George Raft

George Raft

Birthday: 1895-09-26

Deathday: 1980-11-25

Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Also known as: George Ranft, Georgie, Джордж Рафт

imdb_id: nm0706368

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.

Played in movies:

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

Score: 9.0

Some Like It Hot

Score: 8.1

Scarface

Score: 7.5

Quick Millions

Score: 7.1

Palmy Days

Score: 7.0

Gold Diggers of Broadway

Score: 7.0

Breakdowns of 1941

Score: 7.0

Night World

Score: 6.9

Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

Score: 6.9

They Drive by Night

Score: 6.9

Each Dawn I Die

Score: 6.8

Taxi!

Score: 6.8

The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks

Score: 6.8

I'll Get You for This

Score: 6.8

Manpower

Score: 6.7

If I Had a Million

Score: 6.7

Every Night at Eight

Score: 6.7

Around the World in Eighty Days

Score: 6.6

Background to Danger

Score: 6.6

You and Me

Score: 6.6

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Score: 6.5

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Score: 6.5

The Movie Orgy

Score: 6.5

Black Widow

Score: 6.4

The Glass Key

Score: 6.4

Ocean's Eleven

Score: 6.4

Invisible Stripes

Score: 6.3

Bolero

Score: 6.3

The Upper Hand

Score: 6.3

Johnny Allegro

Score: 6.3

The Man with Bogart's Face

Score: 6.3

The Ladies Man

Score: 6.3

The Patsy

Score: 6.2

Night After Night

Score: 6.2

Breakdowns of 1942

Score: 6.0

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

Score: 6.0

The Fashion Side of Hollywood

Score: 6.0

Rumba

Score: 6.0

Stolen Harmony

Score: 6.0

All of Me

Score: 6.0

I Stole a Million

Score: 6.0

Souls at Sea

Score: 6.0

Johnny Angel

Score: 5.9

Nocturne

Score: 5.9

Stage Door Canteen

Score: 5.9

Red Light

Score: 5.8

Race Street

Score: 5.8

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Score: 5.7

Hammersmith Is Out

Score: 5.7

Nob Hill

Score: 5.7

Mr. Ace

Score: 5.6

A Dangerous Profession

Score: 5.6

A Bullet for Joey

Score: 5.6

Loan Shark

Score: 5.6

Spawn of the North

Score: 5.6

Deadhead Miles

Score: 5.5

It Had to Happen

Score: 5.5

Broadway

Score: 5.5

The House Across the Bay

Score: 5.5

Jet Over The Atlantic

Score: 5.4

Escape Route

Score: 5.3

Winner Take All

Score: 5.3

Christmas Eve

Score: 5.3

Follow the Boys

Score: 5.3

Rogue Cop

Score: 5.3

Five Golden Dragons

Score: 5.3

Casino Royale

Score: 5.2

For Those Who Think Young

Score: 5.2

We Will All Go to Paris

Score: 5.2

The Bowery

Score: 5.1

Side Street

Score: 5.0

The Man From Cairo

Score: 5.0

The Trumpet Blows

Score: 5.0

Intrigue

Score: 5.0

Dancers in the Dark

Score: 4.8

Madame Racketeer

Score: 4.8

Outpost in Morocco

Score: 4.8

Pick-up

Score: 4.8

Skidoo

Score: 4.8

Under-Cover Man

Score: 4.5

She Couldn't Take It

Score: 4.5

Whistle Stop

Score: 4.3

Limehouse Blues

Score: 4.2

Breakdowns of 1940

Score: 4.0

Sextette

Score: 3.9

Yours for the Asking

Score: 3.5

Hush Money

Score: 0.0

The Lady's from Kentucky

Score: 0.0

Riviera Dream

Score: 0.0

Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

Score: 0.0

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5

Score: 0.0

Midnight Club

Score: 0.0

Queen of the Night Clubs

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Jack Benny Program

Score: 7.8

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Score: 7.5

Batman

Score: 7.3

What's My Line?

Score: 6.9

The Ed Sullivan Show

Score: 6.8

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Score: 6.8

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Score: 6.6

The Merv Griffin Show

Score: 6.2

I'm the Law

Score: 5.7

The Mike Douglas Show

Score: 5.4

The Jimmy Durante Show

Score: 0.0