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George Raft

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1895 - 1980

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.

Birthday: 1895-09-26

Born At: Los Angeles, California, USA

Casted In:

Some Like It Hot

Ocean's Eleven

Scarface

Around the World in Eighty Days

Casino Royale

They Drive by Night

Manpower

Red Light

A Bullet for Joey

Skidoo

Follow the Boys

The Ladies Man

The Glass Key

Rogue Cop

Background to Danger

Each Dawn I Die

The Man With Bogart's Face

The House Across the Bay

Nocturne

Stage Door Canteen

Johnny Angel

Souls at Sea

Black Widow

Johnny Allegro

You and Me

I Stole a Million

A Dangerous Profession

Whistle Stop

Christmas Eve

Loan Shark

Race Street

Five Golden Dragons

Du rififi à Paname

Spawn of the North

Invisible Stripes

Night After Night

Taxi!

Hammersmith Is Out

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

If I Had a Million

For Those Who Think Young

Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

I'll Get You for This

Jet Over The Atlantic

Palmy Days

Under-Cover Man

The Bowery

Quick Millions

Midnight Club

The Trumpet Blows

Limehouse Blues

Bolero

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

The Man From Cairo

Pick Up

Outpost in Morocco

Breakdowns of 1941

Nob Hill

She Couldn't Take It

Every Night at Eight

Madame Racketeer

Dancers in the Dark

Night World

Escape Route

Breakdowns of 1940

Breakdowns of 1942

Hollywood Without Make-Up

It Had to Happen

Yours for the Asking

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

Mr. Ace

Rumba

The Fashion Side of Hollywood