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The Troubled Life and Death of Gig Young
An Actor Riddled with Hard Liquor, and a Double Murder-Suicide
He was a handsome, talented, and successful actor.
But he was also an abusive, self-destructive individual who drank too much and eventually killed himself after he murdered his wife.
His name was Gig Young, who many remember from the “Walking Distance” episode of TV’s classic anthology series, The Twilight Zone. In that episode, Young played a man who, when reminiscing about a simpler time, finds himself meeting his younger self in the past.
Did that possibly reflect Young’s silent true yearnings in real life? To flee the hustle and bustle of Hollywood for a more tranquil life?
According to TheLifeandTimesofHollywood.com, decades ago, Young was “the toast of Hollywood.”
“The Academy Awards for 1969 were presented on the evening of April 7, 1970, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. It was the second year the Oscars were televised worldwide and it was also the second year there was no host — a brief interregnum between the Bob Hope era and most of the 1970s when hosting was done by committee (before one last hurrah for Bob Hope and the beginning of the Johnny Carson era).
