Anatoly Gogol

The KGB chief who would rather work with Bond than fight him.

Anatoly Gogol is the head of the KGB in the James Bond films from The Spy Who Loved Me to A View to a Kill, played by Walter Gotell.

Quick Facts

Organisation: KGB
Played by: Walter Gotell
Successor: Leonid Pushkin

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Background

Gogol heads the KGB across five films, from The Spy Who Loved Me through Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy to A View to a Kill. By The Living Daylights, his last appearance, he has moved to the Foreign Service as a post-Glasnost envoy, and General Leonid Pushkin has taken over the KGB. That film's end credits call him "Anatol", whereas M had called him Alexis in The Spy Who Loved Me.

Walter Gotell, who had been the SPECTRE henchman Morzeny in From Russia with Love, plays him as a pragmatist. He frequently makes common cause with Bond to prevent war with the West, an aim his comrades do not always share: in Octopussy he argues against General Orlov's reckless plan of military conquest and exposes Orlov's theft of priceless jewels from the Kremlin.

He acts as an enemy only in For Your Eyes Only and A View to a Kill, and even there behaves more like a respectful competitor, objecting in particular to Max Zorin's methods. Eva Rueber-Staier plays his secretary Miss Rublevitch, a Soviet counterpart of sorts to Miss Moneypenny.