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
Take Over (James Bond) of preposterous, cosmic story-line which might have occurred to Ian." Traditional Bond elements such as M, Miss Moneypenny and Universal Exports also appear, though the story contains lots of sex, unlike other Bond novels. Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond novels, died on 12 August 1964 of a heart attack. His brother Peter Fleming, himself also an author and occasional novelist, was a director of Glidrose Publications, the corporate entity Ian Fleming had established to administer the Bond copyright. Donald McCormick describes Peter Fleming as "level-headed" and "down-to-earth." In October 1970 a retired 73-year-old bank officer - only identified