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[DuncanWaring]

Death certificate probably says “COVID”.

[mylife]

RIP King Rat

[mylife]

In Nichols’ 1967 Edward Albee adaptation “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” Segal played a college professor who gets caught up in an evening of psychological mindgames with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. The film was nominated for 13 Oscars, including Segal’s for supporting actor, and won five.

Segal appeared in all eight seasons of ABC sitcom “The Goldbergs” as the grandfather of the clan based on creator Adam F. Goldberg’s family.

The genial actor was a staple of films of the late 1960s and ’70s such as “Bye Bye Braverman,” “A Touch of Class,” “The Hot Rock” and “Fun With Dick and Jane.” Other notable credits during this period included the romantic comedy “The Owl and the Pussycat,” in which he co-starred with Barbra Streisand, “Loving,” “Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?” “The Terminal Man” and “The Black Bird.”

He starred as an attorney in Carl Reiner’s comedy “Where’s Poppa?,” with Ruth Gordon as his addled mother, and played another lawyer in Mazursky’s “Blume in Love.” In Altman’s “California Split,” he co-starred with Elliot Gould as a man falling into a gambling addiction.

He also had recurring roles on “Just Shoot Me!.” “Murphy’s Law” and “Take Five.”

Born in Great Neck, N.Y., Segal studied at the Actor’s Studio and appeared on Broadway in shows including “Gideon” and “Rattle of a Simple Man.”

After being signed by Columbia Pictures, he had his first film role in “The Young Doctors.” After several television appearances, he won his first major film role in Stanley Kramer’s “Ship of Fools” and then appeared in “King Rat.” He also starred in several acclaimed films for television, including “Of Mice and Men,” “Death of a Salesman” and “The Desperate Hours.”

He enjoyed playing the ukulele and the banjo, making an album of banjo music with his band The Imperial Jazz Band and performing on “The Tonight Show” as well as in several of his film and television roles.

[Sans-Culotte]

Segal was one of the first Jewish actors to use his actual name rather than a studio-supplied non-Jewish one. I always liked his performances. One of my favorite of his movies is No Way to Treat a Lady. RIP

[Rummyfan]

He was always good, even when the material was not. Just saw him in Flirting with Disaster. RIP George Segal.

[SamAdams76]

Everytime I turn around, somebody else is dead.

[4yearlurker]

He played a great gangster in St. Valentines Day Massacre.

[ClearCase_guy]

RIP

Quite a body of work.

[Dan in Wichita]

George Segal co-starred with Denzel Washington in a 1981 movie called Carbon Copy.. It was Washington's movie debut.

The movie plot line was that Washington shows up one day at Segal's plush office to reveal he is his son. From there, Segal's life gets turned upside down.

The movie is a cute comedy/drama, but with an underlying message. I saw it when it first came out at the theaters in 1981, and ironically, saw it again a couple of weeks ago.

As a 22-year-old, all the evil White stereotypes went over my head the first time I saw the movie. All White characters in the movie, except Segal, were bad. All Black characters (there were only two, Washington and Paul Winfield, were good). As a 62-year-old, I am now far more observant of the agenda Hollywood is pushing and the damage it has wrought to our culture and nation. As Carbon Copy demonstrates, Hollywood has been at it a long time.

[ArtDodger]

The Quiller Memorandum was a pretty suave piece in its day.

[DoodleBob]

This may not be in everyone's Top 10, but it's a riot. RIP.

[Maine Mariner]

His performance in Invitation to a Gunfighter, 1964 starring among others Yul Byrnner, was quite good. It was the first movie that I saw him.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Segal as Ride Inspector Harry Guardino (With hat courtesy of a mad bomber) in Rollercoaster.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Ping

[1217Chic]

RIP George ): Loved him in “Last Married Couple in America” with Natalie Wood even though it was a box office flop....

[Texas Hostage in a Blue State]

One of the Kindest and supportive actors you would have ever wanted to meet. Rest in Peace.

[wjcsux]

Another one of Hollywood’s greatest passes on. RIP George.

[Kommodor]

Welp, looks like I’ll be making some coasters this weekend...