George Ranft

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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 George 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). Raft’s real-life association with New York gangsters gave his screen image in mob films an added realism. He also gained retrospective notoriety for the leading roles that he turned down–only to have those roles become breakout hits for other actors (notably, Humphrey Bogart). IMDB Wikipedia $1 million 1901 1901-9-26 1980-11-24 5′ 7″ (1.7 m) Actor George Raft Net Worth George Ranft Grace Mulrooney I’m the Law (1953) Libra New York New York City Scarface (1932) September 26 Some Like It Hot (1959) Soundtrack They Drive by Night (1940) U.S.

George Ranft Quick Info

Full Name George Raft
Net Worth $1 Million
Date Of Birth September 26, 1901
Died 1980-11-24
Place Of Birth New York City, New York, U.S.
Height 5′ 7″ (1.7 m)
Profession Actor, Soundtrack
Education Stuyvesant High School
Nationality American
Spouse Grace Mulrooney
Parents Conrad Ranft, Eva Glockner
Siblings Eva Ranft
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0706368
Movies Some Like It Hot, Scarface, They Drive by Night, Each Dawn I Die, Background to Danger, Night After Night, Manpower, Johnny Angel, Invisible Stripes, Nocturne, Outpost in Morocco, Souls at Sea, Whistle Stop, Race Street, Nob Hill, The Man with Bogart’s Face, A Dangerous Profession, Rogue Cop, Spawn …
TV Shows I’m the Law

George Ranft Quotes

  • [on turning down the leading part in one of Hollywood’s greatest dramas] Whoever heard of Casablanca? I don’t want to star opposite an unknown Swedish broad.
  • [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.
  • [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.
  • [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.
  • 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 his acting] I’m afraid to look, because I’m probably awful.

George Ranft Important Facts

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  • During the late-1950s, Raft was employed as a celebrity greeter at the Mafia-owned Hotel Capri casino in Havana, a job that played off his image as a movie mobster and tough guy. He was present on January 1, 1959 when rebels stormed Havana, overthrowing dictator Fulgencio Batista. According to Raft, as the rebels began looting the Capri, they recognized him and he was able to convince them not to hurt anyone.
  • Raft never looked at himself on film. After not watching a clip of his movies on the Tonight Show, Johnny Carson asked why. Raft said he said he would find so much wrong with his performance that he would spend his next film worried about his acting and never get it right. He only wanted to worry if people stopped going to his movies.
  • He played himself in ten films: Broadway (1942), Stage Door Canteen (1943), Nous irons à Paris (1950), The Ladies Man (1961), The Patsy (1964), Casino Royale (1967), Silent Treatment (1968), The Great Sex War (1969), Deadhead Miles (1973) and Sextette (1978).
  • As previously reported, he turned down the roles of Roy “Mad Dog” Earle in “High Sierra (1941)”, Sam Spade in “The Maltese Falcon (1941)”, and Rick Blaine in “Casablanca (1942).” All three of these parts were picked up by Humphrey Bogart, and each one was essential in making Bogart a superstar.
  • According to The Lewiston Daily Sun newspaper June 1936, George was 5 feet, 10 inches tall, weighed 155 pounds, had an olive complexion, black hair and brown eyes.
  • There has been much debate over when George was born. Although most sources and articles claim his birth year as 1895, including his gravestone, New York census reports suggest Mr. Raft was born in 1901.
  • Mother, Eva, died of asthma at her 610 West 174th Street home in 1937, after a long illness, at the age of 62. Mr. Raft was at her bedside.
  • His father was reported to having two thriving businesses: During the winter, the elder Raft was superintendent of the John Wanamaker department store. In the summer he owned and managed a merry-go-round at a small amusement park at Hasting-on-the-Hudson, New York. That merry-go-round was a family affair, began by George’s grandfather. This was at Coney Island, Brooklyn.
  • The “Hell’s Kitchen” set built for George in ‘Invisible Stripes’ was an exact replica of Raft’s own New York birthplace.
  • Theft of $3150 worth of jewelry and clothing from Beverly Hills home at 1218 Coldwater Canyon Road reported May 10, 1939.
  • George’s father, Conrad Ranft, was born in Massachusetts, to German parents, Catherine Weil and Christopher Ranft. George’s mother, Eva (Glockner), was born in Germany.
  • According to both the 1900 and 1910 Censuses for New York City, Raft only had one sibling named Eva “Katie” Ranft, born on April 18, 1896 in Manhattan.
  • His parents Conrad and Eva Ranft had ten children, nine of them boys, with George the eldest.
  • A lifelong baseball fan, by 1955 he had attended the World Series for the past 25 years.
  • Featured in “Bad Boys: The Actors of Film Noir” by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry (McFarland, 2003).
  • As a teenager, he was a bat-boy for the New York Highlanders (Yankees), tried out for semi-pro baseball, boxed at the Polo Athletic Club and hustled pool.
  • July 1939: Signed a long-term contract with Warner Bros. Studios.
  • Is portrayed by by Ray Danton in The George Raft Story (1961), Nicholas Mayer in Mae West (1982) and by Joe Mantegna in Bugsy (1991).
  • 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.
  • Appeared with Mae West in both her first (Night After Night (1932)) and last (Sextette (1978)) films. He died two days after West’s death.
  • Banned from entering Britain in 1966 because of his alleged Mafia connections.
  • Second actor to portray the title role for CBS Radio’s “The Adventures of Rocky Jordan” (1951-1953).
  • Was a close friend of notorious gangster Benjamin Bugsy Siegel since their childhood in New York. Siegel actually lived at Raft’s home in Hollywood for a time while trying to make inroads for organized crime within the movie colony.
  • Not much is known about his marriage to Mulrooney except that she was some years his senior. Although separated early, they were never divorced, and he continued to support her faithfully until her death in 1970.
  • He turned down High Sierra (1941), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942) and Double Indemnity (1944).
  • Interred at Forest Lawn (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, California, USA, in the Court of Remembrance.

George Ranft Filmography

Title Year Status Character Role
The Man with Bogart’s Face 1980 Petey Cane Actor
Sextette 1978 George Raft Actor
Deadhead Miles 1973 George Raft Actor
Hammersmith Is Out 1972 Guido Scartucci Actor
The Chicago Teddy Bears 1971 TV Series Actor
Skidoo 1968 The Skipper Actor
Five Golden Dragons 1967 Dragon #2 Actor
Casino Royale 1967 George Raft Actor
Batman 1967 TV Series Citizen in Bank Actor
The Upper Hand 1966 Charles Binnaggio Actor
The Patsy 1964 George Raft Actor
For Those Who Think Young 1964 Detective (uncredited) Actor
Two Guys Abroad 1962 Nightclub co-owner Actor
Ocean’s 11 1960 Jack Strager Actor
The Red Skelton Hour 1955-1960 TV Series Mike McCluskey / Ace Williams – Gangster / Big Jack – Speakeasy Operator / … Actor
Jet Over the Atlantic 1959 Stafford Actor
Some Like It Hot 1959 Spats Colombo Actor
Around the World in Eighty Days 1956 Barbary Coast Saloon Bouncer Actor
A Bullet for Joey 1955 Joe Victor aka Steiner Actor
Black Widow 1954 Detective Lt. C.A. Bruce Actor
Rogue Cop 1954 Dan Beaumonte Actor
The Man from Cairo 1953 Mike Canelli Actor
I’m the Law 1953 TV Series Police Lt. George Kirby Actor
I’ll Get You 1952 Steve Rossi Actor
Loan Shark 1952 Joe Gargen Actor
Lucky Nick Cain 1951 Nick Cain Actor
Nous irons à Paris 1950 George Raft Actor
A Dangerous Profession 1949 Vince Kane Actor
Red Light 1949 Johnny Torno Actor
Johnny Allegro 1949 Johnny Allegro Actor
Outpost in Morocco 1949 Capt. Paul Gerard Actor
Race Street 1948 Daniel J. ‘Dan’ Gannin Actor
Intrigue 1947 Brad Dunham Actor
Christmas Eve 1947 Mario Torio Actor
Nocturne 1946 Joe Warne Actor
Mr. Ace 1946 Eddie Ace Actor
Whistle Stop 1946 Kenny Veech Actor
Johnny Angel 1945 Johnny Angel Actor
Nob Hill 1945 Tony Angelo Actor
Follow the Boys 1944 Tony West Actor
Background to Danger 1943 Joe Barton Actor
Stage Door Canteen 1943 George Raft Actor
Broadway 1942 George Raft Actor
Manpower 1941 Johnny Marshall Actor
They Drive by Night 1940 Joe Fabrini Actor
The House Across the Bay 1940 Steve Actor
Invisible Stripes 1939 Cliff Taylor Actor
I Stole a Million 1939 Joe Lourik, alias Joe Harris Actor
Each Dawn I Die 1939 ‘Hood’ Stacey Actor
The Lady’s from Kentucky 1939 Marty Black Actor
Spawn of the North 1938 Tyler Dawson Actor
You and Me 1938 Joe Dennis Actor
Souls at Sea 1937 Powdah Actor
Yours for the Asking 1936 Johnny Lamb Actor
It Had to Happen 1936 Enrico Scaffa Actor
She Couldn’t Take It 1935 Spot Ricardi / Joseph Ricard Actor
Every Night at Eight 1935 ‘Tops’ Cardona Actor
The Glass Key 1935 Ed Beaumont Actor
Stolen Harmony 1935 Ray Angelo, alias Ray Ferraro Actor
Rumba 1935 Joe Martin Actor
Limehouse Blues 1934 Harry Young Actor
The Trumpet Blows 1934 Manuel Montes Actor
Bolero 1934 Raoul De Baere Actor
All of Me 1934 Honey Rogers Actor
The Bowery 1933 Steve Brodie Actor
Midnight Club 1933 Nick Mason Actor
Pick-up 1933 Harry Glynn Actor
Under-Cover Man 1932 Nick Darrow Actor
If I Had a Million 1932 Eddie Jackson Actor
Night After Night 1932 Joe Anton Actor
Madame Racketeer 1932 Jack Houston Actor
Love Is a Racket 1932 Sneaky (scenes deleted) Actor
Night World 1932 Ed Powell Actor
Scarface 1932 Rinaldo Actor
Dancers in the Dark 1932 Louie Brooks Actor
Taxi! 1932 William Kenny – Dance Contestant (uncredited) Actor
Palmy Days 1931 Joe – Yolando’s Henchman Actor
Hush Money 1931 Maxie Actor
Goldie 1931 Pickpocket (uncredited) Actor
Quick Millions 1931 Jimmy Kirk Actor
Side Street 1929 Georgie Ames – the Dancer (uncredited) Actor
Gold Diggers of Broadway 1929 Dancer (uncredited) Actor
Queen of the Night Clubs 1929 Gigola Actor
The Jimmy Durante Show 1956 TV Series performer – 1 episode Soundtrack
Follow the Boys 1944 performer: “Tonight” 1944, “Sweet Georgia Brown” 1925 uncredited, “I Feel a Song Coming On” 1935 uncredited Soundtrack
Spawn of the North 1938 performer: “I Wish I Was the Willow” – uncredited Soundtrack
Stolen Harmony 1935 performer: “BRADLEY’S DANCE” Soundtrack
Taxi! 1932 performer: “The Darktown Strutters’ Ball” 1917 – uncredited Soundtrack
Side Street 1929 performer: “Take a Look at Her Now” – uncredited Soundtrack
Frankenpimp’s Revenge: The Romeo and Juliet Massacre special thanks filming Thanks
The Mike Douglas Show 1974-1980 TV Series Himself – Co-Host / Himself – Actor Self
Hollywood Greats 1979 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Today 1966-1974 TV Series Himself Self
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to James Cagney 1974 TV Special documentary Himself (table bow) (uncredited) Self
Tribute to Bogart 1972 TV Movie documentary Himself – Interviewee Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1969-1971 TV Series Himself / Himself – Guest Self
The Movie Game 1970 TV Series Himself Self
The Great Sex War 1969 Himself Self
The David Frost Show 1969 TV Series Himself Self
Della 1969 TV Series Himself Self
Silent Treatment 1968 Documentary Himself Self
The Joey Bishop Show 1967-1968 TV Series Himself Self
Bogart 1967 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Hippodrome 1966 TV Series Hoofer Self
The Eamonn Andrews Show 1966 TV Series Himself Self
The New London Palladium Show 1965 TV Series Himself – Hoofer Self
The Ed Sullivan Show 1957-1964 TV Series Tango Dancer / Himself Self
The Lee Phillip Show 1963 TV Series Himself / guest Self
Here’s Hollywood 1961 TV Series Himself Self
The Ladies Man 1961 Himself Self
Main Event 1961 TV Movie Himself – Guest Self
Red Skelton Timex Special 1960 TV Movie Himself – Guest Self
About Faces 1960 TV Series Himself Self
The Jack Paar Tonight Show 1959 TV Series Himself Self
The Arthur Murray Party 1959 TV Series Himself Self
The Gisele MacKenzie Show 1957 TV Series Himself Self
The Jimmy Durante Show 1955-1956 TV Series Himself / Himself – Actor Self
Inside Beverly Hills 1956 TV Movie Himself Self
The Colgate Comedy Hour 1951-1955 TV Series Himself – Actor / Himself Self
The Name’s the Same 1953-1955 TV Series Celebrity Guest / Himself Self
Texaco Star Theatre 1953-1954 TV Series Himself – Actor Self
I’ve Got a Secret 1953 TV Series Mystery Guest Self
What’s My Line? 1953 TV Series Himself Self
Screen Snapshots: Vacation at Del Mar 1949 Short Himself Self
Hollywood Park 1946 Short Himself Self
Breakdowns of 1942 1942 Short Himself (uncredited) Self
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 2 1941 Documentary short Himself – at Mocambo (uncredited) Self
Meet the Stars #6: Stars at Play 1941 Documentary short Himself Self
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards 1940 Documentary short Himself Self
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 4 1938 Documentary short Himself Self
The Fashion Side of Hollywood 1935 Documentary short Himself Self
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 1934 Short Himself (uncredited) Self
Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 1933 Short Himself (uncredited) Self
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All 2015 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films 2011 TV Movie documentary Himself Archive Footage
Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film 2008 TV Movie documentary Archive Footage
Bullets Over Hollywood 2005 TV Movie documentary Archive Footage
Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album 2003 Video short Tops Cardona Archive Footage
Biography 2001 TV Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies 1995 TV Movie documentary actor ‘Scarface’ (uncredited) Archive Footage
American Justice: Target – Mafia 1993 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1992 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic 1990 TV Movie documentary Himself Archive Footage
Entertaining the Troops 1988 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage 1983 Documentary Himself (uncredited) Archive Footage
Red Skelton: A Comedy Scrapbook 1981 Video documentary Muggsy Lasagna Archive Footage
James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy 1981 TV Movie documentary Himself (uncredited) Archive Footage
Brooklyn Bridge 1981 Documentary Himself (clip from “The Bowery”) (uncredited) Archive Footage
Presidential Blooper Reel 1981 Video short Himself Archive Footage
All This and World War II 1976 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
Brother Can You Spare a Dime 1975 Documentary Archive Footage
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks 1973 TV Movie documentary Himself (uncredited) Archive Footage
Happy Days 1970 TV Series Archive Footage
Hollywood and the Stars 1963 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
Hollywood: The Great Stars 1963 TV Movie documentary Actor ‘They Drive by Night’ (uncredited) Archive Footage
Hollywood Without Make-Up 1963 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
Breakdowns of 1941 1941 Short Himself (uncredited) Archive Footage
Land of Liberty 1939 Archive Footage
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 1937 Documentary short Himself Archive Footage
Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 11 1937 Documentary short Himself Archive Footage
Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 1933 Short Himself (uncredited) Archive Footage
Winner Take All 1932 Bandleader at Guinan’s (uncredited) Archive Footage

George Ranft Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie Category
1960 Star on the Walk of Fame Walk of Fame Motion Picture On 8 February 1960. At 6159 Hollywood Blvd. Won
1960 Star on the Walk of Fame Walk of Fame Television On 8 February 1960. At 1500 Vine Street. Won
1960 Star on the Walk of Fame Walk of Fame Motion Picture On 8 February 1960. At 6159 Hollywood Blvd. Nominated
1960 Star on the Walk of Fame Walk of Fame Television On 8 February 1960. At 1500 Vine Street. Nominated