George Perry is an author, broadcaster, and former films editor with The Sunday Times, and has interviewed many of the greatest names in cinema.

He has served or presided on film festival juries around the world, was president of the London Critics' Circle, and has written over thirty books, such as The Penguin Book of Comics, The Great British Picture Show, and Forever Ealing; as well as definitive studies of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, The Complete Phantom of the Opera and Sunset Boulevard; and also biographies of Rupert Bear, Monty Python, Miss Bluebell, and James Dean.

An alumnus of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he edited the university newspaper, Varsity, he lives in London, the city of his birth.