List of Desperate Housewives Characters - Acquaintances of Bree Van de Kamp - Other Acquaintances - George Williams

George Williams (Roger Bart) is a pharmacist who begins a relationship with Bree after her discovery of her husband's extramarital affair with the neighbourhood prostitute, Maisy Gibbons. Things are going extremely well until Bree shoots off his toe (by accident) with a gun given to her as a gift by George. He returns after a short absence and begins to lust after Bree. Rex takes offense to this, and it culminates with George being pushed into a pool at Carlos Solis's going-away party. Motivated by his obsession for Bree, George begins replacing Rex's heart medication with dangerous amounts of potassium. This ultimately proves fatal for Rex.

After Rex's death, George attempts to move his and Bree's relationship forward. While on vacation with Bree, George drugs her by talking her into mixing antihistamines with alcohol. George decides against taking advantage of Bree in this way but when she wakes up, he tells her he will not wait much longer, thereby finally getting Bree into bed. George proposes to her. She feels pressured into agreeing. After Bree tells George about her chat with Dr. Goldfine in which he suggested she and George were taking their relationship too fast, George attacks Dr. Goldfine and throws him over a bridge. Goldfine is injured but survives. Later, George becomes more possessive. He objects to Bree's reluctance to wear her engagement ring; Bree, in turn, becomes annoyed when she sees her engagement to George announced in the newspaper. This announcement brings George's ex-fiancée to Bree's house, where she warns Bree that George is unstable. Bree dismisses her, refusing to believe. Later, while Bree and George are out having dinner, they meet Bree's old college boyfriend, Ty Grant. He asks Bree to dance and she agrees. George's overreaction to this leads Bree to end her relationship with George. In retaliation, George steals Ty's valet ticket from his jacket, speeds off in his car, takes it out to some remote location, and sets it on fire.

George then finds out the police are closing in on him and have also searched his house after Bree went to the police, suspecting George was involved in Dr. Goldfine's attack. George retreats to a hotel room (in the same hotel where Bree is co-hosting a charity event) and has a bellman give her a note. He then overdoses on sleeping pills which ultimately leads to his death.

George returns in season eight in the final moments of the show as him and all the other characters who have died over the years watch Susan and her family leave Wisteria Lane.