The Man With The Golden Gun (1974)

MI6
M
M
Played by Bernard Lee
M speaks to Bond after MI6 receives a golden “007” bullet, signifying someone, namely Francisco Scaramanga, wants him dead. By who? “Jealous husbands, outraged chefs, humiliated tailors, the list is endless.”

 

Bill Tanner
Bill Tanner
Played by Michael Goodliffe
M’s Chief of Staff stands in on the debriefing of Bond over the golden bullet sent to MI6, apparently from the assassin Scaramanga. Tanner states that the CIA has verified the bullet maker’s identity as Scaramanga via fingerprints.

 

Colthorpe
Colthorpe
Played by James Cossins
Colthorpe is an MI6 ballistics expert that is present at 007’s debriefing about Scaramanga, with Q, determines the bullet’s manufacturer.

 

Moneypenny
Moneypenny
Played by Lois Maxwell
Moneypenny discusses the death of Bill Fairbanks (002), who she misses. She says he was killed in a cabaret in Beirut in 1969, leading Bond to the location of the golden bullet that killed him.

 

Q
Q
Played by Desmond Llewelyn
Q assists Colthorpe in determining the manufacturer of the golden bullet that killed 002, as Lazar in Macau.

 

Lieutenant Hip
Lieutenant Hip
Played by Soon Tek-Oh
Hip is an MI6 operative stationed in Macua and partners with Bond to recover the Solex Agitator.

 

Mary Goodnight
Mary Goodnight
Played by Britt Ekland
Goodnight is a beautiful but inept MI6 operative in Hong Kong that assists Bond and Hip to retrieve the Solex Agitator. She eventually falls for 007.

 

Allies
Sheriff JW Pepper
Sheriff JW Pepper
Played by Clifton James
A hick sheriff from Louisiana, Pepper first met Bond in Live and Let Die while Bond was escaping from Kananga’s henchmen by motorboat. JW serves as comic relief in The Man With The Golden Gun. He really isn’t an ally, so to speak. Instead, he serves as one of Bond’s contacts.

 

Girls
Mary Goodnight
Mary Goodnight
Played by Britt Ekland
Goodnight is a beautiful but inept MI6 operative in Hong Kong that assists Bond and Hip to retrieve the Solex Agitator. She eventually falls for 007.

 

Andrea Anders
Andrea Anders
Played by Maud Adams
Anders is Scaramanga’s girlfriend and sees Bond as her savior from her boyfriend’s grasp. She tries to steal the Solex Agitator for Bond, but is killed when Scaramanga finds out. Maud Adams returned to the Bond series as the title character in Octopussy.

 

Henchmen
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.

 

Villains
Fransisco Scaramanga
Fransisco Scaramanga
Played by Sir Christopher Lee
Scaramanga plays the title character in The Man With The Golden Gun, as the the best and most highly paid assassin in the world (at $1 million a ‘hit’). He plans to monopolise solar power and when Bond gives chase, Scaramanga challenges him to a duel on his island. Of course, 007 comes out as a winner. Coincidentally, actor Christopher Lee is Ian Fleming’s cousin.

 

Animals
Elephant
Elephant
In Bangkok, Thailand, this young elephant searches through Sheriff JW Pepper’s pocket in a comic relief scene.