George The Giant stands at an impressive seven foot three inches in height. After debuting as a sideshow performer in 1991, George the Giant appeared as Colossus in Tim Burtons movie “Big Fish” and also appeared in the movies “Tough Luck”, “Firecracker”, or “Relative Strangers” and television shows “The Tonight Show,” “Touch By An Angel”, “The Guardian”, “The Strip”, or “According To Jim.” He has also appeared on CNN, The Learning Channel, The Discovery Channel, and The Travel Channel.
He was born, raised and lives right hear in Bakersfield. When at the age of twelve he was taken to the county fair where he witnessed a sword swallower and fire-eater perform on the Bally stage. George could barely believe what the human body could accomplish. It wasn’t until George was twenty-one before he started to learn the sideshow art. That path was started when a family tragedy caused him to have a fear of fire. He decided he would over come his fear the same way he over came his fear of heights… head on. In the case of his fear of heights he bungee jumped, for this of fire, he would learn fire eating. While researching fire eating he discovered descriptions of other sideshow stunts and started learning them also.
George has had the opportunities to travel around the world performing his brand of entertainment in all types of venues from nightclubs to libraries and will be performing for us this Halloween night.