List of James Bond henchmen in On Her Majesty's Secret Service

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This is a list of henchmen in the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Irma Bunt

Irma Bunt is the main henchwoman in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. She is portrayed by German actress Ilse Steppat. The role was Steppat's first English speaking part. It would also prove to be her last.

Irma Bunt resides at the mountain-top clinic of Piz Gloria with Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Bunt is first introduced at a train station taking Bond up to the clinic by sleigh and helicopter while he is disguised as Sir Hilary Bray. She ostensibly looks after the girls who are suffering allergies – and secretly being brainwashed into 'angels of death' – and has dinner with them and 'Sir Hilary'. A red-haired disciplinarian in the mold of Rosa Klebb, Bunt is determined to keep any fraternizing between 'Sir Hilary' and the girls kept to a minimum. Bond himself subtly insults her by telling her that her name comes from a nautical word for the baggy, swollen part of a sail.

When Bond escapes from Piz Gloria after his cover as Sir Hilary Bray was blown, Bunt helps some of the men pursue him in the village at the bottom of the mountain. She fails in this and was seemingly killed when she was caught in an explosion at a stock car rally. She is not seen again until right at the end of the film after 007's wedding (a scene deleted from the film had Bunt trailing Bond and Tracy when they were purchasing a wedding ring from a jewelry store). Bunt showed up, alive and well, in a car driven by Blofeld. As they passes the newlyweded couple, Bunt leaned out of the window and sprayed bullets at Bond with a machine gun. Bond was unharmed, but Tracy was killed.

Unusual for a Bond film villain, Bunt seems to have escaped punishment and retribution from 007: she did not appear in the following film, Diamonds Are Forever, where Bond avenges Tracy's death by relentlessly tracking down and [...] Blofeld. Other villains, such as Jaws, survive because they switched allegiances, or like Joe Butcher, are really harmless. This is probably because Ilse Steppat passed away shortly after OHMSS was released.

The literary version of Irma Bunt appears in two of Ian Fleming's novels: OHMSS and its sequel, You Only Live Twice, wherein she appears to have a relationship with Blofeld, referring to him as mein lieber and adopting the alias of his wife. She also doesn't kill Bond's wife as Blofeld is the one who shoots her. She is killed by Bond in a fight and subsequent explosion.

Irma Bunt also appears in one of James Bond uncollected short stories--Raymond Benson's "Blast from the Past", only published in the January 1997 issue of Playboy. In this sequel to the book You Only Live Twice; after almost being killed by James Bond, she takes revenge upon the secret agent.

Grunther

Grunther is a henchman in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. He is portrayed by Byyuri Borienko.

Grunther is a henchman to Ernst Stavro Blofeld. He appears from Piz Gloria onwards. In the film, he is first seen with Irma Bunt. Later, he is seen denying Shaun Campbell access to the Piz Gloria base and later holds him prisoner. His final appearance is during the Battle of Piz Gloria, in which he fights with Tracy Bond and is killed when she impales him on a wall of spikes.

Blofeld's Angels of Death

The Angels of Death are twelve beautiful women from all over the world (though in the novel, only ten from the UK) being brainwashed by Blofeld under the guise of allergy treatment. Their mission is to help Blofeld contaminate and ultimately sterilize the world's food supply. Blofeld claimed he will rescind this threat if all his past crimes are pardoned and he is recognized as the current Count de Bleauchamp. In the novel, Ruby's last name is "Windsor".

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