George Raft
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Biography
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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Complete Filmography & Verdicts
| Year | Movie | Character | Rating | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films | Himself (archive footage) | HIT | |
| 1959 | Some Like It Hot | Spats Colombo | HIT | |
| 1932 | Scarface | Guino Rinaldo | HIT | |
| 1931 | Quick Millions | Jimmy Kirk | HIT | |
| 1941 | Breakdowns of 1941 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | HIT | |
| 1929 | Gold Diggers of Broadway | Dancer (uncredited) | HIT | |
| 1931 | Palmy Days | Joe | HIT | |
| 1940 | They Drive by Night | Joe Fabrini | HIT | |
| 2008 | Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film | Self (archive footage) | HIT | |
| 1939 | Each Dawn I Die | 'Hood' Stacey | HIT | |
| 1951 | I'll Get You for This | Nick Cain | HIT | |
| 1973 | The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks | Self (archive footage) | HIT | |
| 1941 | Manpower | Johnny Marshall | HIT | |
| 1935 | Every Night at Eight | Tops Cardona | HIT | |
| 1932 | Night World | Ed Powell | HIT | |
| 1956 | Around the World in 80 Days | Saloon Bouncer | HIT | |
| 1943 | Background to Danger | Joe Barton | HIT | |
| 1932 | If I Had a Million | Eddie Jackson | HIT | |
| 1932 | Taxi! | William Kenny (uncredited) | HIT | |
| 1938 | You and Me | Joe Dennis | HIT |