Ernst Stavro Blofeld

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James Bond Villain
created by author Ian Fleming

Blofeld was born on May 28, 1908 to a Polish father and a Greek mother in Gdynia. After World War I, he became a Polish national. Blofeld attended the University of Warsaw where he studied economics and political history, and then the Warsaw University of Technology to study engineering and radionics. He then took a communication position at the Polish Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs, and used his position for buying and selling stocks at the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

Foreseeing World War II, Blofeld made copies of top-secret wires and sold them to Nazi Germany. Before the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he destroyed the records, then moved to Turkey, where he worked for Turkish radio and set up an intelligence organisation. During the war, he was a double agent. After the defeat of Erwin Rommel, he decided to back the Allied war effort and was awarded numerous medals by the Allied powers at the war's end. Blofeld then temporarily moved to South America before founding SPECTRE. Blofeld also had a daughter, Nena Blofeld, with a French Mistress.

In the novel's Blofeld makes three appearances. He first appears as the leader of SPECTRE in the 1961 novel Thunderball. The plot that he formulates is carried out by his henchman Emilio Largo. In On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963) Bond learns that Blofeld is in hiding in Switzerland under the guise of Comte de Bleuville and defeats his plans to destroy Britain's agricultural economy. In the final sequence of the novel, Blofeld gets revenge by murdering Bond's new wife, Tracy. In You Only Live Twice published in 1964 Blofeld returns and is found by Bond to be hiding in Japan under the alias Dr Guntram Shatterhand. Bond strangles him to death.

In the film series Blofeld's appearance and personality both change. He has a full head of black hair in From Russia With Love and Thunderball; a facial dueling scar in You Only Live Twice; no scar or earlobes in On Her Majesty's Secret Service; and silver-grey hair in Diamonds Are Forever.

Blofeld is killed when James Bond picks the crippled villain (who is now in a wheelchair - after injuring his neck on a bobsled encounter with Bond) up using the helicopter he is flying and drops Blofeld down an industrial chimney stack.

SUMMARY

ARCH RIVAL :	James Bond.
STRENGTHS :	As the founder of the criminal organisation known as SPECTRE, Blofeld has to be extremely intelligent and evil. He devises numerous plans throughout his reign of terror - including the use of a space laser to destroy targets on Earth and plans to use brainwashed girls to help start germ warfair!
WEAKNESSES :	Blofeld underestimates James Bond who in one way or another always seems to foil his plans.
WEAPONS :	Guns.
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