Sir Tom said he was "very grateful" and thanked BIFF for the "great honour".
And Biff appears as a stuttering lackey, who washes cars and performs odd jobs for a living.
George works as a lowly bookkeeper for a car dealer named Biff Tannen.
The 76-year-old Hull-born actor accepted the award at the National Media Museum during the Bradford International Film Festival (BIFF).
The movie's moment of sweet resolution occurs when George comes upon Biff molesting Lorraine in a car and calls Biff out.
George lands a punch on Biff's chin and knocks the bully unconscious.
Previous recipients of the BIFF Lifetime Achievement Award include John Hurt, Jean Simmons, Barbara Windsor, Claire Bloom, Ken Loach, Jack Cardiff and Richard Attenborough.
It won't be long before this muscle mania reaches Broadway and we get a Willy Loman who yells at Biff while ripping through sets of overhand pull-ups.
In particular, at the crucial flashback when Willy's teenage son Biff (Andrew Garfield) discovers his father's marital infidelity, the shock and disillusionment are supposed to explain the long-held mystery of why he turned from a star athlete into an aimless layabout.
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But those bright-eyed youngsters have turned into ordinary, confused adults, each in his own way an enemy of promise a fact that alternately perplexes and enrages Willy, whose idealization of Biff puts a fire wall of fantasy between him and his furious disappointment.
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