Biography
George Raft was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and the 1940s. A stylish leading man in dozens of movies, Raft is remembered for his gangster roles in Quick Millions (1931) with Spencer Tracy, Scarface (1932) with Paul Muni, Each Dawn I Die (1939) with James Cagney, Invisible Stripes (1939) with Humphrey Bogart, and Billy Wilder's comedy Some Like It Hot (1959) with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon; and as a dancer in Bolero (1934) with Carole Lombard and a truck driver in They Drive by Night (1940) with Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino and again with Bogart.
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Awards & recognition
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Filmography40 titles
Some Like It Hot
The Jack Benny Program
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Scarface
Batman
Palmy Days
What's My Line?
The Colgate Comedy Hour
They Drive by Night
The Ed Sullivan Show
Manpower
Each Dawn I Die
Taxi
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Around the World in 80 Days
Background to Danger
You and Me
If I Had a Million
Ocean's Eleven
Black Widow
The Ladies Man
Stage Door Canteen
The Patsy
Invisible Stripes
Johnny Angel
Red Light
Nocturne
A Bullet for Joey
For Those Who Think Young
Escape Route
Loan Shark
The House Across the Bay
Christmas Eve
The Bowery
Casino Royale
Outpost in Morocco
Five Golden Dragons
Whistle Stop
Sextette
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her