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 a radio show called The Coffeehouse in New York City. Savalas began as an executive director and then senior director of the news special events at ABC. He then became an executive producer for the "Gillette Cavalcade of Sports," where he gave Howard Cosell his first job in television. In the fall of 1959 Savalas directed Scott Vincent and Howard Cosell in "Report to New York," WABC-TV's first local TV news program. Savalas did not consider acting as a career until asked if he could recommend an actor who could do a European accent. He did but the friend could