


Drax is also the backer of the 'Moonraker' missile project being built to defend the United Kingdom against its Cold War enemies. After the war, Drax made a fortune from trading metals in Tangier and was able to start up his company, Drax Metals Ltd, which specialises and has a monopoly in the production of the metal ore columbite. He has red hair, and half of his face is badly scarred from a German attack during the war. In the novel Sir Hugo Drax is an English World War II soldier, believed to have been working in Liverpool harbour before the war, who became a post-war millionaire. In both the novel and film, Drax is the main antagonist. In the film, Drax is portrayed by English/French actor Michael Lonsdale. For the later film and its novelization, Drax was greatly altered from the novel by screenwriter Christopher Wood. Sir Hugo Drax is a fictional character created by author Ian Fleming for the 1955 James Bond novel Moonraker.
