Nathan George

Actor

BIOGRAPHY

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 ONeal for Charles Gordones Pulitzer Prize-winning play No Place to be Somebody. This performance also received a Drama Desk Award.George also directed for the stage. He directed a production of Ron Milners Whos 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 acted in Brubaker (1980), Klute (1971), Serpico (1973), Harsh Light (1997), his last film, and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (1975) and was one of the leads in Short Eyes (1977).George died on March 3, 2017 in New York City.

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