George Lazenby as James Bond 007

George Lazenby

Name: George Lazenby
Date of Birth: Tuesday September 5 1939
Born: Queanbeyan (Australia)
Nationality: Australian

 Appeared as Bond in
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

Actors who played Bond (Click below for details)
Sir Sean Connery
George Lazenby
Roger Moore
Timothy Dalton
Pierce Brosnan
Daniel Craig

James Bond Actors
George Lazenby

Biography
George Lazenby is destined to be the answer to a trivia question: "Name the first actor who replaced Sean Connery as James Bond". Indeed, after Connery bowed out of the role in the late 1960s, Lazenby, then a model in Australia, was hired. He did one Bond film, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969), which did not live up to Connery's box office levels. Although asked to return in a second Bond film, Lazenby declined and has worked only sporadically since. He starred in the unsuccessful Bond spoof "Universal Soldier" (1971) and went on to play supporting roles in features like "The Man From Hong Kong" (1974), "The Kentucky Fried Movie" (1977), as an architect in the "That's Armageddon" segment, Peter Bogdanovich's "Saint Jack" (1979), as a senator, and "Gettysburg" (1993), as General J. Johnston Pettigrew, the scholarly Confederate who dies in Pickett's Charge.

On TV, Lazenby has made occasional guest appearances on series (e.g., "Hawaii Five-O") and was featured in the 1978 syndicated miniseries "Evening in Byzantium". He has had roles in two syndicated series: in the short-lived soap opera "Rituals" (1984) as the playwright Logan; and in "The Adventures of SuperBoy" (1988-92), in the recurring role of Jor-El, the hero's father.

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