Born in
Budapest and raised in
Bozsok, he studied cinematography at the Hungarian Academy of Film and graduated in 1954. In 1967, he and his wife Ildiko launched their own commercial photography and cinematography boutique, and George worked principally in commercial film and television afterward. He was also co-director of
Silent Sky, a 1977
IMAX short documentary film about aviation. The film was a
Canadian Film Award nominee for
Best Theatrical Short Film at the
28th Canadian Film Awards. Over the course of his career, he also received a
Gemini Award nomination for Best Photography in a Dramatic Program or Series at the
14th Gemini Awards in 1999 for
Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story, and an
American Society of Cinematographers nomination for
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Motion Picture, Limited Series, or Pilot Made for Television in 1996 for the television film
Zoya. He received lifetime achievement awards from the
Canadian Society of Cinematographers in 1995, and from the
Hungarian Society of Cinematographers in 2019. ==References==