List of James Bond henchmen in Thunderball

A list of henchman from the 1965 James BOND film and novel Thunderball from the List of James Bond henchmen.

Count Lippe

Count Lippe is a fictional character and henchman in the James Bond novel Thunderball. He also appears in the 1965 film of the same name and the 1983 remake, Never Say Never Again. In Thunderball he is played by Guy Doleman, and in Never Say Never Again by Pat Roach.

The Counts of Lippe really existed, and have descendants still living today. However, since 1806 all members of the family have had The Title of Prince, not Count.

Novel

Count Lippe is described as an extremely handsome woman-killer. He has brown hair, is athletic-looking, roughly six foot, and has certain features that suggest he May Be Spanish or from South America. Based on stories that Lippe tells the staff at Shrublands, Bond assumes he is of Portuguese blood and is probably from Macao.

Lippe first meets Bond outside of the Shrublands health farm when he pulls up in a Bentley and nearly hits Patricia Fearing who is saved by James Bond's quick reaction. Lippe is later seen by Bond arguing with a Shrublands' masseur who requests that Lippe remove his wrist-watch while receiving a massage. When Lippe reluctantly does so, Bond notices that it was being used to cover a tattoo in red that he learns was the sign of the Red Lightning Tong. Lippe overhears Bond's phone conversation in which he is informed of the symbol and later attempts to kill Bond by turning up the power on a traction table that Bond is using. After being saved by Fearing, Bond retaliates against Lippe by trapping him in a steam bath and turning up the heat. Consequently, Lippe suffers second-degree burns and is hospitalised for a week.

Lippe was actually at Shrublands on behalf of SPECTRE, a [...] organisation. Lippe, called "Sub-operator G" by Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE, was tasked to oversee Giuseppe Petacchi at the Boscombe Down Airfield where the bombing squadron was undergoing training. While Lippe's mission was semi-successful he was considered "unreliable" by Blofeld after getting into his childish clash with James Bond. As a consequence of Lippe being put into the hospital, Blofeld orders his elimination.

Because Bond knew of Lippe's connection to the Red Lightning Tong, Lippe was fearful that Bond may be able to take it a step further and learn of Lippe's connection to SPECTRE. For this reason Lippe tracks Bond down and tails him in a Volkswagen unknowing that he himself is being pursued by SPECTRE agent #6. Ultimately Lippe's attempt to kill Bond once again fails and Lippe is killed when his Volkswagen is blown up.

In the second Young Bond novel by Charlie Higson, Blood Fever, Count Lippe's father is mentioned as a guest in attendance at the villain's dinner party. His father is named as "Count Armando Lippe from Lisbon," however, the last name of Lippe only appears in the UK EDition. In the U.S. edition he is simply "Count Armando from Lisbon" for unknown reasons.

Film

A nobleman of undetermined nationality, Count Lippe is encountered by James Bond at the Shrublands health spa. He is ultimately revealed to be an agent of SPECTRE charged with hiring Angelo Palazzi to impersonate Francois Derval. He makes at least one attempt on Bond's life at the clinic. Eventually, Lippe is killed by Fiona Volpe on Ernst Stavro Blofeld's orders, as punishment for his poor judgement in hiring the greedy Palazzi.

Unlike the previous version of Lippe, in Never Say Never Again there is no mention of him being a count. Also he is not directly involved in SPECTRE's plot to have Jack Petache (this film's version of François Derval/Angelo Palazzi) steal NATO nuclear warheads. Instead, he is merely an assassin sent by Fatima Blush to kill Bond at the clinic. He and Bond have a fight that destroys the clinic, and Lippe is ultimately killed when he falls onto broken glass after Bond throws a beaker filled with his own urine sample into the killer's face.

Fiona Volpe

Fiona Volpe, played by Luciana Paluzzi, is a secondary villainess in the James Bond film Thunderball. A deadly assassin in SPECTRE's execution branch, she becomes NATO pilot Major Francois Derval’s mistress in the operation to steal the Vulcan and its precious cargo of two atomic bombs, which SPECTRE plans to use for a blackmail operation. She was killed when James uses her as a bullet shield.

Angelo Palazzi

Angelo Palazzi, played by Paul Stassino, is an agent of SPECTRE. Palazzi goes through two years studying NATO pilot François Derval, taking flying lessons and finally going through plastic surgery in order to impersonate Derval, so he can hijack a Avro Vulcan jet and its atomic bombs. Palazzi's first appearance is in a health clinic, covered in bandages due to the surgery. After Bond spies in his room, his contractor Count Lippe tries to kill Bond in a spinal traction machine. Then Palazzi comes to Derval's home with SPECTRE agents, takes his documents and dogtag, and before leaving demands a higher fee for his mission on which his cohorts relunctantly appear to agree to.

In the air, Palazzi gasses the crew, allowing him to take control of the plane and sink it in a designated location with underwater landing lights near the Bahamas. However, when he tries to get off his seat, his seatbelt is stuck. Emilio Largo comes with his men, and Palazzi asks for help, but Largo cuts the tube of Palazzi's oxygen mask for the complaints of being underpaid. Palazzi is left dead in the cockpit while Largo and his men take the bombs away.

Later, Bond discovers the sunken airplane and takes Derval's dogtag from Palazzi in order to get some help from Derval's sister, Dominique.

Novel

In the novel, the V bomber is hijacked by Domino's brother Giuseppe Petacchi. He is an Italian Air Force pilot, hired by Lippe in Boscombe Down Airfield. Petacchi goes into the V bomber acting as a NATO observer of Royal Air Force procedure. After [...] the crew and flying the plane into the Bahamas, Petacchi is killed by Largo and the Disco Volante crew.

Never Say Never Again

The plane hijacker in Never Say Never Again is again Domino's brother, Jack Petachi. Petachi has undergone an operation to alter one of his retinas to match the retinal pattern of the American President. Using his position as a pilot and the president's eye pattern to circumvent security, Petachi infiltrates an American military base in England and orders the dummy warheads in two cruise missiles replaced with two live nuclear warheads, which SPECTRE captures and uses to extort billions of dollars from the governments of the world.

Vargas

Vargas is a villain and assassin in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. He is an assassin of SPECTRE and a personal henchman of Emilio Largo. The character is portrayed by Philip Locke.

According to Largo, Vargas does not drink, smoke or make love, abstinence which emphasises his devotion as a killer.

He is killed by James Bond on a beach with a speargun in the chest after trying to kill Bond and Dominique Derval while lurking in the palm trees, with Bond cooly remarking "I think he got the point".

Jacques Bouvard

Jacques Bouvard is a villain in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. The character is portrayed by Rose Alba and Bob Simmons.

Bouvard was a SPECTRE agent featured at the beginning of the film, where his funeral is taking place. Bond says that Bouvard murdered two of his colleagues. It is revealed that the operative faked his death and dressed up as his own widow at the funeral. Bond surprises him at his French chateau, where a fight ensues and Bond breaks Bouvard's neck with a fire poker. During the bogus funeral, one of the French liaison remarks that Bouvard and Bond both share the same initials.

Ladislav Kutze

Ladislav Kutze is a Henchman in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. The character is portrayed by George Pravda.

Kutze saves Domino from Largo and is saved by Bond at the conclusion of the film. Oddly, he mysteriously disappears afterwards.

Quist

Quist is a Henchman in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. The character is portrayed by Bill Cummings.

Quist is one of Largo's henchmen that gets pushed in a shark pool for failing in his mission to kill Bond.

See also

• Thunderball (Novel)