George Watters (American Football)
George Watters may refer to: * George Watters (soldier) (1904–1980), British soldier *George Watters II George Watters II (born September 19, 1949) is an American retired sound editor with more than 80 feature film credits. He has won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing twice, for ''The Hunt for Red October'' (1990) and for ''Pearl Harbor'' ...

George Watters (soldier)
George Watters (26 September 1904 – 1980) known as Geordie, was a Scottish miner and labourer from Prestonpans, East Lothian East Lothian (; sco, East Lowden; gd, Lodainn an Ear) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, as well as a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area. The county was called Haddingtonshire until 1921. In 1975, the histo .... He fought in the Spanish Civil War and Second World War, and was a socialist activist. Life and politics Watters grew up in a mining community around Prestongrange Museum, Prestongrange colliery, when he was 14 years old, his brother was killed in an underground accident, and he became a social activist three years later. He distributed the weekly paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain, British Communist Party in the local area, and joined the party with his two other brothers in the early 1920s. He was barred from working in the local pit as he was seen as an agitator and trouble maker following t ...
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