George Segal

George Segal

Accomplished banjo player. Arranged and performed on "A Touch of Ragtime" (1985) and performed with Canadian Brass on "Basin Street" (1987).

Appeared as a delinquent cadet thrown out of West Point in the 1964 "Big Picture" Army film, "Thayer of West Point".

Before making it big as an actor, he earned money playing banjo in a seven-man Dixieland band, the Red Onion Jazz Band. When it was Segal who had gotten the gig for the group, its name was Bruno Lynch and His Imperial Band -- Segal being Lynch.

Father of Polly Segal (b. 1966) and Elizabeth (b. 1962)

Graduate of George School 1951, a boarding school in Newtown, Pennsylvania.



He studied drama at HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.

Ivy League graduate; Class of 1955, Columbia College, Columbia University (New York, New York).

Married to his high school sweetheart.

Shortly after his second wife's death, he ran into his high school sweetheart who became his third wife.

Was the first choice for the 10 (1979) role that ultimately went to Dudley Moore. Ironically, he was later cast in the The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), in the role that Dudley Moore was originally slated to play.


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