Oddjob
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Status: Complete
Name: Oddjob
Actor: Harold Sakata
Age: Mid 30's
Weight: 284 lbs[1]
Height: 5'8"'
Info: A mysterious silent Asian man with a metal rimmed razor hat. This iconic henchman of Goldfinger easily manhandles Bond and seems unfazed by Bond's attempts at hand to hand combat.
Detailed Biography
Oddjob acts as Goldfinger's personal chauffeur, bodyguard and golf caddy in the film. He is extremely strong and durable, demonstrating his strength in a number of scenes, including one where he crushes a golf ball with his bare hand, and later is struck with a thrown gold brick in the chest with scarcely a flinch. He is expert at unarmed combat, but also uses a silenced pistol on a mobster. He wears what appears to be a flat-topped top hat lined with a metal razor disk in the rim, using it as a lethal flying disc of sorts (this is a bowler hat in the novel, see below). Physically, Oddjob is completely invincible to Bond's hand-to-hand combat tactics, even when Bond uses a wooden object as a club. The only time Oddjob shows anything resembling fear or wariness in the film is when Bond is about the use the hat against him. Bond misses him with the throw, causing his hat to go into metal bars in the Fort Knox vault.
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Oddjob is then outmaneuvered when, as he reaches to retrieve his hat, Bond uses a severed live electrical cable to electrify the bars, causing a deadly current to run from the bars through the metal hat to Oddjob, killing him.
The novel
Oddjob, so named by Goldfinger, is Korean-born, and, much like in the film, is extremely strong, proven in one sequence where he breaks the railing of a staircase with his hand and the mantle of a fireplace with his foot. Expert at unarmed combat, Oddjob is also expert with a bow and arrow, and with his metal derby hat. He is a ruthless killer, but also acts as Goldfinger's personal guard, driver, and manservant (though not his golf caddy). He has a taste for cats as food, apparently acquired in Korea when food was in short supply (Bond frames Goldfinger's yellow cat for destruction of surveillance film, and as punishment, sees the cat given to Oddjob for dinner). Oddjob has a cleft palate and thus cannot speak reasonably intelligible English, although he appears to understand it. He is killed when Bond uses a knife to shatter the window next to his seat on an airplane, which depressurises the plane and sucks Oddjob out of the window, a fate transferred to Auric Goldfinger in the film version.
Attribution:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddjob
http://www.mi6.co.uk/sections/villains/odd_job.php3
