Mr. Janni was a criminal operative of the secretive criminal organisation, SPECTRE, and one of Emilio Largo’s top henchmen in the Bahamas, the other being Vargas, which he is rarely seen without. A supporting antagonist portrayed by the late British actor, Michael Brennan, he appeared in the 1965 James Bond film, Thunderball.
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Janni is first introduced to James Bond during his visit to Largo's villa at Palmyra.
A few days later he kidnaps Bond's assistant Paula Caplan at their Nassau hotel suite with the help of Vargas and Fiona Volpe.
While leaving for the Junkanoo festival, Bond opens the door to come face-to-face with Vargas and Janni. Slamming the door shut, he turns to find Volpe holding a gun on him. She lets them in and they take him captive. As they sit in traffic Bond improvises a distraction by knocking an intoxicated reveler's liquor over the car's interior and igniting it with Volpe's cigarette lighter. He flees the burning vehicle into the Junkanoo crowds, pursued by Volpe and her men. Shot in the ankle, Bond inadvertently leaves a blood trail which leads them to the Kiss Kiss Club, where 007 attempts to mix in with the dancers. Volpe approaches Bond as he is dancing with another woman. Assuming Volpe is his wife, the woman abruptly leaves, and the pair begin slow-dancing. As they dance another henchmen takes aim at Bond from behind a nearby curtain. Bond notices in time and spins Volpe into the path of the bullet, piercing her spine and killing her instantly. Witnessing the death of their superior, Janni and the remaining villains flee.
Janni's ultimate fate is unknown. He may have participated in the final skirmish between Largo's remaining soldiers and the American troops sent to combat them; if he was engaged in this conflict, he was almost certainly captured or killed. However One scene shows the scuba diver about the same build as Janni who is wounded in the wrist by a harpoon spear; as he is not shown being captured he is presumed to have died.
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