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Dagor
Manufacturer of the scuba gear lent to Bond by Sharky. (LTK)

Dahl, Bibi
(Lynn Holly-Johnson)
A young American ice skater whom Kristatos considers his protege - he is having her trained by Yakova Brink so that she can compete in the next Olympics. Although Kristatos thinks that she is an 'innocent', she is in reality very experienced (she claims sex builds up muscle tone), and wants Bond to be her next experience. For once, 007 actually turns down a woman, finding her too young for his tastes. (FYEO)

Daily Express
A right-wing British newspaper read by Campbell, Bond's contact in Switzerland. (OHMSS)

Daily Gleaner, The
Jamaican newspaper that one of Dr No's agents, a female photographer, claims to work for on a freelance basis. (DN)

Dambala
(Michael Ebbin)
Chief participant in San Monique's voodoo ceremonies, Dambala - wearing the head of a goat - kills Baines with a poisonous snake, and very nearly does the same to Solitaire until Bond blows him away with a shot from his .44 Magnum. (LALD)

Danielli
The hotel where Holly Goodhead stays in Venice. (MR)

Dario, Manito
(Benicio del Toro)
Sanchez's youthful right-hand man, a former Contra rebel until he was kicked out for being too violent. It is Dario who cuts out the heart of Lupe's lover. While he might be violent, he's not that smart - he's the kind of person who brings a knife to a gunfight. He uncovers Bond at the Meditation Institute, receiving a headbutt for his troubles, and soon afterwards ends up in the same cocaine granulator into which, moments earlier, he was about to pitch Bond. (LTK)

Dart Gun
One of Q's gadgets, issued to all field agents. It straps onto the wrist like a watch, but can fire either armour-piercing (blue) or cyanide-coated (red) darts. It is activated by nerve impulses from the wrist. (MR)

Dave
An attendant at the Las Vegas gas station where Bond sneaks into Dr Metz's van. Tiffany Case calls him 'Curly'. (DAF)

Dawes
An MI6 agent who is 'buzzed' to death through his translation earphones at a meeting of the United Nations. (LALD)

Dawson
An RAF officer who reports the loss of the Vulcan bomber over the Atlantic. (TB)

DEA
The Drug Enforcement Agency, an American government organisation to which Felix Leiter transferred after leaving the CIA. Jack Wade lends Bond of their light aircraft to fly into Cuban airspace. (LTK, GE)

Deaths, Imaginative
As well as the usual shootings, stabbings and defenestrations, no Bond film would be complete without an amusingly cruel and unlikely demise for at least one of Bond's enemies - or friends. Some of them have been:
Death by boiling (DN)
Death by suction (GF)
Death by fireplace (TB)
Death by piranha (YOLT)
Death by snowblower (OHMSS)
Death by mud (DAF)
Death by exploding cake (DAF)
Death by inflation (LALD)
Death by piano (MR)
Death by chimney (FYEO)
Death by paper (FYEO)
Death by yoyo (OP)
Death by octopus (OP)
Death by door (TLD)
Death by bursting (LTK)
Death by forklift (LTK)
Death by radio telescope (GE)

Death Stars
Ninja weapon, small disks with sharpened spikes protruding from the edges. Tiger Tanaka uses one to prevent Blofeld from shooting Bond, embedding one in the villain's gun arm, and Bond finishes off a guard with another to the heart. (YOLT)

De Beers
The international company dealing with the sale and shipping of diamonds. (TB)

De Bleauchamp, Count Baldazar
The alias under which Blofeld is working as he seeks to perfect his crop sterility formula. He is also hoping to gain the legal right to the de Bleauchamp title - the French form of Blofeld. (OHMSS)

Decontamination Chamber
Part of Dr No's complex at Crab Key, where radioactive contamination is removed from visitors who have been out in the nearby swamp. (DN)

Deladier, Madamoiselle
A woman who is part of Drax's genetic elite. (MR)

Del Mateo, Signora
Another of Drax's numerous flaw-free space Nazis. (MR)

Delta 9
Invisible nerve gas brought to Goldfinger by Mr Midnight's mafia organisation. The effect of the gas is lethal, and instantaneous. The gas completely disperses 15 minutes after it is introduced into the atmosphere. (GF)

Dentonyte Toothpaste
One of Q's little holiday essentials - a high explosive goo in a toothpaste tube. Bond uses it blast open Sanchez's bullet-proof windows just prior to an assassination attempt. (LTK)

Dent, Professor R J
(Anthony Dawson)
A metallurgist working in Jamaica, and also one of Dr No's associates. He runs a test laboratory, which allowed him to alert Dr No about Strangways' investigations of Crab Key when he brought Dent a radioactive rock sample.
Dent twice tries to kill Bond, the first by putting a tarantula in his bed, and later by more direct means - shooting him while he sleeps. Unfortunately, he wastes his bullets on a bed full of pillows, and his lack of knowledge about firearms means he has no shots left when he tries to shoot the fully awake Bond. He doesn't live much beyond that last mistake. (DN)

Department of Conservation
The Californian government agency for which both Stacey Sutton and Howe work - specifically for the Mines and Geology and Oil and Mines sections, respectively. (AVTAK)

Dermatone
A special kind of scalpel used by plastic surgeons, and also by Helga Brandt to threaten Bond. He later puts it to better use in cutting off her dress. (YOLT)

Derval, Dominique
(Claudine Auger)
Better known as Domino to her friends (she wears a bracelet with the name around her ankle), she is the sister of Major Derval and is also the mistress (though officially the niece) of Emilio Largo.
She has two moles on her left thigh, and is a keen diver. Until Bond comes along and sucks some fish poison from her foot, the only person to have made her cry was her brother.
When she discovers the truth about her brother, she agrees to help Bond locate the missing bombs, but her inexperience means she is quickly caught, after which Largo tortures her to see how much Bond found out. She is freed by Kutze, and eventually kills Largo with a harpoon gun. (TB)

Derval, Major Francois
(Paul Stassino)
A French Air Force commandant and brother of Domino, temporarily assigned to the RAF as part of his NATO duties, who made the mistake of becoming infatuated with Fiona Volpe. She has been feeding information about him to SPECTRE as part of their NATO Project. Shortly before his mission, which involves carrying live nuclear weapons, he is murdered and replaced by a double, Angelo. (TB)

Detonator
1: The non-nuclear part of a Polaris missile warhead. Bond uses one to blow a hole through the armour of the Liparus operations room - after narrowly averting a minor nuclear disaster when he nearly triggers the detonation circuit. (TSWLM)
2: Flying saucer-shaped object that Zorin intends to use to set off the explosives in the Main Strike mine, flooding Silicon Valley. Bond removes it from the pit of explosives in which it has been deposited, and May Day rides it on a mine cart out of the mine, going out in a blaze of glory. (AVTAK)

Devon, Lady Victoria
A young English aristocrat, chosen by Drax to form part of his spaceborne elite. (MR)

Diamonds, Blue-White
SPECTRE's ransom demand for the return of the stolen nuclear bombs, a total worth of £100 million, all between three and eight carats. Diamonds were chosen because they are effectively untraceable. (TB)

Diary
Holly Goodhead's appointment planner, which also has a dart gun concealed in the spine. (MR)

Dice, Loaded
Kamal Khan uses these to ensure his victory at backgammon. Bond turns the tables on him when, using player's privilege, he takes Khan's dice to get the double six he needs to win - announcing the result of the throw without even looking at it. The luckless dice are crushed into powder by Gobinda. (OP)

Digital Camera
A pocket-sized gadget used by Bond in Monaco to spy on Xenia Onatopp. As well as having a massive zoom capability and built-in image stabilisation, the camera can transmit its pictures directly to MI6 in London for immediate analysis. (GE)

Dimitri
(Peter Majer)
Valentin Zukovsky's bodyguard, and also a man who laughs too loudly at his boss's 'jokes'. (GE)

Dink ?
(Margaret Nolan)
A masseuse at Bond's hotel in Miami Beach. (GF)

Diplomatic Bag
How General Pushkin wants the treacherous Koskov transported to Moscow. (TLD)

Disco Volante
Largo's Panamanian-registered yacht, the name meaning 'Flying Saucer'. The ship is more than it appears - as well as having a moonpool set into its hull to allow the passage of submersibles carrying nuclear bombs, it is also equipped with underwater surveillance equipment, heavy machine guns and a smokescreen, and as a last resort can jettison its rear section, leaving the bow free to make a fast getaway as a hydrofoil. The ship meets its end, along with its owner, when it goes out of control and crashes into a reef. (TB)

Dobermanns
Drax's highly-trained attack dogs, which he uses to kill Corinne Dufour. (MR)

Dobey
One of Sheriff Pepper's fellow officers. (LALD)

Docker Street
New Orleans street where a Fillet of Soul restaurant is located, and also where Hamilton and Strutter met their deaths at the hands of a little guy with a knife. (LALD)

Dog, Green
Tiffany Case's prize for (fraudulently) winning on the water balloons game at Circus Circus. The large cuddly toy is more valuable than it looks - it is stuffed with diamonds! (DAF)

Dogtags
Military identification tags, used by Bond to convince Domino that Largo has killed her brother. (TB)

Dolly
(Blanche Ravelec)
A small, bespectacled girl with pigtails, who meets Jaws after he demolishes the lower station of the Sugar Loaf cable car line - it's mutual love at first sight. She goes with Jaws to Drax's space station, where Jaws realises - with a little prompting from Bond - that neither he nor his new love will be allowed to live, as they don't match Drax's idea of 'perfect physical specimens'. She and her boyfriend help Bond to escape, before settling down to a glass of champagne as the station module they are in breaks free and drifts off into space, to be rescued by the US Space Marines. (MR)

Domino
The name that Dominique Derval prefers her friends call her. (TB)

Dom Perignon
Expensive brand of champagne. Dr No enjoys the '55, while Bond prefers the '53 (DN). However, he can also be tempted by the '59 (YOLT), the '57 (OHMSS), the '62 and '64 (TMWTGG) and the '52 (TSWLM).

Dovecote
The location of the CIA surveillance equipment monitoring Brad Whitaker's Tangier villa, on the roof of a house across the street. (TLD)

Dove, The
The nickname of Greek smuggler Columbo. Kristatos has Locque wear a small metal pin with a dove logo to trick Bond into thinking that he works for Columbo, which Locque leaves on Ferrara's corpse as further proof. Kristatos hopes that Bond will do his work for him by killing Columbo in retaliation. (FYEO)

Draco Construcio
One of Draco's legitimate businesses, a construction company. (OHMSS)

Draco, Markanze
(Gabriele Ferzetti)
The head of the Union Corse crime syndicate, and father of Tracy, now living in Portugal. His legitimate business holdings, in construction, electrical supplies and agriculture, are even bigger than his criminal organisation. He married an overly romantic English girl who had gone to Corsica to look for bandits, who died twelve years after giving birth to Tracy.
Draco wants the best for his daughter, but has rather old-fashioned ideas about what this consists of - he wants Bond to marry Tracy so that he can dominate her and curb her excesses. He is willing to give Bond a million pounds in gold as a dowry if he accepts. Bond is ready to turn down the whole idea, until he realises that Draco's criminal connections may be able to track down Blofeld.
When Blofeld captures Tracy and M refuses to authorise an attack on Piz Gloria, Bond turns to Draco for help. Draco leads an attack by helicopters on Blofeld's base, using his experience of demolition work to completely obliterate the villain's headquarters. When Tracy refuses to leave the doomed building without Bond, Draco knocks her out, muttering "Spare the rod and spoil the child". At the wedding, Draco chats amicably with M about a past operation of his that MI6 foiled, and offers Bond his dowry - which is still rejected, as Bond doesn't need a bribe to want to marry Tracy. (OHMSS)

Draco, Teresa
(Diana Rigg)
The daughter of crime lord Draco, born in 1943; Bond first meets her when she is apparently trying to commit suicide by walking into the sea. He saves her, first from drowning and then from a pair of unknown thugs, but is rewarded only by having his car stolen! He later bails her out of a gambling debt at the baccarat table, but still fails to break the ice - at least, not until later.
Teresa prefers to be called Tracy - as she puts it, "Theresa was a saint". Her mother died when she was 12, so her father sent her to school in Switzerland. Without proper supervision, she ran wild, joining the jet set and getting involved in a series of scandals. When her father cut off her allowance, she married an Italian count who was soon after killed in a car crash, along with one of his mistresses - Tracy still kept his title. Knowing how much her father loves her, she is able to use this to her advantage by threatening never to see him again unless she gets what she wants.
Although she seems disgusted by her father's plans to get Bond to marry her, she is already in love with the British agent. She helps him escape from Blofeld's clutches, and even after her capture is able to look after herself, taking care of her guards with a broken champagne bottle and impaling Grunther on a spiked wall ornament. After Piz Gloria is destroyed, she and Bond marry, Tracy promising her father that she'll obey her husband... just as she obeyed him.
However, tragedy strikes just minutes after the ceremony, when Blofeld and Irma Bunt make a final attempt to kill Bond. Instead they hit Tracy, who dies in her husband's arms. (OHMSS)

"Dragon"
Mythical beast supposedly guarding Crab Key, dismissed as superstition by Bond and Leiter. Unfortunately for Quarrel, it actually exists, in the form of a flamethrowing tank. (DN)

Drax Air Freight
One of the many subsidiaries of the Drax Corporation, which Drax uses to ship his nerve gas globes to the various Moonraker launch sites around the world. (MR)

Drax Corporation
The catch-all title of Drax's various companies. (MR)

Drax, Hugo
(Michael Lonsdale)
The billionaire owner of the Drax Corporation and its numerous subsidiaries, and also a major financier of the American space programme, paying for the training of a new generation of astronauts out of his own pocket. His interests are less than altruistic, however; Drax feels that the world has become corrupt, and plans to wipe out the human population so that he can begin again, using only his specially-chosen 'perfect specimens' to create a new world in his image.
As well as being a rich businessman and megalomanic, Drax is also a skilled piano player and a good shot at grouse hunting. He has connections in high places, including being a bridge partner of Sir Frederick Grey.
Once aboard his space station, Drax begins his plan to exterminate humanity, but is foiled by Bond, Holly Goodhead and the arrival of a platoon of US Space Marines. Fleeing his command satellite, he is pursued by Bond, but manages to grab a laser gun from a dead guard. Thinking he has the upper hand, Drax pauses to gloat - allowing Bond to shoot him with a poison dart before bundling him into an airlock and blasting him into space with a quip of "Take a giant step for mankind". (MR)

Drax Industries
Drax's main company, concerned with the building of the Moonraker space shuttle and Drax's private space programme. Assembly of the shuttles takes place in California, though the company uses subsidiaries all over the world. (MR)

Drysuit
Unlike a wetsuit, which allows water to reach the skin, a drysuit keeps the wearer's body perfectly dry, thus allowing Bond to keep a perfectly pressed tuxedo beneath his aquatic commando gear. (GF)

Duff, Superintendant
(William Foster-Davies)
The Jamaican Chief of Police, who attempted to discover the real identity of Mr Jones, but was unable to get anywhere. However, he was more helpful when it came to providing information on Professor Dent and the arrest of Miss Taro. (DN)

Dufour, Corinne
(Corinne Clery)
A pilot for the Drax Corporation, who brings Bond from the airport to Drax's California estate. She lives in quarters in Drax's chateau. Her mother gave her a list of things not to do on a first date, but as she says to Bond "I never learned to read". Bond persuades her to tell him where Drax's safe is located - Drax first fires her, then has her hounded to death by his Dobermanns. (MR)

'Duke of Wellington'
Valuable painting by Goya, stolen in 1962, which turns up in Dr No's private collection at Crab Key. (DN)

Dulation
A diamond shown to Bond by M before his investigation of diamond smuggling. (DAF)

Dynamite
An explosive created by Alfred Nobel, he of the Peace Prize. Several sticks, detonated by radio, are used to flood the Main Strike mine, and Zorin apparently likes the stuff so much he keeps numerous bundles of it aboard his private airship. Quite why is a mystery. (AVTAK)


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