George P. Wilbur
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George Peter Wilbur (March 6, 1941, February 1, 2023) was an American actor and professional stuntman whose career in Hollywood spanned more than four decades and included work on well over a hundred film and television productions. He began with stand-in work for John Wayne in 1966 and went on to build a broad stunt career on major franchises including Planet of the Apes, Die Hard, and Magnum P.I. He was a member of the Hollywood Stuntmen's Hall of Fame.
Wilbur is best remembered as the actor beneath the mask of Michael Myers in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), making him the first performer to portray the character more than once in the Halloween series. Standing 6 feet 2.5 inches, his size and deliberate physicality gave Myers a particularly menacing quality that drew praise from fans of the franchise.
In Ghostbusters II (1989) Wilbur appeared on screen as the Bailiff, the court officer assigned to the hearing at which the Ghostbusters faced criminal charges following their unauthorized excavation under First Avenue. The Bailiff is present across two chapters of the film, their day in court and the Scoleri Brothers sequence, providing security but having no means of stopping the ghost outbreak when the spirits of Nunzio and Tony Scoleri materialize in the courtroom. When the Scoleri Brothers manifested, the Bailiff exited through the juror's door. In earlier screenplay drafts from November 27, 1988 and February 27, 1989, the Bailiff also tended to the Prosecutor after the supernatural attack. Wilbur was credited in some sources as George Wilbur.