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George Lazenby
George Robert Lazenby is a retired Australian actor. He began his professional career as a model and an actor in commercials. He had no film acting experience when he was cast as the fictional British spy James Bond for the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). Lazenby replaced the original Bond actor, Sean Connery, but declined to return for subsequent films in the series, instead pursuing…
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entertainment · Australian retired actor (born 1939) · actor · model · film actor · screenwriter · television actor · also George Lazenby, George Robert Lazenby, Lazenby
Born 5 September 1939 · Q205599
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
His ex-wife Pam Shriver revealed that Lazenby has dementia and that she is caring for him
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2024· 3 entries
The Guardian: ‘It’s been a fun ride’: former Bond George Lazenby announces retirement at 84
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The Guardian: George Lazenby backs Aaron Taylor-Johnson for Bond
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Lazenby announced his retirement from acting and public appearances
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2023· 1 entry
In late 2023, Lazenby was injured in a fall and he was briefly hospitalised.
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2017· 2 entries
The Guardian: Becoming Bond trailer: how George Lazenby landed the role of 007 – video
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The Guardian: George Lazenby on Bond, sex and the 60s: 'They had the pill … I was a handsome guy'
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: Former James Bond actor George Lazenby backs Idris Elba to play 007
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2012· 1 entry
Lazenby made a guest appearance on the Canadian sketch comedy series This Hour Has 22 Minutes, spoofing the 007 series in a skit called "Help, I've Skyfallen and I Can't Get Up"
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2009· 1 entry
Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist Sondre Lerche released a song called "Like Lazenby" on his fifth studio album Heartbeat Radio in which he laments squandered opportunities and wishes for a "second try"
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2002· 2 entries
In 2002, Lazenby married former tennis player Pam Shriver and they had three children, including son George Lazenby Jr., born on 12 July 2004.
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Lazenby married former tennis player Pam Shriver and they had three children, including son George Lazenby Jr
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1993· 2 entries
Many of which appeared on cable television
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Lazenby had a part in the film Gettysburg as Confederate Brigadier General J
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1978· 2 entries
Took out an advertisement in Variety, offering himself for acting work in any role for very little money
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Broccoli described casting Lazenby as his biggest mistake, claiming that the actor couldn't deal with fame and labelling him as "very arrogant"
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1973· 3 entries
They subsequently had two children, daughter Melanie Andrea Lazenby, born on 13 September 1973, and son Zachary "Zack" Lazenby, born on 9 November 1974, at Woden Valley Hospital (now Canberra Hospital) in Garran, Canberra, ACT.
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Lazenby said he was "flat broke" when he went to Hong Kong to meet Bruce Lee and producer Raymond Chow
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Lazenby married his girlfriend of three years, Christina Ross "Chrissie" Townson (later Matser), an heiress of the Gannett family
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1968· 1 entry
After Sean Connery had left the role of James Bond, producer Albert R
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1964· 1 entry
To pursue a woman with whom he had fallen in love
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1939· 1 entry
Born 1939-09-05.
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