18 Great Actors Totally Wasted In James Bond Movies

Played: Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Spectre and No Time to Die.

This is going to hurt for a long, long time.

Christoph Waltz is a wonderful actor and while he does do similar performances in most of his films, he does them so well that it's hard to complain. And he's proven more than once that he's a master at playing villains - just look at him in Inglorious Bastards - and he was a note-perfect casting choice for Blofeld... that the films just didn't take advantage of at all.

Waltz is actually very good as Blofeld, but the writing lets him down at every turn.

For Spectre, Waltz was in it for 25 minutes at most, which was just ridiculous. Oh, and the film also gave him a laughably awful backstory which made Blofeld Bond's jealous foster-brother and also had a plot twist revealing that this character, who had been known as Franz Oberhauser, was Blofeld... which everyone had worked out long in advance. All of this heavily undermined Blofeld.

But did No Time to Die save the character? No, that film gave him one proper scene and then unceremoniously killed him off. What a disrespectful way to treat Bond's most iconic foe.

Christoph Waltz was good in both of his appearances but the criminally short screen-time and terrible writing ensured that he is the most wasted actor in James Bond history