Gig Young

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Biography

Recent Role:
Ray Whitehead on Gibbsville
Gender:
Male
Born:
11-4-1913
Died:
10-19-1978 (Details of death and place of death New York,New York, USA (Suicide))
Birthplace:
St Cloud, Minnesota, USA
Birth Name:
Byron Elsworth Barr
Gig Young was a debonair actor who played a sardonic character, who typically never got the girl. He began his career in films in the 1940s and took his stage name from a character in one of his earlier films. He appeared on Robert Montgomery Presents and later married Montgomery's daughter, Elizabeth. The marriage lasted six years.

Starring Gibbsville in 1976, it was a role that was strangely prophetic, as an alcholic. In real life he was said to be a "Jekyll and Hyde" type when drunk.

He died in a bizarre murder-suicide in 1978, in which he



… More shot his wife of three weeks and then turned the gun on himself.

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