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Donald Pleasence played Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice. He was born on this day in 1919.

Actor Donald Pleasence, who played SPECTRE leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice, was born on 5th October 1919 in Nottinghamshire.

During his long and distinguished career, Pleasence appeared in dozens of films, including Look Back in Anger, The Great Escape, George Lucas’s early science fiction film THX 1138 and was awarded the OBE for his work.

Photo: Donald Pleasence in Eye of the Devil trailer. Licensed under Public Domain.

Geoffrey Holder, who played Baron Samedi in Live And Let Die, died on 5th October 2014.

Multi-talented Geoffrey Holder, who played Baron Samedi in Live And Let Die, died on 5th October 2014 after suffering from pneumonia.

Born in  Trinidad in 1930, Holder worked as actor, dancer, choreographer, director, costume designer, singer, painter and voice over artist. Playing one of the most memorable characters in all the James Bond film, he made the most of his deep bass voice and laugh in the role of top-hatted voodoo villain.

In 1975 Holder won two Tony awards for The Wiz, an all-black version of The Wizard of Oz, for direction and costume design.

John Pearson worked with Ian Fleming and, after his death, wrote his biography. He was born on this day in 1930

John Pearson, who worked for Ian Fleming at The Sunday Times and wrote his biography and then the the fictional biography of James Bond, making him the second James Bond continuation author (after Kingsley Amis), was born on 5th October 1930 in Epsom, Surrey.

As well as the biographies of Fleming and Bond, Pearson wrote about notorious gangsters, the Kray twins, as well as The Gamblers, about the Clermont Set and included John Aspinall, James Goldsmith and Lord Lucan, who notoriously disappeared without a trace after the murder of the family nanny.