Biography

George Du Count was born on February 19, 1881 in Kavkaz, Georgia, Russia. He was an actor, known for White Fang (1936), The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936) and The Gay Desperado (1936). He was married to Natalie ?. He died on February 7, 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Was a Professional Wrestler.

There is a long-standing family legend that the original hand-drawn map containing the exact GPS-style coordinates of the buried imperial treasures was buried inside his casket at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

In the 1930s, he and his wealthy American wife, Jessica Barham, spent around $300,000 to organize an expedition to recover the buried Romanov gold in Mongolia, though political restrictions prevented them from traveling past Turkey.

According to family accounts, before emigrating to the US, he served as an assistant to the keeper of the Russian Imperial Treasury. In October 1917, under orders from Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, he allegedly led a secret mission to smuggle the Romanov family's personal treasures to Beijing but had to bury them in the Gobi Desert following a bandit attack.