George Ogilvie

George Buchan Ogilvie (5 March 1931 – 5 April 2020) was a prolific Australian theatre director and actor, who also worked as a director and actor in film and television. He was known for being the founding artistic director of the State Theatre Company of South Australia, and was also an educator.

Early life and education George Buchan Ogilvie in Goulburn, New South Wales. He had an identical twin brother, Jim, two other brothers, and three sisters. His parents were from northern Scotland, his father a baker and his mother a graduate of both Aberdeen and Edinburgh universities. They migrated to Australia during the Great Depression in 1930, which affected Australia as well, causing the family to move from Goulburn to Canberra when the bakery business failed.

In his memoir, he wrote that the best work he had performed was his production of Chekhov's Three Sisters at the Russell Street Theatre in Melbourne in 1968.

Screen Ogilvie's television acting credits include the 1983 miniseries The Dismissal and the 1984 miniseries Bodyline (1984)

In 1988, Ogilvie was awarded the Byron Kennedy Award.

Later life and death In 2006, Ogilvie's autobiography: Simple Gifts – a life in the theatre, was published by Currency Press.

He spent the last three years of his life sharing a home with his sister Carol. He was survived by sisters Carol and Jean.