"I'm glad he played in OHMSS because I don't think that Connery had enough charisma to have a wife and lose her right after the wedding. I think lazbenzy would of been good in FYEO."

"plz do"

"what!!!!moore was the worst 007 anyway so lazenby was already ahead of him"

"It's hard to judge Lazenby fairly....

remember he was a MALE MODEL rather than a properly trained actor back then, plus he WAS REQUIRED to portray the "Cinema Bond" - Connery's - as at that time that WAS the character on the Big screen....hence he had to copy it ! (Roger Moore later changed the role...as likewise all later Bond actors)

Stepping into Sean Connery's shoes was a hell of a challenge...for ANY actor let alone a Model - in retrospect Lazenby's shortcomings are clear but then Connery in "Dr.No" is nowhere near as "polished" & confident as he is by "Goldfinger"

...the same will apply to Craig too...the more you do a role the more you make it your own...

So Lazenby was vocally dubbed by george Baker as Sir Hilary Bray something some now make SO MUCH OF...big deal ! - it's a normal cinema thing !

Diana Coupland sang "Underneath the Mango Tree" for Ursula Andress...

While Connery was clearly having trouble with his new teeth in "Never Say Never Again" and his Scottish accent slipped through a few times - it didn't upset me !

Lazenby WOULD have improved had he continued indeed if he'd accepted the SEVEN picture contract Cubby & Harry apparently offered him ..then probably Moore may never have played Bond (Fans can argue that one ! )

In 1969 Most seemed to ACCEPT Lazenby as "The NEW James Bond"...his abrupt exit...on the Johnny Carson show (To Cubby & Harry's SHOCK and FURY) duly started a "He wasn't really that good" Backlash....that was jumped on thereafter...

For a perhaps "wooden" in the Long dialogue scenes Lazenby compensated by being very athletic and he did the tragic closing scene very well

The public, well some, NEVER Forgave Lazenby for letting them down by walking Just as he'd arrived"

"There are a few other valid points here tho'.....

George Lazenby himself once said He felt the Bond series was THEN in 1969 on the decline....

Today we might raise Amazed eyebrows at that....BUT back in 1969 there WAS some Actual credibility in that line of thinking !

That was the year the Sixties "Died"....The Beatles & many other sixties bands split....Brian Jones left The Stones...and died.

The Vietnam war dragged on and on...seemingly endlessly

the appalling Charles Manson murders...then Altamont... blew away the Sixties Hippie dream....

while "Easy Rider" was a VERY Big film that year...plus "Hair" in the Rock theatre...

In sharp contrast a short haired very conservative figure of Bond was NOT as Fashionable as he had been earlier...

while other LONG running Sixties TV institutions like The Saint (Roger Moore) & The Avengers also ended their Production in 1969...

Indeed by 1971 Roger Moore would be happily "Hamming it up" in "The Persuaders !"

So...maybe Lazenby feeling the Bond series days were numbered...and to survive they later changed the style notably...can in retrospect be understood more ?

As said above it is now just history....yet imporatntly Lazenby DID prove that for Bond there was "Life after Connery"....the role COULD be re-interpreted...even if along the same Basic guidelines then...

.....which prior to OHMSS nobody knew and some in fact doubted....

Plus Lazenby DID add another angle to the part...somehow I just can never imagine Connery in OHMSS at all...!

George Lazenby did manage to make it very much "His film"....Credit to him for that..."

"australian accent came from doin chocalate adverts, to BOND. something as big as that with no experience, and what a great job he did , 100% respect for mr lazenby."

"If George was in 3 or 4 more films I think we would have given him a lot more credit. He had enough charisma to do about any bond film. His only weakness is his fighting skills. I think any other bond would have whooped his butt with the exception of Moore."

"i agree i thought the fight scenes were brilliant , he was fast and he made it look easy, you never know its prob one of the reasons laz and bruce lee were such good mates."

"yes cheers to him for that my freind."