George Calil

Calil was born in England in 1973. He is the son of Lebanese businessman Ely Calil.

In 2004, Calil starring in the special drama September Tapes, as Don Larson, American journalist who travels to Afghanistan one year after 9/11, in an effort to learn the truth about the search for Osama bin Laden. The film premiered and sold at the Sundance Film Festival. Also in 2004 he played the role of Pompey the Great in the remake of the 1960 film Spartacus.

In 2005 he starred in four feature films, Rollin' with the Nines, Pterodactyl, and The Film Maker, and in 2006 he played the lead role of Detective Alex Taylor in the feature film Lycanthropy.

Calil met fellow actress Laura Sadler in 2002, when he guest-starred in the BBC drama, Holby City, and the two began dating. Calil played the drug-dealing boyfriend of Sadler's character, Sandy Harper, who was a cast regular for 11 episodes, until his storyline concluded.

In the early hours of 15 June 2003, Sadler fell 40 feet (12 metres) from the balcony of Calils flat at 85 Holland Park. She had consumed a large quantity of alcohol and was later found to have had traces of diazepam and cocaine derivatives in her blood. She suffered severe head injuries and never regained consciousness. Her family decided to take her off life support on 18 June 2003. Sadler died at Charing Cross Hospital a day later. Her funeral was held at St. Mary's and All Saints' Church in Beaconsfield, and she was cremated at Chilterns Crematorium, Amersham.^[2][3] Calil was questioned by police, but later released on bail and never charged.^[4] Sadler's death was ruled as an accident.^[5]

Calil made a brief appearance at Sadler's main funeral, but stayed away from the private family service and left a red rose, signed "G". ^[6]