The only son of George Pearson, a silk tie cutter, George Pearson's first profession after Culham College, near Oxford (not a college of the University of Oxford) was teaching.
His major post was at Staples Rd School Loughton Essex, on which there is a blue plaque.
In 1913 Pearson entered the film industry, initially as a script writer.
Though little of his work is known to have survived, Pearson is credited with pioneering the use of the moving camera shot.
He died in Great Malvern, Worcestershire in 1973, aged nearly 98, outliving Winifred and his elder son, Malcolm, a surgeon.