George Raft
September 26, 1901 (124 years old) in 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.
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- 2011 · Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films as Himself (archive footage)
- 2008 · Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film as Self (archive footage)
- 1994 · Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her as Self (archive footage)
- 1983 · Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1980 · The Man with Bogart's Face as Petey Cane
- 1980 · Gay, Gay Hollywood as Self
- 1978 · Sextette as Himself
- 1975 · Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? as Self (archive footage)
- 1973 · The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks as Self (archive footage)
- 1972 · Deadhead Miles as George Raft
- 1972 · Hammersmith Is Out as Guido Scartucci
- 1968 · Skidoo as Captain Garbaldo
- 1968 · Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Guest Performer (uncredited)
- 1968 · The Movie Orgy as Self (archive footage)
- 1967 · Five Golden Dragons as Dragon #2
- 1967 · Casino Royale as Himself
- 1966 · The Upper Hand as Charles Binnaggio
- 1966 · Batman as Citizen in Bank (uncredited)
- 1964 · The Patsy as George Raft
- 1964 · For Those Who Think Young as Detective (uncredited)
- 1962 · The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- 1962 · The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1961 · The Ladies Man as Himself
- 1960 · Ocean's Eleven as Jack Strager
- 1959 · Jet Over The Atlantic as Stafford
- 1959 · Some Like It Hot as Spats Colombo
- 1956 · Around the World in 80 Days as Saloon Bouncer
- 1955 · A Bullet for Joey as Joe Victor
- 1954 · Black Widow as Detective Bruce
- 1954 · The Jimmy Durante Show as Self
- 1954 · Rogue Cop as Dan Beaumonte
- 1953 · The Man From Cairo as Mike Canelli
- 1953 · I'm the Law as
- 1952 · Escape Route as Steve Rossi
- 1952 · Loan Shark as Joe Gargen
- 1951 · I'll Get You for This as Nick Cain
- 1950 · The Jack Benny Program as The Gang leader
- 1950 · The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self (uncredited)
- 1950 · We Will All Go to Paris as George Raft
- 1950 · What's My Line? as Self
- 1950 · Riviera Dream as George Raft
- 1949 · A Dangerous Profession as Vince Kane
- 1949 ·