George (Blackadder) George (Blackadder) George is a supporting character who appeared in various adaptations of the BBC sitcom "Blackadder", played by Hugh Laurie. Each series saw a different incarnation of the character, because each was set in a different period of history. He was most prominently featured in the third and fourth series. The character was added to the series as a replacement for the Lord Percy Percy character, who did not appear in the third instalment because Tim McInnerny, the actor playing him, feared being typecast. The first incarnation of the character was a caricature of George, Prince of Wales, serving
Edmund Blackadder IV and Edmund's older brother Harry, he is briefly King of England; a lyric one of the closing credits for "Blackadder II" describes him as "a king / Although for only thirty seconds". Prince Edmund is one of the many Blackadders to be killed on screen: he dies after accidentally drinking poisoned wine, although he had already been severely mutilated by his childhood nemesis, the Duke of Burgundy. He is sometimes called King Edmund because in the last episode of the first series of Blackadder, he was the last of the Royal family to die, making him automatically King for