Colonel Jacques Boitier is a villain in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. The character is portrayed by Rose Alba and stuntman Bob Simmons.

Bob Simmons as Jacques Boitier in ‘Thunderball’.

Boitier was a SPECTRE agent (SPECTRE #6) and a French colonel featured at the beginning of the film, where his funeral is taking place. Bond says that Boitier murdered two of his colleagues. It is revealed that the operative faked his death and dressed up as his own widow at the funeral. Bond surprises him at his French chateau, where a fight ensues and Bond breaks Boitier’s neck with a fire poker. During the bogus funeral, one of the French liaison remarks that Boitier and Bond both share the same initials, possibly an in-joke reference to Simmons portraying as Bond in the previous gun barrel sequences.

In the film adaptation, the character was renamed Jacques Bouvar.

See also:

• Bond henchmen