Enrico Colombo is a fictional character from the James Bond short story Risico that is included in the anthology For Your Eyes Only written by Ian Fleming. The character was named after Gioacchino Colombo, a Ferrari engine designer, specifically the supercharged Ferrari 125, which Fleming admired.

Chaim Topol as Milos Coumbo in ‘For Your Eyes Only’.

The character was featured in the 1981 film, For Your Eyes Only, but his name was changed to Milos Columbo. He was portrayed by Chaim Topol.

Story biography: In the short story, Bond is sent to Italy to break up a drug-smuggling operation. While there his contact is Aristotle Kristatos, who occasionally works with the CIA. Kristatos informs Bond that the man behind the operation is Enrico Colombo, however, after being captured and taken aboard Colombo’s ship, the Colombina, Bond is told by Colombo that Kristatos is actually a double working for the Russians and the man behind the drug smuggling operation. Colombo proves this to Bond by taking him on a raid of Kristatos’ warehouse where they catch Kristatos and his men loading a shipment of drugs.

Film biography: In the film, Milos Columbo is a Greek smuggler who was set up by Kristatos as the man in charge of Emile Locque because he knew too much about Kristatos’ KGB connections. Columbo captures and persuades Bond that Kristatos is actually giving Locque orders and invites Bond on a raid of one of Kristatos’ factories where they find Locque.

Columbo’s aid is invaluable in storming St. Cyrils, and he finally gains a skating protege when Bibi Dahl loses her previous sponsor. Columbo eventually helps Bond as the result of his mistress Countess Lisl, being murdered by one of Kristatos’ henchmen. Milos Columbo used his courage and resources to fight alongside Bond at Kristatos’ mountaintop cabin in Greece, eventually getting the opportunity to personally terminate Kristatos.