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Oddjob (Harold Sakata)

HENCHMEN OF BOND VILLAINS (in films)

A henchman is an assassin, hired guard or minion of a Bond villain. Each villain has numerous henchmen to do their bidding, but there is usually a privileged member who is a formidable physical threat to Bond.

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Casino Royale / Climax!: The episode of TV anthology series (1954)

Basil (Gene Roth)
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HENCHMEN:

Basil (Gene Roth) – Shot by Bond
Zoltan (Kurt Katch) – Survives
Drive-by assassin (Unknown actor) – Survives

VILLAIN:
Le Chiffre (Peter Lorre)

Dr. No (1962)

HENCHMEN:

Professor R. J. Dent (Anthony Dawson)
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Professor R. J. Dent (Anthony Dawson) – Shot by Bond
Miss Taro (Zena Marshall) – Arrested
Annabel Chung (Marguerite LeWars) – Survives
Mr. Jones (Reginald Carter) – Poisons self with cyanide capsule
Three Blind Mice (Eric Coverley, Charles Edghill and Henry Lopez) – Die in car crash
Sister Lily (Yvonne Shima) – Dies When Headquarters Blows up
Sister Rose (Michel Mok) – Dies when Headquarters Blows up

VILLAIN:
Dr. Julius No (Joseph Wiseman)

From Russia With Love (1963)

HENCHMEN:

Donald “Red” Grant (Robert Shaw)
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Donald “Red” Grant (Robert Shaw) – Garroted by Bond
Kronsteen (Vladek Sheybal) – Stabbed by Morzeny
Morzeny (Walter Gotell) – Incinerated by Bond (Gotell played General Gogol in later Bond films.)
Krilencu (Fred Haggerty) – Shot by Kerim Bey
Red Grant’s Masseuse (Jan Williams) – Unknown
Tatiana Romanova (Daniela Bianchi) – Changes sides; survives.

VILLAINS:
Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya)
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Anthony Dawson / body), (Eric Pohlmann / voice)

Goldfinger (1964)

HENCHMEN:

Oddjob (Harold Sakata)
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Oddjob (Harold Sakata) – Electrocuted by Bond
Bonita (Nadja Regin) – Unknown
Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton) – Suffocated by gold paint
Capungo (Alf Joint) – Electrocuted by Bond
Jack Strap (Hal Galili) – Gassed by Goldfinger
Kisch (Michael Mellinger) – Thrown over rail by Oddjob
Martin Solo (Martin Benson) – Shot by Oddjob and his corpse disposed of in a scrap metal compactor
Mei-Lei (Mai Ling) – Unknown
Midnight (Bill Nagy) – Gassed by Goldfinger
Denise (Aleta Morrison) – Survives
Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman) – Changes sides; survives
Pussy Galore’s Flying Circus Pilots (Caron Gardiner, Lesley Hill & Aleta Morrison) – Unknown

VILLAIN:

Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe)

Thunderball (1965)

HENCHMEN:

Vargas (Philip Locke)
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Vargas (Philip Locke) – Harpooned by Bond
Fiona Volpe (Luciana Paluzzi) – Shot by her own henchman
Count Lippe (Guy Doleman) – Blown up by Fiona
Colonel Jacques Bouvar (Rose Alba and Bob Simmons) – Strangled with fireplace poker by Bond
Dr. Ladislav Kutze (George Pravda) – Unknown; changes sides by helping Domino to escape and renders the atomic bomb on board the Disco Volante useless
Angelo Palazzi (Paul Stassino) – Drowns, courtesy of Largo
Quist (Bill Cummings) – Fed to sharks by Largo
SPECTRE Agent No. 9 (Clive Cazes) – Electrocuted by Blofeld after being found guilty of embezzlement
SPECTRE Agent No. 11 (Cecil Cheng) – Survives
Janni (Michael Brennan) – Dies when the Disco Volante crashes

VILLAINS:
Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi)
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Anthony Dawson / body), (Eric Pohlmann / voice)

Casino Royale (1967)

HENCHMEN:

Frau Hoffner (Anna Quayle)
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Frau Hoffner (Anna Quayle) – Shot by deceased WWI soldier
Agent Mimi (Deborah Kerr) – Switched sides; became a nun who gives Bond information; survives
Vesper Lynd (Ursula Andress) – Presumed killed in ending atomic explosion
Miss Goodthighs (Jacqueline Bisset) – Killed by Vesper
Polo (Ronnie Corbett) – Short-circuited by Mata Bond
Le Chiffre’s Representative (Vladek Sheybal) – Blown up in telephone booth by Le Chiffre
Casino Clerk (Actor Unknown) – Shot by Bond and Vesper

VILLAINS:
Le Chiffre (Orson Welles)
Dr. Noah / Jimmy Bond (Woody Allen)

You Only Live Twice (1967)

HENCHMEN:

Hans (Ronald Rich)
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Hans (Ronald Rich) – Fed to piranhas by Bond
Mr. Osato (Teru Shimada) – Shot by Blofeld
Helga Brandt (Karin Dor) – Fed to piranhas by Blofeld
Bedroom Assassin (David Toguri) – Shot by Bond

SPECTRE Agent No. 3 (Burt Kwouk) – Killed through unknown means
SPECTRE Agent No. 4 (Michael Chow) – Unknown

VILLAIN:
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Donald Pleasence)

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)

HENCHMEN:

Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat)
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Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat) – Survives
Gumbold (James Bree) – Survives
Grunther (Yuri Borienko) – Impaled on spike bed by Tracy
Braun (George Lane Cooper) – Survives
Felsen (Leslie Crawford) – Survives
Josef (Joseph Vas) – Survives
Ruby Bartlett (Angela Scoular) – Survives
Nancy (Catherina von Schell) – Survives
Helen (Julie Ege) – Survives
Blofeld’s Angels of Death – Survive
SPECTRE Skier (George Leech) – Strangled then thrown off cliff by Bond

VILLAIN:

Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas)

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

HENCHMEN:

Left: Mr. Wint (Bruce Glover)
Right: Mr. Kidd (Putter Smith)
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Mr. Wint (Bruce Glover) – Blown up
Mr. Kidd (Putter Smith) – Set ablaze
Shady Tree (Leonard Barr) – Shot by Wint and Kidd
Peter Franks (Joe Robinson) – Thrown over banister by Bond
Tiffany Case (Jill St. John) – Change sides, survives
Bert Saxby (Bruce Cabot) – Shot by CIA agents
Bambi (Lola Larson) – Arrested
Thumper (Trina Parks) – Arrested
Morton Slumber (David Bauer) – Unknown
Prof. Dr. Metz (Joseph Furst) – Unknown
Dr. Tynan (Henry Rowland) – Stung by scorpion
Mrs. Whistler (Margaret Lacey) – Drowned by Wint and Kidd
Joe (Raymond Baker) – Blown up
Marie (Denise Perrier) – Survives
Blofeld Double #1 – boiled alive in a pit of super-heated mud by Bond
Blofeld Double #2 – shot in the head with a piton gun by Bond
Blofeld Double #3 (Max Latimer) – drowned in mud bath by Bond
Rodney “Fingers” McGraw-Boss of the Spangled Mob (Marc Lawrence) – Unknown, could possibly be the same character who gets shot in the forehead by Francisco Scaramanga in the pre-title sequence of “The Man with the Golden Gun” (1974)
Man in Fez (Frank Olegario) – Survives
Blofeld’s Plastic Surgeons (David de Keyser, Gerald Paris, Charles Rayford and Anthony Snell) – Survive
Casino Croupier (Vincent Wong) – Survives
Slumber Inc. Attendants (Sid Haig and Michael Valente) – Survive

VILLAIN:
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Charles Gray)

Live and Let Die (1973)

HENCHMEN:

Tee Hee (Julius W. Harris)
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Tee Hee (Julius W. Harris) – Thrown out train window by Bond
Whisper (Earl Jolly Brown) – Unknown, last seen trapped in an airtight container
Baron Samedi (Geoffrey Holder) – First shot, then thrown into a coffin full of venomous snakes by Bond; later revealed to have survived
Adam (Tommy Lane) – Blown up in boat crash by Bond
Cab Driver (Arnold Williams) – Unknown
Rosie Carver (Gloria Hendry) – Shot by gun hidden in mouth of Kananga’s scarecrows
Sales Girl (Kubi Chaza) – Survives
Dambala (Michael Ebbin) – Shot by Bond
Casual Assassin (Alvin Alcorn) – Unknown
Solitaire (Jane Seymour) – Changes sides, survives
Singer (Brenda Arnau) – Survives
Grieving woman (Sylvia Kuumba Williams) – Unknown

VILLAIN:
Dr. Kananga / Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto)

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

HENCHMEN:

Nick Nack (Hervé Villechaize)
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Nick Nack (Hervé Villechaize) – Arrested
Hai Fat (Richard Loo) – Shot by Scaramanga
Andrea Anders (Maud Adams) – Changes sides; shot by Scaramanga
Kra (Sonny Caldinez) – Knocked into a liquid helium vat by Mary Goodnight
Chula (Chan Yiu Lam) – Survives
Lazar (Marne Maitland) – Survives

VILLAIN:
Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee)

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

HENCHMEN:

Jaws (Richard Kiel)
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Jaws (Richard Kiel) – Survives
Naomi (Caroline Munro) – Dies when helicopter is shot down by Bond
Sandor (Milton Reid) – Thrown off roof by Bond
Log Cabin Girl (Sue Vanner) – Survives
Felicca (Olga Bisera) – Shot by Sandor
Sergei Barsov (Michael Billington) – Shot with ski-pole gun by Bond
Aziz Fekkesh (Nadim Sawalha) – Bitten by Jaws
Max Kalba (Vernon Dobtcheff) – Bitten by Jaws
Stromberg’s Assistant (Marilyn Galsworthy) – Dies when Stromberg drops her into a shark tank and is eaten
Dr. Bechmann (Cyril Shaps) – Dies when Stromberg blows up helicopter with him in it

Prof. Markovitz (Milo Sperber) – Dies when Stromberg blows up helicopter with him in it
Liparus Captain (Sidney Tafler) – Killed in explosion

VILLAIN:
Karl Stromberg (Curt Jürgens)

Moonraker (1979)

HENCHMEN:

Chang (Toshiro Suga)
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Chang (Toshiro Suga) – Thrown through clock face into piano by Bond
Apollo Jet Pilot (Jean-Pierre Castaldi) – Parachute removed by Bond, falls to his death
Apollo Jet Hostess (Leila Shenna) – Unknown, possibly dies when plane crashes
Jaws (Richard Kiel) – Changes sides and survives
Lady Victoria Devon (Francoise Gayat) – Deceased; Unknown
Countess Labinsky (Catherine Serre) – Lasered by Goodhead
La Signorina del Mateo (Chichinou Kaeppler) – Lasered by MI6 agents
Mademoiselle Deladier (Beatrice Libert) – Dies when Space Station blows up
Blonde Beauty (Irka Bochenko) – dies when Space station blows up
Drax’s Girl (Nicaise Jean-Louis) – Dies when Space Station blows up
Tree assassin (Guy Delorme) – Killed by Bond with a “missed” shot while pheasant hunting
Corinne Dufour (Corinne Cléry) – Eaten by dogs

VILLAIN:
Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale)

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

HENCHMEN:

Emile Leopold Locque (Michael Gothard)
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Emile Leopold Locque (Michael Gothard) – Shot in shoulder and kicked off cliff in car by Bond
Erich Kriegler (John Wyman) – Thrown through window and off a cliff by Bond
Hector Gonzales (Stefan Kalipha) – Shot with crossbow by Melina
Apostis (Jack Klaff) – Knocked off cliff by Bond
Claus (Charles Dance) – Harpooned by Columbo’s men
Lisl von Schlaf (Cassandra Harris) – Ran over by Locque.

VILLAINS:
Aristotle Kristatos (Julian Glover)
Ernst Stavro Blofeld – implied to be one (John Hollis / body), (Robert Rietty / voice)

Octopussy (1983)

HENCHMEN:

Gobinda (Kabir Bedi)
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Gobinda (Kabir Bedi) – Knocked off plane by Bond
Magda (Kristina Wayborn) – Changes sides; Survives
Mischka (David Meyer) – Bludgeoned with cannon by Bond
Grischka (Anthony Meyer) – Stabbed by Bond
Lenkin (Peter Porteous) – Arrested by the KGB
Hired thugs (William Derrick, R.J. Bell, and Ravinder Singh Reyett) – One killed by octopus (either poisoned or suffocated); one shot in neck by (possibly poisoned) dart; one eaten by crocodile
Colonel Toro (Ken Norris) – Killed in explosion

VILLAINS:
Kamal Khan (Louis Jourdan)
General Orlov (Steven Berkoff)

Never Say Never Again (1983)

HENCHMEN:

Lippe (Pat Roach)
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Lippe (Pat Roach) – Killed by Bond in fight at health clinic, in which he is impaled on broken beakers
Fatima Blush (Barbara Carrera) – Blown up by pen bomb gun used by Bond
Kovacs (Milow Kirek) – survives

VILLAINS:
Maximilian Largo (Klaus Maria Brandauer)
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Max von Sydov)

A View to a Kill (1985)

HENCHMEN:

Dr. Carl Mortner (Willoughby Gray)
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Dr. Carl Mortner (Willoughby Gray) – Dies when bomb explodes
May Day (Grace Jones) – Changes sides; dies when bomb explodes
Scarpine (Patrick Bauchau) – Dies when bomb explodes
Jenny Flex (Alison Doody) – Drowns
Pan Ho (Papillon Soo Soo) – Drowns
Bob Conley (Manning Redwood) – Drowns
W.G. Howe (Daniel Benzali) – Shot by Zorin

VILLAIN:
Max Zorin (Christopher Walken)

The Living Daylights (1987)

HENCHMEN:

Necros (Andreas Wisniewski) – Falls from rear of a cargo plane whilst having a mid-air fight on a dangling cargo net with Bond
Kara Milovy (Maryam D’Abo) – Changes sides; Survives
Colonel Feyador (John Bowe) – Killed by grenade
Imposter 00 (Carl Rigg) – Killed in exploding car
Sergeant Stagg (Derek Hoxby) – Shot by Pushkin

VILLAINS:
Georgi Koskov (Jeroen Krabbé)
Brad Whitaker (Joe Don Baker)

Licence to Kill (1989)

HENCHMEN:

Dario (Benicio del Toro) – Shot in shoulder by Pam, thrown into pulveriser by Bond
Milton Krest (Anthony Zerbe) – Exploded in a hyperbaric chamber by Sanchez, after being framed by Bond
Ed Killifer (Everett McGill) – Fed to sharks by Bond
Colonel Heller (Don Stroud) – Impaled on forklift by Braun on Sanchez’ orders
Truman-Lodge (Anthony Starke) – Shot by Sanchez
Prof. Joe Butcher (Wayne Newton) – Survives
Braun (Guy De Saint Cyr) – Falls off cliff in burning truck
Hector Lopez (Pedro Armendáriz Jr.) – Ends up with Lupe
Perez (Alejandro Bracho) – Falls off cliff in burning truck
Clive (Eddie Edenfield) – Harpooned by Bond
Lupe Lamora (Talisa Soto) – Changes sides; Survives

VILLAIN:
Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi)

GoldenEye (1995)

HENCHMEN:

Boris Grishenko (Alan Cumming) – Frozen by liquid nitrogen
Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen) – Crushed by safety harness
General Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov (Gottfried John) – Shot by Bond

VILLAIN:
Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean)

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

HENCHMEN:

Mr. Stamper (Götz Otto) – Blown up
Henry Gupta (Ricky Jay) – Shot by Carver
Dr. Kaufman (Vincent Schiavelli) – Shot by Bond
General Chang (Philip Kwok) – Unknown
Captain Scott (Mark Spalding) – Shot by Bond

VILLAIN:
Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce)

The World Is Not Enough (1999)

HENCHMEN:

Mr. Bullion (Goldie) – Shot by Zukovsky
Gabor (John Seru) – Shot by Bond
Sasha Davidov (Ulrich Thomsen) – Shot by Bond
Dr. Mikhail Arkov (Jeff Nuttall) – Shot by Renard’s henchman
Giulietta da Vinci (Cigar Girl) (Maria Grazia Cucinotta) – Blows herself up
Lachaise (Patrick Malahide) – Knifed in the back of the neck by Cigar Girl

VILLAINS:
Elektra King (Sophie Marceau)
Renard / Victor Zokas (Robert Carlyle)

Die Another Day (2002)

HENCHMEN:

Zao (Rick Yune) – Impaled by falling chandelier
Mr. Kil (Lawrence Makoare) – Lasered by Jinx
Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike) – Stabbed by Jinx
Vladimir Popov (Mikhail Gorevoy) – Sucked out of broken plane window
Dr. Alvarez (Simon Andreu) – Shot by Jinx

VILLAIN:
Gustav Graves / Tan-Sun Moon
(Toby Stephens / Will Yun Lee)

Casino Royale (2006)

HENCHMEN:

Alex Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian) – Stabbed by Bond
Kratt (Clemens Schick) – Killed offscreen by Mr. White
Valenka (Ivana Miličević) – Killed offscreen by Mr. White
Mollaka (Sébastien Foucan) – Shot by Bond
Carlos (Claudio Santamaria) – Blown up by Bond
Adolph Gettler (Richard Sammel) – Shot with nail gun by Bond
Steven Obanno (Isaach De Bankolé) – Strangled by Bond
Leo (Emmanuel Avena) – Arrested
Dryden (Malcolm Sinclair) – Shot by Bond
Fisher (Daud Shah) – Drowned, then shot by Bond
Tall Man (Leos Stransky) – Crushed by an elevator
Obanno’s Lieutenant (Michael Offei) – Thrown off stairwell by Bond
Vesper Lynd (Eva Green) – Drowned

VILLAINS:
Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen)
Mr. White (Jesper Christensen)

Quantum of Solace (2008)

HENCHMEN:

General Medrano (Joaquin Cosío) – Shot by Camille
Elvis (Anatole Taubman) – Incinerated
Edmund Slate (Neil Jackson) – Stabbed in neck with scissors by Bond
Gregory Beam (David Harbour) – Fired from CIA
Yusef Kabira (Simon Kassianides) – Arrested by MI6
Craig Mitchell (Glenn Foster) – Shot by Bond
Guy Haines (Paul Ritter) – Survives
Gregor Karakov (Gustavo Nanez) – Survives
Moishe Soref (Tsedor Gyalzur) – Survives
Gift Bag Man (Christian Heller) – Knocked unconscious by Bond
Greene’s Driver (Carl Von Malaise) – Shot by Bond
Carlos (Fernando Guillen Cuervo) – Shot by Bond
Mr. White’s girlfriend (Elizabeth Arciniega) – Unknown

VILLAINS:
Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric)
Mr. White (Jesper Christensen)

Skyfall (2012)

HENCHMEN:

Patrice (Ola Rapace) – Falls from a skyscraper in Shanghai
Sévérine (Bérénice Marlohe) – Shot by Silva
Sévérine’s Bodyguard (Tank Dong) – Attacked and eaten by Komodo Dragons
Sévérine’s Bodyguard (Roger Yuan) – Knocked unconscious by Eve
Sévérine’s Bodyguard (Liang Yang) – Knocked unconscious by Bond
Silva’s mercenary (Jens Hultén) – Drowned by Bond in a frozen lake
Silva’s mercenary (Adebayo Bolaji) – Shot by Bond
Boat Captain (Milorad Kapor) – Shot by Bond

VILLAIN:
Raoul Silva / Tiago Rodriguez (Javier Bardem)

SPECTRE (2015)

Mr. Hinx (Dave Bautista) – Dragged from a moving train by a rope around his neck
Marco Sciarra (Alessandro Cremona) – Thrown from a helicopter
Max Denbigh/C (Andrew Scott) – Falls to his death after a fight with M
Moreau (Marc Zinga) – Survives
Dr. Vogel (Brigitte Millar) Survives
Mr. Guerra (Benito Sagredo) – Eyes crushed and neck snapped by Mr. Hinx
Lorenzo (Peppe Lanzetta) – Thrown from a balcony
Gallo (Domenico Fortunato) – Shot by Bond
Oberhauser’s Butler (Michael White) – Killed in helicopter crash

VILLAIN:
Franz Oberhauser / Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Christoph Waltz)

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A henchman is an assassin, hired guard or minion of a Bond villain. Each villain has numerous henchmen to do their bidding, but there is usually a privileged member who is a formidable physical threat to Bond.

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