Gig Young
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Gig Young (born Byron Elsworth Barr; November 4, 1913 – October 19, 1978) was an American actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Come Fill the Cup (1952) and Teacher's Pet (1959), before winning for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969).
Known for
Credits
Rear Window (1954)
as Jeff's Editor (voice) (uncredited)
Game of Death (1978)
as Jim Marshall
Sergeant York (1941)
as Marching Soldier (uncredited)
The Three Musketeers (1948)
as Porthos
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
as Rocky Gravo
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
as Quill
The Killer Elite (1975)
as Lawrence Weyburn
Bruce Lee, the Legend (1984)
as Self
That Touch of Mink (1962)
as Roger
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
as Lt. Roberts (uncredited)
The Desperate Hours (1955)
as Chuck Wright
Teacher's Pet (1958)
as Dr. Hugo Pine
Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
as Samuel 'Sam' Rosen
The Hindenburg (1975)
as Edward Douglas
Lust for Gold (1949)
as Pete Thomas
Air Force (1943)
as Co-Pilot
Kid Galahad (1962)
as Willy Grogan
Only the Valiant (1951)
as Lt. William Holloway
Dive Bomber (1941)
as Abbott - Guinea Pig 2 Experiment 32 (uncredited)
For Love or Money (1963)
as Sonny Smith
Remembering Gene Wilder (2024)
as Self (archive photo/footage)
Desk Set (1957)
as Mike Cutler
Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
as Hal Henderson
Five Miles to Midnight (1962)
as David Barnes
The Shuttered Room (1967)
as Mike Kelton
Ask Any Girl (1959)
as Evan Doughton
Young at Heart (1954)
as Alex Burke
Strange Bedfellows (1965)
as Richard Bramwell
Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)
as Mortimer McGraw
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
Come Fill the Cup (1951)
as Boyd Copeland
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration (2019)
as Martin Sloan (archive footage)
One Foot in Heaven (1941)
as First Groom Asking for Dog Licence (uncredited)
A Ticklish Affair (1963)
as Key Weedon
Old Acquaintance (1943)
as Rudd Kendall
The Girl Who Had Everything (1953)
as Vance Court
City That Never Sleeps (1953)
as Johnny Kelly
Escape Me Never (1947)
as Caryl Dubrok
Breakdowns of 1942 (1942)
as Self
Too Young to Kiss (1951)
as John Tirsen
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The James Dean Story (1957)
as Self
The Spiral Staircase (1961)
as Stephen Warren
You're in the Army Now (1941)
as Soldier
The Woman in White (1948)
as Walter Hartright
Target Unknown (1951)
as Capt. Reiner
Tell It to the Judge (1949)
as Alexander Darvac
Torch Song (1953)
as Cliff Willard
The Tunnel of Love (1958)
as Dick Pepper
The Story on Page One (1959)
as Larry Ellis
Death In Hollywood (1990)
Actor
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies (1988)
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Neon Ceiling (1971)
as Jones
Slaughter Trail (1951)
as Ike Vaughn aka Murray
The Male Animal (1942)
as Student (uncredited)
The Tanks Are Coming (1941)
as Jim Allen
Companions in Nightmare (1968)
as Eric Nicholson
Hunt the Man Down (1950)
as Paul Bennett
Holiday for Sinners (1952)
as Jason Kent
Elvis: A Life in Music (2026)
as Self (archive footage)
Spectre (1977)
as Dr. Ham Hamilton
Ninotchka (1960)
as Leon Dolga
Arena (1953)
as Hob Danvers
The Mad Martindales (1942)
as Peter Varney (as Byron Barr)
The Gay Sisters (1942)
as Gig Young
Misbehaving Husbands (1940)
as Floor Walker (as Byron Barr)
The Great Ice Rip-Off (1974)
as Harkey Rollins
Invisible Diplomats (1965)
as Brad
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy (1975)
as Ray Whitehead
You for Me (1952)
as Dr. Jeff Chadwick
A Black Ribbon for Deborah (1974)
as Ofenbauer