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. ==Death==