George Lazenby

George Samuel Lazenby Sr. (born September 5, 1939) is an Australian actor. He was born in Queanbeyan (or Goulburn), New South Wales, Australia, and served in the Australian Army Special forces and as a military unarmed combat instructor. He moved to London in 1964, working as a car salesman and as a model, then as an actor in advertising. By 1968, he was the highest paid model in the world (it is said that in 1967, he made £40,000 directly from modelling, and £60,000 from commercials and product endorsements—equivalent to over a million pounds in 2004). His first serious acting role was as James Bond in the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). It was later rumoured that he had been "difficult to work with" in this project. According to Lazenby however, the difficulties were caused by director Peter R. Hunt refusing to talk directly to him—and this in turn was caused by Lazenby (unaware of studio politics or Hunt's sensibilities) simply being too brusque in passing on a request for Hunt's friends to clear a set before filming. Although it performed relatively poorly on release{{Fn|1}}, in part thanks to a poor publicity campaign, the movie is now considered among the best of the series by many, but not all, fans of the Bond movie series; it is one of the best regarded by fans of Ian Fleming's novels. After the movie, Lazenby's agent talked him into refusing a seven-movie contract on the grounds that the Bond character was out of touch with the times. Unsurprisingly, Lazenby describes this as the biggest mistake of his life.

Filmography

• Winter Break (Alternate title: Sheer Bliss) (2003)
• Yu Yu Hakusho: Ghost Files (2002) (TV Series) (voice)
• The James Bond That Time Forgot (2002) (TV Special)
• Spider's Web (2001)
• Four Dogs Playing Poker (2000)
• The Pretender (1999-2000) (TV Series) - recurring guest role as the hero Jarod's father Major Charles
• Batman Beyond: The Movie (1999) (TV Movie) (voice)
• Batman Beyond (1999) (TV Series) - recurring role as King (voice)
• Gut Feeling (1999)
• Eve of Destruction (Alternate title: Moments of Danger) (1998)
• The Path of The Dragon (1998)
• Fox Hunt (1996)
• Fatally Yours (1995)
• Twin Sitters (1994)
• Death By Misadventure (1993)
• Fox Hunt (1993) (Video Game)
• Emmanuelle Forever (1993)
• Emmanuelle in Venice (1993)
• Emmanuelle's Love (1993)
• Yu Yu Hakusho: Eizo Hakusho (1993) (voice)
• Gettysburg (1993)
• Emmanuelle's Magic (1992)
• Emmanuelle's Perfume (1992)
• Emmanuelle's Revenge (1992)
• Emmanuelle's Secret (1992)
• Eyes of the Beholder (1992)
• Poltergeist Report: Yuu Yuu Hakusho (1992) (TV Series) (voice)
• Superboy (1988) (TV Series) - recurring guest role as Jor-El
• Hell Hunters (1986)
• Never Too Young to Die (1986)
• The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1983) (TV Movie) - as the Bond-like character "JB"
• General Hospital (1982) (TV Series)
• Last Harem (1981)
• The Nude Bomb (1980) - cameo appearance as James Bond
• Saint Jack (1979)
• Death Dimension (Alternate title: Black Eliminator) (Alternate title: Freeze Bomb) 1978)
• Evening In Byzantium (1978) (TV Miniseries)
• Game of Death (1978) (archive fighting footage)
• Bruce Lee, The Legend (1977)
• The Newman Shame (Alternate title: The Ordeal) (1977)
• Cover Girls (1977) (TV Movie)
• The Kentucky Fried Movie (Alternate title: Hamburger Helper Movie) (1977)
• International Assassin (Alternate title: A Queen's Ransom) (1976)
• The Man From Hong Kong (Alternate title: The Dragon Flies) (1975)
• Is There Anybody There? (1975) (TV Movie)
• A Man Called Stoner (Alternate title: Stoner) (Alternate title: The Shrine of Ultimate Bliss) (1974)
• The Last Days of Bruce Lee (1973)
• Life and Legend of Bruce Lee (1973) (archive footage)
• The Child (Alternate title: Who Saw Her Die?) (1972)
• Universal Soldier (1971)
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
• Espionage in Tangiers (1966)