Gig Young
Born: 1913-11-04 in Saint Cloud, Minnesota, USA
Died: 1978-10-19
Known For: Acting
Biography
Gig Young (born Byron Elsworth Barr; November 4, 1913 – October 19, 1978) was an American actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Come Fill the Cup (1952) and Teacher's Pet (1959), before winning for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969).
Filmography
2019
- The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration as Martin Sloan (archive footage)
2004
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
1984
- Bruce Lee: The Legend as Self
1983
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1978
- Game of Death as Jim Marshall
1977
- Spectre as Dr. Ham Hamilton
1976
- Sherlock Holmes in New York as Mortimer McGraw
- Gibbsville as Ray Whitehead
1975
- The Killer Elite as Lawrence Weyburn
- The Hindenburg as Edward Douglas
- The Turning Point of Jim Malloy as Ray Whitehead
1974
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia as Quill
- The Great Ice Rip-Off as Harkey Rollins
- A Black Ribbon for Deborah as Ofenbauer
1971
- The Neon Ceiling as Jones
1970
- McCloud
- Lovers and Other Strangers as Hal Henderson
1969
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as Rocky Gravo
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Companions in Nightmare as Eric Nicholson
1967
- The Shuttered Room as Mike Kelton
1965
- Invisible Diplomats as Brad
- Strange Bedfellows as Richard Bramwell
1964
- The Hollywood Palace as Self
- The Rogues as Tony Fleming
1963
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Hugo Myrich
- A Ticklish Affair as Key Weedon
- For Love or Money as Sonny Smith
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Duke Marsden
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- Kid Galahad as Willy Grogan
- That Touch of Mink as Roger
- Five Miles to Midnight as David Barnes
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- The Spiral Staircase as Stephen Warren
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Martin Sloan
- The Story on Page One as Larry Ellis
- Ask Any Girl as Evan Doughton
1958
- Teacher's Pet as Dr. Hugo Pine
- The Tunnel of Love as Dick Pepper
1957
- The James Dean Story as Self
- Desk Set as Mike Cutler
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
- Conflict as Self - Host
1955
- The Desperate Hours as Chuck Wright
1954
- Climax! as Edgar Holt
- Rear Window as Jeff's Editor (voice) (uncredited)
- Young at Heart as Alex Burke
1953
- Torch Song as Cliff Willard
- City That Never Sleeps as Johnny Kelly
- The Girl Who Had Everything as Vance Court
- Arena as Hob Danvers
1952
- You for Me as Dr. Jeff Chadwick
- Holiday for Sinners as Jason Kent
1951
- Target Unknown as Capt. Reiner
- Only the Valiant as Lt. William Holloway
- Too Young to Kiss as John Tirsen
- Come Fill the Cup as Boyd Copeland
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Jimmy Sampson
- Slaughter Trail as Ike Vaughn aka Murray
1950
- Robert Montgomery Presents as Tony Marino
- What's My Line? as Self
- Lux Video Theatre
- Hunt the Man Down as Paul Bennett
1949
- Tell It to the Judge as Alexander Darvac
- Lust for Gold as Pete Thomas
1948
- Studio One as Philip Adams / Alan Fredericks
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- The Three Musketeers as Porthos
- Wake of the Red Witch as Samuel 'Sam' Rosen
- The Woman in White as Walter Hartright
1947
- Escape Me Never as Caryl Dubrok
1943
- Air Force as Co-Pilot
- Old Acquaintance as Rudd Kendall
1942
- Breakdowns of 1942 as Self
- The Male Animal as Student (uncredited)
- The Mad Martindales as Peter Varney (as Byron Barr)
- The Gay Sisters as Gig Young
1941
- Dive Bomber as Abbott - Guinea Pig 2 Experiment 32 (uncredited)
- Sergeant York as Marching Soldier (uncredited)
- They Died with Their Boots On as Lt. Roberts (uncredited)
- One Foot in Heaven as First Groom Asking for Dog Licence (uncredited)
- You're in the Army Now as Soldier
- The Tanks Are Coming as Jim Allen
1940
- Misbehaving Husbands as Floor Walker (as Byron Barr)