On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel) 1964–1965. In 1969 the novel was adapted as the sixth film in the Eon Productions James Bond film series and was the only film to star George Lazenby as Bond. In 2014 "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was adapted as a play on BBC Radio, starring Toby Stephens. For more than a year, James Bond, British Secret Service operative 007, has been involved in "Operation Bedlam": trailing the private criminal organisation SPECTRE and its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The organisation had hijacked two nuclear devices and subsequently blackmailed the western world, as described in "Thunderball". Convinced SPECTRE no longer exists,
Christoph Waltz the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. He starred as Walter Keane in Tim Burton's "Big Eyes", which opened on 25 December 2014, and appeared as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in "Spectre", the 24th film in the "James Bond" franchise. In 2015, it was announced that Waltz will direct and star in the film "The Worst Marriage in Georgetown", which is based on the true crime story of the murder of Viola Drath. In July 2016, he portrayed lead villain Captain Leon Rom, a corrupt Belgian captain, in the reboot "The Legend of Tarzan". In 2017, Waltz appeared in the films "Tulip