schools to score a century against Combined Services ( the others being Peter May and Colin Cowdrey ) and he was given the Cricket Society's award for the most promising young player of the season.
Selected as Eton captain in his final year at school in 1957, Blofeld suffered a serious accident, being hit by a bus while riding a bicycle to the Eton cricket ground-he remained unconscious for 28 days.
This does not detract from the love that many loyal listeners to Test Match Special the world over have for him, demonstrated in the Test against Pakistan at Headingley in 1996 when a flat overlooking the ground was draped with a banner proclaiming " Henry Blofeld is God ".

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