George Leech (actor)

George Leech (6 December 1921 – 17 June 2012) 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), 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.

He 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 at age 90 in Cardiff.^[1][2]

Filmography

• Port Afrique (1956) – Second Arab
• The Treasure of San Teresa (1959) – Man In fight (uncredited)
• And the Same to You (1960) – Jake
• Dr. No (1962) – Decontamination Technician (uncredited)
• Mozambique (1963) – Carl
• Goldfinger (1964) – Q Division Technician (uncredited)
• Operation Crossbow (1965) – Power Plant Operator (uncredited)
• Thunderball (1965) – Disco Volante Crewman (uncredited)
• Se tutte le donne del mondo... (1966) (uncredited)
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) – Strangled SPECTRE Skier (uncredited)
• The Mackintosh Man (1973) – Inmate (uncredited)
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) – Mr. Stutterstutt
• Superman (1978) – Man in office (uncredited)
• Moonraker (1979) – Drax Minion (uncredited)
• For Your Eyes Only (1981) – Henchman Shark Victim (uncredited)

References

External links

• George Leech at the Internet Movie Database