Whisper is the name of a character in the Bond novel and film, Live and Let Die. The character has a very soft voice that sounds like he is whispering, hence earning himself the name. In the film he is played by Earl Jolly Brown.

In the novel, his quiet voice is attributed to a childhood bout of tuberculosis, from which one and a half of his lungs had to be removed, leaving him with only half a lung with which to breathe, and talk.

He is seen on a number of occasions throughout the film; when Bond travels to meet Felix Leiter in New York, when he pulls alongside Bond’s cab, he kills the driver by using the Poison Dart Shooting Mirror in his car, and appears at the end of the film in Dr Kananga’s lair.

It is unclear as to whether Whisper, like so many henchmen, actually dies at the close of the film. He is last seen beign knocked into an air tight metal capsule just prior to the climatic fight between Bond and Kananga. Since he can’t scream very loud for anyone to help him, he presumably suffocated in the capsule.

In the novel, Whisper is arrested in the end.