- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGeorge Frederick Mallaby
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Best known in Australia as Detective Peter Barnes (1967-73) in the long running police drama Homicide (1964). He later appeared in Cop Shop (1977) and began to make a name for himself in local and international movies before suffering the first of the strokes that would eventually kill him in the mid-1980s. He was confined to a wheelchair for the last four years of his life. He and his wife Lenice Reed were married for 28 years, having met on the set of Homicide.
- IMDb mini biography by: Taipan-1
- SpousesLenice Reed(1975 - July 12, 2004) (his death, 2 children)Ruth Bass(1968 - 1975) (1 child)
- Has a daughter, Kirsti, from his first marriage and two sons, Guy Mallaby and Luke, from his second marriage.
- Started one of Australia's first hazelnut farms. According to Mark Juddery of newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald, writing in an obituary article in 2004, George saw the farm as his "basic protection against the insecurity of show business".
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