Profile
George Lazenby
Actor
Male
Born
Sep 5, 1939
Age
73
Hometown
Goulburn, New Sou...
Other Names
Lazenby, George R...
George Robert Lazenby is an Australian actor and former model, best known for portraying James Bond in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
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Christina GannettMarried 1971 - 1995
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Dr. Franklin Ruehl, Ph.D.: Barry Nelson, American Actor, Was The Very First 007Huffington Post - Jan 31, 2013
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James Bond Franchise To Get An Oscar TributeMTV News - Jan 04, 2013
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Mark Juddery: The Fifth Beatle? Here's A Top 10!Huffington Post - Dec 05, 2012
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Bond A Thond: The Great, Big Wrap Up PostMTV News - Nov 21, 2012
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CHILDHOOD
1939
Birth
Born on September 5, 1939.
TEENAGE
1953
13 Years Old
Lazenby was born in Goulburn, New South Wales, at Ovada Private Hospital, to railway worker George Edward Lazenby and Sheila Joan Lazenby (née Bodel), who worked at Fosseys. He went to Bourke Street School in his primary years, and Goulburn High until either 1953 or 1954.
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TWENTIES
1968
28 Years Old
In 1968, after Sean Connery quit the role of James Bond, producer Albert R. Broccoli first met Lazenby when getting their hair cut at the same barber.
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In November 1969, prior to the release of the film, Lazenby announced that he no longer wished to play the role of James Bond. "They made me feel like I was mindless," he said about the film's producers. "They disregarded everything I suggested simply because I hadn't been in the film business like them for about a thousand years."
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THIRTIES
1971
31 Years Old
Broccoli claims that Lazenby asked for another chance to play James Bond in 1971 but the producer refused.
In 1973, Lazenby was set to work in Hong Kong with Bruce Lee.
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Lazenby was only featured with archive footage when Game of Death was finally released in 1978, after a five-year delay caused by Lee's death while it was still in production.
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FORTIES
1983
43 Years Old
Lazenby had a brief appearance in the 1983 made for television movie The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E, which his on screen character was identified only by the initials "J.B.".
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FIFTIES
1990
50 Years Old
Lazenby also made a guest appearance on the TV series Superboy, playing as an alien disguised as Jor-El, Superboy's biological father, in a two-part episode story during the show's 1990 second season.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2006
66 Years Old
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In a 2006 episode of The Daily Show, comedian John Oliver suggested that Pope Benedict XVI is the George Lazenby of the papacy, in comparison to "John Paul II's Sean Connery".
2008
68 Years Old
Lazenby later married former tennis player Pam Shriver. In August 2008, it was reported that Shriver had filed for divorce from Lazenby.
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2012
72 Years Old
Lazenby's autobiography, The Other Fella, is scheduled to be released in hardcover by Century in 2012, the year of James Bond's 50th feature film anniversary, and in paperback by Arrow in 2013.
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