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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 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

Movies

Credit
42% 63% Game of Death Jim Marshall (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Spectre Dr. Ham Hamilton (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet 50% Sherlock Holmes in New York Mortimer McGrew (Character) - 1976
31% 39% The Hindenburg Edward Douglas (Character) - 1975
60% 33% The Killer Elite Lawrence Weyburn (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lives of Ben Franklin: The Ambassador Unknown (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gibbsville: The Turning Point of Jim Malloy Ray Whitehead (Character) - 1975
78% 85% Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Quill (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Deborah Ofenbauer (Character) - 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Great Ice Rip-Off Harkey Rollins (Character) - 1974
100% 74% Lovers and Other Strangers Hal Henderson (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Neon Ceiling Jones (Character) - 1970
82% 89% They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Rocky (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Companions in Nightmare Eric Nicholson (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 41% The Shuttered Room Mike Kelton (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet 42% Strange Bedfellows Richard Bramwell (Character) - 1965
29% 57% Five Miles to Midnight David Barnes (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet For Love or Money `'Sonny'` John Dayton Smith (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet 50% A Ticklish Affair Key Weedon (Character) - 1963
50% 56% Kid Galahad Willy Grogan (Character) - 1962
78% 70% That Touch of Mink Roger (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet 53% The Story on Page One Larry Ellis (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet 63% Ask Any Girl Evan Doughton (Character) - 1959
86% 71% Teacher's Pet Dr. Hugo Pine (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet 24% The Tunnel of Love Dick Pepper (Character) - 1958
100% 83% Desk Set Mike Cutler (Character) - 1957
88% 79% The Desperate Hours Chuck Wright (Character) - 1955
89% 78% Young at Heart Alex Burke (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet 38% City That Never Sleeps Johnny Kelly (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet 23% The Girl Who Had Everything Vance Court (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet Arena Hob Danvers (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet 44% Torch Song Cliff Willard (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet You for Me Dr. Jeff Chadwick (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet No Score Yet Holiday for Sinners Dr. Jason Kent (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet 38% Too Young to Kiss John Tirsen (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 48% Only the Valiant Lt. William Holloway (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 62% Come Fill the Cup Boyd Copeland (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet No Score Yet Target Unknown Capt. Reiner (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 22% Slaughter Trail Ike Vaughn (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 50% Hunt the Man Down Paul Bennett (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet 36% Tell It to the Judge Alexander Darvac (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet 69% Lust for Gold Pete Thomas (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet 60% The Woman in White Walter Hartright (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet 52% Wake of the Red Witch Samuel "Sam" Rosen (Character) - 1948
75% 74% The Three Musketeers Porthos (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet 44% Escape Me Never Caryl Dubrok (Character) - 1947
82% 72% Air Force Co-Pilot (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 77% Old Acquaintance Rudd Kendall (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Tanks Are Coming Jim Allen (Character) - 1941

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gibbsville Ray Whitehead (Character) 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet McCloud Jack Hefferman (Guest Star) 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1968 1973
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rogues Tony Fleming (Character) 1964-1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alfred Hitchcock Hour Unknown (Character) 1962
92% 96% The Twilight Zone Martin Sloan (Character) 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Climax! Unknown (Character) 1957