Octopussy (1983)

MI6
Bianca
Bianca
Played by Tina Hudson
Bianca is an MI6 operative that helps Bond penetrate an air force base in Latin America with the intention of blowing up an enemy spy plane. When 007 is captured, she distracts his guards driving next to them and Bond manages to escape.

 

Moneypenny
Moneypenny
Played by Lois Maxwell
Moneypenny makes a short appearance in Octopussy alongside her new assistant Penelope Smallbone, who seems smitten with 007.

 

Penelope Smallbone
Penelope Smallbone
Played by Michaela Clavell
Moneypenny introduces the shy Smallbone as her new assistant to 007, seemingly setting Smallbone up to succeed Moneypenny as M’s secretary in future movies. That never happened, however, and Smallbone was never seen again.

 

M
M
Played by Robert Brown
Robert Brown succeeds Bernard Lee as M, the head of MI6, in Octopussy. He briefs 007 on the replica Faberge egg found in 009’s dead hands – the same real egg that mysteriously is set to be auctioned off at Sotheby’s.

 

Frederick Gray
Frederick Gray
Played by Geoffrey Keen
The Minister of Defense theorizes that the Russians may be the of the seller of the mysterious Faberge egg, urging Bond to seek out the truth and the reasoning for its sudden sale.

 

Jim Fanning
Jim Fanning
Played by Douglas Wilmer
Fanning is employed by MI6 as an art expert, and accompanies Bond to a Sotheby’s auction to investigate the mysterious Faberge egg.

 

Sadruddin
Sadruddin
Played by Albert Moses
Sadruddin is MI6’s head of Station I in India, and alongside Vijay, show Bond Khan’s palace and inform him of Octopussy.

 

Vijay
Vijay
Played by Vijay Armitraj
Vijay is an MI6 operative in India and Sadruddin’s assistant. Vijay drives a “company car” and plays tennis in his freetime. He aids Bond in searching for Octopussy.

 

Q
Q
Played by Desmond Llewelyn
A grumpy Q is annoyed at Bond for having him travel all the way to India to assist him on his mission. He eventually cheers up after showing 007 the latest and greatest Q Branch gadgets.

 

Girls
Octopussy
Octopussy
Played by Maud Adams
Octopussy runs a circus as a cover for jewerly smuggling without knowing that partner Kamal Khan is double-crossing her. Maud Adams also played Scaramanga’s girlfriend in The Man With The Golden Gun.

 

Magda
Magda
Played by Kristina Wayborn
The leader of the Octopussy circus and Kamal Khan’s girlfriend, Magda seduces Bond to get the Faberge egg back. She also has a tattoo of a baby octopus on her back.

 

Henchmen
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.

 

Villains
Kamal Khan
Kamal Khan
Played by Louis Jourdan
Another sly smuggler with a connection to the Soviet Union, Khan double-crosses his partner, Octopussy, to sell stolen Russian jewelry and plant a nuclear device on an American Air Force base.

 

General Orlov
General Orlov
Played by Steven Berkoff
Orlov is a pompous Russian General dissatisfied with NATO’s disarmament talks. He teams up with Kamal Khan to set up a nuclear bomb in an US air base in Germany. Orlov ends up dead when he is shot in the back while trying to flee to the West.

 

Animals
Cobra
Cobra
Bond’s contact in India, Vijay, uses a cover as a snake charmer to blend in with the locals. He admits that it is the wrong cover for him, since he hates snakes.

 

White Cow
White Cow
Bond and Vijay narrowly miss hitting a white cow on the streets of India at the start of their tuk tuk chase.

 

Bull
Bull
Meanwhile, a black bull chases Bond and Vijay’s tuk tuk.

 

Camel
Camel
Bond and Vijay jump over a clueless camel during the tuk tuk chase.

 

Blue Ringed Octopus
Blue Ringed Octopus
The iconic cephalopod is a pet of Octopussy and is fed a few times in the movie. Although it does not have any significant scene, it is symbolic of Octopussy’s organization. Bond finds that one of their members, Magda, has a tattoo of the animal on her body.

 

Tiger
Tiger
After escaping Octopussy’s mansion, Bond is chased by a throng of people, and comes face to face with a ferocious tiger. Luckily, the tiger obeys Bond’s “sit” command, and 007 proceeds with his escape.

 

Spiders
Spiders
Bond gets disoriented during his escape from Octopussy’s mansion when he runs into a large spiderweb, and smashes one of the large spiders against his arm.

 

Indian Elephant
Indian Elephant
Kamal Khan and several of his men ride elephants in search of 007, declaring it a hunt.

 

Colubrid Snake
Colubrid Snake
During Bond’s escape, he becomes cornered in the jungle and lays low and motionless in the brush. Unfortunately for him, a snake slithers on his backside, but leaves after Bond tells it to “hiss off.”

 

Leech
Leech
After swinging through jungle vines like Tarzan, Bond lands in water and finds a leech sucking his blood on his chest. He removes it by burning it with a lighter.

 

Mugger Crocodile
Mugger Crocodile
During the same escape, Bond narrowly avoids getting chased down by this crocodile in a patch of water.

 

Horse
Horse
Bond rides a horse to jump on the back of the escaping Kamal Khan’s airplane in the nick of time.