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Le Chiffre is a fictional character and the main villain in the Ian Fleming James Bond novel Casino Royale. On screen Le Chiffre has been portrayed by Peter Lorre in the 1954 television adaptation of the novel for CBS's Climax! television series, by Orson Welles in the unofficial 1967 spoof of the novel and Bond film series, and by Mads Mikkelsen in the upcoming 2006 cinematic version of Fleming's novel.

Ian Fleming is said to have based the character on the British occultist Aleister Crowley.

Le Chiffre translates as either "The Cipher" or "The Chief" depending upon the source.

Novel bio

Le Chiffre, alias "Herr Nummer", "The Number", "Herr Ziffer"; was the paymaster of the "Syndicat des Ouvriers d'Alsace", a SMERSH controlled trade union. In the novel he made a major investment in a string of brothels with money belonging to SMERSH. Later the investment went bad after a bill was signed into law banning prostitution. Le Chiffre then went to the casino Royale-les-Eaux in an attempt to recover all of his lost funds. There, however, he was prevented from obtaining this goal by James Bond who beat and bankrupted him in a series of games in Chemin de Fer. Due to his inability to pay back the money he had lost, he was subsequently killed by SMERSH.

Le Chiffre's death would later be seen by the Soviet government as an embarrassment, which in addition to the death and defeat of Mr. Big in Live and Let Die
, led to the events of From Russia with Love
. In the novel SMERSH attempts to get revenge by killing James Bond in an elaborate plot that would embarrass the British Secret Service within the intelligence community.

2006 film bio

Le Chiffre will also be the main villain of the official 2006 James Bond film, Casino Royale
. According to insider reports , he is a banker for various terrorists. Le Chiffre was supposedly beheaded by Saddam Hussein after the Gulf War over an investment gone wrong. Le Chiffre is a mathematical genius, which enables him to earn large sums of money on games of chance.

Le Chiffre works with a man named Mr. White, who may be his boss. They bank a large sum of money for Steven Obanno, a leader of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. However, Le Chiffre invests the money in a company's stock and bets that the stock will go down. A plan is set to bankrupt the company, but the plan goes wrong due to Bond's intervention, and Le Chiffre loses the money. In order to win the money back for his client, Le Chiffre sponsors a poker tournament in Montenegro in an attempt to recoup the loss.

Bond is sent to make sure that Le Chiffre doesn't win that money.

At a February 15, 2006 press conference in Prague, Director Martin Campbell announced Le Chiffre will be portrayed by Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen

Henchmen

Kratt
Alexander Dimitrios
Valenka

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