George Raft
Department: Acting
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
Some Like It Hot
1959
Ocean's Eleven
1960
Scarface
1932
The Movie Orgy
1968
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
Rogue Cop
1954
Manpower
1941
Casino Royale
1967
Red Light
1949
Sextette
1978
Skidoo
1968
A Bullet for Joey
1955
Follow the Boys
1944
Background to Danger
1943
The Ladies Man
1961
Johnny Angel
1945
Each Dawn I Die
1939
The Man with Bogart's Face
1980
The Glass Key
1935
Queen of the Night Clubs
1929
Souls at Sea
1937
Johnny Allegro
1949
Black Widow
1954
Nocturne
1946
The House Across the Bay
1940
You and Me
1938
I Stole a Million
1939
They Drive by Night
1940
Intrigue
1947
A Dangerous Profession
1949
Breakdowns of 1941
1941
Night After Night
1932
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
Loan Shark
1952
Race Street
1948
Gold Diggers of Broadway
1929
Whistle Stop
1946
Five Golden Dragons
1967
The Upper Hand
1966
Spawn of the North
1938
Christmas Eve
1947
We Will All Go to Paris
1950
Broadway
1942
If I Had a Million
1932
Jet Over The Atlantic
1959
The Patsy
1964
Palmy Days
1931
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
2008
Quick Millions
1931
I'll Get You for This
1951
Pick-up
1933
Winner Take All
1932
The Trumpet Blows
1934
Limehouse Blues
1934
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
1973
Bolero
1934
The Man From Cairo
1953
Outpost in Morocco
1949
Midnight Club
1933
Nob Hill
1945
All of Me
1934
She Couldn't Take It
1935
Every Night at Eight
1935
Madame Racketeer
1932
The Bowery
1933
Dancers in the Dark
1932
Stolen Harmony
1935
Night World
1932
It Had to Happen
1936
Yours for the Asking
1936
Taxi!
1932
Side Street
1929
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
1933
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011
Mr. Ace
1946
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
1994
Under-Cover Man
1932
Escape Route
1952
Stage Door Canteen
1943
Rumba
1935
Riviera Dream
1950
Hammersmith Is Out
1972
The Fashion Side of Hollywood
1935
Deadhead Miles
1972
Breakdowns of 1940
1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
The Lady's from Kentucky
1939
Hush Money
1931
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2
1941
Invisible Stripes
1939
Breakdowns of 1942
1942
For Those Who Think Young
1964
Gay, Gay Hollywood
1980
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
1992
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
1934
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
Batman
1966
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
I'm the Law
1953
The Jimmy Durante Show
1954
The Jack Benny Program
1950
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
What's My Line?
1950
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
Rogues Gallery
1997
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962