Perhaps -- if he'd shaved and worn a hairpiece, he'd fit Fleming's description of Blofeld at the time of Thunderball perfectly; however, Werich certainly seemed menacing to me -- he seemed to be giving a damn effective stare in the shots I used, and even if it didn't really come across, Pohlmann's vocals certainly would have sealed the deal, just as they'd made Anthony Dawson's hands stroking a cat come across as the epitome of evil.On the Blofeld's Hair thread, I've asked the question whether the film makers ever considered casting Eric Pohlmann himself as Blofeld. He spoke good English but with a suitably foreign sounding accent, and I don't think it would have taken much to give him the right appearance as the villain. And it would have provided continuity - audiences finally putting a face to the voice.
Unfortunately, EON did not often give their voice-over artists the chance to make appearances in front of the camera; in only two of the films, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Diamonds Are Forever, did a V/O actor (in the first, Robert Rietty; in the second, David de Keyser) get a chance for a small role onscreen -- and the former was only because the director, Peter Hunt, was the former editor on the Bond films, and so probably appreciated the work men like Rietty (as well as women like Nikki van der Zyl and Barbara Jefford) did in helping shape the final cut, especially when the order of certain scenes had to be radically reshuffled at the eleventh hour, as in the case of From Russia with Love.
Aside from the men who worked with and truly appreciated the talent of dub artists, the EON producers, sadly, probably didn't give Pohlmann's role in shaping Blofeld a second thought... or even a first.
