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.
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