George Darling

George Darling is a father of the Darling children in Disney's 1953 hit Peter Pan. He is similar in character to another father of his day George Banks from Mary Poppins.

Role in Peter Pan
In the movie, George Darling is the husband of Mary Darling, and father of Wendy, John and Michael Darling. He is a very practical man and doesn't believe in childish stuff such as Peter Pan and Neverland, despite once believing in all of it when he was very young himself. During the night in which most of the film takes place, George and his wife Mary are getting ready to attend a party, and George can't find his golden cuff links, because without them he won't be able to go to the party and "never show his face in the office again". George goes into the children's nursery and asks where his cuff links are, and finds his shirt front and finds that it has a map trased on it with chalk. When John and Michael explain that the map is from Wendy's stories about Peter Pan, George becomes angry, calling Peter Pan "absolute poppycock" and demands that Wendy should have a room of her own because she's growing up and declares that it's her last night in the nursery. He also has Nana the nursemaid dog chained up because he believes that she is a dog and not a nurse, and that the children aren't puppies but people, and need to grow up. When George and Mary leave for the party, Mary asks if the children will be okay without Nana, because Wendy mentioned about capturing Peter Pan's shadow the previous night at the window. George calls the whole thing garbage, and tells his wife that she's as bad as the children are, and that it's no wonder that Wendy is getting crazy ideas. George isn't seen throughout the film until the end, when he and Mary are returning home from the party, and he brings Nana back in. He also has changed his mind about Wendy and decides to let her stay in the nursery after all. When George and Mary get into the children's bedroom they find Wendy asleep at the window, but she soon wakes up and tells her parents about their adventures in Neverland with Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, and fighting off Captain Hook to which George has heard enough and turns away to go to bed until he looks out the window and sees Peter Pan sailing his ship through the sky to which he says that he has seen that ship before a long time ago when he was very young. Together George, Mary, Wendy, and Nana watch from the window as Peter Pan sails his ship back home to Neverland.