- He played two different Bond villains: Professor R.J. Dent in Dr. No (1962) and Ernst Stavro Blofeld in From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965).
- He made five films with Desmond Llewelyn: They Were Not Divided (1950), The Curse of the Werewolf (1961), From Russia with Love (1963), The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) and Thunderball (1965). Terence Young directed all of them except for The Curse of the Werewolf (1961), which was directed by Terence Fisher.
- As Blofeld in From Russia With Love he was seen from the waist down nursing the white cat but the voice was that of Eric Pholmann.
- Not to be confused with the Italian B-movie director Antonio Margheriti, aka Anthony M. Dawson.
- For a long time, he was the only actor to portray the Ernst Stavro Blofeld character in more than one James Bond film, until Christoph Waltz did it in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
- Lived and worked in Italy for several years.
- He appeared in fourteen films directed by Terence Young: They Were Not Divided (1950), Valley of the Eagles (1951), That Lady (1955), Action of the Tiger (1957), Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Thunderball (1965), The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965), Triple Cross (1966), The Rover (1967), Red Sun (1971), The Valachi Papers (1972), Inchon (1981) and The Jigsaw Man (1983).
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