George Leech
Actor
- Born
- December 6, 1921 · London, England, UK
- Died
- June 17, 2012 (age 90)
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.
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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
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
December 17, 1968
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
September 16, 1976
The Eagle Has Landed
December 24, 1976
North Sea Hijack
February 18, 1980
Brannigan
March 21, 1975
The MacKintosh Man
August 1, 1973
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
October 18, 1964
Carry On Spying
June 1, 1964
When Eight Bells Toll
April 30, 1971
Crooks Anonymous
March 31, 1962
Coast of Skeletons
March 19, 1965
Mozambique
December 7, 1964
Acting19
- 2000Double-O Stunts
- 2000Terence Young: Bond Vivant as Self
- 2000Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'
- 1980North Sea Hijack as Magnussen
- 1976The Eagle Has Landed as Traumer (uncredited)
- 1976The Pink Panther Strikes Again as Mr. Stutterstutt
- 1975Brannigan as Man in Bar (uncredited)
- 1973The MacKintosh Man as Inmate (uncredited)
- 1971When Eight Bells Toll as Thug (uncredited)
- 1969Swiss Movement as Self