Red Grant was added to the Istanbul scenes just prior to the film crew's trip to Turkey – a change that brought more focus to the SPECTRE plot, as Grant started saving Bond's life there (a late change during shooting involved Grant killing the bespectacled spy at Hagia Sophia instead of Bond, who ends up just finding the man dead).
Oddjob was a memorable henchman in Goldfinger, as were Jaws (The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker) and Red Grant (From Russia with Love).
Bond is followed from the airport by the Russians and by Red Grant.
Bond's killer is to be SMERSH executioner Red Grant, a psychopath whose homicidal urges coincide with the full moon.
Joe Robinson was a strong contender for the role of Red Grant but it was given to Robert Shaw.
Young Bond author Charlie Higson finds Red Grant to be "a very modern villain: the relentless, remorseless psycho with the cold dead eyes of a 'drowned man'".
Cons Lambie 4. Scotland: S Maitland; T Seymour (M Evans, 65), N De Luca, D Taylor, S Lamont; R Jackson (D Weir, 56), G Laidlaw (capt) (C Cusiter, 59); A Dickinson (R Grant, 56), R Ford (S Lawson, 56), M Low, R Gray J Grayy 62), J Hamilton, A Strokosch, J Barclay (J Beattie, 65), D Denton.
Scotland: R Jackson, S Lamont, R Vernon (M Scott, 61), P Horne, T Visser, G Tonks, H Pyrgos (capt, S Hidalgo-Clyne, 66); R Grant (G Reid, 44), F Brown (R Ford, 52), J Welsh (M Cusack 46), J Hamilton (R Harley, 56), G Gilchrist, B Cowan (J Barclay 58), H Blake, D Denton.
Glasgow: S Hogg, S Maitland, S Lamont, A Dunbar, DTH Van der Merwe, P Horne, N Matawalu, R Grant, P MacArthur, J Welsh, T Swinson, A Kellock (capt), J Strauss, J Barclay, R Wilson.
Replacements: Nathan for Aramburu (60), Wight for Weir (60), Reid for R Grant (67), MacArthur for Hall (60), Low for Cusack (51), Verbakel for Campbell (41), Beattie for Forrester (62).
Regardless of which data you go with (Berg advised ScienceInsider to stick with the figures from NIH), the number of investigators fell by hundreds last year, or by 2.7% for R01 equivalents or 3.8% using Berg's R grant data.
