Time and sheer volume of work have made George Raft a veteran actor whose name has been turning up in credits for decades. The distance between the first credit and the most recent is about 97 years. Of everything on the filmography, 'Some Like It Hot' is the work that traveled the furthest. 'Casino Royale' is close behind in visibility. Viewing habits have changed more than once since the first credit. He has worked in comedy more often than in any other register.
George Raft
79 years (Sep 26, 1901 – Nov 25, 1980)Los Angeles, California, USA
76 Movies4 Series
Time and sheer volume of work have made George Raft a veteran actor whose name has been turning up in credits for decades. The distance between the first credit and the most recent is about 97 years. Of everything on the filmography, 'Some Like It Hot' is the work that traveled the furthest. 'Casino Royale' is close behind in visibility. Viewing habits have changed more than once since the first credit. He has worked in comedy more often than in any other register.
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).George Raft, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.