About

Known credits:
18
Birthday:
1921-12-06
Place of birth:
London, England, UK
Website:
N/A

George Leech

Overview

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.

Known for

Acting

2000 Double-O Stunts Actor 58
Average
2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant Actor Self 58
Average
2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' Actor 58
Average
1980 North Sea Hijack Actor Magnussen 59
Average
1976 The Eagle Has Landed Actor Traumer (uncredited) 61
Fair
1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again Actor Mr. Stutterstutt 64
Fair
1975 Brannigan Actor Man in Bar (uncredited) 58
Average
1971 When Eight Bells Toll Actor Thug (uncredited) 58
Average
1969 Swiss Movement Actor Self 58
Average
1965 Coast of Skeletons Actor George Leech 58
Average
1964 Mozambique Actor Carl 58
Average
1964 The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb Actor Ship Attacker (uncredited) 58
Average
1964 Scene Nun, Take One Actor N/A
N/A
1960 And the Same to You Actor Jake 59
Average

Crew

1977 A Bridge Too Far Crew Stunts 67
Fair
1977 Star Wars Crew Stunts 81
Very good
1971 Diamonds Are Forever Crew Stunt Double 63
Fair
1964 The Masque of the Red Death Crew Stunts 61
Fair