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George Lazenby (born September 5, 1939) is an
Australian acting|actor.  He was born in
Queanbeyan City (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 releaseFn|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.

In the 1970s he worked in Hong Kong with Bruce
Lee, and had a lunch appointment with Lee and
Raymond Chow to discuss a major movie project when
Lee suddenly died. Despite starring in On Her
Majesty's Secret Service (1969) and The Kentucky
Fried Movie (1977), two films that combined
grossed over $100 million worldwide in the 1970's,
the standard at that time for an actor to be
established as a bona-fide box office hit draw,
Lazenby's acting career never really took off. He
then focused more on business and real estate
investments and ended up owning mansions in,
Hawaii, Brentwood, Los Angeles, California,
Australia, and a 600 acre (2.4 km²) ranch
estate in Valyermo, California, which is a small
town located about 17 miles Southeast of Palmdale,
in Southern California. 

He also owns a port-side penthouse apartment in
Hong Kong, and previously owned a beachside home
in Pacific Palisades, California. His Pacific
Palisades home was located right on the beach,
included 1 acre (4,000 m²) of land, 1/2 an
acre (2,000 m²) of prime Southern California
beach-front property, a large swimming pool, and a
complete media room. It was located just down the
street from one of Los Angeles Lakers basketball
star Kobe Bryant's homes.

In 2002 he married his second wife, the former
tennis player Pam Shriver. The couple had their
first baby on 12 July 2004.  Today Lazenby enjoys
sailing, motorcycle racing, car racing, reading,
watching movies and playing golf and tennis. As a
former commando, expert skiing|skier, expert
martial artist with multiple black belts,
accomplished horseman, motorcycle
racing|motorcycle racer, car racer, and having the
ability to act many still consider him the
quintessential James Bond. Of course, opinion is
very much split on the matter, some considering
him the worst of the five James Bonds.

==Trivia==

* Lazenby holds the unique distinction of being
the only man to ever be both of the top two
western culture male sex status cultural icons; he
was James Bond for a brief time and the European
Marlboro Man from before he was Bond to 1970.

* Lazenby was the first non-British actor to
portay James Bond in the official Bond film
series. The second was Pierce Brosnan.


*Lazenby played "Bond" several times over the
years in spoofs and parodies, and even in straight
unofficial 007 roles. After playing Bond in the
007 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Lazenby
then spoofed the Bond role in the films Universal
Soldier 1971, Stoner (movie)|Stoner 1974, The Man
From Hong Kong 1975, A Queen's Ransom 1976, and
Death Dimension 1978. 

*Following this, he made an uncredited cameo as
Bond in the 1980 Get Smart film The Nude Bomb,
played Bond unofficially in the 1983 TV film The
Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E., spoofed Bond
again in the TV series The Master (1984), and in
the 1986 film Never Too Young To Die.

*He also played Bond in several episodes of the TV
series B.J. and The Bear in the late 1970's and
early 1980's, as well as in an episode of Alfred
Hitchock Presents, titled "Diamonds Aren't
Forever". Lazenby's roles of "J.B." and "James" in
The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E in 1983, and
Diamonds Aren't Forever in 1989, specifically
parodied the 1971 Bond film Diamonds Are Forever,
in which Lazenby was originally supposed to star
as 007.

==Filmography==
* Winter Break (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 (television)|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 (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 (movie)|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 (1978)
* Evening In Byzantium (1978) (TV Miniseries)
* Game of Death (1978) (archive fighting footage)
* Bruce Lee, The Legend (1977)
* The Newman Shame (1977)
* Cover Girls (1977)  (TV Movie)
* The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
* International Assassin (1976)
* The Man From Hong Kong (Alternate title: The
Dragon Flies) (1975)
* Is There Anybody There? (1975) (TV Movie)
* A Man Called Stoner (1974)
* The Last Days of Bruce Lee (1973)
* Life and Legend of Bruce Lee (1973) (archive
footage)
* The Child (1972)
* Universal Soldier (1971)
* On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
* Espionage in Tangiers (1966)

==External links==
*imdb name|id=0493872|name=George Lazenby
*http://jamesbond.com/mmpr/index.php?cat=bond&id=l
az Lazenby page from JamesBond.com

Fnb|1There is a persistent belief that this movie
had the poorest box office takings of any James
Bond movie, or even that it was an actual List of
movies generating losses|flop. This is not true;
it was actually one of the most successful films
released that year, and in Consumer price
index#Uses of CPI data|inflation adjusted terms it
is very close to the median performance of a Bond
film. (Nor is it the poorest even in non-adjusted
terms.) However there was a perception of poor
performance because it followed a string of three
far more successful James Bond movies, which would
later turn out to have been the economic high
point of the entire series.