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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 Nader
George Nader (October 19, 1921 - February 4, 2002) was an American actor of 1950s Hollywood films, star of Robot Monster and eight German Jerry Cotton thrillers, and author of the gay sci-fi novel Chrome.
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 O'Malley
George O'Malley, also called 007, is a fictional surgical intern on Grey's Anatomy played by T.R. Knight from 2005; he marries Callie Torres, dies heroically in the season 5 finale, and returns in season 17.
George of the Jungle
George of the Jungle is a comedy franchise begun in 1967 by Jay Ward Productions as a Tarzan spoof, later a 1997 Disney live-action film with Brendan Fraser, a 2003 sequel, and 2007 and 2015 animated reboots.
George of the Jungle (film)
George of the Jungle is a 1997 American live-action comedy from Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Sam Weisman and starring Brendan Fraser, based on Jay Ward's 1960s animated series.
George of the Jungle 2
George of the Jungle 2 (2003) is Disney's direct-to-video sequel to the 1997 comedy, directed by David Grossman, starring Christopher Showerman as George, with Julie Benz, Thomas Haden Church, and John Cleese, released October 21, 2003.
George P. Cosmatos
George P. Cosmatos (George Pan Cosmatos, 1941-2005), Greek-Italian film director who began as assistant director on Exodus, known for Rambo: First Blood Part II, Cobra, Leviathan, and Tombstone (1993), father of director Panos Cosmatos.
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.
George Robinson (actor)
George Robinson (George Ross Robinson, born 1997, Nottingham) is a British actor and writer, quadriplegic since a 2015 school rugby accident in South Africa, best known as Isaac Goodwin in Netflix's Sex Education and later in Silo and My Fault: London.
George Roy Hill
George Roy Hill (1921-2002), American film director of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, Oscar winner for Best Director, also made Slap Shot and The World According to Garp.
George Sampson
George William Sampson (born 1993, Warrington) is the English street dancer who won Britain's Got Talent series 2 in 2008 at 14 with 'Singin' in the Rain', then became an actor in Waterloo Road and Emmerdale.
George Sanders
George Sanders (1906–1972), English actor born in Saint Petersburg, Oscar winner as Addison DeWitt in All About Eve, famed for suave cad roles, the Saint and Falcon series, Shere Khan's voice, and Memoirs of a Professional Cad.
George Savalas
George Savalas (George Nicholas Tsavalas, 1924–1985), Greek-American actor, brother of Telly Savalas; played Detective Stavros on Kojak (1973–78), billed as Demosthenes early on, and appeared in Kelly's Heroes.
George Segal
George Segal (1934–2021), American actor and banjo player born in Great Neck, New York; Oscar-nominated for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Golden Globe winner for A Touch of Class, later star of Just Shoot Me! and The Goldbergs; distinct from the sculptor George Segal (1924–2000).
George Shapiro
George Shapiro (1931–2022) was an American talent manager and TV producer; with Howard West he managed Andy Kaufman, Carl Reiner, and Jerry Seinfeld, got Seinfeld on NBC, and executive produced Seinfeld, winning one of 12 Emmys.
George Stevens
George Stevens (1904–1975) was an American film director and cinematographer of Swing Time, Gunga Din, A Place in the Sun, Shane, and Giant, a two-time Best Director Oscar winner who filmed D-Day and Dachau in color during World War II.
George Stults
George Stults (George Sheehy Stults, born 1975) is an American actor, brother of Geoff Stults, best known as police officer Kevin Kinkirk on 7th Heaven (2002–2007, 114 episodes) and later TV movies.
George Takei
George Takei (born 1937, Los Angeles) is an American actor and activist, Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek, incarcerated as a child in WWII Japanese American camps, later a civil rights, LGBTQ+, and remembrance advocate.
George Tobias
George Tobias (1901-1980), American character actor of Broadway and Hollywood; Warner Bros. films Sergeant York and Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Abner Kravitz on the sitcom Bewitched from 1964 to 1971.
George Webster (presenter)
George Webster (presenter), born 2000 in Rawdon, West Yorkshire, English CBeebies presenter, actor and author; first BBC children's presenter with Down's syndrome (2021), BAFTA Best Children's Presenter winner, Strictly 2022 Christmas contestant.
George Wendt
George Wendt (1948–2025), American actor and Second City alumnus, played Norm Peterson on all 11 seasons of Cheers, earning six Emmy nominations, and later performed on Broadway in Art, Hairspray, and Elf.
George Wyner
George Wyner (born 1945) is an American character actor best known for playing ADA Irwin Bernstein on Hill Street Blues and Colonel Sandurz in Spaceballs.
George Young (actor)
George Young (吴宇卫, born George Ng, 1980, London) is a British actor, writer, and presenter; former lawyer, ELLE award winner, host of Million Dollar Money Drop Singapore, and actor in Containment, Malignant, and Falling for Christmas.
Georges Franju
Georges Franju (1912-1987), French filmmaker, co-founder of the Cinémathèque française, documentarist of Le Sang des bêtes, and director of Les Yeux sans visage, Judex, and Thérèse Desqueyroux.
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès (Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, 1861–1938), French illusionist and film pioneer, founder of Star Film (1896), creator of about 500 films including A Trip to the Moon (1902), and inventor of early special effects such as the stop trick, multiple exposures, and hand-painted color.