Ernst Stavro Blofeld novel, "The Spy Who Loved Me", though its events take place while Bond is battling SPECTRE in North America. In "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1963), Bond learns that Blofeld has altered his appearance radically —he is now tall and thin; has reduced his weight to ; sports long silver hair, a syphilitic infection on his nose, and no earlobes; he wears dark green tinted contact lenses to hide his distinctive eyes. Perhaps less calculating than previously, he is notably saddled with the exploitable weakness of snobbery about his assumed nobility, indicating that he is losing his sanity. He is
Charles Gray (actor) War murder-mystery film "The Night of the Generals". The following year he played Dikko Henderson, an Australian intelligence officer assigned to their Embassy in Tokyo, in the 1967 Bond film "You Only Live Twice". Four years later he appeared as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever", both films starring Sean Connery as Bond. Gray's most prolific work as an actor was between 1968 and 1979, when he appeared in more than forty major film and television productions. From this period he is perhaps best known for portraying the Criminologist (the narrator) in "The Rocky Horror