Famous People with Name Georges

Georges Franju            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Georges Franju: was a French filmmaker. He was born in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine.[2] Before working in French cinema, Franju had several different jobs. These included working for an insurance company and in a noodle factory. Franju was also briefly in the military in Algeria and was discharged in 1932. On his return, Franju studied to become a set designer and later created backdrops for music halls including Casino de Paris and the Folles Bergère.[2]

Georges Lampin            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Georges Lampin: was a French film director. He directed twelve films between 1946 and 1963.

Georges Lautner            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Georges Lautner: is a French film director and screenwriter.

Georges Rouquier            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Georges Rouquier: was a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 12 films between 1942 and 1982. He also directed ten films between 1942 and 1983.

Georges Boudarel            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Georges Boudarel: was a French academic and Communist militant. He was accused of torturing French prisoners for the Viet Minh during the First Indochina War. In 1949, Boudarel, now a teacher of philosophy at the lycée Yersin in Da Lat, left his job and joined with the Viet Minh in the North of Tonkin, where he was made a Political commissar in the prisoner camp "Camp 113" at Lang-Kieu, near the Chinese border, South of Ha-Giang. He went by the nom de guerre of Dai Dong[1]. Numerous testimonies of survivors of the camp would later accuse Boudarel of torturing French Army prisoners. During the year where he was on duty at the camp, 278 prisoners out of 320 perished.

George Georges            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

George Georges: was a Labor senator for Queensland, Australia from 1968 to 1986. From 15 December 1986 he was an independent after quitting the ALP. He was defeated at the 1987 election. Georges was a humanist and socialist who was jailed several times by the Joh Bjelke-