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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

5.7

Double-O Stunts

2000

6.0

Self

Terence Young: Bond Vivant

2000

5.8

Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'

2000

6.4

Warder

Dempsey and Makepeace

1985

6.3

Magnussen

North Sea Hijack

1980

6.6

Traumer (uncredited)

The Eagle Has Landed

1976

6.9

Mr. Stutterstutt

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

1976

6.0

Man in Bar (uncredited)

Brannigan

1975

6.1

Inmate (uncredited)

The MacKintosh Man

1973

5.7

Thug (uncredited)

When Eight Bells Toll

1971

Credits

Double-O Stunts

2000

5.7

Terence Young: Bond Vivant

as Self

2000

6.0

Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'

2000

5.8

Dempsey and Makepeace

as Warder

1985

6.4

North Sea Hijack

as Magnussen

1980

6.3

The Eagle Has Landed

as Traumer (uncredited)

1976

6.6

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

as Mr. Stutterstutt

1976

6.9

Brannigan

as Man in Bar (uncredited)

1975

6.0

The MacKintosh Man

as Inmate (uncredited)

1973

6.1

When Eight Bells Toll

as Thug (uncredited)

1971

5.7

Swiss Movement

as Self

1969

6.0

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

as Chitty's original driver (uncredited)

1968

6.8

The Prisoner

as Corridor Guard

1967

7.7

The Prisoner

as Guardian

1967

7.7

Coast of Skeletons

as George Leech

1965

5.7

Mozambique

as Carl

1964

5.4

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

as Ship Attacker (uncredited)

1964

5.5

Scene Nun, Take One

1964

0.0

Carry On Spying

as Waiter (uncredited)

1964

6.4

Crooks Anonymous

as Salesman (uncredited)

1962

5.9

And the Same to You

as Jake

1960

5.6

Port Afrique

as Second Arab

1956

5.3