George Leech
- Recitazione
- 6 dicembre 1921 · London, England, UK
- 17 giugno 2012
Biografia
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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Filmografia
- Double-O Stunts
- Terence Young: Bond Vivant · In persona
- Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'
- Dempsey and Makepeace · Warder
- Attacco: piattaforma Jennifer · Magnussen
- Quell'ultimo ponte · Stunts
- Guerre stellari · Stunts
- La notte dell'aquila · Traumer (uncredited)
- La Pantera Rosa sfida l'ispettore Clouseau · Mr. Stutterstutt
- Ispettore Brannigan, la morte segue la tua ombra · Man in Bar (uncredited)
- L'ispettore Regan · Stunts
- L'agente speciale Mackintosh · Inmate (uncredited)
- Agente 007 - Una cascata di diamanti · Stunt Double
- When Eight Bells Toll · Thug (uncredited)
- Agente 007 - Al servizio segreto di Sua Maestà · Stunts
- Swiss Movement · In persona
- Citty Citty Bang Bang · Chitty's original driver (uncredited)
- Il prigioniero · Corridor Guard, Guardian
- Coast of Skeletons · George Leech
- Mozambique · Carl
- Il mistero della mummia · Ship Attacker (uncredited)
- La maschera della morte rossa · Stunts
- Scene Nun, Take One
- Carry On Spying · Waiter (uncredited)
- Crooks Anonymous · Salesman (uncredited)
- I cannoni di Navarone · Stunts
- And the Same to You · Jake
- Porto Africa · Second Arab