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George Raft

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: Acting

Born: Los Angeles, California, USA, 1895-09-26

Died: 1980-11-25

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1929	Queen of the Night Clubs	Gigola	0
2	1929	Gold Diggers of Broadway	Dancer (uncredited)	70
3	1929	Side Street	Georgie Ames (uncredited)	50
4	1931	Quick Millions	Jimmy Kirk	71
5	1931	Hush Money	Maxie	0
6	1931	Palmy Days	Joe	70
7	1931	Taxi!	William Kenny (uncredited)	68
8	1932	Dancers in the Dark	Louie Brooks	48
9	1932	Scarface	Guino Rinaldo	74
10	1932	Night World	Ed Powell	69
11	1932	Winner Take All	Band Leader (archive footage) (uncredited)	53
12	1932	Madame Racketeer	Jack Houston	48
13	1932	Night After Night	Joe Anton	62
14	1932	If I Had a Million	Eddie Jackson	67
15	1932	Under-Cover Man	Nick Darrow	45
16	1933	Pick-up	Harry Glynn	48
17	1933	Midnight Club	Nick Mason	0
18	1933	The Bowery	Steve Brodie	51
19	1933	Hollywood on Parade No. B-5	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	0
20	1934	All of Me	Honey Rogers	60
21	1934	Bolero	Raoul De Baere	63
22	1934	The Trumpet Blows	Manuel Montes	50
23	1934	Limehouse Blues	Harry Young	42
24	1935	Rumba	Joe Martin	60
25	1935	Stolen Harmony	Ray Ferraro	60
26	1935	The Glass Key	Ed Beaumont	64
27	1935	Every Night at Eight	Tops Cardona	67
28	1935	She Couldn't Take It	Joe "Spot" Ricardi	45
29	1935	The Fashion Side of Hollywood	Self	60
30	1936	It Had to Happen	Enrico Scaffa	55
31	1936	Yours for the Asking	Johnny Lamb	10
32	1937	Souls at Sea	Powdah	60
33	1938	You and Me	Joe Dennis	67
34	1938	Spawn of the North	Tyler Dawson	56
35	1939	The Lady's from Kentucky	Marty Black	0
36	1939	I Stole a Million	Joe Lourik	60
37	1939	Each Dawn I Die	'Hood' Stacey	68
38	1939	Invisible Stripes	Cliff Taylor	63
39	1940	The House Across the Bay	Steve Larwitt	53
40	1940	They Drive by Night	Joe Fabrini	69
41	1940	Cavalcade of the Academy Awards	Self	65
42	1940	Breakdowns of 1940	Self	40
43	1941	Manpower	Johnny Marshall	67
44	1941	Breakdowns of 1941	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	70
45	1941	Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2		60
46	1942	Broadway	George Raft	55
47	1942	Breakdowns of 1942	Self	60
48	1943	Stage Door Canteen	George Raft	58
49	1943	Background to Danger	Joe Barton	66
50	1944	Follow the Boys	Tony West	53
51	1945	Nob Hill	Tony Angelo	57
52	1945	Johnny Angel	Johnny Angel	59
53	1946	Whistle Stop	Kenny Veech	43
54	1946	Mr. Ace	Eddie Ace	56
55	1946	Nocturne	Joe Warne	58
56	1947	Christmas Eve	Mario Torio	53
57	1947	Intrigue	Brad Dunham	50
58	1948	Race Street	Dan Gannin	58
59	1949	Outpost in Morocco	Paul Gerard	48
60	1949	Johnny Allegro	Johnny Allegro	63
61	1949	Red Light	Johnny Torno	58
62	1949	A Dangerous Profession	Vince Kane	56
63	1950	Riviera Dream	George Raft	0
64	1950	We Will All Go to Paris	George Raft	52
65	1951	I'll Get You for This	Nick Cain	68
66	1952	Loan Shark	Joe Gargen	55
67	1952	Escape Route	Steve Rossi	53
68	1953	The Man From Cairo	Mike Canelli	50
69	1954	Rogue Cop	Dan Beaumonte	53
70	1954	Black Widow	Detective Bruce	64
71	1955	A Bullet for Joey	Joe Victor	56
72	1956	Around the World in Eighty Days	Saloon Bouncer	66
73	1959	Some Like It Hot	Spats Colombo	81
74	1959	Jet Over The Atlantic	Stafford	54
75	1960	Ocean's Eleven	Jack Strager	64
76	1961	The Ladies Man	Himself	63
77	1964	For Those Who Think Young	Detective (uncredited)	52
78	1964	The Patsy	George Raft	62
79	1966	The Upper Hand	Charles Binnaggio	63
80	1967	Casino Royale	Himself	52
81	1967	Five Golden Dragons	Dragon #2	53
82	1968	The Movie Orgy	Self (archive footage)	65
83	1968	Skidoo	Captain Garbaldo	48
84	1972	Hammersmith Is Out	Guido Scartucci	57
85	1972	Deadhead Miles	George Raft	55
86	1973	The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks	Self (archive footage)	68
87	1975	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?	Self (archive footage)	57
88	1978	Sextette	Himself	39
89	1980	The Man with Bogart's Face	Petey Cane	63
90	1983	Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	65
91	1994	Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her	Self (archive footage)	0
92	2008	Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film	Self (archive footage)	69
93	2011	Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films	Himself (archive footage)	90

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	68
2	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	69
3	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self (uncredited)	68
4	1950	The Jack Benny Program	The Gang leader	78
5	1953	I'm the Law		57
6	1954	The Jimmy Durante Show	Self	0
7	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
8	1962	The Merv Griffin Show	Self	58
9	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
10	1966	Batman	Citizen in Bank (uncredited)	73
11	1968	Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In	Guest Performer (uncredited)	65