Actor
George Raft
September 26, 1901 · 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).
Notable work
Often works with
George E. Stone
3 titles together
Some Like It Hot, You and Me, Taxi!
Peter Lorre
3 titles together
Around the World in 80 Days, The Patsy, Background to Danger
Roscoe Karns
3 titles together
They Drive by Night, If I Had a Million, You and Me
Joyce Compton
3 titles together
They Drive by Night, If I Had a Million, You and Me
Willard Robertson
3 titles together
Each Dawn I Die, You and Me, Background to Danger
Mack Gray
3 titles together
Nocturne, Johnny Angel, Whistle Stop
Full filmography · 82
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 6: Hollywood Police Files
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1992
The Man with Bogart's Face
as Petey Cane
1980
Deadhead Miles
as George Raft
1972
Hammersmith Is Out
as Guido Scartucci
1972
Skidoo
as Captain Garbaldo
19684.7
Five Golden Dragons
as Dragon #2
19675.2
Casino Royale
as George Raft
19675.2
The Upper Hand
as Charles Binnaggio
19666.3
The Patsy
as George Raft
19646.2
For Those Who Think Young
as Detective (uncredited)
1964
Ocean's Eleven
as Jack Strager
19606.4
Jet Over The Atlantic
as Stafford
1959