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 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