George Segal Movies and Career Information

George Segal, Jr. (born February 13, 1934) is an American actor. Segal was born in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, the son of Fannie and George Segal, Sr. He was educated at George School, a private Quaker preparatory boarding school near Newtown, Pennsylvania. He also attended Haverford College. A 1955 graduate of Columbia University, he 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 as well as the well-known 1962 movie The Longest Day. Segal was signed to a Columbia Pictures contract in 1961 making his film debut in The Young Doctors and appearing in the The Naked City produced for television by Columbia's Screen Gems. He started attracting girls in 1965 as a distraught newlywed in Ship of Fools, as a P.O.W. in King Rat in a role originally meant for Frank Sinatra, and as an Algerian Paratrooper captured at Dien Bien Phu who leaves the French army to become a leader of the FLN in Lost Command. He was loaned to Warner Bros for his well-regarded performances as Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (for which he was nominated for an Oscar), then