- Naissance
- Décédé(e)24 novembre 1980 · Los Angeles, Californie, États-Unis (emphysème)
- Nom de naissanceGeorge Rauft
- Surnom
- Georgie
- Taille5′ 7″ (1,70 m)
- George Raft est né le 26 septembre 1901 dans l'état de New York, États-Unis. Il était acteur. Il est connu pour Scarface (1932), Certains l'aiment chaud (1959) et Night After Night (1932). Il était marié à Grace Mulrooney. Il est mort le 24 novembre 1980 en Californie, États-Unis.
- Conjoints(es)Grace Mulrooney(1923 - 1970) (son décès)? (divorcé, 1 enfant)
- ParentsConrad RanftEva Glockner
- In films, he frequently tossed a coin with one hand, while looking straight-on.
- According to James Cagney's autobiography Cagney By Cagney, (Published by Doubleday and Company Inc 1976), a Mafia plan to murder Cagney by dropping a several hundred pound klieg light on top of him was stopped at the insistence of George Raft. Cagney at that time was President of the Screen Actors Guild and was determined not to let the mob infiltrate the industry. Raft used his 'many' mob connections to cancel the hit.
- Banned from entering Britain in 1966 because of his alleged Mafia connections.
- He turned down High Sierra (1941), which gave Humphrey Bogart his big break, Le faucon maltais (1941), and Assurance sur la mort (1944).
- A lifelong baseball fan, by 1955 he had attended the World Series for the past 25 years.
- The "Hell's Kitchen" set built for George in 'Invisible Stripes' was an exact replica of Raft's own New York birthplace.
- [on his acting] I'm afraid to look, because I'm probably awful.
- I must have gone through $10 million during my career. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.
- [on acting] You see, I found it tough work. What I would do would be to think over the scene in my mind and try to become whoever I was playing. I would try to feel like the person in that particular scene. Sometimes my words would be different from the script.
- [In a 1936 interview, discussing former jobs before getting into the acting profession] My one ambition then was to drive a horse. So I got a job driving a delivery wagon for a large grocery company. I drove up and down Ninth avenue like I was daffy. I raced all the other delivery wagons. I gave all the boys rides. Deliveries were always late, customers complained, and I was fired.
- [April, 1944] Here I am, back in a musical comedy picture. And that's not all. A fan called me from Chicago the other day and told me I was her pin-up boy. How d'ya like that? I'm a boy, now.
- Loan Shark (1952) - $25,000 plus 25% of the profits
- Manpower (1941) - $60,000
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