George Raft
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, Raft is remembered for his gangster roles in Scarface (1932), Each Dawn I Die (1939) with James Cagney, and Billy Wilder's comedy Some Like It Hot (1959) with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon, as a dancer in Bolero (1934) with Carole Lombard, and a truck driver in They Drive by Night (1940) with Humphrey Bogart.
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| Full name at birth | George Ranft
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| Claim to fame | Scarface 1932
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| Date of birth | 26 September 1895
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| Place of birth | New York, New York (Hell`s Kitchen)
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| Date of death | 24 November 1980
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| Age | 85 (age at death)
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| Place of death | Los Angeles, Ca
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| Cause of death | Leukemia
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| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
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| Occupation | Actor, Dancer
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| Height | 5' 10" (178 cm)
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| Net worth | $1,000,000 USD
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| High school | Stuyvesant High School, New York City, NY
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- 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.
- 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.
- Bugsy Siegel actually lived at Raft's home in Hollywood for a time while trying to make inroads for organized crime within the movie colony.
- He turned down High Sierra (1941), The Maltese Falcon (1941), Casablanca (1942) and Double Indemnity (1944).
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