George Robert Lazenby is an Australian actor, martial artist and former model. He is known for playing the fictional British secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, playing the character in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. At the age of 29, he was the youngest actor to have portrayed Bond and the only non-European actor to take on the role. His tenure as Bond was the shortest among the actors in the official film series and he is the series’ only Bond actor to appear in just one film.
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George Robert Lazenby is an Australian actor, martial artist and former model. He is known for playing the fictional British secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, playing the character in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. At the age of 29, he was the youngest actor to have portrayed Bond and the only non-European actor to take on the role. His tenure as Bond was the shortest among the actors in the official film series and he is the series’ only Bond actor to appear in just one film. He declined subsequent Bond films and instead pursued a career in Britain, Italy, Hong Kong, Australia, and Hollywood. His most notable works during this period included the anti-war satire Universal Soldier and the martial arts films Stoner and The Man from Hong Kong. In 2017, a Hulu docudrama film, Becoming Bond, featured Lazen by recounting his life story and portrayal as Bond. He also appeared in several films and television series, including roles which parody the James Bond character. His co-star was Diana Rigg, who was among many others in the film business for many years who was a thousand years in the business. He was voted Top Model of the Year in 1966, and was widely known for an advertisement for Fry’s chocolate bars. When he was young he spent 18 months in hospital after having an operation which left him with only half a kidney.
He moved to London in 1963 to pursue a woman with whom he’d fallen in love. He became a used-car salesman in Finchley, and subsequently sold new cars in Park Lane, where he was spotted by a talent scout who persuaded him to become a model. In 1968, after Sean Connery had left the role of James Bond, producer Albert R. Broccoli invited him to do a screen test. He dressed for the part by sporting several sartorial Bond elements such as a Rolex Submariner wristwatch and a Savile Row suit, which had been ordered, but not collected, by Connery. In July 1969, he returned home to Queanbeyan to see his parents. He said he had 18 films to consider, but it’s all commercial rubbish, as the guy at the end of the Battle of Britain. At this time he also told the press he’d love to make the next Bond film, which was to be The Golden Gun with the co-stars of The Man with the Man. But he said he didn’t think he was ready to play Ned Kelly, so he’d just have to wait and see. In November 1969, and prior to the release of On Her majesty’s Secret service, he said no longer wished to play another James Bond role, saying, ‘The producers made me feel like I was mindless. They disregarded everything I hadn’t been like for many, many years.’ He also said: ‘I don’t think I’m ready for anything like this stage, yet. I’d love anything like Hamlet’
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