Felsen is a criminal operative of the secretive criminal organisation, SPECTRE, and a guard of Ernst Stavro Blofeld's clinical allergy-research institute atop Piz Gloria in the Swiss Alps. A minor antagonist portrayed by the late British stuntman and actor, Leslie Crawford, the character appeared in the 1969 James Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Biography[]
Felsen is a thin SPECTRE henchman who assists Grunther in restraining James Bond as Blofeld has him locked in Piz Gloria's cable car machinery room. After Bond escapes, he accompanies Irma Bunt and fellow guard Braun in their pursuit of James Bond through the villages of Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen near Piz Gloria. Tracking him to a shed filled with bells, Braun brawls with the spy, but is overpowered by him. Felsen runs in with a gun as he is climbing out the window, but James quickly kicks down a support beam, knocking over Felsen and throwing his gunshot off target. Although outwitted by Bond, the pair are found and reprimanded by Bunt in order to continue the pursuit.
About to get back into her car, Bunt catches a glimpse of a man resembling Bond walking into an ice carnival among a crowd of tourists, so she, Felsen and Braun go after him. The goons close in on Bond, who is repeatedly buffeted by attendees of the carnival, but are ultimately unsuccessful in recapturing him, as Bond is found by his girlfriend Tracy, who leads Bond to her car before driving away.
Realizing that Bond had escaped them, the thugs returned to their car, the driver having seen which direction Bond drove away in. The spy attempts to use a phone box in the next town over to contact London, only to nearly get killed by Bunt, who fires several rounds at him in a sneak attack. Sitting in the back of the car, Felsen tried to shoot at Tracy's car as it hurtled along the icy roads, but is unable to get a clear shot. The car then skidded off the road and into a pile of deep snow.
Arriving at Lauterbrunnen, Bond and Tracy discover an ongoing stock car race and crash through the barriers to lose their pursuers. As expected, Bunt and her men followed and carnage ensued, with the spectators thinking they were part of the race. Sitting in the front passenger seat of the car, Braun managed to get a few potshots at Tracy's car before his own car is flung upside down, causing it to combust. The vehicle's occupants were forced to abandon the burning car before it exploded. Felsen is last seen trying to help Bunt out of the vehicle before running away with the others.
Felsen final's fate is unknown. He is not among the victims in the final battle in Piz Gloria where most of Blofeld's soldiers lost their lives, but in all likelihood it is possible some of Blofeld's men from Piz Gloria may have been in Lauterbrunnen or the surrounding areas at the time. It's a possibility Felsen is one of these. He may have more likely escaped with Irma Bunt after the Mercedes-Benz W111 blew up at the stock car race where Bunt was slightly caught in the blast. Felsen may have looked after her as she was trying to recover from her injuries.
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