1959Winner
Best Performance
Some Like It Hot
George Raft
Actor
Los Angeles, California, USA
September 26, 1901
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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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1967Nominee
Best Performance
Casino Royale
1956Nominee
Best Performance
Around the World in 80 Days
Career Highlights
1960Highlight
Best Performance
Ocean's Eleven
1932Highlight
Best Performance
Scarface
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Some Like It Hot
Casino Royale
Around the World in 80 Days