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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) is a
well-known United States|American film and stage
actor who was born in Great Neck, New York|Great
Neck, Long Island, New York.

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 (film)|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 Oscar-nominated), a
Cagneyesque gangster in The St. Valentine's Day
Massacre, a perplexed police detective Mo Brummel
in No Way to Treat a Lady, a bookworm in The Owl
and the Pussycat, and in a pair of impressive
dramatic performances, a man laying waste to his
marriage in Loving (movie)|Loving and a
hairdresser turned junkie in Born to Win.

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
suburbanite-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 the
left-wing comedy writer in For the Boys (1991). 

He has since starred in the long-running
television comedy series Just Shoot Me as the head
of the wacky fashion and style magazine "Blush". 

He is also an accomplished banjo player.

He played in "A Touch of Ragtime" {Stereophonic
LP} 1974
An album by George Segal and the Imperial
Jazzband.