List of James Bond henchmen in Live and Let Die

A list of henchman from the 1954 James BOND novel and 1973 film Live and Let Die from the List of James Bond henchmen.

Tee Hee Johnson

Tee Hee Johnson is a fictional character in the James Bond novel and film Live and Let Die. In the film he was portrayed by Julius Harris. Tee Hee's name is derived from his tendency to chuckle to himself very often for little or no reason. As Bond states when he first meets the man: "Funny how the least little thing amuses him".

In the film, Tee Hee works for Mr. Big and has a metal arm, replacing one which was bitten off by an alligator. He appears to be either a chief bodyguard or right hand man of Kananga's as he appears in almost all of his employer's scenes regardless of which identity his employer is currently assuming. In his first meeting of Bond, Tee Hee is informed that Bond is armed by Solitaire, disarms him and, in a demonstration of his formidable hook, twists Bond's gun. In their next meeting, Tee Hee leads Bond to an island surrounded by crocodiles and alligators, but Bond escapes by using the backs of the alligators as stepping stones. After Bond foils Mr. Big's plot, Tee Hee returns to attempt revenge. After a fight however, Bond disables his artificial arm ([...] the wires which control the hook) and presumably ends the henchman's life when he throws Tee Hee out of the window of a moving train, leaving his metal arm still attached to the window ledge.

In the novel, Tee Hee has both arms and is killed when Bond kicks him down a stairwell after he broke Bond's finger.

Baron Samedi

For other uses, see Baron Samedi (disambiguation).

Baron Samedi is a popular fictional character from the James Bond novel and film, Live and Let Die. In the film, he was a henchman to Mr. Big. In Live and Let Die, Samedi was portrayed by actor Geoffrey Holder. Samedi would later make an appearance in the 1997 video game GoldenEye 007 and in the 2002 game Nightfire as a multiplayer character.

The character is inspired from the loa, Baron Samedi, a figure representative of death in the Voodoo religion.

Novel

In the novel, Baron Samedi does not make an appearance himself, although many people in Harlem and elsewhere believe the novel's chief villain, Mr. Big, to be either the Voodoo god Baron Samedi himself or perhaps his zombie. Mr. Big encourages this belief by keeping a Baron Samedi totem near his desk.

Film

Baron Samedi is first introduced as a so-called entertainer who does a voodoo dance act for tourists, when Bond arrives at the island on which most of the action takes place. The announcer introduces Samedi as "the man who cannot die", though Bond doesn't seem to think much of it at the time. He is described by Felix Leiter as being nine feet tall.

Baron Samedi is perhaps the most enigmatic villain/henchman the cinematic Bond has ever faced. He is the only henchmen which uses occultic acts to kill his enemies. His character is an ambiguous one, and the audience cannot tell if he is the Voodoo god Baron Samedi himself or simply a human who has assumed Samedi's identity. Contributing to the mystery is the fact that Samedi seems to operate as an aide to Doctor Kananga, aka Mr. Big, but is not entirely under his control. In one scene, for instance, as Kananga interrogates Solitaire (the film's main Bond girl), Samedi engages in an odd ritual of burning Tarot cards. The ritual seems to convey a sinister message to Kananga and Solitaire, and although it irritates Kananga, he refuses to put a stop to Samedi's card-burning. Furthermore, the scene demonstrates that he has, perhaps, the same Tarot powers as Solitaire. When Bond and Solitaire are exploring Kananga's "Voodooland", he is the first of the villain's allies to observe the pair and reports this on a flute he is playing after a menacing and polite interaction with them. Solitaire appears to acknowledge him as they walk away.

Baron Samedi is apparently killed after he attempts to kill Bond with a machete, but Bond throws him into a coffin full of poisonous snakes. But just before the end credits roll, at the point when Bond typically has achieved total victory in previous films, Samedi is seen riding on the front of a speeding train laughing demoniacally, further suggesting that he is in fact a supernatural character, a first (and so far only) for the Bond films.

Samedi has never reappeared in any subsequent Bond film, unlike the henchman Jaws or the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, but neither has the series endeavoured to solve the mystery of Samedi's nature.

Video Games

In the video game, GoldenEye 007, Samedi appears as a boss in an unlockable mission separate from the main plot. In the game, Bond is sent to The Ancient el-Saghira temple in the Valley of the Kings in response to a letter sent by someone claiming to be Baron Samedi. Additionally, Samedi claims to have possession of Francisco Scaramanga's golden gun (from The Man with the Golden Gun). Bond is sent to retrieve the legendary weapon and defeat a cackling Baron a total of three times before completing the mission. (Interestingly enough, though the Golden Gun defeats other enemies in one shot, it takes more than one shot to dispatch the Baron's last incarnation.) In the cutscene that follows, Bond strides down a corridor of the temple with the golden gun in hand. After he leaves, Samedi emerges from the shadows and laughs.

In James Bond 007: Nightfire, Baron Samedi is an unlockable character for multiplayer mode. He can be unlocked either by use of cheat codes or beating the campaign mission "The Exchange" with a high enough medal.

In the game The World Is Not Enough, he can be unlocked for multiplayer use by cheat codes or successfully completing the game on the "Secret Agent" difficulty setting.

• In the game Fur Fighters a character very similar to Samedi, known as Odebah Bear appeared as a mini boss.
  

Baron Samedi makes an appearance in the second stage of the 1992 Sega Megadrive/Genesis game James Bond The Duel. He is found AbOUT halfway through the stage and takes several shots to destroy, he then reappears from the ground but does not return after being killed a second time.

Rosie Carver

Rosie Carver, played by Gloria Hendry, is a fictional character in the James Bond film Live and Let Die.

In the film, she is a rogue CIA agent who is secretly an underling of Kananga, aka "Mr. Big", who sends her to kill 007. When arriving at a hotel in San Monique, Bond is surprised to learn that "Mrs. Bond" has already booked into the suite.

After spending the night together, Bond and Rosie head off deep-sea fishing, while they check over the rest of the island. After a picnic where they make love, Bond confronts Rosie, and learns that she is actually in the employ of Kananga and she was to lure Bond to a trap where he would be killed. When Bond threatened to kill her if she didn't come clean, Rosie called his bluff and runs away, being killed only moments later by Kananga’s scarecrows. She was one of many henchmen who was killed not by James but by their employer (other examples include Henry Gupta from Tomorrow Never Dies, Helga Brandt (Number 11) and Osata from You Only Live Twice).

Rosie Carver is Bond's first on-screen black love interest. Her character was initially written as a white woman (and the lead Bond girl, Solitaire, as black) before the producers made the switch. During filming, the producers actually thought about sparing Rosie, but ultimately they went ahead with the original plan and killed her off.

Whisper

Whisper is the name of a character in the Bond novel and film, Live and Let Die. The character has a very soft voice that sounds like he is whispering, hence earning himself the name. In the film he is played by Earl Jolly Brown.

In the novel, his quiet voice is attributed to a childhood bout of tuberculosis, from which one and a half of his lungs had to be removed, leaving him with only half a lung with which to breathe and talk.

He is seen on a number of occasions throughout the film; when Bond travels to meet Felix Leiter in New York, when he pulls alongside Bond's cab, he kills the driver by using the Poison Dart Shooting Mirror in his car, and appears at the end of the film in Kananga's lair.

It is unclear as to whether Whisper, like so many henchmen, actually dies at the close of the movie. He is last seen being knocked into an air tight metal capsule just prior to the climatic fight between Bond and Kanaga.

Whisper is arrested in the end of the novel.

Adam

Adam is a character in the Bond film, Live and Let Die. He is an underling of Kananga/Mr. Big but mainly receives his instructions from Tee Hee; in some ways he can be considered the latter's (non-mechanical) right hand. He first appears at the airport where Bond and Solitaire are captured and then leads Mr. Big's men in pursuing Bond at the alligator farm. He steals a speedboat from Sheriff J. W. Pepper's brother-in-law Billy Bob to chase Bond and, at the climax of the chase near an abandoned tanker, is doused in petrol by Bond. Disoriented by this attack, he maneuvers his boat inside the tanker and is killed in the subsequent explosion.

Cab Driver

Cab Driver is a character in the James Bond film, Live and Let Die. He is played by Arnold Williams.