James Bond character
"Red" Grant
Gender	Male
Age	Mid 30s
Affiliation	S.P.E.C.T.R.E. (film) SMERSH (novel) OCTOPUS (video game)
Current status	Terminated
Portrayed by	Robert Shaw

"Red" Grant is a fictional character in the James Bond novel and film From Russia with Love. In both, Grant is a henchman for the villain Rosa Klebb. Red Grant is played by actor Robert Shaw. The James Bond 007 gun logo James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced double-oh seven), is a fictional British spy created by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. ... Image File history File links Rgrant. ... The shield and spear of the Roman God Mars are often used to represent the male sex In heterogamous species, male is the sex of an organism, or of a part of an organism, which typically produces smaller, mobile gametes (spermatozoa) that are able to fertilise female gametes (ova). ... S.P.E.C.T.R.E.s leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld The SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion (S.P.E.C.T.R.E.) is a fictional terrorist organization led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. ... SMERSH (in capitalised letters) is a Soviet counterintelligence agency that was featured in Ian Flemings early James Bond novels and films as 007s nemesis. ... Robert Shaw as Quint in Jaws. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... The James Bond 007 gun logo James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced double-oh seven), is a fictional British spy created by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. ... A 2002 Penguin Books paperback edition From Russia with Love, published in 1957, is the fifth James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming. ... The James Bond novels and films are notable for their memorably despicable villains and henchmen. ... The SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion (S.P.E.C.T.R.E.) is a fictional terrorist organization led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. ... Robert Shaw as Quint in Jaws. ...

Novel bio

In the novel, From Russia with Love, Red Grant is SMERSH's Chief executioner. He was born Donovan Grant in Ireland, to an Irish mother and is the illegitimate son of "The Mighty O'Donovan", a German who is involved with an international circus group. Shortly after birth, his mother died. SMERSH (in capitalised letters) is a Soviet counterintelligence agency that was featured in Ian Flemings early James Bond novels and films as 007s nemesis. ...

Red Grant becomes a killer at an early age, his urges to kill coinciding with the full moon. After World War II, he is called up for National Service and is posted to Berlin as a soldier with the British Army. He defects to the Soviets after being disgraced for cheating in a boxing match. Grant enjoys killing people, and the Russians train him to become their Chief Executioner. Grant is shot by Bond during an encounter on the Orient Express. Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead:17 million Civilian dead:33 million Total dead:50 million Military dead:8 million Civilian dead:4 million Total dead:12 million World War II... National service describes a form of military service in which all citizens (or all male citizens) of one particular nation can participate, either voluntarily or (more often) non-voluntarily. ... Berlin is the capital city and a single state of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... Soviet redirects here. ...

Trivia

• Red Grant's father is referenced in Charlie Higson's Young Bond book SilverFin, while Bond is in attendance at a circus.

Charlie Higson (born, 1958) is a British television writer, actor, an author, and a comedy performer. ... Illustration of a young James Bond by Kev Walker Young Bond is a series of novels featuring Ian Flemings superspy James Bond as a young teenage boy attending school at Eton College. ... SilverFin is the first novel in the Young Bond series that depicts Ian Flemings superspy James Bond as a teenager in the 1930s. ...

Film bio

Red Grant, aka Donald Grant, works for S.P.E.C.T.R.E. and is assigned the task of assassinating James Bond to avenge the death of Dr. Julius No. The pre-title sequence in From Russia with Love shows Bond and Grant searching for one another. In the end Grant kills Bond, before a mask is removed from "Bond's" face to reveal that the whole thing was a training mission for Grant. S.P.E.C.T.R.E.s leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld The SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion (S.P.E.C.T.R.E.) is a fictional terrorist organization led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld. ... Dr. Julius No is a fictional character in the James Bond film and novel Dr. No. ...

Grant is described as being a homicidal maniac, who escaped from Dartmoor prison (where he was presumably incarcerated for Life) and was recruited by SPECTRE in Tangier, whilst on the run from the law. He has been intensively trained by the organisation and when not on a mission, he is resident on SPECTRE Island (Location unknown) Dartmoor is a National Park in the centre of the English county of Devon. ... Tangier, Morocco Tangier (Tanja طنچة in Berber and Arabic, Tánger in Spanish, and Tanger in French), is a city of northern Morocco with a population of 669,685 (2004 census). ...

Although it's Grant's mission to kill Bond, the early part of the film shows Grant taking on the role of Bond's protector to ensure Bond delivers (unknowingly) the Lektor encoding device into S.P.E.C.T.R.E.'s hands. Grant is killed on the Orient Express when Bond outsmarts him with the use of Q-branch's attaché case, and strangles Grant with his own garotte. A typical briefcase. ...

Trivia

• Donald 'Red' Grant shares his real name (although not his nickname) with a real traitor, Donald Grant, who was a vacuum-cleaner salesman and member of the British Union of Fascists from Easter Ross. At the outbreak of war in 1939 this Donald Grant was in Germany and was employed by the Nazis to broadcast to Scotland as 'Radio Caledonia' with the aim of increasing disaffection.

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Game bio

In the computer game based on the novel and film, Red Grant is the chief enforcer for the terrorist organization codenamed OCTOPUS. He has a female assistant named Eva. Grant does most of OCTOPUS' dirty work, but his primary mission is to acquire the Lektor decoding device and kill Bond. He catches up with Bond on the Orient Express, and survives the confrontation unbeknownst to Bond. During the final assault on OCTOPUS headquarters, he uses a spider-like machine to attack Bond again, but this time he is killed, where Bond kills him with a Wright Magnum after grant pulls out a ppk. From Russia with Love is a video game featuring Ian Flemings secret agent, James Bond developed by Electronic Arts and released on November 1, 2005 in North America. ...