George Segal, 'Goldbergs' Star and Oscar Nominee, Dies at 87
Source: Variety
George Segal, whose long career included playing Albert Pops Solomon on The Goldbergs, and garnering an Oscar nom for supporting actor for Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf, died Tuesday. He was 87.
His wife Sonia announced his death, saying, The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal passed away due to complications from bypass surgery.
Some of the top directors of the 1960s and 70s, including Robert Altman, Mike Nichols, Paul Mazursky and Sidney Lulmet cast Segal for his everyman quality, often playing an unlucky-in-love professional or writer who gets in over his head.
In Nichols 1967 Edward Albee adaptation Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Segal played a college professor who gets caught up in an evening of psychological mindgames with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. The film was nominated for 13 Oscars, including Segals for supporting actor, and won five.
Read more: https://variety.com/2021/film/news/george-segal-dead-goldbergs-whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf-1234936852/
One of a kind. RIP.
hlthe2b
(102,384 posts)RIP
jimfields33
(15,981 posts)Hes on a current tv show. I guess they will have to explain it on the show. I hope the show does a great tribute. Maybe beginning of next season since Im sure all the episodes this season til May are complete.
orleans
(34,075 posts)very sad to hear he's gone
MFM008
(19,820 posts)Rest in peace George.
Say hi to Elizabeth and Richard .
And Sandy..
Trueblue1968
(17,240 posts)LisaM
(27,840 posts)He was so talented. When he was n the sitcom "Just Shoot Me', he stole scenes from everyone on the show except maybe Wendie Malick.
Judi Lynn
(160,631 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(5,775 posts)Bristlecone
(10,135 posts)RIP
Docreed2003
(16,878 posts)ms liberty
(8,601 posts)RIP
niyad
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ms liberty
(8,601 posts)Tree-Hugger
(3,370 posts)Such an amazing actor. My kids know and love him a "Pops" on The Goldbergs.
R.I.P.. George.
byronius
(7,401 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,653 posts)And apparent all round guy.
Will be missed.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)my latest tv viewing treat.
Pinback
(12,170 posts)with him and Ruth Gordon was a scream.
Montauk6
(8,079 posts)oasis
(49,410 posts)Greybnk48
(10,176 posts)this past year. Still funny!
winstars
(4,220 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,571 posts)Rest easy, sir....
iluvtennis
(19,876 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)Such a handsome rogue he was in that film! And then one of his latest was "Erin Brockovich". So good, so easy to look at. But I'll always remember him as Tom Jones.
Greybnk48
(10,176 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,468 posts)amazing in Just Shoot Me! and The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox with Goldie Hawn.
luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)"Two for the Road" with the beautiful Audrey Hepburn.
DFW
(54,445 posts)VarryOn
(2,343 posts)Hate to hear this news. We loved Pops!
mountain grammy
(26,656 posts)Rest in peace.
BunnyMcGee
(464 posts)Botany
(70,591 posts)Carson, Segel, and Carlin.
mountain grammy
(26,656 posts)I've always remembered George Segal playing that banjo.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)He died less than a year after the surgery, and was on oxygen the whole timeand miserable.
He died of heart failure.
He would have been better off not going through the surgery.
BigmanPigman
(51,636 posts)"The Draft Dodger Rag"
mountain grammy
(26,656 posts)Love it! No mention of bone spurs. Damn they were good, all of them.
Thanks for posting..
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)BComplex
(8,067 posts)This was classic!
ZonkerHarris
(24,259 posts)so many great films
The Hot Rock is another
Beaverhausen
(24,472 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)Wasnt there something about plums??? LOL
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)I always liked him. RIP.
PEACE
DFW
(54,445 posts)Besides all the great films mentioned above, I also loved The Quiller Memorandum with Senta Berger, Alec Guinness and Max von Sydow, as well as No Way To Treat A Lady with Rod Steiger and Lee Remick (who I had a desperate crush on, and even met once sitting behind her in a plane from Boston to London).
He must have been easy to work with, because he worked with most of the top names of his day.
jcboon
(296 posts)oldsoftie
(12,618 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,566 posts)I hadn't heard his name mentioned much recently... He was in so many things as a character actor.
I remember him in "The Cable Guy" (as Steven's dad) -
R.I.P.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,858 posts)He was very funny in "Just Shoot Me!", and in the movie "The Hot Rock".
Those examples immediately came to mind for me, but I've enjoyed seeing him in just about anything over the years!
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Not a good sign when icons of your younger years start expiring quicker and quicker.
Guess whos next in line fellow Boomers.