High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Le Chiffre (French pronunciation: , The Cypher or The Number) is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Ian Fleming`s James Bond novel Casino Royale. On screen Le Chiffre has been portrayed by Peter Lorre in the 1954 television adaptation of the novel for CBS`s Climax! 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.