Best known in Australia as Detective Peter Barnes (1967-73) in the long running police drama Homicide. He later appeared in Cop Shop and began to make a name for himself in local and international movies before suffering the first of the strokes that would eventually kill him in the mid-1980s. He was confined to a wheelchair for the last four years...
Started one of Australia's first hazelnut farms. According to Mark Juddery of newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald, writing in an obituary article in 2004, George saw the farm as his "basic protection against the insecurity of show business".
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Has a daughter, Kirsti, from his first marriage and two sons, Guy and Luke, from his second marriage.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Neighbours
1994
TV Series
Tom Weaver
Time Trax
1994
TV Series
Ralph
Cluedo
1992
TV Series
Colonel Mike Mustard
Ratbag Hero
1991
TV Movie
Benson
The Flying Doctors
1991
TV Series
Malcolm Harrison
Kelly
1991
TV Series
Insp. Webber
A Country Practice
1983-1990
TV Series
Perry Nolan / Gilbert Tyler
The Power, the Passion
1989
TV Series
Justin Wright
All the Way
1988
TV Mini-Series
George Cutler
Sword of Honour
1986
TV Mini-Series
Colonel Curtis
Best Enemies
1985
Mike O'Brien
Outbreak of Hostilities
1985
TV Movie
Vince
The Highest Honor
1982
Lt. Cmdr. Don Davidson
Holiday Island
1981
TV Series
Cornflakes for Tea
1981
TV Series
Magistrate
Prisoner: Cell Block H
1980
TV Series
Paul Reid
Burn the Butterflies
1979
TV Movie
Skyways
1979
TV Series
District Attorney
The Professionals
1978
TV Series
Driver
1990
1977
TV Series
Carr
Secret Army
1977
TV Series
Guard
The Spy Who Loved Me
1977
USS Wayne Crewman
Survivors
1977
TV Series
Ed Mason
Cop Shop
1977
TV Series
Det. Sgt. Glen Taylor
The Rollicking Adventures of Eliza Fraser
1976
Lt. Otter
Power Without Glory
1976
TV Series
Barney Robinson
Tandarra
1976
TV Series
Jacob McGowan
End Play
1976
Robert Gifford
The Box
1975
Paul Donovan
Homicide
1966-1974
TV Series
Det. Sgt. Peter Barnes / Sen. Det. / Sen. Det. Peter Barnes / ...
Petersen
1974
Executive
And the Big Men Fly
1974
TV Series
The Box
1974
TV Series
Paul Donovan
Hunter
1967
TV Series
Kelly / Police Constable
Bellbird
1967
TV Series
Jerry Cochran
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Prisoner: Cell Block H
TV Series writer - 9 episodes, 1980 - 1981 written by - 3 episodes, 1980
Homicide
TV Series written by - 4 episodes, 1968 - 1974 writer - 1 episode, 1974