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 of his life. He was reunited with Thompson in "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!" (1965) and was one of many names in "Genghis Khan" (1965). Savalas guested on "Bonanza" and "Run for Your Life," then was in Pollack's feature film debut as director, "The Slender Thread" (1965), playing a psychiatrist. He had a supporting role in box-office flop "Battle of the Bulge" (1965) and guest-starred on "The Virginian," "Combat!," "The Fugitive," "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." (episodes released as "The Karate Killers"), "The F.B.I.," and "Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre." He also played the villainous sergeant in "Beau Geste" (1966).