George Lazenby Wallpapers

George Lazenby Wallpapers

George Lazenby was born in Queanbeyan, 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. He worked as a car salesman and as a model, then as an advertising actor. By 1968, he was the highest-paid male model in the world (reportedly, in 1967, he made £40,000 directly from modeling, and £60,000 from commercials and product endorsements—equivalent to more than one million pounds in 2004); he was also the European Marlboro Man. In the 1970s he worked in Hong Kong with Bruce Lee. A planned luncheon meeting with Lee and Raymond Chow to discuss a movie project for the upcoming Golden Harvest Lee film Game of Death 1978 collapsed after Lee's sudden death, although Lazenby would still go on to make 3 of the 4 films he signed to do with Lee in Hong Kong, The Shrine of Ultimate Bliss (1974), The Man From Hong Kong (1975), and A Queen's Ransom (1976). Lazenby was only featured with archive footage when Game of Death was finally released in 1978, after a 5-year delay caused by Lee's death while it was still in production.

Lazenby's Hong Kong martial arts action films were very successful financially and are to this day considered classics of the genre, but without Lee the films didn't have much commercial impact. For example, it is widely believed that all four of the planned Lee/Lazenby films would have grossed in excess of $100 million US at the box office worldwide in the early to mid 1970s (astronomical grosses in today's dollar values), which would have even rivaled the James Bond franchise at the time. Lee's death effectively derailed Lazenby's would-have-been comeback after he had quit the role of James Bond in 1969.

Despite starring in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) and The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) (the combined gross earnings of which exceeded $100 million worldwide in the 1970s, then the standard establishing an actor as a box office success), Lazenby's acting career never flourished.

He then focused on business and real estate investments and ended up owning mansions in Hawaii, Brentwood, California, Australia, and a 600-acre (2.4 km²) ranch estate in Valyermo, California, a small town about 17 miles southeast of Palmdale, California; he also owns a portside penthouse apartment in Hong Kong, and an estate home in Maryland. Lazenby has a son, Zack, and an adult daughter, Melanie, from his first marriage to Christina "Chrissie" Gannett Lazenby, who was heiress to the Gannett Newspaper Publishing empire and who died of brain cancer in 1994. In 2002, he married his second wife, former tennis player Pam Shriver; they have three children, George, born 12 July 2004, and twins Caitlin Elizabeth and Samuel Robert, born October 2005. Today, Lazenby enjoys sailing, motorcycle racing, car racing, reading, watching movies, playing golf, and playing tennis.

Selected filmography


* Winter Break (Alternate title: Sheer Bliss) (2003)
* Yu Yu Hakusho: Ghost Files (2002) (TV Series) (voice)
* Spider's Web (2001)
* Four Dogs Playing Poker (2000)
* 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)
* Emmanuelle Forever (1993)
* Emmanuelle in Venice (1993)
* Emmanuelle's Love (1993)
* Yu Yu Hakusho: Eizo Hakusho (1993) (voice)
* Gettysburg (1993)
* Emmanuelle's Magic (1992)
* Emmanuelle's Perfume (1992)
* Emmanuelle's Revenge (1992)
* Emmanuelle's Secret (1992)
* The Evil Inside (1992)
* Superboy (1988) (TV Series) - recurring guest role as Jor-El
* 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)
* The Nude Bomb (1980) - cameo appearance as James Bond
* Death Dimension (Alternate title: Black Eliminator) (Alternate title: Freeze Bomb) 1978)
* Game of Death (1978) (archive fighting footage)
* Bruce Lee, The Legend (1977)
* The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
* A Queen's Ransom (1976)
* The Man From Hong Kong (Alternate title: The Dragon Flies) (1975)
* The Shrine of Ultimate Bliss (1974)
* The Last Days of Bruce Lee (1973)
* Life and Legend of Bruce Lee (1973) (archive footage)
* Universal Soldier (1971)
* On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
* Espionage in Tangiers (1966)

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