Trivia

Was a heavyweight boxer before becoming an actor.

An excellent craftsman, he ran a cabinet shop for over 40 years while directing and appearing in action movies. He also designed and built 11 houses for friends and family.

After his divorce from Dinah Shore, in 1963 his private life again made headlines when his housekeeper, suffering obsessive infatuation, attempted to shoot the actor, planning to then commit suicide, but failing in both endeavors.

The youngest of 15 children born to Ukrainian immigrants, he was raised on a Montana homestead.

A self-taught artist, he created bronze busts of Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, Ronald Reagan, Gene Autry and Randolph Scott. In later years he made sculptures of Charles Farrell and ex-wife Dinah Shore; hers and those of his children and himself sit at the Mission Hills Country Club, home of the Dinah Shore Golf Tournament. Some of his sculptures are in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Museum and Library in Simi Valley, California.

Left Hollywood in 1943 to enlist in the US Army Air Corps. After his discharge in 1946 he went back to Hollywood and resumed his career.

His longtime companion of over twenty years was Ann Lindberg.

Two children by Dinah Shore. Melissa Montgomery (born in 1947) and adopted son John "Jody" David Montgomery.

Before marrying Dinah Shore, George had a serious relationship with actress Carole Landis.

Received many awards during his lifetime, including the Ralph Morgan Award from the Screen Actor's Guild and The Hollywood Westerner's Hall of Fame, Ronald Reagan Award.

He was descended from German immigrants from Ukraine.

In his 1981 book, The Years of George Montgomery, he claimed to have been offered the roles of Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke (1955) and Flint McCollough on La grande caravane (1957), both of which he turned down.