There he adopts the name Le Chiffre because as he claims, he is 'only a number on a passport'. He gained back speech capability and was transferred to Alsace-Lorraine and Strasbourg (due to some mention he made of them) three months later on a stateless passport. He is first encountered as an inmate of the Dachau displaced persons camp in the US zone of Allied-occupied Germany in June 1945, where he displayed (possibly simulated) mutism and amnesia. Number', 'Herr Ziffer' and other translations of 'The Number', 'The Numeral', 'The Figure', 'The Cipher', or 'The Code' in various languages, is the paymaster of the 'Syndicat des Ouvriers d'Alsace' (French for 'Alsatian Workmen's Union'), a SMERSH-controlled trade union. White.įleming based the character on occultist Aleister Crowley. On screen Le Chiffre has been portrayed by Peter Lorre in the 1954 television adaptation of the novel for CBS's Climax! anthology television series, by Orson Welles in the 1967 spoof of the novel and Bond film series, and by Mads Mikkelsen in the 2006 film version of Fleming's novel where he is one of two main antagonists, the other being Mr. Le Chiffre ( French:, 'The Cypher' or 'The Digit') is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Ian Fleming's 1953 novel, Casino Royale.
