Question: The star of 1990 television movie "Big Bad John" played which character in James Bond movie "Diamonds Are Forever"?
Context: "Big Bad John" is a country song originally performed by Jimmy Dean, who wrote and composed in collaboration with Roy Acuff.  Released in September 1961, by the beginning of November it went to number one on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and won Dean the 1962 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording.  The song and its sequels tell a story typical of American folklore, reminiscent of Paul Bunyan or John Henry.  "Big Bad John" was also the title of a 1990 television movie starring Dean. Ian Fleming, the writer who created the fictional character James Bond, lived to see the success of his novels depicted on screen before he died.  All fourteen books in the series created by Fleming went on to be huge successes on screen.  Goldfinger, one of the most epic stories in the James Bond saga, became a fan favorite with Shirley Bassey singing the iconic song, Goldfinger, that was played for the fiftieth anniversary of the Bond series at the Oscars in 2012.  Bond was played by Sean Connery and George Lazenby in the movies shot throughout the 60s.  The Bond movies were filmed all across the world and by different directors each time, with some of the old directors collaborating with the new ones.  The success of each Bond film lead to bigger budget prices for the following films adapted to the big screen.  Each movie recovered its budget and won critically acclaimed awards the years that they came out.  Of all the Bond films in cinema today, Thunderball is the most successful movie with the whole Bond series being the third highest grossing of all time in Hollywood cinema. Number 2 is a fictional character in the "Austin Powers" franchise.  He is played by Robert Wagner in all three movies, while his younger self is played by Rob Lowe in "".  He briefly appears as a teenager in a flashback in "Austin Powers in Goldmember", portrayed by Evan Farmer.  The character was modeled on the James Bond villain Emilio Largo who was number 2 of SPECTRE in the 1965 James Bond movie "Thunderball". Big Bad Boo is a Canadian production company that specializes in animated series for television as well as games, apps, websites and curriculum development.  Popular TV series include Mixed Nutz which aired on PBS in the US and in 30 other countries worldwide.  Big Bad Boo's second TV series "1001 Nights" is based on the "One Thousand and One Nights" book.  In 2012, Big Bad Boo won the number one spot at Mipcom Junior in the top 30 most viewed children's shows.  The same year, Big Bad Boo won the BC Export Award in the Digital Media & Entertainment category.  The BC Export Awards honor the top exporters in British Columbia. Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts, also known as Doug Clark and his Hot Nuts, The Hot Nuts and, since the death of Doug Clark in 2002, Doug Clark's Hot Nuts, is a rhythm and blues, rock and novelty band that has played party and club dates for more than fifty years.  Starting in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, they became famous on the college circuit in the southeastern United States in the early 1960s for their "risqué" song lyrics and jokes, and for allegedly performing in various states of undress.  Their signature song was "Hot Nuts".  Other songs that they were known by included: "My Ding-a-Ling", "Big Jugs" (based on "Big Bad John"), "He's Got the Whole World by the Balls", "Baby Let Me Bang Your Box", "The Bearded Clam (is a delicacy that won't be found in the deep blue sea)", "Gay Caballero" and "Two Old Maids".  It has been said that the Hot Nuts were the inspiration for the Otis Day and the Knights group in the movie "Animal House".  Their first album had a picture of the band on the cover, with Doug Clark "flipping the bird" to the audience.  All of the Hot Nuts albums were on the "Gross" label, a subsidiary of Jubilee Records created solely for the band.  Even though Jubilee published a line of "party" records with "risqué" material, the Jubilee name did not appear anywhere on the Gross albums.  Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts influenced contemporary artists such as Too Short, Ol' Dirty Bastard and Toy Tiger. SS "Canberra" was an ocean liner, which later operated on cruises, in the P&O fleet from 1961 to 1997.  She was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland at a cost of £17,000,000.  The ship was named on 17 March 1958, after the federal capital of Australia, Canberra.  She was launched on 16 March 1960, sponsored by Dame Pattie Menzies, GBE, wife of the then Prime Minister of Australia, Robert Menzies.  She entered service in May 1961, and made her maiden voyage starting in June.  She appeared in the 1971 James Bond movie "Diamonds are Forever".  In the 1982 Falklands War she served as a troop ship. Emilio Largo is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the 1961 James Bond novel "Thunderball".  He appears in the 1965 film adaptation, again as the main antagonist, with Italian actor Adolfo Celi filling the role.  Largo is also the main antagonist in the 1983 unofficial James Bond movie "Never Say Never Again", a remake of "Thunderball".  In "Never Say Never Again", the character's name, however, was changed to Maximillian Largo and he was portrayed by the Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer. The James Bond Dossier (1965), by Kingsley Amis, is a critical analysis of the James Bond novels.  Amis dedicated the book to friend and background collaborator, the poet and historian Robert Conquest.  Later, after Ian Fleming's death, Amis was commissioned as the first continuation novelist for the James Bond novel series, writing "Colonel Sun" (1968) under the pseudonym Robert Markham.  "The James Bond Dossier" was the first, formal, literary study of the James Bond character.  More recent studies of Fleming's secret agent and his world include "The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming’s Novels to the Big Screen" (2001), by the historian Jeremy Black. Live and Let Die (1973) is the eighth spy film in the "James Bond" series to be produced by Eon Productions, and the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.  Produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, it was the third of four Bond films to be directed by Guy Hamilton.  Although the producers had wanted Sean Connery to return after his role in the previous Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever", he declined, sparking a search for a new actor to play James Bond.  Moore was signed for the lead role. Jimmy Ray Dean (August 10, 1928 – June 13, 2010) was an American country music singer, television host, actor, and businessman, best known today as the creator of the Jimmy Dean sausage brand.  He became a national television personality starting on CBS in 1957.  He rose to fame for his 1961 country crossover hit "Big Bad John" and his 1963 ABC television series, "The Jimmy Dean Show", which also gave puppeteer Jim Henson his first national media exposure.  His acting career included a supporting role as Willard Whyte in the James Bond movie, "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971).  He lived near Richmond, Virginia, and was nominated for the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2010, although he was formally inducted posthumously.
Answer: Willard Whyte