George Leech
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- 6 de diciembre de 1921 · London, England, UK
- 17 de junio de 2012
Biografía
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.
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Filmografía
- Double-O Stunts
- Terence Young: Bond Vivant · En persona
- Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'
- Como el perro y el gato · Warder
- Rescate en el mar del Norte · Magnussen
- Un puente lejano · Stunts
- La guerra de las galaxias · Stunts
- Ha llegado el águila · Traumer (uncredited)
- La pantera rosa ataca de nuevo · Mr. Stutterstutt
- Brannigan · Man in Bar (uncredited)
- The Sweeney · Stunts
- El hombre de Mackintosh · Inmate (uncredited)
- Diamantes para la eternidad · Stunt Double
- Las ocho campanadas · Thug (uncredited)
- 007 al servicio secreto de su Majestad · Stunts
- Swiss Movement · En persona
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang · Chitty's original driver (uncredited)
- El prisionero · Corridor Guard, Guardian
- Coast of Skeletons · George Leech
- Mozambique · Carl
- La maldición de la momia · Ship Attacker (uncredited)
- La máscara de la muerte roja · Stunts
- Scene Nun, Take One
- Carry On Spying · Waiter (uncredited)
- Crooks Anonymous · Salesman (uncredited)
- Los cañones de Navarone · Stunts
- And the Same to You · Jake
- Puerto África · Second Arab