Biography
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get the role included, spending his last pounds on acquiring a tailor-made suit from Sean Connery's tailor, which was originally made for Connery, along with purchasing a very Bondish-looking Rolex watch, and an Aston Martin DB5 car, the Bond car at the time.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.
Filmography (84)
Mundije
2025
Real Men
2019
Becoming Bond
2017
Death Game
2017
And the Winner Isn't
2017
The Order
2016
A Winter Rose
2016
Hunter
2015
Everything or Nothing
2012
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
2012
Not Quite Hollywood
2008
Winter Break
2003
Spider's Web
2002
Best Ever Bond
2002
Legacy of the Dragon
2001
Four Dogs Playing Poker
2000
Harry Saltzman: Showman
2000
Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'
2000
Gut Feeling
1999
Batman Beyond: The Movie
1999
Batman Beyond
1999
Star of Jaipur
1998
The Path of the Dragon
1998
Bruce Lee: The Intercepting Fist
1998
The Secrets of 007
1997
Fox Hunt
1996
The Pretender
1996
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross
1995
Twin Sitters
1994
Gettysburg
1993
Emmanuelle's Secret
1993
Emmanuelle's Revenge
1993
Emmanuelle's Magic
1993
Emmanuelle Forever
1993
Emmanuelle's Love
1993
Emmanuelle's Perfume
1993
Emmanuelle in Venice
1993
Death by Misadventure: The Mysterious Life of Bruce Lee
1993
The Evil Inside Me
1993
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
1993
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
Eyes of the Beholder
1992
Baywatch
1989
Hell Hunters
1988
Freddy's Nightmares
1988
Superboy
1988
The Grand Knockout Tournament
1987
Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond
1987
Never Too Young to Die
1986
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
Master Ninja II
1984
Cover Up
1984
The Master
1984
The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair
1983
Hotel
1982
Last Harem
1981
Saint Jack
1979
B. J. and the Bear
1979
Death Dimension
1978
The Newman Shame
1978
Evening in Byzantium
1978
Evening in Byzantium
1978
Cover Girls
1977
The Kentucky Fried Movie
1977
A Queen's Ransom
1976
Is There Anybody There?
1976
The Man from Hong Kong
1975
Stoner
1974
Kung Fu Killers
1974
Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend
1973
The Operation
1973
Heiße Ware aus Hong Kong
1973
The Last Days of Bruce Lee
1973
Universal Soldier
1972
Who Saw Her Die?
1972
Play for Today
1970
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969
Shot On Ice
1969
Swiss Movement
1969
Above It All
1969
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Omnibus
1967
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