Heinrich George (October 9, 1893 in Stettin (Szczecin) - September 25, 1946 in Oranienburg) was a German actor.

He acted in films such as Berlin Alexanderplatz and others and had one of first roles in the Fritz Lang directed film Metropolis. George is also noted for spooking the young Bertolt Brecht in his first directing job, a production of Arnolt Bronnen's Parracide (1922), when he refused to continue working with the director. Thomson (1994, 26). Although active in the Communist Party of Germany before the Nazi takeover, he acted in a number of propaganda films before and during WWII, including Hitlerjunge Quex, Jud Süß, and Kolberg. He died in 1946 in a Russian concentration camp, just north of Berlin, after an appendix operation.

He was also the father of actor Götz George.

Father of actor Götz George (born 23 July 1938).

Father of actor Jan George (I) (born 1932).

Although being active in Germany's Communist Party before the Nazi takeover, he later played in a number of propaganda films before and during World War II, including Hitlerjunge Quex: Ein Film vom Opfergeist der deutschen Jugend (1933) and Jud Süß (1940).

After World War II, he and his wife Berta Drews were imprisoned by the Soviet Army in June 1945, first in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, then in the former Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen, where he died during an appendix operation in September 1946. His remains were found and identified in an unmarked mass grave in a forest near Sachsenhausen in 1994.

Performed on stage under Germany's most famous left-wing directors Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator in the 1920s.

Is buried in the Städtischer Friedhof Berlin-Zehlendorf.

Although it is inaccurate to say he is actually a character in Peter Handke's "anti-play," "The Ride Across Lake Constance," his name is used as a designation of a character, as are the names of other celebrated actors of the German cinema, Elisabeth Bergner, Erich von Stroheim, Emil Jannings, Henny Porten and the twins Alice Kessler and Ellen Kessler.