Interviews
By Kat Dibbits “AMERICANS think and speak at the same time,” says George Irving, who is appearing in the American class Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Octagon. “It’s great for an actor, I like doing American writing because it’s so in the present” The actor will be playing George, the university professor whose [...]
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By Wes Wright ACTOR George Irving freely admits that he has the type of face that gets him regularly pulled over by customs officers and he has lots of offers to play TV baddies. But his fans will recognise him from his four year stint as an aloof hospital consultant in hit TV series Holby [...]
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George was interviewed by Saga 105.2FM Radio during the Glasgow leg of the tour of The French Lieutenant’s Woman. Topics ranged from his days in Holby City to the French Lieutenant’s Woman tour and his future plans. The full twenty minute interview is available below. Just press play! GeorgeIrving.co.uk would like to thank Saga 105.2 [...]
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His TV characters rarely crack a smile – but we caught him on a good day … You’re appearing in The Best Man. What’s it about? It’s a two-part “psychodrama” and thriller about two young men who, 20 years earlier, formed a very unhealthy symbiotic relationship where they covered for each other in some pretty [...]
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Meyer’s catchphrase will be heard no more around Holby, but it’ll still come in handy for George Irving’s favourite hobby. Being a genius TV doctor is a tough life. Poring over medical text books, brushing up on your overbearing bedside manner, sharpening your scalpel-like technique for dissecting hospital bureaucrats. It can all leave it’s mark [...]
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Telly Hospital Drama Star Blames Workload A heavy workload has led a South Shields actor to quit his roles in a top TV hospital drama. George Irving is leaving his role as consultant surgeon Anton Meyer in the BBC’s Holby City next week. His decision comes as a result of the shows demanding workload and [...]
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Andrew Duncan “I’m capable of all Meyer is, but I don’t have his certainty” So far Holby City’s head honcho, heart surgeon and heart-throb has kept quiet about his private life, but more is revealed in the new series. The man who plays him has also been an enigma, until now . . . Here [...]
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By Derek Robins Irving: Hot shot in Holby Holby City is back for a staggering 50 week run with blockbuster storylines including a road rage shooting and date rape. In the opener on BBC1 on October 9, surgeon Anton Meyer (George Irving) needs life-saving surgery after he is shot by an angry motorist. Later in [...]
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By Lynda Lee-Potter As the mysterious Mr Meyer, HOLBY CITY’s heart-throb head surgeon, GEORGE IRVING has sent pulses racing. But, as he tells LYNDA LEE-POTTER (pictured), coping with his mother’s illness made him wonder where his character ends and his own personality starts. The Berkeley Hotel London George Irving has been voted one of the [...]
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