Career
George Ogilvie began as an actor at the Canberra Representative Theatre, and eventually moved to the United Kingdom where he trained, taught and acted. He then worked as artistic director at the South Australian Theatre Company for four years, followed by 12 years as part of the subsidised theatre network. In 1988 he became a freelance director, working with the Australian Opera, the Australian Ballet Company and various theatre companies.
His television credits include the 1983 miniseries The Dismissal (where he played the Labor Senator Jim McClelland), the miniseries Bodyline (1984) (where he was one of the writers and also directed three of the seven episodes), and direction of the television films The Shiralee (1987), Touch the Sun: Princess Kate (1988), The Battlers (1994), two episodes of the miniseries The Feds (1994), and 11 episodes of the long-running police series Blue Heelers between 2002 and 2006.
George Ogilvie regularly teaches and directs at National Institute on Drug Abuse and Actors Centre Australia. In 2006, the Australian performing arts association Currency House published his autobiography: Simple Gifts - a life in the theatre.