Bill Cummings as Quist in ‘Thunderball’.

Quist is a henchman in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. The character is portrayed by Bill Cummings.

Quist is among the henchmen sent to capture Bond’s contact Paula Caplan, and stays in the hotel to kill 007. When Bond arrives and doesn’t find Paula, he reviews a hidden tape machine recording and gets suspicious.

After exploring her apartment and receiving Felix Leiter, Bond finds Quist lurking in the shower, and scalds him out with hot water. After disarming Quist, Bond lets him go, telling him to report back to Emilio Largo with the words, “Tell them the little fish I throw back into the sea”. Largo then gets displeased at Quist’s failure and has him thrown into a pool with sharks, where Quist is killed.

See also:

• Bond henchmen