Lauterbrunnen R. Tolkien hiked from Interlaken to the Lauterbrunnen Valley while on a trip to the Continent in 1911. The landscape of the valley later provided the concept and pictorial model for his sketches and watercolours of the fictitious valley of Rivendell, the dwelling place of Elrond Half-elven and his people. Lauterbrunnen featured in several scenes from the 1969 James Bond film" On Her Majesty's Secret Service", including a car chase in which Bond (played for the only time by George Lazenby) was driven away from henchmen of Ernst Stavro Blofeld by his girlfriend Tracy di Vicenzo in a dramatic pursuit
John Hollis John Hollis John Hollis (12 November 1927 – 18 October 2005) was a British actor of TV and film. John Hollis was born Bertie Wyn Hollis in southwest London in 1927. He played the role of Lobot in "The Empire Strikes Back" and the German porter at the chateau in "The Dirty Dozen". He appeared in the Christopher Reeve Superman films "Superman" and "Superman II" as an elder of Krypton, and in "" as a Russian General. He also played the role of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the cold open of the 1981 James Bond film "For Your Eyes Only",