George Raft
Personal information
- Known for
- Acting
- Known credits
- 108
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- September 26, 1901
- Died
- November 25, 1980
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Also known as
- George RanftGeorgieДжордж Рафт
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).
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