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 Savalas had a showy role in "The Dirty Dozen" (1967), playing a role that Jack Palance turned down, Archer Maggott, the worst of the dozen. It was a huge commercial success. He guest-starred on the TV series "Garrison's Gorillas" and "Cimarron Strip," then focused on features. He did an action film directed by Brian Hutton, "Sol Madrid" (1968), then did a Western with Lancaster and Pollack, "The Scalphunters" (1968). Savalas was in two comedies, "Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell" (1968), one of his favorite roles, and "The Assassination Bureau" (1969) and did an all-star action film for Thompson, "Mackenna's Gold" (1969).