Blofeld is described physically as a massive man, weighing roughly 20 stone (280 lb 130 kg), has black crew-cut hair, black eyes (similar to those of Benito Mussolini), heavy eyelashes, a thin mouth, and long pointed hands and feet. The plot that he formulates is carried out by his second-in-command Emilio Largo. He first appears in a minor role as the leader of SPECTRE in the 1961 novel Thunderball.
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Henry Blofeld offered on the BBC Radio 4 series Just a Minute that "Ian took my father's name as the name of the baddie." In novelsīlofeld makes three appearances in Ian Fleming's novels. 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. In the John Gardner novel For Special Services, Blofeld is depicted as having had a daughter with a French mistress named Nena. Blofeld then moved temporarily to South America before founding SPECTRE. After the defeat of Erwin Rommel, he decided to back the Allied war effort, and was awarded numerous medals by the Allied powers after the war's end. During the war, he sold information to both sides.
Before the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he destroyed all records of his existence, then moved first to Sweden, then to Turkey, where he worked for Turkish Radio and began to set up his own private intelligence organisation. He was then hired by the Polish Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs and appointed to a sensitive communication position, which he used for buying and selling stocks at the Warsaw Stock Exchange.Ĭorrectly foreseeing the coming of World War II, Blofeld made copies of top-secret wires and sold them for cash to Nazi Germany. He first graduated from the University of Warsaw with a degree in Political History and Economics, and then from the Warsaw University of Technology with a degree in Engineering and Radionics. As a young man, he was well-versed in the social science disciplines, but also in the natural science and technology disciplines. After the First World War, Blofeld became a Polish national. According to the novel, Blofeld was born on (which is also Fleming's birthday) in Gdingen, Imperial Germany (now Gdynia, Poland) his father Ernst George Blofeld was Polish, and his mother Maria Stavro Michelopoulos was Greek, hence the well-known Greek name Stavro.
Ian Fleming includes information about Blofeld's background in his novel Thunderball. Many of Blofeld's characteristics have become tropes in popular fiction, representing the stock character of the supervillain, with the stroking of his white cat often retained as a parodic allusion to Blofeld's character, as seen in the Austin Powers film series with the character of Dr. It was initially a convention of the films not to show Blofeld's face, only a close-up of him stroking his white blue-eyed Persian cat. He also appears in Never Say Never Again (1983), the non-Eon remake of Thunderball.īlofeld has been played on screen by Donald Pleasence, Telly Savalas, Charles Gray, Max von Sydow, and Christoph Waltz, among others. Blofeld appears or is heard in three novels: Thunderball On Her Majesty's Secret Service and You Only Live Twice as well as seven 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) For Your Eyes Only (1981) (the pre-title sequence of which shows an unnamed character resembling him fall to his death) and Spectre (2015).
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