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# George Lazenby

Actor. Born 5 September 1939 in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 5 September 1939, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia
- **Also known as:** George Robert Lazenby
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lazenby, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205599, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0493872/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10167

## Fi1m on George Lazenby

> George Lazenby played James Bond once. He could not deliver a line, and he fought, moved and, in the last half hour, felt the part as few have. The film is among the best in the series, and by the end he is part of why.

Watch the hotel bedroom brawl early in *On Her Majesty's Secret Service* (1969). Bond and a heavy put each other through the furniture, the plaster cracks, and the man doing it plainly means it; it is rougher than anything Sean Connery did. George Lazenby had never carried a film, and it shows the moment he stops hitting people and starts talking. He looks the part and moves well, and his voice goes flat, and Richard Maibaum's screenplay gives him a great deal to say. For twenty minutes in the middle, while Bond poses as the genealogist Sir Hilary Bray, the film takes his voice away and gives it to George Baker, who plays the real Bray. We know of no other Bond film that has trusted its star less.

He came to it from nowhere. A mechanic, then a car salesman, then a model, he moved to London in 1964 and was cast in 1969 off a screen test, with no film acting behind him. Peter R. Hunt, directing for the first time, went back to Fleming's novel and kept a Bond who falls in love and means it, which is a lot to ask of a first-timer. Lazenby then declined a multi-film contract before the film opened. What followed was a working actor's career rather than a star's: *Universal Soldier* (1971), which he had a hand in writing, the Italian thriller *Who Saw Her Die?* (1972), *The Man from Hong Kong* (1975), a supporting part in *Gettysburg* (1993), voice work in *Batman Beyond* (1999). We have not reviewed them, and none has followed him about the way the one film has. He retired in 2024.

So the case rests on one performance, and it is odder than its reputation. Diana Rigg's Tracy is better than Lazenby in every scene they share, and instead of sinking him she carries him. Gabriele Ferzetti's Draco plays the marriage negotiation as comedy with the worry underneath it real. At Draco's birthday party, with John Barry's *We Have All the Time in the World* coming in underneath, we stopped keeping score against Connery and started watching the man, because his lack of assurance had begun to look like Bond's rather than his own. The last half hour, which we will not describe, needs a Bond who does not quite know how to behave, and Lazenby, who did not, gives it one.

That is the honest account: a limited actor in the one part where the limits helped. We would not send anyone to his other films for him. We would send them to this one, with patience for the flat middle, because the ending got at us as no other Bond film has, and it could not have done so with a smoother man in the suit. Lazenby said later, "I’m glad I didn’t do another one. I didn’t want to be known as James Bond." He is known as nothing else, and once turned out to be enough.

## Biography

George Lazenby is an Australian actor. Born on 5 September 1939 in Goulburn, New South Wales, he began his professional career as a model and in television commercials before being cast as James Bond in *On Her Majesty's Secret Service* (1969).

He declined to return for subsequent Bond films. His later credits include *Universal Soldier* (1971), *The Man from Hong Kong* (1975), *Gettysburg* (1993) and voice work in *Batman Beyond* (1999). He retired from acting in 2024.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *On Her Majesty's Secret Service* (1969), Fi1m 83, as James Bond — [page](https://film.one/film/on-her-majestys-secret-service.md)

## Complete filmography (59)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Mundije* (2025), as US President
- *Death Game* (2017), as General Bullmount
- *A Winter Rose* (2016), as Henry
- *The Order* (2016), as Peters
- *Hunter* (2015), as General Bullmount
- *Winter Break* (2003), as Campbell Grady
- *Spider's Web* (2002), as Leland De Winter
- *Four Dogs Playing Poker* (2000), as Carlo
- *Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'* (2000), Acting
- *Batman Beyond* (1999), series, as King (voice)
- *Batman Beyond: The Movie* (1999), as King (voice)
- *Gut Feeling* (1999), Acting
- *Star of Jaipur* (1998), as John Steele
- *The Pretender* (1996), series, as Major Charles
- *E! True Hollywood Story* (1996), series, Acting
- *Fox Hunt* (1996), as Chauncy
- *Twin Sitters* (1994), as Leland Stromm
- *Diagnosis: Murder* (1993), series, as Vince Thatcher
- *Gettysburg* (1993), as Brig. Gen. J. Johnston Pettigrew
- *Emmanuelle's Secret* (1993), as Mario
- *Emmanuelle's Perfume* (1993), as Mario
- *Emmanuelle's Magic* (1993), as Mario
- *Emmanuelle's Love* (1993), as Mario
- *Emmanuelle in Venice* (1993), as Mario
- *Emmanuelle's Revenge* (1993), as Mario
- *Emmanuelle Forever* (1993), as Mario
- *Kung Fu: The Legend Continues* (1993), series, as Chi'Ru Master
- *The Evil Inside Me* (1993), as Grandinetti
- *Eyes of the Beholder* (1992), as Jack Wyman
- *Baywatch* (1989), series, Acting
- *Freddy's Nightmares* (1988), series, as Dr. Clark
- *Superboy* (1988), series, as Jor-El
- *Hell Hunters* (1988), as Heinrich
- *Never Too Young to Die* (1986), as Drew Stargrove
- *The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1985), series, as James
- *Cover Up* (1984), series, Acting
- *The Master* (1984), series, as Mallory
- *Master Ninja II* (1984), as Mallory
- *The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair* (1983), as J.B.
- *Hotel* (1982), series, as Emmett Saunders
- *Last Harem* (1981), as Prince Almalarik
- *Saint Jack* (1979), as Senator
- *B. J. and the Bear* (1979), series, Acting
- *Evening in Byzantium* (1978), series, as Roger Tory
- *Death Dimension* (1978), as Capt. Gallagher
- *The Newman Shame* (1978), as John Brandy
- *The Kentucky Fried Movie* (1977), as The Architect (segment "That's Armageddon")
- *Cover Girls* (1977), as Michael
- *A Queen's Ransom* (1976), as Morgan
- *Is There Anybody There?* (1976), as John Hersey
- *The Man from Hong Kong* (1975), as Wilton
- *Stoner* (1974), as Joseph Stoner
- *The Operation* (1973), as David Adler
- *Who Saw Her Die?* (1972), as Franco Serpieri
- *Universal Soldier* (1972), as Ryker
- *Play for Today* (1970), series, as David Adler
- *On Her Majesty's Secret Service* (1969), as James Bond — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/on-her-majestys-secret-service.md)
- *Hawaii Five-O* (1969), series, as John Cossett
- *Z Dead End*, as US President

## Gallery

- ![Volkswagen brochure used by George Lazenby. (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/1026025/gallery-718ad56f8f87.jpg) Volkswagen brochure used by George Lazenby. (2014) — Fitzy3445, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Close_up_321.JPG/1280px-Close_up_321.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Actor George Lazenby at the November 2008 Big Apple Convention in Manhattan.](https://film.one/media/person/1026025/gallery-87807e1db32e.jpg) Actor George Lazenby at the November 2008 Big Apple Convention in Manhattan. — Luigi Novi, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/GeorgeLazenby11.14.08ByLuigiNovi.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Actor George Lazenby at the November 2008 Big Apple Convention in Manhattan. This photo was created by Luigi Novi. It is not in the public domain, and use of th](https://film.one/media/person/1026025/gallery-8288ab94417c.jpg) Actor George Lazenby at the November 2008 Big Apple Convention in Manhattan. This photo was created by Luigi Novi. It is not in the public domain, and use of th — Luigi Novi, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/GeorgeLazenby11.14.08ByLuigiNovi2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Actor George Lazenby at the November 2008 Big Apple Convention in Manhattan. (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/1026025/gallery-cd3d907e7ddd.jpg) Actor George Lazenby at the November 2008 Big Apple Convention in Manhattan. (2024) — File:GeorgeLazenby11.14.08ByLuigiNovi.jpg: Luigi Novi
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- ![George Lazenby](https://film.one/media/person/1026025/gallery-3d7f6e6e00ac.jpg) George Lazenby — Image via TMDB
- ![George Lazenby](https://film.one/media/person/1026025/gallery-810e774ebba1.jpg) George Lazenby — Image via TMDB
- ![George Lazenby at the 2014 Supanova Pop Culture Expo](https://film.one/media/person/1026025/gallery-065cd6dcea2a.jpg) George Lazenby at the 2014 Supanova Pop Culture Expo — Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/George_Lazenby%2C_2014_Supanova_Pop_Culture_Expo.jpg/1280px-George_Lazenby%2C_2014_Supanova_Pop_Culture_Expo.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![From December 12, 2001 attending future wifes ( Pam Shriver ) tennis classic © copyright John Mathew Smith 2001 (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/1026025/gallery-23e055c5edd8.jpg) From December 12, 2001 attending future wifes ( Pam Shriver ) tennis classic © copyright John Mathew Smith 2001 (2010) — Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel  Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/George_Lazenby_2001.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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