Ernst Stavro Blofeld lapels, has a full head of hair, and is disfigured in the course of the film, echoing the Pleasence version's duelling scar. He is also briefly shown holding a white Persian cat. Blofeld appears in the 2004 video game "", with the likeness of Donald Pleasence, voiced by Gideon Emery. Blofeld is a playable multiplayer character in the 2010 video game "GoldenEye 007" for the Wii, with the likeness of Charles Gray. Blofeld is one of the main characters in the 2012 video game "007 Legends", featured in the mission based on "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", in which the
Ernst Stavro Blofeld Baron Silas Greenback. Ian Fleming includes information about Blofeld's background in his novel "Thunderball". According to the novel, Blofeld was born on 28 May 1908 (which is also Fleming's birthday) in Gdingen, Imperial Germany (now Gdynia, Poland); his father Ernst George Blofeld was Polish, and his mother Maria Stavro Michelopoulos was Greek, hence the well-known Greek name Stavro. After World War I, Blofeld became a Polish national. As a young man, he was well-versed in the social science disciplines, but also in the natural science and technology disciplines. He first graduated from the University of Warsaw with a degree in