"Red" Grant is a fictional character in the James Bond novel and film From Russia With Love. In the film, Grant is a henchman for the villain Rosa Klebb. Red Grant is played by actor Robert Shaw.
Film bio
Red Grant, aka Donald Grant, works for S.P.E.C.T.R.E. and is assigned the task of assassinating James Bond to avenge the death of Dr. Julius No. The pre-title sequence in From Russia With Love shows Bond and Grant searching for one another where in the end Grant kills Bond only to have a mask removed to reveal that the person is not Bond and that the whole thing was a training mission for Grant.
Although it's Grant's mission to kill Bond, the early part of the film shows Grant taking on the role of Bond's protector to ensure Bond delivered the Lektor encoding device. Grant is killed when Bond outsmarts him with the use of Q-branch's attaché case .
Novel bio
In the novel, From Russia With Love, Red Grant is SMERSH's Chief executioner. Born Donovan Grant, his mother was Irish and his father was German. During World War II, Grant defected from the British to the Soviets after being disgraced for cheating in a boxing match.
