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 the 1980s and early 1990s, Savalas appeared in commercials for the Players' Club Gold Card. In 1982 along with Bob Hope and Linda Evans, he participated in the "world premiere" television ad introducing Diet Coke to Americans. On October 28, 1987, Savalas hosted "Return to the Titanic Live", a two-hour television special broadcast from Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris. Savalas appeared on the Australian supernatural television show "The Extraordinary," in which he told a personal ghost story similar to the vanishing hitchhiker. In the late 1980s Savalas guest-starred on an episode of "The Equalizer," which was produced