Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
George Raft war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler deutscher Abstammung. Er zählte zu den großen Stars des Gangsterfilms der 1930er-Jahre und spielte unter anderem in Scarface, Nachts unterwegs und Manche mögen’s heiß. Analog zu seinen Gangsterfiguren auf der Leinwand war er auch mit New Yorker Mobstern wie Bugsy Siegel befreundet.
George Raft didn’t want to give the name. Interviewed in 1980, his final television appearance, the then 85-year-old actor, dressed stylishly in a charcoal peak-lapel suit over a black polo neck, was asked about his habit of giving money to those struggling to break into his fickle industry. The interviewer pushes him and he declines.
George Raft 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 ...
George Raft verbrachte eine wenig glückliche Kindheit in dem New Yorker Viertel Hell's Kitchen. Bereits als 13-Jähriger rannte er von zu Hause weg. In jungen Jahren versuchte er sich als Boxer, Nachtclub-Tänzer und Taxifahrer. Dabei hielt er seine engen Kontakte zur New Yorker Unterwelt immer aufrecht. Nach seinem Broadway-Debüt 1925 zog es Raft bald nach Hollywood. Hier debütierte er ...
George Raft (1901-1980. George Raft was an American film actor who, in a long career, gave many strong performances in a variety of roles. He started his show business career as a dancer but when he entered movies he became identified with gangster roles in many films such as 'Scarface' in 1932, 'Limehouse Blues' in 1934, and 'Each Dawn I Die ...
George Raft. Actor: Some Like It Hot. George Raft was born and grew up in a poor family in Hell's Kitchen, at the time one of the roughest, meanest areas of New York City. He was born George Ranft, and was the son of Eva (Glockner) and Conrad Ranft, a department store deliveryman. His parents were both of German descent. In his youth, he showed a great interest in, and...
George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American actor, comedian and dancer. He was born in New York City . 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).
