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Monday, January 22, 2007

Ernst Stavro Blofeld


Ernst Stavro Blofeld
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James Bond character
Blofeld played by Donald Pleasence
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Gender Male
Role Villain
Affiliation SPECTRE
Current status Unknown
Portrayed by Multiple (See Below)
"Blofeld" redirects here. For other uses, see Blofeld (disambiguation).

Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character from the James Bond universe. He is the archenemy of the British Secret Service agent James Bond and head of the evil terrorist organization SPECTRE.

Blofeld usually appears accompanied by a white Persian cat in the films (but not in the novels). It was also briefly a trademark of the Bond films not to show Blofeld's face, only a closeup of Blofeld stroking his cat. This "trademark" was later broken in the film You Only Live Twice and subsequent films. It was also mimicked in the animated series Inspector Gadget, and spoofed in Austin Powers.

Blofeld appears in six official James Bond movies as well as Never Say Never Again, the 1983 remake of Thunderball, which makes him the most persistent and arguably greatest of James Bond's enemies.
Contents
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* 1 Biography
o 1.1 Novels
o 1.2 Films
* 2 Blofeld portrayals
* 3 Trivia
* 4 Imitation and parody

1 comment:

Gerry S said...

Eon Films
[edit] The films
Title Year James Bond Director Total Box Office Total Admissions Budget Budget: Adjusted for Inflation1
Dr. No 1962 Sean Connery Terence Young $59,600,000 72.1 million $1,000,000 $6,680,000
From Russia with Love 1963 Sean Connery Terence Young $78,900,000 95.3 million $2,500,000 $16,475,000
Goldfinger 1964 Sean Connery Guy Hamilton $124,900,000 130.1 million $3,500,000 $22,750,000
Thunderball 1965 Sean Connery Terence Young $141,200,000 136.0 million $11,000,000 $70,400,000
You Only Live Twice 1967 Sean Connery Lewis Gilbert $111,600,000 81.7 million $9,500,000 $57,380,000
On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969 George Lazenby Peter R. Hunt $87,400,000 62.4 million $7,000,000 $38,430,000
Diamonds Are Forever 1971 Sean Connery Guy Hamilton $116,000,000 70.3 million $7,200,000 $35,856,000
Live and Let Die 1973 Roger Moore Guy Hamilton $161,800,000 91.6 million $7,000,000 $31,780,000
The Man with the Golden Gun 1974 Roger Moore Guy Hamilton $97,600,000 51.6 million $7,000,000 $28,630,000
The Spy Who Loved Me 1977 Roger Moore Lewis Gilbert $185,400,000 83.1 million $14,000,000 $46,620,000
Moonraker 1979 Roger Moore Lewis Gilbert $210,300,000 85.1 million $34,000,000 $94,520,000
For Your Eyes Only 1981 Roger Moore John Glen $195,300,000 70.3 million $28,000,000 $62,160,000
Octopussy 1983 Roger Moore John Glen $187,500,000 59.5 million $27,500,000 $55,550,000
A View to a Kill 1985 Roger Moore John Glen $152,400,000 42.9 million $30,000,000 $56,100,000
The Living Daylights 1987 Timothy Dalton John Glen $191,200,000 48.9 million $40,000,000 $70,800,000
Licence to Kill 1989 Timothy Dalton John Glen $156,200,000 39.1 million $42,000,000 $68,460,000
GoldenEye 1995 Pierce Brosnan Martin Campbell $353,400,000 81.2 million $60,000,000 $79,200,000
Tomorrow Never Dies 1997 Pierce Brosnan Roger Spottiswoode $346,600,000 75.5 million $110,000,000 $138,600,000
The World Is Not Enough 1999 Pierce Brosnan Michael Apted $390,000,000 77.1 million $135,000,000 $163,350,000
Die Another Day 2002 Pierce Brosnan Lee Tamahori $456,000,000 78.6 million $142,000,000 $159,040,000
Casino Royale 2006 Daniel Craig Martin Campbell $552,371,013* 83.9 million** $130,000,000 $130,000,000
Bond 22 2008 Daniel Craig
TOTALS Films 1-21 $4,355,700,000 1,646,300,000 $848,200,000

1 Based on 2006 Consumer Price Index (http://www.bls.gov/cpi/).
* Figure as of Mon., January 15th (source - BoxOfficeMojo.com, Variety.com). This will increase as Casino Royale is still in cinema release in most countries and has yet to open in others.
** Estimate based on average ticket price of $6.58 (source - BoxOfficeMojo.com).

Note: Casino Royale (1967, David Niven) and Never Say Never Again (1983, Sean Connery) are excluded, because they are not EON Productions films, hence not of the "official" series. See below for more information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond