George was born in Jerusalem on 1 July 1952 to Jewish parents of Baghdadi Jewish (Iraqi Jewish) descent, who had immigrated to Israel. His father was born in Lebanon, his mother, in India. A year after his birth, the family moved from Israel to London and then, in 1966, to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. George is the youngest of four siblings.

He also took over the voice of Bob Fish in the Anglo-Canadian animated comedy series Bob and Margaret and The Inspector in the 1993 revival series of The Pink Panther. He played a guru in the film Inspector Gadget where he is training with Inspector Gadget to control his gadgets and tells him to grab two balls with his expanding arm and Gadget does so, but instead, he accidentally grips the guru’s testicles causing him to get a high-pitched voice. He is then hospitalised.

He also voiced Sahin the Falcon and Stuart Black in Age of Empires III and is also the voice of Fareed “Freddie” Abdul Salaam (a taxi driver and informant) in the game True Crime: New York City. He plays a short tempered convenience store owner in the 2001 film Ghost World. He also plays the role of “Iqbal” in the 2006 film Employee of the Month.

He played “Pushpop”, an Indian ice cream vendor, in the 2001 film Bubble Boy. He also played the culturally diverse (Sikh-Catholic-Muslim mix with Jewish in-laws) bartender who counselled the priest played by Edward Norton through a crisis of faith in the 2000 film Keeping the Faith. In the 2008 indie romantic comedy Shades of Ray, he played the overbearing Pakistani father to a half-Pakistani, half-Caucasian (Zachary Levi) in the midst of questioning his prior policy of only dating white women.

George appeared as a United Nations secretary on Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, as Julian Bashir’s father in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Doctor Bashir, I Presume?” and on a recurring basis as Raj’s father in The Big Bang Theory. In 2006, he landed a recurring role as Sasan’s father Omid in So NoTORIous. George also did the voice of Bob Fish in the last two series of Bob and Margaret.

In 2013, George took up a recurring role in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland as an unnamed prisoner who is later revealed to be the Sultan of Agrabah and father of the show’s principal antagonist: Jafar.