OCTOBER 2022:

BONDING CHARACTERS…

While Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007 novels have been around since the 1950s, they were not adapted for film until the 1960s, when the exclusive film rights were signed over to Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli at EON Productions. It has been 60 years since EON Productions‘ first James Bond film was released in 1962, with Dr. No. There have been many James Bond‘s, six since the first film, Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and most recently, Daniel Craig. And while 007’s face may have changed over the 60 years, the Bond girls and villains that have loved and plagued him remain constant in the film series. With the 60^th anniversary of Bond films, this review looks at that history in films. Come on this mission with me as I review all of the Bond Girls and Villains that have appeared in 60 years of James Bond on the big screen!

Bond Girl(s)

Dr. No (1962)

Honey Ryder:

Honey Ryder was the first “Bond Girl” and was played by Swiss actress Ursula Andress. The first scene of Honey Ryder stepping out of the Caribbean sea wearing that signature white bikini and a large hunting knife at her side was not only incredibly popular with fans, but would set the tone for all future Bond girls in the films to come and would be tributed decades later in another Bond film with another Bond girl.

Sylvia Trench:

Sylvia Trench was played by English actress Eunice Gayson in the film. Sylvia Trench was introduced in her opening scene with a now iconic line used by James Bond, “Trench. Sylvia Trench.” Trench was Bond’s girlfriend for the first two Bond films, Dr. No and From Russia With Love. Trench had a running joke in the films that James Bond was called away on a mission just as things were heating up between them.

Miss Taro:

Miss Taro was played by English actress Zena Marshall in the film. Miss Taro was a spy in the film working for the villain, Dr. No. She got hired at the government house in Kingston, Jamaica so that she could steal secret files with details on her boss, Dr. No, and his lair at Crab Key Island. She befriended James Bond and tried to get close to him for Dr. No by inviting him to her house for dinner, where she laid a trap for his assassination. But Bond, being the secret agent he is, knew something wasn’t right and Bond instead had his men arrest Miss Taro, so he could lay a trap for the assassin.

From Russia With Love (1963)

Sylvia Trench:

Sylvia Trench was played by English actress Eunice Gayson in the film. Sylvia Trench returned in the second film, From Russia With Love as James Bond’s girlfriend.

Tatiana Romanova:

Tatiana Romanova was played by Italian actress Daniela Bianchi in the film. Tatiana Romanova was an employee of the Soviet Embassy in Istanbul and is coerced by the dangerous Rosa Klebb into a mission to seduce James Bond and lead him, unknowingly, to his death. Instead of leading him to his death, Tatiana helps Bond steal a Lektor decoding machine, and the pair escape on the Orient Express train. After a failed assassination attempt to kill Bond by henchman Red Grant, and another attempt by Klebb to kill him herself, Tatiana proves loyalty to Bond in the end.

Zora:

Zora was played by English actress Martine Beswick in the film. Zora was part of the Head of Station in Istanbul, Kerim Bey’s plan when taking Bond to a gypsy camp, where two girls, Zora and Vida, were to fight to the death over a man. Martine Beswick has been in Bond film history as TWO Bond girls. She returned three years later to play another Bond girl in Thunderball.

Vida:

Vida was played by Israeli actress Aliza Gur in the film. Vida was the second half of Zora and the girl fight at the gypsy camp. Their intense catfight of scratching and trying to kill themselves over a man was interrupted when an assassin attacked the camp and tried to kill Karem Bey. Bond saves his life and in return, Karem Bey honors Bond’s request to end the fighting. Happy that Bey survived the assassination attempt the two women are thankful for Bond and decide to entertain him for the remainder of the evening he spent in the camp.

Goldfinger (1964)

Pussy Galore:

Pussy Galore was played by English actress Honor Blackman in the film. Even with the evocative name of Pussy Galore, she was still an original character from the novel of the same name written by Ian Fleming. Galore was the ringleader of a flying circus of female pilots, who were hired by Auric Goldfinger to fly over Fort Knox and gas the soldiers so that Goldfinger could break into the gold vault.

Jill Masterson:

Jill Masterson was played by English actress Shirley Eaton in the film. Jill Masterson was the less dressed girl who used binoculars and an earpiece to help Auric Goldfinger cheat at cards. She later helps Bond in blackmailing Goldfinger into losing money after he catches Masterson at the game. She celebrates by having a few bottles of champagne with Bond, only to wind up dead later at the hands of Goldfinger’s henchman, Oddjob, in revenge for her betrayal. Jill Masterson is most often remembered for the scene after her death when Bond awoke to find her covered from head to toe in gold paint.

Tilly Masterson:

Tilly Masterson was played by English actress Tania Mallet in the film. Tilly Masterson was the sister of Jill Masterson and tried to assassinate Auric Goldfinger in revenge for the death of her sister. But she misses and almost hits Bond, due to her poor marksmanship and Bond soon takes an interest in her. Bond runs into Masterson once more when Tilly once again tries to assassinate Goldfinger and James has to stop her attempt once more. Only the second time around, the two are chased by Goldfinger’s hitmen and Tilly is killed by Oddjob’s steel-brimmed hat.

Bonita:

Bonita was played by Serbian actress Nadja Regin in the film. Bonita is part of the pre-title sequence scene, where Bond foils the plot of a heroin baron and blows up his operation. Before leaving Bond takes care of what he refers to as “unfinished business”, which was to have a bath with Bonita. But in reality, Bonita had set a trap for Bond using her seduction so that a henchman could knock him unconscious, but Bond sees the reflection in Bonita’s eyes, and she gets knocked on the head instead by the henchman as he is electrocuted in the bath and Bond says before leaving the room, “Shocking. Positively shocking.”

Dink:

Dink was played by English actress Margaret Nolan in the film. Margaret Nolan also played the Golden Girl in the title sequence and the pre-release advertising for Goldfinger. But in the film, the part of Jill Masterson would go to Shirley Eaton and Nolan was given the much smaller role of the pool-side masseuse named Dink. Her attraction to Bond, while she is shown massaging him in the scene, would go nowhere due to Felix Leiter arriving and needing to talk to Bond alone for what he called “man’s talk.”

Thunderball (1965)

Domino Derval:

Domino Derval was played by French actress Claudine Auger in the film. Domino Derval was the mistress of Emilio Largo, a SPECTRE agent. When Bond discovers that Largo has killed Domino’s brother, he decides to use that information to get her on his side. They officially meet underwater as Bond removes her trapped flipper from some coral and manages to convince her to help him in his plot against Emilio Largo using the information he has about her brother.

Paula Caplan:

Paula Caplan was played by English actress Martine Beswick in the film. This was her SECOND role as a Bond girl, she previously appeared in From Russia With Love as Zora. Paula Caplan was Bond’s liaison in Nassau, Bahamas. Caplan helped Bond to make contact with Domino Derval, but was captured by SPECTRE agents and took a cyanide pill ending her life to avoid torture.

Fiona Volpe:

Fiona Volpe was played by Italian actress Luciana Paluzzi in the film. Fiona Volpe was the typical Bond girl of the era, seducing men into traps at the behest of the villain after those men. While she was feisty and more competent than the many henchmen she was up against in the film, she was killed while dancing with James Bond. A henchman tries to shoot Bond in the back as part of the scene, but as Bond is quickly turning around the bullet misses him and lands in Volpe killing her instead.

Patricia Fearing:

Patricia Fearing was played by English actress Molly Peters in the film. In the film, Bond was sent to detoxify from too many martinis and Patricia Fearing was the nurse working at the Shrublands health clinic where Bond was sent. After a brush with death and being nearly killed by a SPECTRE agent Count Lippe, who was after Bond, Bond won the sympathy of Fearing and the two spent the night in a steam room with a mink glove.

Mademoiselle La Porte:

Mademoiselle La Porte was played by French actress Maryse Guy Mitsouko in the film. Mlle. La Porte was James Bond’s French liaison during his attendance of the funeral for SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar. Mlle. La Porte informs Bond that Bouvar was killed in his sleep and as the two leave the funeral she ends by asking Bond “Is there anything else our French station can do for Monsieur Bond?” Bond ends the scene by saying, “Later, Perhaps.”

You Only Live Twice (1967)

Kissy Suzuki:

Kissy Suzuki was played by Japanese actress Mie Hama in the film. Kissy Suzuki was a ninja that worked for the Japanese secret service working for Tiger Tanaka. When James Bond fakes his death to undergo surgery to disguise himself as a Japanese fisherman as part of his mission in Japan, Suzuki had a mock wedding and pretended to be his Japanese wife. This also allowed him to explore the quiet village with Kissy without being noticed by anyone.

Aki:

Aki was played by Japanese actress Akiko Wakabayashi in the film. Aki was the Japanese secret service’s senior agent under Tiger Tanaka. She tricked Bond into walking over a trapped door that leads right into Tanaka’s office while also saving Bond on numerous occasions, most memorably, at the Japan airport in Aki‘s Toyota 2000GT, but she meets her fate midway through the film when an assassin who tries to poison Bond poisons Aki instead.

Ling:

Ling was played by Chinese actress Tsai Chin in the film. Ling was helping Bond stage his death in the opening scenes to keep his enemies off his back while he was in Japan undercover as a Japanese fisherman. She was seen in bed with Bond at the beginning of the film as the two have a discussion in bed. Ling gets up and presses a button that rockets the bed upwards into the wall as two gunmen enter the room to kill Bond.

Helga Brandt:

Helga Brandt was played by German actress Karin Dor in the film. Helga Brandt was a SPECTRE henchwoman whose mission was to pretend to fall in love with James Bond and then let him believe Brandt had switched to his side so Bond would be vulnerable for Helga to kill him the next day. But when Helga fails to kill Bond, she is killed by the head of SPECTRE Ernst Stavro Blofeld who kills Brandt by dropping her into a pool of piranhas. Her character was modeled after the success of Bond girl Fiona Volpe in Thunderball.

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

Teresa di Vicenzo:

Teresa di Vicenzo was played by English actress Diana Rigg in the film. Teresa di Vicenzo was the most important of all Bond girls. Teresa di Vicenzo will become JAMES BOND’S WIFE, becoming Mrs. Tracy Bond by the end of the film. Teresa was rescued by Bond, and he eventually fell in love with her after she went through a troubled and suicidal time when they met. Bond promised they would have all the time in the world together at their wedding, but when they stop on a roadside to remove the flowers from their vehicle, Tracy Bond is assassinated by the head of SPECTRE, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

Ruby Bartlett:

Ruby Bartlett was played by English actress Angela Scoular in the film. Ruby Bartlett was unknowingly one of the “angels of death” at Blofeld’s Swiss clinic. Bartlett thought she was there to cure a chicken allergy, but Ruby was actually being hypnotized by Blofeld as part of his global plan to spread a crop virus all over the country. When Bartlett first meets Bond, disguised as Sir Hillary Bray, She discreetly uses lipstick to write her room number on his thigh, so that he can meet her there later that night.

Nancy:

Nancy was played by Hungarian actress Catherine Schell in the film. Nancy is a patient at the Swiss clinic where Bond is undercover as a patient, and due to Bond being the only man in the clinic, he attracted the attention of many of the girls. Bond notices Nancy in his room when he returns from being with Ruby Bartlett in her room under the name of Sir Hillary Bray. Bond looks into the mirror and says, “Hilly, you old devil” and then notices Nancy has snuck in.

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Tiffany Case:

Tiffany Case was played by American actress Jill St. John in the film. Jill St. John was the FIRST American Bond girl in the film series. Tiffany Case was a diamond smuggler in part of a smuggling pipeline that led to Blofeld, Case was supposed to pass the diamonds off to Courier Peter Franks. When Bond intercepts and impersonates Franks and takes the diamonds for himself, Bond‘s involvement saved Tiffany from being murdered and she switches to Bond’s loyalty and allegiance as a result.

Plenty O’Toole:

Plenty O’Toole was played by American actress Lana Wood in the film. Plenty O’Toole was a gold digger from Las Vegas who in her scene, helps a man gamble at the craps table until he loses all his money along with her interest. As she is turning to leave, O’Toole does a 180 when she hears James Bond asking for $10,000 in chips at the table. She helps Bond play craps, and he wins $50,000, Plenty decides to go back to Bond’s room with him, only to be greeted by Tiffany Case who was there waiting for Bond and some mobsters threw Plenty into the pool below.

Bambi:

Bambi was played by American actress Lola Larson in the film. Bambi and Thumper were two gymnastic bodyguards, who were holding Willard Whyte prisoner in his Las Vegas villa. Bond is introduced to them when he enters the villa to rescue Whyte and they introduce themselves and take turns attacking Bambi to keep him from rescuing Whyte.

Thumper:

Thumper was played by American actress Trina Parks in the film. Thumper and Bambi attack Bond with their Martial arts skills and keep kicking him to overcome him and Bond is at a loss, due to Thumper and Bambi being too quick and nimble for him to win. But Bond gains the high ground when the girls throw Bond into a pool, and he manages to push both of their heads underwater until they give up Willard Whyte’s location.

Marie:

Marie was played by French actress Denise Perrier in the film. Marie is whom Bond is told to find when he is seeking out Blofeld for revenge for killing his wife when the trail leads him from Tokyo to Cairo, where the gambler he interrogates tells him to “Marie…ask…Marie.” When Bond finds Marie and she asks, “Is there something I can do for you?” to which Bond replies, “There’s something I’d like you to get off your chest” and then removes her bra only to strangle her with it. Bond gets the information he is looking for and leaves Marie to pursue his lead elsewhere.

Live and Let Die (1973)

Solitaire:

Solitaire was played by English actress Jane Seymour in the film. Solitaire was the imprisoned psychic tarot card reader forced to work for heroin kingpin Dr. Kananga. She was a vital asset to Dr. Kananga because she predicted the movements of James Bond and other men who were a threat to his operations. Dr. Kananga imprisoned Solitaire away from men because, like her mother, she would lose her psychic gift if she were to make love. And when Solitaire draws the lover’s card from the tarot reading predicting the fate of her and Bond, Solitaire soon loses her powers and becomes a target of Dr. Kananga and his henchmen.

Rosie Carver:

Rosie Carver was played by American Actress Gloria Hendry in the film. Rosie Carver was a double agent working for the CIA and for Heroin Kingpin Dr. Kananga. But she wasn’t very good at being a double agent showing her inept and incompetent abilities that Bond saw right threw to Carver‘s deceit when Rosie checked into his room as Mrs. Bond and claimed to be taking him to the spot where an MI6 agent was killed. While picnicking in the area Bond confronts Carver about being a double agent and Bond threatens to kill her. She tries to run away from Bond only to be killed by a hidden gun in one of Dr. Kananga’s scarecrows.

Miss Caruso:

Miss Caruso was played by English actress Madeline Smith in the film. Miss Caruso was an agent of the Italian Secret Service. When meeting Miss Caruso when Bond is home in bed with her when the doorbell rings early in the morning and it’s ‘M’ who came unannounced with an urgent mission. ‘M’ mentions that the Italians are complaining about a missing agent named Miss Caruso, while Bond continually distracts ‘M’ from realizing she is in his home with the help of Miss Moneypenny who had accompanied ‘M’ to Bond’s home.

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

Mary Goodnight:

Mary Goodnight was played by Swedish actress Britt Ekland in the film. Mary Goodnight was Bond’s assistant in Hong Kong and had previously worked as his secretary in London. She helps Bond in locating the girlfriend of hitman Scaramanga. They are almost spending the night together when Goodnight is embarrassingly shoved into a cupboard when Miss Anders pays Bond a surprise visit. Mary is eventually kidnapped by Scaramanga, but after Bond kills him, Mary helps him escape from Scaramanga‘s island.

Andrea Anders:

Andrea Anders was played by Swedish actress Maud Adams in the film. Andrea Anders was the girlfriend of Scaramanga, the man with the golden gun. She sets Scaramanga up by sending a golden bullet to MI6 with 007 engraved in it, with the hope that Bond will think he is on Scaramanga’s hit list. Anders was hoping that Bond would kill Scaramanga and free her from his possession, however, Scaramanga finds out about Andrea‘s betrayal and shoots her through the heart. Maud Adams also pulled double duty as TWO Bond girls, she returns in Octopussy.

Saida:

Saida was played by English actress Carmen du Sautoy in the film. Saida was a Lebanese belly dancer and the ex-lover of agent 002, Bill Fairbanks. When Fairbanks is found dead, Bond visits her to find out what happened to Bill. Saida mentions that she found the bullet that killed Bill and that she uses it as a lucky charm belly button. Bond tries to steal it from Saida, but swallows it instead after getting hit in the back by a club bouncer.

Chew Mee:

Chew Mee was played by French actress Françoise Therry in the film. Chew Mee was the mistress of businessman Hai Fat. While visiting Hai Fat, Bond first sees Chew Mee while she was swimming naked in the palace’s pool. When Bond asks Chew Mee how the water as she invites Bond to come in and find out. Chew Mee’s scene was brief, and Bond never takes her up on that offer to get in the pool.

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Anya Amasova:

Anya Amasova was played by American actress Barbara Bach in the film. Code name ‘Triple X’, Anya Amasova was a KGB agent working for General Gogol. She and Bond were both given the same mission from their agencies, to retrieve stolen microfilms for a submarine tracking system, and when they meet their bosses in the Egyptian HQ, they are informed they should work together because MI6 and the KGB are cooperating on the mission at hand. They decide to work together, while also disagreeing at times to accomplish the mission.

Log Cabin Girl:

Log cabin girl was played by English actress Sue Vanner in the film. The log cabin girl is a KGB agent that James Bond was sleeping with in a scene of the film. When they are laying under the fur covers on the floor and isolated in the log cabin, ‘M’ sends a message to Bond’s wristwatch and tells him he is needed at HQ at once. As Bond is getting up to leave the log cabin girl sys to him, “But James, I need you.”, to which James Bond replies, “So does England.” As he walks out the door the log cabin girl contacts the KGB to tell them Bond has left.

Naomi:

Naomi was played by English actress Caroline Munro in the film. Naomi was an aid to Karl Stromberg and escorted Bond and Anya Amasova to his oceanic citadel aptly titled, The Atlantis. After the meeting ends with Bond, Stromberg instructs his henchman Jaws to kill Bond and Amasova. In an intense chase scene Bond and Amasova drive in a Lotus Esprit while Jaws shot at them from a car, and they are almost killed by a henchman with a sidecar missile that Naomi tried to shoot down from a helicopter, and Naomi ironically meets her demise when Bond blew up her helicopter with a surface-to-air missile.

Felicca:

Felicca was played by Bosnian actress Olga Bisera in the film. Felicca worked for Aziz Fekkesh who was a black-market dealer who was selling the submarine tracking system microfilms. She was ordered to seduce Bond by Fekkesh so that his henchman Sandor could have an opportunity to kill Bond. But Felicca takes a liking to Bond and when she sees Sandor trying to kill Bond, Felicca spins around and takes the bullet herself and dies.

Moonraker (1979)

Holly Goodhead:

Holly Goodhead was played by American actress Lois Chiles in the film. Holly Goodhead was an undercover CIA agent disguised as an Astronaut for the Hugo Drax organization. After she spends a night with Bond, Goodhead, and Bond meet at the top of Sugarloaf mountain in Rio and Jaws tries to kill them, and Holly’s cover is blown. Bond manages to escape from Jaws and rescue Holly after the pair are almost killed in a rocket blast chamber. They end up going to space together to shoot down Drax’s globes that contain a fatal gas meant to kill the human race on Earth.

Corinne Dufour:

Corinne Dufour was played by French actress Corinne Cléry in the film. Corinne Dufour was Hugo Drax’s personal assistant and pilot. She flew Bond over Drax’s estate, giving him a guided tour of the Moonraker complex, and she flew him to meet Drax. After a night spent with Bond, Dufour revealed the location of Drax’s safe, where Bond photocopied secret documents. When Drax discovers this, he has Corinne killed by his vicious pack of dogs.

Manuela:

Manuela was played by Aruban actress Emily Bolton in the film. Manuela was an agent working for station VH. She had tailed Bond after he left the airport in Rio and by the time he got to his hotel, Manuela was making Bond a vodka martini at the mini bar in his suite. She helped aid Bond in finding one of Hugo Drax’s warehouses but was a problem for Bond’s mission when Manuela was almost killed by Jaws, and he had to take time from the mission to save her.

Private Jet Hostess:

The private jet hostess is played by Moroccan actress Leila Shenna in the film. While James Bond is aboard a private jet enjoying the “last leg” of his journey with the hostess, he says to her, “I don’t think I’m going to fly with anyone else.” To which she replies, “You’re so right, Mr. Bond.” And pulls out a gun and points it at his face. We never learn the fate of the hostess after Bond is thrown from the plane with no parachute and he has to steal one mid-air from another man.

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Melina Havelock:

Melina Havelock was played by French actress Carole Bouquet in the film. Melina Havelock was the daughter of two marine explorers who were employed by the British Secret Service to do salvage work. Melina’s parents were killed by henchman Hector Gonzalez, and Havelock tracked down the henchman and killed him with a crossbow. She worked with James Bond to help uncover who ordered the attacks on her parents and they worked well together in eventually finding them.

Bibi Dahl:

Bibi Dahl was played by American actress Lynn-Holly Johnson in the film. Bibi Dahl was a young ice skater sponsored by the double agent Kristatos. She was a young woman deeply attracted to James Bond, but he turned her down every time due to her young age. Bond’s ally Columbo becomes Bibi Dahl‘s new sponsor at the end of the film when Kristatos is killed.

Countess Lisl von Schlaf:

Countess Lisl von Schlaf was played by Australian actress Cassandra Harris in the film. Countess Lisl von Schlaf was the mistress of Milos Columbo who was a Greek smuggler. Columbo asked Lisl to pretend to argue with him at dinner so she can leave with Bond to discover some information about him. She spends the night with Bond, and they end up getting along well together. Countess Lisl was tragically killed by henchman Locque when she accompanied Bond on a walk along the beach the next morning.

Octopussy (1983)

Octopussy:

Octopussy was played by Swedish actress Maud Adams in the film. Octopussy ran an all-women floating island, the women who lived there were acrobats for a circus that was really a front for a jewelry smuggling operation. Her partner in crime was Kamal Khan, who stole the jewelry for himself and tried to kill Octopussy. Octopussy had saved Bond’s life, so he repaid the favor and saved her life. Bond and Octopussy sail into the sunset with the acrobat women rowing for them after killing Khan.

Magda:

Magda was played by Swedish actress Kristina Wayborn in the film. Magda was Octopussy’s right-hand woman and assisted her smuggling partner Kamal Khan on many occasions throughout the film. Magda was sent by Khan to sleep with Bond to try and steal back a Fabergé egg he stole at an auction she attended. After Octopussy discovers that Kahn tried to kill her, her women and Magda storm Khan’s palace.

Bianca:

Bianca was played by English actress Tina Hudson in the film. Bianca was an MI6 agent assisting Bond in Latin America. She helped him disguise himself as Colonel Toro so he could infiltrate a military base and plant an explosive on a Cuban spy plane. The mission goes wrong, and Bianca sees James Bond getting taken away as a prisoner in an army jeep and she tries to rescue him. Bianca drove alongside the jeep and flirted with Bond’s captors by showing off her legs to distract them while Bond pulled their parachute cords.

A View To a Kill (1985)

Stacey Sutton:

Stacey Sutton was played by American actress Tanya Roberts in the film. Stacey Sutton inherited the Sutton Oil company from her father and megalomaniac Max Zorin tried to take it over. Zorin offered Stacey $5 million for her shares in the company, but she refused to sell them. When Bond heard of the check, he confronted her at her home. Initially, Stacey was aggressive with Bond and even pointed a gun at him. However, when some of Zorin’s henchmen show up to convince Sutton to sell her shares, she only trusted Bond after he protected Stacey from the henchmen. The two escape an attempt on their lives and kill Zorin in the process.

May Day:

May Day was played by Jamaican actress Grace Jones in the film. May Day was the girlfriend of Max Zorin and also worked as his most trusted assassin. May Day is responsible for killing Bond’s chauffeur and tried to kill Bond on several occasions. Later in the film, May Day realizes that has been double-crossed by Zorin who left her to die in an explosion that would cause a flood into silicon valley. May Day joins up with James Bond to remove the bomb and risked herself to save everyone else and met her fate.

Kimberley Jones:

Kimberley Jones was played by Swedish actress Mary Stävin in the film. Kimberley Jones was an MI6 agent who assisted Bond on his mission in Siberia to recover a lost microchip from an assassinated agent 003. Bond snowboards down a mountain to avoid a helicopter and a gang of hitman skiers that are after him. Kimberley was waiting for him when he got to the bottom of the mountain in a boat disguised as an iceberg. Bond pulls out some beluga caviar and a bottle of Vodka and the microchip, and mentions that it would be five days until they made it to Alaska.

Pola Ivanova:

Pola Ivanova was played by Nigerian actress Fiona Fullerton in the film. Pola Ivanova was a KGB agent working for General Gogol in the film. She recorded incriminating evidence against Max Zorin and escaped with the evidence on tape. Bond follows her and then they recognize each other from another mission. They spend the evening at a spa together in a hot tub, and when Bond is taking a shower Pola sneaks out with the tape but realizes later that Bond had replaced it with a fake.

The Living Daylights (1987)

Kara Milovy:

Kara Milovy was played by Dutch actress Maryam d’Abo in the film. Kara Milovy was the girlfriend of Georgi Koskov, a traitor playing both sides in the cold war. Koskov pretends to defect to the West and got Milovy to shoot blanks at him to make it seem more real. He did this knowing Bond was assigned to protect him and then Bond would have to kill Kara. But when Koskov was discovered to be a traitor, Bond met her by saying he was a friend of Koskov’s. He gained Kara’s trust and revealed his identity to her and gained a brave ally in his mission by doing so.

Linda:

Linda was played by American actress Kell Tyler in the film. Linda was a lady of leisure who was aboard a boat complaining on the phone to a friend and says, “It’s all so boring here Margo, there’s nothing but playboys and tennis pros. Ugh, if only I could find a real man.” At which point Bond lands his parachute smoldering and holey on the yacht. He hangs up Linda‘s phone and calls to exercise control. Bond says that he would report in an hour but quickly changes his mind when Linda holds up a glass of champagne.

Licence to Kill (1989)

Pam Bouvier:

Pam Bouvier was played by Carey Lowell in the film. Pam Bouvier was a CIA freelance pilot and was also an informant against drug cartel leader Franz Sanchez. Bond discovered her name on an informant list along with the time and location of her next meeting with her handler. Bond meets Pam at a bar and escapes with her after Sanchez’s henchmen show up. Pam also flies Bond undercover as an executive secretary for Franz, to Isthmus City to find Sanchez.

Lupe Lamora:

Lupe Lamora was played by American actress Talisa Soto in the film. Lupe Lamora was the mistress of drug cartel leader Franz Sanchez. Lupe was frequently unfaithful, and Sanchez went to deal with one of her lovers in Florida and got himself arrested by the DEA in the process. Bond met Lamora by happenstance while trying to kill someone aboard her boat. They cross paths again at a casino, and Bond forced Lupe to take him upstairs to meet Sanchez. Although Bond was involved with her, he left with Pam Bouvier at the end of the film.

Goldeneye (1995)

Natalya Simonova:

Natalya Simonova was played by Polish-Swedish actress Izabella Scorupco in the film. Natalya Simonova was a programmer that worked at a Russian Space Control Centre on the GoldenEye project, along with Boris Grishenko. Xenia Onatopp and General Ourumov staged a test drill of the GoldenEye in the centre, and after getting the launch keys, Onatopp shot everyone in the centre. Natalya manages to escape from the centre and contacts Boris over the internet. Unbeknownst to Simonova, Grishenko is a traitor working with Xenia and Natalya is captured as a result. Bond helps her escape from a near-death experience after he is captured as well, the two pair up, and with the use of Natalya’s computer skills, she helps Bond keep GoldenEye from being used by Boris Grishenko and Xenia Onatopp.

Xenia Onatopp:

Xenia Onatopp was played by Dutch actress Famke Janssen in the film. Xenia Onatopp was the henchwoman of traitor General Ourumov in the film. Xenia stole a Tiger helicopter, a prototype that was resistant to electromagnetic pulses. She then helped the General steal codes and the launch keys for the GoldenEye satellite weapon from the Severnaya Space Control Centre. Onatopp killed everyone in the centre and programmed GoldenEye to destroy the facility with electromagnetic pulses that wouldn’t affect the Tiger helicopter. Xenia would flirt with Bond and tries to kill him on multiple occasions.

Caroline:

Caroline was played by English actress Serena Gordon in the film. Caroline was a psychological evaluator who worked for MI6 and was evaluating James Bond in the film. She was sent by ‘M’ to evaluate Bond who took her for a drive in his Aston Martin DB5. Bond drove very fast with her in the car and engaged in a race with Xenia Onatopp, making Caroline very uncomfortable and scared in the car. After screaming for Bond to slow down the car. Bond stops the car abruptly, and seduces Caroline with a bottle of Bollinger champagne hidden in an armrest. Bond says they can proceed with a “very thorough evaluation.”

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Wai Lin:

Wai Lin is played by Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh in the film. Yeoh did most of her own stunts in the film. Wai Lin was a Red Chinese agent and was given the same mission as Bond, to investigate media tycoon Elliot Carver. Carver had been suspected of causing tragic events so that he could profit off them and get exclusive coverage and increase his ratings. Wai Lin was intelligent and worked more cleverly than Bond on several occasions. They teamed up eventually and worked together to storm Elliot’s stealth ship.

Paris Carver:

Paris Carver was played by American actress Teri Hatcher in the film. Paris Carver was the wife of media tycoon Elliot Carver, and also an ex-lover of James Bond. When Carver was under suspicion as a terrorist, ‘M’ sent Bond to seduce her and use her prior relationship with him to gain access to information about Elliot Carver. Paris wasn’t happy to see Bond since the last time she saw him, he disappeared forever. Paris refused to help Bond because of how he treated her. However, when Elliot sees Paris talking to James and tries to kill her, she changes her mind and tells Bond everything. Carver sends his henchman Dr. Kaufman to kill her and try to set James up to take the fall for her murder and get exclusive coverage of the scene and his arrest.

Professor Inga Bergstrom:

Professor Inga Bergstrom was played by Danish actress Cecilie Thomsen in the film. Professor Inga Bergstrom was a professor of Danish at Oxford University. Bond says, “I’ve always enjoyed studying a new tongue professor.”, to which Inga replies “One might say you have a natural ability.” The camera then pans out from the closeup to reveal them in bed together when ‘M’ calls him about a mission.

The World is Not Enough (1999)

Dr. Christmas Jones:

Dr. Christmas Jones was played by American actress Denise Richards in the film. Dr. Christmas Jones was a nuclear physicist working for an international agency that decommissioned nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union era. Bond helps her escape from an explosion and Dr. Jones helped him investigate a bomb traveling along Elektra King’s oil pipeline. Christmas discovers that half the plutonium was missing, which helped Bond discover King’s true intentions in time to stop her plan. The two spend Christmas together in Turkey at the end of the film.

Elektra King:

Elektra King was played by French actress Sophie Marceau in the film. Elektra King was the daughter of Sir Robert King, a wealthy oil baron and close friend of ‘M’’s. When Elektra was kidnapped by villain Renard, ‘M’ persuaded Sir Robert not to pay the ransom. Elektra developed Stockholm syndrome because of him not paying and felt sympathy for Renard and resented her father. Elektra King kills her father and plans to destroy Istanbul in a nuclear explosion so that her inherited oil pipeline would have a monopoly.

Dr. Molly Warmflash:

Dr. Molly Warmflash was played by English actress Serena Scott Thomas in the film. Dr. Molly Warmflash was the chief medical officer at MI6, and Bond convinces her to clear him for duty after an explosion dislocated his collar bone. Although Bond is not technically fit for duty, Dr. Warmflash clears him and Bond seduces Molly, who agrees to go along if he promises to call her this time. Moneypenny read off the report, which mentioned that Bond had “Exceptional stamina.”

Die Another Day (2002)

Jinx:

Jinx was played by American actress Halle Berry in the film. Since Die Another Day was the 20^th Bond film, and it also marked the 40^th anniversary of the series, Jinx was introduced in the style of Honey Ryder. Jinx rose from the sea in a bikini and a hunting knife attached to her side, like the first Bond girl in Dr. No. Jinx worked for the NSA and was assigned to hunt down Zao and kill him. Jinx and Bond cross paths in their missions and eventually work together and end up together, naked on the floor embracing each other, with a pile of diamonds next to them at the end of the film, because diamonds are forever.

Miranda Frost:

Miranda Frost was played by English actress Rosamund Pike in the film. Miranda Frost was an MI6 agent assigned to investigate Gustav Graves. Undercover and also an Olympic fencing champion, Frost worked as Graves’ publicist and fencing partner. Bond discovered that Miranda was a double agent working for Gustav, and Gustav Graves was responsible for killing off Miranda Frost’s competition in the Olympics so that she could win gold.

Peaceful Fountains of Desire:

Peaceful Fountains of Desire was played by Filipino actress Rachel Grant in the film. Peaceful Fountains of Desire was a masseuse working for Mr. Chang at the Hong Kong Yacht Club Hotel. Bond arrived and was put in the presidential suite and was surprised with a complimentary masseuse knock at the door. Bond knew that Mr. Chang was with Chinese intelligence and rubbed his hand down the girl’s leg and took her gun. Bond smashed a nearby mirror to reveal Mr. Chang spying on him, and talked directly to Mr. Chang instead of having Peaceful Fountains of Desire find out the information for him.

Casino Royale (2006)

Vesper Lynd:

Vesper Lynd was played by French actress Eva Green in the film. Vesper Lynd worked for Her Majesty’s Treasury and was assigned to manage the funds lent to James Bond for a poker game at the Casino Royale in Montenegro, sponsored by villain Le Chiffre. While on a break from the game, Vesper gets caught up with James in a fight that involved a client, Steven Obanno, Le Chiffre had stolen money from him and was trying to win back with the poker game. It ended with Obanno’s death after a bloody fight. Bond found Vesper shivering on the shower floor fully dressed, in the room they shared upstairs at the Casino Royale. James comforted Lynd and helped her clean the blood off of her body from the fight downstairs. The two bond over this moment and later are captured and Vesper Lynd unknowingly to James spares Bond’s life in a series of events that led to the end of her own life by suicide at the end of the film.

Solange Dimitrios:

Solange Dimitrios was played by Italian actress Caterina Murino in the film. Solange Dimitrios was the wife of Alex Dimitrios who was a connection to Le Chiffre whom James Bond was trying to get information on. Solange joined Alex at the poker table of the hotel Bond was at purposely to run into him, but was dismissed from the table for being late by several hours and was told to go sit at the bar, where she looked utterly bored. At the end of the night, her husband’s Aston Martin DB5 was brought around by the valet, and Solange Dimitrios gets inside. However, her husband lost it to Bond in a poker game, and he used his charm to tempt her back to his place for a drink.

Quantum of Solace (2008)

Camille Montes:

Camille Montes was played by Ukrainian French actress Olga Kurylenko in the film. Camille Montes was a Bolivian agent whose family was murdered by General Medrano. She slept with Medrano’s business acquaintance Dominic Greene to try and get close enough to General Medrano to be able to kill him for revenge. The plan fails and Camille is almost killed in a fire, the same way her family died. She survived the fire with scars over most of her body. Montes is saved by James Bond after she freezes up in fear in the engulfed fire and he helps her escape, but not before they team up to kill Medrano and Greene.

Strawberry Fields:

Strawberry Fields was played by English actress Gemma Arterton in the film. Strawberry Fields was an MI6 office worker in Bolivia at the British consulate that was tasked with ensuring that James Bond flew back home to London. She failed to get Bond on a plane, and Fields spent the night with him instead. She went with Bond to Dominic Greene’s fundraiser and helps Bond in his escape by tripping one of Greene’s henchmen down a flight of stairs. Greene got his revenge by leaving Strawberry‘s dead body on Bond’s bed, covered in oil from head to toe, in a throwback to Bond girl Jill Masterson from Goldfinger.

Skyfall (2012)

Eve Moneypenny:

Eve Moneypenny was played by English actress Naomie Harris in the film. In the Daniel Craig era and in Skyfall, Eve Moneypenny was a young very new MI6 agent, and she nearly kills James Bond in an accidental shooting that sends him down a river off a train moving across a bridge. Moneypenny reassesses her career within MI6 after the event and decides to help Gareth Mallory transition into his new job at Her Majesty’s Secret Service, replacing ‘M’, who is retiring from service after this last mission in Skyfall, it coincided with Judi Dench, who had played ‘M’ for 16 years in the series and was retiring from the role due to her older age.

Sévérine:

Sévérine was played by French actress Bérénice Marlohe in the film. Sévérine was a captive of Raoul Silva’s, who had taken her out of the Macau sex trade at a young age. Bond meets her at the casino and convinces Sévérine that he could kill Silva and set her free if she helped Bond get to him. After killing her bodyguards, Bond managed to escape the casino and traveled with Sévérine to Silva’s private island. The pair are caught and for Sévérine’s betrayal, Silva placed a glass of Scotch on Sévérine’s head and asked Bond to shoot it off. Bond purposely misses the shot, but Silva shot Sévérine in the head anyway, killing her and knocking off the Scotch. Bond coldly commented that it was a waste of a good Scotch.

Spectre (2015)

Dr. Madeleine Swann:

Dr. Madeleine Swann was played by French actress Léa Seydoux in the film. Dr. Madeleine Swann is the daughter of a SPECTRE assassin and a doctor in the Austrian alps, where she is hiding from her father and his life with SPECTRE. Dr. Swann comes into contact with James Bond at her clinic in the Austrian alps, and while there is a spark between them, their first meeting is abrupt, and Madeleine is taken by SPECTRE men. Bond rescues her and she isn’t happy because she wants nothing to do with him and explains that Bond brought danger to her by being followed.

Lucia Sciarra:

Lucia Sciarra was played by Italian actress Monica Bellucci in the film. Bond arrives in Italy for the funeral of a SPECTRE connection and Lucia Sciarra is the wife of the Mafioso and is now a widow. There is a target on her head with Lucia‘s husband now dead and even though Bond saves her from death one time, Sciarra knows it’s a matter of time before SPECTRE kills her. Lucia decides to help Bond and tells him where the meeting to replace her husband in the organization will take place. Before Bond leaves, he calls his friend in the C.I.A., Felix Leiter, to extract Sciarra and place her somewhere in another country where she will be safe.

Estrella:

Estrella was played by Mexican actress Stephanie Sigman in the film. Estrella was the woman Bond was walking around the Day of the Dead celebration with while he was on a spy mission. When Bond and Estrella enter her room, she proceeds to the bed and Bond proceeds out the window never to see her again.

No Time to Die (2021)

Dr. Madeleine Swann:

Dr. Madeleine Swann was played by French actress Léa Seydoux in the film. Dr. Madeleine Swann returns in the film as a main character now that James Bond has left Her Majesty’s Secret Service to be with Madeleine. SPECTRE sets up James to believe Dr. Swann betrayed him while he visited the grave of Vesper Lynd at her request. He vows to never see her again. When Bond returns to service, he sees her again years later while visiting Ernst Stavro Blofeld in a prison. They are reunited and Madeleine is taken by villain Lyutsifer Safin, and Bond must come to her rescue one last time.

Nomi:

Nomi is played by English actress Lashana Lynch in the film. Lynch is the first female and black 007 in the film series. Nomi took Bond’s status when he left the service, and when he returns to service to help on a mission, she works with Bond. Nomi also helps Bond to save Madeleine from Lyutsifer Safin’s island. Not before she first worked against him earlier in the movie and beats him to mission spots and getting to a scientist for SPECTRE first.

Paloma:

Paloma was played by Cuban actress Ana de Armas in the film. Paloma was James Bond’s C.I.A. contact in Cuba while trying to track down a scientist for SPECTRE. She helps James enter a party for SPECTRE and helps him escape and capture the scientist at the party, but not before the scientist kills all of SPECTRE with a DNA bioweapon that was meant to kill Bond but failed to kill him and the sequence killed SPECTRE instead.

Bond Villain(s)

Dr. No (1962)

Dr. Julius No:

Dr. Julius No was played by Canadian American actor Joseph Wiseman in the film. Dr. Julius No wanted to use a nuclear radio to topple Cape Canaveral’s space program. James Bond disables the radio beam by overloading the nuclear reactor. Dr. Julius No slowly boils to death in the reactor’s cooling vat after a struggle with Bond.

From Russia With Love (1963)

Colonel Rosa Klebb:

Colonel Rosa Klebb was played by Austrian American actress Lotte Lenya in the film. Colonel Rosa Klebb was supposed to trick James Bond and MI6 into stealing a Soviet decoder machine called the Lektor so that she can then steal it from Bond. She was also tasked with destroying Bond’s reputation in a humiliating sex scandal and eventually will try killing him as revenge for the death of Dr. No.

Ernst Stavro Blofeld:

Ernst Stavro Blofeld was played by Scottish actor Anthony Dawson and was voiced by Austrian actor Eric Pohlmann in the film. It was Ernst Stavro Blofeld‘s plan to trick James Bond and MI6 into stealing a Soviet decoder machine called the Lektor so that she can then steal it from Bond, as well as destroy Bond’s reputation in a humiliating sex scandal. His plan fails when Bond acquires the device for MI6 and evaded SPECTRE’s attempts on his life. Blofeld is shot in the cheat by Tatiana Romanova during an attempt to murder Bond after her last plan failed. Blofeld survives and there is no further contact between Bond and Blofeld.

Goldfinger (1964)

Auric Goldfinger:

Auric Goldfinger was played by German actor Gert Fröbe in the film. Auric Goldfinger’s plan to get richer involved irradiating the gold in Fort Knox with a nuclear weapon to exponentially increase the value of his own gold but his plan fails when an American technician safely disables the bomb. Goldfinger meets his fate by being sucked out of a shattered window of a depressurized plane and falling to his death.

Thunderball (1965)

Emilio Largo:

Emilio Largo was played by Italian actor Adolfo Celi in the film. Emilio Largo is part of SPECTRE and Blofeld’s plan to steal two atomic bombs and use them to extort money from various world governments. SPECTRE is led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

Ernst Stavro Blofeld:

Ernst Stavro Blofeld was played by Scottish actor Anthony Dawson and was voiced by Austrian actor Eric Pohlmann in the film. Ernst Stavro Blofeld leads SPECTRE and the plan to steal two atomic bombs and use them to extort money from various world governments. The bombs are recovered and safely destroyed by Bond and the U.S. Coast Guard. He survives a shot to the back with a harpoon by his mistress Domino and disappears into the unknown.

You Only Live Twice (1967)

Ernst Stavro Blofeld:

Ernst Stavro Blofeld was played by English actor Donald Pleasance in the film. Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s plan was to trigger a war between the United States and the Soviet Union, on behalf of China, by capturing their space capsules mid flight. Blofeld’s plan fails when James Bond uses the self-destruct button in Blofeld’s lair to destroy the Bird One spacecraft. Ernst Stavro Blofeld survives although wounded.

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

Ernst Stavro Blofeld:

Ernst Stavro Blofeld is played by American actor Telly Savalas in the film. Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s plan was to distribute an infertility-based viral plague to destroy livestock and cereals unless the United Nations issues Blofeld a pardon and the title of count by the College of Arms. Blofeld’s plan fails when James Bond and Marc Ange Draco destroy the laboratory and radio station that commands the distribution of the virus. Blofeld survives despite a neck injury from the destruction. His henchwoman Irma Bunt assassinates Tracy di Vicenzo, Bond’s newly married wife on her honeymoon with Bond.

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Ernst Stavro Blofeld:

Ernst Stavro Blofeld was played by English actor Charles Gray in the film. Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s plan was to steal diamonds to fabricate a laser satellite that can remotely detonate nuclear stockpiles, then use that same laser to extort the world’s nuclear powers. His plan fails when James Bond smashes Blofeld’s mini submarine against the control room of his lair, disables the satellite, and causes severe damage to his lair. Ernst Stavro Blofeld survives the fiery demolition of the control room of his oil rig headquarters since he returns in the opening of For Your Eyes Only when Bond drops him down an industrial chimney.

Live and Let Die (1973)

Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big:

Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big was played by American actor Yaphet Kotto in the film. Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big’s plan was to distribute a large cache of heroin into the United States without cost and drove his competitors out of business and gain a monopoly on heroin sales in the United States. His plan fails when Quarrel Jr destroys Kananga’s poppy fields with a series of explosions. Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big meets his fate when James Bond makes him ingest a compressed gad pellet causing him to inflate and explode.

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

Francisco Scaramanga:

Francisco Scaramanga was played by English actor Christopher Lee in the film. Francisco Scaramanga’s plan was to kill James Bond and sell the Solex Agitator, a device that can harness solar energy for destruction purposes. His plan is ruined when James Bond retrieves the Agitator for MI6 and defeats Scaramanga in mortal combat. Scaramanga is shot in the chest by Bond during a duel at the end of the film.

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Kari Stromberg:

Kari Stromberg was played by German-Austrian actor Curt Jürgens in the film. Kari Stromberg’s plan was to capture a British submarine and a Soviet submarine and use them to trick Britain and the USSR into starting a nuclear war. Once he can decimate the world’s population, he can replicate the Earth with a new society under his control formed in underwater secret bases under the ocean. The plan fails when James Bond redirects the British and Soviet nuclear missiles’ coordinates so that the missile fired by each sub hits the other and they destroy themselves.

Moonraker (1979)

Hugo Drax:

Hugo Drax was played by French actor Michael Lonsdale in the film. Hugo Drax’s plan was to fire a nerve agent from space and poison the Earth’s atmosphere and kill off the human population. Drax then wants to rebuild humanity in space with carefully selected humans. The plan fails when the space station containing the poisonous globes is destroyed by US Marines, and the three globes that were launched are destroyed by James Bond and Holly Goodhead. Hugo Drax meets his fate when he is shot with a poison-tipped dart by Bond and ejected into outer space.

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Aristotle Kristatos:

Aristotle Kristatos was played by English actor Julian Glover in the film. Aristotle Kristatos had the plan to retrieve an ATAC missile command system lost by the British in a shipwreck and sell it to the Soviet Union. He also wanted to trick James Bond and MI6 into killing his main rival, Milos Columbo. His plan fails when Bond joins forces with Melina Havelock and Milos Columbo to infiltrate Kristatos’ hideout and throw the device off a cliff destroying it for good.

Octopussy (1983)

Prince Kamal Khan:

Prince Kamal Khan was played by French actor Louis Jourdan in the film. Prince Kamal Khan’s plan was to execute General Orlov’s plan in exchange for being paid with jewels stolen from the Kremlin. The plan fails when the jewels are recovered by the KGB. Khan attempts to escape in his plane, but James Bond disables the left engine of the plane and causing Prince Kamal Khan to crash into a mountain and kill him.

General Orlov:

General Orlov was played by English actor Steven Berkoff in the film. General Orlov’s plan was to smuggle a nuclear warhead onto a US Air Force Base in West Germany and detonate it to clear a path for the Soviet Bloc to conquer Western Europe. His plan is ruined when James Bond, with the help of Octopussy, disarms the bomb at the end of the film.

A View To a Kill (1985)

Max Zorin:

Max Zorin was played by American actor Christopher Walken in the film. Max Zorin’s plan was to trigger an earthquake along the San Andreas fault to destroy Silicon Valley and as a result, wipe out his competitors in the microchip market and give him a monopoly. Zorin’s plan fails when he leaves May Day to die and enraged, she smuggles the bomb out of the blast radius and sacrifices herself. Zorin meets his fate when he falls from the top of the Golden Gate Bridge during a fight with James Bond.

The Living Daylights (1987)

General Georgi Koskov:

General Georgi Koskov was played by Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbé in the film. General Georgi Koskov’s plan was to fake a military defection and trick MI6 into killing his rival, General Pushkin, to cover up his weapon smuggling ring, which Pushkin was investigating. His plan fails when James Bond and Pushkin fake Pushkin’s assassination and Bond destroys the shipment of opium that General Koskov was going to use to buy weapons for Brad Whitaker. General Koskov is arrested by General Pushkin and then implied to be executed by the Soviet government off-screen.

Brad Whitaker:

Brad Whitaker was played by American actor Joe Don Baker in the film. Brad Whitaker’s plan was to engage in a triangle deal with Koskov and the Mujahadeen, where Whitaker will get valuable opium in exchange for high-tech weapons. His plan is ruined when James Bond destroys the shipment of Opium and ruins the deal. Whitaker meets his fate when Bond activates a bomb disguised as a key chain and it drops a bust of Wellington on Brad Whitaker and crushes him.

Licence to Kill (1989)

Franz Sanchez:

Franz Sanchez was played by American actor Robert Davi in the film. Franz Sanchez’s plan was to smuggle a large shipment of cocaine into Asia by dissolving the substance in oil. His plan fails when James Bond destroys the refinery used to dissolve the cocaine and later the four takers that are already filled with dissolved cocaine. Franz meets his fate when Bond sets him on fire, he is already soaked in gasoline due to the tanker crash. And Bond uses the lighter that Felix Leiter gifted him. While Sanchez is on fire, he stumbles into a leaking tank truck and causes the leaked gasoline to catch fire and the tank explodes, killing Franz Sanchez.

Goldeneye (1995)

Alec ‘Janus’ Trevelyan:

Alec ‘Janus’ Trevelyan was played by English actor Sean Bean in the film. Alec ‘Janus’ Trevelyan’s plan was to use the GoldenEye EMP weapon to destroy London’s economy in revenge for the British reparation of the Lienz Cossacks. And he also aimed to eliminate Severnaya survivor Natalia Simonova, before she becomes too much trouble as a witness. Alec‘s plan fails when James Bond brings Natalia to Janus’ Cuban radio telescope base, where she begins to access the remaining GoldenEye satellite and reprograms it to initiate atmospheric re-entry, which would destroy itself. Before Trevelyan’s henchman Boris is able to undo Natalia’s programming, Bond sabotages the dish’s antenna by jamming its gears and rendering Boris unable to communicate with the GoldenEye and stop it from self-destructing.

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Elliot Carver:

Elliot Carver was played by Welsh actor Jonathan Pryce in the film. Elliot Carver’s plan was to cause a war between the United Kingdom and China by firing a cruise missile from a sunken British warship toward Beijing. And Elliot wants to do both so he can arrange broadcasting deals with the Chinese government and so that his media empire will have more news to cover. His plans fail when James Bond destroys Carver’s stealth boat in a massive explosion, destroying the missile before it can launch. Carver meets his fate when he’s pushed into the path of his own Sea-Vac drill and it tears him to shreds.

The World is Not Enough (1999)

Elektra King:

Elektra King was played by French actress Sophie Marceau in the film. Elektra King’s plan was to gain a monopoly on crude oil in Europe by setting off a nuclear explosion in Istanbul to destroy a competing pipeline. Her plan fails when James Bond kills her and then stops the detonation of the submarine. Elektra died when she was shot in the chest by Bond after she refused to order Renard to surrender.

Victor ‘Renard’ Zokas:

Victor ‘Renard’ Zokas was played by Scottish actor Robert Carlyle in the film. Victor ‘Renard’ Zokas’s plan was to detonate a nuclear submarine in the waters of Istanbul to carry out Elektra’s plan. He fails when James Bond kills him before he can overload the submarine’s reactor. Renard meets his fate when Bond impaled him with a plutonium rod that was shot out of the submarine’s reactor core at high speed.

Die Another Day (2002)

Gustav Graves/Colonel Tan-Sun Moon:

Gustav Graves/Colonel Tan-Sun Moon was played by English actor Toby Stephens and American actor Will Yun Lee in the film. Gustav Graves’, who is Colonel Tan-Sun Moon in disguise, had the plan to use the sun-enhancing satellite Icarus to cut a path through the Korean Demilitarization Zone, provoking a war between North and South Korea. His plan fails when Icarus is rendered harmless when James Bond destroys the control device. Graves meets his fate when Bond pulls the cord on his parachute, and it sucks him into the plane’s engine upon getting electrocuted.

Casino Royale (2006)

Le Chiffre:

Le Chiffre was played by Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen in the film. Le Chiffre’s plan was to recoup his client’s squandered funds by winning a poker game tournament at the Casino Royale in Montenegro. Le Chiffre’s plan is ruined when James Bond shows up at the Casino and wins the game and all of his clients recouped funds. Le Chiffre meets his fate when he is shot in the head by the mysterious Mr. White.

Mr. White:

Mr. White was played by Danish actor Jesper Christensen in the film. Mr. White’s plan was to assassinate Le Chiffre and steal back the recouped funds of Le Chiffre’s clients. He succeeds in his plan but is arrested by James Bond in the final seconds of the film.

Quantum of Solace (2008)

Dominic Greene:

Dominic Greene was played by French actor Mathieu Amalric in the film. Dominic Greene’s plan was to carry out a coup d’état in Bolivia and install his puppet, General Medrano, in exchange for land hiding a massively valuable undiscovered aquifer. He then planned to sell the new Bolivian government water from the aquifer at a massively inflated price. His plan fails when James Bond intercepts Greene and Medrano before they can carry out the coup. Greene meets his demise when Bond abandons him in the middle of the desert with only motor oil to drink. Dominic Greene is later reported to have been found shot by another assassin after drinking the oil.

Mr. White:

Mr. White was played by Danish actor Jesper Christensen in the film. Mr. White’s plan was to escape from MI6 custody, he succeeds by having a double agent in the interrogation room with him, James Bond and ‘M’. Mr. White survives and returns in Spectre, where he is poisoned and commits suicide using Bond’s Walther PPK.

Skyfall (2012)

Raoul Silva:

Raoul Silva is played by Spanish actor Javier Bardem in the film. Raoul Silva’s plan was to take revenge on ‘M’ by launching a massive cyberattack on MI6 and then personally carry out her assassination. Silva succeeds in his plan indirectly, James Bond ruins his first assassination attempt, but ‘M’ is later fatally wounded by one of his henchmen at Bond’s childhood home Skyfall, where James had taken her to hide out and have the upper hand with Silva. Silva does not live long enough to see ‘M’ die due to Bond killing him before she passes away, therefore never getting the closure he was seeking in her assassination.

Spectre (2015)

Franz Oberhauser/Ernst Stavro Blofeld:

Franz Oberhauser/Ernst Stavro Blofeld is played by Austrian-German actor Christoph Waltz in the film. Franz Oberhauser/Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s plan was to gain control of a global surveillance program called “Nine Eyes.” His plan is foiled when James Bond destroys Blofeld’s data center and ‘Q’ prevents the Nine Eyes program from being activated. Blofeld is arrested by ‘M’ after he survives his escape helicopter being shot down by Bond.

Max Denbigh/C:

Max Denbigh/C was played by Irish actor Andrew Scott in the film. Max Denbigh/C was Blofeld’s inside man at MI6 and was carrying out his plan to gain control of a global surveillance program called “Nine Eyes.” The plan is foiled when James Bond destroys Blofeld’s data center and ‘Q’ prevents the Nine Eyes program from being activated. Max Denbigh/C meets his fate when he engages in a fight with ‘M’ and falls to his death.

No Time to Die (2021)

Lyutsifer Safin:

Lyutsifer Safin was played by Egyptian-American actor Rami Malek in the film. Lyutsifer Safin’s plan was to wipe out SPECTRE’s high command for their betrayal of his family. And to later take revenge on the world at large by using “Heracles” – a DNA – based bioweapon which SPECTRE stole from MI6. Safin succeeds in wiping out SPECTRE but fails to spread Heracles worldwide due to the Royal Navy’s and James Bond’s intervention, which destroys the facility producing the bioweapon. Lyutsifer Safin meets his fate after a brief fistfight with James Bond and Bond shoots him to kill.

Ernst Stavro Blofeld:

Ernst Stavro Blofeld is played by Austrian-German actor Christoph Waltz in the film. Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s plan was to escape prison and restore SPECTRE and finally eliminate James Bond by using Heracles to kill him. His plan goes awry when Lyutsifer Safin uses Heracles to assassinate the entire SPECTRE high command in Cuba and later in the film Safin tricks Bond and Dr. Madeleine Swann into killing Blofeld with it.

Sixty years of Bond girls and villains all wrapped into one review, it’s been a long time since James Bond 007, and I’m sure there will be many more anniversaries to come in the future of the Bond series! While Daniel Craig has finished his era as a secret agent, there is already an ongoing search by Eon Productions to find the new era of Bond! We will have to wait and see who will be drinking Martini’s shaken and not stirred!

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