Steven Geray

Steven Geray

Birthday: 1904-11-10

Deathday: 1973-12-26

Place of birth: Ungvár, Austria-Hungary, now Uzhgorod, Ukraine

Also known as: Istvan Gyergyay, István Gyergyai, Steve Geray

imdb_id: nm0314065

Biography:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Steven Geray, born Istvan Gyergyay (10 November 1904 – 26 December 1973) was a film actor who appeared in over 100 films and dozens of television programs. Geray appeared in Spellbound (1945), Gilda (1946), In a Lonely Place (1950), All About Eve (1950), Call Me Madam (1953) and To Catch a Thief (1955). He was born in Ungvár, Austria-Hungary (now Uzhgorod, Ukraine) and educated at the University of Budapest. He made his first stage appearance at the Hungarian National Theater under his real name and after nearly four years he made his London stage debut (as Steven Geray) in 1934, appearing in Happy Week-End!. He began appearing in English-speaking films in 1935 and moved to Hollywood in 1941. He appeared alongside his wife, Magda Kun, in the 1935 film Dance Band. Geray was cast as the lead in a low-budget film noir So Dark the Night (1946). Even with its limited budget, it received great critical reviews and enabled its director Joseph H. Lewis to later direct A-pictures. Geray continued to work on television and in films into the 1960s. Among them a guest appearance on Perry Mason in 1962 as extortionist and murder victim Franz Moray in "The Case of the Stand-in Sister," three episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as French dress designer Gaston Broussard in 1956, including the over the top "A Paris Creation" and various doctor roles on The Danny Thomas Show. Geray spent some time in the late-1960s in Estes Park, Colorado, where he directed local theater (The Fantasticks). He owned and ran a bar in Estes Park from 1969 to 1970.

Played in movies:

All About Eve

Score: 8.1

In a Lonely Place

Score: 7.6

Gilda

Score: 7.5

Spellbound

Score: 7.4

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Score: 7.3

Inspector Hornleigh

Score: 7.3

To My Unborn Son

Score: 7.0

The Mask of Dimitrios

Score: 7.0

Castle in the Desert

Score: 6.8

Woman on the Run

Score: 6.8

Appointment in Berlin

Score: 6.7

Artists and Models

Score: 6.7

The Seventh Cross

Score: 6.7

Attack

Score: 6.7

Background to Danger

Score: 6.6

Ladies of the Chorus

Score: 6.6

Knock on Wood

Score: 6.6

Resisting Enemy Interrogation

Score: 6.6

Above Suspicion

Score: 6.5

O. Henry's Full House

Score: 6.5

Mr. District Attorney

Score: 6.5

The Big Sky

Score: 6.5

Verboten!

Score: 6.4

Blondie Knows Best

Score: 6.4

The Moon and Sixpence

Score: 6.3

Tarzan and the Amazons

Score: 6.3

Tell It to the Judge

Score: 6.3

Wild and Wonderful

Score: 6.3

Blue, White, and Perfect

Score: 6.3

Whistling in Brooklyn

Score: 6.3

Call Me Madam

Score: 6.3

I Love Trouble

Score: 6.3

The House on Telegraph Hill

Score: 6.3

The Golden Blade

Score: 6.3

Affair in Trinidad

Score: 6.3

Deadline at Dawn

Score: 6.2

Once Upon a Honeymoon

Score: 6.2

Phantom of the Opera

Score: 6.2

Hotel Berlin

Score: 6.1

Eyes in the Night

Score: 6.1

The Conspirators

Score: 6.1

Heavenly Music

Score: 6.1

A Gentleman at Heart

Score: 6.0

Dark Streets of Cairo

Score: 6.0

Man at Large

Score: 6.0

Savage Drums

Score: 6.0

Port Said

Score: 6.0

Night Plane from Chungking

Score: 6.0

Harbor of Missing Men

Score: 6.0

The Crimson Canary

Score: 6.0

The Unfaithful

Score: 6.0

Cornered

Score: 6.0

So Dark the Night

Score: 5.9

Night Without Sleep

Score: 5.8

A Certain Smile

Score: 5.8

Pilot #5

Score: 5.8

The Dark Past

Score: 5.8

In Society

Score: 5.8

New York Confidential

Score: 5.8

El Paso

Score: 5.7

Once More, My Darling

Score: 5.7

Spring Shower

Score: 5.6

The Story of Three Loves

Score: 5.6

The High Command

Score: 5.6

A Bullet for Joey

Score: 5.6

Gunfighters

Score: 5.5

The Second Woman

Score: 5.5

The Swinger

Score: 5.4

Mexicana

Score: 5.3

Tobor the Great

Score: 5.2

A Lady Without Passport

Score: 5.2

Lady Possessed

Score: 5.1

Premiere

Score: 5.0

The Mad Martindales

Score: 5.0

Stagecoach To Fury

Score: 5.0

Easy Life

Score: 5.0

The Student's Romance

Score: 5.0

Holiday in Havana

Score: 5.0

Meet the People

Score: 5.0

Sky Liner

Score: 5.0

For the Common Defense!

Score: 4.7

The Lone Wolf and His Lady

Score: 4.7

The Wife Takes a Flyer

Score: 4.5

Secret Agent of Japan

Score: 4.5

The Crime Doctor's Gamble

Score: 4.5

Count Your Blessings

Score: 4.2

The French Line

Score: 4.2

Blind Spot

Score: 4.2

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

Score: 4.1

Pygmy Island

Score: 4.0

Paris Playboys

Score: 4.0

Kiss of Fire

Score: 3.0

Dance Band

Score: 2.0

When a Girl's Beautiful

Score: 0.0

Return of the Dead

Score: 0.0

Az ellopott szerda

Score: 0.0

Meet Mrs. Swenson

Score: 0.0

Bal Tabarin

Score: 0.0

Pardon, tévedtem

Score: 0.0

A Star Fell from Heaven

Score: 0.0

Let's Make a Night of It

Score: 0.0

The Great Diamond Robbery

Score: 0.0

The Royal African Rifles

Score: 0.0

Little Egypt

Score: 0.0

Target Unknown

Score: 0.0

This Man in Paris

Score: 0.0

Marie, légende hongroise

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Islanders

Score: 8.0

I Dream of Jeannie

Score: 7.8

The Outer Limits

Score: 7.8

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Score: 7.7

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

Perry Mason

Score: 7.7

The Time Tunnel

Score: 7.6

87th Precinct

Score: 7.5

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Score: 7.3

The Rogues

Score: 7.2

The Lucy Show

Score: 7.0

The Lone Wolf

Score: 7.0

Adventures of Superman

Score: 6.7

Alcoa Theatre

Score: 6.5

Four Star Playhouse

Score: 6.3

Four Star Playhouse

Score: 6.3

Telephone Time

Score: 6.3

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.3

General Electric Theater

Score: 6.3

The Donna Reed Show

Score: 6.2

Tales of Tomorrow

Score: 6.0

Burke's Law

Score: 6.0

The Danny Thomas Show

Score: 6.0

Adventures in Paradise

Score: 5.7

Adventures in Paradise

Score: 5.7

Dr. Kildare

Score: 5.5

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Score: 5.5

December Bride

Score: 5.5

Dr. Fu Manchu

Score: 5.0

Matinee Theater

Score: 5.0

Mr. & Mrs. North

Score: 4.3

The Adventures of Jim Bowie

Score: 3.7

Dangerous Assignment

Score: 3.5

Cavalcade of America

Score: 3.5

Climax!

Score: 3.3