George Leech
- Interprétation
- 6 décembre 1921 · London, England, UK
- 17 juin 2012
Biographie
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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Filmographie
- Double-O Stunts
- Terence Young: Bond Vivant · En personne
- Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'
- Mission casse-cou · Warder
- Les Loups de haute mer · Magnussen
- Un pont trop loin · Stunts
- La Guerre des étoiles · Stunts
- L'aigle s'est envolé · Traumer (uncredited)
- Quand la Panthère rose s'emmêle · Mr. Stutterstutt
- Brannigan · Man in Bar (uncredited)
- The Sweeney · Stunts
- Le piège · Inmate (uncredited)
- Les diamants sont éternels · Stunt Double
- Commando pour un homme seul · Thug (uncredited)
- Au service secret de Sa Majesté · Stunts
- Swiss Movement · En personne
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang · Chitty's original driver (uncredited)
- Le Prisonnier · Corridor Guard, Guardian
- Coast of Skeletons · George Leech
- Mozambique · Carl
- Les Maléfices de la momie · Ship Attacker (uncredited)
- Le Masque de la mort rouge · Stunts
- Scene Nun, Take One
- Agent secret 00.0H contre docteur Crow · Waiter (uncredited)
- Crooks Anonymous · Salesman (uncredited)
- Les Canons de Navarone · Stunts
- And the Same to You · Jake
- Port Afrique · Second Arab