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George Lazenby Net Worth: George Lazenby is an Australian actor and former model who has a net worth of $100 million. He was born George Robert Lazenby on September 5, 1939, in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. He enjoyed worldwide fame for portraying James Bond in the 1969 film "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". Prior to becoming Bond, George Lazenby was the highest-paid model in the world throughout the 1960's. He had the chance to reprise the iconic film role of superspy 007 in 1977's "Diamonds Are Forever" he ended up ceding the role to Roger Moore. Even though he performed in other films like Kentucky Fried Movie (1974), Master Ninja II (1984) and Fatally Yours (1995), Lazenby's acting career never really flourished. Eventually, he turned to business and real estate investments that earned him spacious mansions in Hawaii, Brentwood, California, Australia, a ranch estate in Valyermo, California, as well as a port-side penthouse apartment in Hong Kong and an estate home in Maryland. As for his personal life, it includes two marriages and three children. Tragically, his child with first wife Christina Gannett Lazenby died of brain cancer in 1994. He has three children with his second wife, former tennis player Pam Shriver. Today, Lazenby enjoys practicing his numerous hobbies like sailing, motorcycle racing, car racing, reading, watching movies, and of course, playing golf and tennis.
Not sure we can accept this net worth when so much information is incorrect
- Incorrect information about Diamonds Are Forever
- Master Ninja was a TV series and GL was in one episode
- Confusion over how many children with his first wife (two in fact)
And who knows what else is incorrect? Either way I know GL has a few bucks to his name, but I do wonder how his wealth compares to the other Bond actors?
However much of it actually true is irrelevant but nonetheless George is a great storyteller and the re-enactments often had me laughing out loud.
Well, he is narrating the whole movie, so any opinion stated is his own.
I felt he was a bit too self deprecating in parts but so was Roger all the time.
i don't think it takes anything away from enjoying OHMSS.
On a more general note, as this is my first post in this particular Thread, i would like to state that George should always be mentioned in the upper echelon of Bond actors, simply because that guy WAS Bond.
I like acting and all, but if you can literally find a guy who IS James Bond (depends of your definition of who James Bond is of course) then you have a clear winner. If your idea of James Bond is a tall, handsome care free Playboy who is a man of the world and could literally pick out any women out of a crowd he wants to sleep with and seduce her, and who also knows how to beat his way out of any tough situation, then Lazenby is your man.
The guy was picked out of hundreds of "actors" for good reason. He just had the right feel about him. You can't buy that stuff for money or study it. Lazenbys acting was good enough to not hide those qualities of his.
Todays Bond actos have to bust their behinds to look super confidend and in control all the time, his job was just to sound as british as possible, the rest came naturally
He was someone strutting around acting cool but lacked a certain maturity. Without Rigg and Savalas, his inexperience would be more of an issue.
Well, I agree with all of that. Well put @00Agent
But the man of the world quality i was talking about came literally from having seen the world at a young age. He traveled from Australia to London with nothing in his pockets. A couple years later he was living as a Model in Paris and jet setting between Paris and London all the time and other countries like Spain.
I can highly recommend to watch Becoming Bond just to get a better picture of all that.
He was a self made man in the truest sense just like Connery, but overall made some bad decisions here and there unfortunately.
I have seen Becoming Bond and I get what you mean.
Still, there's a slightly amateur feel about him at times in the actual film.
i was astonished to find this a couple weeks ago.
It features a lot of good pictures of the deleted scene that was never released before
Laz plays Mitch Buchanan's (Hasselhoff's) former Navy Seal commander. Mitch invites him to Baywatch so he can re-unite with his estranged daughter. Mitch is very helpful that way.
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The Big Blue
Baywatch episode
Mitch tries to patch things up between a military officer and his daughter; Cody meets a beautiful diver.
Baywatch Season 9
Episode number:
12
Air date:
January 11, 1999
Is Lazenby's character's daughter called Tracey? :)) :))
Awful? She wasn’t that good BAIN! ;)
George struggled with his accent it has to be said
That's the famous Brooke Burns! One of the many inheritors to the Pamela Anderson legacy.
It's in the Baywatch code I believe. Each season must have a Pam-worthy blonde.
Brooke does fill out the red swimsuit very nicely.
She was no doubt hand-picked by the Hoff himself!
Nice job by Laz, when he finally turns up later in the episode! He looks to be in top shape.
The reunion with daughter is heartwarming.
Yes, Laz was a very convincing Bond in OHMSS which is maybe the most Fleming worthy of all the Bond films, along with DN, FRWL, GF & TB
Laz's performance was 2nd only to Connery's best work IMO.
I will have to give it a watch sometime. I know some sfuff about his past and how he was a longshot to become Bond. OHMSS is kind of the miracle Bond film of the series I think. Lazenby may be a one-hit wonder, but OHMSS is as good as it gets for Bond films.