Gregory Ratoff

Gregory Ratoff
Ratoff as Ipswich in Professional Sweetheart (1933)
Born
Grigory Vasilyevich Ratner

April 20, c. 1893
Samara, Russia
DiedDecember 14, 1960 (1960-12-15) (aged 67)
Solothurn, Switzerland
Occupation(s)Film director, actor and producer
Years active1921–1960
SpouseEugenie Leontovich (1923–1949; divorced)

Gregory Ratoff (born Grigory Vasilyevich Ratner; Russian: Григорий Васильевич Ратнер, tr. Grigoriy Vasil’evich Ratner; April 20, c. 1893 – December 14, 1960)[1] was a Russian-American film director, actor and producer. As an actor, he was best known for his role as producer "Max Fabian" in All About Eve (1950).

  1. ^ Gregory Ratoff's petition for naturalization as a U.S. citizen and the Social Security Death Index both give his date of birth as April 20, 1893; however his mother's naturalization papers give his date of birth as April 7, 1895, and his gravestone bears the date April 20, 1897.