For Your Eyes Only (film) helicopter picks him up for an emergency. Control of the helicopter is taken over by remote control by a bald man in a grey Nehru jacket with a white cat. This character is unnamed in either the film or the credits, although he looks and sounds like Ernst Stavro Blofeld as played by Donald Pleasence or Telly Savalas. Director John Glen referred to the identity of the villain obliquely: "We just let people use their imaginations and draw their own conclusions ... It's a legal thing". The character is deliberately not named due to copyright restrictions with Kevin McClory, who
Telly Savalas not go. Savalas went to cover for his friend and ended up being cast on "And Bring Home a Baby," an episode of "Armstrong Circle Theatre" in January 1958. He appeared on two more episodes of this same series in 1959 and 1960, one acting alongside a young Sydney Pollack. He was also in a version of "The Iceman Cometh". Savalas quickly became in much demand as a guest star on TV shows, appearing in "Sunday Showcase," "," "Dow Hour of Great Mysteries" (an adaptation of "The Cat and the Canary"), "Naked City" (alongside Claude Rains), "The Witness" (playing Lucky