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Profile of Anthony George
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Anthony George |
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29th January 1921 |
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Endicott, New York, USA |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Anthony George (born January 29, 1921; died March 16, 2005) was an American actor mostly seen on television.
He was born Octavio Gabriel George in Endicott, New York. From the age of 6, George dreamt of being in films. After serving in World War II, George moved to Hollywood to achieve his goal of stardom. The first few years were lean, but by 1950 he had received his first credit and the work began to accumulate.
His greatest success came from his decades-long career in daytime television soap-operas. In 1967 he replaced Mitchell Ryan as the brooding Burke Devlin on Dark Shadows. Some months later, the character was "killed" in a lane crash, and George created the role of Jeremiah Collins in a flashback to the year 1795. The story ran for most of 1967, until Jeremiah was killed off. George obtained further roles on Search for Tomorrow and One Life to Live, the latter in which he replaced former film star Farley Granger as Dr. Will Vernon. In the late 70's and early 80's, OLTL was written and produced by many Dark Shadows alumni, which led to an amusing scene where former DS stars George, Nancy Barrett and Grayson Hall, as their Llanview counterparts, wondered where they had previously met.
After being written out of OLTL in 1984, George continued to make sporadic film and television appearances. In 1991 he was awarded a Bronze Star on the Binghamton, New York Sidewalk of Stars. In March 2005 he died in a California hospital of pulmonary disease at the age of 84.
External link
- Anthony George at the Internet Movie Database
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