George Raft

Acting · Born 1901-09-26 · Los Angeles, California, USA

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

• Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)
• Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film (2008)
• Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her (1994)
• Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files (1992)
• Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage (1983)
• The Man with Bogart's Face (1980)
• Gay, Gay Hollywood (1980)
• Sextette (1978)
• Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)
• The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973)
• Hammersmith Is Out (1972)
• Deadhead Miles (1972)
• The Movie Orgy (1968)
• Skidoo (1968)
• Casino Royale (1967)
• Five Golden Dragons (1967)
• The Upper Hand (1966)
• The Patsy (1964)
• For Those Who Think Young (1964)
• The Ladies Man (1961)
• Ocean's Eleven (1960)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
• Jet Over The Atlantic (1959)
• Around the World in 80 Days (1956)