Best portrayal of James Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld

[Amerigo Vespucci]

[OmahaBlueDog]

1. IIRC, doesn't Gray appear in one of the earlier Bond films as a fellow British agent?

maybe I'm hallucinating.

[Kaleva]

3. "The following year he played an English agent, Henderson, in the 1967 Bond film You Only Live Twice

[DerekG]

2. Savalas, for what it's worth

None of the Blofelds lived up to the nebulous mastermind of FRWL and Thunderball, but at least Savalas was a guy who could get things done. In other words, he wasn't a dwarfish boob or an effete.

If you ask me, Dr. No should have been No. 1.

[Alexander]

4. Charles Gray cross-dressed as Blofeld.

Which is funny, considering he was one of the few not to cross-dress in the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Savalas wasn't that bad as Blofeld, but his New York accent did kind of grate on me after a while.

I have to go with Pleasence. His Blofeld is a legend and sufficiently creepy. Although I would've preferred the faceless Blofeld for a bit longer than two movies.

Side note: if you look closely in From Russia With Love, you can see Blofeld has black hair.

If they ever bring back Blofeld for the rebooted Bond movies, I would definitely like to see this person play him:

[jobycom]

5. You only live twice. Once when you are born, and once when you look death in the face.

I go with Pleasance. Overall, one of the better Bond films and maybe the best Bond book, imho.

[DFW]

6. I always found it a shame that this one was never given the role, he was SO evil: