George Raft

Known for ActingBorn 1901-09-26Died 1980-11-25Los 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Jimmy Durante Show

Hush Money

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

Midnight Club

Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files

Some Like It Hot

I Stole a Million

The Lady's from Kentucky

Stolen Harmony

The Jack Benny Program

Queen of the Night Clubs

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film

Batman

Gold Diggers of Broadway

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Scarface

Quick Millions

Palmy Days

The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks

What's My Line?

I'll Get You for This

Breakdowns of 1941

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Every Night at Eight

All of Me

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Movie Orgy

Night World

They Drive by Night

The Merv Griffin Show

Around the World in 80 Days

Manpower

Each Dawn I Die

Background to Danger

Taxi!

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

The Upper Hand

Ocean's Eleven

Black Widow

You and Me

If I Had a Million

The Ladies Man

Souls at Sea

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards

Johnny Allegro