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
Pleasance Smith letter from Queen Victoria to "her friend" on her 100th birthday. Pleasance Smith Pleasance Smith (11 May 1773 – 3 February 1877) (née Reeve) was an English letter writer and literary editor. Smith was born in Lowestoft in 1773. She married James Edward Smith. After she married in 1796 she was painted "as a gypsy" by John Opie. After her husband died in 1828 she edited a biography of him which included some of his letters. This was published in 1832. Smith died in Lowestoft having already achieved an age of 100 in 1873. She was said to have retained