George Segal Was a Delightful Guy

[ollinger]

The 87 year old actor passed away, reminding me of one of my wife's students years ago. Her father was for many years Segal's business manager and Segal was often at their home for dinner or whatever. A warm and loving man, he drove his manager a bit crazy at times because good and lucrative movie roles would be offered but what Segal really wanted was to have his little band booked into music gigs that paid next to nothing, as playing his banjo (quite well) was his first passion, and he was willing to forego some paydays to do that.

 

[Harry_Wild]

The 87 year old actor passed away, reminding me of one of my wife's students years ago. Her father was for many years Segal's business manager and Segal was often at their home for dinner or whatever. A warm and loving man, he drove his manager a bit crazy at times because good and lucrative movie roles would be offered but what Segal really wanted was to have his little band booked into music gigs that paid next to nothing, as playing his banjo (quite well) was his first passion, and he was willing to forego some paydays to do that.

George Segal best pictures were King Rat and The Bridge at Remegan. TV Series I remembered him in The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest, Just Shoot Me!, Goldbergs.

Played the banjo on Tonight Show.

 

[SystemicAnomaly]

George Segal best pictures were King Rat and The Bridge at Remegan. TV Series I remembered him in The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest, Just Shoot Me!, Goldbergs.

Played the banjo on Tonight Show.

Did George Segal and Steve Martin ever engage in a banjo duet?

 

[stringertom]

Did George Segal and Steve Martin ever engaged in a bango duet?

Is that a hybrid percussion/string instrument favored by beatbillies???

 

[SystemicAnomaly]

Is that a hybrid percussion/string instrument favored by beatbillies???

Good catch, boomer. How's your FL Spring Break this year?

 

[sureshs]

Good catch, boomer. How's your FL Spring Break this year?

LOL they are clamping down on the super spreader party guys.

 

[SystemicAnomaly]

George Segal best pictures were King Rat and The Bridge at Remegan. TV Series I remembered him in The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest, Just Shoot Me!, Goldbergs.

Played the banjo on Tonight Show.

George playing with Tommy and Dick.

George with Johnny & an odd looking banjo

 

[stringertom]

Good catch, boomer. How's your FL Spring Break this year?

Orlando draws mostly families so it’s not anything close to riotous Miami Beach or very crowded Daytona Beach. Ft. Lauderdale used to be the hotspot but they legislated that scene out of existence several decades ago.

 

[Harry_Wild]

Moe trying to get a date! 1968 style!

 

[Harry_Wild]

Did not know he was in theses picture: 1, 3, 4, 9, 10.

 

[Harry_Wild]

Less then 2 minute bio of George Segal!

 

[Harry_Wild]

 

[stringertom]

Where’s Poppa is easily my favorite film that Segal starred in, directed by another giant we recently lost (Carl Reiner) and featuring Ruth Gordon in her late career revival era in the early 70s.

 

[Im(moral) Winner]

Awh, I rewatched Just Shoot Me! last year. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? os in my watchlist. His old age did make me question his possible passing...
RIP

 

[ollinger]

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? os in my watchlist

Four great performances (Segal, Sandy Dennis, LIz Taylor and RIchard Burton) with Mike NIchols at the helm

 

[Dan Lobb]

My favourite movie starring Segal, this film script by a Nobel prize winning writer gives a good realistic look at the spy business.

 

[stringertom]

Four great performances (Segal, Sandy Dennis, LIz Taylor and RIchard Burton) with Mike NIchols at the helm

At that time if I wanted to see two couples arguing for a couple of hours I could stay home and watch/listen to my parents and their neighbor “friends.”

That was a nice career patch for Segal, doing Albee in your nominee and then followed by Pinter’s spy story The Quiller Memorandum. I’m wondering if the latter title influenced Robert Ludlum’s choices for his book titles...The Scarlatti Inheritance was his first and was published in the very early 70s, just the first of two dozen thrillers like The Bourne Identity.

 

[BeatlesFan]

George Segal best pictures were King Rat and The Bridge at Remegan.

Played the banjo on Tonight Show.

His greatest picture by far was Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? And he was the first person to say that, throughout his career after 1966. He also thought No Way to Treat a Lady with Rod Steiger was his next best movie.

 

[Raul_SJ]

George Segal best pictures were King Rat and The Bridge at Remegan. TV Series I remembered him in The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest, Just Shoot Me!, Goldbergs.

Played the banjo on Tonight Show.

Do not have any interest at all in watching his so-called "lighthearted romantic comedies", such as those with the annoying Barbra Streisand.

In fact, the only Segal movie we have ever seen is a suspense movie called "Rollercoaster".

Some of his best work.

 

[stringertom]

Do not have any interest at all in watching his so-called "lighthearted romantic comedies", such as those with the annoying Barbra Streisand.

In fact, the only Segal movie we have ever seen is a suspense movie called "Rollercoaster".

Some of his best work.

Aw shucks! Thanks to your jinx of the one Segal/Streisand rom-com collaboration (The Owl & The Pussycat) I guess I can never enjoy anything screenwriter Buck Henry ever wrote like Get Smart or anything Robert Klein ever acted in or made like his standup routine that included hot dogs chasing donuts through the Holland Tunnel. Marilyn Chambers is blacklisted too...she played Klein’s girlfriend in the very funny film.

I was away for a while but you haven’t disappointed me in rediscovering your irrepressible negativity. Glad to see you haven’t changed at all.

 

[Raul_SJ]

This "Owl and the Pussycat" trailer is absolutely dreadful. Who can bear to watch this? Barbra whining and screaming for two hours.

Woody and Annie Hall are funny. Barbra and George are not!

We will continue to avoid this at all costs!

 

[ollinger]

This "Owl and the Pussycat" trailer is absolutely dreadful. Who can bear to watch this? Barbra whining and screaming for two hours.

That is one crazy long trailer!!!!!!

 

[ollinger]

the annoying Barbra Streisand.

More annoying for directors than anyone else, with her famous insistence that she mostly be filmed or photographed so that the left side of her face was showing.

 

[Dan Lobb]

George Segal's last film in a very distinguished film career was in "Elsa and Fred", a superb senior's love story where Segal played the doctor and friend to Christopher Plummer.
Both actors have passed on within a couple of months of each other, which makes this year a turning of the pages for acting greatness.

Segal has a scene in this preview with Plummer, a very funny line,

 

[Raul_SJ]

Segal made his award winning movies over 50 years ago but only recently received his Hollywood Star.

Why was this beloved star not recognized until just before he died? Very strange!

 

[stringertom]

More annoying for directors than anyone else, with her famous insistence that she mostly be filmed or photographed so that the left side of her face was showing.

I wonder if the directors of The Prince Of Tides, The Mirror Has Two Faces and Yentl followed her instructions/demands.

 

[Bartelby]

Segal was a bit of a journeyman, albeit an above average one. The seventies was a mostly forgettable decade and that was his era.

Segal made his award winning movies over 50 years ago but only recently received his Hollywood Star.

Why was this beloved star not recognized until just before he died? Very strange!

 

[Raul_SJ]

The seventies was a mostly forgettable decade and that was his era.

Many of the best movies were made in the seventies. It was part of the golden era of Hollywood . Hardly a forgettable decade.

 

[Bartelby]

Hollywood disappeared in the fifties, so you got that wrong. Good independent films were made in the seventies, but it was not a patch on the sixties.

Many of the best movies were made in the seventies. It was part of the golden era of Hollywood . Hardly a forgettable decade.

 

[NonP]

Leave it to our resident nostalgic grandpa/soliloquist to overrate a late actor only because he happens to belong to his "golden age."

Anyhoo:

More annoying for directors than anyone else, with her famous insistence that she mostly be filmed or photographed so that the left side of her face was showing.

Which is by no means limited to Barb. Lubitsch reportedly had to play referee between Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins for The Smiling Lieutenant because both demanded to be shot from the same angle, and that's probably one among hundreds of examples, if not thousands.

Segal made his award winning movies over 50 years ago but only recently received his Hollywood Star.

Why was this beloved star not recognized until just before he died? Very strange!

You actually have to sign off on the nomination and pay for the star. George probably realized he had only a few more years left to burnish his legacy, hence the $40k fee and the ceremony.

Given how hard it is for non-Hollywood types to simply locate one of those stars I find the whole enchilada such an empty exercise in self-promotion, but most of us in similar shoes probably wouldn't be able to resist it, either.

 

[Dan Lobb]

Leave it to our resident nostalgic grandpa/soliloquist to overrate a late actor only because he happens to belong to his "golden age."

Anyhoo:



Which is by no means limited to Barb. Lubitsch reportedly had to play referee between Claudette Colbert and Miriam Hopkins for The Smiling Lieutenant because both demanded to be shot from the same angle, and that's probably one among hundreds of examples, if not thousands.



You actually have to sign off on the nomination and pay for the star. George probably realized he had only a few more years left to burnish his legacy, hence the $40k fee and the ceremony.

Given how hard it is for non-Hollywood types to simply locate one of those stars I find the whole enchilada such an empty exercise in self-promotion, but most of us in similar shoes probably wouldn't be able to resist it, either.

I would resist.