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- Birth nameGeorge Buchan Ogilvie
- George Ogilvie was born on March 5, 1931 in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. He was a director and actor, known for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), Short Changed (1986) and Blue Heelers (1994). He died on April 5, 2020 in New South Wales, Australia.
- He was awarded the A.M. (Member of the Order of Australia) in the 1983 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to the theatre and the performing arts.
- Newtown, New South Wales, Australia
- English-trained director, former actor and drama teacher, resident in Australia.
- Upon returning to Australia, he was urged by noted theater directors Walt Cherry and John Sumner to take up theatre directing. Sumner persuaded him to become associate director of the Melbourne Theater Company. where he directed 23 plays and received three Melbourne Theater Critics Awards before transitioning to artistic director of the South Australian Theatre Company.
- Studied mime under French stage coach Jacques Lecoq.
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