Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1895-09-26
Deathday
1980-11-25
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
George Raft
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.
Known For
Some Like It Hot
as Spats Colombo
Casino Royale
as Himself
Scarface
as Guino Rinaldo
Batman
as Citizen in Bank (uncredited)
Around the World in Eighty Days
as Saloon Bouncer
Ocean's Eleven
as Jack Strager
The Ladies Man
as Himself
They Drive by Night
as Joe Fabrini
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
Each Dawn I Die
as 'Hood' Stacey