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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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46% | 63% | Game of Death | Jim Marshall (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Spectre | Dr. Ham Hamilton (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Sherlock Holmes in New York | Mortimer McGrew (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 36% | 38% | The Hindenburg | Edward Douglas (Character) | - | 1975 |
| 57% | 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% | 75% | Lovers and Other Strangers | Hal Henderson (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Neon Ceiling | Jones (Character) | - | 1970 |
| 85% | 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 | 42% | The Shuttered Room | Mike Kelton (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Strange Bedfellows | Richard Bramwell (Character) | - | 1965 |
| 29% | 56% | 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 | 26% | 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 |
| 90% | 78% | Young at Heart | Alex Burke (Character) | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 35% | City That Never Sleeps | Johnny Kelly (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | The Girl Who Had Everything | Vance Court (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Arena | Hob Danvers (Character) | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | 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 | 40% | Too Young to Kiss | John Tirsen (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | 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 | 25% | Slaughter Trail | Ike Vaughn (Character) | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 55% | Hunt the Man Down | Paul Bennett (Character) | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | Tell It to the Judge | Alexander Darvac (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 69% | Lust for Gold | Pete Thomas (Character) | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | The Woman in White | Walter Hartright (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 51% | Wake of the Red Witch | Samuel "Sam" Rosen (Character) | - | 1948 |
| 75% | 74% | The Three Musketeers | Porthos (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Escape Me Never | Caryl Dubrok (Character) | - | 1947 |
| 82% | 71% | 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 | Unknown (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 |
| 84% | 95% | The Twilight Zone | Martin Sloan (Character) | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Climax! | Unknown (Character) | 1957 |