George Raft
Acting
- Born:
- 1901-09-26
- Died:
- 1980-11-25
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Rogues Gallery
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
The Man with Bogart's Face
Gay, Gay Hollywood
Sextette
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Deadhead Miles
Hammersmith Is Out
Skidoo
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Movie Orgy
Five Golden Dragons
Casino Royale
The Upper Hand
Batman
The Patsy
For Those Who Think Young
The Merv Griffin Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
The Ladies Man
Ocean's Eleven
Jet Over The Atlantic
Some Like It Hot
Around the World in 80 Days
A Bullet for Joey
Black Widow
The Jimmy Durante Show
Rogue Cop
The Man From Cairo
I'm the Law
Escape Route
Loan Shark
I'll Get You for This
The Jack Benny Program
The Colgate Comedy Hour
We Will All Go to Paris
What's My Line?
Riviera Dream
A Dangerous Profession
Red Light
Johnny Allegro
Outpost in Morocco
Race Street
The Ed Sullivan Show
Intrigue
Christmas Eve
Nocturne
Mr. Ace
Whistle Stop
Johnny Angel
Nob Hill
Follow the Boys
Background to Danger
Stage Door Canteen
Breakdowns of 1942
Broadway
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
Breakdowns of 1941
Manpower
Breakdowns of 1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
They Drive by Night
The House Across the Bay
Invisible Stripes
Each Dawn I Die
I Stole a Million
The Lady's from Kentucky
Spawn of the North
You and Me
Souls at Sea
Yours for the Asking
It Had to Happen
The Fashion Side of Hollywood
She Couldn't Take It
Every Night at Eight
The Glass Key
Stolen Harmony
Rumba
Limehouse Blues
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
The Trumpet Blows
Bolero
All of Me
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
The Bowery
Midnight Club
Pick-up
Under-Cover Man
If I Had a Million
Night After Night
Madame Racketeer
Winner Take All
Night World
Scarface
Dancers in the Dark
Taxi!
Palmy Days
Hush Money
Quick Millions
Side Street
Gold Diggers of Broadway
Queen of the Night Clubs