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Gig Young

Highest Rated: 100% Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)

Lowest Rated: 29% Five Miles to Midnight (1963)

Birthday: Nov 4, 1913

Birthplace: St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA

Amiable supporting player and occasional lead who broke into film in the early 1940s. Young appeared in several bit parts under his given name, Byron Barr, and the pseudonym, Bryant Fleming, before adopting the name of his character in the 1942 feature, "The Gay Sisters." While he proved capable in several dramatic parts (notably as the sleazy emcee in the haunting "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" which brought him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar), Young seemed destined to play debonair cads and slightly inebriated playboys who never win the female lead in the end in sophisticated light comedies such as "Desk Set" (1957), "Teacher's Pet" (1958) and "That Touch of Mink" (1962). Young's third and fifth wives were actresses Elizabeth Montgomery and Kim Schmidt; he allegedly shot the latter three weeks into the marriage before turning the gun on himself.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 74% Lovers and Other Strangers
Watchlist 100% 83% Desk Set Watchlist
89% 78% Young at Heart
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88% 79% The Desperate Hours
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86% 71% Teacher's Pet
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82% 89% They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
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82% 72% Air Force
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78% 85% Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
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78% 70% That Touch of Mink
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75% 74% The Three Musketeers
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Gig Young

Gig Young ARENA, Robert Horton, Barbara Lawrence, Gig Young, 1953 ARENA, Harry Morgan, Lee Aaker, Gig Young, 1953 ARENA, from left: Gig Young, Barbara Lawrence, 1953 THE THREE MUSKETEERS, Robert Coote, Van Heflin, Gig Young, 1948 COME FILL THE CUP, James Cagney slaps Gig Young to sober him up in the shower, 1951 ESCAPE ME NEVER, Eleanor Parker, Gig Young, 1947 AIR FORCE, Gig Young, 1943 ESCAPE ME NEVER, Gig Young, 1947 FOR LOVE OR MONEY, from left, director Michael Gordon, Kirk Douglas, Gig Young, Julie Newmar, on-set, 1963 View more photos

Filmography

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Game of Death 42% 63% 1979 Jim Marshall Actor Spectre 1977 Dr. Ham Hamilton Actor Sherlock Holmes in New York 50% 1976 Mortimer McGrew Actor The Hindenburg 31% 39% 1975 Edward Douglas Actor The Killer Elite 56% 33% 1975 Lawrence Weyburn Actor Lives of Ben Franklin: The Ambassador 1975 Actor Gibbsville: The Turning Point of Jim Malloy 1975 Ray Whitehead Actor Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 78% 85% 1974 Quill Actor Deborah 1974 Ofenbauer Actor The Great Ice Rip-Off 1974 Harkey Rollins Actor Lovers and Other Strangers 100% 74% 1970 Hal Henderson Actor The Neon Ceiling 1970 Jones Actor They Shoot Horses, Don't They? 82% 89% 1969 Rocky Actor Companions in Nightmare 1968 Eric Nicholson Actor The Shuttered Room 41% 1967 Mike Kelton Actor Strange Bedfellows 42% 1965 Richard Bramwell Actor Five Miles to Midnight 29% 57% 1963 David Barnes Actor For Love or Money 1963 `'Sonny'` John Dayton Smith Actor A Ticklish Affair 50% 1963 Key Weedon Actor Kid Galahad 50% 56% 1962 Willy Grogan Actor That Touch of Mink 78% 70% 1962 Roger Actor The Story on Page One 53% 1959 Larry Ellis Actor Ask Any Girl 63% 1959 Evan Doughton Actor Teacher's Pet 86% 71% 1958 Dr. Hugo Pine Actor The Tunnel of Love 24% 1958 Dick Pepper Actor
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