George Sands is a fictional werewolf in the comedy-drama television series Being Human, portrayed by Russell Tovey.

The male lead for the duration of the show's first three series appeared in 24 episodes of the drama, as well as in three Being Human novels.

[1] After George is infected with the werewolf curse he flees from home and leaves his fiancée Julia without telling her why.

He wants to learn how to manage his monthly transformations, so he decides to move into a new home with his friend Mitchell, a vampire who is trying to stay clean from blood.

Julia finally figures out that George is a werewolf, seeing him transform in front of her, but isn’t able to cope with this and leaves him.

When the werewolf Tully arrives, George is happy to find someone offering to help him manage his condition.

George doesn’t see that his girlfriend Nina is feeling bad, a result of him scratching her when transforming into a werewolf.

This makes George realise that being a werewolf is endangering the people in his life, and he decides to go to the CenSSA organisation along with Annie and Nina to finally get rid of his condition.

[14] Finally George, Annie and Nina figure out that Kemp, CenSSA's leader, can’t keep what he has promised and that a lot of werewolves are killed during his experiments.

[21][22] George is devastated his love Nina has been beaten to death by vampires, only shortly after she has given birth to their daughter Eve.

[23] George spends most of the next month sitting on guard beside his daughter's crib, determined to protect her but emotionally shattered.

To save his daughter from the vampires George partially transforms into a werewolf during a non full moon night.

He does this by tricking his body into thinking that there is a full moon, granting him the strength needed to kill the vampires who threaten Eve.

[24] This saves his daughter but George also dies during the process, as the partial transformation gave him the enhanced strength without giving him the enhanced healing he needed to cope with the damage he was inflicting on himself, his last words being to ask Annie and fellow werewolf Tom MacNair to act as Eve's guardians, which they do.

[25][23] At the end of the series George is joined by his friends Annie, Mitchell, Nina and baby Eve in the afterlife.

He later told in an interview that the George that he played alongside Guy Flanagan (Mitchell - Pilot) and Andrea Riseborough (Annie - Pilot) was different from the George that he played alongside Lenora Crichlow and Aidan Turner, as each actor would respond differently to the character.

[32] In 2016 at the MCM London Comic Con Russell Tovey said that he would like to film another one-off special of Being Human with his former co-stars Aidan Turner and Lenora Crichlow.

[41] Brent Hartinger from Logo TV feels that Russell Tovey’s George is a “very fussy, neurotic character, and he’s also extremely adorkable”.

[44][45] In 2011 George was listed on place 33 of SFX's Top Sci-Fi Icons list, in front of such characters as Hermione Granger, Sam Winchester, Sarah Jane Smith, Xena, Sookie Stackhouse, Damon Salvatore, Fox Mulder, Iron Man, Indiana Jones, Jack Sparrow, Jean-Luc Picard or Gandalf.