Bond Villains Unite!

I recently came across a poster for the film At Eternity’s Gate and one thing that struck me was that the cast list included Mads Mikkelsen and Mathieu Amalric, the villains of Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace. If you also count Willem Dafoe (who voiced the villain in the video game Everything Or Nothing) then that’s 3 Bond villains in one film. The only other film I know of that can match this Ronin which included Sean Bean, Jonathan Pryce and Michael Lonsdale amongst it’s cast.

Are there any other films out there that feature multiple Bond villains (or other significant Bond alumni) amongst their cast?

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Munich - Craig with Michael Lonsdale and Mathieu Amalric is the one that immediately leaps to mind.

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Penny Dreadful series - Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, Rory Kinnear.

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Ten Little Indians a.k.a. And Then There Were None. The 1974 Peter Collinson / Harry Alan Towers version. It’s got Adolfo Celi and Gert Frobe (plus Herbert Lom and Richard Attenborough, who sadly, were never in Bond). Orson Welles and Robert Rietty also do some voice work.

It was seeing villains together that inspired the thread but I did say “or other significant Bond alumni” in the original post.

The Third Man has Orson Welles and Bernard Lee.

How about The Longest Day:

Sean Connery, Gert Frobe, Curd Jurgens, Walter Gotell.

Or Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:

Sean Connery, Julian Glover, Alison Doody, John Rhys-Davies.

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Beat me to it with The Longest Day :sweat_smile:

And…

-Vernon Dobtcheff (Max Kalba in TSWLM)
-Billy J. Mitchell (Admiral Chuck Farrell in GE, and Captain Pederson in NSNA)
-Pat Roach (Lippe in NSNA)
-Eugene Lipinski (Head VOPO in OCT)
-Michael Byrne (Admiral Kelly - HMS Bedford, TND)
-Nina Armstrong (DAD, SP)
-Derek Lyons (OCT, TLD, GE)

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Escape To Athena:

Roger Moore, David Niven, Telly Savalas, Philip Locke (Vargas in TB) and Paul Stassino (Derval(s) in TB).

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Force 10 From Navarone:

Robert Shaw, Edward Fox, Richard Kiel, Barbara Bach, Michael Byrne (Admiral Kelly in TND).

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Two things I really need to get around to watching.

Operation Kid Brother:
Adolfo Celi
Daniela Bianchi
Bernard Lee
Lois Maxwell
Anthony Dawson

The Empire Strikes Back:
Julian Glover
Jeremy Bulloch
Bruce Boa
John Hollis

Triple Cross:

  • Gert Fröbe
  • Claudine Auger
  • Anthony Dawson
    … directed by Terence Young
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