Curd Jürgens Below" (1957), in which he portrayed a German U-boat commander. In 1962 he played the German general Günther Blumentritt in "The Longest Day". Later, in the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me" (1977), he played the villain Karl Stromberg, a sociopathic industrialist seeking to transform the world into an ocean paradise. His last film appearance was as Maître Legraine, beside Alain Delon and Claude Jade in the spy-thriller "Teheran 43" (1981). In English-language television he played Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in several episodes of the BBC series "Fall of Eagles" (1974) and appeared as General Vladimir in the
Karl Stromberg men, to fire their nuclear warheads at each other. Prior to this, however, Stromberg had abducted Bond's partner, the Russian agent Anya Amasova, and escaped to his city-ship, Atlantis. Bond pursues Stromberg, and after two failed attempts by Stromberg to kill him (including the use of an explosive harpoon which ran the length of a dinner table), Bond exercises his licence to kill by shooting Stromberg multiple times in the groin and chest. Atlantis is later torpedoed and sunk, giving Stromberg a burial at sea. Karl Stromberg Karl Sigmund Stromberg is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the