Actor info
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Name :
George Raft
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Born :
September 26, 1901 in Los Angeles, California, USA (79 years at death)
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Died :
November 25, 1980
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Known for :
Acting
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Gender :
Male
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Film career :
96 films (1929–2011)
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Also known as :
George Ranft, Georgie, Джордж Рафт
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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.
Notable films
- Casino Royale (1967) as Himself
- Ocean's Eleven (1960) as Jack Strager
- Some Like It Hot (1959) as Spats Colombo
- Around the World in 80 Days (1956) as Saloon Bouncer
- Scarface (1932) as Guino Rinaldo
