Early Life
Harris was born in Bronxville, New York in 1949 to George Sr. and Ann Harris. The family moved to Clearwater Beach, Florida. The Harris parents had theatrical backgrounds, and the son started a children's theatre troupe, the El Dorado Players. In 1964, the family moved to New York, and Harris appeared in commercials, television, and in 1966 in an Off Broadway play titled Peace Creeps by John Wolfson with Al Pacino and James Earl Jones.
In 1967, George Harris II appeared in New York in the Off-Off-Broadway play Gorilla Queen by Ronald Tavel.
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