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| name = George Segal
| birth_name = George Segal Jr.
| image = George Segal in Lost Command.jpg
| image = George Segal - 1965.jpg
| caption = in ''[[Lost Command]]'' (1966)
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| birthname = George Segal, Jr.
| caption = Segal in 1965
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1934|2|13}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1934|02|13}}
| birth_place = [[Great Neck, New York]], U.S.
| birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2021|3|23|1934|2|13}}
| occupation = Actor, musician
| death_place = [[Santa Rosa, California]], U.S.
| yearsactive = 1960–present
| nationality = American
| spouse = [[Marion Segal Freed]] (1956-1981) (divorced; 2 children)<br>Linda Rogoff (1983-1996; her death)<br>Sonia Schultz Greenbaum (1996-present)
| alma_mater = [[Columbia University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1955–2021
| known_for =
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| spouse = {{unbulleted list|{{marriage|[[Marion Segal Freed|Marion Sobel]]|1956|1983|reason=divorced}}|{{marriage|Linda Rogoff|1983|1996|reason=d.}}|{{marriage|Sonia Schultz Greenbaum|1998}}}}
| children = 2
| awards = [[#Awards and nominations|See below]]
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'''George Segal Jr.''' (February 13, 1934 – March 23, 2021) was an American actor. He became popular in the 1960s and 1970s for playing both dramatic and comedic roles.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bradshaw|first=Peter|title=George Segal: a defining face of 1970s Hollywood with a late-career resurgence|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/mar/24/george-segal-face-of-1970s-hollywood-romcom-tribute-peter-bradshaw|access-date=March 24, 2021|newspaper=The Guardian|date=March 24, 2021}}</ref> After first rising to prominence with roles in acclaimed films such as ''[[Ship of Fools (film)|Ship of Fools]]'' (1965) and ''[[King Rat (film)|King Rat]]'' (1965), he co-starred in the classic drama ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'' (1966).


Through the next decade and a half, Segal consistently starred in notable films across a variety of genres including ''[[The Quiller Memorandum]]'' (1966), ''[[The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film)|The St. Valentine's Day Massacre]]'' (1967), ''[[No Way to Treat a Lady (film)|No Way to Treat a Lady]]'' (1968), ''[[Where's Poppa?]]'' (1970), ''[[The Owl and the Pussycat (film)|The Owl and the Pussycat]]'' (1970), ''[[The Hot Rock (film)|The Hot Rock]]'' (1972), ''[[Blume in Love]]'' (1973), ''[[A Touch of Class (film)|A Touch of Class]]'' (1973), ''[[California Split]]'' (1974), ''[[The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox]]'' (1976), ''[[Fun with Dick and Jane (1977 film)|Fun with Dick and Jane]]'' (1977), ''[[Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?]]'' (1978), and ''[[The Last Married Couple in America]]'' (1980). He was one of the first American film actors to rise to [[leading man]] status with an unchanged Jewish surname, helping pave the way for other major actors of his generation.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pfefferman|first=Naomi|title=George Segal on ABC's 'The Goldbergs,' 'Where's Poppa?' and playing Jewish|url=https://jewishjournal.com/newspulse/121023/|access-date=December 20, 2019|newspaper=[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles|Jewish Journal]]|date=August 28, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Hoberman|first=J.|title=The Goulden Age|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2007/04/10/the-goulden-age/|access-date=January 2, 2020|newspaper=Village Voice|date=April 10, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Kampeas|first=Ron|title=Remembering George Segal, Beloved Vanguard of 1960s Wave of Young Jewish Actors|url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/george-segal-jewish-trailblazer-and-beloved-actor-dies-at-87-1.9649892|access-date=March 25, 2021|newspaper=Haaretz|date=March 25, 2021}}</ref>
'''George Segal''' (born February 13, 1934) is an American film, stage, and television actor.


Later in his career, he appeared in supporting roles in films such as ''[[Carbon Copy (film)|Carbon Copy]]'' (1981), ''[[Stick (film)|Stick]]'' (1985), ''[[Look Who's Talking]]'' (1989), ''[[For the Boys]]'' (1991), ''[[The Mirror Has Two Faces]]'' (1996), ''[[Flirting with Disaster (film)|Flirting with Disaster]]'' (1996), ''[[2012 (film)|2012]]'' (2009), and ''[[Love & Other Drugs]]'' (2010).
==Early life==
George Segal, Jr. was born to a [[Jewish]] family<ref>[http://www.jewishjournal.com/video/article/video_the_david_susskind_show_1970_how_to_be_a_jewish_son_20081202/]</ref> in 1934 [[Great Neck]], [[Long Island]], [[New York]], the son of Fannie Blanche (née Bodkin) and George Segal, Sr.<ref>http://www.filmreference.com/film/98/George-Segal.html</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70D12FC3B5F127A93C2A8178AD85F458785F9|work=The New York Times|title=He's the Great Schlemiel; He's the Great Schlemiel|first=Judy|last=Klemesrud|date=January 10, 1971}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2001/jul/07/features.weekend | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Sally | last=Vincent | title=Return to the first act | date=July 7, 2001}}</ref> He was educated at [[George School]], a private [[Quaker]] [[University-preparatory school|preparatory]] boarding school near [[Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania]]. He also attended [[Haverford College]].<ref name="IGAS">Segal, George. ''[[I've Got A Secret]]'', April 11, 1966.</ref> He graduated in 1955 from [[Columbia University]].


He was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor]] for his performance in ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' and won two [[Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Award]]s, including the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy|Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy]] for his performance in ''A Touch of Class''.
==Career==
Segal has played both drama and comedy, although he is more often seen in the latter. Originally a stage actor and musician, Segal appeared in several minor films in the early 1960s in addition to the well-known 1962 movie ''[[The Longest Day (film)|The Longest Day]]''. He was signed to a [[Columbia Pictures]] contract in 1961, making his film debut in ''[[The Young Doctors (film)|The Young Doctors]]'' and appearing in ''[[Naked City (TV series)|The Naked City]]'' produced for television by Columbia's ''Screen Gems''.<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1345&dat=19850921&id=ScUSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ovkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5580,1612493 Google profile]</ref>


On television, he was best known for his regular roles in two popular sitcoms, playing Jack Gallo on ''[[Just Shoot Me!]]'' (1997–2003) and Albert "Pops" Solomon on ''[[The Goldbergs (2013 TV series)|The Goldbergs]]'' (2013–2021). Segal was also an accomplished [[banjo]] player. (In addition to the banjo, he frequently played other small [[lute]] instruments such as the [[ukulele]] and [[dobro]] on TV and in his movies.) He released three albums and performed with the instrument in several of his acting roles and on late-night television.
He started attracting roles in 1965 as an egocentric painter in ''[[Ship of Fools (film)|Ship of Fools]]'', as a [[Prisoner of War|P.O.W.]] in ''[[King Rat (1965 film)|King Rat]]'' in a role originally meant for [[Frank Sinatra]], and as an [[Algeria]]n paratrooper captured at [[Battle of Dien Bien Phu|Dien Bien Phu]], who leaves the French army to become a leader of the [[Algerian Liberation Front|FLN]] in ''[[Lost Command]]''. He was loaned to Warner Bros for ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'' (as Nick, for which he was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Oscar]]), later appearing as a British secret service agent in ''[[The Quiller Memorandum]]'', a [[James Cagney|Cagneyesque]] gangster in ''[[The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film)|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 (film)|The Owl and the Pussycat]]'', a war-weary platoon commander in ''[[The Bridge at Remagen]]'', a man laying waste to his marriage in ''[[Loving (film)|Loving]]'', and a hairdresser turned [[drug addiction|junkie]] in ''[[Born to Win]]''. In 1967, Segal released his debut LP titled ''The Yama Yama Man''; the title track is a ragtime version of "[[The Yama Yama Man]]" (1908) with horns and banjos. Segal apparently released the album due to his popularity playing banjo on "[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-04-02/features/9304020150_1_banjo-string-sing |title=Banjo Pickin' With George Segal |date=April 02, 1993 |author=Clifford Terry |work=Chicago Tribune |accessdate=May 10, 2012}}</ref>


== Early life ==
Segal 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 (film)|The Hot Rock]]'' with [[Robert Redford]], a comically unfaithful husband in ''[[A Touch of Class (film)|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 (1977 film)|Fun with Dick and Jane]]'', and starred as a faux gourmet in ''[[Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?]]''
George Segal Jr. was born in New York City,<ref name = NYT>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/movies/george-segal-dead.html|title = George Segal, Durable Veteran of Drama and TV Comedy, Is Dead at 87|work = [[The New York Times]]|date = March 23, 2021|accessdate = March 23, 2021|last = Weber|first = Bruce}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Jewish leading man George Segal is dead at 87|url=https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/jewish-leading-man-george-segal-is-dead-at-87-663030|access-date=2021-03-25|website=The Jerusalem Post |date=March 24, 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>Ancestry.com. New York, New York, U.S., Birth Index, 1910-1965 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017</ref> the youngest of four children, to Fannie Blanche Segal (''née'' Bodkin) and George Segal Sr., a malt and hop agent. He spent much of his childhood in [[Great Neck, New York]].<ref name = NYT/><ref name="NYT-Schlemiel-1971">{{cite news |last=Klemesrud |first=Judy |title=He's the Great Schlemiel|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/01/10/archives/hes-the-great-schlemiel-hes-the-great-schlemiel.html |access-date=January 26, 2014 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 10, 1971 |page=D-11}}</ref><ref name="Guardian-FirstAct-2001">{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/jul/07/features.weekend | location=London | work=[[The Guardian]] | first=Sally | last=Vincent | title=Return to the first act | date=July 7, 2001}} ''Note: Web article shows "Fri 6 Jul 2001 20.44 EDT" (not 7 July)''</ref> All four of Segal's grandparents were [[History of the Jews in Russia|Russian-Jewish]] immigrants,<ref name="JewishJournal-Goldbergs-2013">{{cite web|last=Pfefferman|first=Naomi|title=George Segal on ABC's 'The Goldbergs,' 'Where's Poppa?' and playing Jewish|url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/the_ticket/item/george_segal_on_abcs_the_goldbergs_wheres_poppa_and_playing_jewish|work=[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles|Jewish Journal]] |access-date=January 26, 2014|date=August 28, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Susskind-JewishSon-1970">{{cite web |title=How to be a Jewish Son—or—My Son the Success! |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/video/article/video_the_david_susskind_show_1970_how_to_be_a_jewish_son_20081202 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210072414/http://www.jewishjournal.com/video/article/video_the_david_susskind_show_1970_how_to_be_a_jewish_son_20081202/ |archive-date=2008-12-10 |work= [[The David Susskind Show]], Season 12, Episode 7 |access-date=January 26, 2014 |format=video |year=1970 |via=[[The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles|Jewish Journal]] }}</ref> and his maternal grandparents changed their surname from Slobodkin to Bodkin.<ref name="JewishJournal-Goldbergs-2013" /> A paternal great-grandfather ran for governor of [[Massachusetts]] as a socialist.<ref name="ArtySemite-Forward-2013">{{cite web|last=Schleier|first=Curt|title=The Arty Semite: George Segal on 'The Goldbergs' and Playing Pops Solomon |url=http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/184063/george-segal-on-the-goldbergs-and-playing-pops-sol |work=[[The Forward]] |access-date=January 26, 2014 |date=September 18, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130920211823/http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-Semite/184063/george-segal-on-the-goldbergs-and-playing-pops-sol |archive-date=2013-09-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> His oldest brother, John, worked in the hops brokerage business and was an innovator in the cultivation of new hop varieties; he had a farm in [[Grandview, Washington]] where George often helped in the summers.<ref name="NYT-John-obit-2005">{{cite news|title=Paid Notice: Deaths Segal, John B.|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9502E7D81139F934A35752C0A9639C8B63|access-date=January 26, 2014|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 7, 2005}}</ref> The middle brother, Fred, was a screenwriter;<ref name="NYT-Schlemiel-1971" /> and his sister Greta died of pneumonia before Segal was born.<ref name="JewishJournal-Goldbergs-2013" />


Segal's family was [[Jewish]], but he was raised in a [[Irreligion|secular]] household. When asked if he had had a [[bar mitzvah]], he said:
Segal 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]]''. He played a [[political liberal|left-wing]] comedy writer in ''[[For the Boys]]'' (1991). His first starring role in many years came opposite [[JoBeth Williams]] in the 1992 comedy ''[[Me, Myself and I (film)|Me, Myself & I]]''.
<blockquote>I'm afraid not. I went to a [[Passover Seder]] at [[Groucho Marx]]'s once and he kept saying, "When do we get to the wine?" So that's my [Jewish] experience. I went to [a friend's] bar mitzvah, and that was the only time I was in Temple Beth Shalom. [Jewish life] wasn't happening that much at the time. People's car tires were slashed in front of the temple. I was once kicked down a flight of stairs by some kids from [the local parochial school].<ref name="ArtySemite-Forward-2013" /></blockquote>


Segal became interested in acting at the age of nine, when he saw [[Alan Ladd]] in ''[[This Gun for Hire]]''.<ref name="Guardian-FirstAct-2001" /> "I knew the revolver and the trench coat were an illusion and I didn't care," said Segal. "I liked the sense of adventure and control."<ref name="time"/> He also started playing the banjo at a young age, later stating: "I started off with the ukulele when I was a kid in Great Neck. A friend had a red Harold Teen model; it won my heart. When I got to high school, I realized you couldn't play in a band with a [[ukulele]], so I moved on to the four-string banjo."<ref name="ChiTrib-Banjo-1993" />
He also starred in the [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]] television sitcom ''[[Just Shoot Me!]]'' (1997–2003) as [[Jack Gallo]], the eccentric publisher of a New York fashion magazine.


When his father died in 1947, Segal moved to [[New York City]] with his mother.<ref name="TCM-timeline">{{cite web|title=Overview for George Segal – Milestones |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/173627%7C59401/George-Segal/|work=[[Turner Classic Movies]]|publisher=Turner Sports and Entertainment Digital Network|access-date=January 26, 2014}}</ref> He graduated from [[George School]], a [[Quakers|Quaker]] boarding school in [[Pennsylvania]], in 1951 and attended [[Haverford College]].<ref name="IGAS">Segal, George. ''[[I've Got a Secret]]'', April 11, 1966.</ref> He graduated from [[Columbia College, Columbia University|Columbia College]] of [[Columbia University]] in 1955 with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in performing arts and drama.<ref name="ChiTrib-Banjo-1993" /><ref name="TCM-timeline" /> He played banjo at Haverford and also at Columbia, where he played with a [[dixieland jazz]] band that had several different names. When he booked a gig, he billed the group as Bruno Lynch and his Imperial Jazz Band. The group, which later settled on the name Red Onion Jazz Band, played at Segal's first wedding.<ref name="IGAS"/><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70kF5VULT5M George Segal on I've Got a Secret - YouTube]</ref>
Segal is an accomplished [[banjo]] player; he played with a dixieland jazz band while in college at Columbia that had several different names. When he was the one who booked a gig, he would bill the group as "Bruno Lynch and his Imperial Jazzband".


Segal served in the [[United States Army]] during the [[Korean War]].<ref name = NYT /><ref>{{cite news|title=George Segal, Leading Man of Lighthearted Comedies, Dies at 87|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/george-segal-dead-wheres-poppa-owl-pussycat-just-shoot-me-goldbergs-star-was-87-1199045|access-date=March 24, 2021|newspaper=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=March 23, 2021}}</ref> While there, he played in a band called Corporal Bruno's Sad Sack Six.<ref name="ChiTrib-Banjo-1993"/>
The group, which later settled on the name Red Onion Jazz Band, later played at his first wedding.<ref name="IGAS"/> In 1974 he played in ''A Touch of Ragtime'', an album with his band, the Imperial Jazzband (which, other than its name, may or may not have had any relation to his college band). During the 1970s/80s, Segal made frequent television appearances with the "Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz Band", whose members included actor [[Conrad Janis]] on trombone. Segal's banjo skills were referenced in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode, ''[[A Fish Called Selma]]'', while on a date with ''[[Troy McClure]]'' Selma says "I once went on a date with a famous actor and had a wonderful time" to which Troy replies "Really...who was it, George Segal? I hear he plays the banjo." In [[Martin Scorsese]]'s 1985 black comedy ''[[After Hours (film)|After Hours]]'', [[Cheech and Chong]] play art thieves who steal a valuable sculpture by the artist George Segal, whom Cheech helpfully explains is "that dude who plays the banjo on ''[[The Tonight Show]]''."


== Career ==
Segal portrayed the elderly musician Tony Delgatto in ''[[2012 (film)|2012]]''. Most recently, he played the character Murray Berenson in the television series ''[[Entourage (TV Series)|Entourage]]''.
=== Early roles and success ===
After college and the army, Segal eventually studied at the [[Actors Studio]] with [[Lee Strasberg]] and at [[HB Studio]] with [[Uta Hagen]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Eichenbaum |first=Rose |date=October 15, 2011 |title=The Actor Within: Intimate Conversations with Great Actors |url=https://archive.org/details/actorwithinintim00eich|url-access=registration |publisher= Wesleyan University Press|isbn=978-0-8195-7165-6 }}</ref> and got a job as an [[understudy]] in the 1956 off-Broadway production of ''[[The Iceman Cometh]]'' starring [[Jason Robards]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Weber|first=Bruce|date=2021-03-24|title=George Segal, Durable Veteran of Drama and TV Comedy, Is Dead at 87|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/movies/george-segal-dead.html|access-date=2021-03-24|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He appeared in ''[[Antony and Cleopatra]]'' for [[Joseph Papp]] and joined an improvisational group called The Premise, which performed at a [[Bleecker Street]] coffeehouse<ref name="NYT-JustShoot-1998" /> and whose ranks included [[Buck Henry]] and [[Theodore J. Flicker]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Buck Henry, Fun-Loving Screenwriter and Actor, Dies at 89|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/buck-henry-dead-graduate-get-smart-screenwriter-was-89-752310|access-date=January 9, 2020|newspaper=Hollywood Reporter|date=January 8, 2020}}</ref> Segal continued to perform on Broadway with roles in ''[[Gideon (play)|Gideon]]'' (1961–62) by [[Paddy Chayefsky]], which ran for 236 performances,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/gideon-2898|title=Gideon; IBDB|access-date=December 3, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Theatre: Biblical Drama: Chayefsky's 'Gideon' Opens at Plymouth|author=HOWARD TAUBMAN|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 10, 1961|page=38}}</ref> as well as ''[[Rattle of a Simple Man]]'' (1963), an adaptation of a British hit, with [[Tammy Grimes]] and [[Edward Woodward]].


He was signed to a [[Columbia Pictures]] contract in 1961, making his film debut in ''[[The Young Doctors (film)|The Young Doctors]]''.<ref name="SpokaneChron-1985">{{cite news|title=George Segal waits for next up period|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ScUSAAAAIBAJ&pg=5579%2C1612492|access-date=January 26, 2014|newspaper=Spokane Chronicle|date=September 21, 1985}}</ref> Segal made several television appearances in the early 1960s, including ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'', ''[[Armstrong Circle Theatre]]'', and ''[[Naked City (TV series)|Naked City]]'',<ref name="SpokaneChron-1985"/> and appeared in the well-known World War II film ''[[The Longest Day (film)|The Longest Day]]'' (1962).<ref>{{cite news|title=NORMANDY RECAPTURED BY CAMERA|author=MARTIN GANSBERGCAEN, France|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=September 17, 1961|page=X9}}</ref> He also had a small role in ''[[Act One (film)|Act One]]'' (1963) and a more prominent part in the western ''[[Invitation to a Gunfighter]]'' (1964) alongside [[Yul Brynner]].<ref name=AFI/>
Currently, he stars in the new [[TV Land]] [[sitcom]], ''[[Retired at 35]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.tvland.com/prime/category/retired-at-35/|title=Second TV Land Sitcom 'Retired at 35' Greenlit|work=Tvland.com|date=April 20, 2010|accessdate=April 20, 2010}}</ref>


[[File:George Segal in Lost Command.jpg|thumb|Segal in the trailer for ''[[Lost Command]]'']]
==Works==
Segal came to [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] from [[New York City]] to star in a TV series with [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]] that never aired. Nonetheless, he joined the cast of [[Columbia Pictures]]' medical drama ''[[The New Interns]]'' (1964),<ref>{{Cite news|title=Stage Actor Segal Stars in New Film Los Angeles Times|date=August 27, 1964|page=A10}}</ref> and the studio then put him under long-term contract.<ref>{{Cite news|title=A NEW STAR WAITS HIS TIME TO SHINE: 'Punk' From New York Bars Name and Nose Changes|author=PETER BART|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 7, 1964|page=15}}</ref> The role ultimately earned him the [[Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor|Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year]],<ref name="time">{{Cite news|title=George Segal: An Ear for Acting: George Segal George Segal|author=Blume, Mary|date=June 9, 1974|work=Los Angeles Times|page=o31}}</ref> alongside [[Harve Presnell]] and [[Chaim Topol]].<ref name="1965 GG">{{cite web|title=Winners & Nominees 1965|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/1965|accessdate=March 25, 2021|publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association|archive-date=January 19, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119120348/https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/1965|url-status=dead}}</ref>
'''Filmography'''
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* ''[[The Young Doctors (film)|The Young Doctors]]'' (1961)
* ''[[The Longest Day (film)|The Longest Day]]'' (1962)
* ''[[Channing (TV series)|Channing]]'', (1963)
* ''[[Invitation to a Gunfighter]]'' (1964)
* ''[[King Rat (1965 film)|King Rat]]'' (1965)
* ''[[Ship of Fools (film)|Ship of Fools]]'' (1965)
* ''[[Lost Command]]'' (1966)
* ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'' (1966)
* ''[[The Quiller Memorandum]]'' (1966)
* ''[[The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film)|The St. Valentine's Day Massacre]]'' (1967)
* ''[[Bye Bye Braverman]]'' (1968)
* ''[[No Way to Treat a Lady]]'' (1968)
* ''[[The Bridge at Remagen]]'' (1969)
* ''[[Loving (film)|Loving]]'' (1970)
* ''[[Where's Poppa?]]'' (1970)
* ''[[The Owl and the Pussycat (film)|The Owl and the Pussycat]]'' (1970)
* ''[[Born to Win]]'' (1971)
* ''[[The Hot Rock (film)|The Hot Rock]]'' (1972)
* ''[[Blume in Love]]'' (1973)
* ''[[A Touch of Class (film)|A Touch of Class]]'' (1973)
* ''[[The Terminal Man (film)|The Terminal Man]]'' (1974)
* ''[[California Split]]'' (1974)
* ''[[Russian Roulette (1975 film)|Russian Roulette]]'' (1975)
* ''[[The Black Bird]]'' (1975)
* ''[[The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox]]'' (1976)
* ''[[Fun with Dick and Jane (1977 film)|Fun with Dick and Jane]]'' (1977)
* ''[[Rollercoaster (1977 film)|Rollercoaster]]'' (1977)
* ''[[Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?]]'' (1978)
* ''[[Lost and Found (1979 film)|Lost and Found]]'' (1979)
* ''[[The Last Married Couple in America]]'' (1980)
* ''[[Carbon Copy (film)|Carbon Copy]]'' (1981)
* ''[[The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood]]'' (1984)
* ''[[The Cold Room]]'' (1984)
* ''[[Stick (film)|Stick]]'' (1985)
* ''[[Not My Kid]]'' (1985)
* ''[[Take Five]]'' (1987)
* ''[[Run for Your Life (film)|Run for Your Life]]'' (1988)
* ''[[Murphy's Law (American TV series)|Murphy's Law]]'' (1988–1989)
* ''[[Look Who's Talking]]'' (1989)
* ''[[For the Boys]]'' (1991)
* ''[[Me, Myself and I (film)|Me, Myself & I]]'' (1992)
* ''[[Joshua Tree (1993 film)|Joshua Tree]]'' (1993)
* ''[[Look Who's Talking Now]]'' (1993)
* ''[[Direct Hit (film)|Direct Hit]]'' (1994)
* ''[[To Die For]]'' (1995)
* ''[[The Babysitter]]'' (1995)
* ''[[The Naked Truth (TV series)|The Naked Truth]]'' (1995–1997) (4 episodes)
* ''[[It's My Party (film)|It's My Party]]'' (1996)
* ''[[Flirting with Disaster (film)|Flirting with Disaster]]'' (1996)
* ''[[The Cable Guy]]'' (1996)
* ''[[The Mirror Has Two Faces]]'' (1996)
* ''[[Tracey Takes On...]]'' (1997) (5 episodes)
* ''[[Just Shoot Me!]]'' (1997–2003)
* ''[[Heights (film)|Heights]]'' (2004)
* ''[[Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone]]'' (2005)
* ''[[Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure]]'' (2007) (voice)
* ''[[Private Practice (TV series)|Private Practice]]'' (2007) (1 episode)
* ''[[Boston Legal]]'' (2008) (1 episode)
* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' (2009) (1 episode)
* ''[[Entourage (TV series)|Entourage]]'' (2009; 3 episodes)
* ''[[2012 (film)|2012]]'' (2009)
* ''[[Made for Each Other (2009 film)|Made for Each Other]]'' (2009)
* ''[[Love and Other Drugs]]'' (2010)
* ''[[Retired at 35]]'' (2011)
{{col-end}}
* '' The New Interns (1964)
'''Discography'''
*''The Yama Yama Man'' (1967)


=== Critical acclaim ===
==References==
In 1965, Segal played an egocentric painter in an ensemble cast led by [[Vivien Leigh]] and [[Lee Marvin]] in [[Stanley Kramer]]'s acclaimed drama ''[[Ship of Fools (film)|Ship of Fools]]'', which was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Picture]]. The same year, he also had the title role of a scheming [[Prisoner of War|POW]] in the well-regarded war drama ''[[King Rat (film)|King Rat]]'' (a role originally meant for [[Frank Sinatra]]) and received acclaim for both performances.<ref>[https://variety.com/1964/film/reviews/ship-of-fools-1200420786/ "Review: Ship of Fools"], ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', December 31, 1964; retrieved: October 10, 2013.</ref><ref>[https://variety.com/1964/film/reviews/king-rat-1200420843 "Review: King Rat".] ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', December 31, 1964. Retrieved: December 16, 2016.</ref> In other notable film appearances, he played a secret service agent on assignment in Berlin in ''[[The Quiller Memorandum]]'' (1966) (a role originally meant for [[Charlton Heston]]<ref> p.238 Heston Charlton ''Charlton Heston: The Actor's Life: Journals, 1956-1976 '' E. P. Dutton; 1st edition 1 January 1978</ref>), an [[Algeria]]n paratrooper who becomes a leader of the [[Algerian Liberation Front|FLN]] in ''[[Lost Command]]'' (1966), and a [[James Cagney|Cagney]]-esque gangster in [[Roger Corman]]'s ''[[The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film)|The St. Valentine's Day Massacre]]'' (1967).<ref name=AFI/>
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Segal also appeared in several prominent television films, playing Biff in an acclaimed production of ''[[Death of a Salesman (1966 American film)|Death of a Salesman]]'' (1966) next to [[Lee J. Cobb]], a gangster in an adaptation of ''[[The Desperate Hours (1967 film)|The Desperate Hours]]'' (1967), and George in an adaptation of ''[[Of Mice and Men (1968 film)|Of Mice and Men]]'' (1968). The latter two films were both directed by [[Ted Kotcheff]],<ref>{{cite news|title=A.B.C.-TV PREPARING 'DESPERATE HOURS'|date=May 31, 1967|work=[[The New York Times]]|id={{ProQuest|118033113}}}}</ref> with whom he worked again several times.<ref name=AFI/>

Segal was loaned to [[Warner Bros.]] for [[Mike Nichols]]' directorial debut ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]'' (1966), a now-classic adaptation of the [[Edward Albee]] [[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?|play]]. Nichols had previously directed Segal in a 1964 Off-Broadway play titled ''The Knack''<ref name ="The Knack">{{cite news|last=Taubman|first=Howard|title=Ann Jellicoe's Play Directed by Nichols|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/05/28/archives/theateroriginal-knack-ann-jellicoes-play-directed-by-nichols.html|access-date=March 24, 2021|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 28, 1964}}</ref> and cast him again in ''Woolf'' after [[Robert Redford]] had turned down the role.<ref>{{cite news|last=Dalton|first=Andrew|title=George Segal, star of 'Virginia Woolf' and 'Goldbergs,' dies at 87|url=https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2021-03-23/virginia-woolf-goldbergs-star-george-segal-dies-at-87|access-date=March 24, 2021|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=March 23, 1964}}</ref> In the four-person ensemble piece, Segal played the young faculty member, Nick, alongside [[Elizabeth Taylor]], [[Richard Burton]], and [[Sandy Dennis]]. The film, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture and was later selected to the [[National Film Registry]],<ref name="2013Add">{{cite press release|title=Library of Congress announces 2013 National Film Registry selections |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=December 18, 2013|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/library-of-congress-announces-2013-national-film-registry-selections/2013/12/17/eba98bce-6737-11e3-ae56-22de072140a2_story.html?tid=hpModule_ef3e52c4-8691-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394|access-date=December 18, 2013}}</ref> is arguably Segal's best known and, for his role, he was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Oscar]]<ref>{{cite web|title=George Segal, Oscar-Nominated Star of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,' On Edward Albee's Legacy|work=The Daily Beast|date=July 12, 2017|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-segal-oscar-nominated-star-of-whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf-on-edward-albees-legacy|access-date=February 4, 2020}}</ref> and a Golden Globe.<ref name="1967 GG">{{cite web|title=Winners & Nominees 1967|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/1967|accessdate=March 25, 2021|publisher=Hollywood Foreign Press Association|archive-date=December 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201034816/https://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees/1967|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The same year, Segal released his debut LP, ''The Yama Yama Man''. The title track is a [[ragtime]] version of the 1908 tune "[[The Yama Yama Man]]" with horns and banjos. Segal released the album at a time when he appeared regularly playing banjo on ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]''.<ref name="ChiTrib-Banjo-1993">{{cite news|last=Terry|first=Clifford|title=Banjo Pickin' With George Segal|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1993/04/02/banjo-pickin-with-george-segal/|access-date=January 26, 2014|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=April 2, 1993}}</ref> In the same year, Segal played banjo and sang with [[The Smothers Brothers]] when they performed [[Phil Ochs]]'s "[[Draft Dodger Rag]]" on their [[The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour|CBS television show]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bodroghkozy |first1=Aniko |title=Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion |url=https://archive.org/details/groovetubesixtie00bodr |url-access=registration |year=2001 |publisher=Duke University Press |location=Durham, N.C. |isbn=0-8223-2645-0 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/groovetubesixtie00bodr/page/127 127]–128 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08DnYRJhHks The Smothers Brothers and George Segal perform Draft Dodger Rag - YouTube]</ref>

=== Leading man ===
For over ten years after his success with ''Woolf'', Segal received many notable film roles, often working with major filmmakers and becoming a significant figure in the [[New Hollywood]] movement.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://midcenturycinema.org/2021/03/31/news-and-commentary-george-segal-the-new-hollywood-years/|title=News and Commentary – George Segal: The New Hollywood Years|website=MidCenturyCinema|date=March 31, 2021|access-date=April 1, 2021}}</ref> He starred in [[Carl Reiner]]'s celebrated<ref name="NYT-Poppa-1970">{{cite news|last=Greenspun|first=Roger|title=Where's Poppa (1970) Screen: 'Where's Poppa?' Aims to Remove Bachelor's Momma: Reiner Directs Comedy That Stars Segal Other Features Begin Their Runs Locally|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9901E0DF1F3EE034BC4952DFB767838B669EDE|access-date=January 26, 2014|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 11, 1970}}</ref> dark comedy<ref name="Variety-Poppa-1969">{{cite news|title=Review: 'Where's Poppa?'|url=https://variety.com/1969/film/reviews/where-s-poppa-1200422042/|access-date=January 26, 2014|newspaper=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=December 31, 1969}}</ref> ''[[Where's Poppa?]]'' (1970), played the lead role in [[Sidney Lumet]]'s ''[[Bye Bye Braverman]]'' (1968), starred with [[Robert Redford]] in [[Peter Yates]]'s diamond heist comedy ''[[The Hot Rock (film)|The Hot Rock]]'' (1972), starred in the title role of [[Paul Mazursky]]'s acclaimed romantic comedy ''[[Blume in Love]]'' (1973),<ref>{{cite web|last=Ebert|first=Roger|title=Blume in Love|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/blume-in-love-1973|work=Chicago Sun-Times|access-date=December 16, 2016}}</ref> and starred alongside [[Elliott Gould]] as a gambling addict in [[Robert Altman]]'s classic ''[[California Split]]'' (1974),<ref>{{cite web|last=Ebert|first=Roger|title=California Split|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/california-split-1974|work=Chicago Sun-Times|access-date=December 16, 2016}}</ref> considered by some to be the greatest gambling film of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/article/best-gambling-movies-poker.html|title=The 25 Best Movies About Gambling|website=Vulture|date=September 10, 2021}}</ref>

In one of his most successful roles, Segal played a philandering husband in [[Melvin Frank]]'s continental romantic comedy ''[[A Touch of Class (film)|A Touch of Class]]'' (1973) opposite [[Glenda Jackson]]. The film was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Picture]], Jackson won an Oscar for her performance, and Segal won the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy]], which was the second Golden Globe of his career.<ref>{{cite web|title=A George Segal Sampler|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2011-jan-24-la-et-trio-20110124-story.html|work=Los Angeles Times|date=January 24, 2011|access-date=February 1, 2020}}</ref>

During this time, he had many other leading roles in various genres. He played a perplexed police detective in ''[[No Way to Treat a Lady (film)|No Way to Treat a Lady]]'' (1968), a war-weary platoon commander in ''[[The Bridge at Remagen]]'' (1969), a man laying waste to his marriage in ''[[Loving (1970 film)|Loving]]'' (1970), and a hairdresser-turned-[[drug addiction|junkie]] in ''[[Born to Win]]'' (1971).<ref name="Nitrate-009">{{cite web|last=Nugent|first=Phil|title=Nitrate: The Forgotten Actor – George Segal|url=http://thehighhat.com/Nitrate/009/nugent_segal.html|work=The High Hat|access-date=January 26, 2014|archive-date=February 14, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214153611/http://thehighhat.com/Nitrate/009/nugent_segal.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''[[The Owl and the Pussycat (film)|The Owl and the Pussycat]]'' (1970), a romantic comedy starring Segal and [[Barbra Streisand]] and written by his former improv teammate Buck Henry, was particularly popular;<ref>[https://m.the-numbers.com/market/1970/top-grossing-movies The Numbers, 1970 box office]</ref> and though Segal played against type as a dangerous computer scientist in ''[[The Terminal Man (film)|The Terminal Man]]'' (1974), he used his popular appeal as a card shark in ''[[The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox]]'' (1976), as a suburbanite-turned-bank robber in ''[[Fun with Dick and Jane (1977 film)|Fun with Dick and Jane]]'' (1977), as a heroic ride inspector in ''[[Rollercoaster (1977 film)|Rollercoaster]]'' (1977), and as a wealthy serial restaurant entrepreneur in ''[[Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?]]'' (1978).<ref name="LATimes-Funny-2011">{{cite news|last=King|first=Susan|title=Funny thing about George Segal|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2011-jan-24-la-et-classic-hollywood-20110124-story.html|access-date=January 26, 2014|newspaper=[[L.A. Times]]|date=January 24, 2011}}</ref> Other films starring Segal from this time include ''[[The Girl Who Couldn't Say No]]'' (1968), ''[[Russian Roulette (film)|Russian Roulette]]'' (1975), and ''[[The Black Bird]]'' (1975).<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>

Segal co-hosted the [[48th Academy Awards]] in 1976, alongside [[Gene Kelly]], [[Goldie Hawn]], [[Walter Matthau]], and [[Robert Shaw (actor)|Robert Shaw]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Feinberg|first=Scott|title=Oscars: Why Producer Donna Gigliotti Should Pick More Than Two Hosts|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/oscars-why-producer-donna-gigliotti-should-pick-more-two-hosts-1152117|access-date=February 13, 2019|newspaper=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=October 31, 2019}}</ref>

During the 1970s and 1980s, Segal appeared as a frequent guest on ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]'', and occasionally as a guest host. His appearances were marked by eccentric banter with [[Johnny Carson]] and were usually punctuated by bursts of banjo playing.<ref name="NYT-JustShoot-1998" /> In addition to playing banjo while appearing on ''[[The Tonight Show]]'', Segal played the instrument in several of his acting roles and sang in others, such as ''Blume in Love''.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvMdnpDwGRE Segal, Kristofferson, and Anspach sing "Chester the Goat" in Blume in Love - YouTube ]</ref>

George Segal and the Imperial Jazzband released the album ''A Touch of Ragtime'' in 1974, with Segal on banjo. He made frequent television appearances with the "Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz Band", whose members included actor [[Conrad Janis]] on trombone, and in 1981 they performed live at [[Carnegie Hall]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Marx|first=Linda|title=With a Touch of Brash, George Segal Finally Plays the Big Time|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20079623,00.html|access-date=January 26, 2014|newspaper=[[People (magazine)|People]]|date=June 29, 1981}}</ref>

=== Mid-career difficulties ===
Segal reunited with his ''Touch of Class'' co-star Jackson and director Frank in another European-set romantic comedy, ''[[Lost and Found (1979 film)|Lost and Found]]'' (1979), but the film was not a success. Neither was ''[[The Last Married Couple in America]]'' (1980) with [[Natalie Wood]]. Segal famously pulled out of the lead role in [[Blake Edwards]]' hit comedy ''[[10 (1979 film)|10]]'' (1979), resulting in his being replaced by [[Dudley Moore]] and sued by Edwards.<ref name="NYT-JustShoot-1998"/>

With a few exceptions, in films such as [[Denzel Washington]]'s film debut ''[[Carbon Copy (film)|Carbon Copy]]'' (1981), [[Burt Reynolds]]'s crime drama ''[[Stick (film)|Stick]]'' (1985), and the popular family comedy ''[[Look Who's Talking]]'' (1989), Segal received fewer prominent roles in the 1980s. Instead, he began to star more frequently in television films, such as ''[[The Deadly Game (1982 film)|The Deadly Game]]'' (1982) for which he received a [[CableAce Award]] nomination for best actor in a theatrical or non-musical production,<ref>{{cite web|title=1983 CableAce Awards|work=IMDb|url=https://m.imdb.com/event/ev0000140/1983/1/|access-date=March 29, 2021}}</ref> ''[[The Cold Room]]'' (1984), and ''[[The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood]]'' (1984). He also starred in two short-lived television series, the semi-autobiographical sitcom ''[[Take Five (TV series)|Take Five]]'' (1987)<ref>{{cite news|title=George Segal takes 'Five'|author=Norbom, Mary Ann|work=USA Today|date=April 1, 1987|page=02D}}</ref> and the crime drama ''[[Murphy's Law (U.S. TV series)|Murphy's Law]]'' (1988–89). In 1985, he returned to Broadway in a short-lived production of ''[[Requiem for a Heavyweight]]'' by [[Rod Serling]] and in 1990 toured in a play called ''Double Act''.<ref>{{cite news|title=at Stage West?; You name it, George Segal has acted it|edition=Final|author=MARC HORTON|work=Edmonton Journal|date=May 26, 1990|page=B1}}</ref>

He later reflected on his career trajectory:
<blockquote>In the first 10 years, I was playing all different kinds of things. I loved the variety, and never had the sense of being a leading man but a character actor. Then I got frozen into this "urban" character. About the time of "The Last Married Couple in America" (1980) I remember Natalie (Wood) saying to me&nbsp;... "It's one typed role after another, and pretty soon you forget everything. You forget why you're here, why you're doing it." Then my marriage started to fall apart&nbsp;... I was disenchanted, I was turning in on myself, I was doing a lot of self-destructive things&nbsp;... there were drugs&nbsp;... I'm also sure I was guilty of spoiled behavior. I think it's impossible when that star rush comes not to get a little full of yourself, which is what I was.<ref>{{cite news|title=Banjo pickin' with George Segal Actor tunes his life to a new key|author=Clifford, Terry|work=Chicago Tribune|date=Apr 2, 1993|page=1}}</ref></blockquote>

[[File:The Goldbergs cast 2014.jpg|thumb|left|Segal (left) with ''[[The Goldbergs (2013 TV series)|The Goldbergs]]'' cast, 2014]]

=== Later career ===
Nevertheless, after this relatively dry period, Segal re-established himself as a successful character actor in the 1990s. Though he appeared in some less-acclaimed films, he also worked with directors such as [[Mark Rydell]], [[Gus Van Sant]], Barbra Streisand, [[David O. Russell]], [[Randal Kleiser]], and [[Ben Stiller]], respectively, in well-received films such as ''[[For the Boys]]'' (1991), ''[[To Die For]]'' (1995), ''[[The Mirror Has Two Faces]]'' (1996), ''[[Flirting with Disaster (film)|Flirting with Disaster]]'' (1996), ''[[It's My Party (film)|It's My Party]]'' (1996), and ''[[The Cable Guy]]'' (1996). Additionally, he had guest appearances on various shows such as ''[[Murder She Wrote]]'' and ''[[The Larry Sanders Show]]'' and continued to appear in television films such as ''[[Seasons of the Heart (1994 film)|Seasons of the Heart]]'' (1994), ''[[Houdini (1998 film)|Houdini]]'' (1998), and ''[[The Linda McCartney Story]]'' (2000). In 1999, he briefly performed in [[Yasmina Reza]]'s ''[[Art (play)|Art]]'' on Broadway, and in 2001 he reprised his performance in the [[West End theatre|West End]].<ref name="BBC-Art-2001">{{cite news|title=George Segal joins Art|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1247489.stm|work=[[BBC]]|access-date=January 26, 2014|date=March 28, 2001}}</ref>

From 1997 to 2003, Segal had his most prominent role in years when he starred in the [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]] workplace sitcom ''[[Just Shoot Me!]]'' as [[Jack Gallo]], the successful yet often oblivious owner and publisher of a New York City fashion magazine.<ref name="NYT-JustShoot-1998">{{cite news|last=Meisler|first=Andy|title=Television; Out of the Polyester Past, a Comic Rogue Returns|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/04/arts/television-out-of-the-polyester-past-a-comic-rogue-returns.html|access-date=January 26, 2014|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 4, 1998}}</ref> For this role, he was nominated for the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy]] in 1999 and 2000<ref>[https://www.goldenglobes.com/tv-show/just-shoot-me Golden Globes Awards page for ''Just Shoot Me!'']</ref> as well as a [[Satellite Awards|Satellite Award]] in 2002. The show, which also starred [[David Spade]] and [[Laura San Giacomo]], among others, and which once aired between iconic sitcoms ''[[Friends]]'' and ''[[Seinfeld]]'', lasted for seven seasons and 148 episodes.

After finishing his run on ''Just Shoot Me'', Segal appeared in supporting roles in films such as ''[[Heights (film)|Heights]]'' (2005) and ''[[2012 (film)|2012]]'' (2009). He and [[Jill Clayburgh]] cameoed as [[Jake Gyllenhaal]]'s parents in ''[[Love & Other Drugs]]'' (2010), reuniting the co-stars 46 years after they first worked together in ''The Terminal Man''. Additionally, Segal worked more frequently as a voice actor, including a role in the English-language version of [[Studio Ghibli]]'s ''[[The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (film)|The Tale of the Princess Kaguya]]'' (2013) and a comedic reprisal of his ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' role in a 2018 episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://twitter.com/mattselman/status/1049092710999646208|title=Matt Selman on Twitter|work=Twitter|access-date=September 7, 2018|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://twitter.com/mattselman/status/1049093068547272704|title=Matt Selman on Twitter|work=Twitter|access-date=September 7, 2018|language=en}}</ref> His most recent film performance was alongside [[Christopher Plummer]] in ''[[Elsa & Fred (2014 film)|Elsa & Fred]]'' (2014). In other roles, Segal played talent manager Murray Berenson in three episodes of the television series ''[[Entourage (U.S. TV series)|Entourage]]'' (2009), guest starred in shows such as ''[[Boston Legal]]'', ''[[Private Practice (TV series)|Private Practice]]'', and ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'', appeared in comedic short videos such as ''Chutzpuh, This Is'',<ref name=Weiss>{{cite web|url=http://forward.com/news/israel/1722/more-jewish-rap-that-e2-80-99s-chutzpah|title=More Jewish Rap? That's Chutzpah|last1=Weiss|first1=Anthony|date=December 9, 2005|website=The Forward|access-date=July 29, 2015}}</ref> and starred in the [[TV Land]] sitcom ''[[Retired at 35]]'' (2011–2012), alongside his ''Bye Bye Braverman'' co-star [[Jessica Walter]].<ref name=TVLand>{{cite press release|title=TV Land Greenlights Second Original Sitcom 'Retired At 35' Starring Television, Stage and Film Star, George Segal|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tv-land-greenlights-second-original-sitcom-retired-at-35-starring-television-stage-and-film-star-george-segal-91644894.html|work=PR Newswire|date=April 20, 2010|access-date=January 26, 2014}}</ref><ref name="NYT-Retired-2011">{{cite news|last=Hale|first=Mike|title=Moving in With the Folks, Who May Not Be Thrilled |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/arts/television/19retired.html|access-date=January 26, 2014|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 18, 2011}}</ref><ref name="HR-TVLand-2010">{{cite news|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|title=TV Land finds cast for George Segal pilot|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tv-land-finds-cast-george-19064|access-date=January 26, 2014|newspaper=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=January 3, 2010}}</ref>

Segal had another success when he starred in the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] sitcom ''[[The Goldbergs (2013 TV series)|The Goldbergs]]'' (2013–2021), playing Albert "Pops" Solomon, the eccentric but lovable grandfather of a semi-autobiographical family based on that of series creator [[Adam F. Goldberg]].<ref name="Vulture-Goldbergs-2013">{{cite web|last=Seitz|first=Matt Zoller|title=Seitz on The Goldbergs: Remember the Eighties? This Sitcom Sure Does|url=https://www.vulture.com/2013/09/tv-review-the-goldbergs.html|work=[[Vulture (blog)|Vulture]]|access-date=January 26, 2014|date=September 24, 2013}}</ref> The long-running series entered its eighth season in 2021,<ref name="Variety-Goldbergs-2013">{{cite news|last=Lowry|first=Brian|title=TV Review: 'The Goldbergs' |url=https://variety.com/2013/tv/reviews/the-goldbergs-tv-review-1200613772/|access-date=January 26, 2014|newspaper=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=September 17, 2013}}</ref><ref name="AVClub-2013">{{cite web|last=Harris|first=Will|title=George Segal on learning how to bet from Robert Altman, fathering Denzel Washington, and more|url=https://www.avclub.com/article/george-segal-on-learning-how-to-bet-from-robert-al-103179|work=[[The A.V. Club]]|access-date=January 26, 2014|date=September 23, 2013}}</ref> and Segal was part of the regular cast up until his death in March of that year. Throughout the show, Segal had appeared in most, though not all, episodes and, as in some of his earlier roles, he played the banjo several times on-screen.

In 2017, Segal received a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] in the category of Television.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlFt3-lmwWc George Segal Walk of Fame ceremony (YouTube)]</ref><ref name=Fine>{{cite web|title=George Segal Recalls Best Kisser From Rom-Com Heyday|url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/spotlight/george-segal-best-kisser-rom-com-heyday-walk-fame-1201987163/|first=Marshall|last=Fine|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|access-date=February 15, 2017|date=February 17, 2017}}</ref>

==Personal life and death==
Segal was married three times. He married film editor [[Marion Segal Freed]] in 1956, who would go on to work as an associate producer or editor on three of his films.<ref name="MarionSegal-HRObit-2011">{{cite news|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/marion-segal-freed-film-editor-276321|title=Marion Segal Freed, Film Editor, Dies at 77|last=Barnes|first=Mike|date=December 25, 2011|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|accessdate=March 24, 2021}}</ref> They had two daughters and were together until their divorce in 1983.<ref name="MarionSegal-HRObit-2011" /> From 1983 until her death in 1996, he was married to Linda Rogoff, a one-time manager of [[The Pointer Sisters]] whom he met at [[Carnegie Hall]] when he played the banjo with his band<ref name="People-Carnegie-1981">{{cite web|last=Marx|first=Linda|title=With a Touch of Brash, George Segal Finally Plays the Big Time|url=https://people.com/archive/with-a-touch-of-brash-george-segal-finally-plays-the-big-time-vol-15-no-25/|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|access-date=January 26, 2014|date=June 29, 1981}}</ref> the Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz Band.<ref name="SpokaneChron-1985" /> He married his former [[George School]] boarding school classmate Sonia Schultz Greenbaum in 1998.<ref name="Guardian-FirstAct-2001" />

Later in his life, Segal lived part-time in [[Sonoma County, California|Sonoma County]] when he was not filming ''The Goldbergs'' in [[Los Angeles]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/george-segal-found-happiness-in-sonoma-county-with-high-school-sweetheart/|title=George Segal found happiness in Sonoma County with high school sweetheart|last=Smith|first=Chris|date=March 24, 2021|work=The Press Democrat|accessdate=March 24, 2021}}</ref>

Segal died of complications from [[bypass surgery]] in [[Santa Rosa, California]], on March 23, 2021, at age 87.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2021/03/george-segal-dead-the-goldbergs-1234720483/|title=George Segal Dies: Oscar-Nominated Actor & 'The Goldbergs' Star Was 87|work=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=March 23, 2021|accessdate=March 23, 2021|last1=Andreeva|first1=Nellie|last2=Pedersen|first2=Erik}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/george-segal-dead-wheres-poppa-owl-pussycat-just-shoot-me-goldbergs-star-was-87-1199045/|title = George Segal, Leading Man of Lighthearted Comedies, Dies at 87|website = [[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date = March 24, 2021}}</ref>

== Filmography ==

=== Film ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Director
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1961
| ''[[The Young Doctors (film)|The Young Doctors]]''<ref name=AFI>{{cite web|url=http://catalog.afi.com/Person/59401-George-Segal?isMiscCredit=False|title=George Segal|publisher=American Film Institute|access-date=March 25, 2021}}</ref><ref name=BFI>{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f49f0e5|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160321192239/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f49f0e5|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 21, 2016|title=George Segal|publisher=British Film Institute|access-date=March 25, 2021}}</ref>
| Dr. Howard
| [[Phil Karlson]]
|
|-
| 1962
| ''[[The Longest Day (film)|The Longest Day]]''<ref name=BFI/><ref name="TVG Filmography">{{cite web|title=George Segal List of Movies and TV Shows|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/george-segal/credits/3030460579/|website=TV Guide|access-date=March 25, 2021}}</ref>
| U.S. Army Ranger
| [[Ken Annakin]], [[Andrew Marton]], & [[Bernhard Wicki]]
|
|-
| 1963
| ''[[Act One (film)|Act One]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes">{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/1014038-george_segal|title=George Segal|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=March 25, 2021}}</ref>
| Lester Sweyd
| [[Dore Schary]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1964
| ''[[Invitation to a Gunfighter]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Matt Weaver
| [[Richard Wilson (director)|Richard Wilson]]
|
|-
| ''[[The New Interns]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name=BFI/>
| Dr. Tony "Shiv" Parelli
| [[John Rich (director)|John Rich]]
| [[Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor|Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Male]]
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1965
| ''[[King Rat (film)|King Rat]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Corporal King
| [[Bryan Forbes]]
|
|-
| ''[[Ship of Fools (film)|Ship of Fools]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| David Scott
| [[Stanley Kramer]]
|
|-
| rowspan="3" | 1966
| ''[[Lost Command]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Lieutenant Mahidi
| [[Mark Robson (film director)|Mark Robson]]
|
|-
| ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Nick
| [[Mike Nichols]]
| Nominated — [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor]] <br> Nominated — [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture]]
|-
| ''[[The Quiller Memorandum]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Quiller
| [[Michael Anderson (director)|Michael Anderson]]
|
|-
| 1967
| ''[[The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (film)|The St. Valentine's Day Massacre]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Peter Gusenberg
| [[Roger Corman]]
|
|-
| rowspan="3" | 1968
| ''[[Bye Bye Braverman]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Morroe Rieff
| [[Sidney Lumet]]
|
|-
| ''[[No Way to Treat a Lady (film)|No Way to Treat a Lady]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Morris Brummel
| [[Jack Smight]]
| Nominated — [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role]]
|-
| ''[[The Girl Who Couldn't Say No]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Franco
| [[Franco Brusati]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1969
| ''[[The Bridge at Remagen]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Lieutenant Phil Hartman
| [[John Guillermin]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Southern Star (film)|The Southern Star]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Dan Rockland
| [[Sidney Hayers]]
|
|-
| rowspan="3" | 1970
| ''[[Loving (1970 film)|Loving]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Brooks Wilson
| [[Irvin Kershner]]
|
|-
| ''[[Where's Poppa?]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Gordon Hocheiser
| [[Carl Reiner]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Owl and the Pussycat (film)|The Owl and the Pussycat]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Felix Sherman
| [[Herbert Ross]]
|
|-
| 1971
| ''[[Born to Win]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| J
| [[Ivan Passer]]
|
|-
| 1972
| ''[[The Hot Rock (film)|The Hot Rock]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Kelp
| [[Peter Yates]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1973
| ''[[Blume in Love]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Stephen Blume
| [[Paul Mazursky]]
|
|-
| ''[[A Touch of Class (film)|A Touch of Class]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Steve Blackburn
| [[Melvin Frank]]
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy|Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]] <br> Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1974
| ''[[The Terminal Man (film)|The Terminal Man]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Harry Benson
| [[Mike Hodges]]
|
|-
| ''[[California Split]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Bill Denny
| [[Robert Altman]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1975
| ''[[Russian Roulette (film)|Russian Roulette]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Corporal Timothy Shaver
| [[Lou Lombardo (filmmaker)|Lou Lombardo]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Black Bird]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Sam Spade Jr.
| [[David Giler]]
| Executive producer
|-
| 1976
| ''[[The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Charlie "Dirtwater Fox" Malloy
| Melvin Frank
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1977
| ''[[Fun with Dick and Jane (1977 film)|Fun with Dick and Jane]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Dick Harper
| [[Ted Kotcheff]]
|
|-
| ''[[Rollercoaster (1977 film)|Rollercoaster]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Harry Calder
| [[James Goldstone]]
|
|-
| 1978
| ''[[Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Robby Ross
| Ted Kotcheff
|
|-
| 1979
| ''[[Lost and Found (1979 film)|Lost and Found]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Adam Watson
| Melvin Frank
|
|-
| 1980
| ''[[The Last Married Couple in America]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Jeff Thompson
| [[Gilbert Cates]]
|
|-
| 1981
| ''[[Carbon Copy (film)|Carbon Copy]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Walter Whitney
| [[Michael Schultz]]
|
|-
| 1982
| ''[[Killing 'em Softly]]''<ref name=BFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Jimmy Skinner
| [[Max Fischer (screenwriter)|Max Fischer]]
|
|-
| 1985
| ''[[Stick (film)|Stick]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Barry Braun
| [[Burt Reynolds]]
|
|-
| 1988
| ''[[Run for Your Life (1988 film)|Run for Your Life]]''<ref name=BFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Alan Morani
| [[Terence Young (director)|Terence Young]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1989
| ''[[Look Who's Talking]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Albert
| [[Amy Heckerling]]
|
|-
| ''[[All's Fair (film)|All's Fair]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Colonel
| Rocky Lang
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1991
| ''[[For the Boys]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Art Silver
| [[Mark Rydell]]
|
|-
| ''Time of Darkness''
| Grigory
| Vladimir Alenikov
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1992
| ''[[Me Myself & I (film)|Me Myself & I]]''<ref name=BFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Buddy Arnett
| [[Pablo Ferro]]
|
|-
| ''[[Un orso chiamato Arturo]]''<ref name=BFI/>
| Billy
| [[Sergio Martino]]
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1993
| ''[[Joshua Tree (1993 film)|Joshua Tree]]''<ref name=BFI/>
| Lieutenant Franklin L. {{Proper name|Severence}}
| [[Vic Armstrong]]
|
|-
| ''[[Look Who's Talking Now]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Albert
| [[Tom Ropelewski]]
| Cameo
|-
| 1994
| ''[[Direct Hit (film)|Direct Hit]]''<ref name=BFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| James Tronson
| Joseph Merhi
| Video
|-
| rowspan="4" | 1995
| ''[[To Die For]]''<ref name=BFI/><ref name="TVG Filmography"/>
| Conference Speaker
| [[Gus Van Sant]]
| Uncredited
|-
| ''[[The Babysitter (1995 film)|The Babysitter]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Bill Holsten
| [[Guy Ferland]]
| rowspan="3" | Video
|-
| ''[[The Feminine Touch (1995 film)|The Feminine Touch]]''<ref name=BFI/>
| Senator "Beau" Ashton
| [[Conrad Janis]]
|-
| ''[[Deep Down (film)|Deep Down]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Gil
| John Travers
|-
| rowspan="4" | 1996
| ''[[It's My Party (film)|It's My Party]]''<ref name=BFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Paul Stark
| [[Randal Kleiser]]
|
|-
| ''[[Flirting with Disaster (film)|Flirting with Disaster]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Ed Coplin
| [[David O. Russell]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Cable Guy]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Earl Kovacs
| [[Ben Stiller]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Mirror Has Two Faces]]''<ref name=AFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Henry Fine
| [[Barbra Streisand]]
|
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2005
| ''[[Heights (film)|Heights]]''<ref name=BFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Rabbi Mendel
| [[Chris Terrio]]
|
|-
| ''Chutzpuh, This Is?''<ref name=Weiss/>
| Dr. Dreck
| Rick Kent
| Short film
|-
| ''[[Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/><ref name="btva">{{cite web |title=George Segal (visual voices guide) |url=http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/George-Segal/ |access-date=August 5, 2023 |publisher=Behind The Voice Actors}} A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.</ref>
| Albagon
| [[Davis Doi]]
| Voice, direct-to-video
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2007
| ''[[Three Days to Vegas]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Dominic Spinuzzi
| Charlie Picerni
|
|-
| ''My Wife Is Retarded''
| Julie's father
| [[Etan Cohen]]
| Short film
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2009
| ''[[2012 (film)|2012]]''<ref name=BFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Tony Delgatto
| [[Roland Emmerich]]
|
|-
| ''[[Made for Each Other (2009 film)|Made for Each Other]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Mr. Jacobs
| Daryl Goldberg
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2010
| ''[[Love & Other Drugs]]''<ref name=BFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Dr. James Randall
| [[Edward Zwick]]
|
|-
| ''Ollie Klublershturf vs. the Nazis''
| Elliott Klublershturf
| Skot Bright
| Short film
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2014
| ''[[The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (film)|The Tale of the Princess Kaguya]]''<ref name=BFI/><ref name="TVG Filmography"/>
| Inbe no Akita
| [[Isao Takahata]]
|Voice
|-
| ''[[Elsa & Fred (2014 film)|Elsa & Fred]]''<ref name=BFI/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| John
| [[Michael Radford]]
|
|}

=== Stage ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1961–1962
| ''[[Gideon (play)|Gideon]]''<ref name = IBDB>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/george-segal-59511|title=George Segal|publisher=Internet Broadway Database|access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref><ref name = Playbill>{{cite web|url=https://www.playbill.com/person/george-segal-vault-0000085607|title=George Segal|publisher=Playbill|access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
| Purah
| Broadway
|-
| 1963
| ''[[Rattle of a Simple Man]]''<ref name = IBDB /><ref name = Playbill />
| Ricard
| Broadway
|-
| 1964
| ''The Knack''<ref name ="The Knack" />
| Tolen
| Off-Broadway
|-
| 1985
| ''[[Requiem for a Heavyweight]]''<ref name = IBDB /><ref name = Playbill />
| Maish Resnick
| Broadway
|-
| 1993
| ''The Fourth Wall''<ref name="ChiTrib-Banjo-1993" />
| Roger
| Chicago
|-
| 1998–1999
| ''[[Art (play)|Art]]''<ref name= IBDB /><ref name = Playbill />
| Serge
| Broadway
|-
| 2001
| ''Art''<ref>{{cite news|last=Spencer|first=Charles|title=Segal brings a touch of class|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4722991/Segal-brings-a-touch-of-class.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4722991/Segal-brings-a-touch-of-class.html |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=April 20, 2001}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Paddock|first=Terri|title=Hirsch, Thomas and Morton Return for 19th UK Art Cast, July 31|url=https://www.playbill.com/article/hirsch-thomas-and-morton-return-for-19th-uk-art-cast-july-31-com-97733|newspaper=Playbill|date=July 18, 2001}}</ref>
| Serge
| West End
|-
| 2007
| ''[[Heroes (play)|Heroes]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.geffenplayhouse.org/shows/heroes/|title=Heroes|date=April 19, 2007 |publisher=[[Geffen Playhouse]]|access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
| Gustave
| Los Angeles
|-
| 2007
| ''Prophesy and Honor''<ref>{{cite news|last=Harada|first=Wayne|title=Reviving 'Honor' with stars|url=http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Aug/10/en/hawaii708100301.html|access-date=March 28, 2021|newspaper=Honolulu Advertiser|date=August 10, 2007}}</ref>
| Colonel [[Sherman Moreland]]
| Honolulu
|-
| 2008
| ''Secret Order''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://latw.org/title/secret-order|title=Catalog: Secret Order|publisher=L.A. Theatre Works|access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
| Saul Roth
| Los Angeles
|}

=== Television ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1960
| ''[[The Play of the Week]]''<ref name="Random Roles">{{cite web|last=Harris|first=Will|title=George Segal on learning how to bet from Robert Altman, fathering Denzel Washington, and more|url=https://www.avclub.com/george-segal-on-learning-how-to-bet-from-robert-altman-1798240924|publisher=AV Club|date=September 23, 2013|access-date=March 28, 2021}}</ref>
| (1) Don<br>(2) Innkeeper
| (1) Season 1 Episode 13: "The Closing Door"<br>(2) Season 2 Episode 13: "Emmanuel"
|-
| 1960–1962
| ''[[Armstrong Circle Theatre]]''
| (1) First Lieutenant Paul Fallon
| (1) Season 10 Episode 8: "Ghost Bomber: The Lady Be Good" (1960) (aired February 3)<br>(2) Season 10 Episode 24: "Ghost Bomber" (1960) (aired September 28)<br>(3) Season 13 Episode 3: "The Friendly Thieves" (1962) (aired October 24)
|-
| 1962
| ''[[The United States Steel Hour]]''
| Pete
| Season 10 Episode 2: "The Inner Panic"
|-
| rowspan="3" | 1963
| ''[[Channing (TV series)|Channing]]''
| Andre
| Season 1 Episode 8: "A Patron Saint for the Cargo Cult"
|-
| ''[[Naked City (TV series)|Naked City]]''
| Jerry Costell
| Season 4 Episode 20: "Man Without a Skin"
|-
| ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents|The Alfred Hitchcock Hour]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Larry Duke
| Season 2 Episode 2: "A Nice Touch"
|-
| 1963–1964
| ''[[The Nurses (TV series)|The Doctors and the Nurses]]''
| (1) Dr. Novak<br>(2) Dr. Harry Warren
| (1) Season 1 Episode 15: "Root of Violence" (1963)<br>(2) Season 2 Episode 24: "Climb a Broken Ladder" (1964)
|-
| 1964
| ''[[Arrest and Trial]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/>
| Jack Wisner
| Season 1 Episode 28: "He Ran for His Life"
|-
| 1965–1991
| ''[[The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson]]''
| Himself
| 47 episodes
|-
| 1966
| ''[[Death of a Salesman (1966 American film)|Death of a Salesman]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/>
| Biff Loman
| rowspan="4" | Television film
|-
| 1967
| ''[[The Desperate Hours (1967 film)|The Desperate Hours]]''<ref name="Random Roles" />
| Glenn Griffin
|-
| 1968
| ''[[Of Mice and Men (1968 film)|Of Mice and Men]]''<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| George
|-
| 1973
| ''[[The Lie (1970 film)|The Lie]]''<ref>{{cite news|last=Bradshaw|first=Peter|title=TV: 'Man Without a Country' and 'Lie'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/24/archives/tv-man-without-a-country-and-lie.html|access-date=March 28, 2021|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 24, 1973}}</ref>
| Andrew
|-
| 1980
| ''[[Mein Freund Winnetou|My Friend Winnetou]]''
| Gottlieb
| Miniseries
|-
| 1982
| ''[[The Deadly Game (1982 film)|The Deadly Game]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Howard Trapp
| Television film<br />Nominated — CableAce Award for Best Actor in a Theatrical or Non-Musical Program
|-
| 1983
| ''[[Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| John Grafton
| rowspan="5" | Television film
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1984
| ''[[The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| [[Robin Hood]]
|-
| ''[[The Cold Room]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Hugh Martin
|-
| 1985
| ''[[Not My Kid]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Dr. Frank Bower
|-
| 1986
| ''Many Happy Returns''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| William "Bud" Robinson
|-
| 1987
| ''[[Take Five (TV series)|Take Five]]''
| Andy Kooper
| Series regular<br />all 6 episodes
|-
| 1988–1989
| ''[[Murphy's Law (American TV series)|Murphy's Law]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/>
| Daedalus Patrick Murphy
| Series regular<br />13 episodes
|-
| 1989
| ''[[The Endless Game]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Mr. Miller
| Miniseries<br />2 episodes
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1993
| ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Dave Novaro
| Season 10 Episode 9: "Murder at a Discount"
|-
| ''[[Taking the Heat]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Kepler
| Television film
|-
| 1993–1995
| ''[[The Larry Sanders Show]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/>
| Himself
| (1) Season 2 Episode 14: "Performance Artist" (1993)<br>(2) Season 4 Episode 16: "Eight" (1995)
|-
| rowspan="5" | 1994
| ''[[Seasons of the Heart (1994 film)|Seasons of the Heart]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Ezra Goldstine
| rowspan="2" | Television film
|-
| ''[[Following Her Heart]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Harry
|-
| ''[[High Tide (TV series)|High Tide]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/>
| Gordon
| 22 episodes
|-
| ''[[Burke's Law (1994 TV series)|Burke's Law]]''<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Ben Zima
| Season 1 Episode 1: "Who Killed the Starlet?"
|-
| ''[[Aaahh!!! Real Monsters]]''
| J.B.
| Voice<br>Season 1 Episode 3: "Curse of the Krumm/Krumm Goes Hollywood"<ref name="btva" />
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Picture Windows]]''<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Ted Varnas
| Miniseries<br>Season 1 Episode 5: "Song of Songs"
|-
| 1995–1997
| ''[[The Naked Truth (TV series)|The Naked Truth]]''<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Fred Wilde
| (1) Season 1 Episode 9: "Girl Buys Soup While Woman Weds Ape!" (1995)<br>(2) Season 2 Episode 4: "The Sister Show" (1997)<br>(3) Season 2 Episode 11: "The Parents" (1997)<br>(4) Season 2 Episode 12: "The Spa" (1997)
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1996
| ''The Making of a Hollywood Madam''
| Leo
| Television film
|-
| ''[[Adventures from the Book of Virtues]]''
| Eli
| Voice<br>Season 1 Episode 4: "Compassion"<ref name="btva" />
|-
| 1996–1997
| ''[[The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest]]''
| Dr. Benton C. Quest
| Voice<br>24 episodes<ref name="btva" />
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1997
| ''[[Tracey Takes On...]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/>
| Harry Rosenthal
| (1) Season 2 Episode 3: "Mothers"<br>(2) Season 2 Episode 11: "Money"<br>(3) Season 2 Episode 12: "Race Relations"<br>(4) Season 2 Episode 13: "Supernatural"<br>(5) Season 2 Episode 14: "Politics"
|-
| ''[[Caroline in the City]]''<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Bob Anderson
| Season 2 Episode 19: "Caroline and the Buyer"
|-
| 1997–2003
| ''[[Just Shoot Me!]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Jack Gallo
| Series regular<br />148 episodes<br />Nominated — [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy|Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy]] {{small|(1998–1999)}}<br />Nominated — [[Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy|Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy]] {{small|(2001)}}
|-
| 1998
| ''[[Houdini (1998 film)|Houdini]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Martin Beck
| rowspan="2" | Television film
|-
| 2000
| ''[[The Linda McCartney Story]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| [[Lee Eastman]]
|-
| 2001
| ''[[The Zeta Project]]''
| Dr. Eli Selig
| Voice<br>Season 1 Episode 13: "Absolute Zero"<ref name="btva" />
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2003
| ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Dr. Roger Tate
| Season 5 Episode 8: "Abomination"
|-
| ''[[Electric Piper|The Electric Piper]]''
| Mayor Nick Dixon
| Voice<br>Television film<ref name="btva" />
|-
| 2005
| ''Fielder's Choice''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| JD
| Television film
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2007
| ''[[Private Practice (TV series)|Private Practice]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Wendell Parker
| Season 1 Episode 9: "In Which Dell Finds His Fight"
|-
| ''[[The War at Home (TV series)|The War at Home]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Sid
| Season 2 Episode 16: "No Weddings and a Funeral"
|-
| ''[[Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="btva" />
| Horror
| Voice<br>Television film
|-
| 2008
| ''[[Boston Legal]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Paul Cruickshank
| Season 4 Episode 19: "The Gods Must Be Crazy"
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2009
| ''[[Pushing Daisies]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Roy "Buster" Bustamante
| Season 2 Episode 11: "Window Dressed to Kill"
|-
| ''[[Entourage (U.S. TV series)|Entourage]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Murray Berenson
| (1) Season 6 Episode 5: "Fore"<br>(2) Season 6 Episode 6: "Murphy's Lie"<br>(3) Season 6 Episode 7: "No More Drama"
|-
| 2010
| ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated]]''<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Peter Trickell
| Voice<br>Season 1 Episode 4: "Revenge of the Man Crab"
|-
| 2011–2012
| ''[[Retired at 35]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Alan Robbins
| Series regular<br />20 episodes
|-
| 2012-2013
| ''[[American Dad!]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| (1) Bernie<br>(2) Probate Lawyer
| Voice<br>(1) Season 7 Episode 14: "Stan's Best Friend" (2012)<br>(2) Season 8 Episode 11: "Max Jets" (2013)
|-
| 2013–2021
| ''[[The Goldbergs (2013 TV series)|The Goldbergs]]''<ref name="TVG Filmography"/><ref name="Rotten Tomatoes"/>
| Albert "Pops" Solomon
| Series regular<br />185 episodes{{efn|Segal was credited as a series regular for every episode of the first eight seasons for a total of 185 episodes, though he appeared as an actor in 158. His final appearance was in the sixteenth episode of season eight, after which he continued to be credited through the season finale.}}
|-
| 2018
| ''[[The Simpsons]]''
| Nick
| Voice<br>Season 30 Episode 2: "[[Heartbreak Hotel (The Simpsons)|Heartbreak Hotel]]"
|}

== Discography ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1967
| ''[[The Yama Yama Man]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/george-segal-mn0001408586/discography/all|title=George Segal – Album Discography|work=[[AllMusic]]|accessdate=March 25, 2021}}</ref>
| LP
|-
| 1970
| ''[[The Owl and the Pussycat (soundtrack)|The Owl and the Pussycat]]''<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Album Reviews Continued |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=2 January 1971 |page=30}}</ref>
| LP<br />Dialogue excerpts from [[The Owl and the Pussycat (film)|the film]] performed by [[Barbra Streisand]] and George Segal, accompanied by music by [[Blood, Sweat & Tears]]
|-
| 1974
| ''A Touch of Ragtime''<ref name=Kinane>{{cite news|title=George Segal, star of Just Shoot Me and The Goldbergs, dies at 87|url=https://ew.com/tv/george-segal-dies-87/|first=Ruth|last=Kinane|date=March 23, 2021|access-date=March 25, 2021|magazine=Entertainment Weekly}}</ref>
| LP<br />As George Segal and the Imperial Jazzband
|-
| 1987
| ''Basin Street''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/george-segal-mn0001408586/credits|title=George Segal – Credits|work=[[AllMusic]]|accessdate=March 25, 2021}}</ref>
| LP<br />Canadian Brass with George Segal
|}

== Awards and nominations ==
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="background:#b0c4de; text-align:center;"
! style="background:#bcbcbc;"|Year
! style="background:#bcbcbc;"|Award
! style="background:#bcbcbc;"|Category
! style="background:#bcbcbc;"|Work
! style="background:#bcbcbc;"|Result
! style="background:#bcbcbc;"|Ref.
|-
| [[39th Academy Awards|1966]]
| [[Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film)|Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|title=The 39th Academy Awards – 1967|date=October 4, 2014 |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1967|accessdate=March 25, 2021|publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences}}</ref>
|-
| [[22nd British Academy Film Awards|1968]]
| [[British Academy Film Awards]]
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role|Best Actor in a Supporting Role]]
| ''[[No Way to Treat a Lady (film)|No Way to Treat a Lady]]''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|title=Film in 1969|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1969/film|accessdate=March 25, 2021|publisher=British Academy of Film and Television Arts}}</ref>
|-
| 1983
| [[CableAce Award]]s
| Best Actor in a Theatrical or Non-Musical Program
| ''[[The Deadly Game (1982 film)|The Deadly Game]]''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"|
|-
| [[22nd Golden Globe Awards|1964]]
| rowspan="5"| [[Golden Globe Awards]]
| [[Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor|Most Promising Newcomer – Male]]
| ''[[The New Interns]]''
| {{won}}{{efn|Tied with [[Harve Presnell]] and [[Chaim Topol]].}}
| align="center" rowspan="5"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/person/george-segal |title=George Segal – Golden Globes |website=[[HFPA]] |access-date=March 25, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[24th Golden Globe Awards|1966]]
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture]]
| ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[31st Golden Globe Awards|1973]]
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy|Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| ''[[A Touch of Class (film)|A Touch of Class]]''
| {{won}}
|-
| [[56th Golden Globe Awards|1998]]
| rowspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy|Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy]]
| rowspan="2"| ''[[Just Shoot Me!]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[57th Golden Globe Awards|1999]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| 1973
| Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
| Best Actor
| ''A Touch of Class''
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |title=KCFCC Award Winners – 1970-79 |date=December 14, 2013 |url=https://kcfcc.org/kcfcc-award-winners-1970-79/ |publisher=KCFCC |access-date=26 March 2021}}</ref>
|-
| 1965
| rowspan="2"| [[Laurel Awards]]
| colspan="2"| Top New Faces – Male
| {{draw|6th Place}}
| align="center"|
|-
| 1967
| Top Male Supporting Performance
| ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/titles/95743|title=Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?|publisher=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=March 25, 2021|quote="George Segal was awarded second place for his performance in the Male Supporting Performance category."}}</ref>
|-
| [[6th Golden Satellite Awards|2001]]
| [[Satellite Awards]]
| [[Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy|Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy]]
| ''Just Shoot Me!''
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref name=Kinane/>
|}

=== Other honors ===
* 1989: A portrait of Segal by photographer [[Lewis Morley]] was acquired by the [[National Portrait Gallery, London]].<ref>{{cite web |title=NPG x125260; George Segal - Portrait - National Portrait Gallery |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw58764 |website=National Portrait Gallery, London |access-date=26 March 2021}}</ref>
* 2017: Star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]]<ref name=Fine/>

== Notes and references ==
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Latest revision as of 16:39, 22 December 2024

George Segal
Segal in 1965
Born
George Segal Jr.

(1934-02-13)February 13, 1934
DiedMarch 23, 2021(2021-03-23) (aged 87)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColumbia University (BA)
OccupationActor
Years active1955–2021
Spouses
  • (m. 1956; div. 1983)
  • Linda Rogoff
    (m. 1983; died 1996)
  • Sonia Schultz Greenbaum
    (m. 1998)
Children2
AwardsSee below

George Segal Jr. (February 13, 1934 – March 23, 2021) was an American actor. He became popular in the 1960s and 1970s for playing both dramatic and comedic roles.[1] After first rising to prominence with roles in acclaimed films such as Ship of Fools (1965) and King Rat (1965), he co-starred in the classic drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).

Through the next decade and a half, Segal consistently starred in notable films across a variety of genres including The Quiller Memorandum (1966), The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), No Way to Treat a Lady (1968), Where's Poppa? (1970), The Owl and the Pussycat (1970), The Hot Rock (1972), Blume in Love (1973), A Touch of Class (1973), California Split (1974), The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976), Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978), and The Last Married Couple in America (1980). He was one of the first American film actors to rise to leading man status with an unchanged Jewish surname, helping pave the way for other major actors of his generation.[2][3][4]

Later in his career, he appeared in supporting roles in films such as Carbon Copy (1981), Stick (1985), Look Who's Talking (1989), For the Boys (1991), The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), Flirting with Disaster (1996), 2012 (2009), and Love & Other Drugs (2010).

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and won two Golden Globe Awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance in A Touch of Class.

On television, he was best known for his regular roles in two popular sitcoms, playing Jack Gallo on Just Shoot Me! (1997–2003) and Albert "Pops" Solomon on The Goldbergs (2013–2021). Segal was also an accomplished banjo player. (In addition to the banjo, he frequently played other small lute instruments such as the ukulele and dobro on TV and in his movies.) He released three albums and performed with the instrument in several of his acting roles and on late-night television.

Early life

[edit]

George Segal Jr. was born in New York City,[5][6][7] the youngest of four children, to Fannie Blanche Segal (née Bodkin) and George Segal Sr., a malt and hop agent. He spent much of his childhood in Great Neck, New York.[5][8][9] All four of Segal's grandparents were Russian-Jewish immigrants,[10][11] and his maternal grandparents changed their surname from Slobodkin to Bodkin.[10] A paternal great-grandfather ran for governor of Massachusetts as a socialist.[12] His oldest brother, John, worked in the hops brokerage business and was an innovator in the cultivation of new hop varieties; he had a farm in Grandview, Washington where George often helped in the summers.[13] The middle brother, Fred, was a screenwriter;[8] and his sister Greta died of pneumonia before Segal was born.[10]

Segal's family was Jewish, but he was raised in a secular household. When asked if he had had a bar mitzvah, he said:

I'm afraid not. I went to a Passover Seder at Groucho Marx's once and he kept saying, "When do we get to the wine?" So that's my [Jewish] experience. I went to [a friend's] bar mitzvah, and that was the only time I was in Temple Beth Shalom. [Jewish life] wasn't happening that much at the time. People's car tires were slashed in front of the temple. I was once kicked down a flight of stairs by some kids from [the local parochial school].[12]

Segal became interested in acting at the age of nine, when he saw Alan Ladd in This Gun for Hire.[9] "I knew the revolver and the trench coat were an illusion and I didn't care," said Segal. "I liked the sense of adventure and control."[14] He also started playing the banjo at a young age, later stating: "I started off with the ukulele when I was a kid in Great Neck. A friend had a red Harold Teen model; it won my heart. When I got to high school, I realized you couldn't play in a band with a ukulele, so I moved on to the four-string banjo."[15]

When his father died in 1947, Segal moved to New York City with his mother.[16] He graduated from George School, a Quaker boarding school in Pennsylvania, in 1951 and attended Haverford College.[17] He graduated from Columbia College of Columbia University in 1955 with a Bachelor of Arts in performing arts and drama.[15][16] He played banjo at Haverford and also at Columbia, where he played with a dixieland jazz band that had several different names. When he booked a gig, he billed the group as Bruno Lynch and his Imperial Jazz Band. The group, which later settled on the name Red Onion Jazz Band, played at Segal's first wedding.[17][18]

Segal served in the United States Army during the Korean War.[5][19] While there, he played in a band called Corporal Bruno's Sad Sack Six.[15]

Career

[edit]

Early roles and success

[edit]

After college and the army, Segal eventually studied at the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg and at HB Studio with Uta Hagen[20] and got a job as an understudy in the 1956 off-Broadway production of The Iceman Cometh starring Jason Robards.[21] He appeared in Antony and Cleopatra for Joseph Papp and joined an improvisational group called The Premise, which performed at a Bleecker Street coffeehouse[22] and whose ranks included Buck Henry and Theodore J. Flicker.[23] Segal continued to perform on Broadway with roles in Gideon (1961–62) by Paddy Chayefsky, which ran for 236 performances,[24][25] as well as Rattle of a Simple Man (1963), an adaptation of a British hit, with Tammy Grimes and Edward Woodward.

He was signed to a Columbia Pictures contract in 1961, making his film debut in The Young Doctors.[26] Segal made several television appearances in the early 1960s, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Armstrong Circle Theatre, and Naked City,[26] and appeared in the well-known World War II film The Longest Day (1962).[27] He also had a small role in Act One (1963) and a more prominent part in the western Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964) alongside Yul Brynner.[28]

Segal in the trailer for Lost Command

Segal came to Hollywood from New York City to star in a TV series with Robert Taylor that never aired. Nonetheless, he joined the cast of Columbia Pictures' medical drama The New Interns (1964),[29] and the studio then put him under long-term contract.[30] The role ultimately earned him the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year,[14] alongside Harve Presnell and Chaim Topol.[31]

Critical acclaim

[edit]

In 1965, Segal played an egocentric painter in an ensemble cast led by Vivien Leigh and Lee Marvin in Stanley Kramer's acclaimed drama Ship of Fools, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The same year, he also had the title role of a scheming POW in the well-regarded war drama King Rat (a role originally meant for Frank Sinatra) and received acclaim for both performances.[32][33] In other notable film appearances, he played a secret service agent on assignment in Berlin in The Quiller Memorandum (1966) (a role originally meant for Charlton Heston[34]), an Algerian paratrooper who becomes a leader of the FLN in Lost Command (1966), and a Cagney-esque gangster in Roger Corman's The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967).[28]

Segal also appeared in several prominent television films, playing Biff in an acclaimed production of Death of a Salesman (1966) next to Lee J. Cobb, a gangster in an adaptation of The Desperate Hours (1967), and George in an adaptation of Of Mice and Men (1968). The latter two films were both directed by Ted Kotcheff,[35] with whom he worked again several times.[28]

Segal was loaned to Warner Bros. for Mike Nichols' directorial debut Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), a now-classic adaptation of the Edward Albee play. Nichols had previously directed Segal in a 1964 Off-Broadway play titled The Knack[36] and cast him again in Woolf after Robert Redford had turned down the role.[37] In the four-person ensemble piece, Segal played the young faculty member, Nick, alongside Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Sandy Dennis. The film, which received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture and was later selected to the National Film Registry,[38] is arguably Segal's best known and, for his role, he was nominated for an Oscar[39] and a Golden Globe.[40]

The same year, Segal released his debut LP, The Yama Yama Man. The title track is a ragtime version of the 1908 tune "The Yama Yama Man" with horns and banjos. Segal released the album at a time when he appeared regularly playing banjo on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.[15] In the same year, Segal played banjo and sang with The Smothers Brothers when they performed Phil Ochs's "Draft Dodger Rag" on their CBS television show.[41][42]

Leading man

[edit]

For over ten years after his success with Woolf, Segal received many notable film roles, often working with major filmmakers and becoming a significant figure in the New Hollywood movement.[43] He starred in Carl Reiner's celebrated[44] dark comedy[45] Where's Poppa? (1970), played the lead role in Sidney Lumet's Bye Bye Braverman (1968), starred with Robert Redford in Peter Yates's diamond heist comedy The Hot Rock (1972), starred in the title role of Paul Mazursky's acclaimed romantic comedy Blume in Love (1973),[46] and starred alongside Elliott Gould as a gambling addict in Robert Altman's classic California Split (1974),[47] considered by some to be the greatest gambling film of all time.[48]

In one of his most successful roles, Segal played a philandering husband in Melvin Frank's continental romantic comedy A Touch of Class (1973) opposite Glenda Jackson. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, Jackson won an Oscar for her performance, and Segal won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, which was the second Golden Globe of his career.[49]

During this time, he had many other leading roles in various genres. He played a perplexed police detective in No Way to Treat a Lady (1968), a war-weary platoon commander in The Bridge at Remagen (1969), a man laying waste to his marriage in Loving (1970), and a hairdresser-turned-junkie in Born to Win (1971).[50] The Owl and the Pussycat (1970), a romantic comedy starring Segal and Barbra Streisand and written by his former improv teammate Buck Henry, was particularly popular;[51] and though Segal played against type as a dangerous computer scientist in The Terminal Man (1974), he used his popular appeal as a card shark in The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976), as a suburbanite-turned-bank robber in Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), as a heroic ride inspector in Rollercoaster (1977), and as a wealthy serial restaurant entrepreneur in Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978).[52] Other films starring Segal from this time include The Girl Who Couldn't Say No (1968), Russian Roulette (1975), and The Black Bird (1975).[53]

Segal co-hosted the 48th Academy Awards in 1976, alongside Gene Kelly, Goldie Hawn, Walter Matthau, and Robert Shaw.[54]

During the 1970s and 1980s, Segal appeared as a frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and occasionally as a guest host. His appearances were marked by eccentric banter with Johnny Carson and were usually punctuated by bursts of banjo playing.[22] In addition to playing banjo while appearing on The Tonight Show, Segal played the instrument in several of his acting roles and sang in others, such as Blume in Love.[55]

George Segal and the Imperial Jazzband released the album A Touch of Ragtime in 1974, with Segal on banjo. He made frequent television appearances with the "Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz Band", whose members included actor Conrad Janis on trombone, and in 1981 they performed live at Carnegie Hall.[56]

Mid-career difficulties

[edit]

Segal reunited with his Touch of Class co-star Jackson and director Frank in another European-set romantic comedy, Lost and Found (1979), but the film was not a success. Neither was The Last Married Couple in America (1980) with Natalie Wood. Segal famously pulled out of the lead role in Blake Edwards' hit comedy 10 (1979), resulting in his being replaced by Dudley Moore and sued by Edwards.[22]

With a few exceptions, in films such as Denzel Washington's film debut Carbon Copy (1981), Burt Reynolds's crime drama Stick (1985), and the popular family comedy Look Who's Talking (1989), Segal received fewer prominent roles in the 1980s. Instead, he began to star more frequently in television films, such as The Deadly Game (1982) for which he received a CableAce Award nomination for best actor in a theatrical or non-musical production,[57] The Cold Room (1984), and The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (1984). He also starred in two short-lived television series, the semi-autobiographical sitcom Take Five (1987)[58] and the crime drama Murphy's Law (1988–89). In 1985, he returned to Broadway in a short-lived production of Requiem for a Heavyweight by Rod Serling and in 1990 toured in a play called Double Act.[59]

He later reflected on his career trajectory:

In the first 10 years, I was playing all different kinds of things. I loved the variety, and never had the sense of being a leading man but a character actor. Then I got frozen into this "urban" character. About the time of "The Last Married Couple in America" (1980) I remember Natalie (Wood) saying to me ... "It's one typed role after another, and pretty soon you forget everything. You forget why you're here, why you're doing it." Then my marriage started to fall apart ... I was disenchanted, I was turning in on myself, I was doing a lot of self-destructive things ... there were drugs ... I'm also sure I was guilty of spoiled behavior. I think it's impossible when that star rush comes not to get a little full of yourself, which is what I was.[60]

Segal (left) with The Goldbergs cast, 2014

Later career

[edit]

Nevertheless, after this relatively dry period, Segal re-established himself as a successful character actor in the 1990s. Though he appeared in some less-acclaimed films, he also worked with directors such as Mark Rydell, Gus Van Sant, Barbra Streisand, David O. Russell, Randal Kleiser, and Ben Stiller, respectively, in well-received films such as For the Boys (1991), To Die For (1995), The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), Flirting with Disaster (1996), It's My Party (1996), and The Cable Guy (1996). Additionally, he had guest appearances on various shows such as Murder She Wrote and The Larry Sanders Show and continued to appear in television films such as Seasons of the Heart (1994), Houdini (1998), and The Linda McCartney Story (2000). In 1999, he briefly performed in Yasmina Reza's Art on Broadway, and in 2001 he reprised his performance in the West End.[61]

From 1997 to 2003, Segal had his most prominent role in years when he starred in the NBC workplace sitcom Just Shoot Me! as Jack Gallo, the successful yet often oblivious owner and publisher of a New York City fashion magazine.[22] For this role, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 1999 and 2000[62] as well as a Satellite Award in 2002. The show, which also starred David Spade and Laura San Giacomo, among others, and which once aired between iconic sitcoms Friends and Seinfeld, lasted for seven seasons and 148 episodes.

After finishing his run on Just Shoot Me, Segal appeared in supporting roles in films such as Heights (2005) and 2012 (2009). He and Jill Clayburgh cameoed as Jake Gyllenhaal's parents in Love & Other Drugs (2010), reuniting the co-stars 46 years after they first worked together in The Terminal Man. Additionally, Segal worked more frequently as a voice actor, including a role in the English-language version of Studio Ghibli's The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) and a comedic reprisal of his Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? role in a 2018 episode of The Simpsons.[63][64] His most recent film performance was alongside Christopher Plummer in Elsa & Fred (2014). In other roles, Segal played talent manager Murray Berenson in three episodes of the television series Entourage (2009), guest starred in shows such as Boston Legal, Private Practice, and Pushing Daisies, appeared in comedic short videos such as Chutzpuh, This Is,[65] and starred in the TV Land sitcom Retired at 35 (2011–2012), alongside his Bye Bye Braverman co-star Jessica Walter.[66][67][68]

Segal had another success when he starred in the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs (2013–2021), playing Albert "Pops" Solomon, the eccentric but lovable grandfather of a semi-autobiographical family based on that of series creator Adam F. Goldberg.[69] The long-running series entered its eighth season in 2021,[70][71] and Segal was part of the regular cast up until his death in March of that year. Throughout the show, Segal had appeared in most, though not all, episodes and, as in some of his earlier roles, he played the banjo several times on-screen.

In 2017, Segal received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television.[72][73]

Personal life and death

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Segal was married three times. He married film editor Marion Segal Freed in 1956, who would go on to work as an associate producer or editor on three of his films.[74] They had two daughters and were together until their divorce in 1983.[74] From 1983 until her death in 1996, he was married to Linda Rogoff, a one-time manager of The Pointer Sisters whom he met at Carnegie Hall when he played the banjo with his band[75] the Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz Band.[26] He married his former George School boarding school classmate Sonia Schultz Greenbaum in 1998.[9]

Later in his life, Segal lived part-time in Sonoma County when he was not filming The Goldbergs in Los Angeles.[76]

Segal died of complications from bypass surgery in Santa Rosa, California, on March 23, 2021, at age 87.[77][78]

Filmography

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Film

[edit]
Year Title Role Director Notes
1961 The Young Doctors[28][79] Dr. Howard Phil Karlson
1962 The Longest Day[79][80] U.S. Army Ranger Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, & Bernhard Wicki
1963 Act One[28][53] Lester Sweyd Dore Schary
1964 Invitation to a Gunfighter[28][53] Matt Weaver Richard Wilson
The New Interns[28][79] Dr. Tony "Shiv" Parelli John Rich Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Male
1965 King Rat[28][53] Corporal King Bryan Forbes
Ship of Fools[28][53] David Scott Stanley Kramer
1966 Lost Command[28][53] Lieutenant Mahidi Mark Robson
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?[28][53] Nick Mike Nichols Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
The Quiller Memorandum[28][53] Quiller Michael Anderson
1967 The St. Valentine's Day Massacre[28][53] Peter Gusenberg Roger Corman
1968 Bye Bye Braverman[28][53] Morroe Rieff Sidney Lumet
No Way to Treat a Lady[28][53] Morris Brummel Jack Smight Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
The Girl Who Couldn't Say No[80][53] Franco Franco Brusati
1969 The Bridge at Remagen[28][53] Lieutenant Phil Hartman John Guillermin
The Southern Star[80][53] Dan Rockland Sidney Hayers
1970 Loving[28][53] Brooks Wilson Irvin Kershner
Where's Poppa?[28][53] Gordon Hocheiser Carl Reiner
The Owl and the Pussycat[28][53] Felix Sherman Herbert Ross
1971 Born to Win[28][53] J Ivan Passer
1972 The Hot Rock[28][53] Kelp Peter Yates
1973 Blume in Love[28][53] Stephen Blume Paul Mazursky
A Touch of Class[28][53] Steve Blackburn Melvin Frank Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
1974 The Terminal Man[28][53] Harry Benson Mike Hodges
California Split[28][53] Bill Denny Robert Altman
1975 Russian Roulette[28][53] Corporal Timothy Shaver Lou Lombardo
The Black Bird[28][53] Sam Spade Jr. David Giler Executive producer
1976 The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox[28][53] Charlie "Dirtwater Fox" Malloy Melvin Frank
1977 Fun with Dick and Jane[28][53] Dick Harper Ted Kotcheff
Rollercoaster[28][53] Harry Calder James Goldstone
1978 Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?[28][53] Robby Ross Ted Kotcheff
1979 Lost and Found[28][53] Adam Watson Melvin Frank
1980 The Last Married Couple in America[28][53] Jeff Thompson Gilbert Cates
1981 Carbon Copy[28][53] Walter Whitney Michael Schultz
1982 Killing 'em Softly[79][53] Jimmy Skinner Max Fischer
1985 Stick[28][53] Barry Braun Burt Reynolds
1988 Run for Your Life[79][53] Alan Morani Terence Young
1989 Look Who's Talking[28][53] Albert Amy Heckerling
All's Fair[28][53] Colonel Rocky Lang
1991 For the Boys[28][53] Art Silver Mark Rydell
Time of Darkness Grigory Vladimir Alenikov
1992 Me Myself & I[79][53] Buddy Arnett Pablo Ferro
Un orso chiamato Arturo[79] Billy Sergio Martino
1993 Joshua Tree[79] Lieutenant Franklin L. Severence Vic Armstrong
Look Who's Talking Now[28][53] Albert Tom Ropelewski Cameo
1994 Direct Hit[79][53] James Tronson Joseph Merhi Video
1995 To Die For[79][80] Conference Speaker Gus Van Sant Uncredited
The Babysitter[28][53] Bill Holsten Guy Ferland Video
The Feminine Touch[79] Senator "Beau" Ashton Conrad Janis
Deep Down[80][53] Gil John Travers
1996 It's My Party[79][53] Paul Stark Randal Kleiser
Flirting with Disaster[28][53] Ed Coplin David O. Russell
The Cable Guy[28][53] Earl Kovacs Ben Stiller
The Mirror Has Two Faces[28][53] Henry Fine Barbra Streisand
2005 Heights[79][53] Rabbi Mendel Chris Terrio
Chutzpuh, This Is?[65] Dr. Dreck Rick Kent Short film
Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone[80][53][81] Albagon Davis Doi Voice, direct-to-video
2007 Three Days to Vegas[80][53] Dominic Spinuzzi Charlie Picerni
My Wife Is Retarded Julie's father Etan Cohen Short film
2009 2012[79][53] Tony Delgatto Roland Emmerich
Made for Each Other[80][53] Mr. Jacobs Daryl Goldberg
2010 Love & Other Drugs[79][53] Dr. James Randall Edward Zwick
Ollie Klublershturf vs. the Nazis Elliott Klublershturf Skot Bright Short film
2014 The Tale of the Princess Kaguya[79][80] Inbe no Akita Isao Takahata Voice
Elsa & Fred[79][53] John Michael Radford

Stage

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Year Title Role Notes
1961–1962 Gideon[82][83] Purah Broadway
1963 Rattle of a Simple Man[82][83] Ricard Broadway
1964 The Knack[36] Tolen Off-Broadway
1985 Requiem for a Heavyweight[82][83] Maish Resnick Broadway
1993 The Fourth Wall[15] Roger Chicago
1998–1999 Art[82][83] Serge Broadway
2001 Art[84][85] Serge West End
2007 Heroes[86] Gustave Los Angeles
2007 Prophesy and Honor[87] Colonel Sherman Moreland Honolulu
2008 Secret Order[88] Saul Roth Los Angeles

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1960 The Play of the Week[89] (1) Don
(2) Innkeeper
(1) Season 1 Episode 13: "The Closing Door"
(2) Season 2 Episode 13: "Emmanuel"
1960–1962 Armstrong Circle Theatre (1) First Lieutenant Paul Fallon (1) Season 10 Episode 8: "Ghost Bomber: The Lady Be Good" (1960) (aired February 3)
(2) Season 10 Episode 24: "Ghost Bomber" (1960) (aired September 28)
(3) Season 13 Episode 3: "The Friendly Thieves" (1962) (aired October 24)
1962 The United States Steel Hour Pete Season 10 Episode 2: "The Inner Panic"
1963 Channing Andre Season 1 Episode 8: "A Patron Saint for the Cargo Cult"
Naked City Jerry Costell Season 4 Episode 20: "Man Without a Skin"
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour[80][53] Larry Duke Season 2 Episode 2: "A Nice Touch"
1963–1964 The Doctors and the Nurses (1) Dr. Novak
(2) Dr. Harry Warren
(1) Season 1 Episode 15: "Root of Violence" (1963)
(2) Season 2 Episode 24: "Climb a Broken Ladder" (1964)
1964 Arrest and Trial[80] Jack Wisner Season 1 Episode 28: "He Ran for His Life"
1965–1991 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Himself 47 episodes
1966 Death of a Salesman[80] Biff Loman Television film
1967 The Desperate Hours[89] Glenn Griffin
1968 Of Mice and Men[53] George
1973 The Lie[90] Andrew
1980 My Friend Winnetou Gottlieb Miniseries
1982 The Deadly Game[80][53] Howard Trapp Television film
Nominated — CableAce Award for Best Actor in a Theatrical or Non-Musical Program
1983 Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer[80][53] John Grafton Television film
1984 The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood[80][53] Robin Hood
The Cold Room[80][53] Hugh Martin
1985 Not My Kid[80][53] Dr. Frank Bower
1986 Many Happy Returns[80][53] William "Bud" Robinson
1987 Take Five Andy Kooper Series regular
all 6 episodes
1988–1989 Murphy's Law[80] Daedalus Patrick Murphy Series regular
13 episodes
1989 The Endless Game[80][53] Mr. Miller Miniseries
2 episodes
1993 Murder, She Wrote[80][53] Dave Novaro Season 10 Episode 9: "Murder at a Discount"
Taking the Heat[80][53] Kepler Television film
1993–1995 The Larry Sanders Show[80] Himself (1) Season 2 Episode 14: "Performance Artist" (1993)
(2) Season 4 Episode 16: "Eight" (1995)
1994 Seasons of the Heart[80][53] Ezra Goldstine Television film
Following Her Heart[80][53] Harry
High Tide[80] Gordon 22 episodes
Burke's Law[53] Ben Zima Season 1 Episode 1: "Who Killed the Starlet?"
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters J.B. Voice
Season 1 Episode 3: "Curse of the Krumm/Krumm Goes Hollywood"[81]
1995 Picture Windows[53] Ted Varnas Miniseries
Season 1 Episode 5: "Song of Songs"
1995–1997 The Naked Truth[53] Fred Wilde (1) Season 1 Episode 9: "Girl Buys Soup While Woman Weds Ape!" (1995)
(2) Season 2 Episode 4: "The Sister Show" (1997)
(3) Season 2 Episode 11: "The Parents" (1997)
(4) Season 2 Episode 12: "The Spa" (1997)
1996 The Making of a Hollywood Madam Leo Television film
Adventures from the Book of Virtues Eli Voice
Season 1 Episode 4: "Compassion"[81]
1996–1997 The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest Dr. Benton C. Quest Voice
24 episodes[81]
1997 Tracey Takes On...[80] Harry Rosenthal (1) Season 2 Episode 3: "Mothers"
(2) Season 2 Episode 11: "Money"
(3) Season 2 Episode 12: "Race Relations"
(4) Season 2 Episode 13: "Supernatural"
(5) Season 2 Episode 14: "Politics"
Caroline in the City[53] Bob Anderson Season 2 Episode 19: "Caroline and the Buyer"
1997–2003 Just Shoot Me![80][53] Jack Gallo Series regular
148 episodes
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy (1998–1999)
Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy (2001)
1998 Houdini[80][53] Martin Beck Television film
2000 The Linda McCartney Story[80][53] Lee Eastman
2001 The Zeta Project Dr. Eli Selig Voice
Season 1 Episode 13: "Absolute Zero"[81]
2003 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit[80][53] Dr. Roger Tate Season 5 Episode 8: "Abomination"
The Electric Piper Mayor Nick Dixon Voice
Television film[81]
2005 Fielder's Choice[80][53] JD Television film
2007 Private Practice[80][53] Wendell Parker Season 1 Episode 9: "In Which Dell Finds His Fight"
The War at Home[80][53] Sid Season 2 Episode 16: "No Weddings and a Funeral"
Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure[80][81] Horror Voice
Television film
2008 Boston Legal[80][53] Paul Cruickshank Season 4 Episode 19: "The Gods Must Be Crazy"
2009 Pushing Daisies[80][53] Roy "Buster" Bustamante Season 2 Episode 11: "Window Dressed to Kill"
Entourage[80][53] Murray Berenson (1) Season 6 Episode 5: "Fore"
(2) Season 6 Episode 6: "Murphy's Lie"
(3) Season 6 Episode 7: "No More Drama"
2010 Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated[53] Peter Trickell Voice
Season 1 Episode 4: "Revenge of the Man Crab"
2011–2012 Retired at 35[80][53] Alan Robbins Series regular
20 episodes
2012-2013 American Dad![80][53] (1) Bernie
(2) Probate Lawyer
Voice
(1) Season 7 Episode 14: "Stan's Best Friend" (2012)
(2) Season 8 Episode 11: "Max Jets" (2013)
2013–2021 The Goldbergs[80][53] Albert "Pops" Solomon Series regular
185 episodes[a]
2018 The Simpsons Nick Voice
Season 30 Episode 2: "Heartbreak Hotel"

Discography

[edit]
Year Title Notes
1967 The Yama Yama Man[91] LP
1970 The Owl and the Pussycat[92] LP
Dialogue excerpts from the film performed by Barbra Streisand and George Segal, accompanied by music by Blood, Sweat & Tears
1974 A Touch of Ragtime[93] LP
As George Segal and the Imperial Jazzband
1987 Basin Street[94] LP
Canadian Brass with George Segal

Awards and nominations

[edit]
Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
1966 Academy Awards Best Supporting Actor Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Nominated [95]
1968 British Academy Film Awards Best Actor in a Supporting Role No Way to Treat a Lady Nominated [96]
1983 CableAce Awards Best Actor in a Theatrical or Non-Musical Program The Deadly Game Nominated
1964 Golden Globe Awards Most Promising Newcomer – Male The New Interns Won[b] [97]
1966 Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Nominated
1973 Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy A Touch of Class Won
1998 Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy Just Shoot Me! Nominated
1999 Nominated
1973 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards Best Actor A Touch of Class Won [98]
1965 Laurel Awards Top New Faces – Male 6th Place
1967 Top Male Supporting Performance Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Nominated [99]
2001 Satellite Awards Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy Just Shoot Me! Nominated [93]

Other honors

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Notes and references

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  1. ^ Segal was credited as a series regular for every episode of the first eight seasons for a total of 185 episodes, though he appeared as an actor in 158. His final appearance was in the sixteenth episode of season eight, after which he continued to be credited through the season finale.
  2. ^ Tied with Harve Presnell and Chaim Topol.
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