On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film) On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film) On Her Majesty's Secret Service is a 1969 British spy film and the sixth in the "James Bond" series produced by Eon Productions. It is based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Following Sean Connery's decision to retire from the role after "You Only Live Twice", Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby, to play the part of James Bond. During the making of the film, Lazenby announced that he would play the role of Bond only once. In the film, Bond faces Blofeld (Telly Savalas),
Christoph Waltz film "The Zero Theorem" (2013), American plagiarist Walter Keane in the biographical film "Big Eyes" (2014), and James Bond's nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld in "Spectre" (2015), the twenty-fourth Bond film. Waltz was born in Vienna, the son of Johannes Waltz and Elisabeth Urbancic, set and costume designers, from Germany and Austria respectively. His maternal grandfather, Rudolf von Urban, was a psychiatrist and psychologist who wrote the book "Sex Perfection and Marital Happiness". His maternal grandmother was Burgtheater actress Maria Mayen, and his step-grandfather was actor Emmerich Reimers. His great-grandparents also worked in theatre. Waltz studied acting at the Max Reinhardt