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George Segal was born George Segal, Jr. in Great Neck, New York in 1934. While at Haverford College, he formed a ragtime band with some friends, and they had modest success. After college he joined the Army, and when he got out he went to Columbia University, majoring in drama. In 1955, he got some decent stage roles in New York's Circle in the Square Theatre, and he spent the next five years on stage and doing some TV. In 1961, he was signed to a movie contract by Columbia, first appearing in "The Young Doctors". After a bunch of somewhat lesser roles, Segal got the lead in Bryan Forbes' superb adaptation of James Clavell's "King Rat", and although Segal played a completely unlikeable character, it was a major breakthrough for him. He followed with the part of Biff Loman in TV's "Death of a Salesman", as Nick in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for this film), and in the lead role in "The Quiller Memorandum" and those parts made him a much desired actor, in both leading and supporting roles. He had starring roles in three cult movies in the first half of the 1970s, in Carl Reiner's blackest of comedies, "Where's Poppa?", in 1970, with a superb ensemble cast in Peter Yates' "The Hot Rock" in 1972 (which had a great script by William Goldman), and as a compulsive gambler (opposite Elliott Gould) in Robert Altman's 1974 "California Split". In 1973, he had his greatest commercial success in "A Touch of Class", but ironically, this likely was the worst thing that ever happened to him! He was suddenly able to command a huge salary, and he made some disastrous choices over the next few years, starring in major flops such as "The Black Bird" and "The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox". In 1983, when he was nearing 50, he divorced his wife of 27 years and married a much younger woman (a midlife crisis?) and his career really went into a tailspin. He started doing mostly TV and a few supporting roles in movies, and appeared a lot on talk shows, often playing his banjo. In 1996, his second wife passed away and he quickly remarried, and the following year he took the role of wacky Jack Gallo in TV's "Just Shoot Me", and I highly recommend this show to anyone who likes black comedy! Segal stayed with the show until it went off the air in 2003, and he continue to make some movie and TV appearances, including "The Goldbergs" as Pops. While I am a huge fan of George Segal and he had a very impressive "body of work" (equally in comedy as in drama), one can only wonder what more he might have done had he not had his success in A Touch of Class, and not spent the next couple of decades mostly appearing in films not worthy of his great talent! George passed away in 2021 at the age of 87.

Important Added Info: Note that this still has been personally autographed (signed) by George Segal! Also note that this still measures 8" x 10 1/4" [20 x 26 cm].

Note that this autographed 8x10 is part of a remarkable new collection we have been consigned, and we are auctioning nearly 500 items from this collection in this set of auctions (we will have more from this collection in our next few sets of autograph auctions).
     In the 1970s, our consignor was a high school teacher who taught a film class, and one day a week (and all through the summer) he ran the local movie theater (and he saved all the presskits and one-sheets from the movies the theater showed).
     Starting in the late 1970s, but increasingly greatly in the early 1980s, he hit on the idea of writing to famous celebrities, and enclosing an 8x10 from his collection, and he wrote a literate personalized letter, talking about his work as a film teacher, and discussing his favorite movie by that star.
     He often was able to locate an 8x10 still from his collection that was from a really good movie from that star, or one that had a really good image of that star. In a relatively small number of cases, he did not have a still in his collection to send, so he bought a reproduction from a photo shop, and sent that instead, which is why some of the items that have this notation on them are reproductions.
     He received signed photos back from a good percentage of the people he wrote to, and if the people simply sent him a stock photo back, he did not save it, but if he felt the autograph was genuine, and if they added a personalized note, then he did save them.
     In the late 1980s, he pretty much stopped sending letters and photos, simply because he was just too busy. So this photo (and the vast majority of the other photos we are auctioning for this consignor) were obtained in the mid-1980s, through personal correspondence with this star. This is of course excellent, because back at that time celebrities were not selling their signatures nearly as much, and many of the stars were pretty forgotten and were happy to get letters from people like our consignor!
     He of course does not have any "Certificates of Authenticity", but he only kept ones he felt were surely authentic, and those are the ones we are auctioning. However, bidders can certainly compare the signatures to known examples on the internet to judge for themselves.

As is true of all the signed items we are currently auctioning, we give every buyer 30 days in which to review what they purchased and they can return any item as long as it is within 30 days of the end of the auction. On non-signed items, we give a "lifetime guarantee" on everything we auction, but on signed items, we give the above modified guarantee of 30 days after the auction closes.

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