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,
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