In his autobiography My Word is My Bond, Roger Moore recalls Herve Villechaize, his diminutive co-star in The Man with the Golden Gun, telling actress Maud Adams he planned to come into her hotel room that night and ravish her. “Yes,” she replied, “and if I wake up to find you have done so, I’ll be very annoyed!”

Herve’s height – a mere 3’ 11’ – hardly made Nick Nack 007’s most formidable adversary; indeed, their final confrontation ends with him being scooped up inside a suitcase and hung from a yardarm. Sadly, Villechaize would eventually take his own life in 1993.