Now 93 and married to a man, he's "the luckiest, happiest, old gay man alive".
But for many years, he led a double life - married to a woman but secretly knowing he identified as homosexual.
As the government announces gay and bisexual men convicted of now-abolished sexual offences in England and Wales will be offered pardons, George tells Newsbeat what it was like to be gay, when it was still a crime.
George believes he should never have been convicted of a crime and says the only thing he was guilty of is "being in the wrong place at the wrong time".