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Geoffrey Owens

Geoffrey Owens (born 1961) is an American actor, Elvin Tibideaux on The Cosby Show (1985-1992), Yale graduate, founder of The Brooklyn Shakespeare Company, known for the 2018 Trader Joe's job-shaming incident and roles in The Haves and the Have Nots and The Pitt.

Geoffrey Palmer (actor)

Geoffrey Dyson Palmer (1927-2020), English character actor known for sitcom roles as Jimmy in Reginald Perrin, Ben in Butterflies, and Lionel opposite Judi Dench in As Time Goes By, plus Admiral Roebuck in Tomorrow Never Dies.

Geoffrey Rush

Geoffrey Rush (born 1951, Toowoomba, Queensland) is an Australian actor and producer, Oscar winner for Shine (1996), Triple Crown of Acting winner, Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean, and 2012 Australian of the Year.

Geoffrey Streatfeild

Geoffrey Streatfeild (born 1975, England) is an English stage, TV, and film actor and RADA graduate. Known for Prince Hal/Henry V in the RSC Histories, Calum Reed in Spooks, Fergus Williams in The Thick of It, and films Match Point, Kinky Boots, Rush.

Geography Now

Geography Now, also called GeoNow, is Paul Barbato's educational YouTube channel that profiled all 193 UN-recognized countries alphabetically from Afghanistan (2014) to Zimbabwe (2024), using segments on physical, political, and demographic geography.

Geordi La Forge

Geordi La Forge is the blind Starfleet chief engineer of the USS Enterprise-D in Star Trek: The Next Generation, played by LeVar Burton, who sees through the VISOR device later replaced by ocular implants.

Geordie Shore

Geordie Shore is a British constructed-reality MTV series, the UK adaptation of Jersey Shore, set in Newcastle upon Tyne. First aired May 2011, it has run 26 seasons and 242 episodes, with reunion and holiday formats in later years.

Geordie Shore series 26

Geordie Shore series 26 (Geordie Shore, season 26) is the 2026 Paramount+ season of the MTV reality show: 10 episodes from 13 January 2026, with Chloe Ferry's 30th birthday in Lisbon, Gary Beadle's return after a decade, and Kyle and Vicky's wedding.

Georg Stanford Brown

Georg Stanford Brown (born 1943, Havana) is a Cuban-American actor and director known as Officer Terry Webster on The Rookies and Tom Harvey in Roots and Roots: The Next Generations, and winner of a 1986 Emmy for directing Cagney & Lacey.

George "Gabby" Hayes

George "Gabby" Hayes (George Francis Hayes, 1885–1969), American character actor, the best-known B-western sidekick of the 1930s–40s: Windy Halliday opposite Hopalong Cassidy, then Gabby Whitaker in over 30 Roy Rogers films, later host of The Gabby Hayes Show.

George & Tammy

George & Tammy is a 2022 Showtime six-episode limited series, created by Abe Sylvia and directed by John Hillcoat, starring Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon as Tammy Wynette and George Jones, based on Georgette Jones's memoir.

George A. Romero

George A. Romero (1940-2017), American horror director and Father of the Zombie Film, whose low-budget Pittsburgh debut Night of the Living Dead (1968) created the modern flesh-eating zombie and the Dead series.

George A. Romero filmography

George A. Romero filmography: the Bronx-born, Pittsburgh-based director's credits from Night of the Living Dead (1968) through Survival of the Dead (2010), six Living Dead zombie films, non-zombie features such as Martin and Monkey Shines, Tales from the Darkside, Creepshow with Stephen King, and unmade Resident Evil drafts.

George and Mildred

George and Mildred: ITV Thames Television sitcom (1976-1979, five series, 38 episodes) spin-off of Man About the House, starring Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy as the Ropers, moving to middle-class Hampton Wick next to the Fourmiles; 1980 film and US remake The Ropers.

George and the Dragon (film)

George and the Dragon is a 2004 fantasy adventure comedy film directed by Tom Reeve. It stars James Purefoy and was retitled Dragon Sword for Syfy in 2006.

George and Willie Muse

George and Willie Muse, also billed as Eko and Iko or the Ambassadors from Mars, were African American albino brothers from Truevine, Virginia, taken from their sharecropping family and exhibited in circus sideshows until their mother Harriett reclaimed them in 1927 and won back wages from Ringling Brothers.

George Bailey (It's a Wonderful Life)

George Bailey is the protagonist of Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life, played by James Stewart; a Bedford Falls Building & Loan operator shown by angel Clarence what the world would be without him.

George Balanchine (გიორგი ბალანჩივაძე)

George Balanchine (გიორგი ბალანჩივაძე, 1904–1983), Georgian-Russian-born choreographer, father of American ballet; co-founded School of American Ballet and New York City Ballet, created over 425 works including Serenade, Agon, and The Nutcracker.

George Bancroft (actor)

George Bancroft (1882-1956), American film actor from Philadelphia, Paramount silent-era star of von Sternberg's Underworld and Thunderbolt (Oscar-nominated), later Marshal Curly Wilcox in Stagecoach; retired 1942 as a rancher.

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Irish playwright, critic, and Fabian socialist, wrote over fifty plays including Pygmalion, Man and Superman, and Saint Joan; only person to win both the Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Academy Award (1938).

George Blagden

George Blagden, also known by his roles as Athelstan in Vikings and Louis XIV in Versailles, is a British actor (born 1989, London) and Guildhall graduate who debuted as Grantaire in Tom Hooper's Les Misérables and later starred in the West End.

George Brent

George Brent (George Brendan Nolan, 1904–1979), Irish-born Hollywood leading man at Warner Brothers (1930–53), frequent partner of Bette Davis in films like Dark Victory and Jezebel; birth details disputed.

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 Carlin

George Carlin (1937–2008), American stand-up comedian and social critic, famed for the 'Seven Dirty Words' routine, FCC v. Pacifica, 14 HBO specials, 22 albums, 4 Grammys.

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 Clarke (internet personality)

George Clarke, known online as George Clarkey, is an English YouTuber, TikTok creator and podcast host from Bristol. Distinct from the architect George Clarke, he co-hosts The Useless Hotline and was a 2025 Strictly Come Dancing runner-up with Alexis Warr.

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 Clooney filmography

George Clooney filmography: screen credits of American actor-director George Timothy Clooney, from E/R and The Facts of Life through ER, Ocean's Eleven, Syriana, Good Night and Good Luck, Argo, and Jay Kelly.

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.