George Lazenby

[Brady2k10]

craig is good for action but thats it, his bond is too serious and too assassin like for bond, connery is overated and just moved slow in every film, the films werent all that either, i feel the connery bond films were kinda average and slow, moores were better so were brosnans, i didnt like dalton so much before but hes grown on me over the years, the best bond imo is brosnan, he could do it all, he could be cool, intelligent, charming and he could do action good and he looked good

[Brady2k10]

lazenby was arrogant still is probably thinking he could get other jobs after bond and sean connery is arrogant now dismissing bond when its brought up, going on about his scotland forever rubbish like hes ashamed to bring up bond for that reason its pathetic you'd think a man of his age would have grown up and gotten over himself by now yet im the one whos gonna get hate but i dont care, i feel its the truth what i said and its my opinion brosnan, moore, dalton, craig, connery, lazenby

[Brady2k10]

well this guy is a first class idiot and i bet theres not a day goes by in his life that he regrets leaving bond, and hey im not insulting, its the truth, he does regret it and he is an idiot for leaving after just 1 film, this guys an idiot in my book and so is sean connery, arrogant man. Hes so quick to dismiss bond in interviews like hes better than bond or hes ashamed of bond sean connery is a good actor ill give him that but hes overated at bond, brosnan, moore and dalton get my vote

[MrRidinsolo98]

He's my great great uncle my name is William lazenby

[Riddler95]

I thought George Lazenby did a very good job portraying James Bond 007.

I blame his agent for convincing him not too reprise the role. It is shocking to see he would rather be a car salesman than to be James Bond.

George Lazenby made one Bond film that I consider to be one of the best James Bond films.

[tunkunrunk]

@Riddler95 it's a pity he resigned , my dream is to make a tv serie cartoon about on her majesty's secret service ,

[ANOTHERHOLEINYOHEAD]

He looks like he could have been the fourth bee gee.

[Inglese001]

OHMSS is one of the better Bond movies. Shame he didn't do more than one. But it's not life and death, is it?

[randomdave30]

He needed an acting coach of a voice-coach on set with him - with that he would have been a lot more convincing and successful

[Fuks09]

This is a very funny inteview .... considering the career he had later on :-)

But "On her Mejestys Secret Service" is still a great movie .... one of the best Bond movies ever !

[XxSTAR1977WARSxX]

Poor George, he really regrets quitting.

Universal Soldier wasn't horrible though xD

and Who Saw Her Die was brilliant.

[bolt767]

i thought it was a good movie. an 8 on a 1 to 10 scale

[PepulzGuys]

ach! Ronan O'Rahilly is like, EVIL for telling George to quit.

[ELO1138]

Another lie spread by United Artists and EON is that the film was a box office flop. It was NOT. It was the highest grossing movie of 1969 beating Easy Rider. The budget was 7 million and the total box office revenue was $87,400,000, adjusted for inflation it totally grossed $513,445,231. Even it a recent documentary the narrator said "the film flopped". In the documentary that comes with the OHMSS right after George says he left the role some prick from UA says they fired him.

[postersandstuff]

@ELO1138  #2 after Butch Sundance.......or so Ive heard. I read budget was 6 mill.

[ELO1138]

I'd to comment on the issues of tension between Lazenby and Rigg. There was some tension on the set between the two but nothing major. I think the British press really hyped that up. Diana Rigg said of George: "I'll sum up in 3 words. He is gorgeous!". Rigg and Lazenby on the most part got on well. They did get into a argument while filming the car race which was a difficult sequence but they got it over. There are always tension on movie sets.

[cbalducc]

I think George Lazenby was in over his head, since he had no acting experience. I read there were tensions on the set of OHMSS between him, costar Diana Rigg, and his bosses. In the end, I think those who hired him regretted it, and although Lazenby may have quit voluntarily, the higher-ups "nudged" him into leaving. God bless.

[expanding]

He wasn't an actor. Great looks, some black belt, but no acting skills at all. All the other Bonds are actors. Actually, EON offered it to 25-year-old Dalton but he refused, and they ended up with a non-actor. OHMSS should have been a great movie, but something was missing in it: James Bond. In some scenes it looked as if Diana Rigg (who was superb) was talking to a puppet.

This was one of EON's big mistakes, but I think "Diamonds are Forever" was even a bigger one.

[postersandstuff]

@expanding Still more believable as a killer than Moore or Brosnan imo.

[LAZ3NBY]

George Lazenby gave us a Bond that we could relate to as a human being. Lazenby is my favourite Bond.

[upquist1]

I remember seeing him as a guest on Johnny Carson's show. He was never invited back. It seemed to me that he was being a bit arrogant and rather ungrateful for the opportunity that had been given to him by Saltzman / Broccoli. Must have appeared that way to Johnny as well because I remember watching Johnny call him out on his comments and, basically, Johnny became quite testy with Lazenby. I wish I could watch that piece again.

[DeafFret]

good on him.

[jksonny]

Badly advised. OHMSS is one of my favorite Bonds and IMO, he would have done well in the role.

[IndyLives]

Actuly he heck rich he is married to the rich and has 3 kids.

[ohmss069]

Hah! Shame shame, now he really treasures those days as Bond. I hope he fired that agent whom told him that Bond films were going out of style.

[dhutchinson86]

@ohmss069 He fired him about 4 years later after Live And Let Die was such a huge success.

[woolcroft]

Telly Savalas and Diana Rigg each got paid double what George was paid. Sean Connery got £1,000,000 plus extras for 'Diamonds'. Lazenby was badly advised to ditch playing Bond under the notion that he would walk straight into other leading well bank-rolled roles. Which ultimately cost him dear.

[vaj99]

What an idiot!!!!

[jackscal1]

i did hear he and diana rigg did not get on, i met him in london last year, and as interesting as it was, i sense he could be a guy difficult to get on with, maybe, he is a man of his own mind in a controlled business, but i suspect he said no to bond just to show he could.

OHMSS was my fav bond without doubt, but im not sure he could have carried another , but we will never know.

[dcasey77]

That's interesting, what gave you the impression he'd be difficult to get on with?

[jackscal1]

i just felt he had a sense of superiority to himself when we met but as i say he seems a man who knows his own mind and so, has had to live with the mistakes he says he made because of it.

reduced to the Emmanuelle tv series, autograph signings and conventions is a far cry from the money he could have had.

but i still think his bond is the last great bond they ever made of the golden era, plus its a personal favourite.

[tunkunrunk]

i think he made a great mistake