George Lazenby
George Lazenby was born on September 5th, 1939, in Australia. He moved to London, England in 1964, after serving in the Australian Army. Before becoming an actor, he worked as an auto mechanic, used car salesman, prestige car salesman, and as a male model, in London, England. In 1968, Lazenby was cast as "James Bond", despite his only previous acting experience being in commercials, and his only film appearance being a bit-part in a 1965 Italian-made Bond spoof. Lazenby won the role based on a screen-test fight scene, the strength of his interviews, fight skills and audition footage. A chance encounter with Bond series producer Albert R. Broccoli in a hair salon in 1966, in London, had given Lazenby his first shot at getting the role. Broccoli had made a mental note to remember Lazenby as a possible candidate at the time when he thought Lazenby looked like a Bond. The lengths Lazenby went to, to get the role included, spending his last pounds on acquiring a tailor-made suit from Sean Connery's tailor, which was originally made for Connery, along with purchasing a very Bondish-looking Rolex watch, and an Aston Martin DB5 car, the Bond car at the time. Lazenby quit the role of Bond right before the premiere of his only film, On her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), citing he would get other acting roles, and that his Bond contract, which was fourteen pages thick, was too demanding on him. In his post-Bond career, Lazenby has acted in TV movies, commercials, various recurring roles in TV series, the film series "Emmanuelle", several Bond movie spoofs, TV guest appearances, provided voice for several animated movies and series, and several Hong Kong action films, using his martial arts expertise.
83 acting credits
Acting · 83
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
Play for Today
1970
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Baywatch
1989
Hotel
1982
The Pretender
1996
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
Batman Beyond
1999
Omnibus
1967
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
1993
Freddy's Nightmares
1988
Cover Up
1984
B. J. and the Bear
1979
Superboy
1988
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969
The Master
1984
Gettysburg
1993
The Man from Hong Kong
1975
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Batman Beyond: The Movie
1999
The Kentucky Fried Movie
1977
And the Winner Isn't
2017
Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend
1973
Twin Sitters
1994
Not Quite Hollywood
2008
A Winter Rose
2016
Stoner
1974
Master Ninja II
1984
Emmanuelle Forever
1993
Emmanuelle's Revenge
1993
The Grand Knockout Tournament
1987
Evening in Byzantium
1978
Never Too Young to Die
1986
Spider's Web
2002
Best Ever Bond
2002
Emmanuelle in Venice
1993
Emmanuelle's Perfume
1993
In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross
1995
Saint Jack
1979
Emmanuelle's Magic
1993
Emmanuelle's Love
1993
Death Dimension
1978
A Queen's Ransom
1976
Last Harem
1981
Winter Break
2003
Heiße Ware aus Hong Kong
1973
Everything or Nothing
2012
The Order
2016
The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair
1983
Emmanuelle's Secret
1993
Who Saw Her Die?
1972
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
2012
Evening in Byzantium
1978
Four Dogs Playing Poker
2000
The Path of the Dragon
1998
Mundije
2025
Death by Misadventure: The Mysterious Life of Bruce Lee
1993
The Secrets of 007
1997
Fox Hunt
1996
Becoming Bond
2017
Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist
1998
Real Men
2019
Kung Fu Killers
1974
Legacy of the Dragon
2001
Eyes of the Beholder
1992
The Evil Inside Me
1993
Hell Hunters
1988
Cover Girls
1977
Universal Soldier
1972
Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond
1987
Gut Feeling
1999
Shot On Ice
1969
Is There Anybody There?
1976
Z Dead End
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Harry Saltzman: Showman
2000
The Newman Shame
1978
Star of Jaipur
1998
Above It All
1969
Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'
2000
Swiss Movement
1969
Hunter
2015
Death Game
2017
The Operation
1973