Sir August De Wynter

Sir August De Wynter is the main antagonist in the 1998 film The Avengers.

He is portrayed by Sean Connery.

Film
The ministry, determined to find the real culprit of the Prospero Project, an attempt to influence the weather. Sends agents,John Steed and Emma Peel to investigate.They pay Sir August a visit,who immediately takes a liking to Emma Peel. Next they follow a lead to Wonderland Weather.Where Sir August kills 2 of his employees.They discover too,there's a clone of Emma.Steed and Emma go off to visit De Wynter at his mansion - but are attacked by mechanical bees. They manage to flee, helped out by Alice, a Ministry agent. Emma is captured by De Wynter, and tries to escape, but finds herself perplexed by the mansion's ever-changing floor plan. She smashes her way through a window, and Steed rescues her. Back at Steed's apartment, however, Mrs Peel is arrested by Father, as Steed visits Invisible Jones,a man inside The Ministry, to investigate the meaning of a map Steed found at Wonderland Weather. Steed determines Father is working with De Wynter after viewing some photos of failed genetic experiments. Father and the Mrs Peel double (from here called Evil Peel) capture Mrs Peel, but are confronted by Mother, who is incapacitated. De Wynter - controlling Prospero and the weather - confronts the world's leaders, boasting that 'weather is not in God's hands, but in mine' and they will buy the weather from him, they will pay a lot for it, and they have got until midnight to pay up. Father and Evil Peel take Emma to a hot air balloon, where Emma escapes during a snowstorm. Father and Evil Peel perish in an explosion. Invisible Jones determines De Wynter is using the Prospero instruments on a secret island. Emma and Steed arrive at the island. Emma defuses the Prospero device just as a hurricane forms over London. Steed duels De Wynter and eventually stabs him with his own cane. This serves as a conductor and soon enough, De Wynter is struck by a bolt of lightning and disintegrated.