George Raft

Actor

Born: September 26, 1901 (79 years old)

Died: November 25, 1980

Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, today Raft is mostly known for his gangster roles in the original Scarface (1932), Each Dawn I Die (1939), and Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot, as a dancer in Bolero (1934), and a truck driver in They Drive by Night (1940). Description above from the Wikipedia article George Raft, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography (69)

• Some Like It Hot (1959, ★ 8.1)
• Scarface (1932, ★ 7.4)
• Ocean's Eleven (1960, ★ 6.4)
• The Movie Orgy (1968, ★ 6.4)
• Around the World in 80 Days (1956, ★ 6.6)
• Manpower (1941, ★ 6.6)
• Background to Danger (1943, ★ 6.6)
• Each Dawn I Die (1939, ★ 6.8)
• The Glass Key (1935, ★ 6.4)
• Johnny Allegro (1949, ★ 6.4)
• Batman (1966, ★ 7.3)
• The Jack Benny Program (1950, ★ 7.8)
• Red Light (1949, ★ 5.8)
• A Bullet for Joey (1955, ★ 5.7)
• The Ladies Man (1961, ★ 6.3)
• Johnny Angel (1945, ★ 5.9)
• The Man with Bogart's Face (1980, ★ 5.9)
• Souls at Sea (1937, ★ 6.3)
• Black Widow (1954, ★ 6.3)
• Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008, ★ 6.9)
• Quick Millions (1931, ★ 7.1)
• Nocturne (1946, ★ 5.9)
• You and Me (1938, ★ 6.5)
• They Drive by Night (1940, ★ 6.9)
• Night After Night (1932, ★ 6.2)
• The Upper Hand (1966, ★ 6.3)
• The Patsy (1964, ★ 6.2)
• Palmy Days (1931, ★ 7)
• The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973, ★ 6.8)
• Race Street (1948, ★ 5.8)