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Jeffrey Segal

Actor · 1920 – 2015 · London, England, UK

Jeffrey Segal (1 August 1920 – 5 February 2015) was an English actor and scriptwriter. He made his first screen appearance, as an extra, in the film Jew Süss (1934). From the early 1960s onwards he appeared in many British TV series, notably Callan,Z-Cars, The Protectors, Terry and June, The Pallisers, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Dad's Army. Segal played "Arthur Perkins" in the children's comedy series Rentaghost, in the "Gourmet Night" episode of Fawlty Towers, he played a hotel guest who is a hen-pecked husband and father of a babied spoiled brat; his character name was given, although this is never mentioned in dialogue, as Mr Heath in the credits, and he appeared as a civil servant in an episode in Yes Minister. He appeared in The Sweeney and Minder. In the mid-1980s he appeared in the mini-series of Oliver Twist, Vanity Fair, and in an episode of Jonathan Creek. Segal broadcast on British radio over a long period, with more than one stint as a member of the BBC Drama Repertory Company (now the Radio Drama Company). He played parts as various as Agamemnon in Troilus and Cressida, Yasha in The Cherry Orchard and the Earl of Westmoreland in Henry V. He scripted programmes for BBC Radio, such as the series "Superintendent Pepper Remembers", in which he also acted, and at one time was a member of the scriptwriting team for "The Dales", another programme he sometimes took part in. Segal also appeared in two episodes of the BBC's department store sitcom Are You Being Served. Segal's stage work was varied over the years, including performing in "The Queen's Highland Servant" at the Savoy Theatre. He was in Love's Labour's Lost at the Open Air Theatre, Regents's Park. At Richmond (Surrey) he played Rosencrantz to Alan Wheatley's Hamlet. Later he performed in numerous productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, such as Much Ado About Nothing with Ralph Fiennes.

Series24

  • TV5.4

    Coronation Street

    1960 · 118 votes

  • TV6.6

    Play for Today

    1970 · 10 votes

  • TV7.1

    Minder

    1979 · 30 votes

  • TV7.3

    Z-Cars

    1962 · 7 votes

  • TV8.1

    The Sweeney

    1975 · 28 votes

  • TV7.2

    Theatre 625

    1964 · 5 votes

  • TV7.0

    Bergerac

    1981 · 25 votes

  • TV5.2

    The Wednesday Play

    1964 · 5 votes

  • TV4.8

    No Hiding Place

    1959 · 4 votes

  • TV7.6

    Jonathan Creek

    1997 · 78 votes

  • TV6.1

    The Protectors

    1972 · 14 votes

  • TV7.5

    Dad's Army

    1968 · 82 votes

  • TV3.5

    Sunday Night Theatre

    1950 · 2 votes

  • TV7.7

    UFO

    1970 · 62 votes

  • TV7.3

    Justice

    1971 · 3 votes

  • TV8.2

    Public Eye

    1965 · 6 votes

  • TV8.3

    Fawlty Towers

    1975 · 847 votes

  • TV7.3

    Are You Being Served?

    1972 · 99 votes

  • TV7.0

    Callan

    1967 · 10 votes

  • TV6.8

    Rentaghost

    1976 · 8 votes

  • TV8.3

    The Main Chance

    1969 · 4 votes

  • TV6.7

    Suspense

    1962 · 3 votes

  • TV7.7

    Shoestring

    1979 · 6 votes

  • TV6.7

    The Scales of Justice

    1962 · 3 votes

Movies8

  • Movie4.3

    Rest in Pieces

    1987 · 31 votes

  • Movie6.3
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  • Movie9.5

    Invasion

    1980 · 2 votes

  • Movie
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