The Consumptive Italian was a fictional unnamed man who appeared briefly in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker. He was portrayed by late British actor Alfie Bass.
Biography[]
This man, living and working in Venice crosses a bridge over one of the canals, smoking a cigarette. When looking down into the canal, he sees a black coffin swimming on the surface. He starts to cough, and throws his cigarette into the canal.
The coffin was in the canal due to Drax' henchmen hitting the bridge with their funeral boat, losing the coffin in the progress.