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George Coulouris

George Coulouris
George Coulouris
Born: Oct 01, 1903 in Manchester, England
Died: Apr 25, 1989 in London, England, UK
Occupation: Actor
Active: '40s-'70s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Citizen Kane, A Song to Remember, Watch on the Rhine
First Major Screen Credit: The Lady in Question (1940)
10 Videos for George Coulouris
The Long Good Friday (1980) Arabesque (1966) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
The Ritz (1976) King of Kings (1961) Citizen Kane (1941)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Mr. Skeffington (1944) All This and Heaven Too (1940)
Papillon (1973)
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Biography:

When his parents resisted his desire to become an actor, George Coulouris ran away from his home in Manchester, England. After training at London's Central School of Dramatic Art, Coulouris made his first professional stage appearance in 1925 with the Old Vic. In 1929, Coulouris came to Broadway, where he would remain throughout the 1930s save for a brief appearance in the 1933 Hollywood film Christopher Bean.

The tall, aristocratic-sounding Coulouris joined Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre, appearing in Welles's 1937 modern-dress version of Julius Caesar. He also appeared as the Rockefeller-like Walter Parks Thatcher in Welles's landmark film Citizen Kane (1941) (for publicity purposes, Kane was advertised as Coulouris' cinematic debut).

Most of Coulouris' subsequent film roles were villainous in nature; in 1944, he was Oscar-nominated for his performance as a hateful fascist in Watch on the Rhine, and in 1945 he was top-billed for his role as an incognito Nazi in The Master Race. A victim of Parkinson's disease, George Coulouris still managed to remain active until 1980, when he made his farewell screen appearance in The Long Good Friday.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.