Father of Tina Brown and Christopher Hambley Brown.
His wife, Bettina Kohr Brown, was Laurence Olivier's press agent when they met. In her later years, she worked as a gossip columnist for an English-language magazine for expatriates in Spain, where she and George lived in retirement.
During World War II, he spent two years in the North African desert as part of the newly formed RAF Film Unit.
Served as a stuntman, bit player, singer and dancer, before his knowledge of Spanish helped get him a foot in the production side of the film industry as third assistant director on "The House of the Spaniard" (1936).
He is credited with the fortuitous casting of Margaret Rutherford as the famous sleuth Miss Marple in "Murder She Said", which spawned three equally successful sequels.