List of James Bond henchmen in On Her Majesty's Secret Service
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This is a list of henchmen in the novel and film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
.
novel and film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
. She is portrayed by German actress Ilse Steppat
. The role was Steppat's only English
speaking part.
A stocky, red haired middle aged woman, Irma Bunt resides at the mountain-top clinic of Piz Gloria
with Ernst Stavro Blofeld
. Bunt is first introduced at a train station taking Bond up to the clinic by sleigh and helicopter while he is disguised as Sir Hilary Bray. She ostensibly looks after the girls who are suffering allergies – and secretly being brainwashed into "angels of death" — and has dinner with them and "Sir Hilary". A red-haired disciplinarian in the mold of Rosa Klebb
, Bunt is determined to keep any fraternizing between "Sir Hilary" and the girls kept to a minimum. In the film Bond himself subtly insults her by telling her that her name comes from a nautical word for the baggy, swollen part of a sail, though in the novel Bond starts tricking her into thinking she's a duchess.
When Bond escapes from Piz Gloria after his cover as Sir Hilary Bray is blown, Bunt helps some of the men pursue him in the village at the bottom of the mountain with a Mercedes-Benz W111
. She fails in this and is almost killed when she is caught in an explosion at a stock car rally which Tracy had led her into in an attempt to shake her off. Bunt and the other three occupants of the car managed to escape it just before the explosion, but one of them was caught in the blast while crawling away - though the camera did not have enough focus for the viewer to see who it was, nor was the identity of the person mentioned later.
She is not seen again until right at the end of the film after 007's wedding (a scene deleted from the film had Bunt trailing Bond and Tracy when they are purchasing a wedding ring from a jewellery store). Bunt shows up, alive and well, in a car driven by Blofeld. As they pass the newlyweds, Bunt leans out of the window and fires at Bond with an M16
. Bond is unharmed, but Tracy is killed.
Unusually for a Bond film villain, Bunt escaped punishment and retribution from 007: she was neither seen nor mentioned in the following film, Diamonds Are Forever
(actress Ilse Steppat had died just after On Her Majesty's Secret Service reached cinemas), where Bond avenges Tracy's death by relentlessly tracking down and killing Blofeld. Other villains, such as Jaws, survive because they switched allegiances. In the book You Only Live Twice, Bond incapacitates her before the final show-down with Blofeld and it is later stated that she was subsequently killed in the destruction of the castle in which they were living. She is the main villain in Raymond Benson
's 1997 short story "Blast from the Past", an unofficial sequel to You Only Live Twice.
film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
. He is portrayed by Yuri Borienko.
Grunther is a henchman to Ernst Stavro Blofeld. He appears from Piz Gloria onwards. In the film, he is first seen with Irma Bunt. Later, he is seen denying Shaun Campbell access to the Piz Gloria base and later holds him prisoner. He leads the first group on the downhill ski to catch the escaping Bond. He crashes into a tree and ends up with Blofeld's second group. His final appearance is during the Battle of Piz Gloria, in which he fights with Tracy Bond
and is killed when she impales him on a wall of spikes.
film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
. He is portrayed by George Lane Cooper.
Braun's is a SPECTRE henchman with large sideburns
. He is one of two SPECTRE
henchmen who accompany Irma Bunt in her pursuit of Bond through a small town in the Alps
. He and Felsen fight with Bond in a shed and are defeated by him, but Bunt recalls them to her car and they chase Bond and Tracy through a racecourse. Braun sits on the left side front seat of the car, next to the driver, and manges to get a few potshots off at Bond's car before he is forced to abandon his car before it blows up.
Braun is not to be confused with another henchman called Braun, who featured in the later Bond film Licence to Kill
.
film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
. He is portrayed by Les Crawford.
Felsen is a thin SPECTRE
henchman who accompanies Irma Bunt and Braun in their pursuit of Bond. He and Braun are knocked out by Bond, but are woken up by Bunt in order to chase Bond and Tracy in their car. Felsen sat in the back seat with Bunt and tried to shoot at Bond's car on the highway, but his car veered off the road before he could fire. He abandoned the car before it blew up at the racetrack.
film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
. He is portrayed by Reg Harding.
This man drives Bunt, Felsen, and Braun after Bond during his second escape from Piz Gloria Allergy Clinic. He strafes a phone booth in the Alpine town Bond flees to, allowing Braun and Felsen to fill it with bullets. Beyond that, he does little more than get ordered around by Bunt. He abandons the car when it blows up at the racetrack.
film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
. He is portrayed by James Bree
.
Gumbold is a Swiss attorney
who is in the employ of SPECTRE
. His role is to help Blofeld be recognized as Balthazar, Count
de Bleuchamp. His role in the film is minimal, although Bond finds documents from the College of Arms
in his office that help lead him to Blofeld.
film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
. He is portrayed by George Leech.
There are several SPECTRE skiers, with this man being the only one with a significant part. He comes after Bond during his escape from Piz Gloria, after hearing the scream of another skier whom Bond threw over a cliff. Bond knocks out this skier, intent on stealing his skis to replace the ones he lost dealing with the first skier. This skier wakes up and attacks Bond, so Bond strangles him into submission with his own skis and then tosses him off a nearby cliff.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the sixth spy film in the James Bond series, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Following the decision of Sean Connery to retire from the role after You Only Live Twice, Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby...
.
Irma Bunt
Irma Bunt is the main henchwoman in the James BondJames Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
novel and film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the sixth spy film in the James Bond series, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Following the decision of Sean Connery to retire from the role after You Only Live Twice, Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby...
. She is portrayed by German actress Ilse Steppat
Ilse Steppat
Ilse Paula Steppat was a German actress. Her husband was noted actor and director Max Nosseck....
. The role was Steppat's only English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
speaking part.
A stocky, red haired middle aged woman, Irma Bunt resides at the mountain-top clinic of Piz Gloria
Piz Gloria
Piz Gloria is the name of the revolving restaurant on the Schilthorn near Mürren in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland. The cable car station and the restaurant were designed by the Bernese architect, Konrad Wolf...
with Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character and a supervillain from the James Bond series of novels and films, who was created by Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory. An evil genius with aspirations of world domination, he is the archenemy of the British Secret Service agent James Bond and is arguably...
. Bunt is first introduced at a train station taking Bond up to the clinic by sleigh and helicopter while he is disguised as Sir Hilary Bray. She ostensibly looks after the girls who are suffering allergies – and secretly being brainwashed into "angels of death" — and has dinner with them and "Sir Hilary". A red-haired disciplinarian in the mold of Rosa Klebb
Rosa Klebb
Colonel Rosa Klebb is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the James Bond film and novel From Russia with Love. She was played by Lotte Lenya in the film version...
, Bunt is determined to keep any fraternizing between "Sir Hilary" and the girls kept to a minimum. In the film Bond himself subtly insults her by telling her that her name comes from a nautical word for the baggy, swollen part of a sail, though in the novel Bond starts tricking her into thinking she's a duchess.
When Bond escapes from Piz Gloria after his cover as Sir Hilary Bray is blown, Bunt helps some of the men pursue him in the village at the bottom of the mountain with a Mercedes-Benz W111
Mercedes-Benz W111
The Mercedes-Benz W111 was a chassis code given to its top-range vehicles, including 4-door sedans, produced from 1959 to 1968, and 2-door coupes and cabriolets from 1961 to 1971. The W111, was initially attributed only to 6-cylinder cars with 2.2 litre engines. The luxury version with big-block 3...
. She fails in this and is almost killed when she is caught in an explosion at a stock car rally which Tracy had led her into in an attempt to shake her off. Bunt and the other three occupants of the car managed to escape it just before the explosion, but one of them was caught in the blast while crawling away - though the camera did not have enough focus for the viewer to see who it was, nor was the identity of the person mentioned later.
She is not seen again until right at the end of the film after 007's wedding (a scene deleted from the film had Bunt trailing Bond and Tracy when they are purchasing a wedding ring from a jewellery store). Bunt shows up, alive and well, in a car driven by Blofeld. As they pass the newlyweds, Bunt leans out of the window and fires at Bond with an M16
M16 rifle
The M16 is the United States military designation for the AR-15 rifle adapted for both semi-automatic and full-automatic fire. Colt purchased the rights to the AR-15 from ArmaLite, and currently uses that designation only for semi-automatic versions of the rifle. The M16 fires the 5.56×45mm NATO...
. Bond is unharmed, but Tracy is killed.
Unusually for a Bond film villain, Bunt escaped punishment and retribution from 007: she was neither seen nor mentioned in the following film, Diamonds Are Forever
Diamonds Are Forever (film)
Diamonds Are Forever is the seventh spy film in the Eon Productions James Bond series, and the sixth and final Eon Productions film to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film is based on Ian Fleming's 1956 novel of the same name, and is the second of four James Bond films...
(actress Ilse Steppat had died just after On Her Majesty's Secret Service reached cinemas), where Bond avenges Tracy's death by relentlessly tracking down and killing Blofeld. Other villains, such as Jaws, survive because they switched allegiances. In the book You Only Live Twice, Bond incapacitates her before the final show-down with Blofeld and it is later stated that she was subsequently killed in the destruction of the castle in which they were living. She is the main villain in Raymond Benson
Raymond Benson
Raymond Benson is an American author best known for being the official author of the adult James Bond novels from 1997 to 2003. Benson was born in Midland, Texas and graduated from Permian High School in Odessa in 1973...
's 1997 short story "Blast from the Past", an unofficial sequel to You Only Live Twice.
Grunther
Grunther is a henchman in the James BondJames Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the sixth spy film in the James Bond series, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Following the decision of Sean Connery to retire from the role after You Only Live Twice, Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby...
. He is portrayed by Yuri Borienko.
Grunther is a henchman to Ernst Stavro Blofeld. He appears from Piz Gloria onwards. In the film, he is first seen with Irma Bunt. Later, he is seen denying Shaun Campbell access to the Piz Gloria base and later holds him prisoner. He leads the first group on the downhill ski to catch the escaping Bond. He crashes into a tree and ends up with Blofeld's second group. His final appearance is during the Battle of Piz Gloria, in which he fights with Tracy Bond
Tracy Bond
Teresa "Tracy" Bond is a fictional character and the main Bond girl in the James Bond film and novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service...
and is killed when she impales him on a wall of spikes.
Braun
Braun is a henchman in the James BondJames Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the sixth spy film in the James Bond series, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Following the decision of Sean Connery to retire from the role after You Only Live Twice, Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby...
. He is portrayed by George Lane Cooper.
Braun's is a SPECTRE henchman with large sideburns
Sideburns
Sideburns or sideboards are patches of facial hair grown on the sides of the face, extending from the hairline to below the ears and worn with an unbearded chin...
. He is one of two SPECTRE
SPECTRE
SPECTRE is a fictional global terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games...
henchmen who accompany Irma Bunt in her pursuit of Bond through a small town in the Alps
Alps
The Alps is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west....
. He and Felsen fight with Bond in a shed and are defeated by him, but Bunt recalls them to her car and they chase Bond and Tracy through a racecourse. Braun sits on the left side front seat of the car, next to the driver, and manges to get a few potshots off at Bond's car before he is forced to abandon his car before it blows up.
Braun is not to be confused with another henchman called Braun, who featured in the later Bond film Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill, released in 1989, is the sixteenth entry in the Eon Productions James Bond series and the first one not to use the title of an Ian Fleming novel. It marks Timothy Dalton's second and final performance in his brief tenure in the lead role of James Bond...
.
Felsen
Felsen is a henchman in the James BondJames Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the sixth spy film in the James Bond series, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Following the decision of Sean Connery to retire from the role after You Only Live Twice, Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby...
. He is portrayed by Les Crawford.
Felsen is a thin SPECTRE
SPECTRE
SPECTRE is a fictional global terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games...
henchman who accompanies Irma Bunt and Braun in their pursuit of Bond. He and Braun are knocked out by Bond, but are woken up by Bunt in order to chase Bond and Tracy in their car. Felsen sat in the back seat with Bunt and tried to shoot at Bond's car on the highway, but his car veered off the road before he could fire. He abandoned the car before it blew up at the racetrack.
SPECTRE Driver
SPECTRE Driver is a henchman in the James BondJames Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the sixth spy film in the James Bond series, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Following the decision of Sean Connery to retire from the role after You Only Live Twice, Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby...
. He is portrayed by Reg Harding.
This man drives Bunt, Felsen, and Braun after Bond during his second escape from Piz Gloria Allergy Clinic. He strafes a phone booth in the Alpine town Bond flees to, allowing Braun and Felsen to fill it with bullets. Beyond that, he does little more than get ordered around by Bunt. He abandons the car when it blows up at the racetrack.
Gumbold
Gumbold is a Swiss lawyer with offices in Berne in the James BondJames Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the sixth spy film in the James Bond series, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Following the decision of Sean Connery to retire from the role after You Only Live Twice, Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby...
. He is portrayed by James Bree
James Bree
James Bree was a British actor who played many supporting roles in both film and television.Bree was educated at Radley College and during World War II served in the RAF. He later trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama...
.
Gumbold is a Swiss attorney
Lawyer
A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an attorney, counsel or solicitor; a person who is practicing law." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political...
who is in the employ of SPECTRE
SPECTRE
SPECTRE is a fictional global terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, the films based on those novels, and James Bond video games...
. His role is to help Blofeld be recognized as Balthazar, Count
Count
A count or countess is an aristocratic nobleman in European countries. The word count came into English from the French comte, itself from Latin comes—in its accusative comitem—meaning "companion", and later "companion of the emperor, delegate of the emperor". The adjective form of the word is...
de Bleuchamp. His role in the film is minimal, although Bond finds documents from the College of Arms
College of Arms
The College of Arms, or Heralds’ College, is an office regulating heraldry and granting new armorial bearings for England, Wales and Northern Ireland...
in his office that help lead him to Blofeld.
SPECTRE Skier
SPECTRE Skier is a henchman in the James BondJames Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
film On Her Majesty's Secret Service
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service is the sixth spy film in the James Bond series, based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Following the decision of Sean Connery to retire from the role after You Only Live Twice, Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby...
. He is portrayed by George Leech.
There are several SPECTRE skiers, with this man being the only one with a significant part. He comes after Bond during his escape from Piz Gloria, after hearing the scream of another skier whom Bond threw over a cliff. Bond knocks out this skier, intent on stealing his skis to replace the ones he lost dealing with the first skier. This skier wakes up and attacks Bond, so Bond strangles him into submission with his own skis and then tosses him off a nearby cliff.
Blofeld's Angels of Death
The Angels of Death are several beautiful women from all over the world (though in the novel, only ten from the UK) being brainwashed by Blofeld under the guise of allergy treatment. Their mission is to help Blofeld contaminate and ultimately sterilize the world's food supply. Blofeld claimed he will rescind this threat if all his past crimes are pardoned and he is recognized as the current Count de Bleauchamp. In the novel, Ruby's last name is "Windsor", and a subplot emerges with Bond (as Hilary Bray) promising to track her heritage.| Name | Actress | Allergy | Name | Actress | Allergy | |
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