How ? Justtt how ???? I prefer moore

@@nikhilfitness9404 opinions are opinions, deal with it

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In my opinion Sean Connery was.

After Connery I totally agree.

It's an interesting to theorize how differently things might have played out had he done more. They wanted Lazenby back for seven more films, that would have made his last film Octopussy. Then again, he was 49 when License to Kill was made in 1989 - the same age Pierce Brosnan was when he did Die Another Day. Likewise, Roger Moore was pushing 58 when he did the role of Bond for the last time. When Lazenby was 58, they were shooting Tomorrow Never Dies. He could easily have played Bond well into the 90s.

Jarrah White Lazenby doesn't fit as Bond in O.H.M.S.S. and in the era of comedy/parody that was coming. That era begins with ''Diamonds are Forever'' and finishes with ''Octopussy''. Moore, especially from ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' was the right man for that time (except ''A View to a Kill'' had to play Dalton). Producers didn't come back to Lazenby, as they did with Connery although he said he left the role, and until now with more conventional Bond films, they didn't provide the role of Bond in a model who is no actor and completely novice.

Yeah, but who cares. He had one of the best Bond movies. Brosnan did five but only Goldeneye was truly great. It isn't about the quantity, but the quality.

@@paulod27 Not as far as the franchise goes, Moore kept it alive for years, regardless of quality.

@@WhiteJarrah OHMSS took a hit @ the box office after Connery, Lazenby may have killed the franchise, it even struggled under global tv star Moore until the producers went all in on Spy Who Loved Me.

So very dead on you are with this observation sir. 😸

I completely agree, he's the human/vulnerable Bond

Solid points. It's why I rate it in the top three. Oh, and having the best and most delectable Bond gal of them all, Diana Rigg, doesn't hurt, either. Cheers.

That said… it confirms me that the Daniel Craig suite was pretty bad 🤐

Wow.. never thought of it that way

Marc-ange Draco I totally agree! OHMSS is the perfect Bond film. John Barry outdid himself ,and Peter Hunt delivered a Bond film that stands the test of time. If George Lazenby hadn't listened to his idiot agent he would have proven to be at least equal to Sean in the part if not even better over time. I am also 60 and have seen them all many times, but OHMSS is special. There is From Russia With Love, Goldfinger and OHMSS. THOSE are the true classic Bond films to beat. (I doubt they can be however)

Marty G Hi Marty ! Of course,OHMSS is the best bond of them all. I'm a fan of Sean Connery, but Lazenby is perfect in the part. When I meet him the first time, he was living in Santa Monica. The man is a good man, the man in Bond is a good Bond ! The perfect Bond, Peter Hunt said to me. For me, all the Bond Films are very good. The 6 first ! From Dr No to OHMSS. After, it's just to do Bond for money. DAF is just a poker film, and the rest....

+Marc-ange Draco perfect film. perfect music. perfect directing. perfect casting. and your comment: also perfect!!

Sean Connery O.H.M.S.S. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rc-mps9pr9ewe5c.html

yep , i thought it was a great film, and music.

Took wrong advice from his manager.....

According to Lazenby himself the contract they offered him was very controlling - telling how to look/dress when not filming, activities that he couldn't do etc. and he just didn't want to be controlled.

I love YOLT and Diamonds with Connery, he is my favorite but I wish Lazenby stuck around for some time

+Greeneyes3005 Dead right! George Lazenby doesn't get the credit he deserves. He looked just like Bond should look and he could fight in real life so the action scenes were great for him. Look at "Bond OHMSS Hotel fight" on you tube,he knocked that guy out cold in rehearsals,he didn't mess about!

+Greeneyes3005 just a slight stiffness coming on :) you got a great taste btw. epic film!!

Totally !!

I know but what does Daltons look here convey? Is it admiration, acknowledgement or disdain that Dalton is expressing? I though it's a combination of acknowledgement and admiration but I can't be sure. Thoughts anyone?

@@jamest4198 Actors can do multiple things with their face at once!

@@jamest4198 I think it's just sheer disbelief to match the admiration It's the sort of face one makes when you just have to tip your hat off to someone doing something you didn't think could be done

George Lazenby is a class act - and a much nicer man than Sean Connery ever was!

+Suhail Khan It's surprising how many people say that,I'm one of them too.

i agree. very underrated.

Suhail Khan he's better than Connery that's for sure

Underrated actor

Nop

Agreed, Timothy Dalton was always far too much the grand, Shakespearean actor slumming it for the masses. I thought his performances as Bond were a bit cringey and 'actor-ish', and lacked credibility.

Funny enough, I see Dalton's Bond as the evolved version of Lazenby's considering he's trying to atone for the events of OHMSS.

@Adolf Berghanus I agree, Lazenby was great and though he came in for a lot of flak over the years for leaving the role after his debut, his performance in OHMSS is lauded today and has passed the ultimate test - time. I worked on this BBCTV special in 2002 and chatted to George Lazenby at length after the show. He was a really lovely, humble guy. I think it's a shame he couldn't have made at least one more Bond movie, as his talent warranted. But from speaking to him about it that night, I think he'd be the first to admit he lacked the maturity at the time, and the self belief, to continue in the role. He told me he found the whole Bond legacy too big a burden to carry. I also think Connery was a very hard act to follow - especially for an actor who was the same rugged physical type. The comparisons with his predecessor were endless - and as unflattering as they were unfair. Because Lazenby didn't make more than one Bond movie, he didn't get a chance to make the role his own. I think that's a shame. Roger Moore's success from LIVE AND LET DIE onwards, surely owed a lot to his reinvention of Bond. There's only one Sean Connery, and after Lazenby I think the Bond franchise realised they needed to totally reinvent 007 with a new interpretation of the character. In Roger Moore, whose style and energy was so different to Connery's, they did just that. Incidentally, I really admired George Lazenby for accepting our invitation to join the 40th anniversary BAFTA tribute to Bond. It was not the easiest occasion for him, meeting up with all his successors in the role after being so unfavourably compared with them over the years. Lazenby's presence at the event was very important to us - we had hoped to get the full set of Bonds, but we always knew Connery was unlikely to accept the invitation due to his long-running feud with the late Bond producer Cubby Broccoli. He was making a movie in Europe at the time we recorded, so could easily have flown to London and taken part. But as pretty much everyone predicted, he declined. That put even more pressure on the booking team to secure all the other Bonds for the show, and thankfully we did. George Lazenby courageously showed up alone, and behaved with great dignity. He was well aware he was the least respected of all the Bonds, not least for his short tenure in the part, but nonetheless he had occupied the legendary role and no one could take that away from him! I felt host Michael Parkinson was a bit dismissive of him in their encounter. But George responded in good humour, and didn't let it faze him. I spent a lot of time with him at the after show party, held at the British Science Museum. He looked a little awkward when he arrived, like a fish out of water, so I invited him to join my group of friends and he stayed and chatted with us all evening. What a warm, intelligent and fascinating man - he was great company, and entertained us with many funny stories! At one point Roger Moore joined us, and he and George had a long and animated chat. Mr Moore is another true gentleman who doesn't take himself too seriously - I wasn't at all surprised that they got on like a house on fire. It was a memorable night. I found George Lazenby, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan (who I met a few times over the years), to be warm, modest and genuinely lovely men. Sean Connery invented the movie role and will always be the most iconic and authentic physical embodiment of Bond as written by Ian Fleming. But his successors each brought something special to the screen, and that's as true of George Lazenby as it is the actors who had many more Bond outings. I'm glad Lazenby is finally getting the recognition and respect he deserves for his brief but superb interpretation of 007.

@@glamdolly30 Well said Glam from a proud Aussie who is biased towards George.

Ummm.... Dalton is literally the closest to the books version of Bond.

''Diamonds are Forever'' is a follow-up of ''You Only Live Twice''. In the first scene after gunbarrel, Bond is stil in Japan looking for Blofeld, only because he is the head of a global criminal organization. The only thing we see without being particularly highlighted, is a part of O.H.M.S.S. car DBS, when Q says to Bond that Peter Franks escaped. There is no reference to Tracy and there is no Irma Bunt.

Yeah if you watch that hoping for a gritty revenge movie. Sorry it not.

She's a sour faced baggage who thinks far too much of herself. Lazenby is a Bond legend and a thoroughly decent man to boot.

I think every around Lazenby was successful. Diana Rigg helped alot. Kind of like putting nobody's in Star Wars.

Fun fact; Lazenby was friends with Bruce Lee.

@@jamest4198 Yes, he was. In 1976, he protrayed the role of Bruce Lee in The Man from Hong Kong and actually filmed there. It was amazing.

@@vincentlui1456 Sure was, are you from Hong Kong? Just curious is it possible someone could be from Hong Kong and 'not' know that Bruce Lee is from Hong Kong? The other day I was at the swimming pool talking with a middle aged Chinese man claiming to be from Hong Kong, but when I started talking about Bruce Lee he told me "Bruce Lee is from America". You and I know damn well Bruce Lee isn't from America, and I was thinking this Chinese guy talking with me must be a mainland Chinese trying to trick me and say he is from HK, but actually he is a mainlander. Am I right?

@@jamest4198 Honestly, many HK people can't 100% define whether he is a HK guy or an American because he was born in USA and raised in HK, then studied at the university of wahington for three years. He had almost spend most of his time in USA in 1960s. Until 1971, he was asked out to HK and shot THE BIG BOSS. So, many of us in HK usually call him "half American and half HK guy. And most of us just called the first lengendary Chinese movie star from HK.

@@vincentlui1456 Ok I understand, but I still think the guy was a mainlander pretending to be from Hong Kong. This guy was a supporter of Carry Lam, typical mainland way of thinking which I don't like. Stay safe my friend.

Or Brosnan.

I worked on this show, Pierce Brosnan was there, Sean Connery was not. We got all the Bonds bar Connery and we knew he was unlikely to accept because of his long running feud with the Bond producers over money. C'est la vie, it was a great night and I spent a long time chatting with George Lazenby at the after show party at the Science Museum - what a lovely, warm and humble man. Much nicer than Sean Connery who is an arrogant git by all accounts!

I love Sean but Lazenby would mop the floor with him. Lazenby was a student of Bruce Lee and it shows!

Lazenby

Connery would go to sleep in a minute.

Lazenby could win a fight against any other Bond actor.

Jack McCullough Probably, but I thought he was decent, especially for an untrained actor plus his fight scenes are some of the best in the series. The guy did train with Bruce Lee after all. I take it back about Moore, though, he is a bit better as Bond.

The Watcher What's wrong with thinking that Lazenby is better then Moore? Just because Moore did 7 films and Lazenby did only 1, that does not mean that Moore is better. Lazenby's film is better then all of Moore's Bond films combined. I like Roger Moore's Bond but his films were nothing special, they had great stunts and special effects but no character development. Lazenby is far better suited to the role of Bond then Moore. Lazenby is athletic and looks great in the figth scenes and did his own stunts. Moore doesn't look believable playing a spy, he's not athletic and looks terrible in most of his figth scenes. And he uses too many stunt doubles! I think Roger could have been a better Bond if he was younger, he was too old when he took the part. I don't blame him for not doing his own stunts because of his age, he started at 45, the age that real life spies retire! But I do enjoy some of his Bond films like TSWLM or FYEO and I think he was a good Bond and was very charismatic. Overall Lazenby is better in my book, his acting was great as well, I don't understand all the hate he gets.

+no hassle Roger Moore was much better than the wooden Lazenby at least Moore has charisma

heavytom89 You put Moore against Lazenby, Lazenby would beat Moore with both hands behind his back.

so what??? Arnold Schwarzenegger could beat booth them up should he have played Bond????

Correct !

@@JamesBondCanada Sadly George Lazenby and Pam Shriver divorced acrimoniously in 2008 after six years of marriage and three children by IVF.

Nothing to do with his agent. Have you seen “Becoming Bond”? He explains it all himself that he would not be controlled. Everyone saying his agent did this and said that are just wrong.

+ibanezman04 He was an excellent Bond...

No he wasn't

+ibanezman04 yes he was

No he wasn't

oh yes he was!! :-)

She is definitely essential to it's success.

@@waynej2608 Agreed she was wonderful. George Lazenby gave a beautiful tribute to Dame Diana Rigg on her recent death. Whatever people say about his interpretation of Bond, the man is a class act.

@@glamdolly30 That's good to know. Not surprising, as Lazenby strikes me as a classy guy, as Diana was a classy lady. And, I think he made a great Bond and I would've liked to have seen him continue in the role, after Connery.

@@waynej2608 I agree, it's a real shame he only did one Bond movie, it was not enough to put his mark on the role, and make it his own. And he acquitted himself well in 'OHMSS', the movie holds up well and has passed the ultimate test of time.