Morzeny was created for the film From Russia with Love; he does not appear in the novel. Morzeny ran Blofeld’s training grounds on SPECTRE Island, which is where Rosa Klebb first inspected, then recruited Red Grant.

(From left to right) Rosa Klebb, Morzeny and Tov Kronsteen reporting to Blofeld in ‘From Russia with Love’.

Later in the film, he is among those that Kronsteen tries to blames for SPECTRE’s loss although Ernst Stavro Blofeld spares him. He and other SPECTRE henchmen (including his bodyguard Mehmet) then pursue Bond on boats. After a deadly boat chase, Bond blows up some fuel tanks he drops into the water, engulfing all of the boats in flames. Although Morzeny frantically orders his agents to get the boats out, he isn’t so lucky and is seen covered in flames falling into the water while completely still.

Morzeny is played by Walter Gotell, who would later play General Gogol, head of the KGB in six James Bond films.

See also:

• Bond henchmen