George Lazenby was born in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia, and served in the Australian Army Special forces and as a military unarmed combat instructor.
He moved to London in 1964; working as a car salesman and as a model, then as an actor in advertising, by 1968, he was the highest-paid model in the world (it is said that in 1967, he made £40,000 directly from modelling, and £60,000 from commercials and product endorsements—equivalent to more than a million pounds in 2004); he also was the European Marlboro Man.
George talks about his experience being James Bond.