George Raft
Actor
- Born
- September 26, 1901 · Los Angeles, California, USA
- Died
- November 25, 1980 (age 79)
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).
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Known for
Some Like It Hot
March 19, 1959
Casino Royale
April 18, 1967
Scarface
April 9, 1932
Around the World in 80 Days
October 17, 1956
Ocean's Eleven
August 10, 1960
The Ladies Man
June 21, 1961
They Drive by Night
July 26, 1940
Each Dawn I Die
August 19, 1939
The Patsy
June 24, 1964
Black Widow
October 28, 1954
If I Had a Million
November 18, 1932
The Upper Hand
March 2, 1966
Acting96
- 2011Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films as Himself (archive footage)
- 2008Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film as Self (archive footage)
- 1994Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her as Self (archive footage)
- 1992Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files as (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1983Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1980The Man with Bogart's Face as Petey Cane
- 1980Gay, Gay Hollywood as Self
- 1978Sextette as Self
- 1975Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)