George Raft
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1901-09-26 – 1980-11-25
Place of birth: 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
Some Like It Hot
1959Spats Colombo
Ocean's Eleven
1960Jack Strager
Scarface
1932Guino Rinaldo
The Movie Orgy
1968Self (archive footage)
Around the World in 80 Days
1956Saloon Bouncer
Rogue Cop
1954Dan Beaumonte
Manpower
1941Johnny Marshall
Casino Royale
1967Himself
Red Light
1949Johnny Torno
Sextette
1978Self
Skidoo
1968Captain Garbaldo
A Bullet for Joey
1955Joe Victor
Follow the Boys
1944Tony West
Background to Danger
1943Joe Barton
The Ladies Man
1961Himself
Johnny Angel
1945Johnny Angel
Each Dawn I Die
1939'Hood' Stacey
The Man with Bogart's Face
1980Petey Cane
The Glass Key
1935Ed Beaumont