Cackling and gurning like a pantomime dame, Geoffrey Holder’s voodoo heavy from Live and Let Die may have been a supernatural entity capable of rising from the dead. But that didn’t stop Roger Moore’s Bond vanquishing him with comical ease, simply by fending off his terpsichorean advances and pushing him into his own reptile-filled coffin.

Trinidad-born dancer and choreographer Holder was scared to death of snakes and loathed working with them. Because his demise was shot on the day that Princess Alexandra visited the set, though, he went ahead with the stunt rather than lose face in front of royalty.