George Paul Breakston (January 22, 1920 – May 21, 1973) was a French-American actor, producer and film director,[1] active in Hollywood from his days as a child actor in Andy Hardy films in the 1930s (where he played the character Beezy[2]), to a period as an independent producer/director in the 1950s.

He followed it up with the documentary African Stampede filmed in the Belgian Congo and Kenya where he would later make his home.

Many of these featured John Bentley who starred in a television series produced by Breakston and filmed in Kenya, African Patrol.

Breakston also filmed another series in Kenya Adventures of a Jungle Boy (1957) and planned a third Trader Horn.

[8] Breakston joined the horror bandwagon by making The Manster in 1959[9] back in Japan, then made several films in Yugoslavia.