Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Year Film Actor and notes Status after the film concludes
1963 From Russia with Love Anthony Dawson as actor ( only hands and back of head are seen ) , Eric Pohlmann as voice actor ; the end credits list a question mark instead of an actor 's name in the Ernst Blofeld field ( however , he is only referred to as Number One in the film ) Active/indirect involvement in the field . Never has any contact with Bond
1965 Thunderball Anthony Dawson as actor ( only hands and back of head are seen ) , Eric Pohlmann as voice actor , both uncredited ; the end credits do not list Blofeld ( maybe due to the fact that he is only referred to as Number One in the film ) Active/indirect involvement in the field . Never has any contact with Bond
1967 You Only Live Twice Donald Pleasence . Actor Jan Werich was originally cast ; some clips show his hands petting the cat , and a tuft of hair can be seen just above the back of his chair . Pleasence , with a fake white eye and scar on his face , replaced Werich during filming when the latter was deemed unsuited for the role Injured in his right hand by a shuriken ; escapes
1969 On Her Majestys Secret Service Telly Savalas ; appears with earlobes removed to back up claim to a noble title Escapes ; he was the driver in the drive-by murder of Tracy Bond
1971 Diamonds Are Forever Charles Gray ; appears also as doubles , all created via plastic surgery He attempts to escape in his mini-sub , but Bond gains control of it and crashes it into the control room
1981 For Your Eyes Only John Hollis as actor , Robert Rietty as voice actor ; Blofeld 's face is not seen close-up and his name is not used , due to the legal battle with Kevin McClory revealed in the film 's DVD commentary Dropped down an industrial chimney from a helicopter
1983 Never Say Never Again ( non-Eon ) Max von Sydow . Appears in a small number of scenes Active/indirect involvement in the field . Never has any direct contact with Bond
2015 Spectre Christoph Waltz ; he , identified as being of Austrian ancestry , is initially known by his birth name as Franz Oberhauser , but reveals that he began using his mother 's maiden name , Blofeld , after faking his own death . Later on in the film , Bond disfigures him with Q 's explosive watch , leaving him with a milky eye and a facial scar reminiscent of Donald Pleasence 's portrayal of the character Captured by Bond and arrested by M. Currently in MI6 custody
2020 No Time To Die Christoph Waltz
In films -- Table of film appearances
Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character and villain from the James Bond series of novels and films, created by Ian Fleming. A criminal mastermind with aspirations of world domination, he is the archenemy of the British Secret Service agent James Bond. Blofeld is head of the global criminal organisation SPECTRE and is commonly referred to by the codename Number 1 within this organisation. The character was originally written by Fleming as a physically massive and powerfully built man, standing around and weighing 21.6 stone (about ), who had become flabby with a huge belly. Blofeld appears or is heard in three novels: Thunderball, On Her Majesty's Secret Service; and You Only Live Twice; as well as eight films from Eon Productions: From Russia with Love (1963); Thunderball (1965); You Only Live Twice (1967); On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); Diamonds Are Forever (1971); For Your Eyes Only (1981; the pre-title sequence of which shows an unnamed character resembling him fall to his death); Spectre (2015); and No Time to Die (2020). The latter two films are set in an alternate continuity, which started with Casino Royale (2006), and reveals him as the leader of most previous villains since then. He also appears in Never Say Never Again (1983), the non-Eon remake of Thunderball. Blofeld has been played on screen by Donald Pleasence, Telly Savalas, Charles Gray, Max von Sydow, and Christoph Waltz, among others. It was initially a convention of the films not to show Blofeld's face, only a close-up of him stroking his white, blue-eyed Persian cat. Many of Blofeld's characteristics have become tropes in popular fiction, representing the stock character of the supervillain, with the stroking of his white cat often retained as a parodic allusion to Blofeld's character, as seen in the Austin Powers film series with the character of Dr. Evil and his cat Mr. Bigglesworth, or in the cartoons Inspector Gadget with the character of Dr. Claw and Danger Mouse with the character of Baron Silas Greenback.