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This article is about the actor. For the sculptor and painter, see George Segal (artist).

George Segal (born February 13, 1934 in Great Neck, Long Island, New York) is a well-known American film and stage actor. He was educated at the George School, a private Quaker preparatory boarding school near Newtown, Pennsylvania.

A 1955 graduate of Columbia University, the amiable, wavy-haired leading man is equally at home in drama and comedy, although he is more often seen in the latter. Originally a stage actor and musician, Segal appeared in several nondescript films in the early 1960s before raising eyebrows in 1965 as a distraught newlywed in Ship of Fools and as a P.O.W. in King Rat. He followed with top performances as Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (for which he was nominated for an Oscar), a Cagneyesque gangster in 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, a man laying waste to his marriage in Loving, and a hairdresser turned junkie in Born to Win. Segal starred with Ruth Gordon in Carl Reiner's 1970 outrageous dark comedy Where's Poppa?.

He played an inept burglar in the 1972 comedy The Hot Rock with Robert Redford, a comically unfaithful husband in 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, and starred as a faux gourmet in Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?.

Segal was so appealing that too often he was asked to carry a film on his charm alone, especially in the 1970s. He 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, and as a left-wing comedy writer in For the Boys (1991).

He has since starred in the long-running NBC television sitcom Just Shoot Me! (1997-2003) as the head of the wacky fashion and style magazine Blush.

He is also an accomplished banjo player; in 1974 he played in "A Touch of Ragtime" {Stereophonic LP}, an album with his band, the Imperial Jazzband.

• The Young Doctors (1961)
• The Longest Day (1962)
• Act One (1963)
• The New Interns (1964)
• Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964)
• Ship of Fools (1965)
• King Rat (1965)
• Lost Command (1966)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
• The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
• The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)
• Bye Bye Braverman (1968)
• No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)
• The Girl Who Couldn't Say No (1969)
• The Southern Star (1969)
• The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
• Loving (1970)
• Where's Poppa? (1970)
• The Owl and the Pussycat (1970)
• Born to Win (1971)
• The Hot Rock (1972)
• Blume in Love (1973)
• A Touch of Class (1973)
• The Terminal Man (1974)
• California Split (1974)
• Russian Roulette (1975)
• The Black Bird (1975)
• The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976)
• Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
• Rollercoaster (1977)
• Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)
• Lost and Found (1979)
• The Last Married Couple in America (1980)
• Killing 'em Softly (1982)
• Stick (1985)
• Run for Your Life (1988)
• All's Fair (1989)
• Look Who's Talking (1989)
• Time of Darkness (1991)
• For the Boys (1991)
• Me, Myself and I (1992)
• Joshua Tree (1993)
• Look Who's Talking Now (1993)
• The Feminine Touch (1994)
• Deep Down (1994)
• Direct Hit (1994)
• To Die For (1995)
• The Babysitter (1995)
• It's My Party (1996)
• Flirting with Disaster (1996)
• The Cable Guy (1996)
• The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)
• Heights (2004)
• Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone (2005) (voice) (direct-to-video)
• Chutzpah, This Is? (2005) (short subject)
• My Wife Is Retarded (2007) (short subject)
• Three Days to Vegas (2007)
• Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure (2007) (voice)

• George Segal at the Internet Movie Database