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  2. Apr 27, 1989 · George Coulouris, an actor who portrayed a rogue's gallery of villains in dozens of plays and films, died of heart failure Tuesday in London after a long illness. He was 85 years old.

  3. Return to Britain. After his return in 1950 Coulouris joined the Bristol Old Vic company for its Spring season, appearing as Tartuffe, Brutus and Sir John Brute, among other roles. Living in Putney and later in Hampstead. [9] he appeared in more films, theatre and television productions.

  4. Apr 28, 1989 · George Coulouris, an English actor who played a series of devastatingly cruel villains both on stage and in films and who was an original member of Orson Welles' fabled Mercury Theater, has died...

  5. He ran away from home at the age of 20, intending to become an actor but winding up as a waiter on the liner Majestic, Eventually he managed to win, acceptance to the Central School of Dramatic Art in London.

  6. George Coulouris (born Oct. 1, 1903, Manchester, Eng.—died April 25, 1989, London) was a British actor known for his portrayals of villainous characters such as Count Teck de Brancovis in both the stage (1941) and screen (1943) versions of Lillian Hellman’s Watch on the Rhine.

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  7. The actor George Coulouris, whose colourful career encompassed distinguished work with Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre and a vast range of eccentric film roles, died on April 25, of heart failure in London after a long illness. He was 85.

  8. At the end of the 1940s Coulouris returned to live in England, joining the Bristol Old Vic where he was notable as Tartuffe, transferring to London. In the '50s and '60s George remained a stalwart stage actor in spite of his movie reputation. He liked nothing better than to grapple with Ibsen, Shaw, Strindberg, Moliere or Shakespeare.