Ranking EVERY James Bond Henchman From Worst To Best

As Auric Goldfinger’s far less famous henchman, Kisch perpetually lives in the shadow of Oddjob. Though he dotes on his fabulously wealthy employer, Kisch is mostly relegated to manual labour, pushing buttons, opening doors, and following Goldfinger around just in case he's needed.

Kisch does occasionally get a few more interesting things to do over the course of the film; it’s he that disperses the fatal delta-nine nerve gas in order to execute a consortium of bumbling American gangsters. He also gets to shoot James Bond with a tranquilliser gun.

It’s the climax of the film, however, where Kisch demonstrates the real distinction between him and the bowler hat-toting titan Oddjob, and it’s not in his favour. With the plan threatening to crumble, Goldfinger opts to lock his two main henchmen inside Fort Knox’s vaults, where a nuclear bomb is set to blow. Kisch panics, and tries to defuse the device in order to save his own skin.

Oddjob quite rightly takes issue with this, flinging Kisch from a great height to his death. Oddjob is willing to die for Goldfinger; Kisch seeks only to work for him. That’s why he’s all the way down here, barely remembered at all next to his iconic colleague.