Ernő Goldfinger of Brutalist architecture. Goldfinger was known as a humourless man given to notorious rages. He sometimes fired his assistants if they were inappropriately jocular, and once forcibly ejected two prospective clients for imposing restrictions on his design. A discussion about Ernő with Goldfinger's cousin, on a golf course prompted Ian Fleming to name the James Bond adversary and villain Auric Goldfinger after Ernő (Fleming had previously been among the objectors to the pre-war demolition of the cottages in Hampstead that were removed to make way for Goldfinger's house at 2 Willow Road). Goldfinger consulted his lawyers when "Goldfinger" was published
Goldfinger (novel) plot of the film was also changed from stealing the gold at Fort Knox to irradiating the gold vault with a dirty bomb. BBC documentary (1973) The 1973 BBC documentary "Omnibus: The British Hero" featured Christopher Cazenove playing a number of such title characters (e.g. Richard Hannay and Bulldog Drummond), including James Bond in dramatised scenes from "Goldfinger" – notably featuring the hero being threatened with the novel's circular saw, rather than the film's laser beam – and "Diamonds Are Forever". Radio adaptation (2010) Following its successful version of "Dr. No", produced in 2008 as a special one-off to mark