George Raft

Born: 1901-09-26, Los Angeles, California, USA

Died: 1980-11-25

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).

Filmography

• The Jack Benny Program (1950)
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
• I'm the Law (1953)
• Riviera Dream (1950)
• The Patsy (1964)
• Mr. Ace (1946)
• The Ladies Man (1961)
• If I Had a Million (1932)
• You and Me (1938)
• Rogue Cop (1954)
• They Drive by Night (1940)
• Invisible Stripes (1939)
• Stage Door Canteen (1943)
• A Dangerous Profession (1949)
• Palmy Days (1931)
• Five Golden Dragons (1967)
• Each Dawn I Die (1939)
• Stolen Harmony (1935)
• Johnny Angel (1945)
• Skidoo (1968)
• Deadhead Miles (1972)
• The Bowery (1933)
• Souls at Sea (1937)
• The Man with Bogart's Face (1980)
• Du rififi à Paname (1966)
• Spawn of the North (1938)
• Follow the Boys (1944)
• Race Street (1948)
• The House Across the Bay (1940)
• Outpost in Morocco (1949)