Becoming Bond
Filmmaker Josh Greenbaum examines the life and career of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances, landed the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), without no acting experience.
20 July 1938, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, UK
17 June 1949, Denver, Colorado, USA
28 March 1935, Cudworth, Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, UK
31 August 1978, Dalton, Georgia, USA
10 October 1990, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
21 January 1922, Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA
28 May 1978, Evanston, Illinois, USA
7 July 1987, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
9 July 1952, Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA
26 January 1969, Manchester, England, UK
10 September 1960, USA
17 March 1925, Rome, Lazio, Italy
2 December 1981, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
29 August 1928, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK
8 September 1997, Santa Clarita, California, USA
18 April 1963, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
7 April 1939, Tenterden, Kent, England, UK
May 17, 2017
Intimate, irreverent and at times laugh-out-loud funny ...
March 13, 2017
A film about a guy who did life his own way, and it's an enjoyable ride.
May 19, 2017
There is a potentially interesting film-documentary or fiction-in Lazenby's life and career, but Becoming Bond, despite its ambitions, is not it.
April 26, 2017
The result is as slick as it is hilarious, a perfect portrait of an aging ladies' man and irascible rebel agent.
May 17, 2017
A bizarre hybrid of documentary and feature...
May 20, 2017
[A] rather A&E/TLC treatment of Lazenby's life.
