I went to the same school as his son. Living in the sticks, there were 4 families from my village that went to the school so we shared lifts on a rota (it was too far away to walk or cycle, and we were kids OK!!!!)
Most days when it was their turn it was his mum Penny (Morrell, also an actress) who’d do the school run but occasionally George would pull up in his Jag, looking identical to the character off the tv. Nice man.
RIP George; condolences to Toby, Tara and Penny particularly, I read an article about them fairly recently that said they were still utterly devoted to each other after 46 years of marriage, in contrast to the image of Arthur and ‘er indoors…