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George Leech
London, England, UK
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…
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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. 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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2000
Double-O Stunts
Movie
- 2000
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2000
Terence Young: Bond Vivant
Movie Self
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1985
Dempsey and Makepeace
TV show Warder
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1980
North Sea Hijack
Movie Magnussen
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1977
A Bridge Too Far
Movie Stunts
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1977
Star Wars
Movie Stunts
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1976
The Eagle Has Landed
Movie Traumer (uncredited)
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1976
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Movie Mr. Stutterstutt
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1975
Brannigan
Movie Man in Bar (uncredited)
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1975
The Sweeney
TV show Stunts
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1973
The MacKintosh Man
Movie Inmate (uncredited)
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1971
Diamonds Are Forever
Movie Stunt Double
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1971
When Eight Bells Toll
Movie Thug (uncredited)
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1969
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Movie Stunts
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1969
Swiss Movement
Movie Self
More credits
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1968
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Movie Chitty's original driver (uncredited)
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1967
The Prisoner
TV show Corridor Guard
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1965
Coast of Skeletons
Movie George Leech
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1964
Mozambique
Movie Carl
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1964
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
Movie Ship Attacker (uncredited)
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1964
The Masque of the Red Death
Movie Stunts
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1964
Scene Nun, Take One
Movie
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1964
Carry On Spying
Movie Waiter (uncredited)
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1962
Crooks Anonymous
Movie Salesman (uncredited)
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1961
The Guns of Navarone
Movie Stunts
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1960
And the Same to You
Movie Jake
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1956
Port Afrique
Movie Second Arab
