Why was George Lazenby such a Different James Bond?

I have read at least ten Bond novels and for some reason I always imagine Lazenby when I am reading them. I can't recommend Anthony Horowitz's Bond books enough. They are SO great.

Think of how great it would have been to have George lazenby in diamonds are forever and live and let die 🚬

And yet the end, the result on screen was great! OHMSS was probably the best bond movie.

Played one movie. But that movie was my favorite Bond movie.

The 2nd best Bond. Bond movies from the 60's are the only ones that mattered. They didn't get good until Daniel Craig's but the 60's Bonds were the ones.

George was great in action scenes and you have to admire how he conned his way into the part but as an actor he's pretty stiff if he stayed he would have imporved

It's still my favourite bond film the music n he marries lvd Diana Rigg superb!❤

I would like to have seen him do at least one more Bond movie.

He’s a favorite of mine.
He had tremendous potential and it’s a shame it faded away.
I thought his Bond was refreshing compared to Connery.
He was definitely a better athlete, could fight and had his own unique qualities.

So basically he got in his own way. As my father use to say, "He got beside himself;"...and caused his own separation from hollywood.

When I first watched the movie I thought it was a Bond parody then when I was getting 60's and 70's Era Bond flicks I bought it and I laughed almost as much as I do watching Roger Moore

this is not the story iho connerys barber and had his hair cut the same and also went to the same suitmaker in saville row and then came in and said im your new bond....he also fibbed about his acting background but did fight well.

The Filmmakers and Cast did a great job detracting from his inability to act. The only thing he excelled on was indeed his smoothness in the Action scenes at a time when Actors didn't undergo special Trainings to play that kind of part. Lucky for him the Film is so unique within the Bond Franchise that his name will come up as long as the Franchise exists.
His Assessment of the situation wasn't totally wrong since the Producers went into a very different tone from Diamonds onwards to keep the Franchise alive in a 70's environment. They went from making Super Spy Action Thrillers with fantastical elements to creating silly self aware Spy Comedies . I really love Roger but overall Bond completely lost any relevance during his tenure as it became just way too silly.

If you ever listen to George, you will know most of the story is lies.

George Lazenby in one word: based

Always remeber the bond music scores from any film are amazing? And the last outing with the lovely mr craig.. was filled with the re masterd bits from OHMSS.. what does that tell you? Espesh the very last scene of NO TIME TO DIE ... tear moving central x

Imagine if he did do the 7 picture deal, and really found himself? No roger gay moore .. lazenby would have been amazing by far

George L as one of my favorite Bond

Lazenby is up there together with Connery and Craig. In my opinion these 3 were the best Bonds. I really loved OHMSS and Lazenby in his (unfortunately) only role as 007. Had he done more Bond movies and grown into his interpretation of 007, he really would have made a name for himself. Instead after DAF, we got stuck with Moore for 7 times, by far the worst Bond of all.

He thought that the hippie movement would upend the establishment. He had no idea that the establishment itself would co-opt the hippie movement and make sexual liberation the new religion of the day. Notice his very recent comments about feminism and gays. Today the liberals hate him, back then the Bond puritsts disliked him. He wasn't really hippie, he just hated the Hollywood big shots and wanted to see them lose. He just made a mistake by betting on the wrong horse, namely the flower power gang.

One hit wonder as an actor, but with a net worth of $20 million (according to google). So no need to feel too sorry for him, even if you are inclined to.

I think George Lazenby was very good and way better than the not tall enough, small headed, blonde haired idiot that has just finished his stint.

What ”Sean Connery of course”? I love the man, but Roger Moore is, was, and forever will be the James Bond actor for me 👍🏻

He was great as James. Wonderful in a kilt!

I remember watching On Her Majestys Secret Service back around 1970 -1971 with Diamonds 💎 Are Forever at a double-feature 🎥 theater. I thought he was brilliant in the role and each time I hear the opening chords of that movie, my mind flashes back to those spectacular ski chase scenes down the mountain! ! He will always rank up there with Sean Connery for me !

You mean: Such a SHIT James Bond.

Honestly, it was the best move he could've made. Roger Moore was the perfect choice for that time period, George wouldn't have suited the times and it would have shown. Roger's 'tongue in cheek' helped keep the Bond franchise alive during the 70's and early 80's, which is why the producers kept caving to his salary increases.
Roger Moore is to James Bond, what William Shatner is to Captain James T. Kirk: a unique interpretation that no can master resulting in hammy acting.

By 1969 it was Woodstock, peace and love and hippies and the decade was changing from the start of the 60’s with all the counterculture

George had encapsulated that when he quit by growing a beard, long hair and wore style and riding motorbikes etc

George has become more iconic in the Franchise partly because of only OHMSS but since Roger died in 2017 and Sean in 2020 he has become a Bond Statesman
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The best of the best. After already a huge fan of the franchise I saw on her majesty's secret service and thought I would die. Terribly romantic. One of the best movies ever made😛👍❤⚡

"The name's Best. Pete Best."

Still the best Bond and best Bond movie in my opinion.

He was not the first to throw away movie superstardom; in the 1920s John Gilbert deliberately antagonised Louise B. Mayer & screnn beauty Louise Brookes turned her back on Hollywood. In the 1930s Frances Farmer a talented beauty refused to play the game...she drove a beat-up jalopy & lived the modest life, was a 'Pinko' & preferred theatre to the silver screen,,, ...Then in the fifties Marlon Brando & James Dean openly said to the Hollywood press... ..."I Don't Care, print what you like!"

He disapproved of James Bond's regular day job: killing trade union leaders around the globe.

I thought he was great in OHMSS but he pissed away a 7 film deal? He's an idiot...he had opportunity of lifetime that would have given him in Bond films into the early 80's!

One of my favorite Bond movies and so well done. He could have been a great James Bond...he really blew it.

I have got this movie DVD of
George Lazenby
as 007 James Bond with
Telly Savalas as Blofeld
George Baker
and Diana Rigg in
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
I am dedicating this movie DVD to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them both again very soon to Chris and Hester from Billyxxx

He crops up in the season 11 finale of original Hawaii Five-0 set in Hong Kong

He just wasn't that good looking, in my opinion.

He was the worst James Bond so far.
His small career in motion picture industry shows that Cubby Broccoli made a big mistake by hiring him as James Bond.

It’s a pity for « On her majesty’s service » which could have been a good movie with Sean Connery or Roger Moore as James Bond.
The movie has probably wrecked the career of Diana Rigg in motion picture industry.

Its just been on television Sunday, I love it, especially at the end when his wife is killed,and he is holding her ,and saying its OK she just a sleeping, and but his head on hers and crys !!!!!😑

Maggie Abbot discovered George for the part of bond x

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He was my favourite Bond. It was disappointing he didn't do more Bond films.

he was hands down the best played and most accurate James Bond til the current one;

OHMSS is the closest depiction to the author's novel in the entire Bond series;

while he was certainly not innocent, Saltzman an Broccoli are well-known as two of the most shallow, amoral and ruthless people in a business where that is still all too often prized;

George Lazenby was right and wrong at the same time. He was obviously wrong in turning down another Bond movie after OHMSS, but he wasn't wrong when it came to James Bond, the 007 of the Fleming novels, being passé, After his movie, the series made a complete course change, one I wasn't very fond of, but one that had to happen for the survival of the series and proved George right in the end. Connery used to diss such things as The Beatles early on, but once Diamonds Are Forever happened, Bond was wearing ridiculous neckties and bellbottoms. Every once in a while you'd get him in a tux to remind you who he was, but for much of Roger Moore's run, the scenarios and outfits got more and more ridiculous. People didn't want gritty spy thrillers at that point. They wanted goofy action comedies that were very much of their time. Fortunately, they'd finally course correct after almost 20 years of the silliness.

Arrogant, petulant, outback ocker. Just a wooden, Aussie shagging machine.

It is a great credit to the incredible talent of the EON Production team to create a great movie around a non-actor.

The Kilt, glasses, a pipe, chickens.

Lazenby was an excellent Bond, and had he stayed on for eight more Bond films would have established himself as every bit the equal of Connery and we never would have seen Moore as 007. The problem with OHMSS was the direction of Peter Hunt. It just felt too rushed, too choppy at times. The action scenes were full of trickery like fast editing. But George was superb. Couldn't have been any better. I also loved Telly Savalas as Blofeld. He brought a real menace to Bond's longtime nemesis, and Diana Rigg is still one of the best Bond girls. Another thing I love about George is that he was his own Bond. He wasn't trying to copy Connery, but rather to bring his own vibe and charm to the role, and he did it in spades. He was very believable as a man of action, overcoming the poor direction of Hunt. George's main problem was overcoming himself. Although he carried the role of Bond with great vigor he was just too difficult and too impatient.