Morton Slumber is a character in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever. He is portrayed by David Bauer.

David Bauer as Morton Slumber in ‘Diamonds Are Forever’.

Slumber owns his own company, Slumber Inc, as well as a funeral home. He is one of the members of the diamond smuggling ring, using his business as a front. His role is to receive the diamonds from Peter Franks in a corpse bound for cremation and pass them off to Shady Tree. When Bond arrives disguised as Franks, Slumber takes the body of “Franks’ brother” (actually the real Franks) and cremates it. Wint and Kidd then decide to cremate Bond, too, to eliminate another link in the chain, though they are called off once Slumber and Tree realise that the diamonds are fake, and that “Franks” still has yet to deliver the real ones. Slumber’s fate is unknown, but it could be assumed he was either arrested after Blofeld’s plot unraveled, or killed by Wint and Kidd.

See also:

• Bond henchmen