George Raft

George Raft

Actor
Date of birth: September 26, 1901Date of death: November 25, 1980 (79)City: Los Angeles, California, USA

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.

Filmography

57 roles
1980s1 role
1970s1 role
1960s4 roles
1950s10 roles
1940s15 roles
1949Red LightJohnny Torno★ 5.8Movie
1948Race StreetDan Gannin★ 6.0Movie
1930s25 roles
1938You and MeJoe Dennis★ 6.5Movie
1937Souls at SeaPowdah★ 6.5Movie
1920s1 role