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name: "George Preston"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/george-preston"
fi1m_id: "george-preston"
imdb_id: "nm4394027"
tmdb_id: 1095263
roles: []
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-27T08:09:27.533650+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# George Preston

## Identity

George Preston

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/george-preston
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** george-preston
- **IMDb ID:** nm4394027
- **TMDB ID:** 1095263
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4394027/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1095263

Actor.

## Details

- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4394027/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1095263

## Biography

George Preston is an astronomer who appears as himself in the 2010 documentary film *Nostalgia for the Light*, directed by Patricio Guzmán. In the film he is identified as a senior staff astronomer at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington DC and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Nostalgia for the Light* (2010), Fi1m 83, as Himself - Astronomer — [page](https://film.one/film/nostalgia-for-the-light.md)

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