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- Birth nameGeorge Albert Ellis Jr.
- Ellis passed away in 1983 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. His parents parents had immigrated from war-torn Syria and Lebanon.
Ellis worked as an apprentice draftsman at a shipyard. He later moved to Richmond, where he meet and married Gwen and had a son, Michael. The family relocated to Atlanta in the early 1950s.
Not long after they arrived, he and his wife began to establish themselves in the local theater community. But the relationship was strained, and by the end of the decade, the couple had divorced. Gwen soon left the country for the Philippines, taking their son with her.
Around this time, the character of "Bestoink Dooley" was born.
From 1962, Ellis began to host horror movie shows as the character "Bestoink Dooley", as well as a children's cartoon show. In 1965, he started in the horror movie "The Legend of Blood Mountain" as the character "Bestoink Dooley".
After his run as a horror host came to an end, he ran the Film Forum Theatre in Atlanta between 1971 and 1974.
In 2013, George Ellis - "Bestoink Dooley" for "Big Movie Shocker", was inducted into "The Official Horror Host Hall of Fame".- IMDb mini biography by: The Professor
- SpouseGwen(? - 1960) (divorced, 1 child)
- ChildrenMichael Ellis
- He expanded his 1965 role as "Bestoink Dooley" in a small film about Bigfoot made at the Stone Mountain Park in Georgia into a fondly-remembered television series role as a Friday night horror show host of that name on Atlanta's WAGA television in the 1960s and early seventies. Later on he owned a theatre in Atlanta which specialized in art films.
- In 2013, George Ellis - "Bestoink Dooley" for "Big Movie Shocker", was inducted into "The Official Horror Host Hall of Fame".
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