Max Kalba is a character in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, portrayed by Vernon Dobtcheff.

Vernon Dobtcheff as Max Kalba in ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’.

Kalba is a nightclub owner in Egypt and another link in the chain smuggling the submarine tracking device’s plans on microfilm. After he receives the device from Aziz Fekkesh and Fekkesh is killed, Bond takes Fekkesh’s place to meet with Kalba.

During the meeting, Kalba is distracted by a phone call, and when he goes to take it, he is met by Jaws, who crushes Kalba’s trachea with his metal teeth and steals the microfilm from him.

See also:

• Bond henchmen