Henchmen

Casino Royale (TV – 1954)
Basil, Zoltan and Zuroff
Basil, Zoltan and Zuroff
Played by Gene Roth, Kurt Katch and Unknown Actor
Le Chiffre’s three body guards follow him wherever he goes and are staying in the same hotel as Bond in the room above his.

 

Dr. No (1962)
Three Blind Mice
Three Blind Mice
Played by Uncredited Actors
These three men are meant to be blind, though they are employed by Dr. No to assassinate British agent Strangways and secretary Miss Trueblood.

 

Professor Dent
Professor Dent
Played by Anthony Dawson
Dent is a geologist that is deeply entangled in Dr. No’s sinister plan to disrupt the missile launching programs. Dent tries to kill Bond with a tarantula but ends up being shot. Actor Anthony Dawson makes a reappearance in the Bond series, as the faceless Blofeld in From Russia With Love.

 

Miss Taro
Miss Taro
Played by Zena Marshall
Miss Taro is a secretary that Bond catches spying on him during meetings with the Jamaican government. Bond arranges a date with her, but finds out she is an informant for Dr. No, and has her arrested.

 

From Russia With Love (1963)
Donald 'Red' Grant
Donald ‘Red’ Grant
Played by Robert Shaw
One of the most dangerous men Bond has been up against, Grant is a convicted killer trained by SPECTRE. In From Russia With Love his mission is simply to revenge Dr. No’s death by killing Bond. He is only finally defeated by 007’s Q branch briefcase.

 

Kronsteen
Kronsteen
Played by Vladek Sheybal
Alongside Red Grant, Kronsteen serves as a hurdle Bond has to overcome to defeat Blofeld’s menacing in From Russia With Love.

 

Goldfinger (1964)
Oddjob
Oddjob
Played by Harold Sakata
Without a doubt one of the most memorable henchmen in the series, Oddjob is a mute Korean working for Auric Goldfinger. Using his steel-rimmed hat as a weapon, Oddjob finally faces a shocking end. In real life, Harold Sakata was a Hawaiin-born Olympic wrestling gold medalist.

 

Thunderball (1965)
Vargas
Vargas
Played by Philip Locke
Vargas is Emilio Largo’s heartless henchman who plays a small but significant role in SPECTRE’s plan of world extortion. In Thunderball Vargas is sent to keep an eye on the developing relationship between Bond and Domino.

 

You Only Live Twice (1967)
Mr. Osato
Mr. Osato
Played by Teru Shimada
Osato is a Japanese industrialist whose company is a cover for SPECTRE in You Only Live Twice. Unable to stop Bond, Osato gets shot by an annoyed Blofeld.

 

Casino Royale (1967)
Le Chiffre's Auctioneer
Le Chiffre’s Auctioneer
Played by Vladek Sheybal
You may recognize the actor as Kronsteen from From Russia With Love. This time, in a more light-hearted role, he acts as an auctioneer to raise money for Le Chiffre. His “art auctions” are actually the selling of pictures of high-profile military leaders in compromising situations, but the project fails at the hand of Bond’s daughter Mata, leading to his death in an explosive telephone booth.

 

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
Irma Bunt
Irma Bunt
Played by Ilse Steppat
Irma Bunt is Piz Gloria’s stern matron and Blofeld’s aide in his plot to release walking time bombs into society in the form of beautiful young women. She’s also the assassin who kills Bond’s wife in the movie’s conclusion.

 

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd
Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd
Played by Bruce Glover and Putter Smith, respectively
Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd are two homogenized assassins hired by Blofeld for Diamonds Are Forever. They attempt to dispose of 007 in several imaginative ways but end up dead when they attempt to assassinate Bond in his hotel room.

 

Bambi
Bambi
Played by Donna Garratt
In Diamonds Are Forever, Bambi is hired by Blofeld to guard the captured Willard Whyte. When 007 meets Bambi and her companion Thumper, they give him a humiliating beating, before he nearly drowns both of them in an outside pool.

 

Thumper
Thumper
Played by Trina Parks
In Diamonds Are Forever, Thumper is hired by Blofeld to guard the captured Willard Whyte. When 007 meets Thumper and her companion Bambi, they give him a humiliating beating, before he nearly drowns both of them in an outside pool.

 

Live And Let Die (1973)
Tee Hee
Tee Hee
Played by Julius Harris
Named after his wicked laugh, Live and Let Die‘s Tee Hee is Kananga’s right hand “hook” — he has a steel hook replacing the right hand that he lost to a hungry alligator. Tee Hee ends up thrown out of a train in the end of the film.

 

Baron Samedi
Baron Samedi
Played by Geoffrey Holder
The mysterious Baron Samedi is the frightening god of cemeteries who appears in Live and Let Die from time to time to deliver his sarcastic laugh. He is seen in the very end on top of Bond’s train, laughing again.

 

Whisper
Whisper
Played by Earl “Jolly” Brown
Quiet and calm, Whisper serves as Mr. Big’s henchman in Live and Let Die. Whisper acts as Mr. Big’s chauffeur and is loyal to him until his end.

 

The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)
Nick Nack
Nick Nack
Played by Herve Villechaize
Nick Nack is Fransisco Scaramanga’s diminutive assistant who gets thrills from trying to use others to eliminate his boss. Nick Nack is the controller of the man with the golden gun’s play house — he knows that when his master dies, he will become the heir of the estate.

 

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Naomi
Naomi
Played by Caroline Munro
Naomi serves as Stromberg’s personal helicopter pilot and henchwoman in The Spy Who Loved Me. She is sent to kill Bond and chases 007 in his Lotus until it crashes off of a bridge and into the sea. What she doesn’t realize is that the Lotus is also a submersible, complete with surface-to-air missiles.

 

Jaws
Jaws
Played by Richard Kiel
Probably the most famous henchman of the series, The Spy Who Loved Me‘s Jaws is an invulnerable giant with steel teeth. Although Jaws was more like a cartoon character, his character was popular enough to have it be brought back in Moonraker.

 

Sandor
Sandor
Played by Milton Reid
Stromberg orders this bald assassin to kill anyone who comes into contact with the submarine plan microfilm. He meets his end at the hand of 007, getting thrown off the top of a building.

 

Moonraker (1979)
Chang
Chang
Played by Toshiro Suga
In Moonraker, Chang puts Bond in a memorable predicament when he accelerates the speed at which Bond circles in the velocity machine.

 

For Your Eyes Only (1981)
Eric Kriegler
Eric Kriegler
Played by John Wyman
A Russian KGB agent, Kriegler is a biathalon champion who helps Kristatos. However, Kriegler is killed in a brutal fight with Bond at the end of the film.

 

Hector Gonzales
Hector Gonzales
Played by Stefan Kalipha
Gonzales is the Cuban hit man responsible for the deaths of Melina Havelock’s parents in a devastating attack from a plane circling on their boat. While accepting the money for this job, a spear is put through his back by Melina, who gets her revenge for her parent’s death.

 

Emile Locque
Emile Locque
Played by Michael Gothard
Aris Kristatos’ right hand man, Locque is a convicted criminal who escaped from prison by strangling his psychiatrist. He kills Bond’s contact and Columbo’s mistress. Bond takes his revenge by ruthlessly pushing his car over a cliff with Locque still at the wheel.

 

Octopussy (1983)
Gobinda
Gobinda
Played by Kabir Bedi
Gobinda is a big and tough henchman, but not very intelligent. His undying loyalty to his master finally proves his downfall after being ordered out of a plane to dispose of the relentless 007.

 

Mischka and Grischka
Mischka and Grischka
Played by David and Anthony Meyer, respectively
The two knife-throwing, identical twins kill 009 in the beginning of the film. Bond becomes their next target. Near the end of the movie, Mischka gets hit by a cannon while Grishka is stabbed by Bond.

 

Never Say Never Again (1983)
Lippe
Lippe
Played by Pat Roach
This SPECTRE assassin is sent to kill Bond while 007 works out at the health clinic. He is eventually subdued by Bond’s own urine sample, and killed by falling against sharp glass shards from laboratory glassware.

 

Jack Petachi
Jack Petachi
Played by Gavan O’Herlihy
This SPECTRE operative has surgery on his right eye to have it mimic that of the US President to assist in the plot to steal nuclear warheads from an American military base in England. He is the brother of Bond girl Domino Petachi.

 

A View To A Kill (1985)
Dr. Karl Mortner
Dr. Karl Mortner
Played by Willoughby Gray
Dr. Mortner is an assassin for Max Zorin and attempts to kill Bond on numerous occasions. In the end, he is exploded by dynamite courtesy of 007.

 

The Living Daylights (1987)
Necros
Necros
Played by Andreas Wisniewski
Necros serves as a Soviet assassin working for Brad Whitaker for aid to his arms dealing. Necros undertakes a number of guises in his attempts to eliminate British agents, most memorable of which is the milkman with the explosive bottles.

 

Licence To Kill (1989)
Milton Krest
Milton Krest
Played by Anthony Zerbe
Krest is the owner of the Wave Krest marine research company running as a cover to Franz Sanchez’s drug business. Krest explodes in a decompression chamber after his boss gets a hint of his unloyalty.

 

Dario
Dario
Played by Benicio Del Toro
Dario is Sanchez’s sadistic henchman that kills Felix Leiter’s bride Della, and then watches with delight as Leiter is fed to a shark. Bond avenges Della’s death by dropping him into a cocaine-brick shredder near the end of the movie.

 

GoldenEye (1995)
Boris Grishenko
Boris Grishenko
Played by Alan Cumming
A hacker working for Alec Trevelyan in GoldenEye, Boris uses his computer skills to carry out a series of cyber-thefts from major British institutions before Trevelyan uses the GoldenEye satellite to wipe out all London bank records.

 

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
Dr. Kaufmann
Dr. Kaufmann
Played by Vincent Schiavelli
Kaufmann is a doctor that specializes in the use of pain and torture to gain information from a victim. He killed Carver’s wife Paris, and foolishly attemped to do the same with Bond.

 

Stamper
Stamper
Played by Gotz Otto
Stamper is Carver’s right hand man and enjoys inflicting death and pain on others. He is being taught by Dr. Kaufman and is now an expert of his field.

 

Gupta
Gupta
Played by Ricky Jay
Gupta is a highly skilled terrorist and computer technician that supplies Carver with his weapons and technological know-how.

 

The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Mr. Bullion
Mr. Bullion
Played by Goldie
Mr. Bullion (real name Maurice Womasa) acts as Valentin Zukovsky’s right hand man and driver. His mouth is filled with gold teeth and he always carries a gold-plated briefcase.

 

Gabor
Gabor
Played by John Seru
Gabor is Elektra King’s right-hand man and bodyguard and poses a threat to Bond when Bond wants to question Elektra.

 

Cigar Girl
Cigar Girl
Played by Maria Grazia Cuccinotta
The Cigar Girl seems to be an innocent beauty in the pre-title sequence but when Bond gets back to MI6 and Sir Robert King is killed, we find out that she is responsible for his death. Bond proceeds to pursue her in a spectacular boat chase down the River

 

Die Another Day (2002)
Zao
Zao
Played by Rick Yune
Zao is Gustav Grave’s thug in Die Another Day. His deformed, white-skinned face is a result of incomplete gene threapy. Zao permanently receives his “expensive acne” (as Jinx calls the diamonds in the skin of his face) as a result of the explosion of a briefcase containing diamonds that Bond detonates. After a thrilling car chase with Bond, Zao is killed by a falling crystal chandelier.

 

Mr. Kil
Mr. Kil
Played by Lawrence Makoare
Mr. Kil acts as one of Bond’s hurdles in Gustav Grave’s headquarters in Die Another Day. Mr. Kil eventually meets his end as a result of a laser slicing through the top of his head.

 

Casino Royale (2006)
Mollaka
Mollaka
Played by Sebastien Foucan
This elusive “bomb maker of the world’s terrorists” brings Bond to Madagascar where his movements are monitored at a mongoose/cobra fight. Realizing he is being followed, Mollaka leads Bond on a gravity-defying foot chase to a construction site and eventually to an embassy where he seeks sanctuary. Unfortunately for him, Bond kills him as 007 squares off with embassy officials to make an escape.

In real life, Sebastien Foucan is a pioneer in the sport of free running, or parkour, which explains his speed and agility in the chase scenes.

 

Alex Dimitrios
Alex Dimitrios
Played by Simon Abkarian
Dimitrios is a known associate of Le Chiffre, and Solange’s husband who bets and loses his Aston Martin DB5 to Bond in a poker game. After Dimitrios quickly heads to Miami, Bond abandons Solange and eventually catches up to him to learn more about his association with Le Chiffre. Before he can learn anything, Bond kills Dimitrios at the Body Worlds exhibit.

 

Carlos
Carlos
Played by Claudio Santamaria
This terrorist attempts to explode the new Skyfleet jet that will allow Le Chiffre to make a killing on short-selling the company’s stock. Unfortunately for Le Chiffre, Bond stops this from happening and kills Carlos in the process with his own bomb.

 

Adolph Gettler
Adolph Gettler
Played by Richard Sammel
Gettler is a Quantum agent who meets with Vesper to obtain ransom money. It is found out Vesper’s boyfriend was kidnapped by Quantum and Vesper was blackmailed as a result to double-cross Bond. He is eventually killed by a nail gun, ironically in the same eye he is missing.

 

Quantum Of Solace (2008)
Elvis
Elvis
Played by Anatole Taubman
Elvis is Dominic Greene’s right hand man who helps carry out Greene Planet’s initiatives with government and military heads. Agent Fields gets the best of Elvis after an encounter at the Eco Park Charity Fundraiser, tripping him down a flight of stairs and putting him in a neck brace.

 

Edmund Slate
Edmund Slate
Played by Neil Jackson
Slate is an assassin set to kill Camille Montes at the behest of her boyfriend, Dominic Greene. Bond tracks him to the Hotel Dessalines in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where a brutal fight occurs with 007 as the victor.

 

Gregg Beam
Gregg Beam
Played by David Harbour
Beam is CIA Section Chief for South America that turns a blind eye to Dominic Greene and Quantum’s shady dealings in the region. He is eventually exposed of his misgivings by Felix Leiter and removed from the equation.

 

Skyfall (2012)
Patrice
Patrice
Played by Ola Rapace
A presumed henchmen of Silva, Patrice leads Bond and Eve on a thrilling chase after he murders Ronson in the pre-title sequence for Skyfall. His ultimate fate is unclear, but he seemingly escapes after a failed last-minute attempt on his life atop a moving train.

 

Quantum Of Solace (2008)
Elvis
Elvis
Played by Anatole Taubman
Elvis is Dominic Greene’s right hand man who helps carry out Greene Planet’s initiatives with government and military heads. Agent Fields gets the best of Elvis after an encounter at the Eco Park Charity Fundraiser, tripping him down a flight of stairs and putting him in a neck brace.

 

Edmund Slate
Edmund Slate
Played by Neil Jackson
Slate is an assassin set to kill Camille Montes at the behest of her boyfriend, Dominic Greene. Bond tracks him to the Hotel Dessalines in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where a brutal fight occurs with 007 as the victor.

 

Gregg Beam
Gregg Beam
Played by David Harbour
Beam is CIA Section Chief for South America that turns a blind eye to Dominic Greene and Quantum’s shady dealings in the region. He is eventually exposed of his misgivings by Felix Leiter and removed from the equation.

 

Spectre (2015)
Mr. Hinx
Mr. Hinx
Played by Dave Bautista
The quiet yet absolutely brutal Mr. Hinx is arguably one of the best henchmen in James Bond history, both because of his effectiveness and memorable screen presence. After forcibly volunteering for the role of Blofeld’s right-hand man, Hinx chases Bond through the streets of Vatican City and in the mountains of Austria before meeting his maker off a train at the hand of Bond, in an obvious nod to the Bond/Grant train face-off in From Russia With Love.

 

C / Max Denbigh
C / Max Denbigh
Played by Andrew Scott
Bond is cynical of Denbigh, the newly appointed Director-General of the Joint Security Service (a merger of the domestic and foreign security services MI5 and MI6). He advocates for its pilot program Nine Eyes, a global cooperative surveillance program that he believes renders the 00 program useless. Blofeld eventually reveals Denbigh as a Spectre agent, and M kills the careless C.