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George Lucas
George Lucas (born 1944) is the American filmmaker who created Star Wars, founded Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic, sold Lucasfilm to Disney for $4 billion in 2012, and opened the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles in 2026.
George M. Cohan
George M. Cohan (1878–1942) was an American composer, playwright, producer, and performer of Providence, Rhode Island birth, the "Yankee Doodle Boy" who shaped Broadway musical comedy and wrote "Over There."
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 Maryan
George Maryan (ஜார்ஜ் மரியன்), born 1963, is an Indian Tamil film actor and comedian in supporting roles, known for Constable Napoleon in Kaithi (2019) and Leo (2023), Bigil, and Dragon (2025), after a 1989–2002 theatre career with Koothu-P-Pattarai.
George Miller (filmmaker)
George Miller, born 1945, Australian director of Greek immigrant parents; directed Mad Max (1979), Fury Road (six Oscars), Happy Feet (2007 Oscar), produced Babe, and followed with Three Thousand Years of Longing and Furiosa.
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 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 S. Kaufman
George S. Kaufman (George Simon Kaufman, 1889–1961), American Broadway playwright, director, and Algonquin Round Table wit; collaborator of Moss Hart, Edna Ferber, and the Gershwins; two Pulitzer Prizes for Of Thee I Sing and You Can't Take It With You.
George Salazar
George Ernest Salazar (born 1986) is an American actor, singer, and musician known for originating Michael Mell in Be More Chill on and off Broadway, and for Grover in The Lightning Thief, Superstore, and Disney's Snow White.
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.