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
Telly Savalas and "Love Is a Ball" (1962) with Glenn Ford and was in the gangster film "Johnny Cool" (1963). Savalas guest starred on "77 Sunset Strip," "The Twilight Zone" (the episode "Living Doll" ), "Channing," "Arrest and Trial," "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour," "Breaking Point,""Kraft Suspense Theatre" (several times, once directed by Pollack), "The Rogues," and "Burke's Law." Savlas reprised his "Interns" role in "The New Interns" (1964) and made a TV movie "Fanfare for a Death Scene" (1964). Savalas shaved his head to play Pontius Pilate in "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965) and kept his head shaven for the rest