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Steven Geray

Acting

Born November 10, 1904 · Ungvár, Austria-Hungary, now Uzhgorod, Ukraine

Died December 26, 1973

Also known as Istvan Gyergyay · István Gyergyai · Steve Geray

Biography

Steven Geray was a Hungarian-born American character actor who appeared in over 100 films and dozens of television programs. Geray appeared in numerous famed A and AA-budgeted pictures, including Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) and To Catch a Thief (1955), Joseph L. Mankiewicz's All About Eve (1950), and Howard Hawks's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). However, it was in film noir that he became a fixture, being cast in over a dozen pictures in the genre. Among them were The Mask of Dimitrios (1944), Gilda (1946), The Unfaithful (1947), In a Lonely Place (1950), and The House on Telegraph Hill (1951).

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Filmography50+ titles

The Great Diamond Robbery

1954as Van Goosen

All About Eve

1950as Captain of Waiters

I Dream of Jeannie

1965as Armand

The Outer Limits

1963as Jerichau

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

1964as Dalgren

Perry Mason

1957as Franz Moray

The Time Tunnel

1966as Perrault

In a Lonely Place

1950as Paul

Bonanza

1959as Alexander Dubois

Gilda

1946as Uncle Pio

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

1995Stunts

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1953as Hotel Manager

The Lucy Show

1962as Dr. Fleisher

The Mask of Dimitrios

1944as Karel Bulic

Whistling in Brooklyn

1943as Whitey

O. Henry's Full House

1952as Boris Radolf (segment "The Last Leaf") (uncredited)

Attack

1956as Otto

Four Star Playhouse

1952as Mataafa

Woman on the Run

1950as Dr. Arnold Hohler

Artists and Models

1955as Kurt's Associate (uncredited)

Background to Danger

1943as Ludwig Rader (uncredited)

Verboten!

1959as le maire

Adventures of Superman

1952as Prof. Van Wick

Tell It to the Judge

1949as Francois, the Headwaiter (uncredited)

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

1944as Dr. Victor Münz - Camp Doctor

The Donna Reed Show

1958

Telephone Time

1956

The Big Sky

1952as "Frenchy" Jourdonnais

I Love Trouble

1948as Keller

Mr. District Attorney

1947as Berotti

Affair in Trinidad

1952as Wittol

The House on Telegraph Hill

1951as Dr. Burkhardt

Tales of Tomorrow

1951

The Conspirators

1944as Dr. Schmitt

Once Upon a Honeymoon

1942as Café Waiter (uncredited)

The Evil of Frankenstein

1964as Dr. Sergado (uncredited)

The Danny Thomas Show

1953as Rudolf Benelman

Phantom of the Opera

1943as Vereheres

Above Suspicion

1943as Anton the Woodcarver (Uncredited)

Eyes in the Night

1942as Mr. Anderson

New York Confidential

1955as Morris Franklin

El Paso

1949as Mexican Joe

The Dark Past

1948as Prof. Fred Linder

Mexicana

1945as Laredo

The Unfaithful

1947as Martin Barrow

A Bullet for Joey

1955as Raphael Garcia

The Second Woman

1950as Balthazar Jones

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

1956

Mr. & Mrs. North

1952

Cavalcade of America

1952as Bela Hovarth