Biography
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
all 22
Movies 19
self 3
TV Shows 3

North Sea Hijack (1980)

Star Wars (1977)

The Eagle Has Landed (1976)

The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)

Brannigan (1975)

The Sweeney (1975)

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

When Eight Bells Toll (1971)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

The Prisoner (1967)

Coast of Skeletons (1965)

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964)
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GenderMale
Birthday1921-12-06
Deathday2012-06-17 (90 years old)
Birth PlaceLondon, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
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