George Raft

George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1895 – 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
Acting
Born
September 26, 1895
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Died
November 25, 1980 age 85
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1959

Some Like It Hot

1960

Ocean's Eleven

1932

Scarface

1968

The Movie Orgy

1956

Around the World in Eighty Days

1954

Rogue Cop

1941

Manpower

1967

Casino Royale

1949

Red Light

1978

Sextette

1968

Skidoo

1955

A Bullet for Joey

1944

Follow the Boys

1943

Background to Danger

1961

The Ladies Man

1945

Johnny Angel

1939

Each Dawn I Die

1980

The Man with Bogart's Face

1935

The Glass Key

1929

Queen of the Night Clubs

1937

Souls at Sea

1949

Johnny Allegro

1954

Black Widow

1946

Nocturne

1940

The House Across the Bay

1938

You and Me

1939

I Stole a Million

1940

They Drive by Night

1947

Intrigue

1949

A Dangerous Profession

1941

Breakdowns of 1941

1932

Night After Night

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

1952

Loan Shark

1948

Race Street

1929

Gold Diggers of Broadway

1946

Whistle Stop

1967

Five Golden Dragons

1966

The Upper Hand

1938

Spawn of the North

1947

Christmas Eve

1950

We Will All Go to Paris

1942

Broadway

1932

If I Had a Million

1959

Jet Over The Atlantic

1964

The Patsy

1931

Palmy Days

2008

Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

1931

Quick Millions

1951

I'll Get You for This

1933

Pick-up

1932

Winner Take All

1934

The Trumpet Blows

1934

Limehouse Blues

1973

The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks

1934

Bolero

1953

The Man From Cairo

1949

Outpost in Morocco

1933

Midnight Club

1945

Nob Hill

1934

All of Me

1935

She Couldn't Take It

1935

Every Night at Eight

1932

Madame Racketeer

1933

The Bowery

1932

Dancers in the Dark

1935

Stolen Harmony

1932

Night World

1936

It Had to Happen

1936

Yours for the Asking

1931

Taxi!

1929

Side Street

1933

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

2011

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

1946

Mr. Ace

1994

Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

1932

Under-Cover Man

1952

Escape Route

1943

Stage Door Canteen

1935

Rumba

1950

Riviera Dream

1972

Hammersmith Is Out

1935

The Fashion Side of Hollywood

1972

Deadhead Miles

1940

Breakdowns of 1940

1940

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

1975

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

1939

The Lady's from Kentucky

1931

Hush Money

1941

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

1939

Invisible Stripes

1942

Breakdowns of 1942

1964

For Those Who Think Young

2023

The Colgate Comedy Hour

2023

Batman

2023

The Merv Griffin Show

2023

I'm the Law

2023

The Jimmy Durante Show

2023

The Jack Benny Program

2023

The Mike Douglas Show

2023

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

2023

The Ed Sullivan Show

2023

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

2023

What's My Line?

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