10 Movie Secrets They Didn't Want You To Know

10. Who Played Blofeld - From Russia With Love

James Bond's most iconic foe, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, first showed up on-screen in 007's second cinematic outing, From Russia with Love, where fans glimpsed him briefly as the shadowy, faceless SPECTRE mastermind referred to as "Number 1."

Only Blofeld's hands and the back of his head are shown, and to heighten the intrigue surrounding the character's identity, both the actor who portrayed him on set - Anthony Dawson - and the character's voice actor - Eric Pohlmann - went uncredited.

In the film's end credits, Blofeld's presence is simply credited to "?," and though Dawson and Pohlmann returned to portray the character in the fourth Bond film Thunderball, in this instance the character was entirely absent from the credits.

It was only in the next film, You Only Live Twice, that a decidedly more famous actor, the great Donald Pleasence, was cast in the part without any smoke-and-mirrors subterfuge.

Evidently, Bond producers didn't want audiences to know who was effectively playing Blofeld stand-ins until they'd settled on a name talent to play the part.