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George Kaczender fled Hungary in 1956 as a political refugee after studying film and serving as an Assistant Director at Pannonia Film Studios in Budapest. From 1956 to 1969, before relocating to Los Angeles in the early 1980s, he worked at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal, where he wrote and directed acclaimed documentaries and short dramatic films. In 1968, he wrote and directed the award-winning feature Don't Let the Angels Fall (1969), starring Arthur Hill, which became the first Canadian feature film to be invited to the main competition at the 1969 Cannes International Film Festival. In 1970, he left the Film Board to collaborate in London with renowned producer Oscar Lewenstein and also became a founding partner of the International Cinemedia Center in Montreal.
During the 1970s, he directed numerous award-winning educational films for Learning Corporation of America, as well as five theatrical feature films before moving to Hollywood. Notable works include In Praise of Older Women (1978), adapted from Stephen Vizinczey’s best-selling novel, and Chanel Solitaire (1981), a biographical film about Coco Chanel shot on location in France.
He has worked with stars such as Robert Mitchum, Richard Harris, Jeanne Moreau, Tom Berenger, Karen Black, Brad Pitt, and George Clooney. Additionally, he directed numerous movies for network and cable television. His debut novel, An Unreasonable Notion of Desire, was published in 2000 by Xlibris, a subsidiary of Random House.
From 2002 to 2004, he served as an Adjunct Professor of film directing at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television.
