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Campbell, Shaun

Shaun Campbell is a fictional character and ally of James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. The character was adapted for the 1969 film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, although he is only referred to as Campbell. He was portrayed by Bernard Horsfall.

Novel biography: Campbell is an agent of the British Secret Service, stationed at Station Z. He eventually follows a Russian to Piz Gloria at the same time James Bond is there impersonating Sir Hilary Bray. Campbell is caught and after Bond discloses that he does not recognize or know him, Campbell is tortured. Ultimately Campbell breaks, giving away Bond’s identity.

Film biography: Campbell helps Bond when he is finding about Blofeld in Gumbold’s office by using a crane to deliver a safe-cracking device to Bond. Later, posing as a tourist, he tries to hitch a ride in a cable car up to Piz Gloria to contact Bond. However, he is confronted by Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s heavy, Grunther, who forcefully refuses to give Campbell permission. Campbell then decides to take events into his own hands and attempts to rockclimb up to Piz Gloria without Blofeld’s guards noticing him. However unfortunately for Campbell, he is detected and captured. Blofeld briefly interrogates Campbell, to which Campbell threatens ‘the authorities will hear about this’. But unfortunately, Campbell is killed before he can contact MI6 and is left swinging in front of a window with one leg tied up by a rope. Blofeld, when he exposes Bond’s true identity, makes sure that Bond views Campbell’s hanging body as an incentive to stay away from his operations.

Campbell is given little personality in the film and is literally a ‘sacrificial lamb’.

 
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