History Creator / GeorgeLazenby

* OldShame: He has stated that he regrets taking the advice of his agent not to reprise the role of Bond; tellingly, the two men parted ways in the years after the fact.

He is best known for being the first and [[OneHitWonder brief]] successor of Creator/SeanConnery as Film/JamesBond, in a single film, ''''. He and Creator/PierceBrosnan share the distinction of being the only non-British Bonds (although with Brosnan being Irish, Lazenby is still the only Bond not to come from the British Isles, which also makes him the only non-European Bond, although he is of European descent) as well as the only professional martial artist to play the role (he has a Black Belt in Shotokan-Ryu Karate). His contract was for an unprecedented ''seven'' movies, but he left because of the troubled filming [[note]]which was partly due to his inexperience with acting and movie crews, he having only worked in adverts beforehand[[/note]], the contract they wanted him to sign (which dictated [[ContractualPurity how he was supposed to look and act even off camera]] for the entire duration of the deal) and because his agent thought spy movies were getting outdated, believing hippy movies were the way to go. After a couple of hippie movie flops, Lazenby finally decided he'd had enough and fired him.

[[caption-width-right:300:This never happened to the other troper.]]

He is best known for being the first and [[OneHitWonder brief]] successor of Creator/SeanConnery as Film/JamesBond, in a single film, ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''. He and Creator/PierceBrosnan share the distinction of being the only non-British Bonds (although with Brosnan being Irish, Lazenby is still the only Bond not to come from the British Isles, which also makes him the only non-European Bond, although he is of European descent) as well as the only professional martial artist to play the role (he has a Black Belt in Shotokan-Ryu Karate). His contract was for an unprecedented ''seven'' movies, but he left because of the troubled filming [[note]]which was partly due to his inexperience with acting and movie crews, he having only worked in adverts beforehand[[/note]], the contract they wanted him to sign (which dictated [[ContractualPurity how he was supposed to look and act even off camera]] for the entire duration of the deal) and because his agent thought spy movies were getting outdated, believing hippy movies were the way to go. After a couple of hippie movie flops, Lazenby finally decided he'd had enough and fired him.

** The big one is that, as stated above, he walked away from the role of James Bond after just one film. The original plan for ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service'' had been for Tracy's death to occur in [[Film/DiamondsAreForever the follow-up]], but since Lazenby was leaving, the producers decided to keep it in just one movie; Bond seeking revenge for the murder of his wife (or even acknowledging that she'd existed, for that matter) was not explicitly addressed within the franchise until ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''.

He was a close personal friend of Creator/BruceLee, having met him in 1972. Lazenby studied Lee's personal martial arts and philosophical teaching of "Jeet Kune Do" until the time of Lee's death in 1973. He was going to have dinner with Bruce the night he died, actually.

He is best known for being the first and [[OneHitWonder brief]] successor of Creator/SeanConnery as Film/JamesBond in a single film, ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''. He and Creator/PierceBrosnan share the distinction of being the only non-British Bonds (although with Brosnan being Irish, Lazenby is still the only Bond not to come from the British Isles, which also makes him the only non-European Bond, although he is of European descent) as well as the only professional martial artist to play the role (he has a Black Belt in Shotokan-Ryu Karate). His contract was for an unprecedented ''seven'' movies, but he left because of the troubled filming [[note]]which was partly due to his inexperience with acting and movie crews, he having only worked in adverts beforehand[[/note]], the contract they wanted him to sign (which dictated [[ContractualPurity how he was supposed to look and act even off camera]] for the entire duration of the deal) and because his agent thought spy movies were getting outdated, believing hippy movies were the way to go. After a couple of hippie movie flops, Lazenby finally decided he'd had enough and fired him.