List of James Bond henchmen in Dr. No

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A list of henchman from the 1962 James Bond film Dr. No from the List of James Bond henchmen.

Contents 1 The Three Blind Mice 2 Dr No's Photographer 3 Mr. Jones 4 Professor R. J. Dent 5 Miss Taro

[edit] The Three Blind Mice

James Bond character
The Three Blind Mice
Gender	Male
Role	Henchman
Affiliation	Dr. No
Current status	All Deceased
Portrayed by	various

The Three Blind Mice are professional assassins working as Henchmen for Doctor Julius No. They use pretended blindness as a ruse to deflect attention, and carry guns to perform their killings. They have become known as "The Three Blind Mice" because of the song that accompanies them on the film's soundtrack.

When Professor Dent tells Dr. No that John Strangways has found radioactive bits of rock from Crab Key, he orders the Three Blind Mice to kill Strangways and his secretary Miss Trueblood.

The Three Blind Mice are also sent to kill James Bond when Mr. Jones fails to do so. They wait for him at his hotel, but they are thwarted by the arrival of a car.

When Miss Taro asks Bond to come up to her house, it is a trap so that the Blind Mice can kill him. In a dramatic car chase, Bond outsmarts the Mice, who drive over a cliff to their deaths.

The Three Blind Mice are not mentioned in the film's opening or end credits. IMDb names only two of the three actors:

• Eric Coverly
• Henry Lopez
•  ?

[edit] Dr No's Photographer

James Bond character
Dr No's Photographer (unknown name)
Gender	Female
Role	Henchwoman
Affiliation	SPECTRE
Current status	Unknown
Portrayed by	Marguerite LeWars

Dr No's photographer (named Freelance by James Bond) is an unnamed female photographer (Though in the novel,her name is Annabelle Chung) working for Doctor Julius No of SPECTRE in the 1962 James Bond film Dr. No.

The photographer, an attractive dark-haired women of Central or South American descent, first appears in the film at Kingston airport where she attempts to take a photograph of James Bond as he arrives in Jamaica. Bond half-consciously shields his face with his hat and gets into the car of Mr. Jones also of SPECTRE.

She later reappears in the film, again sent by Dr. No to take another photograph of Bond as he is discussing plans with Felix Leiter and Quarrel at a Jamaican calypso restaurant. This time she is spotted by Bond who orders Quarrel to seize her. Bond asks her who she is working for and she replies that she was working for the Daily Gleaner, a local newspaper in Kingston. When Bond asks the head waiter to check it out, she is forced to change her story and confess that she was a freelance photographer. She then attempts to physically harm Quarrel by cutting his face with a broken flashbulb from her camera. Quarrel seems unaffected and threatens to break her arm. Bond then destroys her film and she is set free, never to be seen again, after stating that the men will be sorry for their actions.

Marguerite LeWars, who portrayed the photographer, was the reigning Miss Jamaica at the time of shooting in 1962.

[edit] Mr. Jones

James Bond character
Mr. Jones
Gender	Male
Role	Villain
Affiliation	SPECTRE
Current status	Deceased
Portrayed by	Reginald Carter

Jones is a fictional character from the first James Bond film, Dr. No, released in 1962. He is the first Bond villain to officially encounter Bond in the entire film franchise.

In the film, James Bond, played by Sean Connery, travels to Jamaica to investigate interference with American space rockets which appears to be originating in the area. As Bond leaves Kingston Airport, Mr. Jones, dressed in a beige uniform and cap, coolly greets him and insists that he is a chauffeur from Government House who had been sent to meet him. Bond phones Government House (under the pretext of checking his reservation), but learns that no car has been sent - so Jones is an impostor.

Bond is then driven by Jones along a coastal road. He begins to drive quickly when they are being tailed (by Felix Leiter of the CIA). Bond orders Jones to take a road on the right, losing the pursuers, where the car comes to a stop, with Bond holding the imposter at gun-point. Bond asks Jones for whom he is working, and Jones tries to reach for a pistol in the glove compartment. Despite resistance, Bond is quick to overcome him and again demands an answer. Mr. Jones begs for a cigarette, which, unknown to Bond, has a cyanide pill as a filter. He breaks this pill from the cigarette with his teeth and dies within seconds, cursing Bond with his final words.

It is found later in the film that Jones was in fact an agent of the crime syndicate SPECTRE and was working for Doctor Julius No, who had ordered that Bond be followed and killed.

[edit] Professor R. J. Dent

James Bond character
Professor R. J. Dent
Gender	Male
Role	Henchman
Affiliation	Dr. No
Current status	Deceased
Portrayed by	Anthony Dawson

Professor R. J. Dent is a fictional character in the James Bond film Dr. No, portrayed by Anthony Dawson.

Dent is a metallurgist with a private practice in Kingston; he also secretly works for Doctor Julius No. He is first seen playing cards with John Strangways and other officials. When investigating Strangways' death, Bond initially suspects Dent, when he finds the rocks Dent is studying are radioactive.

Dent becomes suspicious of Bond and reports to Dr. No, who orders that Bond be eliminated. Dent then puts a deadly spider in Bond's bed, but Bond escapes. When Bond meets with Miss Taro, Dent sneaks up to the house, but not before Miss Taro speaks about the plot.

Bond waits for Dent, putting pillows under his covers as a decoy. Dent empties his gun into the bed, leaving him defenceless when Bond executes him with a shot to the chest and a follow-up bullet in the back.

This scene was controversial because it showed the hero of the film killing a man in cold blood, and even though Ian Fleming had conceived the character as one who is authorized to commit such actions, in none of his novels is Bond shown acting in this manner. According to James Bond: The Legacy, the filmmakers needed a scene to illustrate the "licensed to kill" concept and in fact had originally filmed the scene to show Bond firing several more bullets into Dent, but ultimately removed all but the first shot (some televised broadcasts such as those by the American ABC network delete the second bullet to the back. It is sometimes stated that an alternate version was shot with Dent firing first and Bond returning fire, but this is a myth.

[edit] Miss Taro

James Bond character
Miss Taro
Gender	Female
Role	Bond girl/Henchwoman
Affiliation	Dr. Julius No
Current status	Arrested/Unknown
Portrayed by	Zena Marshall

Miss Taro is a fictional James Bond character from the first film in the series Dr. No. She was both a Bond girl and a Henchwoman and is portrayed by Zena Marshall.

Miss Taro works at Government House in Kingston, where she is a secretary to the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Pleydell-Smith. She also works for Doctor Julius No, although it is only Bond who discovers this. Bond first meets her at Government House. When she realises that Bond and Pleydell-Smith are talking about Dr. No, she listens through the keyhole. Bond then decides, with Miss Taro, to visit her house in the hills outside Kingston, but he doesn't know that this is in fact a trap. Bond manages to eliminate his pursuers and arrives at Miss Taro's house where she is surprised to see him.

Miss Taro then makes love with Bond to make time for Professor Dent to come and kill him. (This gives Taro the distinction of being the first Bond girl whom 007 beds during a mission - his previous romantic conquest of the film, Sylvia Trench, is not connected to the mission.) Bond then phones for a taxi to come and collect them for dinner. Miss Taro gets in and it is revealed to be not a taxi but a police car. Miss Taro is presumably arrested, and Bond stays in the house waiting for the Professor, whom he later kills.