Brian George

George was born in Israel to Indian immigrants. The family uprooted to England in the 1950s and the future actor attended private school before immigrating once again to Canada when he was a teenager. He attended the University of Toronto for a time, and gained an interest in theater, but he never graduated. After leaving school, however, George co-founded a theater group. Acting glory did not come his way at that point, though George did eventually train with the famed Second City comedy group in Toronto, and learned his craft with other future comedy heavyweights including John Candy, Martin Short and Catherine O'Hara. George's cohorts would go on to greater fame, but he would collaborate with them over the course of his career. After his first appearance on the Canadian show "King of Kensington," George's career saw several gaps between roles until the early 1980s, when he relocated to Hollywood and landed several small bit parts on shows like the hit cop show "Hill Street Blues" (NBC, 1981-87), the blue-collar sitcom "Roseanne" (ABC, 1988-1997) and the primetime soap opera "Falcon Crest" (CBS, 1981-1990). Because of his ability to impersonate several different accents with ease, George also found plenty of work as a busy voice actor for commercials and children's animated programs, including supplying voices for "Camp Candy" (NBC, 1989-1992), a show created by John Candy, with whom George had studied while at Second City. After his long-lasting and beloved run as Babu on "Seinfeld," George continued landing work on animated programs and the occasional bit part on a sitcom or movie. Because he was capable of impersonating stereotypical ethnic voices or simply retaining his own British accent, George always had a busy schedule. Eventually, roles in more prominent movies did come his way, such as the first "Austin Powers" film and the low-key indie "Ghost World," starring a young Scarlett Johansson. Many science fiction fans might know him best for his voicing Jedi master Ki-Adi-Mundi on the television cartoon "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" (Cartoon Network, 2008-13; Netflix, 2014) and for his role on "The Big Bang Theory."