Nathan George
American actor

Nathan George

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Nathan George is 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).

Selected filmography

  • Klute (1971) - Trask
  • Serpico (1973) - Smith
  • The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) - Police Ptl. James
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - Washington
  • Short Eyes (1977) - Ice
  • Brubaker (1980) - Leon Edwards - Prison Board
  • Night Falls on Manhattan (1996) - Juror (uncredited)