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George Calil’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

By Christopher Harper
Intro British actor
Is Actor 
Film actor 
From United Kingdom 
Type Film, TV, Stage & Radio 
Gender male
Birth 29 March 1973, England, United Kingdom
Age: 47 years
Star sign Aries
Family
Father: Ely Calil 

George Calil (born 29 March 1973) is an English actor and is the son of Lebanese businessman Ely Calil.

His most notable role to date was in the TV mini-series Band of Brothers where he portrayed Sergeant James H. “Mo” Alley, Jr.

He also starred in the BBC drama, Holby City, in which he played the drug dealing boyfriend of Sandy. Sandy was played by Laura Sadler, who was Calil’s girlfriend in real life. In June 2003, 22-year-old Sadler died after falling from the balcony of Calil’s London home after the pair had allegedly taken cocaine. Calil was arrested after Sadler’s death but he was eventually released without charge after police confirmed they were treating Sadler’s death as an accident.

In 2004, Calil starring in the special drama September Tapes, as Don Larson, American journalist who travels to Afghanistan one year after 9/11, in an effort to learn the truth about the search for Osama Bin Laden. The film premiered and sold at the Sundance Film Festival. Also in 2004 he played the role of Pompey the Great in the remake of the 1960 film Spartacus.

In 2005 he starred in four feature films, Rollin’ with the Nines, Pterodactyl, and The Film Maker, and in 2006 he played the lead role of Detective Alex Taylor in the feature film Lycanthropy.