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Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character and a supervillain from the James Bond series of novels and films, who was created by Ian Fleming. An evil genius with aspirations of world domination, he is the archenemy of the British Secret Service agent James Bond. Blofeld is head of the global criminal organisation SPECTRE and is commonly referred to as Number 1, an official numerical position given to members of SPECTRE. The character was originally written by Fleming as a physically massive man, standing around and weighing 21.6 stone (about ), and very powerfully built. Blofeld appears or is heard in three novels: ''Thunderball''; ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service''; and ''You Only Live Twice''; as well as seven films from Eon Productions: ''From Russia with Love'' (1963); ''Thunderball'' (1965); ''You Only Live Twice'' (1967); ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service'' (1969); ''Diamonds Are Forever'' (1971); ''For Your Eyes Only'' (1981) (the pre-title sequence of which shows an unnamed character resembling him fall to his death); and ''Spectre'' (2015). He also appears in ''Never Say Never Again'' (1983), the non-Eon remake of ''Thunderball''. Blofeld has been played on screen by Donald Pleasence, Telly Savalas, Charles Gray, Max von Sydow, and Christoph Waltz, amongst others. It was initially a convention of the films not to show Blofeld's face, only a close-up of him stroking his white blue-eyed Persian cat. Some of Blofeld's characteristics have become supervillain tropes in popular fiction and media, including the parodies Dr. Claw (and his pet, M.A.D. Cat) from the ''Inspector Gadget'' animated series (1983–86), and Dr. Evil (and his cat Mr. Bigglesworth) from the ''Austin Powers'' film series (1997–2002). ==Character== Ian Fleming includes information about Blofeld's background in his novel ''Thunderball''. According to the novel, Blofeld was born on 28 May 1908 (which is also Fleming's birthday) in Gdingen, Imperial Germany (now Gdynia, Poland); his father Ernst George Blofeld was Polish, and his mother Maria Stavro Michelopoulos was Greek, hence the well-known Greek name Stavro.〔Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories, published 2006, page 34〕 After the First World War, Blofeld became a Polish national. As a young man, Blofeld was well-versed in the social science disciplines, but also in the natural science and technology disciplines. He first graduated from the University of Warsaw with a degree in Political History and Economics, and then from the Warsaw University of Technology with a degree in Engineering and Radionics. He was then hired by the Polish Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs and appointed in a sensitive communication position, which he used for buying and selling stocks at the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Correctly foreseeing the coming of World War II, Blofeld made copies of top-secret wires and sold them for cash to Nazi Germany. Before the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he destroyed all records of his existence, then moved first to Sweden, then to Turkey, where he worked for Turkish Radio and began to set up his own private intelligence organisation. During the war, he sold information to both sides. After the defeat of Erwin Rommel, he decided to back the Allied war effort, and was awarded numerous medals by the Allied powers after the war's end. Blofeld then temporarily moved to South America before founding SPECTRE. In the John Gardner novel ''For Special Services'', Blofeld is depicted as having had a daughter, Nena, with a French mistress. It is commonly believed that the name Blofeld was inspired by the English cricket commentator Henry Blofeld's father, with whom Fleming went to school. Henry Blofeld offered on the BBC Radio 4 series ''Just a Minute'' that "Ian took my father's name as the name of the baddie." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ernst Stavro Blofeld」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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