Bond Villains

Joseph Wiseman

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:18:36 GMT

Canadian actor Joseph Wiseman is the half Chinese, half German villain Dr. Julius No, the very first villain in the very first Bond. Memorable if only by that, but the mystery around him is huge, people talk about him all the time, like he's a super being, an urban legend; that only increases the curiosity of the spectator. Maybe not the best villain of the series, but deffinetely the ideal villain to begin it all. His visual is also great with the led gloves and the anti-radioactive suit. [img id=263295 width=500full]

Anthony Dawson

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:18:52 GMT

Anthony Dawson plays Professor R. J. Dent, an emplyee of Dr. No, a very important peice in building the mystery around the title character, who is unfortunate enough to meet Bond half way through the film. Dawson also played Blofeld in Thunderball, but we never see his face. [img id=928148 width=500full]

Lotte Lenya

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:19:41 GMT

Already in the second film of the series, we have a female villain. And what a villain. Rosa Klebb is cold, meticulous and precise. Her poisonous blade hidden in her boot is one of the highest points of the film. [img id=928153 width=500full]

Robert Shaw

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:19:56 GMT

Robert Shaw is also one of the best villains in the series. He plays Red Grant, a spy hired by SPECTRE, through Klebb to kill Bond. His fight with Bond on a train and the dialogue that precedes it are memorable. [img id=928152 width=500full]

Vladek Sheybal

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:58:55 GMT

Vladek Sheybal plays Russian chess master Kronsteen an agent for SPECTRE, who doesn't please Blofeld too much. Sheybal also appears as one of Le Chiffre's Representatives in the 1967 version of Casino Royale. [img id=928151 width=500full]

Gert Fröbe

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:20:28 GMT

Considered by many the best villain in the series, personally I don't agree, though he is among the greatest. German actor Gert Fröbe, plays Frenchman Auric Goldfinger, who has a lust for gold. The girl covered in gold is just a demonstration of his power. He is the only man who had Bond cornered in the palm of his hand, seconds away from death. This, I may agree, is the best trap for 007 yet. It is said that Gert Fröbe didn't spoke a very good English, so he had to be dubbed by a British actor. [img id=928157 width=500full]

Harold Sakata

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:20:40 GMT

Harold Sakata plays Oddjob, Goldfinger's butler, caddy and hitman. He doesn't say one word throughout the entire film, but he sure leaves his mark. On the neck of his victims. Oddjob is spoofed in the first Austin Powers film by a character named Random Task. Great joke. [img id=928160 width=500full]

Adolfo Celi

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:21:20 GMT

Italian actor Adolfo Celi is Emilio Largo, the #2 member of SPECTRE, only under Blofeld himself, which by now (the fourth film of the series) is very aware of the presence of James Bond and the damages he's been making in the organization. Largo throws Bond in a pool of sharks and fights him in a yatch speeding towards a reef. [img id=928164 width=500full]

Philip Stone

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:03:45 GMT

Philip Stone, a face well known for those who are fans of Kubrick's The Shining and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, has a cameo in Thunderball as SPECTRE member #5. [img id=928167 width=500full]

Donald Pleasence

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:21:55 GMT

Finnaly, after four films and five years of waiting, Ernest Stavro Blofeld shows himself. He's bald and has a scar on the left side of his face. But now, the magic and the mystery are gone. Donald Pleasence is a great actor, but I think he was not the ideal choise to be the face of such a mysterious character. Not scary or threatning enough maybe. [img id=264884 width=500full]

Teru Shimada

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:22:08 GMT

Teru Shimada plays Mr. Osato, Blofeld's main man in Japan. At first he fools Bond, but not for long. [img id=928170 width=500full]

Telly Savalas

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:22:55 GMT

Bond changes and Blofeld also changes. He's still bald, but loses the scar. Kojak is Blofeld now. In one of the best stories, and with a fairly good Bond, Telly Savalas is way scarier and threatning as Blofeld than Donald Pleasence was. Maybe because he's bigger or maybe because of his deeper voice. I don't know, but no doubt he works much better. [img id=264893 width=500full]

Ilse Steppat

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:23:08 GMT

Irma Bunt played by German Ilse Steppat is a memorable second villain, she's just as evil as Blofeld and is not afraid of doing the dirty work for him. One act of hers leaves a deep mark in Bond that would echo through a few films to come. [img id=928174 width=500full]

Charles Gray

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:23:42 GMT

This is the second appearece of Charles Gray in the series, in You Only Live Twice, he was Dikko Henderson, a friend of Bond's. In Diamonds Are Forever, he's the third encarnation of Blofeld, since he showed his face, who, now, has hair and is British once again - Telly Savalas was American. [img id=928177 width=500full]

Bruce Glover

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:23:55 GMT

Bruce Glover is Mr. Wint, another villain to stay in the Bond files because of his homosexual leanings (something beyond bold in 1971), but still pretty nasty with his victims. The scene with the scorpion gives quite an idea of how evil he can be. [img id=928175 width=500full]

Putter Smith

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:24:08 GMT

Putter Smith is Mr. Kidd, Mr. Wint's 'special friend'. They walk away holding hands at a moment. I wonder where did SPECTRE has gone to find those two. But they were quite a findning indeed. They gave lots of trouble to Bond. [img id=928176 width=500full]

Yaphet Kotto

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:24:37 GMT

The very talented Yaphet Kotto plays another great villain in the series, Kananga also known as Mr. Big. A supersticious man, who has his own fortune teller to follow him everywhere. He's a very powerful man. Since Roger Moore took the role of James Bond, SPECTRE wasn't seen anymore (unfortunately). [img id=928181 width=500full]

Julius Harris

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:24:51 GMT

Tee Hee played by Julius Harris has a very interesting gadget: a mechanical arm with a hook instead of an arm and a hand. He does lots of damages with that, but it also gives a leverage for Bond in a fight. He's the one that leaves Bond sorrounded by crocodiles in one of the most famous scenes in the series. [img id=928178 width=500full]

Geoffrey Holder

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:25:03 GMT

Baron Samedi is some kind of high priest that works for Kananga and he has a very nasty habit of just not staying dead. His sinister laugh is great. [img id=928179 width=500full]

Christopher Lee

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:26:32 GMT

Another unforgettable villain in the series (though it had potential for MUCH more) Christopher Lee is Francisco Scaramanga, a millionaire hitman hired only by the richest and most powerful people in the world, who has been following Bond's work for some time and decides to have a duel with him to see who's really the best at what they do. Lee is amazing really. He was in everything: James Bond, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, Dr. Fu Manchu, The Lord of the Rings, Sherlock Holmes, Star Wars, Sleepy Hollow, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Gremlins, The Three Musketeers, Alice in Wonderland. He was directed by Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, Laurence Olivier, Jacques Tati, George Lucas, Terence Fisher, Billy Wilder, John Huston. He's been around for over 50 years, no other actor nor actress has a curriculum quite like his. A living legend. [img id=263190 width=500full]

Hervé Villechaize

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:26:44 GMT

Tattoo on a Bond film... The island look the same... Even his costume looks the same... Weird... Maybe Nick Nack is Tattoo's evil twin. I could never see that coming. He's not scary. At all. Much less when he wants to be scary, that just makes him even funnier. Who did they tried to get to be Scaramanga before Christopher Lee? Ricardo Montalban? And the scariest part? Fantasy Island came a few years after The Man With the Golden Gun. Though it seems the other way around. [img id=928184 width=500full]

Maud Adams

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:27:02 GMT

Maud Adams plays Andrea Anders in The Man With the Golden Gun. Not exactly a villain herself, but the villain's girlfiriend, who happens to get involved with Bond and pays for it. Nine years later, in 1983, she would return as the title character in Octopussy, again, initially as the bad guy's girl. And yet again in 1985 as an extra in A View to a Kill. [img id=928186 width=500full]

Curd Jürgens

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:27:34 GMT

The amazing German actor Curd Jürgens plays another great villain, Karl Stromberg, a mad man obsessed with the ocean and it's creatures. A very cult man but also very crazy. His stone cold eyes and his grin while talking to his victims, moments before they die, are a great touch. Stromberg's underwater lair raising from the water (helped by some great soundtrack) is one of the most memorable scenes in the series. The Spy Who Loved Me is without a doubt the best of Moore's Bonds. The closest to Connery's Bonds that Moore ever got. [img id=928187 width=500full]

Richard Kiel

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:27:47 GMT

Richard Kiel is Jaws. Jaws is Richard Kiel. One of the most recognizable Bond villains ever. His mere presence is enough for anyone to sh*t their pants. Then, he smiles. Maybe the scariest scene of the whole series is when Major Anya Amasova (Barbara Bach) opens a door and he's on the other side with his 2 meters and his steel teeth, silent, while the train whistles. He survives The Spy Who Loved Me and returns in the following film, Moonraker. [img id=928189 width=500full]

Walter Gotell

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:28:03 GMT

In the first of many appearences, Major Gogol isn't exactly a villain, though he's Russian and the Cold War was fully functional back then, he thinks the villains that the MI-6 fights are just as harmful for his KGB. The enemy of my enemy is my friend? Sometimes. After The Spy Who Loved Me, Gogol would also appear in Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill and The Living Daylights. Always played by Walter Gotell. Who has also appeared in From Russia With Love, but as Morzeny, the man responsable for the training of Red Grant. [img id=928192 width=500full]

Michael Lonsdale

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:28:36 GMT

Michael Lonsdale is a multi-talented French actor, who had worked with François Truffaut, Luis Buñuel, Jean-Jacques Annaud and more recentely with Steven Spielberg, deserved a much better Bond film to act in. He does what he can as Hugo Drax, but the script just doesn't help. The producers were too busy thinking of different places for Bond to go to (including my country Brazil and the space) that they forgot the most important: the story. [img id=928190 width=500full]

Julian Glover

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:29:22 GMT

Bond is back to Earth with the second best of Moore's films. Julian Glover (also a villain in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Empire Strikes Back and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) is Aristotle Kristatos a rich Greek businessman who wants to deal a super secret code encryption device with the MI-6 and the KGB at the same time. Apparentely recongnizing the excesses of its predecessor, For Your Eyes Only has a much simpler story, with much better results. [img id=928191 width=500full]

Louis Jourdan

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:29:53 GMT

Octopussy is deffinetely not my favorite Bond, but that's not a bad thing, because it is for sure one of the most fun to watch, coming after the huge success of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Louis Jordan does a fine job as Kamal Khan and his plans of blowing a nuclear device in the US Air Force Base in India. Yes, not the most original plot, I agree, but it is still a fun ride from beginning to end. Even good old Q gets a peice of the action (and of the girls too). This is the closest that Bond got of Indiana Jones - not phisically I mean, obviously, that would be for Connery playing Henry Jones Sr. :) [img id=928193 width=500full]

Kabir Bedi

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:30:10 GMT

Indian Kabir Bedi is very scary as Gobinda, Khan's assistant, he even fights Bond outside a plane DURING a flight. Now that's a bad ass villain. [img id=928194 width=500full]

Christopher Walken

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:30:42 GMT

Academy Award winner Christopher Walken is another huge talent wasted in a weak Bond film (like Christopher Lee and Michael Lonsdale). The plot of A View to a Kill is exactly the same as Goldfinger. Lazy writers! Max Zorin, in spite of the weak story, is explored by Walken exactly the way he's good at. Being crazy. [img id=928195 width=500full]

Grace Jones

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:30:54 GMT

Another unusual choise by the producers, though not as unfortunate as Hervé Villechaize in The Man With the Golden Gun. Jones' May Day is a bad girl turned good by Bond's charms. [img id=928196 width=500full]

Willoughby Gray

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:53:29 GMT

As a former Nazi and Zorin's "father", Willoughby Gray is Dr. Carl Mortner also known as Hans Glaub. His monocle gives a nice "Bond Villain" touch. [img id=928197 width=500full]

Alison Doody

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:31:16 GMT

Alison Doody makes her film debut in A View to a Kill as Jenny Flex the hostess in Zorin's French chateau. [img id=928198 width=500full]

Dolph Lundgren

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:31:27 GMT

Can anybody spot Dolph Lundgren in A View to a Kill? I can. He makes a cameo, because at the time of the film, he was dating Grace Jones. [img id=928199 width=500full]

Joe Don Baker

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:31:58 GMT

Brad Whitaker is a different Bond Villain, and different is always welcome. During a training operation, a "00" agent is unexpectedly murdered. When British agent James Bond organises the defection of a top ranking Soviet general, the general divulges a plan by the KGB to kill all its enemy agents. Bond is suspicious of the plot, but nevertheless is ordered to kill the officer masterminding the operation. Nothing is what it seems in The Living Daylights and that solely is a very welcome change in the usual plots. Later, in GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies, Joe Don Baker returns, but this time as Jack Wade, a CIA agent allied with Bond. [img id=928200 width=500full]

Jeroen Krabbé

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:32:12 GMT

Jeroen Krabbé is General Georgi Koskov who's initially helped by Bond and the MI-6, but that later reveals himself to be something else. [img id=928201 width=500full]

Robert Davi

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:32:48 GMT

In Licence to Kill, Bond loses his, to fight Brian de Palma's Scarface. Robert Davi is Franz Sanchez a drug dealer who was caught in an opperation by the MI-6 and the CIA, but who shortly after his arrest, escapes and goes after the people who got him. Felix Leiter is dangerously wounded and Bond leaves the MI-6 to avenge his friend, by infiltrating in Sanchez's gang. [img id=928202 width=500full]

Benicio Del Toro

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:33:03 GMT

An almost unrecognizable Benicio del Toro is Dario, one of Sanchez's men. [img id=928203 width=500full]

Sean Bean

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:33:41 GMT

Sean Bean (again, an actor whose speciality is playing villains) is Alec Travelian, former agent 006, who's left behind by Bond in a mission (who thought he was dead) and has a grudge against him for that. To get the attention of the MI-6, and subsequentely, Bond's attention, he plans to steal the GoldenEye, a device that can generate an electro-magnetic pulse and destroy all electric devices around it. Good old revenge. [img id=928204 width=500full]

Famke Janssen

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:33:52 GMT

Famke Janssen is Xenia Onatopp, Travelian's ally, helps him to invade a Russian station, kill everyone, steal the GoldenEye and erase their traces after everything. [img id=928205 width=500full]

Robbie Coltrane

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:40:12 GMT

Russian gambler Zukovsky isn't exactly a villain, but he dislikes Bond enough to make the list. He appears twice in the series, in GoldenEye and again in The World is Not Enough. [img id=928206 width=500full]

Gottfried John

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:34:11 GMT

General Ourumov is the inside man, who makes possible the invasion for the theft of the GoldenEye. [img id=928207 width=500full]

Alan Cumming

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:34:23 GMT

The computer nerd Boris Grishenko was supposed to be the only survivor on the invasion to steal the Goldeneye, and in exchange he would hack inside the targets chosen for the GoldenEye to work its magic. [img id=928208 width=500full]

Jonathan Pryce

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:34:47 GMT

Tomorrow Never Dies has another great villain, Elliot Carver is a media mogul, some kind of Charles Foster Kane of the present, who makes the news to broadcast them later. A very interesting villain for the end of the XX century and beginning of the XXI. [img id=928211 width=500full]

Götz Otto

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:35:03 GMT

Mr. Stamper is Carver's man to make his news come true. [img id=928213 width=500full]

Teri Hatcher

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:35:16 GMT

Paris Carver is the wife of Elliot, who in the past, had a relationship with Bond. She's a victim of the circumstances more than properly a villain. She's one of the biggest reasons this is my favorite of Brosnan's Bonds. [img id=928210 width=500full]

Vincent Schiavelli

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:35:54 GMT

In a very short cameo, Vincent Schiavelli as Dr. Kaufman, has one of the best moments, not only in this film, but in the entire series. [img id=928214 width=500full]

Ricky Jay

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:35:32 GMT

Henry Gupta is just one more dispensable peice in Elliot Carver's manufacturing of news. [img id=928215 width=500full]

Sophie Marceau

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:36:24 GMT

Initially, shown as a victim, and for that, protected by Bond himself, Elektra King later reveals to be a someone completely different, in a plot twist cliche and predictable. [img id=928217 width=500full]

Robert Carlyle

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:36:40 GMT

Renard has an interesting detail, a few years before The World is Not Enough, Bond had put a bullet in his head, meaning to kill him, but he didn't died, and according to M, he now doesn't feel any pain, so he can push himself harder and longer than any other man. [img id=928221 width=500full]