George Sawaya
George Sawaya was born on August 14, 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is known for Escape from New York (1981), Batman: The Movie (1966) and Repo Man (1984). He was married to Marlene Barr Sawaya. He died on September 17, 2003 in Studio City, California.
George Sayah
George Sayah is known for The Interrogation (2019), Bad Kids Go to Hell (2012) and Last Ride.
George Schewnzer
George Schewnzer is an actor, known for The VelociPastor (2018), 1787 the American Constitution and The Untold Constitution: Miracle of 1787 (2020).
George Schiavone
George Schiavone is known for The Boynton Beach Bereavement Club (2005), Bart Got a Room (2008) and The Glades (2010).
George Schichtle
George Schichtle is known for A Creature Was Stirring (2023), Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018) and The Terrible Tale of Jacquelyn Torne (2017).
George Schlatter
Throughout his long and successful career as a producer, director and writer, George Schlatter has been responsible for hundreds of hours of television series and specials. He changed the face of television when he created and produced such breakthrough series as Laugh-In (1967) and Real People (1979). Over the years, Mr. Schlatter has received numerous honors and awards including 25 Emmy Award nominations, five Emmys, three Image Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Television Critics Awards, the International Radio & Television "Man of the Year" Award, Directors Guild Award, Producers Guild "Man of The Year" Award, as well as many others. When the Television Academy celebrated its 25th Anniversary, they honored him for his outstanding contribution to television. In 1989, he was awarded a star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame. In 1992, Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra, on behalf of the Scott Newman Center, honored him with a tribute dinner for his showmanship and involvement to so many charitable causes. In 1996, the Museum of Television & Radio did a special tribute to him for his contributions in the world of television. Fifteen years ago, he established the American Comedy Awards, an annual televised event designed to acknowledge the contributions and achievements of comedic actors and performers. "Of all the work I've done, I am perhaps most proud of my involvement in the early careers of performers like Goldie Hawn, Lily Tomlin, Roseanne Barr, Robin Williams, Ellen DeGeneres and others who have gone on to greater heights. Working with stars is rewarding, but helping to create stars is the most fulfilling of all accomplishments". Mr. Schlatter is a veteran of over 30 years in network television. He produced the first 5 years of the Grammy Awards plus series and specials starring Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Eddie Murphy, Cher, Elton John, Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Liza Minnelli, Michael Jackson, Doris Day, Jonathan Winters, Richard Pryor, Shirley MacLaine, Bill Cosby, Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason, Diana Ross, Lena Horne, Dinah Shore, Nat 'King' Cole and scores of others. In honor of Frank Sinatra's milestone 80th birthday, Mr. Schlatter produced the Emmy-winning critically acclaimed two-hour Special Sinatra: 80 Years My Way (1995). His recent credits include the 15th Annual American Comedy Awards, The American Film Institute Life Achievement Award AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Dustin Hoffman (1999) and to Harrison Ford, The 54th Presidential Inaugural Opening Ceremonies and Muhammad Ali's 60th Birthday Celebration. In the past few seasons, he produced the highly successful Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In: 25th Anniversary Reunion (1993), the Emmy-award winning 'Sammy Davis Jr''s 60th Anniversary Celebration, Muhammad Ali's 50th Birthday Celebration, Frank Sinatra's 75th Birthday Celebration, The 25th Anniversary Of The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, The USO 50th Anniversary Welcome Home America, as well as the Comedy Hall Of Fame Specials, A Party For Richard Pryor, The People's Choice Awards, Frank, Liza And Sammy: The Ultimate Event, The American Television Awards, and the Thanksgiving Special Sinatra Duets. He is married to former actress Jolene Brand who was a regular on the The Ernie Kovacs Show (1952) and they have two daughters. Andrea Justine is also a champion equestrian rider. Their daughter Maria S. Schlatter is an Emmy award winning television producer.
George Schminky
George Schminky is known for Fist 2 Fist 2: Weapon of Choice (2014), Strife (2017) and Sweet Kitty (2017).
George Schroeder
George Schroeder is known for The Mustang (2019).
George Sear
At the age of 11, George played the part of the boy in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot at the Theatre Royal, where he worked with Sir Patrick Stewart who taught him how to play backgammon! Prior to this, George's other acting credits include The Bill, his first professional role. In 2017, George played Billy Cooper in the TNT series Will, created by Craig Pearce. He got to take on some of Shakespeare's women's characters, as was customary for the young theatre apprentice in Elizabethan England. Other TV credits include a recurring guest star on season 3 of AMC's Into The Badlands (2018). George starred as Seb in the Disney Channel mystery adventure series Evermoor, which premiered on the Disney Channel in more than 160 countries worldwide from autumn 2014. He also presented on the BAFTA award-winning British children's entertainment television series, Friday Download, and appears in a feature length version, Friday Download The Movie, which premiered in UK theaters in 2015. An avid fan of music, in 2013, George guest presented on BBC Radio 1's Chart Show. He remains passionate about music, and plays drums and guitar. When George isn't acting and presenting, he's into fitness in a big way and enjoys practicing calisthenics. George's break dancing led him to compete in the UDO world-championships in 2012, where he was placed 2nd. Soon after, he appeared on the popular children's entertainment show, Alisha's Street Dance Stars. George recently moved to Los Angeles.
George Seaton
Working his way up from general factotum and gag writer to highly versatile writer/director, George Seaton was involved in many aspects of the entertainment industry along the way. He was born George Stenius of Swedish parentage (his family hailed from Stockholm) in South Bend, IN, and grew up in Detroit. Determined to become an actor after leaving school, rather than pursuing a university education at Yale (much to his father's chagrin), George joined Jessie Bonstelle's stock company for $15 a week and changed his name to "Seaton", which he thought people would find easier to pronounce. In addition to his work on the stage, he supplied the voice to "The Lone Ranger" on Detroit radio station WXYZ, where he claimed to have originated the "Hi-yo, Silver!" catchphrase because of his inability to whistle. In 1933 he sent a play he had written to MGM's office in New York. Irving Thalberg, who read it, was less interested in the play than the man, in whom he recognized potential. George was consequently hired as a writer for $50 a week, to learn his new trade as an assistant to the famous writing team of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Unfortunately, MGM parted company with the duo before George ever reached Hollywood. Over the next few years George worked, often uncredited, as a gag writer and ideas man. The turning point in his career was his contribution to the classic The Marx Brothers picture A Night at the Opera (1935). Groucho Marx was sufficiently impressed to ask for his collaboration on the screenplay for A Day at the Races (1937). This zany comedy proved one of the brothers' biggest hits and, along with Robert Pirosh, George Oppenheimer and Al Boasberg, the name George Seaton appeared prominently among the writing credits. He also sidelined as a playwright, but his first attempt to create a hit on Broadway, "But Not Goodbye", closed in 1944 after just 23 performances. He tried again 23 years later with the comedy "Love in E Flat", to even poorer critical reception. During a brief stint at Columbia (1939-40 he became the protégé of producer William Perlberg. When Perlberg left Columbia to join 20th Century-Fox in 1941 he took George with him. As a result of this alliance, George had carte blanche to write the screenplay for the religious drama The Song of Bernadette (1943), which was a box-office hit and garnered him an Academy Award nomination. He remained under contract to Fox as a writer until 1950, and as a director from 1945-50. His directorial debut, from his own screenplay, was the musical comedy Diamond Horseshoe (1945) starring Betty Grable. Featuring the classic song "The More I See You" (sung by Dick Haymes), "Diamond Horseshoe" turned a tidy profit for Fox, and for Billy Rose, who earned a $76,000 fee for allowing his nightclub (or a set thereof) to be used as the backdrop for the film. George's next assignments as writer/director included humorous family fare in the shape of Junior Miss (1945) and the period comedy The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947), with Grable and songs by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. "Miss Pilgrim" was a lamentable failure, as audiences were unwilling to accept Grable's "Million Dollar Legs" hidden beneath 1870s skirts. His next film more than compensated for that failure: the perennial sentimental Christmas favorite Miracle on 34th Street (1947), which won Academy Awards for Seaton (Best Screenplay), Valentine Davies (Best Original Story) and Edmund Gwenn (Best Supporting Actor) as Kris Kringle. Two of the last Seaton-Perlberg collaborations at Fox were The Big Lift (1950), a well-mounted drama based on the Berlin airlift, filmed on location; and for heaven's sake (1950), an amusing variant on Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), starring Clifton Webb. In 1952 the team packed their bags and set up shop at Paramount, where they remained for eight years. For the remainder of the decade George worked as co-producer (with Perlberg) on several big-budget films, such as The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954) and the classic western The Tin Star (1957). Seaton won his second Academy Award (again for Best Screenplay) for his adaptation of a play by Clifford Odets, The Country Girl (1954). The film was one of Paramount's top-grossing releases of the year. George was credited with eliciting Bing Crosby's best-ever dramatic performance as an alcoholic weakling and Grace Kelly's (who won the Academy Award as Best Actress) as his wife. Seaton's output became more sparse during the following decade. He directed Fred Astaire and Lilli Palmer in the stagy but highly entertaining The Pleasure of His Company (1961) and William Holden and Lilli Palmer in the excellent World War II espionage drama The Counterfeit Traitor (1962). His last big success as director was the blockbuster Airport (1970), for which he won another Academy Award nomination. Until Jaws (1975), this was Universal's biggest money-making picture, earning the studio $45 million in film rentals in the US and Canada alone. In addition to his direct involvement in making movies, George Seaton was also very active within Hollywood as President of the Screenwriter's Guild, President of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences (from 1955-58) and Vice President of the Motion Picture Relief Fund. He was a recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1961. His wife, Phyllis Loughton, a former Hollywood dialogue director, became the first female mayor of Beverly Hills.