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George Robert Lazenby AC (built-in September 5, 1939) is an Australian actor best known for portraying James Bond in the 1969 flick, On Her Majesty's Hole-and-corner Service.

Biography

George Lazenby was born in Goulburn, New South Wales, Commonwealth of australia. He served in the Australian Ground forces Special forces, and was a military unarmed combat instructor.

He moved to London in 1964; working as a car salesman and as a model, then as an player in advertising, by 1968, he was the highest-paid model in the world (it is said that in 1967, he fabricated £forty,000 direct from modelling, and £sixty,000 from commercials and product endorsements—equivalent to more than a million pounds in 2004); he also was the European Marlboro Man.

In the 1970s he worked in Hong Kong with Bruce Lee; a luncheon meeting with Lee and Raymond Chow to discuss a movie project collapsed with Lee's sudden death. Despite having starred in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) and The Kentucky Fried Film (1977), the combined gross earnings of which exceeded $100 million worldwide in the 1970s (so the standard establishing an player as a box office success), Lazenby's career never flourished. He then focused on business and real estate investments and ended up owning mansions in Hawaii, Brentwood, California, Australia, and a 600-acre (two.four km²) ranch estate in Valyermo, California, a pocket-size town nearly 17 miles southeast of Palmdale, California; he besides owns a portside penthouse apartment in Hong Kong, and an estate domicile in Maryland.

In 2002 he married his second married woman, one-time lawn tennis player Pam Shriver (member of the Kennedy family and fourth cousin of Maria Shriver, wife of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger). They accept three children, George, built-in on 12 July 2004, and twins Caitlin Elizabeth and Samuel Robert, built-in in October 2005. He also has an adult daughter named Melanie from his offset marriage to Christina "Chrissie" Gannett Lazenby. Lazenby also had a son with his first married woman Gannett, named Zack, who died in 1994 of brain cancer. Lazenby'southward offset wife, Christina Gannett, is heiress to the Gannett News Service publishing empire.

Today, Lazenby enjoys sailing, motorcycle racing, car racing, reading, watching movies and playing golf, and tennis.

James Bail

George Lazenby'south showtime serious acting role was as James Bond in the moving-picture show On Her Majesty's Hole-and-corner Service (1969). Lazenby is the second official actor to portray the British surreptitious agent. Information technology was rumoured that Lazenby had been "hard to piece of work with" in this project. According to Lazenby, notwithstanding, the difficulties were caused by director Peter R. Hunt, who evidently refused to talk direct to him—and this in turn was caused by Lazenby (unaware of studio politics or Hunt's sensibilities) passing on a request for Hunt's friends to clear a fix earlier filming. During the film'due south production, Lazenby's manager, Ronan O'Rahilly, 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.

Reception of Lazenby's functioning often varies profoundly, as some view him to be the quintessential James Bond while some view him equally the worst of the actors to play 007. As well, feelings about the film usually vary profoundly also. From a commercial perspective On Her Majesty's Surreptitious Service paled in comparison to the previous Bond film You Only Live Twice and the afterward Diamonds Are Forever (both featuring Connery as Bail); this has been partly attributed to a poor publicity campaign.

Disquisitional response to On Her Majesty's Cloak-and-dagger Service remains sharply divided. Many fans, maybe especially fans of Fleming'due south original novels, regard it every bit one of the best Bond films. Other critics name it every bit one of the bottom Bond films. Nevertheless it is widely considered i of the all-time and most faithful adaptations of Ian Fleming's original novels.

Lazenby was likewise approached to play Bond again in both Alive and Let Die (1973) and Never Say Never Once more (1983). The offering for Live and Let Die was not supported by the manager, nonetheless. During a Q&A session at the Sydney 2014 Supanova pop culture expo, Lazenby stated that the reason was considering he was "too hairy" at the fourth dimension. Kevin McClory considered Lazenby for his rival Bail film merely opted for Connery when he agreed to practise the film afterward initially refusing to render to the role.

Lazenby has portrayed Bond several times over the years in numerous parodies and unofficial 007 roles, most notably the 1983 TV movie The Render of the Homo from U.Northward.C.L.E. and an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, titled "Diamonds Aren't Forever".

Selected filmography

• Wintertime Break (Alternating championship: Sheer Bliss) (2003)
• Yu Yu Hakusho: Ghost Files (2002) (Television receiver Series) (vocalism)
• Spider's Spider web (2001)
• Four Dogs Playing Poker (2000)
• The Pretender (1999–2000) (TV Series) - recurring guest role as the hero Jarod's begetter Major Charles
• Batman Beyond: The Picture show (1999) (TV Movie) (phonation)
• Batman Beyond (1999) (Goggle box Series) - recurring part every bit Male monarch (voice)
• Emmanuelle Forever (1993)
• Emmanuelle in Venice (1993)
• Emmanuelle'due south Love (1993)
• Yu Yu Hakusho: Eizo Hakusho (1993) (vocalism)
• Gettysburg (1993)
• Emmanuelle'south Magic (1992)
• Emmanuelle'southward Perfume (1992)
• Emmanuelle'south Revenge (1992)
• Emmanuelle's Cloak-and-dagger (1992)
• Eyes of the Beholder (1992)
• Superboy (1988) (TV Series) - recurring invitee part as Jor-El
• Never Too Young to Die (1986)
• The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1983) (TV Movie) - every bit the Bail-similar character "JB"
• Full general Hospital (1982) (Tv Series)
• The Nude Flop (1980) - cameo advent every bit James Bond
• Decease Dimension (Alternate title: Black Eliminator) (Alternating championship: Freeze Bomb) 1978)
• Game of Expiry (1978) (archive fighting footage)
• Bruce Lee, The Legend (1977)
• The Man From Hong Kong (Alternate title: The Dragon Flies) (1975)
• The Last Days of Bruce Lee (1973)
• Life and Legend of Bruce Lee (1973) (archive footage)
• Universal Soldier (1971)
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
• Espionage in Tangiers (1966)

External links

• Lazenby page from JamesBond.com
• George Lazenby at the Internet Movie Database

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Source: https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/George_Lazenby

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