Bond: \"World domination. The same old dream. Our asylums are full of people who think they're Napoleon. Or God.\"<\/i><\/p>
Apart from 007 himself, one of the biggest attraction of the films have been the many and varied shapes taken by his evil adversaries - the Bond villains.<\/p>
One's got metal hands. Another has an obsession with gold. His greatest nemesis - Ernst Stavro Blofeld - had a hankering for global power.<\/p>
With the end of the Cold War, 007 had to look elsewhere for his enemies. So there were rogue Soviets, double-crossing colleagues, Latin American drugs dealers, loopy Yanks who wanted to flood Silicon Valley (we're talking Christopher Walken here) or deranged drug smugglers who could call upon the dark forces of voodoo.<\/p>
Check out our gallery of evil 007-style....<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Goldfinger-16.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Goldfinger"},{"captionHeading":"DR NO: DR NO (JOSEPH WISEMAN)","caption":"
“East, West, just points of the compass, each as stupid as the other”<\/i><\/p>
CV of Evil:<\/b> The “unwanted child of a German missionary and a Chinese girl of good family” is James Bond’s first movie adversary. As treasurer of the Tongs Chinese criminal syndicate, he fled to the US with $10m of cash and offered his services as a scientist to the Americans and the Soviets. When they rejected his offer he sought revenge, joined the criminal organisation SPECTRE and relocated to Jamaica. <\/p>
Fate:<\/b> Boils to death in the simmering water of his own nuclear reactor. <\/p>
Actor: <\/b>Born in Montreal, Canada, Joseph Wiseman enjoyed a long career in the theatre and first attracted attention in the cinema as the bloodless opportunist who became Marlon Brando’s enemy in 1952’s Viva Zapata! Apart from Dr No, other appearances have included Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and TV’s Law & Order. He once said he thought Dr No “might by just another Grade B Charlie Chan mystery.\"<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Dr-No-21.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Dr. No"},{"captionHeading":"FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE: ROSA KLEBB (Lotte Lenya)","caption":"
“Training is useful…but there is no substitute for experience”<\/i><\/p>
CV of Evil: <\/b>Klebb is a former member of Russian counter-intelligence agency SMERSH who has defected to SPECTRE. She is tasked with killing James Bond after his destruction of Dr No’s plot to destabilise the American space programme. Klebb, whose name is derived from the Russian phrase for “women’s rights”, is armed with a poison tipped knife in her shoe.<\/p>
Fate:<\/b> Shot by Tatiana Romanov as she attempts to spike Bond with her poison-tipped shoe.<\/p>
Actress:<\/b> Outside Bond, the Austrian actress – and wife of German composer Kurt Weill – was best known for her stage performance as Jenny in The Threepenny Opera. She was also Oscar-nominated for The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone. Lenya always said that after From Russia With Love the first thing people looked at when introduced to her was her shoes.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/From-Russia-With-Love-11.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"From Russia With Love"},{"captionHeading":"GOLDFINGER: AURIC GOLDFINGER (Gert Frobe)","caption":"
Goldfinger: “Choose your last witticism carefully Mr Bond. It may be your last.\"<\/i><\/p>
CV of Evil:<\/b> Gold bullion smuggler extraordinaire, Goldfinger – named by Ian Fleming after the modernist architect he reviled – hatches a plan to irradiate the US gold bullion in Fort Knox, sending the price of his reserves sky high.<\/p>
Fate:<\/b> Sucked out of the window of a Lockheed JetStar after a fight with Bond in the de-pressurised cabin.<\/p>
Actor:<\/b> The German actor’s other famous role was as Baron Bomhurst in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Goldfinger was banned in Israel after it was learned that Frobe was a member of the Nazi Party only to be released when it was discovered he had sheltered a Jewish family. He landed the role of Goldfinger after the producers saw him play a child murderer in a German film.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Goldfinger-14.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Goldfinger"},{"captionHeading":"THUNDERBALL: EMILIO LARGO (Adolfo Celi)","caption":"
“You wish to put the evil eye on me? We have a way to deal with that where I come from.”<\/i><\/p>
CV of Evil:<\/b> SPECTRE’s second-in-command, Largo is a former Neapolitan black marketer. Failure is punishable by death, sometimes with the novel method of throwing the victim into a swimming pool teeming with sharks, Largo masterminds the plot to steal two nuclear warheads and ransom them for £100m.<\/p>
Fate:<\/b> Domino (Claudine Auger) shoots him in the back with a harpoon as he wrestles for the controls of the out-of-control hydrofoil The Disco Volante with Bond.<\/p>
Actor:<\/b> The Sicilian-born actor and singer specialised in villainous roles, appearing as camp commandant opposite Frank Sinatra in the WWII drama Von Ryan’s Express. As well as the TV version of the Borgias, Celi also appeared in the woeful Bond spoof OK Connery, starring Sean’s brother Neil.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Thunderball-17.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Thunderball"},{"captionHeading":"YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE: ERNST STAVRO BLOFELD (Donald Pleasance)","caption":"
“I shall look forward personally to exterminating you, Mr Bond.\"<\/i><\/p>
Fate:<\/b> Escapes to fight another day after detonating his volcano base’s self-destruct system.<\/p> Actor:<\/b> Before the stage the Nottinghamshire actor was a conscientious objector during WWII who later joined RAF’s Bomber Command. Tortured after he was shot down, he was placed in a POW camp where he began acting. He racked up more than 200 film performances ranging from blind Flight Lt Colin Blythe in The Great Escape to psychiatrist Dr Sam Loomis in Halloween.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/You-Only-Live-Twice-8.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"You Only Live Twice"},{"captionHeading":"ON HE MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE: BLOFELD (Telly Savalas)","caption":" “Merry Christmas 007”<\/i><\/p> CV of Evil:<\/b> Savalas’s ear lobe-less Blofeld plans to release a global plague via a group of brainwashed women – his “angels of death” – from his HQ in the Swiss Alps.<\/p> Fate:<\/b> Escapes following a bob sleigh chase and follows Bond to Portugal where he attempts to assassinate him in a drive-by shooting.<\/p> Actor:<\/b> The lolly-pop sucking Kojak star was Oscar-nominated for Birdman of Alcatraz and starred in a welter of action films from The Dirty Dozen to Kelly’s Heroes. Outside cinema he was a world-class poker player and his version of the Bread song If was number one in Europe for ten weeks in 1975.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/On-Her-Majesty-Service-9.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"On Her Majesty Service"},{"captionHeading":"DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER: BLOFELD (Charles Gray)","caption":" “If we destroy Kansas the world may not hear about it for years.” <\/i><\/p> CV of evil:<\/b> After having his features altered with plastic surgery Blofeld (Charles Gray) poses as reclusive Las Vegas casino boss Willard Whyte. Behind the scenes, he’s using smuggled diamonds to build a laser satellite which he will use to target nuclear installations in the US, Russia and China.<\/p> Fate:<\/b> Escapes after surviving the destruction of his mini-sub while attempting to flee his oil rig HQ.<\/p> Actor:<\/b> A contemporary of comedian Benny Hill at school in Bournemouth, Gray is probably best known for the role of The Criminologist in the The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He first appeared alongside Bond as another character in You Only Live Twice. Gray also played the Satanist Mocata in 1968’s The Devil Rides Out.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Diamonds-Are-Forever-4.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Diamonds Are Forever"},{"captionHeading":"LIVE AND LET DIE: MR BIG/KANANGA (Yaphet Kotto)","caption":" “Names is for tombstones, baby. Y’all take this honky out a waste him.”<\/i><\/p> CV of Evil:<\/b> Vicious gang boss Kananga was the first adversary of Roger Moore’s incarnation as 007. He uses a chain of restaurants in New Orleans and New York as a front for a massive heroin smuggling operation on the Caribbean island of San Monique. His pet psychic Solitaire (Jane Seymour) tells the future while he has an ally in the voodoo “God of the Dead” Baron Samedi.<\/p> Fate:<\/b> Bond forces him to swallow a bullet of compressed air which explodes inside him.<\/p> Actor:<\/b> The New York-born actor has enjoyed a rich career ranging from Raid on Entebbe to playing Parker in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi thriller Alien. Other appearances have included The Running Man and Blue Collar alongside Richard Pryor and Harvey Keitel. He also claims to have uncovered proof that he is the great-great-great grandson of Queen Victoria.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Live-And-Let-Die-12.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Live And Let Die"},{"captionHeading":"THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN: FRANCISCO SCARAMANGA (Christopher Lee)","caption":" “I always thought I loved animals…and then I discovered that I enjoyed killing people even more.”<\/i><\/p> CV of Evil:<\/b> The former trick shot circus performer is now the world’s premier assassin, charging $1m per kill. Once on the payroll of the KGB he is now freelance and can be identified by his unusual third nipple. He regards Bond as his only equal and seeks to face him in a duel.<\/p> Fate:<\/b> Shot in the heart by Bond in a hall of mirrors.<\/p> Actor:<\/b> Best known for the role of Count Dracula in the Hammer horrors, the 6ft 5in Lee is coincidentally the cousin of Bond author Ian Fleming (who also wanted him to play Dr No) Although he has never been nominated for an Oscar, he is famous for roles such as Count Dooku in the Stars Wars prequels and Saruman in Lord of the Rings.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/The-Man-With-A-Golden-Gun-11.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"The Man With A Golden Gun"},{"captionHeading":"THE SPY WHO LOVED ME: KARL STROMBERG (Curd Jurgens)","caption":" “Observe, Mr Bond, the instruments of Armageddon.”<\/i><\/p> CV of Evil:<\/b> The web-fingered shipping tycoon plans world domination by pitching the Americans against the Russians by capturing their nuclear submarines and launching warheads at Moscow and New York. He would then begin again with a new civilisation – Atlantis - under the water. Stromberg was the only Bond villain to be created specifically for the movie.<\/p> Fate:<\/b> Shot by Bond beneath a table in a final confrontation in his submarine hideout Atlantis.<\/p> The Actor:<\/b> The Bavarian-born former journalist was deemed “politically unreliable” by the Nazis and was imprisoned in a concentration camp. After the war, the 6ft 4in actor took Austrian citizenship and his film career included The Longest Day and The Enemy Below. Before he died in 1982, he claimed he’d already had a “near-death” experience when he went to Hell.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/The-Spy-Who-Loved-Me-18.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"The Spy Who Loved Me"},{"captionHeading":"MOONRAKER: HUGO DRAX (Michael Lonsdale)","caption":" “Look after Mr Bond. See that harm comes to him.”<\/i><\/p> CV of Evil:<\/b> The billionaire space travel industrialist has hatched an elaborate plot to destroy the human race with a lethal toxin and then ferry specially selected humans to a new community in space by shuttle. A vicious tyrant – he sets his Doberman pinschers on one disloyal member of staff – Drax also employs the giant Jaws (Richard Kiel) as his henchman.<\/p> Fate:<\/b> Shot by Bond with a poison dart wrist watch and jettisoned into space.<\/p> Actor:<\/b> The Paris-born actor gained fame as the French detective who foiled Edward Fox’s presidential assassin in The Day of the Jackal. Other appearances included Steven Spielberg’s Munich.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Moonraker-27.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Moonraker"},{"captionHeading":"FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: ARISTOTLE KRISTATOS (Julian Glover)","caption":" “Leave the legs free…they make appetising bait.”<\/i><\/p> CV of Evil:<\/b> A Second World War double agent, Kristatos, a Greek businessman, now makes his money as a heroin smuggler and Soviet spy who is trying to acquire the Royal Navy’s ATAC communications system.<\/p> Fate:<\/b> Killed by a knife thrown by Greek smuggler and Bond ally Milos Columbo (Chaim Topol).<\/p> The Actor:<\/b> The Hampstead-born RSC actor is best known for her portrayal of Imperial General Maximilian Veers in Stars Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and the duplicitous American Nazi in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He also provided the voice of the spider Aragog in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/For-Your-Eyes-Only-7.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"For Your Eyes Only"},{"captionHeading":"OCTOPUSSY: KAMAL KHAN (Louis Jourdan)","caption":" “Mr Bond is indeed of a rare breed…soon to be made extinct.”<\/i><\/p> CV of Evil:<\/b> Exiled Afghan prince Kamal Khan has brokered a deal with a renegade Soviet General Orlov to sell on priceless Russian treasure, smuggling them into the West with the help of the wealthy cult leader Octopussy.<\/p> Fate:<\/b> Killed in a mountain crash engineered by Bond<\/p> The Actor:<\/b> A friend of Bond producer Albert R Broccoli, the onetime French Resistance fighter (he refused to act in Nazi propaganda films) went to Hollywood where he made Three Coins in a Fountain and went on to star opposite Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier in the movie Gigi.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Octopussy-3.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Octopussy"},{"captionHeading":"A VIEW TO A KILL: MAX ZORIN (Christopher Walken)","caption":" “Intuitive improvisation is the secret of genius.”<\/i><\/p> CV of Evil:<\/b> The French microchip millionaire was the product of experimentation in the Nazi death camps. Raised by the German scientist who practiced on him and who fled to Russia, he fell out with his KGB paymasters and hatched a plot to flood California’s Silicon Valley, wiping out his industrial opposition. <\/p> Fate:<\/b> Fall from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge after a confrontation with Bond.<\/p> The Actor:<\/b> After being offered to David Bowie (who didn’t want to spend five months “watching my stunt double fall off cliffs), Walken, a former dancer and lion tamer, took the role. Elsewhere, his most celebrated appearances include the Oscar-winning role of a disturbed Vietnam vet in The Deer Hunter and Batman Returns. He regularly pops up as a deranged maverick as Hollywood's resident loon-by-appointment.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Bond-A-View-to-a-Kill-14-4.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Bond - A View to a Kill 14"},{"captionHeading":"LICENCE TO KILL: SANCHEZ (Robert Davi)","caption":" “Senor Bond, you got big cojones.”<\/i><\/p> CV of Evil:<\/b> The Colombian drug baron (based on the real-life Pablo Escobar) specialises in smuggling cocaine. A pet iguana with a diamond collar perches on his shoulder and he’s more than happy to whip his girlfriend for her infidelity. He also gets his henchman to cut her lover’s heart out. After he maims CIA agent – and Bond’s friend – Felix Leiter, Bond sets out on a personal mission to kill him.<\/p> Fate:<\/b> His petrol-soaked body is set alight by Bond<\/p> The Actor:<\/b> The only star to appear in all three of MGM’s biggest franchises – Bond, The Pink Panther and Stargate – Davi is also known as Special Agent Johnson in Die Hard and the villainous Fratelli brother in The Goonies. He originally trained as an opera singer before he damaged his voice.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Licence-To-Kill-12.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Licence To Kill"},{"captionHeading":"GOLDENEYE: ALEC TREVELYAN (Sean Bean)","caption":" “See you in hell, James.”<\/i> CV of Evil:<\/b> The turncoat MI6 agent seeks blames Britain for the fate of his parents at the hands of Stalin and betrays his country by joining the Soviet Army. Bond believes his former, scarred, colleague to be dead…but discovers he wants to steal the GoldenEye satellite for his own purposes. He’s the only 00 agent other than Bond to have a major role.<\/p> Fate:<\/b> Dropped by Bond from radar dish which collapses on top of him<\/p> Actor:<\/b> TV’s Sharpe is also known for the role of Boromir in Lord of the Rings, the IRA terrorist gunning for Harrison Ford in Patriot Games and the remake of The Hitcher. A promising football career was cut short when he had an accident with a glass door as a teenager.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/13/Sean-Bean.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Sean Bean"},{"captionHeading":"TOMORROW NEVER DIES: ELLIOT CARVER (Jonathan Pryce)","caption":" “The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”<\/i><\/p> CV of Evil:<\/b> The global media mogul has built his success on smears (he threatened to release photos of the US President with a cheerleader) but steps up his own brand of extortion when he sinks a British warship and steals a cruise missile. He also has his wife killed when he discovers her previous relationship with Bond.<\/p> Fate:<\/b> Forced by Bond into the path of a SEA-VAC drill.<\/p> The Actor:<\/b> Welshman Pryce, the son of a miner, took the role after Anthony Hopkins turned it down. A seasoned theatre actor, he also starred in big budget productions such as Evita and Pirates of the Caribbean after his break-out in Terry Gilliam’s surreal Brazil.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Tomorrow-Never-Dies-6.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Tomorrow Never Dies"},{"captionHeading":"THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH: ELEKTRA (Sophie Marceau)","caption":" “There’s no point in living if you can’t feel alive.”<\/i><\/p> CV of Evil:<\/b> The daughter of a oil tycoon, she secretly teams up with terrorist Renard and plots to seize the family business after killing her father. During the course of scheme, she seduces Bond who is under the impression that Renard is out to get her.<\/p> Fate:<\/b> Shot in the chest by Bond following chase.<\/p> Actress:<\/b> The former French model hit the big time aged just fourteen when she starred in the movie La Boum. She first enjoyed international success as Princess Isabelle in Mel Gibson’s Bravheart and subsequently starred as Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.<\/p>","url":"2008/10/3/bond-the-world-is-not-enough-sophie-marceau-4.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"bond the world is not enough sophie marceau"},{"captionHeading":"THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH: RENARD (Robert Carlyle)","caption":" Renard: “You can’t kill me. I’m already dead.”<\/i><\/p> CV of Evil<\/b>A KGB-trained assassin, Renard was dismissed because of his mental instability. Turning to terrorism, he receives a bullet in the head from 009, leaving him alive…but unable to taste, smell or feel. After kidnapping Elektra King, she ends up seducing him in a strange perversion of Stockholm Syndrome.<\/p> Fate:<\/b> Speared by a plutonium rod shot out of an overhearing reactor core.<\/p> The Actor:<\/b> The Glasgow-born actor first attracted attention as the murderer Albie Kinsella in the TV series Cracker with Robbie Coltrane. Career highlights have ranged from the psychopathic Begbie in Trainspotting to mild-manner Gaz, the chief amateur stripper in The Fully Monty. A committed actor, Carlyle suffered headaches for three days after hitting his head against a Perspex window in 28 weeks Later.<\/p>","url":"2008/10/3/bond-the-world-is-not-enough-robert-Carlyle-4.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"bond the world is not enough robert Carlyle"},{"captionHeading":"DIE ANOTHER DAY: GUSTAV GRAVES (Toby Stephens)","caption":" “You see Mr Bond, you can’t kill my dreams…but my dreams can kill you.”<\/i><\/p> CV of Evil:<\/b> Born Tan-Sun Moon, he became a colonel in the Korean People’s Army and subsequently an arms smuggler. A hovercraft accident arranged by MI6 was believed to have killed him…but he survived and fled to Cuba where he underwent plastic surgery and reinvented himself as a billionaire diamonds dealer. He goes on to threaten world domination with a satellite capable of harnessing solar energy.<\/p> Fate: <\/b>Sucked into the rotor blades of an Antonov transport plane following a fight with Bond.<\/p> The Actor: <\/b>The son of actress Maggie Smith, Stephens has forged an impressive stage career with the RSC. He even voiced the role of James Bond in a radio production of Dr No.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Die-Another-Day-28.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Die Another Day"},{"captionHeading":"CASINO ROYALE: LE CHIFFRE (Mads Mikkelsen)","caption":" “It’s the simplest thing…to cause more pain than a man can possibly endure.”<\/i><\/p> CV of Evil: <\/b>Banker-by-appointment for the world’s terrorists, Le Chiffre an Albanian-born maths genius and chess prodigy. His distinctive feature is an eye which weeps blood. When Bond foils his attempt to manipulate the shares of aircraft manufacturer SkyFleet (by blowing up its new prototype), he is forced to convene a high stakes game of poker to recoup money he now owes.<\/p> Fate: <\/b>Shot in the head by terrorist middleman Mr White<\/p> The Actor:<\/b> The Danish actor and former dancer had impressed in the gritty Pusher movies before starring as Tristan in Jerry Bruckheimer’s King Arthur.<\/p>","url":"2008/9/24/Casino-Royale-2006-18.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Casino Royale - 2006"},{"captionHeading":"QUANTUM OF SOLACE: Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric)","caption":" Greene: \"My friends call me Dominic.\" CV of Evil:<\/b> Gallic reptile Dominic Greene heads the environmental corporation Greene Planet which is also the cover for the sinister Quantum organisation. He is tasked by the group with securing a piece of land in Latin America that is rich in natural resources. To that end, he plans to restore an exiled dictator, General Medrano, to power, and in return Medrano will hand over this plot of land.<\/p> Fate:<\/b> You'll have to watch the movie<\/p> The Actor:<\/b> The son of journalists, French-born Amalri is probably best known for his portrayal of paralysed magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby in the four-time Academy Award nominated 2007 film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. He also starred in Sofia Coppola's all-star adaptation of Marie Antoinette and in the Steve Spielberg thriller Munich (which also featured Bond star Daniel Craig).<\/p>","url":"2008/7/28/quantum-of-solace-20-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"quantum of solace 20"}];
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\r\nBond: \"I'm sure they do\".
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