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George Burns
George Burns (Nathan Birnbaum, 1896–1996), American comedian and actor; half of the Burns and Allen duo with wife Gracie Allen; won the 1976 Oscar for The Sunshine Boys and played God in Oh, God!; died at 100.
George C. Scott
George C. Scott (George Campbell Scott, 1927-1999), American stage, film, and TV actor known for Patton and Dr. Strangelove; won the 1971 Best Actor Oscar for Patton and refused it, also declining an Emmy for The Price.
George Chakiris
George Chakiris (born September 16, 1934) is an American dancer-actor who won the 1962 Best Supporting Actor Oscar and Golden Globe as Bernardo in West Side Story after playing Riff in London.
George Clooney
George Clooney (George Timothy Clooney), American actor, director, and philanthropist from Lexington, Kentucky; ER's Dr. Doug Ross; two Oscars (Syriana, Argo), Ocean's Eleven, Good Night and Good Luck, Clooney Foundation for Justice.
George Coe
George Coe (George Julian Cohen, 1929–2015), American character actor and original Saturday Night Live cast member, Oscar-nominated for De Düva: The Dove, voice of Woodhouse on Archer.
George Cole (actor)
George Cole (1925–2015), English actor, played Arthur Daley in ITV's Minder (1979–94) and Flash Harry in the St Trinian's films; OBE 1992, BAFTA-nominated, mentored by Alastair Sim.
George Costigan
George Costigan (born 1947, Portsmouth; raised in Salford) is an English actor and writer known for Bob in Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987), Blood Brothers' Mickey Johnstone, Happy Valley's Nevison Gallagher, and Line of Duty's Patrick Fairbank.
George Dzundza
George Dzundza (born 1945, Rosenheim, Germany) is a German-born American actor known as Sgt. Max Greevey on Law & Order season one and for The Deer Hunter, Basic Instinct, and Crimson Tide.
George Formby
George Formby (George Hoy Booth, 1904–1961), Wigan-born English music hall comedian, singer, and banjo-ukulele player; star of 21 hit films, Britain's highest-paid entertainer by 1939, OBE 1946.
George Fouracres
George Fouracres, English actor and comedian from Willenhall, Black Country; Daphne sketch group member with Phil Wang and Jason Forbes; Globe Hamlet and Falstaff; SNL UK cast member.
George Gaynes
George Gaynes (born George Jongejans, 1917–2016), Finnish-born American actor and opera singer; Henry Warnimont on Punky Brewster, Commandant Lassard in all seven Police Academy films, John Van Horn in Tootsie, and Robert Baker in Broadway's Wonderful Town.
George H. Xanthis
George H. Xanthis (George Harrison Xanthis), born 1989 in Earlwood, Sydney, is an Australian actor, writer, producer, and comedian who plays John the Apostle in The Chosen and was AACTA-nominated for Open Slather.
George Hamilton (actor)
George Hamilton (born August 12, 1939, Memphis) is an American actor known for his tan and playboy image, from MGM dramas like Home from the Hill to comedies Love at First Bite and Zorro, The Gay Blade; not the Hamilton musical or the country singer.
George Hawkins (actor)
George Hawkins is a British actor trained at Mountview Academy (2023), known as Cadet Darem Reymi in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (2026), Dylan in Tell Me Everything, and roles in Boiling Point and Gassed Up.
George Kennedy
George Kennedy (George Harris Kennedy), 1925 to 2016, was an American character actor who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as Dragline in Cool Hand Luke (1967).
George Layton
George Layton (born 1943, Bradford; born George Lowy) is an English actor, writer and director, Paul Collier in Doctor in the House, Bombardier Solly in It Ain't Half Hot Mum, creator of Don't Wait Up.
George Lazenby
George Lazenby (born 1939, Goulburn, Australia) is an Australian actor and former model who played James Bond once, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), succeeding Sean Connery, then declined a seven-film contract.
George Lindsey
George Smith Lindsey (1928-2012), American character actor born in Fairfield, Alabama, best known as Goober Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D., and Hee Haw; UNA graduate and founder of the George Lindsey UNA Film Festival.
George Loros
George Loros (George Kandiloros), American character actor and Lee Strasberg Institute acting teacher; played Raymond Curto on The Sopranos (1999–2006), Broadway's Thieves (1974), and over 100 TV guest roles.
George MacKay (actor)
George MacKay (born 1992) is a British actor from Hammersmith, London, lead of 1917 and Captain Fantastic, BIFA-winning for Femme, and Edward Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility (2026).
George Macready
George Macready (George Peabody Macready Jr., 1899-1973), American character actor of stage, film, and TV; Broadway from 1926; known for Gilda's Ballin Mundson, Paths of Glory's Gen. Mireau, and Peyton Place's Martin Peyton.
George Maharis
George Maharis (born George Mahairas, 1928–2023), American actor, singer, and painter; starred as Buz Murdock in Route 66 (CBS, 1960–1963), 1962 Emmy nominee, hit "Teach Me Tonight"; distinct from George Makris and George Maris.
George Montgomery (actor)
George Montgomery (born George Montgomery Letz, 1916-2000), American Western film and TV actor of 87 pictures, Cimarron City star, Philip Marlowe in The Brasher Doubloon, later sculptor and furniture maker.
George Murphy
George Lloyd Murphy (1902–1992), American song-and-dance man and Republican politician; Screen Actors Guild president 1944–46, over 40 Hollywood films, and U.S. senator from California 1965–1971, defeated by John Tunney in 1970.
George Newbern
George Newbern (George Young Newbern), American actor born 1964 in Little Rock, Arkansas; voice of Superman since 2001's Justice League, Sephiroth in Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, Charlie in Scandal, and Bryan MacKenzie in Father of the Bride.
George O. Gore II
George O. Gore II, also credited as George Gore II, is an American actor born in 1982 in Fort Washington, Maryland, known for Gregory "G" Williams on New York Undercover (1994-1998) and Michael "Junior" Kyle on My Wife and Kids (2001-2005), later a writer on Sneakerella.
George Peppard
George Peppard (1928–1994), American actor, Paul Varjak in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Hannibal Smith in The A-Team; also Banacek, fired from Dynasty pilot, six marriages.
George Raft
George Raft (born George Ranft, 1901 or 1895) was an American actor and dancer famous for coin-flipping gangster roles like Scarface (1932) and Some Like It Hot's Spats Colombo, and for turning down High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon, and Casablanca.
George Reeves
George Reeves (1914-1959), born George Keefer Brewer, American actor who played Superman and Clark Kent in Adventures of Superman (1952-1958, 104 episodes) and Superman and the Mole Men (1951); died of a gunshot wound ruled a suicide in Beverly Hills in 1959.
George Rexstrew
George Rexstrew (born 1997) is a British actor from London, a Durham Modern Languages graduate and LAMDA alumnus (2020) who made his TV debut as co-lead Edwin Payne in Netflix's Dead Boy Detectives (2024, canceled after one season), cast via Warner Bros.' Actors In Training program.