George Furness

George Furness was born on Dec 31, 1896 in New Jersey. George Furness's big-screen debut came with The Mysterians directed by Ishirô Honda in 1957, strarring Dr. Svenson (as Jôji Fânesu). George Furness is known for I Want to Be a Shellfish directed by Shinobu Hashimoto, Furankî Sakai stars as Tomimatsu Shimizu and Michiyo Aratama as Fusae Shimizu. The upcoming new movie George Furness plays is I Want to Be a Shellfish which will be released on Mar 17, 1971.

Born George Abbot Furness in Elizabeth, New Jersey on December 31, 1896 and passed away April 2, 1985. He moved to Japan in 1946 to become one of the Western lawyers defending Japanese war criminals. Furness succeeded in getting an acquittal for his client, WW2-era Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, who was reinstated in his old job in 1954. As did many English-speaking expatriates, Furness enjoyed a minor second career in Japanese movies.