- Fought in the British army during World War I. Was shot in the right arm during a battle in France, which resulted in permanent paralysis of two fingers. His badly scarred right arm can be seen in a few films, most notably Sudan (1945).
- Quiet-spoken off stage, he was an avid dog lover who owned several German Shepherds.
- His nickname on the set of Universal Studios was "One Take Zucco".
- Spent his final years in the Monterey Sanitarium, an assisted-living facility.
- In 1951 he had a stroke on the set of The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951) that would later incapacitate him almost completely.
- His 29-year-old daughter, Frances Zucco, was an award-winning equestrian and minor actress; she died exactly 20 months to the day after him from throat cancer on March 14, 1962.
- Refused to appear in Return of the Ape Man (1944) because he considered his role ludicrous; he was still credited as being in the movie.
- His father was a merchant of Greek descent and his mother was a former lady in waiting to Queen Victoria.
- After his death he was cremated and his ashes are interred at the Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.
- Profiled in "Character Actors in Horror and Science Fiction Films, 1930-1960" by Laurence Raw (2012).
- A persistent myth about George Zucco, was that he died in an asylum.
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