[1] Born in Yekaterinoslav, Ukrainian SSR (modern Dnipro, Ukraine) to a Russian family of Jewish descent,[2][better source needed] Sagal immigrated to the United States.

Cat, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Night Gallery, Columbo: Candidate for Crime, Peter Gunn, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E..

[citation needed] Among Sagal's credits for the big screen are the 1965 Elvis Presley film Girl Happy, the 1971 science fiction film The Omega Man, starring Charlton Heston in the lead role,[3] and The Dream Makers.

[5] Sagal was the father of Katey, Joey, David, Jean and Liz with his first wife, Sara Zwilling, who died in 1975.

Sagal was killed in an accident during production of the miniseries World War III, when he was partially decapitated by walking into the tail rotor blades of a helicopter in the parking lot of Timberline Lodge in Oregon.