*When Connery left the Bond franchise, the search was on for a new 007.
Filling Connery’s shoes would be no easy task, but producers believed they had their man in Australian actor George Lazenby. Lazenby presented himself as a seasoned actor and something of a playboy, not the relative unknown that he, in fact, was. But his daring ploy worked, and when he performed well for screen tests, he won the role. *Source: Back of card