Gig Young attended McKinley High School, where he developed his first love of acting appearing in school plays.
38 Facts About Gig Young
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Gig Young moved to Hollywood when a friend offered him a ride if he would pay for half the gas.
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Gig Young was in They Died with Their Boots On and You're in the Army Now.
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Gig Young took a hiatus from his movie career and enlisted in the United States Coast Guard in 1941 where he served as a pharmacist's mate until the end of World War II, serving in a combat zone in the Pacific.
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Gig Young began freelancing at various studios, eventually obtaining a contract with Columbia Pictures before returning to freelancing.
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Gig Young came to be regarded as a popular and likable second lead, playing the brothers or friends of the principal characters.
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Gig Young had his first lead in a feature film at RKO in Hunt the Man Down, a film noir.
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Gig Young went back to support roles for Target Unknown a war film at Universal; and Only the Valiant, a Gregory Peck western.
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Gig Young began to appear in TV on shows such as The Silver Theatre, Pulitzer Prize Playhouse and The Bigelow Theatre.
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Gig Young received critical acclaim for his dramatic work as an alcoholic in the 1951 film Come Fill the Cup with James Cagney, back at Warner Brothers.
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Gig Young was nominated for both an Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor.
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Gig Young later gave Cagney a great deal of the credit for his performance.
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Gig Young supported Van Johnson in the MGM comedy Too Gig Young to Kiss.
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Back at MGM, Gig Young had the lead in a 3-D Western, Arena, which was a hit.
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Gig Young played a supporting role the same year in the Humphrey Bogart thriller The Desperate Hours and lost Katharine Hepburn to Spencer Tracy in Desk Set.
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Gig Young is remembered by many James Dean fans for the "driving safety" interview made shortly before Dean's fatal car accident in September 1955.
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Gig Young had a change of pace in a Clifford Odets drama, The Story on Page One, although he was still second lead, to Anthony Franciosa.
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Gig Young guest-starred on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and Kraft Suspense Theatre.
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Gig Young returned to Broadway with Under the Yum-Yum Tree which ran for 173 performances, originating the role later played by Jack Lemmon on film.
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Gig Young was Elvis Presley's boxing promoter in Kid Galahad, and lost Sophia Loren to Anthony Perkins in Five Miles to Midnight.
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Gig Young supported Rock Hudson in the comedy Strange Bedfellows, had the lead in a British horror film, The Shuttered Room, and starred in a TV mystery movie, Companions in Nightmare.
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Gig Young enjoyed a successful return to Broadway in the hit comedy from Britain There's a Girl in My Soup, which ran for 322 performances.
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Gig Young had not been the choice of director Sydney Pollack, but his casting was mandated by the head of ABC Pictures, Marty Baum, Gig Young's former agent.
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Gig Young had a good part in the popular Lovers and Other Strangers, from ABC Pictures, and toured in Nobody Loves an Albatross in summer stock.
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Gig Young was in the TV movie The Neon Ceiling, his performance earning him an Emmy nomination.
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Originally cast as The Waco Kid, Gig Young collapsed on the set of the comedy film Blazing Saddles during his first day of shooting due to alcohol withdrawal, and was fired by director Mel Brooks.
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Gig Young had a supporting role in Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, directed by Sam Peckinpah, and was in a horror movie, A Black Ribbon for Deborah.
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Gig Young was in the TV movies The Great Ice Rip-Off and The Turning Point of Jim Malloy ; Peckinpah used him again in The Killer Elite.
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However, Gig Young's alcoholism prevented him from performing the role, even only as a voice actor, and he was replaced at the last minute by John Forsythe.
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Gig Young was one of several names to star in The Hindenburg.
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Gig Young guest-starred on McCloud, had a support role in Sherlock Holmes in New York and was a semi-regular in the TV series Gibbsville, a spinoff from the TV movie The Turning Point of Jim Malloy.
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Gig Young was diagnosed with cancer and died just short of two years after the couple's wedding.
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Gig Young met actress Elizabeth Montgomery after she appeared in an episode of Warner Bros.
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Gig Young married his fourth wife, real estate agent Elaine Williams, nine months after his divorce from Montgomery was final.
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Gig Young met Schmidt in Hong Kong while working on Game of Death.
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Police surmised that Gig Young shot his wife and then himself.
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Gig Young had apparently shot himself in the mouth and the bullet exited the back of his head.
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Gig Young was at one time under the care of the psychologist and psychotherapist Eugene Landy, who later had his professional California medical license revoked amid accusations of ethical violations and misconduct with patients.