Dr Wladislav Kutze is a henchman in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. The character is portrayed by George Pravda.

George Pravda as Ladislav Kutze in ‘Thunderball’.

Kutze is a nuclear scientist from Warsaw, to whom Emilio Largo gives the bomb fuses. As the Disco Volante is being attacked by the US Navy, Kutze becomes convinced Largo has gone mad, throws the arming device into the sea, and releases Domino. For doing so, Bond saves Kutze; and, as the Disco Volante is about to crash, 007 gives Kutze a lifebuoy, after Kutze admits he can’t swim and jumps. Oddly, Kutze mysteriously disappears afterwards, making it unknown if he survived, although Pravda said he did survive.

See also:

• Bond henchmen