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List of characters in Casino Royale (1967)
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Casino Royale is a 1967 surrealistic
satire
and is also known for its very large cast of notable actors. It featured early appearances by performers who became notable in later years. This article represents a complete list of all the actors who play major, minor or uncredited characters in the film.
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Casino Royale
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Baccarat
Master, Tremble is recruited by Vesper Lynd
on behalf of Sir James Bond to play Le Chiffre
at baccarat
, cutting off the funds of his (as yet unseen) enemy (in the only segment of the film that is actually based upon Ian Fleming
's original novel). As Bond has ordered that all operatives be given the code name James Bond 007 in order to confuse the enemy, Tremble is also given this name. Tremble defeats Le Chiffre at the card table, but Le Chiffre kidnaps him and subjects him to psychedelic torture (involving a legion of bagpipe players and Peter O'Toole
). Although Le Chiffre is killed by agents of Dr. Noah before he can complete the torture, Tremble is ultimately gunned down by Vesper Lynd, who is revealed as a double agent
.
In the original version of the screenplay Tremble was not killed. It was decided to kill him at the end and re-shoot the scene with Ursula Andress gunning him down because Peter Sellers left the production before filming all of his scenes. A somewhat fictionalised version of events was depicted in the film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
.
satire
film Casino Royale
.
She is the illegitimate daughter of Mata Hari
and Sir James Bond, but is brought in by her father to establish the nature of an organisation called International Mother's Help which is believed to be a SMERSH
cover operation. Before her recruitment into the espionage business, she had grown up in an isolated Indian temple, where she was revered as a goddess, skilled as a belly-dancer, and fond of smoking illicit substances with a hookah
.
She manages to thwart a money-raising auction (involving selling blackmailing images to the highest bidder) in a surrealist spy academy stationed beside the Berlin Wall
, but is later kidnapped and taken off in a flying saucer
to the underground hideaway of Bond's enemy, later revealed to be his nephew, Jimmy (masquerading as 'Dr Noah'). Meeting up with her father and his allies, they escape, only to be caught up in the melée which ensues at Casino Royale, located directly above Jimmy's lair. She dies, along with most of the movie's cast, when the casino cataclysmically explodes.
Mata Bond is depicted as a young woman in her twenties, which is an impossibility since Mata Hari died in 1917, 50 years before Casino Royale was set. In the film, Mata Bond meets her mother's spy academy instructors, and it is established that Hari was James Bond's one true love, even though he, too, is too young to have been involved with someone a half-century earlier.
satire
film Casino Royale
.
She is a SMERSH agent, sent to M
's castle in Scotland to impersonate his widow, Lady Fiona, to "defile the image" of Sir James Bond, and ultimately to kill him. It is not disclosed what has become of the original Lady Fiona.
However after watching Sir James defeat all-comers at a game of 'wurseling', smitten with love, she defects. She manages to assist him in a deadly 'grouse' shoot (involving a radio-controlled, explosive grouse). However, realising she cannot replace Mata Hari in his affections, takes herself off to a nunnery. Later, she manages to smuggle information to Bond that SMERSH has kidnapped his daughter and taken her to Casino Royale.
satire
film Casino Royale
.
She is sent by SMERSH
to drug Evelyn Tremble. When Tremble notices her slip a sleeping pill into his champagne (it fizzles and bubbles as excessively as an Alka-Seltzer
) he slips an 'antidote' pill in after it. However, this proves completely ineffectual, the drug immediately taking effect and sending him into an unconscious hallucinatory dreamworld. When he is later woken by Vesper Lynd
, she says of Ms. Goodthighs: "I've taken care of her." But she reappears in the crowd watching Tremble play Le Chiffre
at the Casino, which makes Vesper's claim (and loyalties) suspect.
Her name is a play on Bond's secretary Mary Goodnight
, who had first appeared in the Bond novels two years before.
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
satire
Satire
Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...
and is also known for its very large cast of notable actors. It featured early appearances by performers who became notable in later years. This article represents a complete list of all the actors who play major, minor or uncredited characters in the film.
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– MM (James Bond)M is a fictional character in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, as well as the films in the Bond franchise. The head of MI6 and Bond's superior, M has been portrayed by three actors in the official Bond film series: Bernard Lee, Robert Brown and since 1995 by Judi Dench. Background =Ian Fleming...
/McTarry
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as Casino Cashier - Chic Murray as Chic
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as 1st Piper
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- Peter O'ToolePeter O'ToolePeter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole is an Irish actor of stage and screen. O'Toole achieved stardom in 1962 playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia, and then went on to become a highly-honoured film and stage actor. He has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, and holds the record for most...
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as a British officer - Paul Ferris as Vesper Lynd's assistant
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as a bar patron
Evelyn Tremble
Evelyn Tremble is a character from the 1967 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,...
satire
Satire
Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...
Casino Royale
Casino Royale (1967 film)
Casino Royale is a 1967 comedy spy film originally produced by Columbia Pictures starring an ensemble cast of directors and actors. It is set as a satire of the James Bond film series and the spy genre, and is loosely based on Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel.The film stars David Niven as the...
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Baccarat
Baccarat
Baccarat is a card game, played at casinos and by gamblers. It is believed to have been introduced into France from Italy during the reign of King Charles VIII , and it is similar to Faro and Basset...
Master, Tremble is recruited by Vesper Lynd
Vesper Lynd
Vesper Lynd is a fictional character featured in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Casino Royale. The name is a pun on "West Berlin". It has been claimed that Fleming based Lynd on the real life Special Operations Executive agent Christine Granville. In the 1967 film of Casino Royale, she is played by...
on behalf of Sir James Bond to play Le Chiffre
Le Chiffre
Le Chiffre is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Casino Royale. On screen Le Chiffre has been portrayed by Peter Lorre in the 1954 television adaptation of the novel for CBS's Climax! television series, by Orson Welles in the 1967 spoof of the novel and...
at baccarat
Baccarat
Baccarat is a card game, played at casinos and by gamblers. It is believed to have been introduced into France from Italy during the reign of King Charles VIII , and it is similar to Faro and Basset...
, cutting off the funds of his (as yet unseen) enemy (in the only segment of the film that is actually based upon Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer.Fleming is best known for creating the fictional British spy James Bond and for a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the character, one of the biggest-selling series of fictional books of...
's original novel). As Bond has ordered that all operatives be given the code name James Bond 007 in order to confuse the enemy, Tremble is also given this name. Tremble defeats Le Chiffre at the card table, but Le Chiffre kidnaps him and subjects him to psychedelic torture (involving a legion of bagpipe players and Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole
Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole is an Irish actor of stage and screen. O'Toole achieved stardom in 1962 playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia, and then went on to become a highly-honoured film and stage actor. He has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, and holds the record for most...
). Although Le Chiffre is killed by agents of Dr. Noah before he can complete the torture, Tremble is ultimately gunned down by Vesper Lynd, who is revealed as a double agent
Double agent
A double agent, commonly abbreviated referral of double secret agent, is a counterintelligence term used to designate an employee of a secret service or organization, whose primary aim is to spy on the target organization, but who in fact is a member of that same target organization oneself. They...
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In the original version of the screenplay Tremble was not killed. It was decided to kill him at the end and re-shoot the scene with Ursula Andress gunning him down because Peter Sellers left the production before filming all of his scenes. A somewhat fictionalised version of events was depicted in the film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is a 2004 film about the life of English comic actor Peter Sellers, based on Roger Lewis' book of the same name...
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Mata Bond
Mata Bond is a character in the 1967 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,...
satire
Satire
Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...
film Casino Royale
Casino Royale (1967 film)
Casino Royale is a 1967 comedy spy film originally produced by Columbia Pictures starring an ensemble cast of directors and actors. It is set as a satire of the James Bond film series and the spy genre, and is loosely based on Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel.The film stars David Niven as the...
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She is the illegitimate daughter of Mata Hari
Mata Hari
Mata Hari was the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida "M'greet" Zelle , a Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy who was executed by firing squad in France under charges of espionage for Germany during World War I.-Early life:Margaretha Geertruida Zelle was born in Leeuwarden, Friesland,...
and Sir James Bond, but is brought in by her father to establish the nature of an organisation called International Mother's Help which is believed to be a SMERSH
SMERSH (James Bond)
SMERSH is a Soviet counterintelligence agency featured in Ian Fleming's early James Bond novels as agent 007's nemesis. СМЕРШ is an acronym from two Russian words: "SMERt' SHpionam" meaning "Death to Spies"...
cover operation. Before her recruitment into the espionage business, she had grown up in an isolated Indian temple, where she was revered as a goddess, skilled as a belly-dancer, and fond of smoking illicit substances with a hookah
Hookah
A hookah A hookah(Gujarati હૂકાહ) A hookah(Gujarati હૂકાહ) (Hindustani: हुक़्क़ा (Devanagari, (Nastaleeq) huqqah) also known as a waterpipe or narghile, is a single or multi-stemmed (often glass-based) instrument for smoking in which the smoke is cooled by water. The tobacco smoked is referred to...
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She manages to thwart a money-raising auction (involving selling blackmailing images to the highest bidder) in a surrealist spy academy stationed beside the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin...
, but is later kidnapped and taken off in a flying saucer
Flying saucer
A flying saucer is a type of unidentified flying object sometimes believed to be of alien origin with a disc or saucer-shaped body, usually described as silver or metallic, occasionally reported as covered with running lights or surrounded with a glowing light, hovering or moving rapidly either...
to the underground hideaway of Bond's enemy, later revealed to be his nephew, Jimmy (masquerading as 'Dr Noah'). Meeting up with her father and his allies, they escape, only to be caught up in the melée which ensues at Casino Royale, located directly above Jimmy's lair. She dies, along with most of the movie's cast, when the casino cataclysmically explodes.
Mata Bond is depicted as a young woman in her twenties, which is an impossibility since Mata Hari died in 1917, 50 years before Casino Royale was set. In the film, Mata Bond meets her mother's spy academy instructors, and it is established that Hari was James Bond's one true love, even though he, too, is too young to have been involved with someone a half-century earlier.
Agent Mimi ('Lady Fiona')
Agent Mimi is a character in the 1967 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,...
satire
Satire
Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...
film Casino Royale
Casino Royale (1967 film)
Casino Royale is a 1967 comedy spy film originally produced by Columbia Pictures starring an ensemble cast of directors and actors. It is set as a satire of the James Bond film series and the spy genre, and is loosely based on Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel.The film stars David Niven as the...
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She is a SMERSH agent, sent to M
M (James Bond)
M is a fictional character in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, as well as the films in the Bond franchise. The head of MI6 and Bond's superior, M has been portrayed by three actors in the official Bond film series: Bernard Lee, Robert Brown and since 1995 by Judi Dench. Background =Ian Fleming...
's castle in Scotland to impersonate his widow, Lady Fiona, to "defile the image" of Sir James Bond, and ultimately to kill him. It is not disclosed what has become of the original Lady Fiona.
However after watching Sir James defeat all-comers at a game of 'wurseling', smitten with love, she defects. She manages to assist him in a deadly 'grouse' shoot (involving a radio-controlled, explosive grouse). However, realising she cannot replace Mata Hari in his affections, takes herself off to a nunnery. Later, she manages to smuggle information to Bond that SMERSH has kidnapped his daughter and taken her to Casino Royale.
Miss Goodthighs
Giovanna Goodthighs is a character in the 1967 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,...
satire
Satire
Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...
film Casino Royale
Casino Royale (1967 film)
Casino Royale is a 1967 comedy spy film originally produced by Columbia Pictures starring an ensemble cast of directors and actors. It is set as a satire of the James Bond film series and the spy genre, and is loosely based on Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel.The film stars David Niven as the...
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She is sent by SMERSH
SMERSH (James Bond)
SMERSH is a Soviet counterintelligence agency featured in Ian Fleming's early James Bond novels as agent 007's nemesis. СМЕРШ is an acronym from two Russian words: "SMERt' SHpionam" meaning "Death to Spies"...
to drug Evelyn Tremble. When Tremble notices her slip a sleeping pill into his champagne (it fizzles and bubbles as excessively as an Alka-Seltzer
Alka-Seltzer
Alka-Seltzer is an effervescent antacid and pain reliever first marketed by the Dr. Miles Medicine Company. It was developed by Treneer in Elkhart Indiana. Alka-Seltzer is marketed for relief of minor aches, pains, inflammation, fever, headache, heartburn, sour stomach, indigestion, and hangovers,...
) he slips an 'antidote' pill in after it. However, this proves completely ineffectual, the drug immediately taking effect and sending him into an unconscious hallucinatory dreamworld. When he is later woken by Vesper Lynd
Vesper Lynd
Vesper Lynd is a fictional character featured in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Casino Royale. The name is a pun on "West Berlin". It has been claimed that Fleming based Lynd on the real life Special Operations Executive agent Christine Granville. In the 1967 film of Casino Royale, she is played by...
, she says of Ms. Goodthighs: "I've taken care of her." But she reappears in the crowd watching Tremble play Le Chiffre
Le Chiffre
Le Chiffre is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Casino Royale. On screen Le Chiffre has been portrayed by Peter Lorre in the 1954 television adaptation of the novel for CBS's Climax! television series, by Orson Welles in the 1967 spoof of the novel and...
at the Casino, which makes Vesper's claim (and loyalties) suspect.
Her name is a play on Bond's secretary Mary Goodnight
Mary Goodnight
Mary Goodnight is a fictional character from the James Bond universe.-Novel biography:In the novels, Mary Goodnight is a former Wren who is now the secretary to the 00 Section, which includes James Bond. Replacing the section's previous secretary, Loelia Ponsonby, Goodnight has a less severe, more...
, who had first appeared in the Bond novels two years before.