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George Segal

George Segal

3 films · 188 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19661996

Born 13 February 1934 · Great Neck, Long Island, New York, USA · died 23 March 2021

George Segal was an American actor and musician.

Segal became popular in the 1960s and 1970s for playing both dramatic and comedic roles. Some of his most acclaimed roles were in films such as Ship of Fools (1965), King Rat (1965), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), Where's Poppa? (1970), The Hot Rock (1972), Blume in Love (1973), A Touch of Class (1973), California Split (1974), For the Boys (1991), and Flirting with Disaster (1996). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 188 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19661996

  • Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy1974
  • Praemium Imperiale1997
  • John Jay Award
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

How their films are shot

Measured across 188 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work George takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 3 films we hold, 65% of their frames are night, 49% low key — the look of the work George takes.

Time of day

Night65%
Day27%
Interior5%

Lighting

Low key49%
Natural36%
High key12%

Shot size

Medium59%
Wide18%
Closeup14%
Fullbody5%

Camera angle

Eye level87%
High angle8%
Low angle4%

Mood

Neutral67%
Tense16%
Lonely10%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 188 frames from George Segal's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.