Ernst Stavro Blofeld or is heard in three novels: "Thunderball", "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"; and "You Only Live Twice"; as well as seven 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); and "Spectre" (2015). 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,
Telly Savalas è al telefono" (1972), an Italian giallo; "Pancho Villa" (1972), playing the title role in a Spanish spaghetti Western; "A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die" (1972), another Western, this time with James Coburn; and "Senza ragione" (1973), an Italian thriller. "I had worked my way up to star billing," he later said, "when the bottom dropped out of the movie business. I could have stayed in Europe and made Italian, movies but I discovered the big difference between an Italian and American movie is that in the American movie you get paid." Savalas first played Detective Kojak in