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George Raft

George Raft

Birthday: 1895-09-26 | Place of Birth: 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1968
Skidoo

as    Captain Garbaldo

1967
Five Golden Dragons

as    Dragon #2

1961
The Ladies Man

as    Himself

1959
Some Like It Hot

as    Spats Colombo

1959
Jet Over The Atlantic

as    Stafford

1954
Rogue Cop

as    Dan Beaumonte

1954
Black Widow

as    Detective Lt. C.A. Bruce

1953
The Man From Cairo

as    Mike Canelli

1952
Loan Shark

as    Joe Gargen

1951
I'll Get You for This

as    Nick Cain

1949
Johnny Allegro

as    Johnny Allegro

1949
Red Light

as    Johnny Torno

1949
Outpost in Morocco

as    Paul Gerard

1949
A Dangerous Profession

as    Vince Kane

1948
Race Street

as    Dan Gannin

1947
Intrigue

as    Brad Dunham

1946
Nocturne

as    Joe Warne

1945
Johnny Angel

as    Johnny Angel

1945
Nob Hill

as    Tony Angelo

1944
Follow the Boys

as    Tony West

1943
Background to Danger

as    Joe Barton

1941
Manpower

as    Johnny Marshall

1940
They Drive by Night

as    Joe Fabrini

1939
Each Dawn I Die

as    'Hood' Stacey

1939
Invisible Stripes

as    Cliff Taylor

1938
You and Me

as    Joe Dennis

1938
Spawn of the North

as    Tyler Dawson

1937
Souls at Sea

as    Powdah