George Lazenby
Acting
Born 1939-09-05
Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia
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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get the role included, spending his last pounds on acquiring a tailor-made suit from Sean Connery's tailor, which was originally made for Connery, along with purchasing a very Bondish-looking Rolex watch, and an Aston Martin DB5 car, the Bond car at the time.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.
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Diagnosis: Murder
Hawaii Five-O
Hotel
The Pretender
Batman Beyond
Omnibus
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Freddy's Nightmares
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Superboy
The Master
Gettysburg
The Kentucky Fried Movie
Batman Beyond: The Movie
Twin Sitters
Emmanuelle Forever
Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend
Saint Jack
The Man from Hong Kong
Death Dimension
Everything or Nothing
Emmanuelle's Revenge
Emmanuelle's Love
Emmanuelle's Perfume
Emmanuelle's Magic
Winter Break
Not Quite Hollywood
Real Men
Never Too Young to Die
Hell Hunters
And the Winner Isn't
Spider's Web
The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair
The Order
Four Dogs Playing Poker
Evening in Byzantium
Who Saw Her Die?
Cover Girls
Stoner
Becoming Bond
Mundije
Death Game
The Grand Knockout Tournament
Emmanuelle's Secret
Best Ever Bond
A Queen's Ransom
Hunter
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross
Master Ninja II
Kung Fu Killers
The Secrets of 007
Heiße Ware aus Hong Kong
Emmanuelle in Venice
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