ABOUT TELLY SAVALAS
Now this is more like it! Although Telly Savalas doesn't resemble Fleming's Blofeld in the least. He is by far the most believable of the three actors to portray him on film. Some Bond fans feel that Savalas acts too much like a common thug, but if the Blofeld character was portrayed the way Fleming envisioned him in the novel, Charles Gray, who played him in DAF would have been right on target. However, I don't think Gray has a menacing bone in his body (more on that next) and had it been cast that way, it would not have been half the film it is. Savalas nails his performance admirably. Once again, the villain seems able to carry his own with Bond in a one-on-one and acts like the criminal he is. The casting of Savalas and Rigg in this movie is, in large part, the reason it holds up so well some 38 years later.