Galore, Pussy
(Honor Blackman)
Goldfinger's personal pilot and a judo expert, Pussy is also the leader of a self-named Flying Circus, an aerobatic team which forms an integral part of Goldfinger's plot. She claims to be immune to Bond's charms, a possible reason being suggested by her all-female team of pilots. A sapphic subtext? (There certainly was in the novel.) However, she inevitably succumbs following a quite literal roll in the hay, after which she switches allegiences, exchanging the nerve gas in her planes for a harmless substitute after warning Felix Leiter of Goldfinger's plan. (GF)

Gangster
(Marc Lawrence)
The leader of the goon squad assigned to collect the smuggled diamonds from Bond when he arrives in Las Vegas. (DAF)

Garotte
Length of strong wire, used to strangle people. Red Grant is a specialist in the form, having a garotting wire hidden inside his watch. Bond keeps the watch as a souvenir after killing Grant. (FRWL, OHMSS)

G-ARZB
Registration number of Little Nellie. (YOLT)

Gasworks Supervisor
(Peter Porteus)
An elderly man working at the Trans-Siberian Pipeline, who is distracted from seeing the alarms that set off when Bond blasts Koskov down the pipeline in the modified 'pig' because Rosika Miklos has buried his face in her cleavage. He clearly enjoys the experience. (TLD)

G-BAKS
Registration number of the JetRanger helicopter which Blofeld has modified to fly by remote control, his intention being to terrorise Bond for a while before crashing the aircraft. (FYEO)

G-BIHN
Registration of Zorin's Skyship 500 airship. (AVTAK)

Geiger Counter
Device for detecting radioactivity. Bond uses a large one in Jamaica (DN), and one built into his watch and another in a camera in Nassau (TB).

General
(Bruce Boa)
The commander of Feldstadt air force base, who has trouble believing that a man in a clown suit might be telling the truth about an armed nuclear bomb on his base. (OP)

'Geological Configuration, Eastern Caribbean'
Textbook written by Lyell and used as a reference by Strangways. (DN)

George
The nickname of the automatic pilot on Scaramanga's junk. (TMWTGG)

Ghetto Blaster
A gadget that Q is developing for the CIA - a large tape deck (traditionally carried on the shoulder of surly teenagers) that contains a rocket launcher. (TLD)

G-HUEY
The remarkably descriptive registration of the bogus medical rescue helicopter that takes Koskov away from Blayden - it is, in fact, a Huey! (TLD)

Gibson
A solar energy expert, drinker of ginger ale and inventor of the Solex agitator. Gibson disappears during the 1970s energy crisis along with all his Solex data, prompting MI6 to assign Bond to locate him. After going to Bankok to work for Hai Fat, Gibson decides he wants to return to the West. He turns up in Hong Kong where MI6 agent Hip tries to protect him, but Scaramanga ambushes him outside the Bottoms Up club and shoots him dead. (TMWTGG)

Giggins, Jeffrey
A late lamented DEA informant. (LTK)

Ginger Ale
Gibson's preferred drink, at least when visiting table dancing clubs. (TMWTGG)

Gin Rummy
Card game Goldfinger plays (and cheats at) against Simmons at Miami Beach. Bond also plays it against Solitaire - and is thrashed. (GF, LALD)

Girl in Flower Shop
(Robbin Young)
A Cortina shop assistant from whom Bond orders a dozen lilies as an excuse for entering the shop while tailing Melina Havelock. After an attacker is sent crashing through the shop window, Bond requests that the lilies be sent to the man's funeral. (FYEO)

GKX 8G
Registration number of Bond's Aston Martin DBS. (OHMSS)

Glau, Hans
The real name of Dr Carl Mortner, Nazi eugenicist. (AVTAK)

GLD 376
Registration of Sanchez's getaway car as he flees the Oliupatec Institute. (LTK)

Globes
Drax had 50 of these deadly devices aboard his space station. Each globe contained enough nerve gas to kill 100 million people. Luckily, Drax only managed to launch three before the station was attacked by US Space Marines, Bond and Holly Goodhead taking Moonraker 5 to chase and destroy the lethal trio. (MR)

Glove, Mink
One of Bond's little lovemaking aids. He claims it reduces tension. (TB)

Gluvine
A drink enjoyed by Kristatos in Cortina. (FYEO)

Gobinda
(Kabir Bedi)
Kamal Khan's huge, beturbanned henchman, who when not crushing dice with his bare hands is out doing his master's bidding in other, equally lethal ways. After numerous attempts to kill Bond, he ends up on the fuselage of Khan's plane (in mid-flight) to catch Bond, who is clinging to the aircraft. Bond flicks a radio aerial into Gobinda's face, making the killer lose his grip and plummet to his death. (OP)

Gogol, General Alexis
(Walter Gotell)
Head of the KGB, and M's opposite number. His main aim is to preserve detente between the world's nuclear powers, but that doesn't stop him from engaging in espionage against them. He has a mistress, his secretary Rublevich, and wears bright red silk pyjamas in bed. He eventually left the KGB to join the Foreign Service, being replaced by General Leonid Pushkin. (TSWLM, MR, FYEO, OP, AVTAK, TLD)

Golden Balls
A cruder name for bezants, as found on a coat of arms. Bond's claim that he possesses them (as Sir Hilary Bray) is confirmed by a delighted Ruby Bartlett. (OHMSS)

Golden Bullet
Francisco Scaramanga's unique ammunition, which prove just as lethal as bullets made from lead - the bullets are dum-dums, which flatten on impact to cause the maximum damage. One with Bond's number engraved on the side is sent to MI6, where it is presumed to be a warning that Bond had been marked for death by the assassin. Another, which had been used to kill 002, is found by Bond in the navel of cabaret girl Saida in Beirut. The bullets are custom-made by gunsmith Lazar in Macau. (TMWTGG)

Golden Dragon
Hong Kong jewellers opposite the Bottoms Up club, above which Scaramanga lay in wait for Gibson. (TMWTGG)

Goldeneye
The codename for the Russian space weapon controlled from Severnaya, under the command of General Ouromov. Two weapons - Petya and Mischa - are operational, both in 90 minute orbits at an altitude of 100km. Goldeneye works by firing an electromagnetic pulse at its target - the only damage caused results from the EMP's frying of all electronic systems. Working for the Janus syndicate, Ouromov sets one of the satellites to fire at Severnaya, destroying the evidence of his being there, so that he can steal the control key for the second satellite and give it to Janus. (GE)

Goldeneye Key
A large orange crystal set into a metal and glass frame. The pattern of the crystal is used as an unfakeable key to activate the Goldeneye firing system, a laser being shone through it and the resulting pattern of light being read by a system above the satellite tracking screen. Of course, it's all very well making an uncopyable key, but it's not much use if someone simply steals the original... (GE)

Golden Grotto
Bay of an island in the vicinity of Nassau, where Angelo brings down his stolen bomber. (TB)

Golden Grotto Sharks
According to Largo, the most dangerous sharks of them all; this explains why he keeps a tank of them at his home, ready to eat those who displease him. However, the same sharks give away the position of the sunken bomber; Bond spots them as they prowl around the plane, attracted by the bodies inside. (TB)

Golden Gun
Francisco Scaramanga's one-of-a-kind weapon, fashioned from gold and made up of three parts which can be broken down into harmless-looking items - a Waterman fountain pen, a Colibri cigarette lighter, a cufflink and a cigarette case. Although it only holds a single bullet, Scaramanga's skill is such that, in his words, "I only need one!" (TMWTGG)

Goldfinger, Auric
(Gert Frobe)
A naturalised British citizen and wealthy businessman. Goldfinger owns a Kentucky stud farm and an international jewellery businesses, but his main concern is the trading of gold bullion.
Goldfinger has huge stocks of gold in Amsterdam, Zurich, Carracus and Hong Kong, worth £20 million. He has loved gold all his life, and is willing to do anything to increase his supply of it. His smuggling operations, where he casts gold into the shape of his Rolls-Royce's body panels then simply drives the vehicle abroad, have already made him a fortune, but he has entered into partnerships with the Chinese government and the American mafia - both of whom he betrays - to raid Fort Knox and explode a 'dirty' nuclear bomb there, contaminating the entire American gold supply with radiation for several decades. This will ruin the American economy, and hugely inflate the value of Goldfinger's own gold stocks. Bond foils the plan though, and when Goldfinger hijacks the plane that is taking Bond to Washington, the villain accidentally blows a hole through the aircraft's window, depressuring the cabin and sucking the bloated gold-lover out to his death. (GF)

Gold Paint
Substance used by Oddjob to kill Jill Masterson, covering her body with it and causing skin suffocation. (GF)

Gold Room
One of the gambling rooms at the Whyte House casino in Las Vegas, filled mainly with slot machines. (DAF)

Gold Vault Road
Road that leads to Fort Knox from Bullion Boulevard. (GF)

Golf
A favourite game of James Bond, Sylvia Trench and Auric Goldfinger. (DN, GF, OHMSS)

Golf Cart
Not exactly the fastest means of escape from the blazing Oliupatec Institute that Bond and Pam Bouvier could have chosen, but it beats walking. (LTK)

Gonzales, Hector
(Stefan Kalipha)
A flashy and wealthy Cuban hitman, hired by Locque (on the orders of Kristatos) to kill Sir Timothy Havelock and prevent him from recovering the ATAC from the wreck of the St Georges. Bond tracks him down to his villa near San Martin in Italy, but Gonzales is killed with a crossbow bolt by Melina, Sir Havelock's daughter. (FYEO)

Goodhead, Dr Holly
(Lois Chiles)
Ostensibly a NASA astronaut on secondment to the Drax Corporation, Holly is in reality a CIA agent - though her astronaut training is genuine. At first she is less than enthused about Bond, disliking his innate chauvinism, but once the two start working together she inevitably comes around to his charms. Holly is more than capable of standing up for herself, punching it out with numerous guards. She claims that she learned to fight at Vasser, but it is her spacefaring skills that prove more useful to Bond - without her, he would have been unable to reach orbit to foil Drax, or chase the nerve gas globes in Moonraker 5. (MR)

Goodnight, Mary
(Britt Ekland)
A junior MI6 agent, stationed in Hong Kong. Bond has had prior dealings with her two years before he came to the island in pursuit of Scaramanga. Before being stationed on the colony, she had a two-year posting with Staff Intelligence. As an agent she is fairly useless, winding up locked in the boot of Scaramanga's car-plane while trying to plant a homer on it, then later blowing up Scaramanga's whole island when she knocks Krall into a cooling tank. (TMWTGG)

Gorilla Suit
Unconvincing disguise that Bond uses to avoid being found by East German border guards as Octopussy's train crosses into West Germany. (OP)

Government House
Imposing white building in Jamaica, used by officials of the British embassy. (DN)

Grandfather
M's codename when he contacts Q in San Francisco, trying to find out if Q has located Bond. (AVTAK)

Grand Hotel Europe
A large St Petersburg hotel, where Bond arranges to meet with Janus, instead running into Xenia Onatopp in the sauna. (GE)

Grant, Donald
(Robert Shaw)
Also known as 'Red', Grant is a convicted murderer who escaped from Dartmoor Prison in 1960 and was recruited by SPECTRE in Tangiers two years later. He acts as an assassin, specialising in the use of the garotte hidden in his watch, though he is equally deadly with other weapons, including his bare hands. His homicidal nature and innate paranoia, as well as his strength and stamina (he can take a blow from a knuckleduster with barely a flinch) make him ideal for SPECTRE's purposes, and they employ him to kill James Bond and steal the Lektor coding machine.
Grant actually helps Bond out, by killing one of Krilencu's thugs and a Bulgarian agent, but only so that Bond can deliver the Lektor to him, after which 007 is to be painfully and humiliatingly terminated. He kills Captain Nash, an MI6 agent sent to help Bond across the border, and assumes his identity to get close enough to Bond to catch him by surprise. Grant's greed gets the better of him, though, and when he opens Nash's MI6 attache case incorrectly to get the gold sovereigns inside, he sets off the tear-gas cannister. In the ensuing fight, Grant is throttled by his own garotte. (FRWL)

Grapnel Gun
Gas-powered gun firing a grapnel and line. Bond used one to penetrate Amarez's base, and another to gain access to the penthouse of the Whyte House in Las Vegas. He uses the latter to kill one of the two Blofelds he finds there - unfortunately, it turns out to be the double. 007 used another gun to enter the Arkangel Chemical Weapons Facility in Soviet Russia, bungee-jumping from the dam above, then firing the line at his lowest point and reeling himself down. This gun also had a laser attached, with which he was able to burn his way through a hatch and enter the plant. (GF, DAF, GE)

Gravestone
The monument for the late Teresa Bond, nee Draco. The inscription reads "TERESA BOND, 1943-1969. Beloved wife of JAMES BOND. We have all the time in the World". The grave is in an English churchyard, rather than Tracy's native Portugal. (FYEO)

Great Pyramid of Cheops
A huge ancient monument outside Cairo, next to the Sphinx. Fekkesh arranged to meet with Anya Amasova here, hoping that the numerous people visiting the tourist trap would discourage Stromberg's agents from trying to kill him. They didn't. (TSWLM)

Great Train Robbery, The
Notorious hijacking of a British mail train in 1963. Technical advice was provided by SPECTRE, to the tune of £250,000. (TB)

Green Figs
Part of Bond's breakfast for one. (FRWL)

Green Scrambler
Secure direct line between Washington DC and M's office in London. (GF)

Grey, Sir Frederick
(Geoffrey Keen)
The Minister of Defence, and also an old friend of Bond's (who calls him 'Freddie' when they're not engaged on formal business). He plays bridge with Hugo Drax, and is profoundly humiliated when Bond leads him and M into what should have been a nerve gas laboratory only to find nothing but Drax, which probably strained the friendship somewhat. In fact, Grey has a rather bad track record with villains - he can't accept that either Drax or Max Zorin could be anything other than above board. However, since he managed to keep his ministerial post for at least ten years - rather more than any other incumbent - he's obviously better at politics than spying. (TSWLM, MR, FYEO, OP, AVTAK, TLD)

Grishenko, Boris
(Alan Cumming)
A programmer at Severnaya, who counters the boredom of the posting by hacking into other countries' government computer systems and sexually harrassing his female colleagues in a geeky manner. He is also working for the Janus syndicate, being the only person with full knowledge of the Goldeneye satellite's systems. He reads Wired magazine and appears to be a Star Trek fan, judging by one of the icons on his computer's desktop. After the destruction of Severnaya, Boris is assigned to crack the computers of the Bank of England (which he does) in preparation for Alec Trevelyan's plan to fire the remaining Goldeneye satellite at London. Although dismissive of Natalya's computer skills, she nevertheless outwits him - she might not be able to stop the weapon firing, but she can fire the satellite's retro-rockets and cause it to burn up. Although Boris eventually cracks Natalya's codes, by then Bond has sabotaged the transmitter, so his new commands never reach the Goldeneye, which explodes in the Earth's atmosphere. Boris appears to be the only survivor after the antenna array crashes down through the dish and demolishes the control room, prompting him to let rip with his catchphrase of "I am inveencible!" - just as containers of liquid nitrogen used to cool the mainframe computer burst, showering him with supercold liquid and freezing him solid. (GE)

Grishka
(Anthony Meyer)
Brother of Mishka, and half of a knife throwing act performing in Octopussy's circus. Grishka puts a knife in the back of 009 in East Berlin. After a fight on the roof of Octopussy's train and a brief chase through some West German woods, Bond repays the favour.
NB: Listed in the credits as 'Twin Two'. (OP)

Group Captain
Pilot of the Vulcan bomber involved in SPECTRE's NATO Project. He and his crew are killed by Angelo when poison gas is fed into their air supply. (TB)

Grunther
(Yuri Borienko)
Irma Bunt's assistant, and also one of Blofeld's thugs. He is killed by Tracy, who impales him on a spiked wall ornament in Piz Gloria. (OHMSS)

G Section
The part of Tectronics's staff concerned with the checking of radiation shielding. Klaus Hergersheimer works for it. (DAF)

Guantanamo
An American military base located, bizarrely, in Cuba, under some ancient treaty that must really annoy Fidel Castro. Jack Wade suggests that Bond and Natalya finish 'debriefing' each other there. (GE)

Gumbold, Gebruder
(James Bree)
A Swiss lawyer, based in Berne, who is working for Blofeld, trying to establish his legal right to the de Bleuchamp title. Bond breaks into his office one lunchtime to obtain copies of documents he keeps in his safe. (OHMSS)

Gunboat Captain
A minor thug in Dr No's employ, noteworthy only for being the first person in a Bond film to say the immortal line, "We've been expecting you"! (DN)

Guy Laroche
A store in Athens where Melina Havelock had been shopping before returning to the Triana. (FYEO)

Gwendoline
(Suzanne Jerome)
One of Octopussy's girls at the Floating Palace. (OP)

Gypsies
An ethnic group that, in Turkey, Kerim Bey uses to carry out certain 'jobs' for him. Because of this, a blood fued has arisen between the gypsies and the Bulgars, whom the Russians use in much the same way. After an attempt is made on Bey's life, he and Bond go to the gypsy camp to distance themselves from the danger, but Krilencu tails them and leads an attack on the camp by the Bulgars. With Bond's help, the gypsies prove more than able to defend themselves. (FRWL)

G7W
Codename for MI6, used in communications between Strangways' station in Jamaica and London. (DN)