John George (Arabic: جون جورج‎; born Tufei Fatella, January
20, 1898 â€" August 25, 1968) was an actor who appeared in at least
130 movies from 1916 to 1960. George worked in films of all genres
alongside countless stars although often for only the briefest of
appearances, uncredited.George was born in Aleppo, Syria. Little is
known about his early life but he immigrated to the United States
around 1911 and searched for his mother and sisters who seem to have
settled in the Nashville, Tennessee, area.Eventually George found his
way to Los Angeles and the early silent film industry. George may have
begun his career in the Joseph De Grasse movie Bobbie of the Ballet
(1916) as an uncredited "tenement dweller". George may have even
appeared earlier than that in the 1915 serial The Broken Coin
unbilled, as an actor who strongly favors him appears in a still photo
from the chapter play with Francis Ford and Grace Cunard in Daniel
Blum's Pictorial History of the Silent Screen.George went on to appear
in Rex Ingram's Gothic melodrama Black Orchids (1917) as a character
named Ali Bara. George worked in dozens of movies for Rex Ingram until
1926 when Ingram, tired of George's gambling, sent him home on a bus.
20, 1898 â€" August 25, 1968) was an actor who appeared in at least
130 movies from 1916 to 1960. George worked in films of all genres
alongside countless stars although often for only the briefest of
appearances, uncredited.George was born in Aleppo, Syria. Little is
known about his early life but he immigrated to the United States
around 1911 and searched for his mother and sisters who seem to have
settled in the Nashville, Tennessee, area.Eventually George found his
way to Los Angeles and the early silent film industry. George may have
begun his career in the Joseph De Grasse movie Bobbie of the Ballet
(1916) as an uncredited "tenement dweller". George may have even
appeared earlier than that in the 1915 serial The Broken Coin
unbilled, as an actor who strongly favors him appears in a still photo
from the chapter play with Francis Ford and Grace Cunard in Daniel
Blum's Pictorial History of the Silent Screen.George went on to appear
in Rex Ingram's Gothic melodrama Black Orchids (1917) as a character
named Ali Bara. George worked in dozens of movies for Rex Ingram until
1926 when Ingram, tired of George's gambling, sent him home on a bus.
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