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Name Pronunciation:
Boo-va (see Trivia below)

Appears in: Thunderball

Actor:

• Rose Alba (female)
• Bob Simmons (male)

Attempted methods of killing Bond:

• throwing a dagger
• fist-fighting
• throwing furniture at him
• using a poker to beat him

How he is dispatched:
007 breaks his neck with a fire poker

Evil scheme:

• To successfully fake his own death by posing as his own widow
• To kill Bond

How plans were foiled:
Bouvar makes the mistake of opening the door for himself when getting out of a car, disguised as his widow.


Boss: Blofeld


Defining dialogue:

007: "Madame, I've come to offer my sincere condoleances. (Bond punches him) My dear Col. Bouvar, you shouldn't have opened that car door by yourself!"


Trivia:

• There's a bit of discrepancy on WHO Col. Boitier is. In the credits, he's listed as Col. Boitier (which would be pronounced "Bwa-tee-ay"). On the soundtrack, his name is said as it would be if it was spelled "Bouvoir." In addition, Sean Connery uses his first name "Jed," while Blofeld calls him "Jacques" in announcing his death ("by an unknown assassin") at the SPECTRE "board" meeting.
• Chalk it up to the blisteringly fast post-production of "Thunderball," which produced different versions (with alternate music cues), some dodgy dubbing, and more than a few continuity errors.
• He was played by Bob Simmons, the main stuntman of the earlier Bond films.