George Raft
Acting · 79 years old
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.
Known For
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Himself (archive footage)
Some Like It Hot
Spats Colombo
The Jack Benny Program
The Gang leader
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self (archive footage)
Scarface
Guino Rinaldo
Batman
Citizen in Bank (uncredited)
Quick Millions
Jimmy Kirk
Breakdowns of 1941
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gold Diggers of Broadway
Dancer (uncredited)
Palmy Days
Joe
What's My Line?
Self
They Drive by Night
Joe Fabrini
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Self (archive footage)
Each Dawn I Die
'Hood' Stacey
I'll Get You for This
Nick Cain
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Self (archive footage)
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self (uncredited)
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
Every Night at Eight
Tops Cardona