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George Leech was a British film actor and stunt performer who was notable for his work on eleven James Bond films.
1985
George Leech was a British film actor and stunt performer who was notable for his work on eleven James Bond films.
Leech was born in London and left school at 14. He was a boxer who won the ABA National Championships when he was 15 as a welterweight and he joined the Royal Navy in 1943.
His first job in movies was performing a stunt involving falling down steps doubling for James Mason in Odd Man Out (1947). He was notable for his contributions to James Bond films from 1962 to 1985 as a stunt performer and in small acting roles (usually as a henchman) including: Dr. No (1962), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), where he was promoted to stunt arranger when Bob Simmons was working on another film, For Your Eyes Only (1981), and A View to a Kill (1985). He also worked on The Guns of Navarone, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Kelly's Heroes, The Eagle Has Landed and Revenge of the Pink Panther.
Leech married in 1952. One of his two daughters Wendy Leech became one of the first female stunt performers and married the stuntman Vic Armstrong. Leech died in Cardiff in 2012 at the age of 90.
Gender
Male
Birthday
December 6, 1921
Died
June 17, 2012
Birthplace
London, England, UK
Port Afrique
1956
Swiss Movement
1969
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1968
Double-O Stunts
2000
Mozambique
1964
Terence Young: Bond Vivant
2000
The Eagle Has Landed
1976
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976
North Sea Hijack
1980
Crooks Anonymous
1962
Carry On Spying
1964
Brannigan
1975
The MacKintosh Man
1973
When Eight Bells Toll
1971
Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'
2000
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
1964
Scene Nun, Take One
1964
And the Same to You
1960
Coast of Skeletons
1965