Actor and musician George Segal has passed away of complications of bypass surgery. He was 87.
Segal came to prominence during the mid-1960's in films such as Ship of Fools, King Rat (one of my Dad's favorites) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
In the early 1970's, Segal co-starred with Robert Redford in The Hot Rock, with Kris Kristofferson in Blume in Love, with Elliott Gould in California Split and with Glenda Jackson in A Touch of Class earning Segal a Golden Globe for Best Actor.
Segal would reemerge as a star on the small screen with his roles on the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me which aired from 1997 to 2003. Since 2013, Segal had been a cast member on the ABC sitcom The Goldbergs.
While primarily known as an actor, Segal was an accomplished banjo player who could also play trombone as demonstrated in this 1983 appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. R.I.P.
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