 The blond assassin Red Grant provided a template for a number of  blond European henchmen that would proliferate the James Bond series  in later movies such as Hans in _You Only Live Twice (1967)_ (qv);  Erich Kriegler in _For Your Eyes Only (1981)_ (qv); Venz in  _View to a Kill, A (1985)_ (qv); Necros in  _Living Daylights, The (1987)_ (qv); and Stamper in  _Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)_ (qv).