Casino Royale 2006 Characters

Characters - Casino Royale Click on an name below to jump to the profile a supporting character from ' Casino Royale ' (2006). Dryden - Obanno - Mollaka - Carlos - Kratt - Leo - Gettler - Carter. Casino Royale (2006) is the 21st James Bond movie, and the first one with Daniel Craig. Bond participates in a high stakes poker game against the sinister Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists. 1 Sunseeker Predator 108 2 Sunseeker XS2000 3 Unidentified Boat 4 Spirit 54 5 Unidentified Boat Le Chiffre's personal yacht, seen on the Bahamas. This speedboat can be spotted when the plane. Take the Main Character as he is at the end of your story and rewind. If they would still behave the same way, then you don't have a Changed Main Character. In Casino Royale, Bond discovers that the love of his life, Vesper Lynd, has been using him to get at the money. Betrayed, he springs into action, tracking her down amongst the streets of. Valenka (Ivana Milicevic) is a minor villainess from the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. Valenkais the girlfriend, mistress and henchwomanworking with the main villainLe Chiffre (Jean Duran). Valenka is first seen coming out of the sea in the Bahamas after a swim in a luxurious blue swimsuit, and takesa sexy shower. One of LeChiffre's friends is eyeing her while she.

Characters - Casino Royale

Click on an name below to jump to the profilea supporting character from 'Casino Royale' (2006).

Dryden
Actor: Malcolm Sinclair
Character: Dryden
Date of Birth: 5th June 1950
Height: CLASSIFIED
Appearance: Tall and thin with a generous amount of greying hair. Always seen clean shaven.
Status: Terminated
Organizations& Alliances: Rogue Agent (ex MI6)

Involvement
A disgruntled MI6 agentand head of the 00 Section,Dryden has been selling secrets to the highest bidder. He ismildly surprised that James Bond, M'snew favourite trainee, catches up with him and confronts thetraitor. Bond relays the death of Dryden's contact, and Bond'sfirst killfor MI6, to the Section Chief before swiftly completing his secondkill and being promoted to 007.

Steven Obanno
Actor: Isaach de Bankole
Character: Steven Obanno
Date of Birth: 12th August 1957
Height: 5' 9' (1.75 m)
Appearance: Medium height and build, dark sin with a short well-kept beard.
Status: Terminated
Organizations& Alliances: Mr.White

Involvement
Obanno, a high ranking member of the Lord's Resistance Army, approachesMr. White under the pretext of investing blood money with anassociate of the shady middle man. White puts Obanno in touchwith Le Chiffre whoinvests his money. When it is lost on the Skyfleet gamble, theruthless Obanno will stop at nothing to recoup his losses. Ina memorable scene the goon confronts Le Chiffre in his hotelroom at Montenegro. Followingthe confrontation, Bond is observed to be snooping on the dealand Obanno attacks 007. The battle ends in a bloody heap at thefoot of the stairwell.

Mollaka
Actor: Sébastien Foucan
Character: Mollaka
Date of Birth: 27th May 1974
Height: CLASSIFIED
Appearance: Medium height. Extremely fit and strong appearance. Dresses in tatty loose fitting clothing.
Status: Terminated
Organizations& Alliances: Dimitrios, Le Chiffre

Involvement
Initially hired by Dimitrios (onbehalf of the villain Le Chiffre) to build a bomb and carry outthe attack on Skyfleet, Mollaka is being watched closely by MI6.The bomb maker, as well as his regular skills, proves adept atfast escapes on foot and gives the new 007 a run for his money.Bondcatches up with the terrorist at a local embassy but before theMI6 can discover what Mollaka's plans are, Bond assassinates thebomb maker. Luckily for Dimitrios, he is easily replaced.

Carlos
Actor: Claudio Santamaria
Character: Carlos
Date of Birth: 22nd July 1974
Height: 5' 10 3/4' (1.80 m)
Appearance: Small and fit with shaggy dark hair, stubble and cool blue eyes.
Status: Terminated
Organizations& Alliances: Dimitrios, Le Chiffre

Involvement
As the replacement for Mollaka for the Skyfleet mission, all of Le Chiffre's clients' money is resting on the bombmaker. More brutal and far less shrewd than his predecessor, Carlos picks up a maintenance outfit and the passcode from Dimitrios at the Miami Bodyworks exhibit. 007, tailing Dimitrios, notices the exchange and calls it in to MI6 HQ. Before very much can be done, Bond sets off in hot pursuit of the bombmaker that explodes onto the Miami International tarmac. As Bond is arrested by airport security - having stopped a tanker truck from speeding headlong into the new Skyfleet plane - Bond watches slyly as Carlos is blown up by his own detonator.

Kratt
Actor: Clemens Schick
Character: Kratt
Date of Birth: 15th February 1972
Height: 5' 9 1/4' (1.76 m)
Appearance: Thin and wiry physique, bald head and closely shaved.High prominent cheekbones, blue-grey eyes.
Status: Terminated
Organizations& Alliances: Le Chiffre, Leo

Involvement
The cold and brooding male companion to Le Chiffre, Kratt is unquestioning of his master's authority and never speaks out of place.

Leo
Actor: Emmanuel Avena
Character: Leo
Date of Birth: CLASSIFIED
Height: CLASSIFIED
Appearance: Tall and thin with dark, shot-length hair.
Status: Imprisoned
Organizations& Alliances: Le Chiffre, Kratt

Involvement
Another goon in the pay of Le Chiffre who Mathis dispatches with in a unique way. Needing to get rid of a body, the MI6 agent plants the corpse in the boot of Leo's car. The villain is arrested by Montenegro police under the watchful eye of Mathis.

Gettler
Actor: Richard Sammel
Character: Gettler
Date of Birth: CLASSIFIED
Height: CLASSIFIED
Appearance: Tall and thin. Often seen in a panama hat. Always wears glasses with one lens tinted.
Status: Terminated
Organizations& Alliances: Mr. White

Involvement
Gettler follows James and Vesper toVenice where he hopes to collect the Poker winnings on behalfof Mr. White and his shady organization. He frightens Vespersimply by his presence on the waterside and later makes contactwith her to arrange the return of the money. Unseen and unbeknownstto Bond, Vesper bartered with Gettler for 007's life, but whenBond realizes the girl has betrayed MI6, he goes after her andher associates. Gettler meets with a nasty, vengeful death witha construction nail fired a straight in to his eye.

Carter
Actor: Joseph Millson
Character: Carter
Date of Birth: 1974
Height: CLASSIFIED
Appearance: Medium height and build with thin, wavy light brown hair.
Status: Active (on Probation)
Organizations& Alliances: James Bond, M, MI6

Involvement
Carter is a younger, less experienced field agent who accompanies007 to Madagascar to track down Mollaka. When the pair scopeoutthebomb maker Carter is spotted for an official when he is spiedtouching his earwig. Bond looks on as Carter pulls a gun on thevillain and attempts to make an arrest. When the bomb maker escapes,007 gives chase, leaving the rookie agent in his dust.

Mendel
Actor: Ludger Pistor
Character: Mendel
Date of Birth: 16th March 1959
Height: 6' 4' (1.93 m)
Appearance: Tall and stocky build. Light brown, slightly receding hairline and bright blue eyes. Often seen in light coloured suits.
Status: Active
Organizations& Alliances: James Bond, Le Chiffre, Casino Royale,Basel Bank

Casino Royale Movie 2006

Involvement
A chirpy banker involved who is in administering funds for Le Chiffre'shigh stakes poker game. He explains the method of money transfertothe players at the beginning of the game and collects passwordsfrom all players. Only those passwords are later able to releasethe funds. Later, Mendel visits Vesper and 007 who are recuperatingin Italy. Bond releases his funds with the password and Mendeljovially departs.

Le Chiffre (French: [lə ʃifʁ], 'The Cypher' or 'The Number') is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Ian Fleming's 1953 James Bond novel, Casino Royale.^[2] On screen Le Chiffre has been portrayed by Peter Lorre in the 1954 television adaptation of the novel for CBS's Climax! television series, by Orson Welles in the 1967 spoof of the novel and Bond film series, and by Mads Mikkelsen in the 2006 film version of Fleming's novel.

Fleming based the character on occultist Aleister Crowley.^[3]

Novel biography[edit]

Le Chiffre, alias 'Die Nummer', 'Mr. Number', 'Herr Ziffer' and other translations of 'The Number,' 'The Numeral,' 'The Figure,' 'The Cipher,' or 'The Code' in various languages, is the paymaster of the 'Syndicat des Ouvriers d'Alsace' (French for 'Alsatian Workmen's Union'), a SMERSH-controlled trade union.^[4]

He is first encountered as an inmate of the Dachaudisplaced persons camp in the US zone of Germany in June 1945 and transferred to Alsace-Lorraine and Strasbourg three months later on a stateless passport. There he adopts the name Le Chiffre because as he claims, he is 'only a number on a passport'. Not much else is really known about Le Chiffre's background or where he comes from, except for educated guesses based on his description:

Height 5 ft. 8 in. Weight 18 stone.

Complexion very pale. Clean-shaven. Hair red- brown, 'en brosse.' Eyes very dark brown with whites showing all round iris. Small, rather feminine mouth. False teeth of expensive quality. Ears small, with large lobes, indicating some Jewish blood. Hands small, well-tended, hirsute. Feet small. Racially, subject is probably a mixture of Mediterranean with Prussian or Polish strains. Dresses well and meticulously, generally in dark double-breasted suits. Smokes incessantly Caporals, using a denicotinizing holder. At frequent intervals inhales from benzedrine inhaler. Voice soft and even. Bilingual in French and English. Good German. Traces of Marseillais accent. Smiles infrequently. Does not laugh.

Habits: Mostly expensive, but discreet. Large sexual appetites. Flagellant. Expert driver of fast cars. Adept with small arms and other forms of personal combat, including knives. Carries three Eversharp razor blades, in hatband, heel of left shoe, and cigarette case. Knowledge of

accountancy and mathematics. Fine gambler.

In the novel, he makes a major investment in a string of brothels with money belonging to SMERSH. The investment fails after a bill is signed into law banning prostitution. Le Chiffre then goes to the casino Royale-les-Eaux in an attempt to replace his lost funds. MI6 sends Bond, an expert baccarat player, to the casino to bankrupt Le Chiffre and force him to take refuge with the British government and inform on SMERSH. Bond bests Le Chiffre in a game of Chemin de Fer, taking all of his money. Le Chiffre kidnaps Bond's love interest, Vesper Lynd, to lure Bond into a trap and get back his money. The trap works, and Le Chiffre tortures Bond to get him to give up the money. He is interrupted by a SMERSH agent, however, who shoots him between the eyes with a silencedTT pistol as punishment for losing the money.

Le Chiffre's death is seen by the Soviet government as an embarrassment, which in addition to the death and defeat of Mr. Big in Live and Let Die, leads to the events of From Russia, with Love.

Novel henchmen[edit]

• Basil – bodyguard and martial arts expert who takes pleasure in roughing up Bond. He is later killed by a SMERSH agent.
• Kratt – Le Chiffre's Corsican bodyguard who wields a walking-stick gun with which he threatens to cripple Bond at the gaming table. He is later killed by a SMERSH agent.

1967 film biography[edit]

Le Chiffre is a secondary villain in the 1967 satire and appears in one of the few segments of the film actually adapted from Fleming's book. As in the novel, Le Chiffre is charged with recovering a large sum of money for SMERSH after he loses it at the baccarat table. He first attempts to raise the funds by holding an auction of embarrassing photographs of military and political leaders from China, the US and the USSR, but this is foiled by Sir James Bond's daughter, Mata Bond. With no other option, he returns to the baccarat table to try to win back the money. Later, he encounters baccarat Master Evelyn Tremble, who has been recruited by Bond to stop Le Chiffre from raising the money. Le Chiffre attempts to distract Tremble by performing elaborate magic tricks, but fails to prevent Tremble from winning. Afterwards, he arranges for Tremble to be kidnapped and subjects the agent to psychedelic torture in order to get back the money. The torture session is interrupted when his SMERSH masters, led by the film's main villain, Dr. Noah, shoot him dead.

2006 film biography[edit]

In the 2006 film adaptation of Casino Royale, Le Chiffre is portrayed by Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen. Believed by MI6 to be Albanian and officially stateless, Le Chiffre is a private banker who finances international terrorism. M implies that Le Chiffre conspired with al-Qaeda in orchestrating 9/11, or at least deliberately profiteered from the attacks by short selling large quantities of airline stocks beforehand. In the video game version of Quantum of Solace, it is said that his birth name is 'Jean Duran', in the MI6 mission briefings. A mathematical genius and a chessprodigy, his abilities enable him to earn large sums of money on games of chance and probabilities, and he likes to show off by playing poker. He suffers from haemolacria, which causes him to weep blood out of a damaged vessel in his left eye. As in Fleming's novel, he dresses in immaculate black suits and uses a Salbutamol inhaler, here plated with platinum.

At the start of the movie, Le Chiffre is contacted by Mr. White, a representative of an elite criminal organisation later revealed to be Quantum (and, later still, Spectre). White introduces Steven Obanno, a leader of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, to Le Chiffre, and arranges to launder several briefcases of money for Obanno. Le Chiffre invests the money along with his other creditors' funds into the aircraft manufacturer SkyFleet. Though SkyFleet's shares have been skyrocketing in wake of a new aircraft they are rolling out, Le Chiffre plans to short the company by purchasing put options, and ordering the destruction of the company's new prototype airliner, set to make its first flight out of Miami International Airport. Bond intervenes and foils the plan by killing Le Chiffre's first contractor for the job, as well as the backup contractor Le Chiffre hires to take his place.^[5]

The failure of his scheme causes Le Chiffre to lose over $100 million. He sets up and enters a high-stakes Texas hold 'em tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro in an attempt to recoup his losses before his clients find out that their money has been misappropriated and seek revenge against him. Bond is sent to make sure that Le Chiffre does not win back the money, hoping to force him to turn to MI6 for asylum in exchange for information on his creditors and employers. An accountant from HM Treasury, Vesper Lynd, is sent to accompany Bond to make sure the money is used properly.

During the tournament, an irate Obanno and his lieutenant break into Le Chiffre's hotel room, restrain his girlfriend Valenka, and strangle him with a cord. Le Chiffre asks for, and is granted one last chance to win their money back. He offers not one word of objection to Obanno's feigned amputation of Valenka's arm, leading the ruthless warlord to advise her to find a new partner. As Obanno leaves the room, his bodyguard spots Bond and Vesper in the hallway, and hears Valenka's cries coming from Bond's earpiece. Bond kills the bodyguard by throwing him over a railing, then chokes Obanno to death with Vesper's assistance after relieving Obanno of his machete. Rene Mathis arranges the blame to be placed on Le Chiffre's bodyguard Leo by planting the bodies in the trunk of Leo's car.

On the second day of the tournament, Le Chiffre initially outwits and bankrupts Bond, who cannot get additional funding approved by Vesper. However, Felix Leiter, a CIA agent sent to participate in the game, also in hopes of bankrupting Le Chiffre, agrees to bankroll Bond, on the condition that CIA is allowed to take Le Chiffre in afterwards. Desperate, Le Chiffre has Valenka spike Bond's drink. Bond almost dies, but, thanks to an antitoxin kit in his car, a defibrillator, and Vesper's timely interference, he is revived at the last moment and returns to the game. During the final round, Le Chiffre's full house bests the hands of the two players preceding him, but loses to Bond's straight flush.^[6]

Le Chiffre kidnaps Vesper, forcing Bond to give chase, and leads him straight into a trap. Le Chiffre leaves Vesper, bound at the feet and hands, in the middle of the road, and Bond is forced to swerve to avoid hitting her and crashes his car.

Semiconscious, Bond is stripped naked and bound to a chair with the seat removed. Le Chiffre proceeds to whip Bond in the testicles repeatedly with the knotted end of a ship's lanyard, each time demanding the password for the account into which the tournament winnings will be transferred. Bond refuses to give in, telling him that no matter what torture he is subjected to, he will not give up the password and that Le Chiffre's clients will find and kill him. Bond also asserts that if Le Chiffre kills him, no hiding place will be safe. Le Chiffre counters that the information he can give to MI6 will be enough for them to grant him sanctuary even if he does kill Bond and Vesper. When Bond continues to defy him, Le Chiffre brandishes a knife and prepares to castrate him, only to be interrupted by the sound of gunfire outside. Mr. White enters the room with a pistol in hand, having just killed Valenka and Kratt; Le Chiffre pleads for his life and promises to recover the lost funds, but White rejects the offer and kills him. To date, he is the only main Bond villain to die before the film's final act.

Le Chiffre is mentioned in the direct sequel, Quantum of Solace and is also seen in a background image inside MI6.

In Spectre, it is revealed that he was an associate of the titular criminal organization and its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Blofeld states that Bond's interference in his world led him to destroy Bond's, and that it was no coincidence that all the women in his life ended up dead. The implication is that because Bond foiled Le Chiffre's short-selling scheme, Dominic Greene's Tierra Project, and Raoul Silva's cyber-attack on MI6, he indirectly caused the deaths of Vesper Lynd, Strawberry Fields, Sevérine, and M.

Appearances[edit]

Eon films[edit]

• Casino Royale (2006)
• Quantum of Solace (2008) – mentioned/seen in a photograph only
• Spectre (2015) – mentioned/seen in archive footage and a photograph only

Non-Eon productions[edit]

• 'Casino Royale' (a CBS television adaptation for the TV series Climax!, 1954)
• Casino Royale (a Columbia Pictures release, 1967)

Die Another Day (2002)

2006 film henchmen[edit]

• Alex Dimitrios – stabbed by Bond with his own knife
• Carlos Nikolic – accidentally blew himself up, courtesy of Bond
• Mollaka – shot by Bond
• Leo – arrested
• Bobbie
• Jochum
• Kratt – shot by Mr. White
• Valenka – shot by Mr. White
• General Grafin von Wallenstein
• Madame Wu
• Sheriff Tomelli
• Lionel
• Ison

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

1. ^Breznican, Anthony (4 April 2008). 'James Bond series takes a 'Quantum' leap'. USA Today. McLean, Virginia: Gannett Company. Retrieved 4 April 2008.
2. ^Black, Jeremy (2005). The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen. U of Nebraska Press. p. 6. ISBN978-0-8032-6240-9.
3. ^Macintyre, Ben (5 April 2008). 'Was Ian Fleming the real 007?'. The Times. London, England: News UK. Retrieved 8 April 2008.
4. ^Black, Jeremy (2005). The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen. U of Nebraska Press. p. 6. ISBN978-0-8032-6240-9. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
5. ^Cawthorne, Nigel (2012). A Brief Guide to James Bond. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN978-1-84901-829-6.
6. ^DeMichael, Tom (2012). James Bond FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Everyone's Favorite Superspy. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN978-1-4803-3786-2.

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