Ernst Stavro Blofeld lapels, has a full head of hair, and is disfigured in the course of the film, echoing the Pleasence version's duelling scar. He is also briefly shown holding a white Persian cat. Blofeld appears in the 2004 video game "", with the likeness of Donald Pleasence, voiced by Gideon Emery. Blofeld is a playable multiplayer character in the 2010 video game "GoldenEye 007" for the Wii, with the likeness of Charles Gray. Blofeld is one of the main characters in the 2012 video game "007 Legends", featured in the mission based on "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", in which the
Telly Savalas sweet tooth, Savalas also smoked heavily onscreen—cigarettes, cigarillos and cigars—throughout the first season's episodes. The lollipops, which Savalas later admitted had given him three cavities, were also part of an (unsuccessful) effort by Kojak (and Savalas himself) to curb his smoking. The critic Clive James explained the lead actor's appeal as Kojak: "Telly Savalas can make bad slang sound like good slang and good slang sound like lyric poetry. It isn't what he is, so much as the way he talks, that gets you tuning in." David Shipman later wrote: "Kojak was sympathetic to outcasts and ruthless with social predators.