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(I'm sorry)
Give him 25 more years and he'll make a great Bond villain. But he said he will quit acting after G of T.
He is supposed to be a really nice guy in person.
He was in Batman Begins as a little boy who Katie Holmes rescues on the island when the Scarecrow sends the fear gas through the sewers
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He is not. Far too young and him playing another villain would be uninspired. Beside his Khan was far from convincing.
Why, why, WHY a bald Blofeld?
"Blofeld's own eyes were deep black pools surrounded -totally surrounded, as Mussoloni's were- by very clear whites. The doll-like effect of this unusual symmetry was enhanced by long silken black eyelashes that should have belonged to a woman. The gaze of these soft doll's eyes was totally relaxed and rarely held any expression stronger than the mild curiosity in the object of their focus. (...)Blofeld's gaze was a microscope, the window on the world on a superbly clear brain, with a focus that had been sharpened by thirty years of danger and of keeping just one step ahead of it (...)
The skin beneath the eyes that now slowly, mildly, surveyed his colleagues was unpouched. There was no sign of debauchery, illness, or old age on the large, white, bland face under the square, wiry black crew-cut The jawline, going on the appropriate middle-aged fat of authority, showed decision and independence. Only the mouth under a heavy, squat nose, marred what might have been the face of a philosopher or a scientist. Proud and thin, like a badly-healed wound, the compressed, dark lips, capable of only false, ugly smiles, suggested contempt, tyranny, and cruelty. But to an almost Shakespearian degree. Nothing about Blofeld was small.''
I don't think we can find any actor like this, of course not, but it gives us some kind of framework to work on.
The first one is somewhat faithful, the other two, not so much. Blofeld looked far more malevolent than in any of these, especially the middle one. In OHMSS, he looks a bit vampiric. In the novels, Blofeld's eyes gave him his presence. I think maybe we should start with the eyes of the actor to start pondering on him as Blofeld, and not his alledged baldness. Defining the character by his baldness is beyond ridiculous: it is inaccurate with the source material, it is shallow, it says nothing about Blofeld. Can an actor convey menace simply by looking at someone? Can he look like a leader of men? Can his eyes express superior intelligence and ruthlessness? Then we take the other traits: can the mouth be cruel, how does the actor move, etc. And something else: Blofeld is experienced, so he has to look mature enough. He has been working in the espionage and terrorism business for 30 years. So the actor must be old enough to show this, yet be young and strong enough to be able to take Bond mano a mano.
Here's some clips of him, acting in English, thanks to his own (or his people's) efforts to get show-reels out there, haha:
The only thing is, I haven't been able to find out his height from the usual online sources... although Craig is only 5' 10, so I doubt there would be much disparity there.
I also like the previously-mentioned ideas of Ciarán Hinds (although, at 61, if they plan to use him multiple times, they'd better hurry up!) or Yigal Naor as Blofeld.