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George Leech
Known for ActingBorn 1921-12-06Died 2012-06-17London, England, UK
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.Read more
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Star Wars
1977 · Movie
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The Sweeney
1975 · Series
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Scene Nun, Take One
1964 · Movie
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The Prisoner
1967 · Series
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A Bridge Too Far
1977 · Movie
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The Guns of Navarone
1961 · Movie
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Terence Young: Bond Vivant
2000 · Movie
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976 · Movie
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1968 · Movie
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Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'
2000 · Movie
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Dempsey and Makepeace
1985 · Series
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The Eagle Has Landed
1976 · Movie
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Double-O Stunts
2000 · Movie
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969 · Movie
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The Masque of the Red Death
1964 · Movie
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Diamonds Are Forever
1971 · Movie
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North Sea Hijack
1980 · Movie
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Carry On Spying
1964 · Movie
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The MacKintosh Man
1973 · Movie
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Brannigan
1975 · Movie
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Crooks Anonymous
1962 · Movie
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Swiss Movement
1969 · Movie
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And the Same to You
1960 · Movie
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Coast of Skeletons
1965 · Movie
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When Eight Bells Toll
1971 · Movie
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Port Afrique
1956 · Movie
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Mozambique
1964 · Movie
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The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
1964 · Movie