General Georgi Koskov is a fictional character and villain in the James Bond film The Living Daylights. He was portrayed by Jeroen Krabbé.

Jeroen Krabbé as General Georgi Koskov.

Biography: Koskov is a corrupt Soviet general in business for himself, who carefully plays both sides of the Cold War. Initially, Koskov gives the impression of a somewhat anxious pawn in the battle between the Soviet Union and the West, when he is, in reality, a mastermind using all means to his own advantage. He is prepared to dote on his mistress and give her all manner of expensive gifts, but when necessary will readily sign her death warrant.

Koskov fakes his own defection using his girlfriend Kara Milovy as a sniper to make it look real. James Bond is assigned in aiding him across the border into Austria. Koskov is, however, working with Brad Whitaker in an illicit arms and drug deal. At a safe house in England, Koskov falsely and deliberately fingers KGB head General Pushkin as the mastermind of “Smiert Spionem” or “Death to Spies,” a plot to kill off American and British spies, but Bond suspects the truth. Ultimately Koskov is captured by Pushkin and is returned to his motherland under armed escort.

Koskov is one of the few main villains in the Bond film series to be alive at the end of the film. Others are Ernst Stavro Blofeld in several early Bond films and Mr White in Casino Royale.

See also:

• Bond villains