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Baron Samedi

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A list of henchman from the 1954 James Bond novel and 1973 film Live and Let Die from the List of James Bond henchmen.

Tee Hee Johnson is a fictional character in the James Bond novel and film Live and Let Die. In the film he was portrayed by Julius Harris. Tee Hee's name is derived from his tendency to chuckle and snicker to himself very often for little or no reason. As Bond states when he first meets the man: "Funny how the least little thing amuses him."

In the film, Tee Hee works for Mr. Big and has a metal arm, replacing one which was bitten off by a crocodile named Albert. He appears to be either a chief bodyguard or right hand man of Kananga, as he appears in almost all of his employer's scenes regardless of which identity his employer is currently assuming. In his first meeting of Bond at a Fillet of Soul restaurant in Harlem, New York City, Tee Hee is informed that Bond is armed by Solitaire, disarms him and, in a demonstration of his formidable hook, bends Bond's gun nearly double. Later on San Monique, he calls to inform his boss's subordinates that 007 and Solitaire have been found on the island. In the French Quarter in New Orleans Tee Hee is present in Mr. Big's private office below another Fillet of Soul and offers Bond a chair rigged with handcuffs on the armrests to sit down in and activates the mechanism. When James Bond is questioned about the state of Solitaire's virginity, Tee Hee threatens to snip off 007's right little finger and then knocks the secret agent out so that he can be taken to Kananga's crocodile farm where he would intended to be eaten. In their next meeting when Bond awakens at the farm, Tee Hee gives 007 a tour of Dr. Kananga's heroin processing lab and, macabre information about the crocodiles as well. He then strands Bond on a tiny island surrounded by crocodiles and alligators, but Bond escapes by using the backs of the alligators as stepping stones. Bond then sets fire to the laboratory Tee Hee was overseeing. As Bond escapes in a speedboat, Tee Hee orders fellow henchman Adam to go after 007 by car. After Bond foils Mr. Big's plot, Tee Hee returns to attempt revenge. The metal-armed man sneaks aboard a train on which Bond and Solitaire are traveling on and kills the electricity to the pair's cabin. During a fight with Tee Hee, Bond disables his artificial arm by cutting the wires which control the hook with nail clippers. Bond then throws Tee Hee out of the window of a moving train, leaving his metal arm still attached to the window ledge. Bond later throws the metal arm off the train to continue sleeping with Solitaire.

In the novel, Tee Hee is an imposing African-American gangster with two normal human arms and normal human abilities. He is killed early in the story when Bond kicks him over a railing and he falls down a stairwell. Tee Hee had previously broken the little finger of Bond's left hand on Mr. Big's orders—giggling as he did so—after Bond was captured in Mr. Big's Harlem nightclub.

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