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Nathan George

Nathan George
Occupation Film and theatre actor
Years active 1968–1997

Nathan George (July 27, 1936 - March 3, 2017) was an African American actor who was active from 1968 to 1997. He co-won a 1969 Obie Award with Ron O'Neal for Charles Gordone's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "No Place to be Somebody." This performance also received a Drama Desk Award.

George has also directed for the stage. He directed a production of Ron Milner's Who's Got His Own at Center Stage in Baltimore in 1970, and Cummings and Bowings, a play based on poems by E.E. Cummings, for the U.R.G.E.N.T. Theatre in New York in 1973.

In film, George has acted in Brubaker (1980),Klute (1971),Serpico (1973),Harsh Light (1997), his last film, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and was one of the leads in Short Eyes (1977). On March 3rd, 2017, Nathan George passed away in New York City.


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