Manhattan’s own George Segal Jr. was an interesting actor, moving deftly between solid and quite serious dramatic roles to a career in far broader, if generally still intelligent comedies in the 70s.
One of the first "ethnic" actors of prominence to leave his name unchanged, he specialized in easily frustrated, angrily gesticulating types, lashing out at the vagaries of life and the world surrounding with arms flailing and temple blood vessels throbbing. But it was almost always for a cheap laugh, and he always came off likeable in the end.
After a stint in the army during the Korean War, he signed up to learn The Method with Lee Strasberg and wound up working bit parts in both film and television in the early 60’s, before kicking off a career that spanned everything from James Clavell's grim POW opus King Rat, war film classic The Bridge at Remagen, chilly 60's eurospy The Quiller Memorandum and the Ernest Tidyman scripted Burt Reynolds crime film Stick to classic (and often heady) comedies like The Owl and the Pussycat, Fun With Dick and Jane and Carbon Copy, where he costarred with the likes of Barbra Streisand, Glenda Jackson, Jane Fonda and a young Denzel Washington.
Join us as we talk the surprisingly varied and many-faceted career of George Segal!
Week 92 (3/9/23): George Segal
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