George Raft

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1895-09-26 (85 years old)

Deathday

1980-11-25

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

George Raft

Biography

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article George Raft, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1959

Some Like It Hot

as Spats Colombo

1960

Ocean's Eleven

as Jack Strager

1932

Scarface

as Guino Rinaldo

1968

The Movie Orgy

as Self (archive footage)

1956

1954

Rogue Cop

as Dan Beaumonte

1941

Manpower

as Johnny Marshall

1967

Casino Royale

as Himself

1949

Red Light

as Johnny Torno

1978

Sextette

as Himself

1968

Skidoo

as Captain Garbaldo

1955

A Bullet for Joey

as Joe Victor

1944

Follow the Boys

as Tony West

1943

1961

The Ladies Man

as Himself

1945

Johnny Angel

as Johnny Angel

1939

Each Dawn I Die

as 'Hood' Stacey

1935

The Glass Key

as Ed Beaumont

1937

Souls at Sea

as Powdah

1949

Johnny Allegro

as Johnny Allegro

1954

Black Widow

as Detective Bruce

1946

Nocturne

as Joe Warne

1940

The House Across the Bay

as Steve Larwitt

1938

You and Me

as Joe Dennis

1939

I Stole a Million

as Joe Lourik

1940

They Drive by Night

as Joe Fabrini

1947

Intrigue

as Brad Dunham

1949

1941

Breakdowns of 1941

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1932

Night After Night

as Joe Anton

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1952

Loan Shark

as Joe Gargen

1948

Race Street

as Dan Gannin

1929

Gold Diggers of Broadway

as Dancer (uncredited)

1946

Whistle Stop

as Kenny Veech

1967

1966

The Upper Hand

as Charles Binnaggio

1938

Spawn of the North

as Tyler Dawson

1947

Christmas Eve

as Mario Torio

1950

1942

Broadway

as George Raft

1932

If I Had a Million

as Eddie Jackson

1959

1964

The Patsy

as George Raft

1931

1931

Quick Millions

as Jimmy Kirk

1951

1933

Pick-up

as Harry Glynn

1932

Winner Take All

as Band Leader (archive footage) (uncredited)

1934

The Trumpet Blows

as Manuel Montes

1934

Limehouse Blues

as Harry Young

1973

1934

Bolero

as Raoul De Baere

1953

The Man From Cairo

as Mike Canelli

1949

Outpost in Morocco

as Paul Gerard

1933

Midnight Club

as Nick Mason

1945

Nob Hill

as Tony Angelo

1935

Every Night at Eight

as Tops Cardona

1935

She Couldn't Take It

as Joe "Spot" Ricardi

1934

All of Me

as Honey Rogers

1932

Madame Racketeer

as Jack Houston

1933

The Bowery

as Steve Brodie

1932

Dancers in the Dark

as Louie Brooks

1935

Stolen Harmony

as Ray Ferraro

1932

Night World

as Ed Powell

1936

It Had to Happen

as Enrico Scaffa

1936

Yours for the Asking

as Johnny Lamb

1931

Taxi!

as William Kenny (uncredited)

1929

Side Street

as Georgie Ames (uncredited)

1933

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2011

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

as Himself (archive footage)

1946

Mr. Ace

as Eddie Ace

1994

Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

as Self (archive footage)

1932

Under-Cover Man

as Nick Darrow

1952

Escape Route

as Steve Rossi

1943

Stage Door Canteen

as George Raft

1935

Rumba

as Joe Martin

1950

Riviera Dream

as George Raft

1972

Hammersmith Is Out

as Guido Scartucci

1972

Deadhead Miles

as George Raft

1975

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

as Self (archive footage)

1939

1931

Hush Money

as Maxie

1939

Invisible Stripes

as Cliff Taylor

1964

For Those Who Think Young

as Detective (uncredited)

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