10 Great Actors Who Played The Worst Versions Of Characters

Ernst Stavro Blofeld is of course the most statuesque and recognisable of all the James Bond villains, having appeared in some form in nine of 007's movies while played by a bevy of talented actors such as Donald Pleasence, Telly Savalas, Charles Gray, Max von Sydow, and Christoph Waltz.

There's no real consensus on who the best Blofeld is, though if we exclude the character's bizarre appearance in For Your Eyes Only - where he couldn't be called Blofeld for legal reasons and was portrayed by a faceless stand-in - it's pretty clear who comes last.

Oscar winner Christoph Waltz playing Blofeld seemed like a slam dunk proposition in theory, yet Spectre's script was such a clunky hash of half-formed ideas and contrived plot twists that Waltz was ultimately left with little compelling to do.

Even Daniel Day-Lewis himself would've struggled to give a good performance while dealing with a narrative which revealed Blofeld to be both Bond's adoptive brother and the secret architect of his various misfortunes.

Waltz was basically factory-made to play a Bond villain, which makes the utter failure of his turn as the character that much more disheartening. It's hardly his fault, but them's the breaks.