George Leech

Known for ActingBorn 1921-12-06Died 2012-06-17London, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Star Wars

The Sweeney

Scene Nun, Take One

The Prisoner

A Bridge Too Far

The Guns of Navarone

Terence Young: Bond Vivant

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'

Dempsey and Makepeace

The Eagle Has Landed

Double-O Stunts

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

The Masque of the Red Death

Diamonds Are Forever

North Sea Hijack

Carry On Spying

The MacKintosh Man

Brannigan

Swiss Movement

Crooks Anonymous

And the Same to You

Coast of Skeletons

When Eight Bells Toll

Port Afrique

Mozambique

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb