George Leech
Actor
Biography
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.
Filmography
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
as Mr. Stutterstutt 1976
The Eagle Has Landed
as Traumer (uncredited) 1976
North Sea Hijack
as Magnussen 1980
Brannigan
as Man in Bar (uncredited) 1975
The MacKintosh Man
as Inmate (uncredited) 1973
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
as Ship Attacker (uncredited) 1964
Carry On Spying
as Waiter (uncredited) 1964
When Eight Bells Toll
as Thug (uncredited) 1971
Crooks Anonymous
as Salesman (uncredited) 1962
Coast of Skeletons
as George Leech 1965
Mozambique
as Carl 1964
And the Same to You
as Jake 1960
Port Afrique
as Second Arab 1956
Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'
2000
Terence Young: Bond Vivant
as Self 2000
Double-O Stunts
2000