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George Frederick Price Darrell (1851–1921) was an Australian playwright best known for The Sunny South (1883), which was made into a film The Sunny South or The Whirlwind of Fate.

Darrell began his professional career with Simonsen's Opera Company in New Zealand; but, on migrating to Melbourne, took to the regular dramatic profession, earning some distinction as a juvenile supporter of the once idolised Walter Montgomery. He married Mrs. Robert Heir (née Fanny Cathcart), the admirable tragédienne, and subsequently visited professionally America and England, where, at the Grand Theatre, Islington, he produced his play The Sunny South.

His last play, The Land of Gold was staged by Charles Holloway at the Criterion Theatre, Sydney in 1907.

In 1878 he formed the "Australian Dramatic Company", which name was subsequently used by Alfred Dampier, but the connection between the two, if any, has not been found.

Darrell's body was washed ashore at Dee Why on 29 January 1921. He had died by drowning, found to be suicide as evidenced by the note he left for his landlady, Mrs Barnet.

As a playwright his name has been confused with that of Charles Darrell, author of When London Sleeps, The Power and the Glory and Defender of the Faith.

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Mary Fanny Cathcart (3 August 1833 – 3 January 1880), was an Australian stage actress, active between 1853 and 1878. Between 1855 and 1865, she was regarded as the most famed female theatre star in Australia.

Cathcart was born in England on 3 August 1833 to James Cathcart and Fannie Hubbard. Her father was the manager of his own touring theatre company. She arrived in Melbourne in Australia as a member of Gustavus Brooke's travelling theatre company in 1853. The same year, she married the actor Robert James Heir. He died in 1868 at sea on a voyage to New Zealand aged 36. In 1870 she married playwright George Darrell in Auckland, New Zealand.

Cathcart was famous in mid 19th-century Australia for both her comedy and Shakespearean roles. She was admired for her precise attention to detail in her acting and described as a talented beauty. She had her base in Melbourne but toured all over Australia and was given jewels by her audience.

Cathcart died at her home in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton on 3 January 1880, survived by her second husband. She was buried in the Melbourne General Cemetery. The actor James Faucett Cathcart ( –1902) was a brother.

Cathcart Close in the Canberra suburb of Chisholm is named in her honour.

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