Henry Gupta

Henry Gupta is a villain in the 1997 James Bond movie, Tomorrow Never Dies.

He was played by Ricky Jay.

American techno terrorist and henchman of Elliot Carver, media baron and main villain. Carver sends Gupta to a terrorist arms bazaar to buy an american military GPS encoder. Using the encoder, he meacons the GPS signal sending the british frigate HMS Devonshire off-course into South China Sea, Carver's stealth ship sends a sea drill into the Devonshire and gets one of the ship's missiles. Then Carver's goons shoot down a chinese J-7 fighter and the survivors of the Devonshire using chinese weapons. Later in the movie, he shows Carver that his wife has betrayed him and Carver sends Dr. Kaufman, assassin and villain, to kill her and 007 as well. Close to the end of the movie, 007 sneaks aboard Carver's stealth ship and takes Gupta hostage. Carver asks if the missile is ready to be fired and Gupta says yes and then Carver shoots Gupta and kills him seeing Gupta as nolonger useful to him.