The James Bond novels and films are notable for their memorably despicable villains and henchmen. From Le Chiffre's encounter with Bond in the original Casino Royale novel in 1953 to Colonel Moon/Gustav Graves' assault on the Korean Demilitarized Zone in the 2002 film, Die Another Day, Bond's foes have been one of the most important reasons for the book and film series' continued popularity.

Contents 1 Main villains 1.1 Official movie villains 1.2 Unofficial movie villains 1.3 Novel villains 1.3.1 Ian Fleming 1.3.2 Robert Markham (a.k.a. Kingsley Amis) 1.3.3 John Gardner 1.3.4 Raymond Benson 1.3.5 Charlie Higson 1.4 Game villains 2 Henchmen 2.1 Official movie henchmen 2.2 Unofficial movie henchmen 2.3 Video game henchmen 3 Villainous organizations

Main villains

Official movie villains

Film	Villain	Portrayed by	Objective	Objective Failed	Fate
Dr. No	Dr. Julius No	Joseph Wiseman	Sabotage American missile tests.	Bond overloads the nuclear reactor in No's base causing the toppling device used to sabotage the tests to overload and disable	Lowered into his own reactor coolant and boiled to death. Unable to escape due to metal hands.
From Russia with Love	Rosa Klebb	Lotte Lenya	Acquire Russian decoding device, humiliate the MI6, and assassinate James Bond by sending Red Grant to kill Bond in revenge of their old chief scientist Dr. Julius No's death.	Bond acquires the device for MI6 and England, kills Grant, and survives Klebb's attempt to kill him.	Shot in the chest by Tatiana Romanova.
	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Anthony Dawson (body), Eric Pohlmann (voice)			Survives
Goldfinger	Auric Goldfinger	Gert Fröbe	Detonate an atomic bomb in Fort Knox, irradiating the bullion stored there to make it useless and increase the value of his own gold.	An American technician disables the bomb before it can detonate.	Sucked out of a depressurising plane through a shattered window.
Thunderball	Emilio Largo	Adolfo Celi	Use stolen nuclear missiles to extort money out of the UK.	Missiles destroyed by Bond and the U.S. coast guard before the ransom money was delivered.	Shot in the back with a harpoon from a speargun by his mistress, Domino.
	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Anthony Dawson (body), Eric Pohlmann (voice)			Survives
You Only Live Twice	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Donald Pleasence	Capture US & Soviet spacecraft from orbit in order to provoke war between the superpowers on behalf of an undisclosed Asian country.	Bond uses a self-destruct button in Blofeld's lair to destroy the Bird 1 spacecraft which catches other spacecraft.	Survives.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Telly Savalas	Extort the world with viruses that destroy crops and livestock.	Bond with the help of Marc Ange Draco destroys the laboratory where the viruses are being developed before they can be released.	Survives. Assassinates Bond's newly married wife on the Bonds' honeymoon.
Diamonds Are Forever	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Charles Gray	Create industrial laser attached to satellite, magnified by diamonds, capable of destroying targets anywhere on Earth, including the world nuclear stockpile of countries that refuse to pay him.	Bond smashes his Mini-Sub multiple times like a wrecking ball against the control room of Blofeld's lair to disabling the satellite.	Survives. (This is not revealed until the opening scene of For Your Eyes Only, where he is disfigured and in a wheelchair.)
Live and Let Die	Dr. Kananga / Mr. Big	Yaphet Kotto	Distribute worlds largest cache of heroin, free of charge on the market, which will drive all the other drug cartels out of business, increase the number of addicts, and give Kananga a monopoly on the heroin market	Quarrel Jr. destroys his poppy fields.	Inflates and explodes after Bond forces a compressed-gas capsule down his throat.
The Man with the Golden Gun	Francisco Scaramanga	Christopher Lee	Acquire the Solex Agitator, a vital component for solar power plants, and sell it to the highest bidder; kill Bond, the one man he thinks is his equal.	Bond kills him and steals the Agitator for MI6.	Shot in the heart by Bond in the Hall of Mirrors.
The Spy Who Loved Me	Karl Stromberg	Curd Jürgens	Destroy the world, starting by using hijacked US and Soviet submarines to fire nuclear missiles that destroy New York and Moscow (which would trick the world's governments into a nuclear holocaust); rebuild civilisation under the sea.	Bond redirects the missiles' coordinates so that the missile fired by each sub hits the other.	Shot four times through tube under his dining table and above table by Bond.
Moonraker	Sir Hugo Drax	Michael Lonsdale	Destroy all human life on Earth by using a poisonous gas infused into specially designed globes, rebuild humanity from carefully chosen breeding stock.	The space station containing the poisonous globes was destroyed by US Marines, and the three globes that were launched were destroyed by Bond and Holly Goodhead before they did any damage.	Shot with poison dart gun and forced into outer space by Bond.
For Your Eyes Only	Aris Kristatos	Julian Glover	Acquire the ATAC device, which would enable hijacking of British Polaris missiles and sell it to General Gogol.	Bond destroys the ATAC by throwing it off a cliff.	Stabbed in the back with throwing knife by Milos Columbo.
	Ernst Stavro Blofeld	John Hollis (body) Robert Rietty (voice)	To kill Bond in revenge for ruining all of his schemes and dismantling SPECTRE (by controlling his helicopter and making it crash).	Bond disconnects the wire Blofeld is using to control the helicopter and drops Blofeld into a chimney, presumably killing him.	Gets dropped down a chimney by Bond; might have survived.
Octopussy	Kamal Khan	Louis Jourdan	To aid General Orlov in his plan and thus get stolen Kremlin jewels.	Jewels confiscated by the KGB.	Dies in fiery plane crash into a mountain thanks to Bond.
	General Orlov	Steven Berkoff	Detonate a U.S. nuclear bomb in a U.S. army base during a circus performance, which Orlov hopes will lead Europe to demand nuclear disarmament, allowing General Orlov's power-hungry plans to invade and take over Western Europe to come to fruition.	Bond disarms the bomb.	While attempting to jump on top of Octopussy's circus train, he knocks down three border guards, leading them to shoot him repeatedly in the back with machine guns.
A View to a Kill	Max Zorin	Christopher Walken	Cause massive earthquake destroying Silicon Valley to monopolise the microchip market.	His former henchman and lover, May Day, switches sides and removes a bomb necessary for Zorin's plan to succeed; she dies in the explosion, which causes no other damage thanks to her efforts.	Plummets from top of Golden Gate Bridge.
The Living Daylights	General Georgi Koskov	Jeroen Krabbé	Engage in a triangle deal with Whitaker and Feyador where Koskov will get enough arms to, after Pushkin's assassination, take over the KGB.	Bond and Pushkin fake the latter's assassination.	Arrested; presumably executed by Pushkin's government.
	Brad Whitaker	Joe Don Baker	Engage in a triangle deal with Feyador and Koskov where Whitaker will get valuable opium to finance operations.	Bond destroys the shipment of opium, ruining the deal.	Bond activates a bomb disguised as a key chain, dropping a bust of Wellington on Whitaker, crushing him.
Licence to Kill	Franz Sanchez	Robert Davi	Create an international drug cartel from South America to Asia.	Bond kills him and destroys his drugs.	Gasoline-soaked body set aflame by Bond, then blown up.
GoldenEye	Alec Trevelyan\Janus Organization (006)	Sean Bean	Take over GoldenEye EMP satellite and use for profit and revenge.	Bond destroys the GoldenEye by sabotaging the ground transmitter, causing the GoldenEye to burn up on re-entry.	Dropped by Bond down from radar dish, framework drops on top of him after.
Tomorrow Never Dies	Elliot Carver	Jonathan Pryce	Provoke war between the UK and China to generate headlines for news reporting and to expand his media franchise into China for the next 100 years.	Bond destroys Carver's Stealth Ship in a massive explosion, destroying the missile needed to provoke the war.	Forced into path of Sea-Vac remote controlled drill by Bond and shredded into bits.
The World Is Not Enough	Elektra King	Sophie Marceau	Kill her father and seize his oil business, which she sees as rightfully hers and later monopolize oil supply due to Renard's attack.	Succeeds in killing her father, but is killed by Bond.	Shot by Bond.
	Renard	Robert Carlyle	Destroy Istanbul by detonating a nuclear submarine in the Bosphurus, allowing Elektra to monopolise the oil market.	Bond stops him from blowing up the submarine.	Impaled by a plutonium rod shot out of the sub's core at high speed by Bond.
Die Another Day	Gustav Graves (Colonel Moon)	Toby Stephens (Will Yun Lee)	Invade South Korea with the help of a death-ray satellite.	When he was killed, the satellite is rendered harmless due to the fact that the suit Graves was wearing at the time was its control system.	Bond pulls the cord on his parachute, sucking him (and his suit) into a plane engine and shredding him to bits.
Casino Royale	Le Chiffre	Mads Mikkelsen	Regain clients' money lost in failed terrorist plot by playing and winning a Texas Hold 'em tournament.	Bond wins the money, and Le Chiffre is consequently killed by Mr. White.	Shot in the head by Mr. White.
	Mr. White	Jesper Christensen	Regain money lost by Le Chiffre.	Succeeds, but is captured by Bond.	Shot in below the right leg and arrested, but survives.
Quantum of Solace	Dominic Greene	Mathieu Amalric	Stage a coup d'état in Bolivia, to gain control of a piece of land rich in resources.	Camille kills General Medrano (Greene's associate who'll execute the plan), and Bill Tanner, using some hacking, bankrupts Greene, making all of his efforts for naught.	Left by Bond in the middle of the Bolivian desert, shot twice in the back of the head by an unidentified Quantum agent.
	Mr. White	Jesper Christensen	Escape from MI6 custody.	Succeeds, though is wounded.	Remains at large.

Unofficial movie villains

Film	Villain	Portrayed by
Casino Royale — 1954 TV episode	Le Chiffre	Peter Lorre
Casino Royale — 1967 film	Le Chiffre Dr. Noah/Jimmy Bond	Orson Welles Woody Allen
Never Say Never Again	Maximillian Largo Ernst Stavro Blofeld	Klaus Maria Brandauer Max von Sydow
The Property of a Lady (fanfilm)	Jesper Nunn
Casino Royale	Mr. White	Jesper Christensen
Quantum of Solace	Mr. White	Jesper Christensen

Novel villains

The following is a list of villains in James Bond novels and short stories that are not featured in any official James Bond film:

Ian Fleming

• Casino Royale - Le Chiffre (the character also appeared in the 2006 film)
• Live and Let Die - Mr. Big (although the film version features a version of the character, the two are very different)
• Diamonds Are Forever - The Spangled Mob a.k.a. Jack and Seraffimo Spang
• From Russia with Love - SMERSH (although SMERSH is mentioned, the villainous group is changed to S.P.E.C.T.R.E. for the film).
• "From a View to a Kill" (short story) - Soviet intelligence
• "For Your Eyes Only" (short story) - Von Hammerstein
• "The Hildebrand Rarity" (short story) - Milton Krest (demoted to henchman for the film Licence to Kill)
• The Spy Who Loved Me - Sol "Horror" Horowitz and "Sluggsy" Morant
• "The Living Daylights" (short story) - "Trigger" (becomes the Bond girl Kara Milovy in the film version
• "The Property of a Lady" (short story) - Russian intelligence
• "Octopussy" (short story) - Maj. Dexter Smythe (the film version features his daughter instead).

Robert Markham (a.k.a. Kingsley Amis)

• Colonel Sun - Col. Sun Liang-tan

John Gardner

• Licence Renewed - Dr. Anton Murik
• For Special Services - S.P.E.C.T.R.E. — Blofeld
• Icebreaker - Count Konrad von Glöda a.k.a. Aarne Tudeer
• Role of Honour - Tamil Rahani, Jay Autem Holy
• Nobody Lives For Ever - Tamil Rahani
• No Deals, Mr. Bond - General Konstantin Nikolaevich Chernov (aka "Blackfriar")
• Scorpius - Vladamir Scorpius a.k.a. Father Valentine
• Win, Lose or Die - BAST — Bassam Baradj
• Brokenclaw - "Brokenclaw" Lee Fu-Chu
• The Man from Barbarossa - General Yevgeny Yuskovich
• Death is Forever - Wolfgang Weisen
• Never Send Flowers - David Dragonpol
• SeaFire - Sir Max Tarn
• COLD - General Brutus Clay

Raymond Benson

• "Blast from the Past" (short story) - Irma Bunt
• Zero Minus Ten - Guy Thackeray
• The Facts of Death - The Decada
• "Midsummer Night's Doom" (short story) - Anton Redenius
• High Time to Kill - Roland Marquis, Le Gerant
• "Live at Five" (short story) - KGB
• Doubleshot - Le Gerant, Domingo Espada
• Never Dream of Dying - Le Gerant, The Union
• The Man with the Red Tattoo - Goro Yoshida

Charlie Higson

• SilverFin - Lord Randolph Hellebore
• Blood Fever - Count Ugo Carnifex
• Double or die - John Charnage, Colonel "Babushka" Sedova
• Hurricane Gold - Ms. Glass
• By Royal Command - Dr. Perseus Friend

Game villains

The following is a list of original main villains in James Bond computer and video games.

Game	Villain	Portrayed by
GoldenEye (video game)	Alec Trevelyan	Sean Bean
The World Is Not Enough	Renard	Robert Carlyle
Agent Under Fire	Adrian Malprave
James Bond Nightfire	Rafael Drake	Michael Ensign
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent	Dr. Julius No	Joseph Wiseman
Everything or Nothing	Nikolai Diavolo	Willem Dafoe
From Russia with Love	Rosa Klebb Grant OCTOPUS || Lotte Lenya Robert Shaw
Quantum of Solace	Dominic Greene Mr. White Guy Haines ||Jesper Christiansen

Henchmen

In addition, each Bond villain has numerous henchmen to do their bidding.

In particular, there is usually a privileged member who is a formidable physical threat to Bond and must be defeated by Bond to get the employer. Just how formidable has varied from simply adept and tough fighters like Red Grant to ones whose physical characteristics are seemingly superhuman like Jaws.

Official movie henchmen

• Dr. No
  • Professor Dent - played by Anthony Dawson
  • Miss Taro - played by Zena Marshall
  • Photographer - played by Marguerite LeWars
  • Jones - played by Reginald Carter

• From Russia with Love
  • Donald "Red" Grant - played by Robert Shaw
  • Kronsteen - played by Vladek Sheybal
  • Morzeny - played by Walter Gotell
  • Krilencu - played by Fred Haggerty

• Goldfinger
  • Oddjob - played by Harold Sakata
  • Pussy Galore - played by Honor Blackman

• Thunderball
  • Vargas - played by Philip Locke
  • Count Lippe - played by Guy Doleman
  • Fiona Volpe - played by Luciana Paluzzi
  • Colonel Jacques Bouvar - played by Rose Alba and Bob Simmons
  • Angelo Palazzi - played by: Paul Stassino

• You Only Live Twice
  • Mr. Osato - played by Teru Shimada
  • Helga Brandt - played by Karin Dor
  • Hans (Blofeld's Bodyguard) - played by Ronald Rich

• On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  • Irma Bundt - played by Ilse Steppat

• Diamonds Are Forever
  • Mr. Wint - played by Bruce Glover
  • Mr. Kidd - played by Putter Smith
  • Shady Tree - played by Leonard Barr
  • Peter Franks - played by Joe Robinson
  • Bert Saxby - played by Bruce Cabot
  • Bambi - played by Lola Larson
  • Thumper - played by Trina Parks
  • Morton Slumber - played by: David Bauer

• Live and Let Die
  • Tee Hee - played by Julius W. Harris
  • Whisper - played by Earl Jolly Brown
  • Baron Samedi - played by Geoffrey Holder
  • Adam - played by Tommy Lane

• The Man with the Golden Gun
  • Nick Nack - played by Hervé Villechaize

• The Spy Who Loved Me
  • Jaws - played by Richard Kiel
  • Naomi - played by Caroline Munro
  • Sandor - played by Milton Reid

• Moonraker
  • Jaws - played by Richard Kiel; changed sides, supporting Bond in the takeover of the villain's lair
  • Chang - played by Toshirô Suga
  • Tree Assassin- played by Guy Delorme

• For Your Eyes Only
  • Eric Kriegler - played by John Wyman
  • Emile Locque - played by Michael Gothard
  • Hector Gonzales - played by Stefan Kalipha

• Octopussy
  • Gobinda - played by Kabir Bedi
  • Mischka - played by David Meyer
  • Grischska - played by Anthony Meyer
  • General Orlov - played by Steven Berkoff

• A View to a Kill
  • May Day - played by Grace Jones; changed sides to aid Bond, sacrificing herself to foil the villain's plan
  • Scarpine - played by Patrick Bauchau
  • Dr. Carl Mortner - played by Willoughby Gray
  • Jenny Flex - played by Alison Doody
  • Pan Ho - played by Papillon Soo

• The Living Daylights
  • Necros - played by Andreas Wisniewski

• Licence to Kill
  • Dario - played by Benicio del Toro
  • Milton Krest - played by Anthony Zerbe
  • Ed Killifer - played by Everett McGill
  • Heller - played by Don Stroud
  • Truman-Lodge - played by Anthony Starke
  • Joe Butcher - played by Wayne Newton

• GoldenEye
  • Gen. Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov - played by Gottfried John
  • Boris Grishenko - played by Alan Cumming
  • Xenia Onatopp - played by Famke Janssen

• Tomorrow Never Dies
  • Mr. Stamper - played by Götz Otto
  • Henry Gupta - played by Ricky Jay
  • Dr. Kaufman - played by Vincent Schiavelli
  • General Chang - played by: Philip Kwok

• The World Is Not Enough
  • Gabor - played by John Seru
  • Sasha Davidov - played by Ulrich Thomsen
  • Mr. Bullion - played by Goldie
  • Dr. Mikhail Arkov - played by Jeff Nuttall

• Die Another Day
  • Zao - played by Rick Yune
  • Mr. Kil - played by Lawrence Makoare
  • Miranda Frost - played by Rosamund Pike

Unofficial movie henchmen

• Casino Royale
  • Agent Mimi - played by Deborah Kerr
  • Vesper Lynd - played by Ursula Andress
  • Miss Goodthighs - played by Jacqueline Bisset
  • Frau Hoffner - played by Anna Quayle
  • Polo - played by Ronnie Corbett
  • Le Chiffre's Representative - played by: Vladek Sheyball

• Never Say Never Again
  • Fatima Blush - played by Barbara Carrera
  • Lippe - played by Pat Roach

Video game henchmen

• Agent Under Fire
  • Nigel Bloch
  • Carla the Jackal
  • Reginald Griffon
• James Bond Nightfire
  • Armitage Rook - voiced by Richard Whiten
  • Makiko Hayashi - voiced by Tamlyn Tomita
• Everything or Nothing
  • Katya Nadanova - played by Heidi Klum
  • Jean Le Rouge
  • Jaws - likeness Richard Kiel
  • Arkady Yayakov
• From Russia with Love
  • Eva - played by Maria Menounos
  • OCTOPUS General - likeness Donald Pleasance

Villainous organizations

• SMERSH — "Death to Spies", Bond's original nemesis in the novels, though only briefly mentioned in the films.
• S.P.E.C.T.R.E. — SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion

James Bond films
Sean Connery Dr. No (1962) - From Russia with Love (1963) - Goldfinger (1964) - Thunderball (1965) - You Only Live Twice (1967) - Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
George Lazenby On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Roger Moore Live and Let Die (1973) - The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) - The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) - Moonraker (1979) - For Your Eyes Only (1981) - Octopussy (1983) - A View to a Kill (1985)
Timothy Dalton The Living Daylights (1987) - Licence to Kill (1989)
Pierce Brosnan GoldenEye (1995) - Tomorrow Never Dies (1998) - The World Is Not Enough (1999) - Die Another Day (2002)
Daniel Craig Casino Royale (2006) - Quantum of Solace (2008) - Skyfall (2012) - Bond 24 (2014) - Bond 25
Unofficial films Casino Royale (1954) - Casino Royale (1967) - Never Say Never Again (1983)

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