Trivia

Performs all stunts in his movies himself.

George is named after his father's favorite character, Götz von Berlichingen. His father - Heinrich George - was imprisoned by the Soviets and starved in the Soviet concentration camp Sachsenhausen Speziallager Nr. 7 Sachsenhausen.

Son of actor Heinrich George and actress Berta Drews.

His first name refers to his father's favorite role on stage, "Götz von Berlichingen".

His last theater tour was in 1990, performing in Tschechow's "Platonov". He later admitted in an interview he feared the glances of the audience on stage.

George performed all stunts himself.

His most important stage achievement, in his own opinion, was the lead role in Büchner's Danton's Death during the Salzburg Festival in 1981.

Brother of actor Jan George.

Went to school in Berlin and later attended the Lyzeum Alpinum in Zuoz, Switzerland.

Daughter Tanja born 1967.

In 2007, he received the Founders' Honorary Award of the German Television Award for his career achievement as an actor.

He became well-known to a broad audience when, during his theater tour in Göttingen, Horst Wendlandt persuaded him to play in one of the Karl May series of films, which he started in 1962 with Der Schatz im Silbersee. It was originally planned to give him the lead role, but this plan was abandoned when Lex Barker was hired to play the role of Old Shatterhand, so George played the farmer son Fred Engel.

In 1953 he was able to get a small film role next to Romy Schneider in Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht. In the same year he played, as he would often do from then on, next to his mother in Shakespeare's Richard III. After small movie parts during the 1950s, Götz George broke through with audiences and critics in the film Jacqueline (1959). George was awarded the Bundesfilmpreis and the Preis der Filmkritik for his role. In 1962 he received the Bambi Award as the most popular actor.

Hansgünther Heyme signed him in 1972 to the Kölner Schauspielhaus, where George played Martin Luther in Dieter Forte's Martin Luther und Thomas Münzer.

George made his stage debut in 1950, performing a role in William Saroyan's My Heart's in the Highlands.

From 1955 to 1958 he also studied at the Berlin UFA-Nachwuchsstudio, though he received the crucial part of his acting education between 1958 and 1963.

Following his mother's - actress Bertha Drews - advice he occasionally played at the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen under the direction of Heinz Hilpert. After Hilpert's death, George would never join a fixed theater company again, although he did regularly perform on tours and as a guest performer.

Among George's most impressive roles in the nineties were his appearances in the television movie Der Sandmann , in which he portrayed the alleged serial killer and writer Henry Kupfer as a cold, calculating and manipulative intellectual, the movie Deathmaker (Der Totmacher), in which he portrayed Fritz Haarmann (The Butcher of Hanover), and in the television movie Die Bubi-Scholz-Story, the trauma of an aged, broken boxer.