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George Segal (born
February 13,
1934 in
Great Neck,
Long Island,
New York) is an
Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actor. He was educated at
George School, a private
Quaker preparatory boarding school near
Newtown,
Pennsylvania.
A 1955 graduate of
Columbia University, he's played both drama and comedy, although he's more often seen in the latter. Originally a stage actor and musician, Segal appeared in several minor films in the early
1960s before attracting critical attention in
1965 as a distraught newlywed in
Ship of Fools and as a
P.O.W. in
King Rat. He followed with well-regarded performances as Nick in
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (for which he was nominated for an
Oscar), a British secret service agent in
The Quiller Memorandum, a
Cagneyesque gangster in
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, perplexed police detective Mo Brummel in
No Way to Treat a Lady, a bookworm in
The Owl and the Pussycat, a man laying waste to his marriage in
Loving, and a hairdresser turned
junkie in
Born to Win. Segal also starred with
Ruth Gordon in
Carl Reiner's 1970 dark comedy
Where's Poppa?.
He played a burglar in the
1972 comedy
The Hot Rock with
Robert Redford, a comically unfaithful husband in
A Touch of Class and a
midlife crisis victim in
Blume in Love. He co-starred with
Jane Fonda as suburbanites-turned-bank-robbers in
Fun with Dick and Jane, and starred as a faux gourmet in
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?.
Segal was so appealing that too often he was asked to carry a film on his charm alone, especially in the
1970s. He was relatively inactive in the
1980s, but bounced back as the sleazy father of
Kirstie Alley's baby in
Look Who's Talking, and in the
1993 sequel
Look Who's Talking Now, and as a
left-wing comedy writer in
For the Boys (1991).
He then regained a surge of popularity and renewed fame, in the long-running
NBC television
sitcom Just Shoot Me! (
1997-
2003) as
Jack Gallo, the sharp, though somewhat silly, head of the fashion and style magazine
Blush.
He is also a
banjo player; in
1974 he played in
A Touch of Ragtime,
an album with his band, the Imperial Jazzband.
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