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Acteur dans 69 films

Né(e) le 13 février 1934 (90 ans)

Lieu de naissance
Great Neck, New York

George Segal

Acteur dans

2014

  • Elsa & Fred
  • And the Oscar Goes To...

2012

  • Heroes and Demons
  • Pablo

2010

  • Love & autres drogues
  • Ollie Klublershturf vs. the Nazis

2009

  • 2012

2007

  • Billy et Mandy : la grande aventure de Croquemitaine
  • Three Days To Vegas

2005

  • Heights
  • Un destin si fragile
  • Dinotopia: à la recherche de la pierre solaire

1998

  • Houdini

1996

  • Leçons de Séduction
  • Disjoncté
  • Flirter avec les embrouilles

1995

  • The Babysitter
  • Prête à tout
  • The Feminine Touch

1994

  • Direct Hit
  • Seasons of the Heart

1993

  • Allô maman, c'est Noël
  • Au dessus de la loi

1992

  • Me, Myself and I

1991

  • For The Boys - Hier, aujourd'hui et pour toujours
  • Time of Darkness

1989

  • Allô maman, ici bébé
  • All's Fair

1988

  • Marathon

1986

  • Many Happy Returns

1985

  • Stick, Le justicier de Miami
  • Not My Kid

1984

  • The Cold Room
  • Les folles aventures de Robin des Bois

1981

  • Carbon Copy

1980

  • The Last Married Couple in America

1979

  • Lost and Found

1978

  • La Grande Cuisine

1977

  • Le toboggan de la mort
  • Touche pas à mon gazon

1976

  • La Duchesse et le Truand

1975

  • The Black Bird
  • Russian Roulette

1974

  • Les flambeurs
  • Homicides Incontrôlés

1973

  • Les Choses de l'amour
  • Une maîtresse dans les bras, une femme sur le dos

1972

  • Les Quatre malfrats

1971

  • Né pour vaincre

1970

  • Où est Poppa ?
  • Loving
  • La chouette et le pussycat

1969

  • Le pont de Remagen
  • L'étoile du sud

1968

  • The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
  • Le Refroidisseur de dames
  • Bye Bye Braverman

1967

  • The Desperate Hours
  • L'Affaire Al Capone

1966

  • Le secret du rapport Quiller
  • Qui a peur de Virginia Woolf ?
  • Les Centurions

1965

  • Un caïd
  • La Nef des fous

1964

  • Le Mercenaire de minuit
  • The New Interns

1963

  • Act One

1962

  • Le Jour le plus long

1961

  • Les Blouses blanches
At one time in the early 1970s, it seemed like George Segal would have a career like that enjoyed by his contemporary Jack Nicholson, that of an actor's actor equally adept at comedy and drama. Segal never made the leap to superstar status, and surprisingly, has never won a major acting award, the latter phenomenon being particularly surprising when viewed from the period 1973-4, when he reached the height of his career, appearing in A Touch of Class (1973) and Robert Altman's California Split (1974). It was at this point that Segal's career went awry, when he priced himself as a superstar with a seven-figure salary, but failed to come through at the box office. For example, The Black Bird (1975) was a failure, but, ironically, at the end of the decade, he dropped out of a movie that would have burnished his tarnished lustre as a star: Blake Edwards' 10 (1979). 10 (1979) made Dudley Moore a star, while Arthur (1981) made him a superstar in the 1980s, a lost decade for Segal. It was an example of a career burnout usually associated with the "Oscar curse" (his No Way to Treat a Lady (1968) co-star Rod Steiger, for example, was a great character actor whose career was run off the rails by the expectations raised by the Academy Award). George Segal has never won an Oscar, but more surprisingly, has only been nominated once, for Best Supporting Actor of 1966 for his role as "Nick" in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). George Segal was born on February 13, 1934 in Great Neck, Long Island, New York. After a stint in the military, he made his bones as a stage actor before being cast in his first meaty film role in The Young Doctors (1961). His turns in Ship of Fools (1965) and the eponymous King Rat (1965) in 1965 heralded the arrival of a major talent. He followed it up with his Oscar-nominated performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), in which he more than held his own against Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) was a cultural phenomenon, the film that wrecked the MPDDA censorship code that had been in place since 1934, and a huge box office success to boot. He had arrived in the major leagues. By the early 1970s, appearances in such films as The Owl and the Pussycat (1970), Blume in Love (1973), Born to Win (1971) and The Hot Rock (1972) had made him a major star with an enviable reputation, just under the heights of the superstar status enjoyed by the likes of Paul Newman. He followed up A Touch of Class (1973) (a hit film for which his co-star Glenda Jackson won an Oscar) and his brilliant performance as the out-of-control gambler in California Split (1974) with a co-starring turn opposite of Jane Fonda in Fun with Dick and Jane (1977), a big hit that revitalized Jane Fonda's film carer. He gave a deft comic performance in Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978) with Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Morley, which proved a modest box office success. For all practical purposes, even after the failures of The Black Bird (1975), "Lucky Lady" and The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976), it seemed like Segal, with a few deft career choices, could reorient his career and deliver on the promise of his early period. That he didn't may be the unintended consequence of his focusing on comedy to the detriment of drama. The comedy A Touch of Class (1973) made him a million dollar-per-film movie star, and that's what he concentrated on. Segal began relying on his considerable charm to pull off movies that had little going for them other than their star, and it backfired on him. These films weren't infused with the outrageously funny, subversive comedy of Where's Poppa? (1970), a success from his first period that he enjoyed along with co-star Ruth Gordon and director Carl Reiner. When Segal first made it in the mid-1960s, he established his serious actor bona fides with a deal he cut with ABC-TV that featured him in TV adaptations of Broadway plays. He also played a very memorable "Biff Loman" in Death of a Salesman (1966) (TV), shining in performance in counterpoint to the vital presence that was Lee J. Cobb's "Willy Loman". It was a good life for an actor, and he took time to show off his banjo-playing skills by fronting the "Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz Band", with which he cut several records. While the 1980s were mostly a career wasteland for Segal, he came back in the 1990s, using his flair for comedy as part of the ensemble cast of "Just Shoot Me!" (1997).





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