George Segal

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George Segal (born February 13, 1934 in Great Neck , Long Island , New York ) is an American actor .

Life

George Segal (left) with the cast of The Goldbergs (2014)

George Segal grew up in a family of Jewish-Russian origin. He graduated from Columbia College and Columbia University , where he also took his first acting lessons. After military service, he studied at the renowned Actors Studio in the late 1950s , where Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen were among his teachers. In 1961 he signed a contract with Columbia Pictures and gained his first film experience. For a supporting role in the film Medical Assistants , he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actor in 1965 . In 1965 a painter played alongside stars such as Vivien Leigh , José Ferrer , Oskar Werner and Heinz Rühmann in Stanley Kramer's film drama The Ship of Fools . He played one of his most famous roles in Mike Nichols ' film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), in which he appeared alongside Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton . For his performance in this film, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for the film awards Oscar and Golden Globe .

George Segal played numerous leading roles under important directors, especially in the late 1960s and 1970s. In 1969, for example, he played an American lieutenant in the lavish war film The Bridge of Remagen . He played an unfaithful husband in the award-winning 1973 comedy Man Are You Great! and had in 1974, the main role of a game addict in the film California Split by Robert Altman . 1979 Segal was supposed to play the leading role in Blake Edwards ' comedy Ten - The Dream Woman , but was replaced by Dudley Moore during the filming . From the 1980s Segal was mainly seen in supporting roles in the cinema, so he played in the crime thriller They called him Stick (1985) alongside Burt Reynolds and Candice Bergen . In the comedy Look who's talking! (1989) he appeared alongside John Travolta and Kirstie Alley , in the comedy Cable Guy (1994) alongside Jim Carrey .

Segal has also appeared regularly on television since the 1960s. He has guest roles in the television series Merciless City , Murder Is Her Hobby and The Larry Sanders Show . Between 1997 and 2003 he played the role of Jack Gallo , a media mogul based on Donald Trump , in the TV series Just Shoot Me - editorial team . Since 2013 Segal has played the role of grandfather in the comedy series Die Goldbergs . Aside from acting, George Segal played banjo in amateur jazz bands like the Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz Band of Conrad Janis and published several sheets. Segal has had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 2017 .

Private life

Segal married a total of three times and has been married to Sonia Schultz Greenbaum since 1996. He was previously married to film editor Marion Sobel from 1956 until her divorce in 1983 and to Linda Rogoff, the temporary manager of the Pointer Sisters , from 1983 until her death in 1996 . He has two daughters from his first marriage, including the actress Polly Segal (* 1966).

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SURNAME Segal, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Neck , Long Island , NY