George Laurier Lister, OBE (22 April 1907 – 30 September 1986) was an English theatre writer, actor, director and producer, best known for a series of revues presented in London in the late 1940s and 1950s.

[1] He made his first professional appearance on the stage at the Globe Theatre, London, on 20 February 1925, as a dancer in the nightclub scene in Harry Graham's comedy The Grand Duchess.

His roles included Sebastian in Twelfth Night (1933) to the Viola of Margaretta Scott,[7] Corporal Martiez in Cabbages and Kings (1933),[8] Arthur Stone in Hervey House (1934), Edgar Linton in Wuthering Heights (1935), Rylands in Immortal Garden (1936) and Lord Times in A Kiss for Cinderella (1937).

In the late 1940s and the 1950s he devised, directed and produced a series of highly successful revues,[13] with such artists as Max Adrian, Joyce Grenfell, Elizabeth Welch, Ian Wallace, Rose Hill and Betty Marsden, with material by, among others, Michael Flanders, Donald Swann, Alan Melville, Sandy Wilson, Madeleine Dring and Richard Addinsell.

[14] In a survey of his shows in 1955 The Stage called Lister "our most progressive producer of light entertainment" and remarked on the "deep impression" he had made in the West End theatre.