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- Sir Hugo Drax is a fictional character created by author Ian Fleming for the 1955 James Bond novel Moonraker. For the later film and its novelization, Drax was greatly altered from the novel by screenwriter Christopher Wood. In the film, Drax is portrayed by English/French actor Michael Lonsdale.
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In the novel, Sir Hugo Drax is an English World War II soldier, believed to have been working in Liverpool harbour before the war, who became a post-war millionaire. He has red hair, and half of his face is badly scarred from a German attack during the war.
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In the novel, Sir Hugo Drax is a famous English hero of the Second World War and a post-war millionaire. He is described as being approximately 6 ft (183 cm) tall, with red hair, a bushy reddish moustache and protruding upper teeth. Half of his face is badly scarred from a German attack during the War, an incident which has also allegedly left him with amnesia. James Bondsums him up as "A bullying, boorish, loud-mouthed vulgarian". Rising from humble beginnings in Liverpool, Drax made a fortu...
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As revenge for Germany's defeat, he started the Moonraker missile project under the pretence that he would test fire the missile into the North Sea. Instead of doing so, however, he targeted his missile on London and armed it with an atomic bomb he had received through the Soviets and SMERSH. Drax uses his knowledge of the impending disaster to play the stock market, planning to make a huge profit from his own terrorist act. Bond, with the help of female Special Branch agent Gala Brand, sabot...
The Moonraker novel involved the idea of the "traitor within" throughout the course of the book. Drax, real name Graf Hugo von der Drache, is a "megalomaniac German Nazi who masquerades as an English gentleman"; his assistant, Krebs, bears the same name as Hitler's last Chief of Staff. In using a German as the novel's main enemy, "Fleming ... explo...
Hugo Drax was an American billionaire industrialist leading an aerospace manufacturer, Drax Industries, as well as the second employer of steel-toothed assassin Jaws. He used his wealth and business management to wipe out all of humanity in order to repopulate the world with a homegrown "super race."
A club member, the multi-millionaire businessman Sir Hugo Drax, is winning considerable money playing bridge, seemingly against the odds. M suspects Drax is cheating, and while claiming indifference, is concerned as to why a multi-millionaire and national hero would cheat.
- Ian Fleming
- 1955
Sep 21, 2020 · Anglo-French actor Michael Lonsdale, who played the villain opposite Roger Moore's James Bond in the 1979 film Moonraker, has died at the age of 89. In the film, he played Hugo Drax, an...
Jul 18, 2023 · Played by the late French actor, Michael Lonsdale, Hugo Drax has become one of the most memorable antagonists in the Bond franchise, and this character version also made an appearance in Christopher Wood’s novelisation of the film.
In the novel Sir Hugo Drax is an English World War II soldier, believed to have been working in Liverpool harbour before the war, who became a post-war millionaire. He has red hair, and half of his face is badly scarred from a German attack during the war.
