George Segal, whose long career included playing Albert “Pops” Solomon on “The Goldbergs,” and garnering an Oscar nom for supporting actor for “Who’s 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.”Segal’s longtime manager Abe Hoch said, “I am saddened by the fact that my close friend and client of many years has passed away.
I will miss his warmth, humor, camaraderie and friendship.
He was a wonderful human.”Some of the top directors of the 1960s and ’70s, including Robert Altman, Mike Nichols, Paul Mazursky and Sidney Lumet cast Segal for his gently humorous everyman quality, and he often played an unlucky-in-love professional or a writer who gets in over his head.In Nichols’ 1967 Edward Albee adaptation “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,
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